Mobile Robots are used to venture through types of environments where wheel slip is a threat. Wheel slip is a hazard to mobile robots in that it introduces error in dead reckoning measurement and in some instances causes the robot to halt is forward progress. To compensate for traction loss several methods are used to determine the terrain characteristics. One of these methods is Pacejka’s Tire...

We test a method of estimating the power spectrum of turbulence in molecular clouds based on the comparison of power spectra of integrated intensity maps and single-velocity-channel maps, suggested by Lazarian and Pogosyan. We use synthetic CO data from non-LTE radiative transfer calculations based on density and velocity fields of a simulation of supersonic hydrodynamic turbulence. We find tha...

A robust controller with chattering is proposed based on a simplified model of an electronic throttle system. The chattering term provides robustness against un-modeled nonlinearities, e.g., limphome nonlinearity, parameter dispersion, and friction phenomena. As the simplified model of the throttle system can be seen to correspond to a horizontal one-degree-of-freedom robot manipulator, the pro...

We analyze a technique of obtaining turbulence power spectrum using spectral line data along the velocity coordinate, which we refer to as Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS). We formalize geometrical aspects of observation through a single factor, “geometric term”. We find that all variety of particular observational configurations can be described using correspondent variants of this term, whi...

We constrain the velocity power spectrum shape parameter Γ in linear theory using the nine bulk–flow and shear moments estimated from four recent peculiar velocity surveys. For each survey, a likelihood function for Γ was found after marginalizing over the power spectrum amplitude σ8Ω 0.6 m using constraints obtained from comparisons between redshift surveys and peculiar velocity data. In order...

In this paper we present the results of the statistical analysis of high-latitude Hi turbulence in the Milky Way. We have observed Hi in the 21 cm line, obtained with the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) receiver at the Arecibo radio telescope. For recovering of velocity statistics we have used the Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS) technique. In our analysis we have used direct fitting of the ...

purpose: comparison of the results of visual evoked potential (vep) in time domain and frequency domain between multiple sclerosis (ms) suspected patients and normal indivisuals. method: eleven ms suspected patients with normal visual findings and 20 normal individuals were tested by vep. results were compared between two groups. results: the time domain results showed no significant difference...

Directional dark matter detectors will be able to record the recoil momentum spectrum of nuclei hit by dark matter WIMPs. We show that the recoil momentum spectrum is the Radon transform of the WIMP velocity distribution. This allows us to obtain analytic expressions for the recoil spectra of a variety of velocity distributions. We comment on the possibility of inverting the recoil momentum spe...