Mini-Robot Group User's Guide

Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense and monitored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract Number N00014-70-A-0362-0005.This working paper describes the facilities of the mini-robot group and the software available to persons using those facilities.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborator

Mini-Robot Group User's Guide Part 2: Access From ITS

A.I. Laboratory Working Papers are produced for internal circulation, and may contain information that is, for example, too preliminary or too detailed for formal publication. Although some will be given a limited external distribution, it is not intended that they should be considered papers to which reference can be made in the literature. This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-75-C-0643.Part 2 of the MINI-ROBOT USER'S GUIDE describes those devices attached to the mini-robot system which may be accessed from ITS, and describes the appropriate software for accessing them. Specifically, the photowriter, photoscanner, vidicon, and Scheinman arm are documented.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc

Mini-Robot Group User's Guide Part 1: The 11/45 System

A.I. Laboratory Working Papers are produced for internal circulation, and may contain information that is, for example, too preliminary or too detailed for formal publication. Although some will be given a limited external distribution, it is not intended that they should be considered papers to which reference can be made in the literature. This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-75-C-0643.This USER'S GUIDE is in two parts. Part 1 describes the facilities of the mini-robot group 11/45 and the software available to persons using those facilities. It is intended for those writing their own programs to be run on the 11/45 system.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc

Facile preparation of sago starch esters using full factorial design of experiment

A facile solvent-free method to acetylate sago starch (Metroxylon sagu) is reported. Microwave (100 W) was used as the heating source and the heating time was varied from 2 to 10 min with the temperature of acetylation maintained at 100ºC under continuous stirring. Using a24 full factorial design of experiment, it was found that the degree of substitution (DS)of acetylated sago starch was strongly affected by the ratio of starch to acylating reagents, the ratio of acetic anhydride to acetic acid as the acylating reagents, the concentration of iodine as catalyst and reaction time. The physicochemical characteristics of the acetylated sago starch were assessed based on the FTIR spectra, the XRD spectra, the water absorption index (WAI), and the water solubility index (WSI). SEM was used to study the surface morphology of the acetylated sago starch at different DS

The a, b, c s of oceanographic lidar predictions: a significant step toward closing the loop between theory and experiment

Small-angle phase functions (0.05° < θ < 20°) have been measured for turbid samples that were then used in a Monte-Carlo theoretical light-scattering model. The measured phase function yields excellent agreement between model predictions and long-path tank measurements