Dexterous manipulation with a highly redundant movement system is one of the hallmarks of human motor skills. From numerous behavioral studies, there is strong evidence that humans employ compliant task space control, i.e. they focus control only on task variables while The International Journal of Robotics Research Vol. 27, No. 6, June 2008, pp. 737–757 DOI: 10.1177/0278364908091463 c !SAGE Pu...

A microfluidic bilayer lipid membrane (BLM) system supporting correlated opto-electrical membrane characterization has been developed and applied to the imaging of phase-separated lipid microdomains by confocal microscopy. The device consists of a microfluidic network supporting rapid perfusion fabricated in a thermoplastic substrate, bonded to a thin PVDC partition and supported by a thin cove...

The Deployment-Support Network (DSN) is a new, minimal invasive methodology for developing and testing wireless sensor networks (WSN) in a realistic environment. A device under test, e.g. a target sensor network is augmented with a redundant wireless backbone network and a second set of nodes to carry out the testing logic. Enabling a developer to test a live application scenario on the actual ...

GPU-to-CPU translation may extend Graphics Processing Units (GPU) programs executions to multi-/many-core CPUs, and hence enable cross-device task migration and promote whole-system synergy. This paper describes some of our findings in treatment to GPU synchronizations during the translation process. We show that careful dependence analysis may allow a fine-grained treatment to synchronizations...

In this paper we provide an introduction to the relatively new field of device-free radio-based activity recognition (DFAR). While the research in device-free radio-based localization (DFL) has progressed in recent years, only few works exist which distinguish activities using this approach. Thus, we give an overview over the most important works investigating device-free localization and activ...

The hopper is a kind of important equipment in bulk handling process. In this paper, an experimental platform was designed. mainly composed feeding head, vertical conveying screw machine, horizontal and lifting device, supporting structure, the visual system,the electrical system acquisition system. particle behavior for hoppers can be assessed by platform. And will help to investigate real flo...

High-performance networking requires attention to operating system support at the device driver level. Existing driver models, such as those of Unix, are not necessarily well-suited to supporting high-speed network interfaces. In fact, current drivers may represent a significant obstacle between applications and the high-speed network adapters they seek to exploit. Yet existing models cannot si...

Design diversity has been proposed as a strategy for reducing the number of co-occurring faults in multiple redundant versions of a given application. While much research has focused on methods for enhancing the multiversion diversity of applications or estimating system dependability, relatively less work has been done to incorporate supporting system and infrastructure elements into design di...