The diagnosis of a child with autism has short- and long-term impacts on family functioning. With early diagnosis, the diagnostic process is likely to co-occur with family planning decisions, yet little is known about how parents navigate this process. This study explores family planning decision making process among mothers of young children with autism spectrum disorder in the United States, ...

A major challenge that Australia is facing at all levels of government, like many other countries, is the need for an improved understanding of the planning process, and thus increasing the chances of achieving more sustainable environments. In order to attain this kind of development, changes should be made in several key areas; these changes need to be supported by a clear vision of the futur...

Crisis management is a time-critical task with high uncertainty and high risk. Stress and cognitive overload often result in a set of bias in crisis manager’s situation understanding and information confirming processes, known as “tunnel vision”. Aiming at preventing tunnel vision, we propose an information assistant system which attempts to reduce the information quantity, improve the informat...

In this paper, we introduce a new technique for planning in a world under continuous change. Our approach is to make vision sensitive to relevant changes in the environment that can affect plans and goals. For this purpose, we applied a rationalebased monitor technique to the SHOP hierarchical planner. SHOP generates plan monitors that interact with a vision system and react only to those envir...

This paper describes a framework for vision and motion planning for a mobile robot. The task of the robot is to reach the destination in the minimum time while it detects possible routes by vision. Since visual recognition is computationally expensive and the recognition result includes uncertainty, a trade-o must be considered between the cost of visual recognition and the e ect of information...

To produce even the simplest human-like behaviors, a humanoid robot must be able to see, act, and react, within a tightly integrated behavioral control system. Although there exists a rich body of literature in Computer Vision, Path Planning, and Feedback Control, wherein many critical subproblems are addressed individually, most demonstrable behaviors for humanoid robots do not effectively int...

Due to the high demands on military and commercial applications, development of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) has become increasingly important in recent years. In this paper, we present a vision guided autonomous navigation approach for quadrotor UAVs. A map-based offline path planning technique is developed generate an initial path, followed by waypoints trajectory flight guidance. During n...

Within the context of large-scale symmetry, a study on deep vision servo multi-vision tracking coordination planning for sorting robots was conducted according to problems low recognition accuracy and efficiency in existing robots. In this paper, kinematic model mobile picking manipulator built. Then, kinematics design orwX, Y, Z three-dimensional space carried out, method deriving calculating ...