Abstract This study analyzes the local energy planning (LEP), a set of urban strategies and potential scope, for São Paulo from 2014 to 2030. A simulation model is used quantify impacts implementing LEP on city’s system based three indicators: demand, percentage usage renewable sources, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The performance was analyzed two scenarios: first reproduces city policies in...

Robot motion planning in a cluttered environment requires knowledge about robot shape and size. These robot characteristics in uence system performance eventhough most motion planning methods do not consider them. This paper presents an ongoing work that studies general motion planning techniques in combination with knowledge related to robot shape and size. The system acquires knowledge and le...

Many mixed-initiative planning systems attempt to integrate humans and AI planning systems so that a synthesis results in higher quality plans. In the AI community, however, the dominant model of planning (and virtually all problem-solving) treats cognition as a search processes. Candidate planning actions are represented as operators consisting of preconditions, post conditions, and variable b...

Ant colony optimization and artificial potential field were used respectively as global path planning and local path planning methods in this paper. Some modifications were made to accommodate ant colony optimization to path planning. Pheromone generated by ant colony optimization was also utilized to prevent artificial potential field from getting local minimum. Simulation results showed that ...

Planning for disasters at the federal, state, and local level is a relatively recent area of focus within the practice of emergency management in the United States. Historically, emergency management as a practice was focused on response to a disaster, with little attention paid to preparation, recovery, or overall and ongoing activities to reduce the effects of disasters. The theoretical frame...

An approach to stereo based local path planning in unstructured environments is presented. The approach differs from previous stereo based and image based planning systems (i.e. top-down occupancy grid planners, autonomous highway driving algorithms, and view-sequenced route representation), in that it uses specialized cost functions to find paths through an occupancy grid representation of wor...

One of the anomalies after the 1974 reorganisation of the National Health Service was the creation of joint care planning teams at area level and health care planning teams at district level, with no formal mechanism for direct communication between the two. The first mention of joint care planning teams was in a Department of Health and Social Security circular published in 1976.1 These teams ...