This paper describes a data set collected by MIT’s autonomous vehicle Talos during the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Data from a high precision navigation system, 5 cameras, 12 SICK planar laser range scanners, and a Velodyne high density laser range scanner were synchronized and logged to disk for 90km of travel. In addition to documenting a number of large loop closures useful for developing ma...

[1] The San Andreas Fault (SAF) is the transform boundary between the Pacific and the North American plates, yet up to 25% of the relative plate motion is now accommodated by the eastern California shear zone (ECSZ). Here we investigate the inception of the ECSZ and its geodynamic interactions with the SAF using a 3‐D viscoelastoplastic finite element model. For a given fault configuration of t...

We present an approach that allows mission and contingency management to be achieved in a distributed and dynamic manner without any central control over multiple software modules. This approach comprises two key elements—a mission management subsystem and a Canonical Software Architecture (CSA) for a planning subsystem. The mission management subsystem works in conjunction with the planning su...

In this paper with the help of different empirical models we have estimated the value of monthly average global solar irradiation for Ranchi (23.3500 ̊N, 85.3300 ̊E), a tropical location. The values of monthly average global solar radiation are calculated using the regression constants in the models (both linear and quadratic) suggested by: AngstromPrescott, Rietveld, Ogleman, Akinoglu, Glover, G...

Ficus microcarpa is an Asian fig tree that is ornamentally cultivated. The specific pollinator, Eupristina verticillata Waterston, and the non-pollinators Walkerella microcarpae Boucek and Philotrypesis emeryi Grandi, have been reported associated to F. microcarpa in Brazil. In here we report for the first time the occurrence of Odontofroggatia ishii Wiebes and Philotrypesis taiwanensis Chen et...

In 2007, a major structural reform was carried out in Denmark, reducing 271 municipalities to 98. This processes had a number of effects, both direct and indirect on collections, lending, leadership, and service development of the Danish public libraries. It also led to closure of many branch libraries. Nevertheless, the reform in general was positively evaluated by the major players within the...

Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) possesses tremendous raw computation power. Nevertheless, developing programs that can fully exploit that computation power is challenging. Cell Speed Challenge 2007 gives its contestants the opportunity to strive for the highest performance of data sorting on Cell. This work describes the design and implementation of a parallel radix sort. Data buffering, scalar cod...

In 1989, an effort to solve the game of checkers began. It was naïve because of the daunting size of the search space, 5×10 positions, and because of computer capabilities of the time. Nevertheless the work continued, with the final calculation completing in 2007. The result? Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw. Checkers is the largest popular game that has been solved to date.