The importance of location based service has been recently addressed in many literatures and thus various positioning schemes for outdoors as well as indoors have been introduced. However, there has been a practical issue of implementation over various positioning schemes, although accurate positioning performance can be achieved. In this paper, a practical indoor positioning scheme that effect...

In this report, we study the positioning accuracy of Cooperative Localization and Target Tracking (CLATT) in a network of mobile robots, and derive analytical upper bounds for the positioning uncertainty. The obtained bounds provide a description for the asymptotic positioning performance of the robots and the targets as a function of the sensor characteristics, and the structure of the graph o...

The Chinese BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) aims to provide global positioning service by 2020. The combined use of BDS and Global Positioning System (GPS) is proposed to provide navigation service with more stringent requirements. Actual satellite data, signals and measurements were collected for more than one month to analyze the positioning service qualities from both BDS and GPS. I...

High-precision positioning scheme, an important part of the indoor navigation system, can be implemented using an ultra-wide band (UWB) based ranging system. Recently, solutions for precise positioning in dense multi-path and nonline-of-sight (NLOS) conditions have attracted a lot of attention in literature. On the other hand, it is expected that Waveform Division Multiple Access (WDMA) technol...

Surgeons performing endovascular interventions have high expectations with regard to the 15 improvement of their operating tools and, more specifically, of their catheters. Active catheters, in which the tip moves actively using shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators, constitute a promising approach. In this article, we review existing SMA-based active catheters present in the literature. We analyz...

Nucleosome positioning plays an essential role in cellular processes by modulating accessibility of DNA to proteins. Many computational models have been developed to predict genome-wide nucleosome positions from DNA sequences. Comparative analysis of predicted and experimental nucleosome positioning maps facilitates understanding the regulatory mechanisms of transcription and DNA replication. T...

Research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing has produced especially small and powerful technologies. In this paper we motivate the application of these new technologies in tabletop games that do not rely on special game boards, but are mainly played on custom made miniature landscapes created by the players. We propose the RELATE [1] platform for augmenting miniatures normally used as game p...

Various sensors have been recently integrated in a smart-phone and step detection method based on the acceleration sensor of a smart-phone has been introduced for indoor positioning scheme. Many researchers have put their interests on the study of step detection algorithm based on the acceleration sensor. However, the estimation performances of these methods are not good enough or just suitable...

Different models with various approaches to strategic positioning have been employed to define it in various industries. As one of the powerful models, BSC analyses all aspect of organization evenly. In this study BSC is used as an instrument to make Shiraz University more efficient in implementing strategic and performance or supporting their strategic plan. Therefore this study aims to desig...