Drawing out Language: From or to and, Disrupting Dualism through Conceptual Poetics

I address how the material and conceptual form of artist books may be used to explore the partial nature of communication and to challenge the fixity of meaning implied by dualism in language. My project produces spaces where any compulsion for definitive terms and reliance on the or of binary sense may be called into question. Cultivating a rhizomatic and associative method developed from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I forge connections, crossing disciplinary boundaries and assembling diverse theories. I elicit a praxis response to explore the abstract notions of existing between or beside through an examination of new materialist writing terms. Unsettling dualism in order to avoid fixing or claiming a position, fragmentary techniques are employed to reject immediate coherence, opening spaces to reflect on minor processes of meaningmaking. Considering the book form, I examine the condition and position of the author: the death, return, authorial position, and conceptual distance achieved since the author’s original death declared by Roland Barthes in 1967. As an author(ity) continually reemerges, and cannot be killed, silenced, or neutralised, I suggest how distraction, meandering, error, and misrepresentation in relation to reading and writing challenge authority and expectations of research behaviour. I develop a method which combines elements of Caroline Bergvall's call for conceptual poetics of engaged disengagement – breaking the relentless submission to the rules, while acknowledging the complexity of lived experience – with Barthes’s insolent but smitten reading approach. My own disruptive devotion to reading, writing, and making are enmeshed in the practice, using drawing, photography and writing to produce artist books. The art works disrupt existing texts by using association, error, and distraction to fragment. In doing so, spaces are produced to materialise elements of the reading process which explore the construction of sense for this reader. Reading as writing as making are understood via a term I have developed: writ(read)ing. This term defines the development of a method, used by the read(writ)er, where practice cuts together-apart processes related to reading/writing/making to challenge oppositional terms.

Study on Fault-Tolerant Method of Mobile Robot Integrated Navigation

As for the SLAM/DR/MEMS integrated navigation system of mobile robot constructed on the self-made SaecROB-H mobile robot, there exist mutant faults which are likely to occur, such as environment feature recognition error and data association error during mobile robot SLAM procedure, or dead reckoning failure caused by wheel slipping and so on. According to these mutant faults, mutant fault detecting and fault-tolerant filtering method was presented in this paper based on finite memory on-line prediction. At last, simulation was carried out and the results show that the method can improve the stability of mobile robot integrated navigation efficiently.

Misidentified OH/IR Stars

Plots of periods against (25μm – 12μm) colour of OH/IR stars suggest that four IRAS sources, that have been associated with known OH/IR stars, either provide anomalous identifications, or are weak rather than regular variables. It is argued here that only one of these cases is an association error. OH15.7+0.8 and OH37.1–0.8 are the new proto–planetary nebula candidates.