Product and service development is at its core a problem-solving process. Research into the nature of problem solving shows it to consist of trial and error, directed by some amount of insight as to the direction in which a solution might lie (Baron 1988). Trial and error has also been found to be prominent in the problem-solving work of product and process develop-Trial-and-error problem solvi...

Localization is an enabling technology, and a prerequisite for a wide range of robotic tasks. Despite the large amount of work already done in this domain, to date, the solution to the localization problem for fully decentralized, large-scale multi-robot systems is still an open question. In this chapter, we contribute to this particular problem outline by proposing a low-cost method: we descri...

Intravenous angiography was an important diagnostic tool earlier in th is century [1] , however, the technique had many drawbacks . Film timing was critical, the volume of contrast material was high , and the contrast resolution was often poor. When safer techniques for direct arteriography were developed, intravenous angiography was abandoned . Computed digital image processing has brought a r...

52 Abstract— This paper deals with a low cost solution to obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot. This paper also presents a dynamic steering algorithm which ensures that the robot doesn't have to stop in front of an obstacle which allows robot to navigate smoothly in an unknown environment, avoiding collisions. The obstacle avoidance strategy has been described. Obstacle avoidance strategy and ...

The advent of high quality PC based instruments, combined with the normal day to day skills of linear test engineers, eliminates the need for general purpose linear testers in many cases. Linear applications are dominated by custom DUT boards; therefore a few application card tricks and some PC instruments can replace the general purpose linear tester and significantly reduce cost and size with...