Special issue on real-world application

Editorial Special Issue on Real-world Application of Structural Identification and Health Monitoring Methodologies

Although the importance of civil infrastructure is universally recognized, the funding to maintain the U.S. system has proven insufficient over the last several decades. As has been reported recently by ASCE, an estimated $2.2 trillion is needed to bring the country’s overall infrastructure up to good working order. While the increase in infrastructure funding that will accompany this attention...

Special issue on spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics

Truly universal helper robots capable of coping with unknown, unstructured environments must be capable of spatial reasoning, i.e., establishing geometric relations between objects and locations, expressing those in terms understandable by humans. It is therefore desirable that spatial and semantic environment representations are tightly interlinked. 3D robotic mapping and the generation of con...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Real World Applications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems

INTELLIGENT tutoring systems (ITS) appeared during the 1970s, most driven by the success of knowledge-based systems and expert systems. ITS are able to instruct and train students and professionals without the intervention of human beings. ITS introduced a set of ideas, like the use of computational models of domains, allowing the possibility of reasoning and explaining domain problems automati...

Guest Editorial of the Special Issue on Whole-Body Control for Robots in the Real World

Introduction to the special issue on the recognition and organization of real-world sound