Knowledge is essential for an autonomous robot to act intelligently when tasked with a mission. With recent leaps of progress, the paradigm of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) has emerged as an ideal source of spatial knowledge for autonomous robots. However, despite advancements in both paradigms of SLAM and robot control, research in the integration of these areas has been lacking...

Motion estimation approaches enable the robust prediction of successive camera poses when a camera undergoes erratic motion. It is especially difficult to make robust predictions under such conditions when using a constant-velocity model. However, motion estimation itself inevitably involves pose errors that result in the production of an inconsistent map. To solve this problem, we propose a no...

OBJECTIVES Law enforcement and military personnel use electronic control devices to control non-compliant and actively resistive subjects. The TASER((R)) Shockwave is a new electronic control device designed specifically as an area denial device capable of delivering multiple simultaneous discharges. This is the first study to examine the effects of multiple simultaneous device discharges in hu...

the problem of designing a set of routes with minimum cost to serve a collection of customers with a fleet of vehicles is a fundamental challenge when the number of customers to be dropped or picked up is not known during the planning horizon. the purpose of this paper is to develop a vehicle routing problem (vrp) model that addresses stochastic simultaneous pickup and delivery in the urban pub...

a partial least squares (pls) calibration model was developed for the simultaneous spectrophotometricdetermination of pb (ιι), cu (ιι) and ni (ιι) using xylenol orange as a chromogenic reagent. the parameterscontrolling behavior of the system were investigated and optimum conditions were selected. the calibrationgraphs were linear in the ranges of 0.0–9.091, 0.0–2.719 and 0.0–2.381 ppm for lead...

a simple, accurate and precise hptlc- densitometry method for the simultaneousdetermination of abacavir, lamivudine and zidovudine in pharmaceutical tablet has beendeveloped. separation of tablet components was performed on aluminum backed hptlc plates(silica gel 60 f254 20×20 cm with 0.2 mm thickness, camag, muttenz, switzerland ) usingmethanol : chloroform : acetonitrile (4 : 8 : 3 v/v). good...

Rao–Blackwellized particle filters (RBPFs) are an implementation of sequential Bayesian filtering that has been successfully applied to mobile robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and exploration. Measuring the uncertainty of the distribution estimated by a RBPF is required for tasks such as information gain-guided exploration or detecting loop closures in nested loop environments...

The valuation theory for American Contingent Claims, due to Bensoussan (1984) and Karatzas (1988), is extended to deal with constraints on portfolio choice, including incomplete markets and borrowing/short-selling constraints, or with different interest rates for borrowing and lending. In the unconstrained case, the classical theory provides a single arbitrage-free price u0; this is expressed a...

However, we still do not have SLAM-enabled robots capable of substantive deployments. The problem lies in perception. All the SLAM algorithms require an oracle of some description to associate each measurement with part of the inferred state of the world. If this ‘data association’ process goes wrong, terrible things happen. Vehicles get lost, maps get corrupted, and features are mapped as new ...