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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Mobile platforms"”.
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Collaborative Motion for Mobile Platforms
In dense cluttered environments, autonomous physical agents will face many challenges including limited routes, obstructed sensors, and limited communication. Equipping the agents with inter-agent communication alleviates some of the issues, but providing a mechanism for forming groups allows the …
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Energy Efficiency Analysis And Optimization For Mobile Platforms
<p>The introduction of mobile devices changed the landscape of computing. Gradually, these devices are replacing traditional personal computer (PCs) to become the devices of choice for entertainment, connectivity, and productivity. There are currently at least 45.5 million people in the United …
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Direct Visual and Inertial Odometry for Monocular Mobile Platforms
… information is readily available from small mobile platforms, such as quadcopters. However, due to the limitation of onboard resource and capability, it is still a challenge to developing localisation and mapping estimation algorithms for small size mobile platforms. Visual-based techniques …
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Distributed mobile platforms and applications for intelligent transportation systems
… sensing, and multiple radios. However, networked mobile apps still typically use a client-server programming model, sending all shared data queries and uploads through the cellular network, incurring bandwidth consumption and unpredictable latencies. Leveraging the local compute power and …
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Adaptive sampling of transient environmental phenomena with autonomous mobile platforms
… optical), and in combination with unmanned mobile platforms, has considerably impacted field operations in the sciences. In practice, mobile platforms are either remotely operated or perform guided, supervised autonomous missions specified as navigation between humanselected waypoints. …
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Adaptive sampling of transient environmental phenomena with autonomous mobile platforms
… optical), and in combination with unmanned mobile platforms, has considerably impacted field operations in the sciences.
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Empirical Studies of Mobile Apps and Their Dependence on Mobile Platforms
Our increasing reliance on mobile devices has given rise to a new class of software applications (i.e., mobile apps). Tens of thousands of developers have developed hundreds of thousands of mobile apps that are available across multiple platforms. These apps are used by millions of people around …
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Managing the paradigm shift to Mobile platforms in the semiconductor industry
… called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) to the mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs. Driven by strong customer demands and the technological advancements on the supply side which enable companies to fulfill them, this is a trend which is expected to continue for the near future, at …
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Evaluation of stereo matching for mobile platforms with applications for assisting the visually impaired
… along with the development of stereo cameras for mobile platforms, motivates the presented evaluation of stereo matching algorithms for mobile devices. This work investigates this potential for stereo matching on a mobile device for real-time applications, in terms of computation time and quality …
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Design Approach for Building Technology with Indigenous Communities
An increase in demand for mobile platforms in the last decade has led to a widespread need for platform development methods. While these standards do work well for a majority of mobile developers, one audience that can be neglected is the urban Indigenous population of youth in Toronto. Through …
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Practical least privilege for cross-origin interactions on mobile operating systems
Mobile operating systems (i.e., mobile platforms) favor flexibility and re-usability as design principles and provide mobile applications with channels for establishing cross-origin interactions in an effort to realize these principles. Under this cross-origin scheme, applications accomplish tasks …
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Libero
… as inspiration from modern games designed for mobile platforms such as iOS and Android phones. The game experiments with new 2D normal mapping technologies for a unique take on pixel art.
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Multi-sensor platforms for the geophysical evaluation of sensitive archaeological landscapes. Evaluation of and improvement of the MSP40 mobile sensor device for rapid multi-technique and low impact measurements on archaeological sites with vulnerable soil.
Mobile platforms for archaeological purposes have increased in use over the last 20 years with many of the developments coming from Continental Europe. Mobile platform developments have mainly focused on one type of instrumentation, offering multiple sensors, depths of detection or frequencies. …
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Two factor authentication and authorization in ubiquitous mobile computing
Handheld devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs and others, have become an integrated part of our lives. They are perfectly suitable to become the first real-life platforms for mobile computing applications. A lightweight holistic authentication and authorization scheme is presented for this typical …
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Scalable immersive audio for virtual environments
… a VR-compatible video game for desktop and mobile platforms with an emphasis on play-by-sound gameplay mechanics. Results demonstrated low overhead on all devices tested when used with the appropriate pathfinding backend (CPU/GPU). Additional testing yielded that the GPU part of the system …
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Voting on a mobile platform
Nowadays mobile platform is becoming more and more influential due to the increasing smartphone usage in people’s daily life. Conflicting ideas always exist when making a group decision because everyone has his/her own concern/opinion. Since voting is a simple and classic way of reflecting ideas …
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Pursuit-evasion games in mobile networks
… effort to deploy a network of autonomous mobile platforms in various scenarios related to military as well as civilian applications. Interesting research problems related to security range from the development of secure communication protocols for a network of autonomous mobile agents to …
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Free space optic communication for Navy surface ship platforms
… the transmitter. However, FSO implementation on mobile platforms such as ships is still challenging. This thesis analyzes the feasibility of deploying FSO system on navy surface ships. It discusses the FSO technology and the latest studies in maritime optical communication links. In addition, the …
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Detectivity vs. Sensitivity: Non-Hermitian Metasurface Sensor
… is limited in its power budget, as in sensors on mobile platforms, high sensitivity does not guarantee high detectivity. Here, we demonstrate the trade-off between the detectivity and sensitivity of a plasmonic sensor. Plasmonic sensors are popular for their high sensitivity arising from large …
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Comparison, optimization, and application of various spontaneous parametric downconversion sources of polarization-entangled photon pairs
… entangled-photon sources that can be used on platforms where weight and stability requirements are limiting factors, e.g., on aerial or even space-based mobile platforms, which could allow reconfigurable long-distance transfer of photonic qubits. Specifically, for our goals, we are working on …
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