We apply speciication and veriication techniques based on the timed I/O automaton model of Lynch and Vaandrager to a case study in the area of automated transit. The case study models and veriies selected safety properties for automated Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems such as PRT 2000 TM , a system currently being developed at Raytheon. Due to their safety critical nature, PRT 2000 TM and ...

We report on high-power operation of an optically pumped external-cavity semiconductor disk laser. 13.2W optical output power at 970 nm has been achieved in a double-pass pump configuration. The laser Bragg mirror was designed to provide not only high reflectivity for the laser wavelenth but also for the pumping beam. A proper layer structure which supports standing-wave patterns with a node ne...

We present a novel approach to acquisition of range images of objects with non-uniform albedo using a structured light sensor. The main idea is to systematically vary the intensity of the light projector and to form high dynamic scale radiance maps. The range images are then formed from these radiance maps. We tested the method on the objects which have surfaces with very different reflectance ...

This paper presents a novel framework to extend the dynamic range of images called Unbounded High Dynamic Range (UHDR) photography with a modulo camera. A modulo camera could theoretically take unbounded radiance levels by keeping only the least significant bits. We show that with limited bit depth, very high radiance levels can be recovered from a single modulus image with our newly proposed u...

A laboratory experiment was designed to determine the spectral characteristics of different types of sediment suspended in water in the visible and near infrared wavelengths (0.45-0.9 /xm) using a fourchannel radiometer. Field collected sediments were resuspended in water to produce different concentration levels for the measurement of radiance. Spectral measurements of turbid water showed a di...

Abstract Efficiently and accurately rendering hair accounting for multiple scattering is a challenging open problem. Path tracing in takes long to converge while other techniques are either too approximate still being computationally expensive or make assumptions about the scene. We present technique infer higher order constant time within path framework, achieving better computational efficien...

Although perovskite light emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have shown fast advances in external quantum efficiency (EQE), their operational stability is still low compared to other LED devices. Here, stable PeLEDs are demonstrated with high radiance primarily by using 6,6?-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and magnesium-doped Zinc oxide (ZnMgO) injection layers reduce the driving voltage. Thr...