Work Pattern Formation Technology for Multi-micromachines

MEMS Technology -- Micromachines Enabling the “All Optical Network"

* Formerly with Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems (Breinigsville, PA) Abstract Research on micromachines or MEMS technology has been ongoing for more than a decade. Early work focused on biomedical, printing and airbag applications. Only recently has this technology been applied to telecommunications networks. This new micro-optics technology, known as Optical MEMS, is enabling a new generation...

Developing technology-enhanced, work-focussed learning: a Pattern Language approach

This paper identifies issues in developing a three-year duration, work-focussed undergraduate degree programme with a model of inquiry-based learning supported through online communities of inquiry. On the course, students examine their current work-practice to identify issues and then plan, implement and evaluate an improvement strategy. Negotiated learning activities and facilitated networkin...

Thesis Proposal: Pattern Formation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Work and Technology: Teacher's Lived Experiences

The aim of study was to explore teachers’ lived experiences about implementing work and technology curriculum. Phenomenology research was used. Fifteen participants were selected through purposeful sampling. They were teachers of the seventh and eighth grades of lower secondary schools in Karaj. Data colledted through semi structured interviews and tape recordings. The results show Officials’ i...

Pattern formation for multi-robot applications: Robust, self-repairing systems inspired by genetic regulatory networks and cellular self-organisation Running title: Pattern formation for multi-robot applications

This work concerns a biologically-inspired approach to self-assembly and pattern formation in multi-robot systems. In previous work the authors have recently studied two different approaches to multi-robot control, one based upon the evolution of controllers modelled as genetic regulatory networks (GRNs), and the other based upon a model of self-organisation in aggregates of biological cells me...