squalid houses commanding even the most distant view of the proceedings were full of boys and girls anxious to catch a glimpse of the Prince. His Royal Highness, who passed to the platform amid terrific cheering, was accompanied by various officials of Guy's, and took his seat between Lord Goschen, the Treasurer of the Hospital, and Mr. Herbert Waring, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Londo...

On the basis of the experiments by Carli (1990) on the determinants of persuasion efficiency, we predicted that women are more effective using direct strategies in social influence to address women, and indirect strategies to address men; however, men’s efficiency should not depend on strategy. Two field experiments presented in this article did not confirm these assumptions. Our data suggest t...

This paper compares and contrasts several coordination schemes for a system that continuously plans to control collections of rovers or spacecraft using collective mission goals instead of goals or command sequences for each spacecraft. A collection of self-commanding robotic systems would autonomously coordinate itself to satisfy high level science and engineering goals in a changing partially...

This article discusses a proof-of-concept prototype for ground-based automatic generation of validated rover command sequences from high-level science and engineering activities. This prototype is based on ASPEN, the Automated Scheduling and Planning Environment. This artificial intelligence (AI)-based planning and scheduling system will automatically generate a command sequence that will execu...

UAVs are becoming indispensable assets for military command and control applications such as surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue operations because of their superiorities over manned vehicles. Nevertheless, humans are still needed for high-level guidance and commanding of UAVs in those operations for their intelligence and higher level of flexibility in decision making. Within this ...

We consider the problem of commanding the electronic power interfaces of the microgenerators in a low voltage microgrid for the task of optimal reactive power compensation. In this work, we analyze the convergence of the strategy proposed by Tenti et al. (2012). The proof of convergence gives some additional insight on the behavior of the algorithm and allows the characterization of its rate of...

This paper presents a new class AB programmable square-root domain (SRD) filter. The main advantages of the proposed circuits are low power consumption, wide input dynamic range with small standby current and potential for low-voltage operation. Simulation results confirm the validity of the proposed design technique and the high performance of the proposed circuits. Key-Words: Square-root doma...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JF’L) has built several optical interferometers using a common software framework developed for this purpose. The heart of this framework is the Realtime Control (RTC) software product. RTC has evolved from its initial implementation to include a powerful dynamic configuration capability and to use Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology for c...

Offline strategies and contingency plans are not adequately flexible in these settings. We are seeking online methods for commanding and advising collectives in order to adjust how individuals relate to one another and to their group. These methods provide social control. In this paper we offer design and initial implementation of a framework for social control in the domain of reconnaissance a...