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DAMN
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en organic chemistry en diaminomaleonitrile.
en 1978 Yozo Ohtsuka Chemistry of diaminomaleonitrile. 3. Reaction with isocyanate: a novel pyrimidine synthesis Journal of Organic Chemistry 43 16 3231 Several nitrogen heterocycles, including imidazoles,1-3 pyrazines,4 and diazepines,1, 3 have been prepared from diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN, 1), the tetramer of hydrogen cyanide.
en 2016 Yassin Aweis Jeilani; Phoenix N. Williams; Sofia Waltona; Minh Tho Nguyen Unified reaction pathways for the prebiotic formation of RNA and DNA nucleobases Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 30 10.1039/C6CP02686A Diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN), a stable tetramer of HCN, has long been renowned as a precursor for the formation of nucleobases.
en robotics en distributed architecture for mobile navigation.
en 1995 J. K. Rosenblatt; C. E. Thorpe Combining multiple goals in a behavior-based architecture Proceedings 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 136 10.1109/IROS.1995.525787 The Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation (DAMN) has been successfully used to integrate various independently developed subsystems, providing systems that perform road following, cross-country navigation, or teleoperation while avoiding obstacles and meeting mission objectives.
en 2008 Stephen Williams; Antidio Viguria; Ayanna M. Howard A robotic mobile sensor network for achieving scientific measurements in challenging environments Proceedings of the Earth Science Technology Conference In each robot, a path planning algorithm, an obstacle avoidance routine, a slope assessment algorithm, and a task execution unit have all been integrated into a single behavior-based architecture. Navigation is implemented using the DAMN architecture to combine the competing outputs of each behavior module.