Communication and control in an integrated manufacturing system

Typically, components in a manufacturing system are all centrally controlled. Due to possible communication bottlenecking, unreliability, and inflexibility caused by using a centralized controller, a new concept of system integration called an Integrated Multi-Robot System (IMRS) was developed. The IMRS can be viewed as a distributed real time system. Some of the current research issues being examined to extend the framework of the IMRS to meet its performance goals are presented. These issues include the use of communication coprocessors to enhance performance, the distribution of tasks and the methods of providing fault tolerance in the IMRS. An application example of real time collision detection, as it relates to the IMRS concept, is also presented and discussed

Paroxysmal Bundle Branch Block of Supraventricular Origin: A Possible Source of Misdiagnosis in Detecting Ventricular Tachycardia Using Time Domain Analyses of Intraventricular Electrograms

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Statistical validation of new ventricular tachycardia detection schemes

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Impact of increased heart rate alone and heart rate plus contractility upon intraventricular ECG morphology

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Robot path planning using geodesic and straight line segments with Voronoi diagrams

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Community integration or community exposure? A review and discussion in relation to people with an intellectual disability

Background: This paper reviews the issue of integration as it applies to people with an intellectual disability. A compelling finding is the almost exclusive orientation of the literature to physical integration within the general community of non-disabled people. Moreover, it seems to be generally assumed that the more frequently people experience such integration the better their lives will be. Methods: We question the validity of this assumption on several grounds. It is social, not physical integration, that has a reliable positive influence on well-being. This is an important conclusion as some disabled people find effective social integration with the general community extremely difficult to achieve. Because of this, the consequences of an overly enthusiastic program of integration for such people has more potential to be more stressful than beneficial. Results: We further argue that, as integration is being pursued to benefit the individual, the essential goal of service provision should be to achieve a sense of community connectedness, rather than being concerned with physical integration within the general community.Conclusion: It is proposed that such connectedness is more likely to be achieved within the community of people with an intellectual disability.<br /