Background. Self-management support and team-based care are essential elements of the Chronic Care Model but are often limited by staff availability and reimbursement. Mobile phones are a promising platform for improving chronic care but there are few examples of successful health system implementation. Program Development. An iterative process of program design was built upon a pilot study and...

This research addresses the problem of achieving fault tolerant cooperation within smallto medium-sized teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. We describe a novel behaviorbased, fully distributed architecture, called ALLIANCE, that utilizes adaptive action selection to achieve fault tolerant cooperative control in robot missions involving loosely coupled, largely independent tasks. The robots in...

During the research within the MAURO (Mobile Autonomous Robot) project (1995 – 1998) the research team from the 'Robot Control Systems' Laboratory has designed and realized an ultrasonic range finding sensor intended to be used in mobile robot navigation. The sensor has been successively improved and the design was adopted also by other research teams within the Automation Department being used...

This paper describes a method for localizing the members of a mobile robot team relative to each other; that is, we describe a method whereby each robot may determine the pose of every other robot in the team, relative to itself. This method does not require GPS, landmarks, or any kind of environment model. Instead, robots make direct measurements of the relative pose of nearby robots, and broa...

In this study, we sampled sworn police officers from three law enforcement agencies (n = 452), each of which had different system responses to mentally ill people in crisis. One department relies on field assistance from a mobile mental health crisis team, a second has a team of officers specially trained in crisis intervention and management of mentally ill people in crisis, and a third has a ...