The roving scalpel

Fao-wmo Roving Seminar

Roving Wireless Sensor Network

Mobile wireless sensor networks show great potential in a number of important disciplines such as search-and-rescue, military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and extraterrestrial exploration. This project focuses on the embedded system design acting as a test bed for experimentation. Keywords-component; networks; sensors; wireless; autonomous; robots; distributed; rover; energy harves...

The Harmonic Scalpel.

Any laparoscopic surgery demands appropriate surgical instruments. Most surgeons nowadays have adapted to this different form of surgery and have particular preferences for certain types of graspers, dissectors and cutting instruments. The general component of laparoscopic instrument includes the hand grip, shaft, jaw and the tip. The harmonic scalpel is a surgical instrument used to simultaneo...

Roving Faster Farther Cheaper

Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to areas of scientific interest – which may be many 10s of kilometers away from a suitable landing location. This paper describes a recent field test of the SR-II rover. SR-II is a 22kg solar powered autonomous rover, whic...

Roving Bandits ? The Geographical Evolution of African

The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military assistance, or that have relatively weak fighting capacity tend to fight in inconsistent locations. We develop new measures of conflict zone movement to...