Processing of the images acquired from the camera attached to the mobile robot in outdoor environment can be used for feature extraction or to distinguish the path the surrounding in the environment. Such information is further used in the planner and/or position estimator. The paper gives the overview of image segmentation method used on real data gathered by mobile robot Bender II during the ...

J. Engel, M. Bender, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, and R. Surman Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina, CB 3255, Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoża 69, PL-00681, Warsaw, Poland Joint Institute for Heavy ...

It is 25 years since the Society held a meeting on this same topic (12 October 1957). The enormous efforts that have gone into protein evaluation in the intervening quarter century suggest a need to reiterate and emphasize points made at that meeting (Bender, 1958) namely, that all measures of protein quality are a function of the limiting amino acid (AA), that the tests do not yield any inform...

Optical metamaterials with an artificial subwavelength structure offer new approaches to implement advanced optical devices. However, some of the biggest challenges associated with the development of metamaterials in the visible spectrum are the high costs and slow production speeds of the nanofabrication processes. Here, we demonstrate a macroscale (>35 mm) transformation-optics wave bender (2...

The role of the superposition principle is discussed for the quantum-mechanical Carnot engine introduced by Bender, Brody, and Meister [J. Phys. A 33, 4427 (2000)]. It is shown that the efficiency of the engine can be enhanced by the superposition of quantum states. A finite-time process is also discussed and the condition of the maximum power output is presented. Interestingly, the efficiency ...

We give explicitly the surgeries governing the changes of quotient manifolds of real algebraic surfaces in CP3. We also make a number of general observations regarding quotients of complex surfaces under antiholomorphic involutions.

This article describes the use of a charge amplifier to improve the linearity of a piezoelectric bender. Existing charge drive circuits can not be directly applied to bimorph piezoelectric benders since they share a common electrode. In this article a new charge drive circuit and electrical configuration is described that allows piezoelectric bimorphs to be linearised with charge. Experimental ...