— Carrying heavy payloads is a challenging task for the modular robot, because its composing modules are relatively tiny and less strong compared with conventional robots. To acc...
Abstract— The capability to assemble structures is fundamental to the use of robotics in precursor missions in orbit and on planetary surfaces. We have performed autonomous assem...
Brennan Sellner, Frederik W. Heger, Laura M. Hiatt...
Server storage systems use a large number of disks to achieve high performance, thereby consuming a significant amount of power. In this paper, we propose to significantly reduc...
Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mircea R. Stan
— This paper presents models for estimating the transition activity of signals at the output of adders in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), given only word-level measures o...
Jonathan A. Clarke, George A. Constantinides, Pete...
The newly adopted scalable extension of H.264/AVC video coding standard (SVC), demonstrates significant improvements in coding efficiency in addition to an increased degree of s...