In this paper we discuss the application of our recently de-veloped nonlinear analytical redundancy (NLAR) fault detection techniqueto a two-degree of freedom robot manipulator. NLAR extends the tradi-tional linear AR technique to derive the maximum possible number of in-dependent model-based fault detection tests into the continuous nonlineardomain. The ability to handle no...

a decade ago, sub-saharan africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. the chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. these health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...

This work deals with the design of the low{level stages of any diierential{ based optical ow algorithm. The problem is the accurate estimaton of the spatio{temporal derivatives of the moving image, to be used in the solution of the gradient constraint equation. We claim that the \tradi-tional" techniques for the partial derivatives estimation can be improved by i) exploiting all the information...

In this paper we show how the classical job shop scheduling problem can be modeled as a special class of acyclic timed automata Finding an optimal schedule corresponds then to nding a shortest in terms of elapsed time path in the timed automaton This representa tion provides new techniques for solving the optimization problem and more importantly it allows to model naturally more complex dynami...

The article convincingly proves the importance of creating an effective methodological system for training future teachers natural sciences. main task modern education is to master method purposeful organization educational process, which provides opportunity multifaceted self-development individual, increases motivation obtaining quality education. components proposed formation professional qu...

In many scenarios, quickly solving a relatively small search problem with an arbitrary start and arbitrary goal state is important (e.g., GPS navigation). In order to speed this process, we introduce a new class of memorybased heuristics, called true distance heuristics, that store true distances between some pairs of states in the original state space can be used for a heuristic between any pa...

In the attempt to orient ourselves to the mass of existing endocrinological data bearing on the cancer problem, it is essential to consider the gen eral biological framework upon which endocrinol ogy rests. With the evolution of multicellular organisms, there have developed innumerable patterns of functional integration among their constituent cellular units. These patterns range all the way fr...

Crown class, an ordinal tree-level mensuration attribute used extensively by foresters, is di#icult to ass ign in thefield because def ini t ions of individual classes are confounded by ambiguous references to the position the tree in the canopy and amount of light received by its crown. When crown class is decomposed into its two elements-crown position and crown light exposure--field assignme...

In the attempt to orient ourselves to the mass of existing endocrinological data bearing on the cancer problem, it is essential to consider the gen eral biological framework upon which endocrinol ogy rests. With the evolution of multicellular organisms, there have developed innumerable patterns of functional integration among their constituent cellular units. These patterns range all the way fr...