Abstract During the Apollo missions, astronauts observed negative impact of Lunar dust on surface hardware. The characteristics environment and regolith properties accelerate contamination promote abrasion clogging different components in equipment. To protect hardware from damages future several mitigation technologies must be adapted. In this work, we propose to consider application solutions...

This paper presents some results of an ongoing research project to investigate the components and modules that are necessary to equip a robot with exploratory capabilities. Of particular interest is the recovery of certain material properties from a surface, given minimal a priori information, with the intent to use this information to enable a robot to stand and walk stably on a surface that i...

This paper provides a novel mechanism to check whether business processes are compliant with business rules regulating them. The key point is that compliance is a relationship between two sets of specifications: the specifications for executing a business process and the specifications regulating it.

This paper deals with development of compliant artificial finger skin surface ridges with a pair of PVDF film strips embedded in each of them as sensing transducers for incipient slip detection in pursuit of elucidating the mechanism of human static friction sensing. We describe design and manufacture of the surface ridges and distinctive detection of incipient slip from rolling.

Today’s industrial product lines in the automotive and construction equipment domain face the challenge to show functional safety standard compliance and argue for the absence of failures for all derived product variants. The product line approaches are not sufficient to support practitioners to trace safety-related characteristics through development. We aim to provide aid in creating a safety...

The information security not only has become a relevant business subject but also a complex decision topic for non-technical people. Legal framework, monitoring security, best practices, standards compliance are part of the security solutions but they can become in the principal complexity affair. This paper shows a general security overview to converge in an initial functional security model i...