Navigating an autonomous agent outdoors can be a challenging task. As a basis for this research, the autonomous agent in question is that of an autonomous robotic lawnmower. Mowing a lawn can be a difficult, tedious, and sometimes hazardous chore for the human operator. The goal of this paper is to report on ongoing research of using the visual property of texture to design a system which gives...

An accurate description of the mechanical environment around chondrocytes embedded within their dense extracellular matrix (ECM) is essential for the study of mechano-signal transduction mechanism(s) in explant experiments. New methods have been developed to determine the inhomogeneous strain distribution throughout the depth of the ECM during compression (Schinagl et al., 1996, Annals of Biome...

Głównym celem badań było rozpoznanie wiedzy kadry pedagogicznej młodzieżowych ośrodków wychowawczych (MOW) na temat uzależnień nieletnich od substancji oraz behawioralnych, jak i sposobów reagowania przez nich doświadczane przejawy uzależnień. Badania przeprowadzono w strategii jakościowej. Dane zebrano za pomocą wywiadów pogłębionych przeprowadzonych z 17 pracownikami trzech losowo wybranych (...

The triphasic constitutive law [Lai, Hou and Mow (1991)] has been shown in some special 1D cases to successfully model the deformational and transport behaviors of charged-hydrated, porous-permeable, soft biological tissues, as typified by articular cartilage. Due to nonlinearities and other mathematical complexities of these equations, few problems for the deformation of such materials have ev...

Nowadays, production systems seek to integrate production and maintenance activities. An effective maintenance plan can improve maintenance stability and system performance. Machines that stop for repairing operation impose a high cost on the system. On the other hand, there are always some intangible situations during a production process in which repairing activities can be carried out. If th...