DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOELECTRON-ASSISTED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION

We developed a photoelectron-assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD) that can deposit an ultra-thin perfluoropolyether (PFPE) film on a diamond-like carbon (DLC) surface. The DLC surface with a 1 nm-thick PFPE film deposited by the P ACVD showed a low surface energy. The surface also showed a low adhesion force that was caused by the low surface energy. We confirmed that the PFPE/DLC surface deposited by the PACVD has the potential to improve the areal density of hard disk drives.This work was supported in part by Kansai University, Outlay Support for Establishing Research Centers in 2014, a Kansai University Grant in Aid for the Promotion and Upgrading of Education and Research, and MEXT KAKENHI grant number 15H02216

Cooperation by Observation - The Framework and Basic Task Patterns

A novel framework for multiple robot cooperation called "Cooperation by Observation" is presented. It introduces many interesting issues such as viewpoint constraint and role interchange, as well as novel concepts like "attentional structure". The framework has the potential to realize a high level of task coordination by decentralized autonomous robots allowing minimum explicit communication. Its source of power lies in an advanced capability given to each robot for recognizing other agent's actions by (primarily visual) observation. This provides rich information about the current task situation around each robot which facilitates highly-structured task coordination. The basic visuo-motor routines are described. Concrete examples and experiments using real mobile robots are also presented. 1 Introduction In order to execute complex tasks with multiple mobile robots and achieve superlinear increase of task performance to the number of robots, we need a variety of flexible and highl..