This paper describes a fuzzy control system for the avoidance of moving objects by a robot. The objects move with no type of restriction, varying their velocity and making turns. Due to the complex nature of this movement, it is necessary to realize temporal reasoning with the aim of estimating the trend of the moving object. A new paradigm of fuzzy temporal reasoning, which we call fuzzy tempo...

This article concerns an optimal crowd motion control problem in which the features a structure given by its organization into N groups (participants) each one spatially confined set. The overall consists driving ensemble of sets as close possible to point (the “exit”) while population set minimizes effort subject sweeping dynamics with controlled state dependent velocity drift. In order captur...

In this article, we introduce a new paradigm of control, called hands-off control, which can save energy and reduce CO2 emissions in control systems. A hands-off control is defined as a control that has a much shorter support than the horizon length. The maximum hands-off control is the minimum support (or sparsest) control among all admissible controls. With maximum hands-off control, actuator...

“If the manufacturing sector is to survive over the next two decades, it will have to undergo dramatic changes in technological, environmental, economic, and social terms.” This is the main conclusion of ManuFuture, which is an evaluation of the European manufacturing industry over the next 20 years, funded by the European Commission. Thus, future manufacturing will require higher flexibility, ...

The use of attribute certificates and the concept of mobile policies have been proposed to overcome some of the limitations of the role based access control (RBAC) paradigm and to implement security requirements such as the “originator controlled” (ORCON) policy. Mobile policies are attached to the data that they control and enforced by their execution in trusted servers. In this paper we exten...