Suppose we have an autonomous aircraft flying a complex mission broken into several different phases such as takeoff, ingress, target surveillance, egress, and landing. For each mission phase, the aircraft’s control system will have prepared a plan (or controller) specifying particular actions and reactions during the phase. Now suppose that the autonomous control system onboard this aircraft i...

A modern world contains varieties of electronic equipment and systems like: TV, security system, Hi-fi equipment, central heating systems, fire alarm systems, security alarm systems, lighting systems, SET Top Box, AC (Air Conditioner) etc., we need to handle, ON/OFF or monitor these electrical devices remotely or to communicate with these but, if you are not at the home or that place and you wa...

We study the problem of devising a closed-loop strategy to control the position of a robot that is tracking a possibly moving target. The robot is capable of obtaining noisy measurements of the target’s position. The key idea in active target tracking is to choose control laws that drive the robot to measurement locations that will reduce the uncertainty in the target’s position. The challenge ...

We address the problem of controlling a general one-dimensional Itô diffusion within an externally specified bounded interval [A,B] by means of an impulse control process. We minimise a long-term average criterion that penalises deviations of the state process from a given nominal point within this region as well as the use of impulsive control effort. We solve the resulting optimisation proble...

This paper presents a new method to decompose complex sequences of assembly operations into skill primitives. This can be realized by analyzing hyperarcs of the underlying AND/ORgraphs representing automatically generated assembly plans. Features like local depart spaces, symbolic spatial relations, and the necessary tools classify the type of assembly operation (peg in hole, placements, alignm...

Access control is an important aspect in guaranteeing data privacy within XML data sources which are accessed by users with different access rights. The goal of predicative access control for XML data sources is to use XPath expressions to describe that fragment of a given document or database that can be accessed by queries of a certain user. Our approach to access control hides the XML data s...

background: tangential irradiation of intact breast is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiotherapy center. this method is performed by using 2d and 3d treatment planning. the aim of this study was to compare 2d with 3d plans in breast conserving radiotherapy. homogeneity of isodose, and lung received dose were compared. materials and methods: twenty patients with breast canc...

O Plan is an AI planning architecture which supports research into a number of aspects of planning scheduling and control It is based on earlier work on the O Plan System which was directed towards plan generation The pa per explores the di erent types of choice or dering decisions which need to be made in an architecture for command and control The mechanisms for choice ordering and selection ...

This is an excerpt of the "Western Pacific Regional Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (2014-2020)" (RAP NCD) which has been endorsed by the Member States of the Western Pacific Region of World Health Organization (WHO) in October 2013. The Regional plan is fully harmonized with the Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases...