Special issue on micro-UAV perception and control, edited by Nathan Michael, Davide Scaramuzza, and Vijay Kumar, to appear in Autonomous Robots. It introduces and links to the papers to appear in this special issue.

FTV: Free-viewpoint Television, by Masayuki Tanimoto in Nagoya University, in Signal Processing: Image Communication July 2012.

Related papers in Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) June 2012:

• Output-Based Event-Triggered Control With Guaranteed ${cal L}_{infty}$-Gain and Improved and Decentralized Event-Triggering, by Tijs Donkers and Maurice Heemels in TU Eindhoven.
• Computational Complexity Certification for Real-Time MPC With Input Constraints Based on the Fast Gradient Method, from the group of Manfred Morari in ETH.

IEEE Spectrum June 2012 has a special report on electronic trading:

• The beginning of the end of cash [Special Report]. “Anarchists, drug dealers, prostitutes, politicians, dog walkers, and nannies all have reason to prefer cash. How about you?”, a golden pitch of the article.
• A brief history of money, an insightful review.
• Blood and money, a to-be killer application of computer vision.
• The microsecond market of high frequency trading. Related articles:
• Algorithmic Trading, in IEEE Computer Nov. 2011.
• How High-Frequency Trading Is Changing Wall Street, in NPR Jan. 2011.
• High-Speed Trading: My Laser Is Faster Than Your Laser, in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Revisiting “Where the jobs are…”, in the Computing Community Consortium Blog.

Some related papers in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST) July 2012:

• Robust Active Chatter Control in the High-Speed Milling Process, from TU Eindhoven.
• Conferring Robustness to Path-Planning for Image-Based Control
• Linear Tracking Control for Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopters, by Ioannis Raptis, et al.
• A Trajectory Generation Algorithm for Optimal Consumption in Electromagnetic Actuators

Proceedings of Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) 2012 is available. Some interesting papers:

• Static Rate-Optimal Scheduling of Multirate DSP Algorithms via Retiming and Unfolding, from TU Eindhoven.
• Hard-Real-Time Scheduling on a Weakly Programmable Multi-core Processor with Application to Multi-standard Channel Decoding, from TU Eindhoven and ST Ericsson.
• A Unified WCET Analysis Framework for Multi-core Platforms
• Low Contention Mapping of Real-Time Tasks onto TilePro 64 Core Processors
• Soft Real-Time Scheduling in Google Earth
• Schedulability Analysis for the Dynamic Segment of FlexRay: A Generalization to Slot Multiplexing
• RTOS Support for Multicore Mixed-Criticality Systems
• PtidyOS: A Lightweight Microkernel for Ptides Real-Time Systems

Video: How Robonaut’s Compliant Arms Work, in IEEE Spectrum.

Summary of recent standardization activities in the field of robotics, to appear in Robotica.

The Role of Academia in the Startup World, the summer issue of ACM Crossroad. Some interesting articles:

• Want a tenure?: try a startup
• A linear function for the toughest choice
• How to be an “entrepredemic”
• An interview with Mendel Rosenblum

The videos of the plenary sessions of ICRA 2012 are available now. The IEEE Spectrum has some coverage of ICRA 2012 too.

Some recent related works from Machine Vision and Applications:

• Defect detection in periodic patterns using a multi-band-pass filter, to appear.
• Developing robust vision modules for microsystems applications, in Jan. 2012.

A random collection of papers on time-delay system and networked control system:

• Time-delay systems: an overview of some recent advances and open problems, in Automatica 2003.
• Survey on Recent Results in the Stability and Control of Time-Delay Systems, in Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control 2003.
• A Survey of Recent Results in Networked Control Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE 2005.
• Linear systems with delayed controls: A reduction, in Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) 1982.