The interaction radius r plays an important role in the collective behavior of many multi-agent systems because it defines the interaction network among agents. For the topic of intervention on collective behavior of multi-agent systems, does r also affect the intervention performance? In this paper we study whether it is easier to change the convergent heading of the group by adding some speci...

Although the last three decades have seen a steady rise in the perceived importance of operations strategy together with its corresponding literature base, one could argue that it has not yet reached its full potential. This paper reviews some of the reasons why this may be. It starts by briefly examining the importance of operations strategy within the broader operations management area and th...

This article presents a novel fuzzy–logic based multi-sensor data fusion algorithm for combining heading estimates from three separate weighted interval Kalman filters to construct a robust, fault-tolerant heading estimator for the navigation of the Springer autonomous surface vehicle. A single, low-cost gyroscopic unit and three independent compasses are used to acquire data onboard the vehicl...

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in order to locate the qtls for plant height, peduncle length, and heading date, a set of 107 wheat doubled haploid (dh) lines derived from the cross fukuho-komugi× oligoculm was grown during the growing seasons of 2004 and 2005. a total of 36 qtls were identified based on composite interval mapping (cim) approach. all detected plant height qtl’s were stable over the two years. qtls located nea...

The problem of estimating heading is central in the indoor positioning problem based on measurements from inertial measurement and magnetic units. Integrating rate of turn angular rate gives the heading with unknown initial condition and a linear drift over time, while the magnetometer gives absolute heading, but where long segments of data are useless in practice because of magnetic disturbanc...