A research report submitted to the faculty of Engineering and the built environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering. Johannesburg, August 2016 / There has been much interest in using the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect cameras for visual servo control applications. It is a relatively cheap device with expected shortcomings. This work contributes to the practical considerations of using the Kinect for visual servo control applications. A comprehensive characterisation of the Kinect is synthesised from existing literature and results from a nonlinear calibration procedure. The Kinect reduces computational overhead on image processing stages, such as pose estimation or depth estimation. It is limited by its 0.8m to 3.5m practical depth range and quadratic depth resolution of 1.8mm to 35mm, respectively. Since the Kinect uses an infra-red (IR) projector, a class one laser, it should not be used outdoors, due to IR saturation, and objects belonging to classes of non- IR-friendly surfaces should be avoided, due to IR refraction, absorption, or specular reflection. Problems of task stability due to invalid depth measurements in Kinect depth maps and practical depth range limitations can be reduced by using depth map preprocessing and activating classical visual servoing techniques when Kinect-based approaches are near task failure. / MT2017

Ce travail de thèse présente la conception et la mise en œuvre de méthodes innovantes d'évaluation quantitative et automatique de la qualité des outils de planification géométrique des traitements en radiothérapie externe. Le contrôle de qualité des systèmes de planification des traitements (TPS) est obligatoire en France et dans le monde de par les risques encourus, mais les outils physiques<br />recommandés pour mener à bien ce contrôle de qualité sont inadaptés. Nous présentons une nouvelle méthodologie de contrôle qualité basée sur la définition d'Objets-Tests Numériques (OTN) qui sont directement introduits dans le TPS sans passer par le capteur. Ces objets numériques sont définis à la fois sous des représentations continues et discrètes cohérentes. Les réponses des TPS aux OTN d'entrée sont comparées aux résultats théoriques grâce à des figures de mérite spécifiquement définies pour chaque type de données. Ce procédé permet alors d'évaluer quantitativement et automatiquement la qualité des TPS. Les tests effectués au cours de ce travail ont permis de valider nos solutions de contrôle qualité pour les outils de contourage automatique, d'expansion et d'érosion automatiques, de positionnement de l'isocentre, de conformation du collimateur, de génération des radiographies digitales reconstruites, de positionnement des marqueurs cutanés, ainsi que pour la rotation du collimateur, l'incidence, la divergence et les dimensions des faisceaux affichés. Les solutions d'assurance qualité des TPS que nous proposons dans ce travail sont donc rapides et efficaces d'une part (aucune acquisition par le capteur source, manipulations réduites), et plus précises d'autre part, de par l'équivalence continue-discrète mise en place à la source de la modélisation.

<p>The great cabin of the warship Vasa was adorned as a palace like room rather than aships cabin, containing over seventy wooden sculptures. The herm pilasters andconsole heads possibly held symbolic meaning, as did the exterior sculptures of theship. Why was so much money spent on the cabin? Who was its intended audience?How was the great cabin decorated and why? A study of the archaeological remainswithin their wider maritime and decorative historical context, can give the reasons for the designing and building of this highly decorative and expensive cabin.</p>

The great cabin of the warship Vasa was adorned as a palace like room rather than aships cabin, containing over seventy wooden sculptures. The herm pilasters andconsole heads possibly held symbolic meaning, as did the exterior sculptures of theship. Why was so much money spent on the cabin? Who was its intended audience?How was the great cabin decorated and why? A study of the archaeological remainswithin their wider maritime and decorative historical context, can give the reasons for the designing and building of this highly decorative and expensive cabin.

The thesis is focused on the characteristics of the key features of the operating system Google Chrome OS and on the evaluation of deployment of this operating system in practise. The theoretical part describes the purpose and philosophy of the commercial operating system Google Chrome OS and its relation with Chrome web browser. The connection with open-source projects Chromium and Chromium OS is explained. Details of application development and deployment options, in the form of virtualization and domain administration, are analysed. The practical part applies theoretical knowledge from the development of applications for Chrome OS to create thin client application for remote control of hardware sensor over the internet. This sensor is designed and built on the platform Arduino. The sensor measures the temperature and humidity of the ambient air and remote controls high-voltage switching relays. Communication over TCP/IP uses modern MQTT protocol, for which the server is configured with MQTT Broker Mosquitto. The next section demonstrates the procedure for building a customized build of Chromium OS from the publicly provided Google source codes. Based on the evaluation of the acquired theoretical and practical knowledge, I assess the possibility of deploying the Chrome OS in private and commercial areas.

Autodesk Inventor is a full 3D CAD system. This system includes tools for working environment tool, component design tool including information data management and technical support. The target of the first part is to describe the most important new features brought by Autodesk Inventoru 2009 version. In of next chapters the work describes creation common iPart, which is basically different variants set (proportions, material …) of one entity, and preparation before correct publication to the content center, which is a virtual database of all iPart. Also there is presented how to create the content center, how to work with it and adjust data. The aim of work is then the creation database a stator and a rotor packet for the firm ATAS electromotor Náchod Inc. In the thesis there is described creation of the lamination as an iPart and their publication to the new content center.

This thesis deals with construction proposal of front axle consoles for tractor Zetor Forterra. The aim of this work is to design and construct the 3D console model, which will be put through a solidity analysis. Based on this analysis the console will be optimized according to the solidity needs. The model proposal is realized in the software Pro/Engineer. Following strength calculations are realized in the software Pro/Mechanica.

The topic of this thesis is springing of front driving axle design in Zetor tractor of series Proxima including FEM analysis. The thesis also deals with study of currently used suspended front axles produced by word known manufacturers.

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Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:20:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 149573.pdf: 2860299 bytes, checksum: 974f4f08fb2bdc6c14164309a176ee5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-02T00:00:00Z / O presente trabalho visa identificar os fatores percebidos como críticos para o sucesso na indústria de consoles domésticos de videogame, e novos fatores importantes que possam surgir para o sucesso desta indústria dinâmica e em constante evolução. Para esta análise, utiliza-se como base o referencial teórico de estratégia emergente, valor da inovação, gerenciamento e dinâmica da cadeia de valor, e economia da informação. Faz-se uma revisão histórica da indústria, a cada geração de consoles, e um descritivo do seu momento atual, seguido de um detalhamento dos participantes da indústria e o mapeamento da cadeia de valor para os consoles domésticos de videogames, baseado na literatura existente e nas entrevistas com especialistas de mercado. Foi feito um estudo de caso com os dois líderes atuais deste mercado, Sony e Microsoft, e suas respectivas gerações de consoles com uma analise comparativa de suas cadeias de valor. A análise dos casos busca mostrar por que estas empresas entraram neste mercado, como tentaram utilizar suas core competences para obter sucesso em um mercado de forte economia de rede, marcado pelo surgimento freqüente de tecnologias de ruptura e novos entrantes, alta velocidade evolutiva do setor provocada pelos movimentos freqüentes de poder entre os elos da cadeia, em geral ao redor do fabricante do console e dos publishers dos jogos. Com base nesta análise, foram determinados os fatores críticos de sucesso da indústria até o momento e identificar os fatores críticos adicionais que estão surgindo para a última geração de consoles iniciada ao final de 2005, cuja competição tornou-se relevante ao final de 2006.