Even if atmospheric composition were fixed today, global-mean temperature and sea level rise would continue due to oceanic thermal inertia. These constant-composition (CC) commitments and their uncertainties are quantified. Constant-emissions (CE) commitments are also considered. The CC warming commitment could exceed 1 degrees C. The CE warming commitment is 2 degrees to 6 degrees C by the yea...

This paper presents an integration of laser-based perception, footstep planning, and walking control of a humanoid robot for navigation on previously unknown rough terrain. Perception system that obtains the shape of surrounding environment in a few centimeters accuracy is realized by using scanning type laser range sensor as input. A footstep planner decides the sequence of stepping positions ...

Hybrid perovskites with reduced organic content have brought great interest for solar cells applications. Particularly, adding inorganic cations increase material stability, by providing an adequate tolerance factor. However, these lead to lower absorption coefficient than using only cations, therefore it is necessary implement strategies having films appropriate thickness and good light proper...

The aim of this paper is to bring into the picture a new phenomenon in the theory of orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying second order differential equations. The last few years have witnessed some examples of a (fixed) family of orthogonal matrix polynomials whose elements are common eigenfunctions of several linearly independent second order differential operators. We show that the dual s...

Instrumentation To overcome current difficulty of absolute period control in the EUV multilayer fabrication by sputtering, we have developed an automatic null ellipsometer as a sputtering rate monitor having high enough picometer thickness sensitivity enabling accurate monitoring of the nm period multilayer fabrication [1]. Figure 1 shows schematic drawing of the ellipsometer installed as the s...