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This paper elaborates on the hardware and software realization of a unique bi-modal robot developed for vigilance applications such as; aerial and ground navigation, dual arm manipulation and surveillance. One of the fundamental objectives was to build a lightweight ground unit which when attached to the flight unit, can be lifted easily during aerial mobility. The paper also reviews a mathematical...
Visually Impaired (VI) and blind people suffer from reduced mobility, as they cannot detect the terrain and their environment. They always need assistance and walking support systems in their daily life. Solutions have been proposed many decades ago and are rapidly improving nowadays due to the technology evolution and integration. A large number of assistance aids have been deployed in real life...
Several mobile guides for unknown destinations provide assistance to tourists (through personalized tour recommendations) in making feasible plans and visiting the most interesting POIs within their available time. However, existing tourist tour planners only regard available attractions as sites lacking physical dimensions (i.e. POIs are treated as points). Although this is adequate for scheduling...
Access to reliable source of electricity remains a challenge for rural areas in developing and under-developed countries. To address this challenge, health centers in underserved communities adopted off-grid photo-voltaic (PV) systems. Standalone PV systems were identified to be relatively cost effective compared to grid extension. To reduce the cost of solar systems the size of batteries must be...
The emergence of e-Learning technologies in educational environments has brought up the need for new approaches to the assessment of attained skills, such as e-Assessments, or computer-based examinations. Despite of many advantages to this approach of evaluating students' practical and technical skills and greater flexibility with respect to space and time, many educational institutions disregard...
The popularity and the large market share of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets have had a significant impact on our daily lives. The full-fledged computing platforms render a ubiquitous means to deliver information and knowledge. This project aims to utilize such platforms to enhance computer science education, especially in curricula such as programming, mobile application development...
Individual Security is a major concern in both developed as well as developing countries. There are various ways in which an individual can assure his/her safety, one of the ways being mobile applications. We compared various security mobile applications and analysed user's opinions about ‘Security through Mobile Applications’ through survey[1]. Studying the problems, constraints and importance of...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst RIPPLES group has developed and deployed classroom content creation/capture and delivery systems in the Multimedia Asynchronous Networked Individualized Courseware (MANIC) family for over a decade. The latest of these content delivery systems, iMANIC, is an application for the iPhone/iTouch. The iMANIC mobile platform makes the large variety of data in our complete...
The objective of this research was to investigate the possibilities of using mobile applications and mobile devices in university environment. The research integrates several existing technology adoption models and then for the needs of the research conducted and develop a case study experiment. The objective was to raise the communication level and accessibility, as well as the dissemination of knowledge...
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