Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
²In microsurgery, a surgeon often deals with anatomical structures of sizes that are close to the limit of the human hand accuracy. Robotic assistants can help to push beyond the ...
Brian C. Becker, Sandrine Voros, Robert A. MacLach...
—Supply chain [2], [6] is an important component of business operations. Understanding its stochastic behaviors is the key to risk analysis and performance evaluation in supply c...
– This paper presents the motion analysis, design and position control of a novel, low cost, sliding micro-robot, which is actuated by centripetal forces generated by robot mount...
In this paper, we show how to obtain causal semantics distinguishing ”earlier than” and ”not later than” causality between events from algebraic semantics of Petri nets. J...