USARSIM is a worldwide used robot simulator deployed in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and in the context of the RoboCup Rescue Real Robot contest. This paper describes the USARSIM simulator for KURT2 and Kurt3D robot platforms, which we are using in both education and research. As it simulates on the device level, a seamless integration of real robot control software with the simulations becom...

The flashing feed sections of crude oil vacuum towers are especially prone to liquid entrainment. This can be detrimental to the performance of the packings/trays above the feed. It is also of disadvantage in case liquid is collected and recirculated back to the furnace. Therefore it is common practice to use special inlet devices that help preventing or minimizing liquid entrainment while maxi...

We present an in-depth discussion on the subband Boltzmann transport (SBTE) methodology, its evolution, and application to simulation of nanoscale MOSFETs. The evolution method is presented from point view developing a commercial general-purpose SBTE solver, GTS nano device simulator (NDS). show wide range applications suited for, including state-of-the-art nonplanar well-established planar tec...

This work presents a comprehensive description of an in-house 3D Monte Carlo device simulator for physical mod-eling FinFETs. The was developed to consider var-iability effects properly and be able study deeply scaled devices operating in the ballistic quasi-ballistic regimes. impact random dopants trapped charges die-lectric is considered by treating electron-electron electron-ion interactions...

This paper presents a technique for evaluating the performance of biomedical devices by combining physical (mechanical) testing with a numerical, computerised model of a biological system. This technique is developed for evaluation of a cardiac assist device prior to in vivo trials. This device will wrap around a failing heart and provide physical beating assistance (dynamic cardiac compression...

We present an interactive dynamic simulator for poly-articulated bodies. We use constraintbased methods to compute contact forces with non-discretized friction, allowing fast simulation. The user can interact with the virtual environment while sensing force feedback through a haptic device. We integrated in our simulator the possibility to design and model an external passive system that allows...

The physical oxide thickness of ultrathin oxides is extracted using tunneling current characteristics of MOS capacitom An extraction tool has been developed for the semiautomatic extraction. The tool has implemented nonlinear least square solver and GUIs. A tunneling current model is incorporated into the device simulator MIDSIP-T and it is used as a core simulator of the extraction system. It ...

Occupational therapy at the Liberty Mutual Medical Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts, offers a diverse variety of modalities for the treatment of patients with low back pain. Treatment may include the use of a balance monitor, a multiwork station, a pneumatic lifting-lowering device, a computerized upper extremity work simulator, and a truck-driving simulator. The primary objective of occup...

This paper describes an interactive dynamic simulator for virtual environments which allows user interaction via a haptic interface. The interactive simulation is performed in our testbed dynamic simulator I-GMS, which has been developed in an object-oriented framework for simulating motions of free bodies and complex linkages such as those needed for robotic systems or human body simulation. U...