Pakistan’s Universities: The New War Within Spectral Analysis and Enhancement of Probabilistic Roadmap Method for Robot Motion Planning

Fig. 1 Motion Planning Problem (Example)

Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM)
Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM) is an extremely effective motion planning construct in robotics that captures the connectivity of a high dimensional configuration space cluttered with obstacles and narrow passages. In PRM, random (samples) configurations () are taken and tested whether they are in free space . These collision-free configurations (nodes) are further checked for feasible paths (edges) between them. Space between all combinations of two nodes are checked for collision. These nodes and edges form a graph representing collision-free configurations and paths between them in . This graph can easily be traversed for finding path between start and goal configuration.

http://cyphynets.lums.edu.pk/index.php/Robotplanning


CYPH YNETS Research philosophy
Robot motion planning
Smart management of irrigation networks
Making a low-cost real-time PCR machine for Hepatitis detection
Quantum information theory






Abubakr Muhammad received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Insitute of Technology (2005). As a graduate student, he also got a masters degree in Mathematics (2005) and a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (2002) from Georgia Tech. Before that, he completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan (2000).

Abubakr does fundamental research in robotics, sensor networks, networked control, and recenlty in quantum information sciences. He is developing some novel analytical techniques at the interface of computational algebraic topology, differential geometry, distributed algorithms and control theory for these applications.

His PhD thesis Graphs, Simplicial Complexes and Beyond: Topological Tools for Multi-agent Coordination won the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best PhD Dissertation Award for the year 2006. Nominations for this award are received from all departments of science and engineering at Georgia Tech. The thesis has appeared in book form in 2008.

Before joining LUMS, he was a postdoctoral researcher first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at McGill University. He has also spent brief periods of collaboration and research at the Mathematics departments of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at Berkeley, and at Caltech.

Before starting his gradute studies, he worked in the industry on several problems in signal processing, target tracking, estimation theory, radar & sonar systems and pattern recognition

Pakistan’s Universities: The New War Within Spectral Analysis and Enhancement of Probabilistic Roadmap Method for Robot Motion Planning

Fig. 1 Motion Planning Problem (Example)

Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM)
Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM) is an extremely effective motion planning construct in robotics that captures the connectivity of a high dimensional configuration space cluttered with obstacles and narrow passages. In PRM, random (samples) configurations () are taken and tested whether they are in free space . These collision-free configurations (nodes) are further checked for feasible paths (edges) between them. Space between all combinations of two nodes are checked for collision. These nodes and edges form a graph representing collision-free configurations and paths between them in . This graph can easily be traversed for finding path between start and goal configuration.

http://cyphynets.lums.edu.pk/index.php/Robotplanning


CYPH YNETS Research philosophy
Robot motion planning
Smart management of irrigation networks
Making a low-cost real-time PCR machine for Hepatitis detection
Quantum information theory






Abubakr Muhammad received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Insitute of Technology (2005). As a graduate student, he also got a masters degree in Mathematics (2005) and a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (2002) from Georgia Tech. Before that, he completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan (2000).

Abubakr does fundamental research in robotics, sensor networks, networked control, and recenlty in quantum information sciences. He is developing some novel analytical techniques at the interface of computational algebraic topology, differential geometry, distributed algorithms and control theory for these applications.

His PhD thesis Graphs, Simplicial Complexes and Beyond: Topological Tools for Multi-agent Coordination won the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best PhD Dissertation Award for the year 2006. Nominations for this award are received from all departments of science and engineering at Georgia Tech. The thesis has appeared in book form in 2008.

Before joining LUMS, he was a postdoctoral researcher first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at McGill University. He has also spent brief periods of collaboration and research at the Mathematics departments of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at Berkeley, and at Caltech.

Before starting his gradute studies, he worked in the industry on several problems in signal processing, target tracking, estimation theory, radar & sonar systems and pattern recognition

Islam a la Taliban And surely Cheema sahab , this anecdote is wrong.Umar(ra) was among 17 people before advent of Islam who can read and write , great fond of Arabic Poetry and literature of that time specially of Amra-ul-Qais.Neither Hussain Haikal , nor Shibli in thier masterpieces confirmed about it. Baghdad , Alexandria , Damasqus and above all Spain which Philip K Hitti says became Jewel of the World with 7000+ libraries in single city and Europe/London/Paris were heap of dust when there were thousands of streets lights burnt and streets were washed with rose water daily.Plz. see the link

C. Prince, 'The Historical Context of Arabic Translation, Learning, and The Libraries of Medieval Andalusia', Library History, v. 18, July 2002, pp. 73-87.


http://everything2.com/title/Historical+Evidence+Regarding+the+Libra ries+of+Muslim+Spain


Few other links

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/archive/080113/books10.htm

http://w ww.khwarzimic.org/islam/report_saliba.htm

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Jinnahpur - What MQM Workers Say About It? Being myself from Punjab , if MQM would be able to break chains of 62 years of Jagirdaars-Industrialists-Vaderas-Bureaucracy-Military nexus in Punjab , I would be the first to welcome MQM at boundary of Punjab !

Jinnahpur - What MQM Workers Say About It? Nadia Khan...your article is quite biased and beyond bitter and harsh ground realities

Do you know that in past ANP of NWFP used to be just like MQM. Saleem Safi , famous journalsit who himself belongs to famous Safi Tribe of Mehmand Agency and considered as authority on Talibans and related issue in whole world personally know some of ANP top leaders who used to collect bombs and arms in mid 80s. When you deprive some community of thier basic rights , they look here and there but when you carefully and cleverly induct them in mainstream politics, such seperatists factions , always lil in number, automatically eliminated.Same is case for MQM , same for ANP and same for MaingalMurree,Bugti or any other group. Nutshell !

So What Gives? Yeah and 5 rivers of Punjab became Red as Sikhs weer children playing with toys in 1947 !

So What Gives? Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as 'Great Leader' (Quaid-I-Azam) of Pakistan and its first governor general, Jinnah virtually conjured that country into statehood by the force of his indomitable will. His place of primacy in Pakistan's history looms like a lofty minaret over the achievements of all his contemporaries in the Muslim League. Yet Jinnah began his political career as a leader of India's National Congress and until after World War I remained India's best Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity. As enigmatic a figure as Mahatma Gandhi, more powerful than Pandit Nehru, Quaid-I-Azam Jinnah was one of recent history's most charismatic leaders and least known personalities. For more than a quarter century, I have been intrigued by the apparent paradox of Jinnah's strange story, which has to date been told in all the fascinating complexity of is brilliant light and tragic darkness.
(Stanley wolpert , UC Los Angeles)






The Aga Khan considered him "the greatest man he ever met", Beverley Nichols, the author of `Verdict on India', called him "the most important man in Asia", and Dr. Kailashnath Katju, the West Bengal Governor in 1948, thought of him as "an outstanding figure of this century not only in India, but in the whole world". While Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, called him "one of the greatest leaders in the Muslim world", the Grand Mufti of Palestine considered his death as a "great loss" to the entire world of Islam. It was, however, given to Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress, to sum up succinctly his personal and political achievements. "Mr Jinnah", he said on his death in 1948, "was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah's passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide". Such was Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man and his mission, such the range of his accomplishments and achievement



We did not want to divie India but History took all of us at that point where Partition of India was dependent on the movement of head of ONLY 1 man. If he had moved his head in Nay , Nobody would have dared to divide India.But he nodded his head in Yes position.His name was Jinnah !
(Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten in 1974)

Jaswant Speaks Out Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as 'Great Leader' (Quaid-I-Azam) of Pakistan and its first governor general, Jinnah virtually conjured that country into statehood by the force of his indomitable will. His place of primacy in Pakistan's history looms like a lofty minaret over the achievements of all his contemporaries in the Muslim League. Yet Jinnah began his political career as a leader of India's National Congress and until after World War I remained India's best Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity. As enigmatic a figure as Mahatma Gandhi, more powerful than Pandit Nehru, Quaid-I-Azam Jinnah was one of recent history's most charismatic leaders and least known personalities. For more than a quarter century, I have been intrigued by the apparent paradox of Jinnah's strange story, which has to date been told in all the fascinating complexity of is brilliant light and tragic darkness.
(Stanley wolpert , UC Los Angeles)






The Aga Khan considered him "the greatest man he ever met", Beverley Nichols, the author of `Verdict on India', called him "the most important man in Asia", and Dr. Kailashnath Katju, the West Bengal Governor in 1948, thought of him as "an outstanding figure of this century not only in India, but in the whole world". While Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, called him "one of the greatest leaders in the Muslim world", the Grand Mufti of Palestine considered his death as a "great loss" to the entire world of Islam. It was, however, given to Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress, to sum up succinctly his personal and political achievements. "Mr Jinnah", he said on his death in 1948, "was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah's passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide". Such was Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man and his mission, such the range of his accomplishments and achievement



We did not want to divie India but History took all of us at that point where Partition of India was dependent on the movement of head of ONLY 1 man. If he had moved his head in Nay , Nobody would have dared to divide India.But he nodded his head in Yes position.His name was Jinnah !
(Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten in 1974)

It\'s Yet Another Pakistani Nuclear Anniversary Today

It\'s Yet Another Pakistani Nuclear Anniversary Today

It\'s Yet Another Pakistani Nuclear Anniversary Today God Bless Pakistan Nuke

Too Good To Be True Amber Baji

Love and Respect is the greatest emtions and money fade in front of such timeless emotions.Thier timelessness transcends all materials boundaries,luxuries,CEO,cars,bunglows.


I dont say , money dosent matter, but reasonable earning with which you can live happily but with mutual love , respect , pain and care for each other is much much better than pounds and dollars or millions minarates but without respect and love.


Respect which couple give each other is beyond materialism and this spirtual feeling of respect other ,being respected, love your partner and being loved are the priceless emotions which give peace and tranquility and make Jannat living in this world full of misries and where in this age of absurdity , we are in the midst of nowhere, love and respect b/w spouse are those things upon which everything can be sacrificed

Regards

Too Good To Be True Amber Baji

Love and Respect is the greatest emtions and money fade in front of such timeless emotions.Thier timelessness transcends all materials boundaries,luxuries,CEO,cars,bunglows.


I dont say , money dosent matter, but reasonable earning with which you can live happily but with mutual love , respect , pain and care for each other is much much better than pounds and dollars or millions minarates but without respect and love.


Respect which couple give each other is beyond materialism and this spirtual feeling of respect other ,being respected, love your partner and being loved are the priceless emotions which give peace and tranquility and make Jannat living in this world full of misries and where in this age of absurdity , we are in the midst of nowhere, love and respect b/w spouse are those things upon which everything can be sacrificed

Regards

Too Good To Be True Amber Baji

Love and Respect is the greatest emtions and money fade in front of such timeless emotions.Thier timelessness transcends all materials boundaries,luxuries,CEO,cars,bunglows.


I dont say , money dosent matter, but reasonable earning with which you can live happily but with mutual love , respect , pain and care for each other is much much better than pounds and dollars or millions minarates but without respect and love.


Respect which couple give each other is beyond materialism and this spirtual feeling of respect other ,being respected, love your partner and being loved are the priceless emotions which give peace and tranquility and make Jannat living in this world full of misries and where in this age of absurdity , we are in the midst of nowhere, love and respect b/w spouse are those things upon which everything can be sacrificed

Regards

Too Good To Be True Sar-o-Bachasm

Aadab

Too Good To Be True tauba tauba..meri aisi majal...hum to Tifla-i-Maktab hai...Zanooya-i-Talism rahtai hai keh shaid in qadmo me baith kar Yawaqeet-o-Jawahir kee kiuch Boondai samait sakai

Aadab