We describe a new Compliant Articulated Robot Leg, CARL, which we constructed as a prototype for an autonomous robot quadruped. The leg is designed for dynamic walking, trotting and bounding gaits, with an expected top speed of 3m=s. It is an anthropomorphic (articulated) 3 DOF design with revolute joints as opposed to prismatic joints for improved mobility, simplicity and low friction. It empl...

The IEEE 802.16 Air Interface Standard is truly a state-of-the-art specification for fixed broadband wireless access systems employing a point-tomultipoint (PMP) architecture. It was developed with the goal of meeting the requirements of a vast array of deployment scenarios, in particular those networks operating between 11 and 66 GHz frequencies. As a result, only a subset of the functionality...

Anyone who has perused the 1995 or 1997 evaluation and management (E&M) guidelines knows that the rules for appropriately documenting E&M visits are extensive. But there are also rules you shouldn’t overlook for documenting procedures — even minor office procedures, such as injections. With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and local carrie...

The OMIS project aims at deening a standard interface between tools for parallel systems and monitoring systems. Monitors act as mediators between tools and the parallel program running on some target architecture. Their task is to observe and manipulate the program according to the tool's commands. A standardized interface will allow diierent research groups to develop tools which can be used ...

Compliance regulations require enterprises to review their SOA applications to ensure that they satisfy the set of relevant compliance requirements. Despite an increasing number of methods and tools, organizations have a pressing need for a comprehensive compliance framework to help them ensure that their business processes comply with requirements set forth by regulations, laws, and

Bigraphs are an emerging modeling formalism for structures in ubiquitous computing. Besides an algebraic notation, which can be adopted to provide an algebraic syntax for bigraphs, the bigraphical theory introduces a visual concrete syntax which is intuitive and unambiguous at the same time; the standard visual notation can be customized and thus tailored to domain-specific requirements. Howeve...

The consideration of compliant mechanisms as Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) is the focus of this research endeavor. MEMS are micron to millimeter devices that combine electrical, mechanical, and information processing capabilities on the same device. These MEMS need some mechanical motion or parts that move relative to each other. This relative motion, using multiple parts, is not desire...

Summary: We describe libRoadRunner, a cross-platform, open-source, high performance C++ library for running and analyzing SBML-compliant models. libRoadRunner was created primarily to achieve high performance, ease of use, portability and an extensible architecture. libRoadRunner includes a comprehensive API, Plugin support, Python scripting and additional functionality such as stoichiometric a...

In this paper, we develop an adaptive decentralized compliant control of robot manipulator. The robot manipulator is in contact with the environment and the contact force is normal to the contact plane. When the environment stiffness is given, an adaptive decentralized compliant controller is designed based on a Lyapunov based method such that both the force tracking error and the complementary...

Need for increased accuracy and precision in nano/micro movements and other devices (e.g. electronic, microscopy, medical etc.) has led to the development of allied technologies. The performance of these precision devices depends heavily upon accurate micro positioning of various links and joints. This has led to development of associated micro/nano mechanisms. Development of Microfactories nee...