DAMN

DAMN (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of diaminomaleonitrile.
   • 1978, Yozo Ohtsuka, “Chemistry of diaminomaleonitrile. 3. Reaction with isocyanate: a novel pyrimidine synthesis”, in Journal of Organic Chemistry, volume 43, number 16, page 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.

   • 2016, Yassin Aweis Jeilani, Phoenix N. Williams, Sofia Waltona, Minh Tho Nguyen, “Unified reaction pathways for the prebiotic formation of RNA and DNA nucleobases”, in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 18, number 30, →DOI:

     Diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN), a stable tetramer of HCN, has long been renowned as a precursor for the formation of nucleobases.

2. (robotics) Acronym of distributed architecture for mobile navigation.
   • 1995, J. K. Rosenblatt, C. E. Thorpe, “Combining multiple goals in a behavior-based architecture”, in Proceedings 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, →DOI, page 136:

     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.

   • 2008, Stephen Williams, Antidio Viguria, Ayanna M. Howard, “A robotic mobile sensor network for achieving scientific measurements in challenging environments”, in 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.