Clusters of networked commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) workstations are presently used for computation intensive tasks that were typically assigned to parallel computers in the past. However, it is hardly possible to predict the timing behavior of such systems or to give guarantees about execution times. In this paper we show how our SONiC(Shared Objects Net-interconnected Computer) system can ...

Previous research on real-time qualitative reasoning lias focused on making reasoning fast . Little work has been devoted to the more important issue ofmaking real-time qualitative reasoning predictable . Thispaper describes an architecture for qualitative reasoning that addresses both speed andpredictability. Extensions to the Qualitative Reasoning System (Hamilton 1988) to support predictable...

Robots that have been optimized in simulation often underperform the real world comparison to their simulated counterparts. This difference performance is called a reality-gap. In this paper, we use two methods, genetic algorithm and topology optimization, optimize quadruped robot. We look at original robots’ reality compare results. Both methods show improvement robot’s efficiency, however opt...