To find a common approach for the development of an efficient system that is able to achieve an omnidirectional jump, a jumping kinematic of a legged robot is proposed based on the behavior mechanism of a jumping spider. To satisfy the diversity of motion forms in robot jumping, a kind of 4 degrees of freedom (4DoFs) mechanical leg is designed. Taking the change of joint angle as inspiration by...

We present a novel computational method, the skewed-momenta method (Skew'M), which applies a bias to the Maxwell distribution of initial momenta used to generate ensembles of trajectories. As a result, conformational transitions are accentuated and kinetic properties are calculated more effectively. The connection to the related puddle jumping method is discussed. A reweighting scheme permits t...

Experiments with the Fuzzy ACC under various traffic conditions have shown that the fuzzy approach is very robust especially with regard to the inevitable sensor noise. The modular architecture facilitates fine-tuning of the fuzzy controller for the different situation-specific components and minimizes interference of those components during operation. The approach to adaptation has two main go...

14 On the receipt of the service request, the QoS manager translates this request on one or more logical configurations based on the profile concept, and produces the corresponding configurations by accessing the system information repository (4). To decide about the possibility of the establishment of a configuration which is the mapping result of a logical configuration, the QoS manager asks ...

There appears to be confusion over the approach obstetricians should take in managing the pregnant patient with BV. Screening all patients for BV and treatment has not been shown to improve perinatal morbidity or mortality. Although current data are encouraging, a cause and effect relationship has not been established. Unfortunately, patients are led to believe that the presence of this conditi...

The Security functionality provided by the protocols is almost equivalent. While the FTAM and RDA authentication and authorisation mechanisms are a mere mapping to those of the accessed file system or database, DFR defines own mechanisms. No sound statements on efficiency and reliability issues of the protocols can be made right now. These have to be derived from experiences with trial implemen...

A reliable multicast protocol enables a process to multicast a message to a group of processes in a way that ensures that all honest destination-group members receive the same message, even if some group members and the multicast initiatorare maliciously faulty. Reliable multicast has been shown to be useful for building multiparty cryptographic protocols and secure distributed services. We pre...