This paper presents the LineScout Technology, a mobile teleoperated robot for power line inspection and maintenance. Optimizing several geometric parameters achieved a compact design that was successfully tested over many line configurations and obstacle sequences. An overview of the technology is presented, including a description of the control strategy, followed by a section focusing on key ...

We describe the current state of the Pixel-planes research project, whose goal is to develop powerful raster graphics systems for the next generation of workstations, The first full-scale prototype has been in regular use in our department's computer graphics laboratory since its first demonstration at SIG­ GRAPH '86, more than a year ago, We describe the final hardware configuration of the pro...

This paper describes the experiments performed for the QA@CLEF2006 within the joint participation of the eLing Division at VEng and the Language Technologies Laboratory at INAOE. The aim of these experiments was to observe and quantify the improvements in the final step of the Question Answering prototype when some syntactic features were included into the decision process. In order to reach th...

Testing of the prototype TESLA Test Facility (TTF) RF photoinjector has been completed, and fabrication of the high duty factor TTF injector is underway. Experimental results from the prototype tests conducted at Argonne National Laboratory will be presented. Engineering design work for the high power TTF gun will be discussed together with initial operating experience with a Cesium telluride p...

Non-destructive methods are of great interest for the analysis of cultural heritage. Among the different possible techniques, this paper presents a low cost prototype based on the emission and reception of airborne ultrasound without direct contact with the test specimen. We successfully performed a method test for the detection of brick joints under a XV th century Renaissance fresco of the Me...

A second prototype of biped walking robot, named as EPWAR2 (Electropneumatic WAlking Robot), has been designed and built at LARM (Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics) in Cassino. In addition to the performances of previous prototype EP-WAR, EP-WAR2 is able to climb stairs because of a new actuation system. A suitable programming of the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) has been based on s...

FACTS devices can help the damping of power system oscillations. The objective of this paper is to design and propose a systematic approach for damping controller to validate results by comparing with lab prototype. This paper presents a control scheme, comprehensive analysis and result obtained for the dynamic control of power transmission, damping of oscillations with Unified Power Flow Contr...

This paper describes the prototype developed by the Language Technologies Laboratory at INAOE for Spanish monolingual QA evaluation task at CLEF 2005. Our approach is centered in the use of lexical features in order to identify possible answers to factual questions. Such method is supported by an alternative one based on pattern recognition in order to identify candidate answers to definition q...

Electronic negotiation systems support negotiators in reaching an agreement through collaboration among the involved parties. The development of these systems requires the use of a negotiation methodology and the specification of a negotiation protocol. This contribution presents the foundation of a negotiation methodology and a prototype built upon the methodology which is capable of executing...

This paper describes the prototype developed by the Language Technologies Laboratory at INAOE for Spanish monolingual QA evaluation task at CLEF 2004. Our approach is centered in the use of context at a lexical level in order to identify possible answers to factoid questions. Such method is supported by an alternative one based on pattern recognition in order to identify candidate answers to de...