The paper presents the control server, a real-time scheduling mechanism tailored to control and signal processing applications. A control server creates the abstraction of a control task with a specified period and a fixed input-output latency shorter than the period. Individual tasks can be combined into more complex components without loss of their individual guaranteed fixed-latency properti...

Stereo visual odometry has received little investigation in high altitude applications due to the generally poor performance of rigid stereo rigs at extremely small baseline-to-depth ratios. Without additional sensing, metric scale is considered lost and odometry is seen as effective only for monocular perspectives. This paper presents a novel modification to stereo based visual odometry that a...

Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) remains the only bearing surface of choice in total knee replacements (TKR). While excellent medium term results can be found for knee replacements at ten years, there remains concerns about wear debris induced osteolysis in the longer term, particularly in young and more active patients. It has been shown previously that the wear of fixed beari...

ion of a control task with a specified period and a fixed input-output latency shorter than the period. Individual tasks can be combined into more complex components without loss of their individual guaranteed fixed-latency properties. I/O occurs at fixed predefined points in time, at which inputs are read or controller outputs become visible. The control server model is espe-cially suited ...

Voting on the outputs of redundant modules with real number results (i.e., where correctly functioning redundant systems may arrive at slightly different yet correct outputs for identical inputs) is not straightforward. Such cases need inexact voting in which some discrepancies between the outputs of redundant modules are allowed. Documented inexact voters use a fixed threshold value that may c...

Natural interaction in multimodal dialogue systems demands quick system response after the end of a user turn. The prediction of the end of user input at each multimodal dialog turn is complicated as users can interact through modalities in any order, and convey a variety of different messages to the system within the turn. Several multimodal interaction frameworks have used fixed-duration time...

The paper presents the control server, a real-time scheduling mechanism tailored to control and signal processing applications. A control server creates the abstraction of a control task with a specified period and a fixed input-output latency shorter than the period. Individual tasks can be combined into more complex components without loss of their individual guaranteed fixed-latency properti...

For two naturals m, n such that m < n, we show how to construct a circuit C with m inputs and n outputs, that has the following property: for some 0 ≤ k ≤ m, the circuit defines a k-universal function. This means, informally, that for every subset K of k outputs, every possible valuation of the variables in K is reachable. Now consider a circuit M with n inputs that we wish to model-check. Conn...

This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the agricultural sector’s resource allocation and production decisions. uses differential systems with quasi-fixity to evaluate complete system, which examines input output linkages in terms elasticities. The are estimated using maximum likelihood estimation technique based on two-step profit-maximizing procedure theory. results reveal that livest...