Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Formal Description: the CarSim System

The problem of generating a 3D simulation of a car accident from a written description can be divided into two subtasks: the linguistic analysis and the virtual scene generation. As a means of communication between these two system parts, we designed a template formalism to represent a written accident report. The CarSim system processes template formal descriptions and creates corresponding 3D simulations. A planning component models the trajectories and temporal values of every vehicle that is involved in the accident

CarSim : automatic 3D scene generation of a car accident description

The problem of generating a 3D simulation of a car accident from a written description can be divided into two subtasks: the linguistic analysis and the virtual scene generation. As a means of communication between these two system parts, we designed a template formalism to represent a written accident report. The CarSim system processes formal descriptions of accidents and creates corresponding 3D simulations. A planning component models the trajectories and temporal values of every vehicle that is involved in the accident. Two algorithms plan the simulation of the accident. The CarSim system contains algorithms for planning collisions with static objects, as well as algorithms for modeling accidents consisting of more than one collision and collisions with vehicles which have stopped. 1

Коли нехтують першоджерелами

Рецензія на альбом “Партизанські загони і з’єднання на Чернігівщині в роки Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941 – 1945 років”, виданий РВК “Деснянська правда” 2008 р. Автором цього видання є Іван Іванович Кучма – голова секції партизанів і підпільників Чернігівської обласної організації ветеранів України, полковник у відставці

Artificial Emotion Generation Based on Personality, Mood, and Emotion for Life-Like Facial Expressions of Robots

International audienceWe can't overemphasize the importance of robot's emotional expressions as robots step into human's daily lives. So, the believable and socially acceptable emotional expressions of robots are essential. For such human-like emotional expression, we have proposed an emotion generation model considering personality, mood and history of robot's emotion. The personality module is based on the Big Five Model (OCEAN Model, Five Factor Model); the mood module has one dimension such as good or bad, and the emotion module uses the six basic emotions as defined by Ekman. Unlike most of the previous studies, the proposed emotion generation model was integrated with the Linear Dynamic Affect Expression Model (LDAEM), which is an emotional expression model that can make facial expressions similar to those of humans. So, both the emotional state and expression of robots can be changed dynamically

Livelihood, locality and globalisation

Inaugural lecture Katholieke Universiteit Nijmege

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure