We present an overview of the autonomous helicopter project at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. The goal of this project is to autonomously fly helicopters using computer vision closely integrated with other on-board sensors. We discuss a concrete example mission designed to demonstrate the viability of vision-based helicopter flight and specify the components necessary to accomplish this ...

Many organisations are failing to achieve the benefits they expected from their investment in information systems. At the heart of the problem is lack of attention to human and organisational factors (HOF) the 'soft' issues. This paper describes how to tackle some these issues, by elaborating on the initials of 'SOFT' as Social, Organisational, Flexibility and T-skills. 1.0 GOOD NEWS AND BAD NE...

Objective: Management depends on choices, on the hierarchy of actions, goals and values on which these decisions are founded, because values guide our actions. This study aims to identify the contents exposed in the vision, mission and values of the hospitals in the north of Portugal. It also aims to analyze the existence of content differentiation, based on the implemented management model. Me...