Abstract. Recent advances in materials, sensing, power harvesting, contextawareness and miniaturisation have opened-up the possibility of constructing materials that directly inclu...
Simon Dobson, Kieran Delaney, Kafil Mahmood Razeeb...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and most of them rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for contextawareness. This architectu...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
A recent report by the National Research Council (NRC) declares neural networks “hold the most promise for providing powerful learning models”. While some researchers have expe...
Amy E. Henninger, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Michael Geo...
Growth in the complexity of computing systems, in the dynamism of the environments they operate in, and the need for timely adaptations as conditions change, now pose significant...
This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the sit...