After giving a rich data basis of our impact tests with standardized crash-test dummies in Part I of this work we address in Part II various aspects related to these tests in a case based discussion. The presented facts, the knowledge gained from our previous work, and the data from Part I lead us to recommendations for standardized crash-testing procedures in robotics. The proposed impact proc...

This paper presents a formal and systematic model for analysis and testing of secure systems. The concept of security dependency is first introduced, and certain rules and theorems of security dependency are then formally described. These rules can be used as a basis for static analysis, dynamic testing, and covert channel analysis for a secure system. The major feature of the model presented i...

In exploratory data analysis, we are often interested in identifying promising pairwise associations for further analysis while filtering out weaker, less interesting ones. This can be accomplished by computing a measure of dependence on all possible variable pairs and examining the highest-scoring pairs, provided the measure of dependence used assigns similar scores to equally noisy relationsh...

This paper proposes a statistical analysis of delay faults which is based on the assumption of a linear combination of signal delays along a path. In order to consider distributed signal delays and to reflect that only few paths can be sensitized, the path delay fault model is applied. By choosing appropriate values for parameters, e.g. cycle time and correlations between signal delays, it is p...

(Appears as a regular paper in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington D.C, IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2002, pp. 138-145. 27 out of 84 submissions were accepted as regular papers leading to 32 acceptance rate.) Significant advances in plan synthesis under classical assumptions have occurred in last seven years. All such efficie...

It is presumed that if you have a limited amount of time for assessing student knowledge, that you should give a test that does not waste time giving students feedback. Feng and Heffernan (2010) compared two such conditions and found the counter intuitive results that the condition that let them get feedback was actually superior (not statistically reliable) than the “test” condition, in which ...

Both the new ASAE S518 standard (2) and the revised draft international standard DIS/ISO 5707 (3) incorporate performance standards for vacuum stability in milking systems. New NMC procedures for system evaluation include dynamic tests for vacuum stability to demonstrate the adequacy of new or existing milking systems (7) . Such dynamic (i.e. "milking-time") tests require the use of test instru...

Electrodynamic shakers are utilized in many experimental modal tests and general structural dynamic testing. The physical aspects of shaker, stinger and transducer setup can result in anomalies that are often misunderstood. Many times measurement artifacts related to mounting and dynamic coupling between shaker, stinger and test object can appear, affecting test results. This paper overviews so...

Dynamic testing includes procedures that examine the effects of brief training on test performance where pre- to post-training change reflects patients' learning potential. The objective of this systematic review was to provide clinicians and researchers insight into the concept and methodology of dynamic testing and to explore its predictive validity in adult patients with cognitive impairment...

We propose in this paper an exploratory analysis algorithm for functional data. The method partitions a set of functions into K clusters and represents each cluster by a simple prototype (e.g., piecewise constant). The total number of segments in the prototypes, P , is chosen by the user and optimally distributed among the clusters via two dynamic programming algorithms. The practical relevance...