Some related works on Transactions on Robotics (TRO) June 2012:

• Control of Robotic Manipulators Under Input/Output Communication Delays: Theory and Experiments
• sRD-SIFT: Keypoint Detection and Matching in Images With Radial Distortion
• Robust Take-Off for a Quadrotor Vehicle

Recent advances in MEMS sensor technology—thermo-fluid and electro-magnetic devices, in IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine (MIM) June 2012.

IEEE Micro May-June 2012 presents the “Top Picks from the 2011 Computer Architecture Conferences“:

• What is Happening to Power, Performance, and Software?
• Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
• Increasing Utilization in Modern Warehouse-Scale Computers Using Bubble-Up, from U. of Virginia and Google. It benchmarks the workload of Google services, e.g., Google Search, Youtube, Google Streetview, Google Translate, and some supporting applications.
• Eliminating Redundant Computation and Exposing Parallelism through Data-Triggered Threads
• Kilo TM: Hardware Transactional Memory for GPU Architectures, by Wilson Wai Lun Fung, et al.
• A QoS-Enabled On-Die Interconnect Fabric for Kilo-Node Chips, with power breakdown of different configurations.
• FabScalar: Automating Superscalar Core Design
• Scalable and Efficient Fine-Grained Cache Partitioning with Vantage
• Optical High Radix Switch Design, motivated by the fact that networking consumes up to 33% of data center power.
• Active Low-Power Modes for Main Memory with MemScale

Texture Caches, by Michael Doggett with Lund University.