This paper proposes a cooperation protocol based on the cost-balanced strategy for the Object-Sorting Task in multi-agent robotic systems. The protocol coordinates agents for carrying objects to destinations eficiently and effectively. Each agent autonomously makes subjective optimal decision, then the coordination algorithm resolves their conflicts by balancing the load, which is measured in t...

In this paper we describe solutions to address critical challenges in direct fabrication of amorphous silicon thin film transistor (TFTs) arrays for high information content active matrix flexible displays for Army applications. For all flexible substrates a manufacturable handling protocol in automated display-scale equipment is required. For metal foil substrates the principal challenges are ...

This paper is motivated by a desire to create a user friendly, technically flexible approach to cryptography. This approach can create a flexible design pattern that is useable under a wide variety of circumstances from broadcast media to existing network protocols. This is accomplished by designing a new, key piece of infrastructure used for cryptography key lookup. Once the key is obtained th...

Introduction: Plastination is a unique technique for preservation of biological specimens used for teaching purposes. The protocol of flexible sheet plastination includes fixation, slicing, dehydration, force impregnation, casting, and curing (Hajian, Rabiei, Fatollahpour & Esfandiary, 2008). The procedure is done by using P87 flexible unsaturated polyester resin and provides heavy, gross, frag...

A new approach to structuring layered protocols using polymorphic service access points and type inheritance between protocol machines is presented Polymorphic service access points facil itate the exible instantiation of protocol machines containing the minimal functionality required by an application The type inheritance structure is induced by a vertical partitioning of the upper layers of t...

This paper describes the Flexible Interconnection Protocol, or FLIP, whose main goal is to allow interconnection of heterogeneous devices with varying power, processing, and communication capabilities, ranging from simple sensors to more powerful computing devices such as laptops and desktops. The vision is that FLIP will be used to interconnect such devices forming clouds in the farthest branc...

DS-TDMA/CP is a TDMA-based medium access protocol for cellular networks catering to multiple traffic classes with diverse QoS requirements. In contrast to other TDMA protocols for mobile applications, instead of trying to fit the offered traffic to the slot size, our solution adapts the slot size to the offered traffic. In consequence, as demonstrated by our performance studies, the proposed sc...

Introduction: Horizontal root fracture (HRF) generally has a good prognosis of healing at fracture line after repositioning and flexible splinting. However, various factors such as delayed referral may unfavorably influence close reduction of firmly displaced coronal fragments and the long-term prognosis of healing at fracture line. Case 1: A 25-year-old woman with HRF in her maxillary central ...

In this paper, we present a 3GPP-inspired hardware implementation for the out-of-band Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network, which serves as solution to both coverage extension capacity boosting in 5G beyond networks. By employing an Ettus x310 software-defined radio (SDR) board, Pasternack’s 60 GHz Transmitter (Tx) waveguide module, Matlab <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/Mat...

Smart body area networks (SmartBAN) is an emerging wireless (WBAN) standard proposed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This paper first examines potential of SmartBAN medium access control (MAC) layer with scheduled to support a myriad WBAN applications, having diverse data rate requirements. Extra slots can be allocated high date sensor nodes for managing their Hig...