Existing remotely-actuated microrobots powered by magnetic coils far from the workspace exhibit a maximum of only five-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) actuation, as creation of a driving torque about the magnetization axis is not achievable. This lack of orientation control limits the effectiveness of existing microrobots for precision tasks of object manipulation and orientation for advanced medical,...

This paper proposes a multi-objective genetic algorithm to optimize a manipulator trajectory. The planner has several objectives namely the minimization of the space and join arm displacements and the energy required in the trajectory, without colliding with any obstacles in the workspace. Simulations results are presented for robots with two and three degrees of freedom, considering the optimi...

Stony deserts are durable indicators of aridity but until now have not been directly dated. Using 21Ne and 10Be produced in surface rocks by cosmic rays, we show that Australian stony deserts formed 2–4 Ma, at the time when global cooling initiated the Quaternary ice ages and intensified aridity-induced major landscape changes in central Australia. This is the first direct determination of ston...

Development in the computer network technology has also widened its application in the field of education, science and business. But for such a media insecurity exists due to polymorphic worms. It is necessary to evade such polymorphic worms. Various techniques have been developed by researchers to detect and stop these polymorphic worms. On the other hand, FPGA have a significance of parallel ...

A Microfactory is a new concept for an extremely miniaturized manufacturing facility that enables dramatic space and energy conservation. As a material transfer and assembly component of a prototype Microfactory, a micro transfer arm that provides 4 DOF and a maximum length of approximately 100mm has been developed. To achieve a compact-lightweight structure, large workspace and positioning acc...

We consider two players facing identical discrete-time bandit problems with a safe and a risky arm. In any period, the risky arm yields either a success or a failure, and the first success reveals the risky arm to dominate the safe one. When payoffs are public information, the ensuing free-rider problem is so severe that the equilibrium number of experiments is at most one plus the number of ex...

H. S. Chakraborty,1 A. Gray,2 J. T. Costello,2 P. C. Deshmukh,1 G. N. Haque,3 E. T. Kennedy,2,* S. T. Manson,4 and J-P. Mosnier2 1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600036, India 2Centre for Laser Plasma Research, School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland 3Department of Physics, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia 30314 4Department of Phys...

Innovation is a key driver in today’s high technology businesses. But what is innovation? And what does it take to turn a good idea into a business success story? In this talk I’ll take a look at a number of innovative products and show what’s made them into winners. And by using ARM as an example, I’ll describe how a business can be built around innovation and how ARM developed a unique busine...

Cooperative software engineering typically involves many actors and resources that cooperate in a complex distributed and heterogeneous world. In the DIPS (Distributed Integrated Process Services) project, a three-dimensional model is used for the definition, enactment and tracing of software development processes, which expresses both structure and evolution of such processes. This paper discu...