The effect of light- and dark-rearing on the amounts of rhodopsin and interstitial retinol-binding protein (IRBP) in RCS rats and their congenic controls (RCS-rdy+) was determined. Rhodopsin was measured spectroscopically and IRBP by dot-blot enzyme immunoassay utilizing rabbit antibovine IRBP IgG. After P15-20, dark-reared RCS and RCS-rdy+ rats always had more rhodopsin than their light-reared...

We describe a hybrid tracking system for outdoor augmented reality applications in this paper. There are two main contributions of the proposed system: 1) It makes use of naturally occurring line features to recover 6ODF pose; 2) A high precision gyro is used to track 2D lines across frames for large inter-frame motions. The proposed system has been tested for outdoor augmented reality applicat...

The 4D/RCS Reference Model Architecture for Unmanned Vehicle Systems provides a methodology for conceptualizing, designing, engineering, integrating, and testing intelligent systems software for vehicle systems with any degree of autonomy. Many of the components of this architecture require the integration of cognitive functions to provide this autonomy. KEEL (Knowledge Enhanced Electronic Logi...

Step-Frequency RCS measurement system is a new and remarkable RCS measurement system, which can obtain the response of target at each frequency point in an anecho chamber. Comparing it with traditional way of CW RCS measurement, more information gains in the new system. IFFT, zero insertion and the use of additional windows are some of familiar DSP techniques, which can improve the results if t...

In order to make an unmanned vehicle drive truly autonomously, many different software components are needed. Each of these components is tasked with providing a particular function that is necessary to accomplish the ultimate goal of autonomous driving. Typical functions include perception, sensory processing, world modeling, planning, route following, behavior generation and value judgment. E...

Initially envisaged to support handover between different wireless 802.x network technologies, the IEEE 802.21 standard also appears as the good candidate for handover management in future integrated satellite / terrestrial systems. This paper presents an analysis of how this standard could be implemented in the frame of a realistic scenario and taking into account the current trends in wireles...

Injected beam energy and energy spread are critical parameters affecting the performance of our rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). A real-time energy monitoring system is being installed to examine the H beam out of the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) 50 MeV linac. The 200 MHz Alvarez linac serves as the injector for the 450 MeV IPNS RCS. The linac provides an 80 μs macropulse of approximate...

The new standard for DVB-RCS includes guidelines for mobile user in the market of aircraft, maritime and terrestrial transportation. The standard proposed by ETSI suggests the possibility of using a continuous carrier operation mode in the return channel, beside the classical MF-TDMA mode for better adapting the satellite bandwidth to the new requests of mobile users. It can be important a mech...

Sensory processing for real-time, complex, and intelligent control systems is costly, so it is important to perform only the sensory processing required by the task. In this paper, we describe a straightforward metric for precisely defining sensory processing requirements. We then apply that metric to a complex, real-world control problem, autonomous on-road driving. To determine these requirem...