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Artificial collectives are useful for accomplishing tasks that require teamwork from multiple simple robots. Multiple robot and collective testbeds have been developed, yet none stay committed to leverage the local interactions, group size, and imperfect information assumptions that strengthen biological collectives. A review of the collective and multiple robot literature,...
Popular applications such as P2P file sharing, multiplayer gaming, videoconferencing, etc. rely on the efficiency of content distribution from a single source to multiple receivers. Most users of these applications are on the widely prevalent source constraint networks such as the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and wireless networks. Overlay multicast...
This thesis discusses the design and development of a
viable local area network (LAN) which supports both
communications and control applications. The emphasis was
to develop a practical and cost effective system which
offered high performance while utilizing low cost
components. System cost was kept low by utilizing a
twisted-pair...
An increased cross-cultural interaction around the world is
being dictated by the ever increasing communication needs required
by business and national concerns. This increased interaction, and its
resultant inter-dependence, is often referred to as "Globalization."
Due to the effect of globalization on the business and education
environments, this study was...
Power is a valuable resource. It is invaluable when for mobile devices. Mobile devices, due to their mobility cannot get a continuous source of power and derive their power from a battery contained in them. The main consumer of power in the mobile is its transmitter. With a limited power...
Dynamic DC offset is one of the biggest problems preventing the implementation of single chip receivers. This thesis presents a 2.4GHz downconversion mixer designed to work with adaptive DC offset cancellation for a fully integrated direct conversion receiver. Offset can be removed by dynamically changing the PFET load bias in...
This grant supported acquisition of a minicomputer system for departmental research. The equipment selected is a DEC VAX-11/750 system, installed in remodeled space in the Computer Science (formerly Farm Crops) Building. Grant funds for equipment acquisition were supplemented by support from the Tektronix Foundation.
After completion of the physical facilities...
This paper describes the design and implementation of
COLAN V, a High Performance Local Area Network for
Communications and Control utilizing a Communications Coprocessor.
The main objective of this thesis is to improve upon
the performance of previous COLANs in speed, switching
techniques and error detection techniques. This was
possible...