The purpose of the research was to construct a model that could forecast probability winning in case Novak Djokovic men’s singles grand slam event Australian Open and determine relative relevance match data contribute victory. A total number 147 matches were recorded for all nine years i.e., from 2013 2021, first round exit over years. One few assumptions logistic regression is dependent variab...

This paper presents an intelligent and robust guidance, navigation and control solution for a rotary-wing UAV to carry out an autonomous cargo transportation mission between two moving platforms. Different from the conventional GPS/INS-only navigation scheme, this solution also integrates sophisticated Lidar and vision systems capable of precisely locating cargo loading and unloading positions....

Not long ago I witnessed a remarkable interchange between two great thinkers: the cosmologist and physicist John Archibald Wheeler, and the philosopher of science Sir Karl Popper. Popper and Wheeler were meeting with a dozen other philosophers and scientists at Schloss Kronberg, the Victorian castle built by Kaiser Wilhelm's mother outside of Frankfurt during the closing years of the nineteenth...

The new wave of robotics aims to provide robots with the capacity to learn, develop and evolve in interaction with their environments using biologically inspired techniques. This work is placed in perspective by considering its biological and psychological basis with reference to some of the grand theorists of living systems. In particular, we examine what it means to have a body by outlining t...

Genetic modification has not only been applied in bacteria but also in animals. Transgenic mice, sheep, dogs, zebra fish, flies and silkworms have appeared in laboratories, as have transgenic mosquitoes. Anopheline mosquitoes that transmit malaria have been targeted for the insertion of transgenes to reduce their ability to spread disease [1]. Some laboratories, including ours, have succeeded i...

Owing to the recent great advances in Grid Computing, computational Grids are emerging for solving grand challenge applications. Grid development involves the efficient management of heterogeneous, geographically distributed, and dynamically available resources. However, the huge and complex architecture of grid software is still immature and difficult to user, especially in a large grid comput...

Grand challenges in organismal biology Kurt Schwenk,* Dianna K. Padilla, George S. Bakken and Robert J. Full Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA; Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity Studies, Indiana State University, Terre ...

This paper reports on various aspects of the Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IVS) team’s involvement in the recent 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, wherein our platform, the autonomous “XAV-250,” competed as one of the 11 finalists qualifying for the event. We provide a candid discussion of the hardware and software design process that led to our team’s entry, along with lessons learned at this event a...