Author:Dube, C; Tapson, JDate:Nov 2009This paper focuses firstly, on the kinematics structure required for a humanoid service robot arm and secondly, on transferring human motion obtained from visual motion capture to the humanoid arm. The kinematics structure of a ten Degree of ...Read more
Author:Godfrey, M; Wall, K; Marler, MDate:May 2009There is global acknowledgement that the financing of water projects is not easy. Preparation of water sector projects is understood to take long and still when they are finally financed, cost-recovery is comparatively difficult. The challenges ...Read more
Author:Smuts, H; Kotzé, Paula; van der Merwe, A; Loock, MDate:Apr 2015Organisations have over time realised that leveraging their already accumulated knowledge assets are the most cost effective way to increase their competitive standing and to harness innovation. In choosing to outsource their information ...Read more
Author:Molapo, DDate:17 Jul 2007Creation, manipulation, management and dissemination of knowledge cannot go on forever without determining what impact it is having on those who create it and those who use it. This paper explores methods of determining the impact of disseminated ...Read more
Author:Chakwizira, J; Makhubela, L; Mashiri, MDate:May 2009This paper reviews the southern African region’s economic integration and knowledge management terrain from a spatial perspective. Its purpose is to generate insights relating to the role that space and spatial structure play in determining ...Read more
Author:Makondo, N; Rosman, Benjamin S; Hasegawa, ODate:Nov 2015Learning of robot kinematic and dynamic models from data has attracted much interest recently as an alternative to manually defined models. However, the amount of data required to learn these models becomes large when the number of degrees ...Read more
Author:Boloka, Tlou J; Makondo, N; Rosman, BDate:Jan 2021Deep reinforcement learning has recently been adopted for robot behavior learning, where robot skills are acquired and adapted from data generated by the robot while interacting with its environment through a trial-and-error process. Despite ...Read more
Author:Parbhoo, C; Moodley, DDate:Mar 2007The discovery, access and sharing of suitable geospatial information in current open and distributed Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) still pose a major challenge. These problems usually stem from a lack of consistent semantics that is ...Read more
Author:Jacobs-Mata, Inga MDate:Jun 2017Presentation on the Kukimbia: the impact of environmental refugees in Southern Africa. A regional perspective on climate-induced migration.Read more
Author:Jacobs-Mata, Inga MDate:Aug 2017This project focuses on the regional, national and sub-national policy landscape and the preparedness of Southern African countries to respond to future internal and cross-border displacements as a result of environmental disasters. The goal ...Read more
Author:Johnson, DL; Belding, EM; Mudenda, CDate:Dec 2013As usage of online social networks and social media continues to experience exponential growth, the amount of data being shared between users is increasing without bound. While this has revolutionized communication for many Internet users, ...Read more
Author:Kruger, Daniel MDate:Dec 2018This is a set of slides used in a workshop with the South African Police Service (SAPS), the Kwazulu-Natal Crime Summit, Commission 1: Crime and Violence Combatting and Prevention.Read more
Author:Lwanda, V; Kagombora, J; Digaga, A; Magafu, FF; Mgangira, Martin BDate:Oct 2018Africa Community Access Partnership (AfCAP) is supporting research activities in Africa region. One of the projects supported by AfCAP in research activities was to build capacity and implement a laboratory skills development programme for ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, Lukas J; Zunckel, M; McCormick, SGDate:Jan 2005The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) piloted the top-down Basa njengo Magogo fire ignition method at Orange Farm during the winter in 2003. In total, 76 per cent of households reported less smoke in their homes, 67 percent reported ...Read more
Author:Smit, Michelle A; Akhalwaya, Imraan; Rust, FCDate:Jul 2021The South African road network is severely impacted by the high costs associated with upgrading, maintaining and constructing road infrastructure in conjunction with the shortage of good quality construction materials. The Council for Scientific ...Read more
Author:Akhalwaya, Imraan; Rust, Frederik CDate:Jul 2018Nano-modified emulsions (NMEs) have recently been used successfully across a number of trial projects in South Africa. Following the development of initial draft design approaches for NME stabilising agents, the Council for Scientific and ...Read more
Author:Anochie-Boateng, Joseph; George, TBDate:Jul 2016CSIR is currently undertaking a study on potential utilization of crushed glass as a substitute material to natural aggregate in asphalt mixes. As part of the study, laboratory investigation is needed to determine the performance characteristics ...Read more
Author:Mokoena, Refiloe; Mvelase, Gculisile MDate:Oct 2019The study presented in this paper aims to promote the use of coal ash in railway infrastructure as a more economical and sustainable material. The study serves as a preliminary investigation on using coal ash as one of the structural layers ...Read more
Author:Deadman, AJ; Behnert, ID; Fox, NP; Griffith, DDate:Jul 2011This paper presents the results of the laboratory and field based reflectance panel and radiometer comparisons that took place as part of the CEOS 2010 Key comparison of “techniques and instruments used for the vicarious calibration of Land ...Read more