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The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while industrial mining is prevalent in the country, the expansion of artisanal mining, or ... -
Leveraging microgravity to investigate earth- And space-based centrifugal casting of wax
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)A multi-year research effort aimed at increasing understanding of the centrifugal casting process of wax fuels for hybrid chemical propulsion in multiple thermal and gravitational environments is described. As both radiative ... -
Linking Historical Roots and Current Methodologies of Engineering Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-12)This paper reviews the historical context and present impact of two sets of literature: the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the field of Strategy Development. Schumpeter’s theories about the impact of technology or innovation ... -
Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario
(2018-05-25)While swarm robotics systems are often claimed to be highly fault-tolerant, so far research has limited its attention to safe laboratory settings and has virtually ignored security issues in the presence of Byzantine ... -
Mediating the Marginal: A Computational Analysis of Representational Hierarchies, Aesthetic Tourism, and Queer Imagination on Instagram
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)Images are world-building technologies, engendering futurity through collective imagination. An ontological trace of visual culture positions media technologies as sites of both regulation of and resistance to racial, ... -
A micro- and macro- analysis of human-machine interfaces and systems in space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Humans and machines interact with each other on a variety of scales. Interactions can involve tightly coupled interfaces or even be socio-technical in nature. In terms of large complex systems, humans learn to interact and ... -
Modelling and simulation of in-orbit centrifugal casting of a paraffin wax grain inside a 3U CubeSat
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Monitoring water-related ecosystems with Earth observation data in support of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 reporting
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-05)Lack of national data on water-related ecosystems is a major challenge to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 targets by 2030. Monitoring surface water extent, wetlands, and water quality from space can be ... -
Multi-User Framework for Collaboration and Co-Creation in Virtual Reality
(12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), 2017-06-18)We present CocoVerse, a shared immersive virtual reality environment in which users interact with each other and create and manipulate virtual objects using a set of hand-based tools. Simple, intuitive interfaces make the ... -
Optical and Thermochemical Analysis for Paraffin and Beeswax Centrifugal Casting
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Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture
(2017-06-19)Due to their interdisciplinary nature, devices for controlled-environment agriculture have the possibility to turn into ideal tools not only to conduct research on plant phenology but also to create curricula in a wide ... -
RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction
(2018-02-14)Robots have potential to revolutionize the way we interact with the world around us. One of their largest potentials is in the domain of mobile health where they can be used to facilitate clinical interventions. However, ... -
SCRIBE : crowdsourcing indigenous knowledge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The Ethnosphere is woven into the matrix of the biosphere as a simultaneous duality, and yet cartographers of disciplinary territories raise boundaries to dis-entangle the dialectic dualities: Nature from culture, scientific ... -
Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms
(2021-06-07)The importance of swarm robotics systems in both academic research and real-world applications is steadily increasing. However, to reach widespread adoption, new models that ensure the secure cooperation of large groups ... -
Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts
(2022-10-01)The physical autonomy of robots is well understood both theoretically and practically. By contrast, there is almost no research exploring a robot's potential economic autonomy. In this paper, we present the first economically ... -
Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts
(2022-10-01)The physical autonomy of robots is well understood both theoretically and practically. By contrast, there is almost no research exploring a robot's potential economic autonomy. In this paper, we present the first economically ... -
Space sustainability rating: Designing a composite indicator to incentivise satellite operators to pursue long-term sustainability of the space environment
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)The Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) was first conceptualised within the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Space Technologies, and is being designed by an international and transdisciplinary consortia including ... -
A study of emerging space nation and commercial satellite operator stakeholder preferences for space traffic management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The near-Earth space environment is a finite, shared resource. Trends including reduced launch costs, electronics miniaturization, and preference for resilient, disaggregated architectures are driving significant growth ... -
TagAlong: Informal Learning from a Remote Companion with Mobile Perspective Sharing
(12th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2015 (CELDA), 2015-10)Questions often arise spontaneously in a curious mind, due to an observation about a new or unknown environment. When an expert is right there, prepared to engage in dialog, this curiosity can be harnessed and converted ...