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ICRA
2010
IEEE
145views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Modeling and decision making in spatio-temporal processes for environmental surveillance
Abstract— The need for efficient monitoring of spatiotemporal dynamics in large environmental surveillance applications motivates the use of robotic sensors to achieve sufficie...
Amarjeet Singh 0003, Fabio Ramos, Hugh D. Whyte, W...
SAFECOMP
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
An Agenda for Specifying Software Components with Complex Data Models
Abstract. We present a method to specify software for a special kind of safetycritical embedded systems, where sensors deliver low-level values that must be abstracted and pre-proc...
Kirsten Winter, Thomas Santen, Maritta Heisel
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 11 months ago
On the use of numerical methods for analysis and control of nonlinear convective systems
Abstract— A common approach to designing feedback controllers for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) is to linearize the system about an equilibrium and use the line...
Edward Allen, John A. Burns, David S. Gilliam
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
15 years 8 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
15 years 11 months ago
A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan