This paper presents a planning framework for jumping over obstacles with quadruped robots. The accomplishes via structured predictive control strategy that combines the use of heterogeneous simplified models different prediction time scales. A receding multi-horizon controller coordinates approach before jump using kinematic point-mass model. Consideration optimal value function horizons enable...

Every day, software developers produce complex and featurerich programs. Resulting code bases are so large that single developers cannot entirely understand them, relying on tools to help them write or debug their code. One such tool is static analysis, a method of reasoning about the runtime behavior of a program at compile time to detect bugs automatically. But from code development to report...

Feral cats in northern california have enabled researchers to unlock the biological secret behind a rare, striped cheetah found only in subSaharan africa, according to researchers at the School of medicine, the national cancer institute and Hudsonalpha institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, alabama. the study is the first to identify a molecular basis of coat patterning in mammals. the scie...

In Feb. 2007, we presented a proposal to test applications and the CHEETAH control-plane solution on the HOPI testbed. We also proposed to implement a software program called a “Force-10 virtualizer,” which would allow multiple control-plane and/or management-plane modules to simultaneously control the data-plane resources of the Force10 switches. The reader is referred to [1] for further details.

We show the flexibility of the Clonal Mosaic model as a pattern generation mechanism. The coat patterns are generated directly on the 3D mesh representing the animals. We illustrate the flexibility of the model generating two visually distinct species of cheetah with a small change in the parameters of the simulation.

We describe virus isolation, full genome sequence analysis, and clinical pathology in ferrets experimentally inoculated with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus recovered from a clinically ill captive cheetah that had minimal human contact. Evidence of reverse zoonotic transmission by fomites underscores the substantial animal and human health implications of this virus.

Background: There is a potential for direct model manufacturing of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) using 3D printing technique for generating flexible semi-transparent prototypes. A patient-specific AAA model was manufactured using fused deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printing technology. A flexible, semi-transparent thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), called Cheetah Water (produced by Ninjatek, U...

Sperm cryopreservation, in combination with assisted reproductive techniques, is a valuable tool for the genetic management of endangered felids. However, the acrosome of the cheetah spermatozoon is especially sensitive to cryopreservation, with approximately 40% of spermatozoa experiencing acrosomal damage immediately after thawing and then another approximately 15% loss during the next 4 hour...