Traditional programming languages assume that real-world systems have “intuitive”, mind-independent, preexisting concept hierarchies. However, our perception of the world depen...
Many techniques exist for analyzing information domains in preparation for systems design. No systematic technique exists, however, for analyzing a system or domain in terms of it...
User interfaces have evolved from punched cards, to text terminals, to windowing systems. As interface standards move into the third dimension, we have the opportunity to ensure t...
We present a novel approach we call partitioning where the robot's degrees- of-freedom (D OF) are categorized into two classes based on joint kinematics and dynamics to desig...
A sonar-ring is one of the most popular sensors for indoor mobile robots, because it is simple and gives omni-directional distance information directly. However, it is dicult to m...