In this article the description of some types of spatial gear constraints (spur gears, bevel gears, etc.) in absolute coordinates is considered. Instead of the numerical expensive calculation of constraint Jacobian matrix we propose to use the transformed Jacobian matrix, which can be calculated

Abstract—In the present paper, the concept of the float-ing frame of reference is transformed to a description based on absolute coordinates. The equations are linearized for a certain configuration of the body based on a corotational strain tensor. Because of the transformation to absolute

Summary The present work contributes to the field of multibody systems with respect to the absolute coordinate formulation (ACF) with a reduced expression of the strain energy. The ACF is known to be advantageous with respect to the description of constraint equations and the constant mass matrix

is based on relative coordinates that are simply the distances from a host to some special network nodes. We propose the second mechanism, called Global Network Positioning (GNP), which is based on absolute coordinates computed from modeling the Internet as a geometric space. Since end hosts maintain

Finding the relationship between two coordinate systems using pairs of measurements of the coordinates of a number of points in both systems is a classic photogrammetric task. It finds applications in stereophotogrammetry and in robotics. I present here a closed-form solution to the least

An agent who is interested in reading [Ago01a] may also be asked for looking at alternative paradigms of cooperation but "contextual coordination" of [Ago01a, Sec. 3]. We do it in this paper by introducing some paradigms of "absolute," model-theoretic coordination. We argue

Abstract. This paper employed the theories of multibody system dynamics to analyze the multi-rigid-body model of erection system and build the general dynamic models in absolute coordinates. The impact theory of contact mechanics and nonlinear spring-damper force function were used to model

simple, light-weight algorithm that assigns synthetic coordinates to hosts such that the distance between the coordinates of two hosts accurately predicts the communication latency between the hosts.

This paper proposes S-MAC, a medium access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks use battery-operated computing and sensing devices. A network of these devices will collaborate for a common application such as environmental monitoring. We expect sensor networks to be deployed in an ad hoc fashion, with nodes remaining largely inactive for long time, but becoming suddenly active when something is detected. These characteristics of sensor networks and applications motivate a MAC that is different from traditional wireless MACs such as IEEE 802.11 in several ways: energy conservation and self-configuration are primary goals, while per-node fairness and latency are less important. S-MAC uses a few novel techniques to reduce energy consumption and support self-configuration. It enables low-duty-cycle operation in a multihop network. Nodes form virtual clusters based on common sleep schedules to reduce control overhead and enable traffic-adaptive wake-up. S-MAC uses in-channel signaling to avoid overhearing unnecessary traffic. Finally, S-MAC applies message passing to reduce contention latency for applications that require in-network data processing. The paper presents measurement results of S-MAC performance on a sample sensor node, the UC Berkeley Mote, and reveals fundamental tradeoffs on energy, latency and throughput. Results show that S-MAC obtains significant energy savings compared with an 802.11-like MAC without sleeping.

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