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The Grasping Problem: Toward Task-Level Programming for an Articulated Hand
(1990-05-01)
This report presents a system for generating a stable, feasible, and reachable grasp of a polyhedral object. A set of contact points on the object is found that can result in a stable grasp; a feasible grasp is found ...
Vision, Instruction, and Action
(1990-04-01)
This thesis describes Sonja, a system which uses instructions in the course of visually-guided activity. The thesis explores an integration of research in vision, activity, and natural language pragmatics. Sonja's visual ...
Adaptive techniques in signal processing and connectionist models
(University of CambridgeDepartment of EngineeringChrist's College, 1990-11-13)
This thesis covers the development of a series of new methods and the application of
adaptive filter theory which are combined to produce a generalised adaptive filter system
which may be used to perform such tasks as ...
Kinematic simulation of turbulent flow and particle motions
(University of CambridgePeterhouse, 1990-05-08)
This thesis describes a new method for simulating high Reynolds number turbulence which requires much less computing power. This involved both theoretical work - to understand and model the important processes - and ...
Symmetric structures in Banach spaces
(University of CambridgeDepartment of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical StatisticsTrinity College, 1990-02-20)
Semantic optimisation in datalog programs
(1990)
Datalog is the fusion of Prolog and Database technologies aimed at producing an efficient, logic-based, declarative language for databases. This fusion takes the best of logic programming for the syntax of Datalog, and the ...
Parallelisation of algorithms
(1990)
Most numerical software involves performing an extremely large volume of algebraic computations. This is both costly and time consuming in respect of computer resources and, for large problems, often super-computer power ...
SSDE : structured software development environment
(1990)
Software engineers have identified many problem areas regarding the development of software. There is a need for improving system and program quality at design level, ensuring that design costs remain within the budget, ...
Correction of Force Errors for Flexible Manipulators in Quasi-Static Conditions
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-12)
This paper deals with the problem of controlling the interactions of flexible manipulators with their environment. For executing a force control task, a manipulator with intrinsic (mechanical) compliance has some advantages ...
An Experiment in Knowledge Acquisition for Software Requirements
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-05)
The Requirements Apprentice (RA) is a demonstration system that assists a human analyst in the requirements-acquisition phase of the software-development process. By applying the RA to another example it has been possible ...