We introduce the “WUI-Toolkit” as a framework to support and ease the development of wearable user interfaces (WUIs). The toolkit presents a first step towards a model-driven...
Abstract— Intelligently utilizing the frictional contact between a robot and its environment can prevent slip, maintain balance, and provide stability during a robot’s motion. ...
— This paper presents an indoor human localization system for the visually impaired. A prototype portable device has been implemented, consisting of a pedometer and a standard wh...
— We consider the problem of multiple mobile sensor agents tracking the position of one or more moving targets. In our formulation, each agent maintains a target estimate, and ea...
BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues:...