This article presents a novel autonomous system concept for automated construction of houses and other buildings via deposition of concrete and similar materials. The overall system consists of a novel cable-suspended mobility subsystem (a self-contained extension of the RoboCrane), a deposition nozzle subsystem, a metrology subsystem, and a material supply subsystem. This article focuses mainl...

The Self-Contained Unified Bass Augmenter (SCUBA) is a new augmentative OSC (Open Sound Control) [5] controller for the tuba. SCUBA adds new expressive possibilities to the existing tuba interface through onboard sensors. These sensors provide continuous and discrete user-controlled parametric data to be mapped at will to signal processing parameters, virtual instrument control parameters, soun...

Layered software architecture contains several intra-layer and inter-layer dependencies. Each layer depends on shared components making it difficult to release a code change, bug fix or feature without exhaustive testing and having to build the entire software code base. This paper proposed self-contained, cross-cutting pipeline architecture (SCPA) that is independent of existing layers. We cho...

PGP’s “web of trust” approach provides basic identification facilities. One benefit of this approach is that it tries to lower the infrastructure requirements such that, for example, no certification authorities are required. In this paper we also pursue this objective but take it even further. We present a self-contained P2P-based directory that provides similar guarantees for identification a...

A family of circuits of a graph G is said to be independent if no two of the circuits have a common vertex ; it is called edge-independent if no two of them have an edge in common . A set of vertices will be called a representing set for the circuits (for the sake of brevity we shall call it a representing set), if every circuit of G passes through at least one vertex of the representing set . ...