Human motion is enabled by the concerted expansion and contraction of interconnected muscles that are powered by inherent biochemical reactions. One of the challenges in the field of biomimicry is eliciting this form of motion from purely synthetic materials, which typically do not generate internalized reactions to drive mechanical action. Moreover, for practical applications, this bio-inspire...

This paper addresses two unique challenges for self-reconfigurable robots to perform dexterous locomotion and manipulation in difficult environments: highdimensional inverse kinematics (HDIK) for > 100 degrees of freedom, and selfreconfiguration kinematic control (SRKC) where the workspace targets at which connectors are to meet for docking are not known a priori. These challenges go beyond the...

Chain modular robots form systems with many degrees of freedom which are capable of being reconfigured to form arbitrary chain-based topologies. This reconfiguration requires the detaching of modules from one point in the system and re-attaching at another. The internal errors in the system (especially with large numbers of modules) are such that accurate movement of chain ends, required for th...

This paper addresses efficient hardware/software implementation approaches for the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm and describes the design and performance testing algorithm for embedded system. Also, with the spread of reconfigurable hardware such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) embedded cryptographic hardware became cost-effective. Nevertheless, it is worthy to note that...

The dialogical self is conceptualized as a dynamically shifting collection of relatively autonomous I-positions. A boundary experience an event or situation where tension experienced between conflicting I-positions leads to reconfiguration within the self. In experience, uncertainty challenge can trigger decentering (centrifugal) movements which disrupt self’s contingent stability. These be cou...