Mobile and/or autonomous robots represent a widely approached research subject. The most common problems associated to all the types of mobile robots refers to the spatial orientation system and to the mathematical models. Additionally, many difficulties are generated taking into consideration practical aspects of implementation, but the technology evolution made possible to develop smaller siz...

This paper studies a version of the job shop scheduling problem in which some operations have to be scheduled within non-relaxable time windows (i.e. earliest/latest possible start time windows). This problem is a wellknown NP-complete Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). A popular method for solving these types of problems consists in using depthrst backtrack search. Our earlier work focused...

The palm vein is one of the most reliable physiological characteristics that can be used to distinguish between individuals. Palm vein technology works by identifying the vein patterns in an individual's palm. The key techniques of palm vein recognition can systematically described in five parts extracting region of interest (ROI), preprocessing to image, extracting palm vein pattern, extractin...

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Intelligent control achieves automation via the emulation of biological intelligence. It either seeks to replace a human who performs a control task (e.g., a chemical process operator) or it borrows ideas from how biological systems solve problems and applies them to the solution of control problems (e.g., the use of neural networks for control). In this chapter we will provide an overview of s...

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge the help that I have received during my research. Grateful thanks to: • Dr. Timothy Lethbridge, my supervisor, for his support, guidance, patience and intelligent comments. • The KBRE group for their help, comments, and the valuable discussions with them. • The software engineers who participated in this study. • My friends for their concerns and enc...

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One of the main operations in conceptual 3D design is the rearrangement of single and composite objects. This paper presents a new conceptual 3D design system that affords easy manipulation of composite objects. We discuss several alternative manipulation techniques to separate complex parts off an existing model. Then, we present a new way to move such parts in a 3D scene, as well as an algori...