Dear all, if you are a mobile robot designer for indoor applications on flat floors, you are much likely to be applying castor wheels and what follows is a short guide to specifying these castors - and a link to more thorough advice on the Ross Handling...
IEEE IEMDC 2009 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Date: May 3-9, 2009, Miami, Florida USA Official Submission Site: http://www.iemdc2009.org Submission of Abstracts and Digests December 5, 2008 Notification of Acceptance February 2, 2009 Submission of...
Now and so often, when I find the time bewteen two markings and student's projects, I will continue to write or point out to written accounts about some very important geniuses of our world. I will try to attract your attention on the lesser known ones...
Do you need a source for getting serious biogarphic information about several of the renowned researches that have impacted our time ? Here is one source of information which will prove useful and I will recommend it strongly to my students who seem to...
Chers tous, je suis en train de preparer la partie dynamique du cours des Theories des machines et mecanismes et cherchant a bien formaliser les fondements des connaissances, j'ai donc cherche d'avantage sur ce francais de genie que fut D'Alembert et...
The place where we should be if you want the latest trends in robotics by the people who are doing it the best. Knowing german surely helps opening the doors to the finest factories. http://www.inrobshop.de/index_de.html?view_news_item=52 For further...
I transmit this message received from [Reliable Computing], an egroup dedicated to reliable computing. This will be an occasion to see this nice area on Lac Leman (the Geneva Lake). ==================== Dear colleagues, Since about nine years, we have...
Workshops More than 40 workshops for renewable energy, energy efficiency and cogeneration have recently been scheduled across Canada and around the world. The RETScreen-focused events are being delivered from Calgary, Canada to Manila, Philippines and...
Firstly, this problem was proven to have 40 complex solutions by Ronga and Vust for the general 6-6 Gough platform [Ronga and Vust 1992] . Since the time when Raghavan solved some FKP cases of a 6-6 Gough Platform using homothopy continuation [Raghavan...
Chers tous, connaissez-vous l'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers publiee par Diderot et redigee par D'Alembert pour sa partie mathematique ? Vraisemblablement la premiere encyclopedie moderne. Dans le meme esprit...
Hello all, here is a very important message from the IEEE Institute Online : "As resources become scarcer, while more people clamor to share them, and global warming is an increasing danger, it's plain that our current course is not sustainable. To address...
This idea is one has a lot of future. I hope it works. http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1040/new-hybrid-shocker In this article, they refer to the Bose suspension system, but there is no mention of energy return which could surely be implemented. http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_STATIC_PAGE_EVENT&url=/learning/project_sound/suspension_challenge.jsp...
Dear folks, as Turkey moves in the fast lane with not one but three high speed line for high speed rail service centered on Ankarra in direction of Istambul, Izmir and the south, there are still some governments who have not moved in the twenty-first...
"Beam me up Scotty" is becoming a reality a the nano level and promises better days for computers who are plagued by speed limits caused by overheating (I have lost a laptop recently for that reason, do not buy fake copies made in China even if they come...
Dear all, in countries like Cyprus, the main problem is now that we get more and more sand storms coming from Irak or the Sahara desert. This means that our solar panels get dirty very quicly impairing their proper operations. Efficiency is then dramatically...
Dear all, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the now French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov for “his revolutionary contributions to geometry”. He has been involved in impressive research...
Robert Ball has published what seems to be the first theory on screws that we use nowadays to solve many robotics problems. Here is a link to a scan of the original book: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=math;idno=03000001 Here...
*Le français suit...* *Workshops* More than 40 workshops for renewable energy, energy efficiency and cogeneration have recently been scheduled across Canada and around the world. The RETScreen-focused events are being delivered from Calgary, Canada to...
Dear folks, here is one contest which is very interesting may it be because engineering design serves a humanitarian cause, albeit the leisure of contests. Bests, Luc Rolland ==========================================================================================...
As you may be all aware, GMC is months away from bankruptcy as it is clearly explained in this news from the Chicago tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-auto-bailout,0,1282115.story We can even say that USA´s big three are all on the...
A Paris: Un bon rapport sur les voitures vertes: http://www.techno-science.net/?onglet=articles&article=35&page=3 Les sportives électriques accélerent beaucoup plus vite que celles au pétrole... et oui, tout ingénieur en robotique connait bien les avantages...
Barbara H Liskov has won the prestigious prize called The Turing Award which is sometimes refered as the "Nobel prize in Computer Science" She is a professor at the MIT and has published 124 papers. http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov/ She did significant...
IJRCS 2009 — 2nd International Joint Robotics Competition and Symposium 20 May 2009 → 24 May 2009; Isparta, Turquie Webpage: http://www.ijrcs.org ACMOS'09 — 11th WSEAS Int.Conf. on AUTOMATIC CONTROL, MODELLING & SIMULATION 05 June 2009 → 07 June 2009;...
Call for Papers The 8th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA’10) will be held from June 9 to 11, 2010, in Xiamen, China. The conference is jointly organized by IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Singapore, and IEEE Control Systems Chapter,...
IWSSIP 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.ic.uff.br/iwssip2010 The 17th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2010 is co-organised by the UFF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (June 17-19) in co-operation with IEEE Region 9 (Latin...
