Sensor network research has facilitated advancements in various domains, such as industrial monitoring, environmental sensing, etc., and research challenges have shifted from creating infrastructure to utilizing it. Commercial buildings provide a valuable setting for investigating automated metadata acquisition and augmentation, as they typically comprise large sensor networks, but have limited...

Industrial buildings account for very few high peaks of power demand. This situation forces them to contract a fixed electricity term cover it. A more intelligent use the energy in industrial buildings, together with an improved efficiency transmission and distribution along electric grid, can be achieved by reducing peak consumption buildings. Energy storage systems, lithium ion (Li-ion) batte...

We survey the recent work on micro-UAVs, a fast-growing field in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific and technological challenges. Micro-UAVs can operate in three-dimensional environments, explore and map multi-story buildings, manipulate and transport objects, and even perform such tasks as assembly. While fixed-base industrial robots ...

In December 2003, the assets of the Cassandra Mines (N.E. Halkidiki, Greece) of TVX HELLAS S.A., were transferred by law, ratified by the Greek Parliament, to the Greek State for 11 million euros. They were sold the same day to HELLAS GOLD S.A. for the same price without prior economic assessment of the assets and without an open competition [19]. The assets include mining and exploration conce...

Neural network design and feature selection using principal component analysis and Taguchi method for identifying wood veneer defects Baris Yuce, Ernesto Mastrocinque, Michael Sylvester Packianather, Duc Pham, Alfredo Lambiase & Fabio Fruggiero a Institute of Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University, Newport Road, The Parade, Queen’s Building, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK b Department of Industrial ...

Management scholars traditionally rely on the review of journals and empirical data for information used in research projects and in the classroom. However, there is also a vast amount of material that remains virtually untapped by many management researchers the artifacts, pictures, and remains of industrial and commercial organizations. Industrial archeologists specialize in studying organiza...

Testing of large-scale specimens and models is currently possible in a few earthquake-engineering laboratories around the world. However, full-scale laboratory seismic testing of entire civil engineering structures (e.g., cable-stayed bridges, multi-story office buildings, industrial facilities, and pipeline distribution systems) is not likely in the near future due to the prohibitive costs ass...

This paper presents a new 3D scene analysis system that automatically reconstructs the 3D model of real-world scenes from multiple range images acquired by a laser range finder on board of a mobile robot. The reconstruction is achieved through an integrated procedure including range data acquisition, geometrical feature extraction, planning the next view, registration and integration of multipl...