Biology employs modular organization at every scale: molecular building blocks make up living cells, specialized cells organize within tissues, and collections of tissues constitute organs. 3D-printed networks picoliter-sized aqueous compartments interconnected by lipid bilayers form a powerful platform for precisely patterned synthetic tissues. However, this technology has been limited to mill...

Residential building construction is resource-intensive and significantly impacts the environment by embodied operational carbon emissions. This study has adopted a parametric information modelling (BIM)-based approach for residential to analyse its lifecycle performance evaluate optimisation potential through alternative material use design. The looks at development project, applying an automa...

Abstract Apart from the general state of the tendon the quantity of the stress in the prestressed steel is of prime importance for the safety assessment of prestressed structures and/or anchor systems. On account of precaution reasons it was necessary to create a reliable, sturdy and competitive measuring device for the direct stress monitoring in prestressing steel elements being used in sensi...

A promising idea for scaling robot learning to more complex tasks is to use elemental behaviors as building blocks to compose more complex behavior. Ideally, such building blocks are used in combination with a learning algorithm that is able to learn to select, adapt, sequence and co-activate the building blocks. While there has been a lot of work on approaches that support one of these require...

Building parsers to analyze and transform data is a common task in software development. In this chapter we present a powerful parser framework called PetitParser. PetitParser combines many ideas from various parsing technologies to model grammars and parsers as objects that can be reconfigured dynamically. PetitParser was written by Lukas Renggli as part of his work on the Helvetia system 1 bu...

We developed spiking neural network control for a modular robotic system. The modular robotic system can be easily assembled by a user who is allowed to make overall behaviors by assembling the physical structure made up of a number of modules. The control of each module (building block) is implemented as a spiking neuron and action potentials are sent through the communication channels of the ...

The formal deenition of any namespace device found in a programming language can be given in terms of transformations on a semantic environment. It is therefore worthwhile to consider the implications of incorporating environments as bona de data objects in a programming system. Because of their expressive power, environments can be easily abused. Reifying an environment can entail the capture ...

Modular construction methods are adopted in many spatial and temporal limited projects. As the major equipment used modular construction, mobile crane affects safety efficiency of significantly. Currently, building information modeling (BIM) is widely to improve lifting operation planning cranes. However, inaccurate simulation dynamic environment makes those BIM-based unsuitable for land cranes...