The paper is focused on the development of algorithms for Autonomous Rotary-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (RW MAVs) in indoor GPS-denied environments. In such missions, GPS may be unavailable and the map of the environment is a priory unknown. This paper presents a modular system consisted of the required components for flying RW MAVs in indoor environments. These components include the methods fo...

The advent of multicore technologies is set to significantly increase the average compute power per machine. Effective and efficient exploitation of this power poses unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The Pleiades system, currently under development in UCF, CSU and UCC [1], proposes the construction of a distributed, heterogeneous, and secure marketplace for trading and administer thes...

In this paper, we propose a way to fuse the image-based localisation approach with the Monte-Carlo localisation approach. The method we propose does not suffer of the major limitation of the two separated methods: the need of a metric map of the environment for the Monte-Carlo localisation and the failure of the image-based approach in environments with spatial periodicity (perceptual aliasing)...

Fully decentralized algorithms for distributed constraint optimization often require excessive amounts of communication when applied to complex problems. The OptAPO algorithm of [Mailler and Lesser, 2004] uses a strategy of partial centralization to mitigate this problem. We introduce PC-DPOP, a new partial centralization technique, based on the DPOP algorithm of [Petcu and Faltings, 2005]. PCD...

In this paper we present an approach to the static evaluation of the parallelism of DO-loops in an automatic parallelizing environment. The evaluation is performed from the dependence graph with a set of dependence relations between statements of the loop. The presence of control dependences due to conditional statements is also considered, evaluating in this case bounds of the loop parallelism...

Two versions of approximation formulae for periodic Ateb-sine and Ateb-cosine in the first quarter their common period are proposed. The version is a Pade type derived when constructing analytical solution corresponding integral equation by iteration method with transforming power series into closed sum Shanks’ formula. approximations considered. one more concise but worse accuracy which deteri...

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the objective of this study was to assess the level of knowledge of the turkish farmers with regard to fertilizer usage. farmers in the kazova district of turkey's tokat province were interviewed regarding their soil maintenance practices. the interview was based on a standardized questionnaire the answers being recorded at the time of interview. simple random sampling method was used to d...