Neovascular glaucoma is commonly treated surgically with implantation of glaucoma drainage devices. We report the case of a 57-year-old man who underwent an uneventful Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) placement for radiation-induced neovascular glaucoma but later developed early postoperative infection with tube exposure. The infection was identified 3 weeks postoperatively and antibiotic treatment w...

operating effectively in factories for decades. These vehicles have successfully used strategies of deliberately structuring the environment and adapting the process to the automation. The potential of computer vision technology to increase the intelligence and adaptability of AGVs is largely unexploited in contemporary commercially-available vehicles. We developed a virtually infrastructure-fr...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are the future of transportation. As a result of emerging standards, vehicles will soon be able to talk to one another as well as their environment. A number of applications will be made available for vehicular networks that improve the overall safety of the transportation infrastructure. This chapter develops a method to impart chaotic motions to an Aut...

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistics transportation systems in today's industry are widely used, especially Europe. Today's AGV-systems offered by global manufacturers almost all operate under some centralized control where single central controller coordinates entire fleet AGVs. There is trend towards decentralized these AGVs make individual decisio...

Most path planning algorithms used presently in multi-robot systems are based on offline planning. The Timed Enhanced A* (TEA*) algorithm gives the possibility of real time, rather than advance, by using a temporal estimation robot’s positions at any given time. In this article, implementation control system for applications that operate environments where communication faults can occur and ent...

The paper analyses potentials, challenges, and applications of using rewritable, stationary RFID tags for marking routes for autonomous vehicles in manufacturing environments. This approach promises to be flexible, robust, and inexpensive. Two algorithms are proposed also considering additional sensors.

Traditional manufacturing has relied on dedicated mass-production systems to achieve high production volumes at low costs. As living standards improve and the demands for new consumer goods rise, manufacturing flexibility gains prominence as a strategic tool for rapidly changing markets. Flexibility, however, cannot be properly incorporated in the decision-making process if it is not well defin...