This paper proposes an architecture for real-time behavioral animation based on parallel interactions between simple recursive reactive agents and allowing for integration with external articulated figure software. An animated sequence of a navigation scene where two actors play different roles is generated by a prototype.

An architecture to build software agents for interactive, real-time Multimodal Environments (MEs) is presented. Typical applications include virtual musical instruments, theatrical automation, dancegenerated or –controlled music, intelligent humanmachine interfaces. Agent outputs are produced from agent inputs through three kinds of elaboration: reactive, emotional, and rational. Sensor fusion ...

Induction motor structures in DC electrified railways with their dynamic performance are studied. Characteristics of the current, voltage, electrical and mechanical torque and active and reactive power in accelerating, normal and regenerative braking are investigated. The characteristics of the induction motors used for Tabriz urban railway are simulated with PSCAD/EMTDC software proving the in...

This paper addresses the design of reactive real-time embedded systems. Such systems are often heterogeneous in implementation technologies and design styles, for example by combining hardware ASICs with embedded software. The concurrent design process for such embedded systems involves solving the specification, validation, and synthesis problems. We review the variety of approaches to these p...

Due to heavily software-centric nature of modern reactive and time-critical systems, there is an increasing demand for efficient development of high quality Real-Time Software-Intensive Control systems (RSIC). The study discussed in this paper is focused on the creation of international curriculum framework centered on RSIC – this important aspect of the computer-system-control-software enginee...

This paper describes the work done in autonomous operation of mobile robot at the Canadian Space Agency. The Mobile Robotic Test bed (MRT) components are presented. The autonomy software, implemented using a behaviour-based approach, is presented. The peripheral sub-systems used by the reactive engine, such as vision and path planner are also described.

In this paper, I explore the idea that there are “patterns”, analogous to software design patterns, in the kind of task procedures that frequently form the reactive component of architectures for intelligent autonomous systems. The investigation is carried out mainly within the context of the WITAS UAV project.

Model-based autonomous agents have emerged recently as vital technologies in the development of highly autonomous reactive systems, particularly in the aerospace domain. These agents utilize many automated reasoning capabilities, but are complicated to use because of the variety of languages employed for each capability. To address this problem, we introduce model-based programming, a novel app...

This project presents reactive power compensation in a distribution power system. DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator) is a reactive power compensator for power quality improvement in a three phase four wire distribution system. A voltage source converter (VSC) based DSTATCOM with a zig-zag transformer is used for the compensation of reactive power for voltage regulation along with load b...

Reactive synthesis is an automated procedure to obtain a correct-by-construction reactive system from a given specification. GR(1) is a well-known fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) where synthesis is possible using a polynomial symbolic algorithm. We conducted a case study to learn about the challenges that software engineers may face when using GR(1) synthesis for the development of a re...