This paper describes a boss-slave relationship between processes, different from the normal relationships between processes, which is useful for a number of purposes. These purposes include debugging of programs, analysis of process behavior, control of a process for security purposes, and simulation of a different operating system for a slave process. This mechanism was easily added to one ope...

An adaptive controller is developed for adjusting robot arm parameters while manipulating payload_of-unknown moss and inertia. The controller is tested experimentally in a masterlslave configuration where the adaptive slave arm is commanded via human operator inputs from a master. Kinematically similar six-joint master and slave arms are used with the last three joints locked for simplification...

The Armenian Social Investment Fund supports communities’ efforts to improve local infrastructure during Armenia’s economic transition away from central planning, financing community-designed and -implemented projects to rehabilitate primary schools, water systems, and other infrastructure. This article considers the targeting, household impact, and community effects of the social fund’s activi...

The research investigates a new method of control for telemanipulators called bilateral impedance control. This new method differs from previous ap"roaches in that interaction forces are used as the communication signals betWeen the master and slave rooots. The main advantage of bilateral impedance control is that it permits the arbitrary specification of desired system performance characterist...

A fuzzy theory refinement algorithm composed of a heuristic process of generalization, specification, addition and elimination of rules is proposed. This refinement algorithm can be applied to knowledge bases obtained from several sources (learning algorithms, experts), but its development is strongly associated with the SLAVE learning system. SLAVE was developed for working with noise-affected...

A Bluetooth ad-hoc network consists of Bluetooth devices interconnected into piconets and piconets interconnected into scatternets. The specification has not yet addressed the issue of algorithms for scatternet formation. Some algorithms have been proposed, but they are either synchronous, they work only with strongly connected topologies, or they are master-slave based and hierarchical of natu...