This article describes the software architecture of an autonomous, interactive tour-guide robot. It presents a modular, distributed software architecture, which integrates localiz...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
Previous works define the notion of system model, which provides a formal basis for the definition of the semantics of a distributed object-oriented modelling language. This articl...
— We are developing a distributed computing system, Virtuoso, which presents virtual machines (VMs) as its fundabstraction to end users. Long-running noninteractive VMs may coexi...
We present a new model of interactive audio for entertainment and communication. A new device called the DJammer and its associated technologies are described. The DJammer introdu...
We present new techniques for interactive cinematic lighting design of complex scenes that use procedural shaders. Deep-framebuffers are used to store the geometric and optical in...