Increasing adoption of Consumer Electronic (CE) devices in the automotive world encourages car makers to propose new CE-related features each year. However, car complexity and security concerns slow down this process. The ubiquitous and personal nature of such devices represents a real threat for car IT systems. We believe that the arrival of IP standards in car should solve most of these issue...

Recent biological studies on water strider insects revealed the detailed mechanism of their staying and walking on water. While macro scale bodies use buoyancy to stay on water, these very light and small insects balance their weight using repulsive surface tension forces where the insect legs are covered with hydrophobic micro-hairs. Utilizing the unique scaling advantage of these insects, thi...

In-home healthcare applications that use wearable devices ordinarily have strict power constraints due to the small size of the battery in the device. The power constraints are a key driver of research to develop new methods for improving the energy efficiency of ambulatory health monitoring devices. The radiocommunication components typically consume a large proportion of the available energy ...

A mobile manipulator composed of a manipulator and a mobile platform has a much larger workspace than a xed-base manipulator. While the on-board manipulator reaches out and performs manipulation tasks, the role of the mobile platform is to position the manipulator in a preferred connguration. In this paper, we study the eeect of the dynamic interaction between the manipulator and the mobile pla...

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network, better known as VANET is a promising new technology which combines the capabilities of different wireless networks in vehicles enabling Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Vehicular Ad-Hoc networks provide communication between on-board unit (OBU) already integrated in the vehicles and road-side units (RSUs) consisting of on-board sensors, processing modules, and ...

The Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) on the Deep Space 1 (DS1) mission was the first time that an artificially intelligent agent controlled a NASA spacecraft. One of the key components of the remote agent is an on-board planner. Since there was no opportunity for human intervention between plan generation and execution, extensive testing was required to ensure that the planner would not endanger t...

In safety automotive applications the system must me capable of early recognizing the maneuvers performed by the driver and the intention associated with them in order to take preventive measures or trigger warning alarms. This is done by the situation refinement level in the fusion system that processes the data provided by the on-board sensors. By recognizing relationships between entities of...

This paper describes the third generation of an economical cooperative control testbed, last described in (Leung et al., 2007). The new testbed vehicles are improved with powerful on-board computing, upgraded and expanded on-board sensing, and enhanced wireless communication, while maintaining economic feasibility and scale. The new hardware allows for increased autonomy of each vehicle and for...

The ability to move in complex environments is a fundamental requirement for robots to be a part of our daily lives. While in simple environments it is usually straightforward for human designers to foresee the different conditions a robot will be exposed to, for more complex environments the human design of high-performing controllers becomes a challenging task, especially when the on-board re...