3 Abstract--This paper presents the design of a new lightweight, hyper-redundant, deployable Binary Robotic Articulated Intelligent Device (BRAID), for space robotic systems. The BRAID element is intended to meet the challenges of future space robotic systems that need to perform more complex tasks than are currently feasible. It is lightweight, has a high degree of freedom and a large workspac...

LVAD is a mechanical pump supporting a weak heart function and blood flow. Sometimes, the heart may not recover fast enough to take over the pumping action immediately after surgery, in such patients a temporary support device has been employed to maintain the pumping action until the patient’s own heart recovers. This device can be considered as a temporary alternative before the process of ar...

We show how an upstream …rm by using a price-dependent pro…tsharing rule can prevent destructive competition between downstream …rms that produce relatively close substitutes. With this rule the upstream …rm induces the retailers to behave as if demand has become less price elastic. As a result, competing downstream …rms will maximize aggregate total channel pro…t. When downstream …rms are bett...

Communication systems supporting cyber-physical production applications should satisfy stringent delay and reliability requirements. Diversity techniques power control are the main approaches to reduce latency enhance of wireless communications at expense redundant transmissions excessive resource usage. Focusing on application layer key performance indicators (KPIs), we design a deep reinforce...

In this paper, we focus on the reliability and performance analysis of Computer Centre (CC) at Yobe State University, Damaturu, Nigeria. The CC consists of three servers: one database mail server, one redundant and one for sharing with the client computers in the CC (called as a local server). Observing the different possibilities of the functioning of the CC, the analysis has been done to eval...

We present CASEADVISOR system for supporting help desk applications. CASEADVISOR improves existing case based reasoning systems on several fronts. Its decision forests help compress a large case base by allowing very similar cases to be merged together. Its maintenance ability allows cases to be compared and redundant cases weeded out. In this article we present the application area and charact...

This paper advocates a device-aware design strategy to improve various NAND flash memory system performance metrics. It is well known that NAND flash memory program/erase (PE) cycling gradually degrades memory device raw storage reliability, and sufficiently strong error correction codes (ECC) must be used to ensure the PE cycling endurance. Hence, memory manufacturers must fabricate enough num...

If coaching is largely about shifting and expanding people’s perspectives in a way that they can translate into daily actions, then working with individual belief systems and assumptions is vital. Beyond these individual creeds, coaching has to explore the embedded collective paradigms, which feel to humans like the water that fish blissfully and obliviously swim in. This is why we are discussi...