This paper describes the configuration of a floor-tile installation robot for commercial buildings. The research is motivated by the need to reduce the installation time and cost while guaranteeing consistent quality. In order to compete with human installation, a time of 24 seconds per installed tile has to be matched. The technical solution that is deemed feasible and capable of reducing this...

This paper describes the configuration of a floor-tile installation robot for commercial buildings. The research is motivated by the need to reduce the installation time and cost while guaranteeing consistent quality. In order to compete with human installation, a time of 24 seconds per installed tile has to be matched. The technical solution that is deemed feasible and capable of reducing this...

The planning of wind farms exhibits several interesting problems. One of them is the minimum cost cable installation in wind farms. In this master thesis we regard a subproblem of it, namely the Substation Cable Installation Problem (SCIP). The SCIP deals with the minimum cable installation connecting wind turbines to a substation. It is therefore defined as follows: Given a set of coordinates ...

15 seconds of fame is an interactive installation that every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected viewer. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.” The installation detects human faces and crops them from the wide-angle view of people standing before the installation. Pop-art port...

The paper is based on the experience of the author with the FreeBSD server operating system administration on three servers in use under academicdirect.ro domain. The paper describes a set of installation, preparation, and administration aspects of a FreeBSD server. First issue of the paper is the installation procedure of FreeBSD operating system on i386 computer architecture. Discussed proble...

This paper presents the latest developments of the Public Sound Objects (PSOs) system, an experimental framework to implement and test new concepts for Networked Music. The project of a Public interactive installation using the PSOs system was commissioned in 2007 by Casa da Musica, the main concert hall space in Porto. It resulted in a distributed musical structure with up to ten interactive p...

We believe that informed choices are better choices.When you adopt a system configuration tool, it impliesa significant investment in time and/or money. Beforemaking such an investment, you want to pick the righttool for your environment. Therefore, you want to com-pare tools with each other before making a decision. Tohelp you make an informed choice, we develop a com-<...

Soffio (Breath) is an interactive installation of words. It is composed of four mouths carved in scented soap hanging from the wall. It is an intimate installation in which the breath of the passer-by gives life to a tale which is played only just for him and it is implicitly required an exchange of emotional closeness between the poetical text and the person who creates the work through his ow...

We have developed a machine to perform the task of automatic registration of color separation films, a process manually performed by skilled professionals in the graphics arts printing industry. The development of such a machine requires overcoming significant challenges: designing a sound computer vision methodology while respecting hard timing constraints, transferring software across platfor...

Software engineering has been in contact with new media art for years, although the connections between these fields have rarely been explicit. In this article, we discuss the software engineering issues that appear in one of the new media art subfields, namely interactive installation art, as reported in the scientific literature. Interactive installations are often built in small multidiscipl...