A dexterous micro manipulation system was developed for applications such as assembling micro machines, manipulating cells, and micro surgery. We have proposed a concept of a two-fingered micro hand, and designed and built a prototype. We succeeded in performing basic micro manipulations, including the grasp, release, and rotation of a microscopic object. The micro hand is controlled with a pos...

The Atominstitute (ATI) of the Vienna University of Technology utilizes a TRIGA Mark II research reactor for last fourty eight years at a nominal reactor power of 250 kW (thermal). It has a completely mixed core and employing three different types of fuels i.e. aluminium clad fuel with 20% enrichment, stainless steel (SS) clad fuel with 20% enrichment and SS clad FLIP fuel with 70% enrichment. ...

In electronic auction applications, small-value merchandise is often distributed. We call this kind of auction micro auction. Compared to traditional general-purpose electronic auction, micro electronic auction has its own special requirements. Especially, micro auction must be very efficient: the cost of the auction protocol must not be over the cost of the merchandise for sale. Although the m...

With the aim of improving the performance of Mobile IP, several proposals based on the concept of micro-mobility have been proposed. In this an analytical model for the performance evaluation of a number of handover micro-mobility schemes is developed.

This paper presents the experimental validation of automatic dexterous in-hand manipulation of micro-objects. Currently, precise handling of micro-objects is still a challenge especially when large rotations are required. Indeed, the current dexterity of microgrippers is still very low and only some small range rotations have been shown. Although, the robotic hands in the macroscale have better...

In this paper we explain the building of an English lexicon of adjectives and their semantic orientations. Rather than defining the semantic orientation of a term as a single value, we induce many real values representing the semantic orientation of that term being used in different domains. The automatic building of this resource has been based on the construction of graphs from conjunctive ex...