Planning robust grasping operations involving a dextrous robotics hand and an object located in a three dimensional workspace requires to combine two main types of techniques: a geometric reasoning technique aimed at producing a grasping strategy (preshape of the hand, grasping parameters, type of motion to execute), and a physically based technique, allowing the analysis of the dynamic object/...

Analysis of a planning domain has been shown to produce information that can greatly reduce the space of plans a controller must search through. Domain analysis is generally based on the logical inferences one can make given a set of planning operators and sometimes information about goals. An alternative heuristic approach is possible as well. We have developed a small set of physical schemas ...

The term “physical development and land use” was primarily raised in the Western countries so that governments could monitor the way the land is used and to maintain property rights. However, with rapid growth of urbanization and development of urban and regional planning the dimensions and the contents of the concept have expanded day by day. The central and practical core of urban planning is...

Interconnect architecture plays an important role in determining the throughput of meshed communication structures. We assume a mesh structure with uniform communication demand for communication. A multi-commodity flow (MCF) model is proposed to find the throughput for several different routing architectures. The experimental results reveal several trends: 1. The throughput is limited by the ca...

Background The historical maps have become a more common and important source of information in administrative work within the cultural heritage sector in Sweden. The usage of historical maps has also increased in untraditional sectors, such as infrastructural planning, as the interest in environmental issues has increased in past years. The character of the historical map is that of;  knowled...

This study tested the predictive validity of a multitheory process model in which the effect of autonomous motivation from self-determination theory on physical activity participation is mediated by the adoption of self-regulatory techniques based on control theory. Finnish adolescents (N = 411, aged 17-19) completed a prospective survey including validated measures of the predictors and physic...

Background: Regular physical activity is one of the most important factors in creating, maintaining and promoting health, which is not enough in women with diabetes due to the high prevalence of obesity. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of educational intervention on self-regulation strategies in promoting physical activity in women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: This study was a r...

This paper deals with motion planning for a mobile robot moving on a hilly three dimensional terrain and subjected to strong physical interaction constraints. The main contribution of this paper is a planning method which takes into account the dynamics of the robot, the robot/terrain interactions, the kinematic constraints of the robot, and classical constraints. The basic idea of our method i...

b. ramezani gourab1 and p.foroughe2 1-dept. of physical geography, islamic azad university, rasht branch, iran. 2- dept. of geography and tourism planning, usm, malaysia. * corresponding author?s e-mail: [email protected]