I describe here a real-time vision-based gesture recognition system used in interactive computer music performances. The performer moves his hands in a video-camera capture area, the camera sends the signal to a video digitizer card plugged into a computer. By processing the reconstructed images of the performer’s hands in movement the computer detects x-y positions, shape (posture) and angle o...

Free Space Optical (FSO) communications pointing problems will be described and a solution presented. Conventional systems used in sea, land, and space are illustrated. Our integrated approach investigates three major problems areas: kinematics, structure, and dexterity. Their interrelationship will be discussed.

The plant hormone auxin regulates diverse aspects of plant growth and development. Despite its importance, the mechanisms of auxin action remain poorly understood. In particular, the identities of the auxin receptor and other signaling proteins are unknown. Recent studies have shown that auxin acts by promoting the degradation of a family of transcriptional regulators called the Aux/IAA protein...

A strong argument is found in support of the integrability of free-surface hydrodynamics in the one-dimensional case. It is shown that the first term in the perturbation series in powers of nonlinearity is identically equal to zero, the consequences of which are discussed as well. 1. It is well known that the equations describing an ideal fluid with a free surface in a gravity field are complet...

This paper discusses an ultra-wideband (UW) tracking system design effort for Mini-AERCam (Autonomous Extra-vehicular Robotic Camera), a free-flying video camera system under development at NASA Johnson Space Center for aid in surveillance around the International Space Station (ISS). UWB technology is exploited to implement the tracking system due to its properties, such as high data rate, fin...

We give a semantic proof that every term of a combi-nator version of system F has a normal form. As the argument is entirely formalisable in an impredicative constructive type theory a reduction-free normalisation algorithm can be extracted from this. The proof is presented as the construction of a model of the calculus inside a category of presheaves. Its deenition is given entirely in terms o...

Surface wettability is one of most important indexes for understanding the interfacial characteristics between a solid surface and a liquid, especially such physico-chemical properties as hydrophilicity and water repellency. Recently, non-contact wettability assessment by monitoring the behavior of liquid covering a sample surface by jet-flow application to the liquid has been proposed. This me...

This paper discusses the development of a prototype alerting system for a conceptual Free Flight environment. The concept assumes that datalink between aircraft is available and that conflicts are primarily resolved on the flight deck. Four alert stages are generated depending on the likelihood of a conflict. If the conflict is not resolved by the flight crews, Air Traffic Control is notified t...

This article documents the free computer algebra system “gTybalt”. The program is build on top of other packages, among others GiNaC, TeXmacs and Root. It offers the possibility of interactive symbolic calculations within the C++ programming language. Mathematical formulae are visualized using TeX fonts.

This paper describes an odometric system for autonomous microrobots based on the optical properties of a motor–wheel transmission for motion feedback. We demonstrate that infra-red light, reflected from this mechanical system, shows distinctive periodic changes of amplitude, correlated with the motion of the robot. Real-time odometric signal processing, performed on a small embedded microcontro...