The LittleDog robot

LittleDog is a small four-legged robot designed for research on legged locomotion. The LittleDog platform was designed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA to enable rapid advances in the state of the art of rough-terrain locomotion algorithms. In addition to providing a fleet of 12 robots with baseline software and development tools, LittleDog served as a cross-team common platform that allowed direct comparison of results across multiple research teams. Here we report the details of this robotic system.

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Web Service Specifications Relevant for Service Oriented Infrastructures

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing - Achieving Real-Time in Distributed Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-827-9.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 174-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Eduardo Oliveros ◽

Jesús Movilla ◽

Andreas Menychtas ◽

Roland Kuebert ◽

Michael Braitmaier ◽

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Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Web Service ◽

Real Time ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Data Centre ◽

Development Tools ◽

Service Oriented ◽

The Web

Service Oriented Infrastructures (SOIs) have recently seen increased use, mainly thanks to technologies for data centre virtualization and the emergence and increasing commercial offering of Cloud solutions. Web Services have been seen as a tool to implement SOI solutions thanks to their versatility and interoperability, but at the same time, Web Services have been considered not suitable for providing interactive real-time solutions. In this chapter the state of the art of the Web service technology will be analysed, and their different communication mechanisms and the existing implementations will be compared. Firstly, the different standardisation bodies working on Web service specifications relevant to SOI will be introduced. The various approaches to implement Web services will be described followed by the Web service specifications and the middleware that make use of those specifications, including the description of the commercial interfaces and development tools to create services for the cloud. In the last part of the chapter, the interoperability problems present on the different frameworks and the existing solutions to minimize those interoperability problems will be explained.

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Mapping, localization and motion planning in mobile multi-robotic systems

Robotica ◽

10.1017/s0263574712000021 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

William Rone ◽

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Keyword(s):

Motion Planning ◽

System Design ◽

Motion Control ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping ◽

Robotic System ◽

The State ◽

Robotic Systems ◽

System Research ◽

Localization And Mapping

SUMMARYAs researchers have pushed the limits of what can be accomplished by a single robot operating in a known or unknown environment, a greater emphasis has been placed on the utilization of mobile multi-robotic systems to accomplish various objectives. In transitioning from a robot-centric approach to a system-centric approach, considerations must be made for the computational and communicative aspects of the group as a whole, in addition to electromechanical considerations of individual robots. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of mobile multi-robotic system research, with an emphasis on the confluence of mapping, localization and motion control of robotic system. Methods that compose these three topics are presented, including areas of overlap, such as integrated exploration and simultaneous localization and mapping. From these methods, an analysis of benefits, challenges and tradeoffs associated with multi-robotic system design and use are presented. Finally, specific applications of multi-robotic systems are also addressed in various contexts.

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The State of the Art in Service Robotic System Design

Household Service Robotics ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-800881-2.00002-5 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 19-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Huihuan Qian ◽

Xinyu Wu ◽

Yangsheng Xu

Keyword(s):

System Design ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Robotic System ◽

The State

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The state of the art of agile kanban method: challenges and opportunities

Independent Journal of Management & Production ◽

10.14807/ijmp.v12i8.1482 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 2535-2550

Author(s):

Hamzah Alaidaros ◽

Mazni Omar ◽

Rohaida Romli

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Extensive Review ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Research Teams ◽

Future Studies ◽

Current State ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The Cross

In the recent years, the Agile Kanban has emerged as an appropriate method used for managing projects in numerous fields and various settings. Despite getting an increased popularity in the software organizations, the Agile Kanban method still has different challenges that need to be addressed. Therefore, this study aims to concisely explore the current state of the art and latest researches on the Agile Kanban method through conducting an extensive review of the literature. The results of this study carry strong implications and confirm the important need for conducting researches on the Agile Kanban method. It also provides the key challenges and opportunities that can be investigated in future studies. The cross analysis of the results leads to a better understanding of the Agile Kanban method and aids the research teams to address the Kanban limitations and increase its adoption in the software organizations.

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Practical Picture Processing

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100051700 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 338-339

Author(s):

T. A. Welton

Keyword(s):

Radiation Damage ◽

Coherence Length ◽

Spatial Information ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Coherent Radiation ◽

The State ◽

Energy Spread ◽

Electron Micrograph ◽

Picture Processing ◽

Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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