| This paper describes the higher level of a system for controlling a set of non-holonomic vehicles moving in a dynamic environment|i.e. among static and moving objects|. This higher level is concerned with planning a trajectory for each vehicle whereas the execution of the plan is distributed at the level of each vehicle. The approach taken consists of assigning priorities to the vehicles, the...

Wechallenge conventional accounts of the rise and fall of strategic planningby examining the history and evolution of strategic planning practices at the General Electric Company (GE) during six CEO regimes: Wilson, Cordiner, Borch, Jones, Welch and Immelt. We distinguish strategic planningd a system of strategy formulation, decision making and controld from particular planning technologies suc...

Transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) is an important component of power system planning. Itdetermines the characteristics and performance of the future electric power network and influences the powersystem operation directly. Different methods have been proposed for the solution of the static transmissionnetwork expansion planning (STNEP) problem till now. But in all of them, STNEP pr...

We aim at planning multi-contact sequences of stances and postures for humanoid robots. The output sequence defines the contact transitions that allow our robot to realize different kind of tasks, ranging from biped locomotion to dexterous manipulation. The central component of the planning framework is a best-first algorithm that performs a search of the contacts to be added or removed at each...

This paper presents a new approach to path planning for robots with many degrees of freedom (dof) operating in known static environments. The approach consists of a preprocessing and a planning stage. Preprocessing, which is done only once for a given environment, generates a network of randomly, but properly selected, collision-free conngurations (nodes). Planning then connects any given initi...

Complex manipulation tasks require careful integration of symbolic reasoning and motion planning. This problem, commonly referred to as Task Motion Planning (TAMP), is even more challenging if the workspace non-static, e.g. due human interventions perceived with noisy non-ideal sensors. work proposes an online approximated TAMP method that combines a geometric module planner standard task in re...

Resource usage is one of the most important characteristics of programs. Automatically generated information about resource usage can be used in multiple ways, both during program development and deployment. In this paper we discuss and present examples on how such information is obtained in COSTA, a state of the art static analysis system. COSTA obtains safe symbolic upper bounds on the resour...