This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...
Active reading, involving acts such as highlighting, writing notes, etc., is an important part of knowledge workers’ activities. Most computer-based active reading support seeks...
Social laws have proved to be a powerful and theoretically elegant framework for coordination in multi-agent systems. Most existing models of social laws assume that a designer is...
Modular and flexible software components can be useful for reuse across a class of domain-specific applications or product lines. By varying the composition of components suited t...
M. Brian Blake, Kevin Cleary, Sohan Ranjan, Luis I...
Trajectory design for high-dimensional systems with nonconvex constraints is a challenging problem considered in this paper. Classical dynamic programming is often employed, but c...