Air Force Research Laboratory's Distributed Architecture and Simulation Laboratory (DASL) is designed to support the development of new concepts in space systems. One new concept is AFRL’s TechSat 21 program. TechSat 21 is a cluster of formation-flying and cooperating satellites. TechSat 21 poses significant challenges to satellite operations. The ground control station must be capable of monit...

This paper discusses the use of eye movement monitoring systems in evaluating visual displays to support tactical decision making. A variety of analytic approaches are considered from a conceptual and practical standpoint and applied to preliminary data collected using the TADMUS DSS display. Eye movement data were collected using a head-mounted eye tracking system worn by command-level decisio...

. In this paper, illocutionary acts of commanding will be differentiated from perlocutionary acts that affect preferences of addressees in a new dynamic logic which combines the preference upgrades introduced by van Benthem and Liu in [vBLar] with deontic updates introduced by Yamada in [Yam07b]. The resulting logic will incorporate Austin’s distinction between illocutionary acts as act...

Managerial ties are an area commanding managers’ attention in emerging economies. However, no previous study has drawn on cross-country data to address a crucial question: Are more developed market-supporting institutions associated with less use of managerial ties in emerging economies? Further, to strive for better performance, firms also need to develop market-based strategic initiatives. Ho...

A Sound Banking System is essential for the future growth of any economy. In India, among the banking institution in the organized sector, the commercial banks are the oldest institutions having a wide network of branches, commanding utmost public confidence and having the lion’s share in the total banking operations. The Financial Sector Reforms were implemented in our country during 1991-92 w...

A novel human-machine interaction architecture is presented. It is based on the machine intention recognition of the human. This work is motivated by the desire to minimize the need for classical direct human-machine interface and communication. Here, the intention-action-state scenario is modified and modelled by dynamic Bayesian networks to facilitate for probabilistic intention inference. Th...

The reader will observe that our customary "P’s and Q’s" column has been changed to a "P’s and R’s" commentary this time, in keeping with the general theme of disability in this issue. When mortality is being studied, survival (’P) and death rate (Q) are among the measures commanding attention. When morbidity is being assessed, P becomes event-free survival, the inverse of some event-rate R for...

Despite rapid advancements in dexterity and mechanical design, the utility of humanoid robots outside of a controlled laboratory setting is limited in part due to the complexity involved in programming robots to grasp common objects. There exists a need for an efficient method to command high degree-of-freedom (DoF) position-controlled dexterous manipulators to grasp a range of objects such tha...

We present a novel multimodal system for creating and commanding groups of robots from a population. Extending our previous work on dynamically creating groups of robots using face engagement and voice commands, we show that we can identify an individual or a group of robots using haptic stimuli, and name them using a voice command (e.g. “You two, join Green”). Subsequent commands can be addres...