This paper presents research that enhances the effectiveness of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) robots with autonomy and 3D visualization. It describes an approach where autonomous behaviors like Click and Go, Drag for Wire, and Click and Grasp are rapidly formed by combining foundational technologies like Resolved Motion, Inverse Kinematics, and 3D Visualization. Also presented is a flexible...

Two studies examined individual and environmental forces that affect engagement in prosocial behavior. Self-determination theory was used to derive a model in which autonomy orientation and autonomy support predicted satisfaction of three core psychological needs, which in turn led to engagement in prosocial activities. In Study 1, college students reported their engagement in various prosocial...

This essay addresses the issue of the autonomy of the National Health Service (NHS) patient in the UK. It is argued, with reference to clinical examples, that some patients abuse their rights to medical care to the detriment of other patients and the service providers. A case is made for limiting the rights of patients in order to improve the service for all who use it. A range of mechanisms ar...

In line with developing the best practise in robotics(BRICS), this project implements one of the most advanced approaches to increase robust autonomy for mobile manipulators. Using the newly announced research platform youBot as an example, a robust controller with a protection layer against joint and wheel failures was developed. The protection layer consists of a set of algorithms implemented...

Agents must decide, i.e., choose a preferred option from among a large set of alternatives, according to the precise context where they are immersed. Such a capability defines to what extent they are autonomous. But, there is no one way of deciding, and the classical mode of taking utility functions as the sole support is not adequate for situations constrained by qualitative features (such as ...

Three main claims are made in this paper. First, it is argued that Onora O'Neill has uncovered a serious problem in the way medical ethicists have thought about both respect for autonomy and informed consent. Medical ethicists have tended to think that autonomous choices are intrinsically worthy of respect, and that informed consent procedures are the best way to respect the autonomous choices ...

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BDI agent languages provide a useful abstraction for complex systems comprised of interactive autonomous entities, but they have been used mostly in the context of single agents with a static plan library of behaviours invoked reactively. These languages provide a theoretically sound basis for agent design but are very limited in providing direct support for autonomy and societal cooperation ne...