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ICRA
1998
IEEE
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The Bow Leg Hopping Robot
The bow leg hopper is a novel locomotor design with a highly resilient leg that resembles an archer's bow. During flight, a "thrust" actuator adds elastic energy to...
Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin
PLDI
1998
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Improving Performance by Branch Reordering
The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley
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PODS
1990
ACM
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On Being Optimistic about Real-Time Constraints
- Performancestudiesof concurrencycontrol algorithms for conventional database systems have shown that, under most operating circumstances, locking protocols outperform optimistic ...
Jayant R. Haritsa, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
DCOSS
2010
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Time-Critical Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks
A number of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications demand timely data delivery. However, existing WSNs are designed to conserve energy and not to support timely data transmissi...
Petcharat Suriyachai, James Brown, Utz Roedig
HRI
2007
ACM
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Learning by demonstration with critique from a human teacher
Learning by demonstration can be a powerful and natural tool for developing robot control policies. That is, instead of tedious hand-coding, a robot may learn a control policy by ...
Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Veloso