Sensing and planning are at the core of robot motion. Traditionally,
mobile robots have been used for performing various tasks
with a general-purpose processor on-board. This book grew out of
our research enquiry into alternate architectures for sensor-based
robot motion. It describes our research starting early 2002 with the
objectives of obtaining a time, space and energy-efficient solution
for processing sensor data for various robotic tasks.
New algorithms and architectures have been developed for
exploration and other aspects of robot motion. The research has
also resulted in design and fabrication of an FPGA-based mobile
robot equipped with ultrasonic sensors. Numerous experiments
with the FPGA-based mobile robot have also been performed and
they confirm the efficacy of the alternate architecture.
program to solve a finite difference discretization of Helmholtz equation :
(d2/dx2)u + (d2/dy2)u - alpha u = f using Jacobi iterative method.
COMMENTS: OpenMP version 3: 1 PR outside the iteration loop, 4 Barriers
Directives are used in this code to achieve paralleism.
All do loops are parallized with default static scheduling.
I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. A. Lynn Abbott, for helping me throughout
my research, Gary Fleming and the rest of the people at NASA Langley who provided all
the flight information and image sequences, and my parents who supported me in my
decision to enter graduate study. Also, thanks to Phichet Trisirisipal and Xiaojin Gong
for helping when I had computer vision questions, and Nathan Herald for his help
creating an illustration.
With this example-driven book, you get a quick, practical, and thorough introduction to Java s API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS). Java Web Services: Up and Running takes a clear, no-nonsense approach to these technologies by providing you with a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing a sample application. You ll not only learn how to write web services from scratch, but also how to integrate existing services into your Java applications. All the source code for the examples is available from the book s companion website.
Text mining tries to solve the crisis of information overload by combining techniques from data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and knowledge management. In addition to providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this book examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches. Finally, it explores current real-world, mission-critical applications of text mining and link detection in such varied fields as M&A business intelligence, genomics research and counter-terrorism activities.