— Skin is an essential component of artificial hands. It enables the use of object affordance for recognition and control, but due to its intrinsic locality and low density of c...
Secure, distributed collaboration between different organizations is a key challenge in Grid computing today. The GDCD project has produced a Grid-based demonstrator Virtual Colla...
E. Rowland Watkins, Mark McArdle, Thomas Leonard, ...
— This paper presents the design of an anthropomorphic 21 degree-of-freedom, 9 degree-of-actuation arm prosthesis for use by transhumeral amputees. The design leverages the power...
Kevin Fite, Thomas J. Withrow, Keith W. Wait, Mich...
The aging of our society presents a range of challenges to housing providers. With the advanced mobile technologies we are now able to develop quality mobile services to help seni...
MPI middleware glues together the components necessary for execution. Almost all implementations have a communication component also called a message progression layer that progre...