Autonomous navigation of a flying vehicle in a cluttered environment has been simulated to demonstrate novel yet simple techniques for avoiding obstacles using optic flow and image loom signals whilst successfully navigating a vehicle towards a goal. The simulation makes use of simulated flow fields calculated on cameras looking downwards, forwards, rearwards and sidewards. This computation cou...

We describe a low-level calculus, called ink& (pronounced “links”), designed to serve as an intermediate representation in compilers for class-based objectoriented languages. The calculus fills two roles. First, its primitives can express a wide range of class-based object-oriented language features, such as class construction and various forms of method dispatch. Second, it allows the compiler...

We present LOOM (Line-Ordering Optimized Maps), a fully automatic generator of geographically accurate transit maps. The input to LOOM is data about the lines of a given transit network, namely for each line, the sequence of stations it serves and the geographical course the vehicles of this line take. We parse this data from GTFS, the prevailing standard for public transit data. LOOM proceeds ...

We will demonstrate the GIST system, which generates social security forms in English, Italian and German. The system is intended for use by the technical authors and translators who design forms. A knowledge specification tool allows the author to build a model of the form in the knowledge representation language LOOM. From the LOOM model, a text drafter generates equivalent texts in the three...

Many applications of Natural Language Generation employ object-oriented knowledge representation formalisms such as loom. Each entity in the domain is represented by an object belonging to a speciied class and possessing attributes suitable for that class. From a logical viewpoint, domain entities correspond to existentially quantiied variables, but since loom and kindred formalisms provide no ...

This book is a history of cotton textiles, but also a story narrated through cotton textiles. It is a story of how the world we live in has changed over the last thousand years. Cotton today is a very large industry, the most common material for our clothing and furnishings, a widely traded commodity, as well as the source of the means of living for millions of cultivators, workers and large an...