This paper presents a practical solution to the guidance of a unicycle type robot, including path following, obstacle avoidance and the respect of wheeled actuation saturation constraint, without planning procedure. These results are based on an extension of previous results on path following control including actuation saturation constraints. New solution for obstacle avoidance, with guarantee...

— In this paper visual homing is combined with an appearance model to obtain a navigation method that does not require estimates of the pose. The robot's current view is used to select a target from a collection of panoramic images that forms the map. This requires selecting features to find correspondences and in this paper some feature selection methods are evaluated to see which one is best ...

This chapter provides a roadmap to the burgeoning literature on two-sided markets with a speci…c focus on BtoB marketplaces. Online intermediation involves two-sided network e¤ects between buyers and sellers, and the implications for optimal BtoB platforms’tari¤s are discussed. The chapter discusses …rst the monopoly case, drawing attention to the distinction between upfront registration fees a...

This study utilised a qualitative research methodology known as formative research to improve the process guidelines that are described in the Guidance System for Transforming Education (GSTE). This study took place in a small (5447 students), partly urban and partly rural school district in Indiana. The researchers, also serving as change facilitators, investigated an early stage of the system...

In recent years, thermal image has extensively been used in many fields such as military (e.g., target acquisition, surveillance, night vision, homing and tracking) and civilian purposes (e.g., medical diagnosis, thermal efficiency analysis, environmental monitoring). It may be a promising alternative for investigation of facial expression and emotion. Currently there are very few database to s...

In this position paper, we propose to apply proxemics for public guidance in urban spaces. We show that the proxemics dimensions already are parts of public guidance systems, and we argue that a common language for urban proxemics already exists.