In the latter half of the 20th century, Los Angeles had, by many measures, higher levels of photochemical air pollutants than any other major city in the United States (Fig. 1). To address this problem, the California Air Resources Board and its partners became leaders in quantifying the health effects of air pollutants and in aggressively implementing pollution-control strategies. Even with th...

The mobile air cleaner analyzes a distribution of polluted air to purify the air fast, calculates an optimal position and moves the position so that it can remove indoor dust more quickly. At this time, the self-localization is necessary to make the mobile air cleaner move accurately to the calculated position. This paper proposed a self-localization algorithm having high accuracy without compl...

In December 2011/January 2012 we have released the main deliverable of the project "PolNet Polish WordNet". It was first presented and distributed (as PolNet 1.0) at the 5th Language and Technology Conference in Poznań (2011) and (informally, with kind permission of the organizers) distributed during the Global Wordnet Conference in Matsue, Japan, in January 2012. We intend to present to the pa...

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Robots have entered our domestic lives as pets, caretakers and vacuum cleaners. Yet, little is known about their impact on the home. This paper takes first steps towards addressing this omission, by reporting on results from an empirical study of iRobot’s Roomba –a vacuuming robot—that examined adoption and use. Our findings suggest that, by developing intimacy to the robot, our participants we...

Cleaner Production is a comparatively new approach to dealing with environmental concerns and grasping the opportunities arising from those challenges. It aims at avoiding the generation of waste and emissions, by making more efficient use of materials and energy, through modifications in the production processes, input materials, operating practices and/or products and services. Although Clean...

This paper presents the results of the development of an autonomous mobile robot, designed according to some new concepts established in this eld during the last decade. These principles can be found in other work based on the constructivist approach, arti cial life, subsumption architecture and other bottom-up methodologies. These ideas have been applied to the complete robot design, spanning ...

A practical and long-term usable air-cleaner based on the synergy of photocatalysis and plasma treatments has been developed. A field test of the air-cleaner was carried out in an office smoking room. The results were compared to previously reported laboratory test results. Even after a treatment of 12,000 cigarettes-worth of tobacco smoke, the air-cleaner maintained high-level air-purification...

Advances in vehicle design and fuel quality mean cars can be made cleaner and more efficient. Lower emissions of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2), particles (including the fine dust and soot PM10) and hydrocarbons (HCs) also known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) will lead to better urban air quality and less summertime smog. Lower emissions of carbon dioxi...