−− Range images have a key role for surface mapping in robot navigation and control. The robot control system can easily identify objects and obstacles by manipulating range images, however most of these range images are acquired in perspective projection, thus object position may be incorrect due to distortion caused by the perspective effect. This paper proposes an easy and efficient way to a...

Recently, a variety of wireless structural health monitoring systems have been demonstrated as viable substitutes for traditional high-cost tethered monitoring systems. In this study, a prototype wireless sensing system is deployed on the Voigt Bridge (La Jolla, CA) and a historical theatre (Detroit, MI) to validate its performance against cabled monitoring systems. Acceleration time history re...

Highlights A robotic mushroom picking mechanism was developed, including positioning, picking, and stipe trimming. The end-effector designed based on a bending motion around the stipe-substrate joint. overall success rate of developed reached 91.4%. Acting time air pressure for suction cup were studied in bruise level tests. Abstract . Button (Agaricus bisporus) harvesting mainly relies costly ...

Choosing a Prime Minister: The Transfer of Power in Britain, by Brazier, Rodney. Oxford University Press. 196 pp. £80.00 It is matter some surprise to most people that there no law providing for the existence office Minister, specifying its functions and powers, qualifications office, length tenure, method appointment removal from office. This principally because UK still lacks written constitu...

We present a new approach to selecting actively managed mutual funds that uses both portfolio holdings and fund return information eliminate with predicted inferior performance through sequence of pairwise comparisons. Our methodology determines the number skilled their identities, locates substantially higher risk-adjusted returns than those identified by conventional alpha-ranking methods. fi...