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A data acquisition system, DAQ, system is developed for each experiment to satisfy its requirements in case of not only large experiment but also small one. However, it isn't efficient for small or middle size experiments because the requirements of such experiments are similar. As they require the similar functionality for the DAQ system, the basic core parts of them can be used each other for most of experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There have been many studies that apply three-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (3D DWT) to video coding. It is known that lowest frequency sub-band coefficients of 3D DWT outputs affect the visual quality of video. In order to maintain image quality of video that is transmitted over channel with error such as a wireless, it is necessary to development of error resilient transmission scheme for protecting the lowest subband coefficients. Coauthors of the study proposed the method (conventional method), which adopted duplication scheme of lowest frequency sub-band coefficients of 3D DWT. The objective of this study is to indicate improvement of error resilience by replacing the duplication scheme of conventional method with the error correction scheme using invertible codes. In addition, conventional study is assumed the packet loss channel model that packets are lost or received without bit errors. However, in wireless communications of the actual, the packet is often received with errors, and errors occur in bursty. The simulation evaluations compare the performances of the proposed method with those of the conventional one over burst error channel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper gives a brief overview of the robot-technology (RT) middleware Contest. To improve the efficiency of software development for robotic systems, we plan to develop a common robot architecture based on software modularization. To realize the reusability and interoperability of software modules, we are promoting RT middleware technology through an open-source programing contest. The RT middleware Contest, which started in 2007, has been held each year as an organized session at the System Integration Division Annual Conference hosted by the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. The contest is now co-hosted with the Conference for Promotion of Robot Business, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The contest targets software libraries useful for building RT systems, RT components for specific hardware devices, and so on. Most of the prizes in this contest are established by cooperative and individual sponsors, and the award system was designed as a kind of voting system in which better entries received incentive award through a screening process based on the sponsors' own evaluation axis. In order to share and store robot technologies, source codes and manuals of all contest works can be downloaded from the OpenRTM-aist official website. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the increasing presence of intelligent systems such as robots in our everyday lives, the risk of a failure in one of these machines causing injury to someone is growing. No longer can we rely on training and fenced-off work cells to provide safety. Instead, we must consider other approaches to producing dependable intelligent systems. This includes revising how we design intelligent systems and considering the adoption of certification schemes. In this article, we propose using a modeling language, dubbed SafeML, for the design of safety-conscious and dependable intelligent systems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Detecting and understanding the world is an important step for any intelligent system, but also one that often requires significant processing power. This places great emphasis on the creation of efficient but flexible data processing pipelines. In this paper, we discuss the use of OpenRTM-aist and a component-based approach to rapidly create sensor processing pipelines. The sensor pipeline is made up of a series of filtering and processing steps, provided by pre-existing components for each step. We illustrate the techniques with a pipeline for processing point clouds using the PCL library. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]