Figure 1: The autonomy (black solid lines) can take 2 possible routes through the obstacle field (thus displaying multimodality), both of which have nearly the same safety and efficiency. The operator model (red dashed lines) indicates two potential paths forward (such multimodality might arise as a result of unreliable communications, a multitasking operator, or a startled operator). Linear bl...

While the fight of Kurdish movement against Islamic State (IS) received much coverage, almost no attention was or has been given to reconstruction efforts Rojava after its liberation from Ba′ath regime and defeat caliphate, let alone political principles underlying agrarian economy. This contribution discusses agricultural policy in perspective autonomy. It focuses on ways which autonomy as a m...

Infrastructures for implementing agent architectures are currently unaware of what tasks the implemented agent is performing. Such knowledge would allow the infrastructure to improve the agent’s autonomy and reliability. For example, the infrastructure could detect abnormal system states, predict likely faults and take preventive measures ahead of time, or balance system load based on predicted...

Glossary Autonomy In robotics autonomy conventionally refers to the degree to which a robot is able to make its own decisions about which actions to take next. Thus a fully autonomous robot would be capable of carrying out its entire mission or function without human control or intervention. A semi-autonomous robot would have a degree of autonomy but require some human supervision. Behaviour-ba...

While in most countries suicide is no longer a crime, it is also acknowledged that the state has an interest in the preservation of human life, the prevention of suicide, and the protection of vulnerable persons from harming themselves. In a civil, secular and democratic society, however, the public law principle of state protective powers has to be balanced against the private law principle of...

In this paper, we advocate the use of reactive robots in industrial process control and production management. It is explained why reactive robots are well-suited to modern industrial applications that necessitate a high degree of autonomy and reactivity to unforeseen events and an illustrative example is studied in depth. A reactive robot whose role is to regulate the demands of a set of servi...

Given ambitious mission objectives and long delay times between command-uplink/data-downlink sessions, increased autonomy is required for planetary rovers. Speciically NASA's planned 2003 and 2005 Mars rover missions must incorporate increased autonomy if their desired mission goals are to be realized. Increased autonomy, including autonomous path planning and navigation to user designated goal...

Given ambitious mission objectives and long delay times between command-uplink/datadownlink sessions, increased autonomy is required for planetary rovers. Speci cally NASA's planned 2003 and 2005 Mars rover missions must incorporate increased autonomy if their desired mission goals are to be realized. Increased autonomy, including autonomous path planning and navigation to user designated goals...

This report addresses a collection of interactive storytelling systems to provide an overview of state-of-the-art methods of narrative management and of enabling social interaction between users and virtual agents. This is done to inform the construction of a social cues and training demonstrator (a serious game) that enables its users to improve their social behaviour. In this report, a distin...