Industrial Robots are complex systems with hard real time, high safety, reliability and availability requirements. Robot Controllers are part of these systems and they are complex hard real time computers, which control a robot’s mechanical parts. To be useful, Robot Controllers must be programmable by end customers. This is typically done through a domain and vendor specific programming langua...

WIS platform is a wireless interactive sensor platform designed to support dynamic and interactive applications. The platform consists of a capture system which includes multiple on-body Zigbee compatible motion sensors, a processing unit and an audio-visual display control unit. It has a complete open architecture and provides interfaces to interact with other user-designed applications. There...

A stereo vision is able to build threedimensional maps of its environment. It can provide much more complete information than a 2D image based vision but has to process, at least, that much more data. In the past decade, real-time stereo has become a reality. Some solutions are based on reconfigurable hardware and others rely on specialized hardware. However, they are designed for their own spe...

This project is a part of our on-going research into real-time audio synthesis using a distributed parallel processing plat form. In this paper we present our successful implementation of a 9-voice real-time granular synthesis on a part of the 160 Transputer network. Granulation and time-stretch of recorded natural sound are described.

This paper describes the use of parallel classifiers in real-time object recognition. Based on preliminary results we propose a mobile platform built with off-the-shelf components (hardware and software). This platform could be fitted in a robot, car, backpack etc. A model of the performance of the platform using the Viola-Jones detector is presented. Simulation results are presented based on p...

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A portable platform is described that supports real-time computer vision applications for mobile robots. This platform includes conventional processors, an image processing front-end system, and a controller for a pan/tilt/vergence head. The platform is ruggedized to withstand vibration during off-road driving. The platform has successfully supported experiments in video stabilization and detec...

Java TM technologies have had a major impact on the software industry. The Java TM Platform has brought a simple, powerful object-oriented language and set of libraries to a large developer community. It has delivered on its promise to bring increased productivity, “write once run anywhere,” security, and dynamically downloadable code to desktop and workstation environments. Java technologies a...