Building robots can be a tough job because the designer has to predict the interactions between the robot and the environment as well as to deal with them. One solution to cope the...
In many settings, such as home care or mobile environments, demands on users' attention, or users' anticipated level of formal training, or other on-site conditions will...
As application-specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) are being increasingly used in mobile embedded systems, the ubiquitous networking connections have exposed these systems...
In this paper, we consider the issue of constructing an energy-efficient virtual network backbone in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for broadcasting applications using directiona...
In the past decade, energy-efficiency has been an important system design issue in both hardware and software managements. For mobile applications with critical missions, both ene...