Intuitive control of powered prosthetic lower limbs is still an open-ended research goal. Current controllers employ discrete locomotion modes for well-defined and frequently encountered scenarios such as stair ascent, descent, or ramps. Non-standard movements side-shuffling into cars avoiding obstac...

This paper describes the addition of between-word coarticulation modeling into SPHINX, an accurate Iarge-vocabulary speakerindependent continuous speech recognition system. Between-word coarticulation is a major source of phonetic variability in continuous speech. By detailed modeling of between-word triphones and utilizing the generalized triphone technique, we obtain an error ;ate reduction o...

In this paper, we present a new approach to embedded system design based on modeling discrete and also continuous system parts with high level Petri–Nets. Our investigations concentrate on a complete design flow, analysis on high level Petri–Nets and their meaning for hardware/software partitioning of real-time embedded systems. The concepts for hybrid modeling of discrete and continuous system...