Evolutionary Robotics and Open-Ended Design Automation Hod Lipson‚ Cornell University Can a computer ultimately augment or replace human invention? IMAGINE A LEGO SET AT YOUR DISPOSAL: Bricks‚ rods‚ wheels‚ motors‚ sensors and logic are your “atomic” building blocks‚ and you must find a way to put them together to achieve a given high-level functionality: A machine that can move itself‚ say. You know the physics of the individual components ’ behaviors; you know the repertoire of pieces available
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AUGUST 2005 Design Procedure for Two-Stage CMOS Opamp With Flexible Noise-Power Balancing Scheme Jirayuth Mahattanakul‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Jamorn Chutichatuporn Abstract—This paper presents a basic two-stage CMOS opamp design procedure that provides the circuit designer with a means to strike a balance between two important characteristics in electronic circuit design‚ namely noise performance and power consumption. It is shown in this paper that‚ unlike the previously reported design procedures
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Home automation is truly a smart idea. It systematically performs tasks at specific times throughout the day. As an example‚ every night at 11 pm‚ a subsystem processor‚ can automatically regulate locking all the doors in the house‚ set the alarm so that we get up for work on time‚ turn off all the interior lights‚ turn on the exterior lights and lower the thermostat. It is unfailing in its duties and frees us from having to physically do these chores. At one time‚ smart home automation
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AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS What is the distinction between ’Automation’ and ’Robotics’? ’Robots’ is only a small sub-set of the technologies covered by the much broader term Automation’. ’Automation’ refers to a mode of operation in which any machine or piece of equipment is capable of working without human intervention. Originally‚ automation was limited in its potential‚ as automatic machines could only replace physical effort and not mental effort. Automation is generally regarded as being
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SparkPlace is a two-year-old business with a hot new product: software that manages and measures the effectiveness of permission-based marketing campaigns for social media. The company is in the process of deciding on which of two customer segments to focus its strategy. Each segment has demonstrable advantages‚ but developing the product for and marketing to both segments simultaneously could pose big challenges. Is the argument against being "all things to all people" a valid one? If so‚ which
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Automation and Robotics Dr. Rizauddin Ramli 1 Automation and Robotics‐KKKP6513 RR2010 Ch 1 Introduction Sections: 1. Production Systems 2. Automation in Production Systems 3. Manual Labor in Production Systems 4. Automation Principles and Strategies 2 Automation and Robotics‐KKKP6513 RR2010 The Realities of Modern Manufacturing • Globalization - Once underdeveloped countries (e.g.‚ China‚ India‚ Mexico) are becoming major players in manufacturing • International
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1 A Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is a circuit that provides a varying output signal (typically of square-wave or triangular-wave form) whose frequency can be adjusted over a range controlled by a dc voltage. An example of a VCO is the 566 IC unit‚ which contains circuitry to generate both squarewave and triangular-wave signals whose frequency is set by an external resistor and capacitor and then varied by an applied dc voltage. Figure (1) shows that the 566 contains current sources to charge
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DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION Abstract— This White Paper on‚ “Power systems” addresses the working process‚ benefits and challenges of implementing Distribution Automation in electrical power distribution sector. The demand for electrical energy is increasing every day. Today over 24% of total electrical energy generated in India is lost in transmission (6%) and distribution (18%). The electrical power deficit in country is currently about 18%. Therefore reduction in distribution
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ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY COIMBATORE Building Lighting Automation through the Integration of DALI with Wireless Sensor Networks SUBMITTED BY Email:vivinss1993@gmail.com Abstract — This paper focuses on the integration of Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) devices in wireless sensor networks. Since different manufacturers usually deal with one aspect of building automation - e.g. heating ventilation and air conditioning‚ lighting
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LIBRARY AUTOMATON: DEFINITION TO IMPLEMENTATION Kamal Kumar Chaurasia( INTRODUCTION The term Library automation connotes the use of automatic data processing machines to perform routine library activities. It implies a high degree of mechanization of various routine and repetitive tasks & operations and processes are left to be performed by human beings. Simply Library Automation is the application of computers and utilization of computer based products and services in the performance of
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