Forecasting industrial production is essential for efficient planning by managers. Although there are many statistical and mathematical methods for prediction, the use of intelligent algorithms with desirable features has made significant progress in recent years. The current study compared the accuracy of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Adaptive Nero-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) app...

TO LEAD IS to choose. Choosing commits one’s group to courses of ac ­ tion and to consequences. In 1995 the leaders of the United States Air Force asserted that long-range planning in the Air Force was “broken” and that they would fix it. Doing so requires vision, asense of the evolving environment, and aprocess for link­ ing visions to strategies andtasks. Bureaucracy without vision mistakes a...

This paper describes a system that uses AI planning and representation techniques as the core of a decision support system.* The planning technology is supplemented with other AI and non-AI technologies. The overall system and initial application domain, military operations planning, are described first. We then describe the integration of SIPE-2, a generative planning system, with three indepe...

Introduction In August 2000 the State of Nevada initiated a sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) planning effort when the Governor appointed a state-wide task force with representatives from industry, Native Americans, conservation organizations, land management agencies, legislators and biological professionals. The task force developed an initial strategy that led to the development of six...

This paper presents an integrated task planning and control approach for manipulating a nonholonomic cart by mobile manipulators. The task considered in this study is to manipulate a nonholonomic cart to perform certain tasks such as pushing the cart along a straight line, making a turn at a corner, or tracking a sine wave. The cart manipulation task fully integrates the motion and force planni...

JDMS, Volume 1, Issue 3, August 2004 Page 127-140 © 2004 The Society for Modeling and Simulation International How can computer-aided planning systems deal with the complexities, uncertainties, and rapidly shifting information needed to support air warfare operational planning? This paper uses a hierarchical decomposition of decision-making, coupled to a predictive simulation model that estimat...

The synthesis of force-closure grasps on three–dimensional (3-D) objects is a fundamental issue in robotic grasping and dextrous manipulation. In this paper, a numerical force-closure test is developed based on the concept of distance. With some mild and realistic assumptions, the proposed test criterion is differentiable almost everywhere and its derivative can be calculated exactly. On this b...

The force vector information is essential while collision avoidance planning through tactile feedback in autonomous or teleoperation mode. In this paper, we concentrate on the approach to calculation of the applied force vector at any point of the robot arm and its technical realization. Based on the presented force vector calculation flow, we obtained the experimental results validating the ab...

In today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. The manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. One of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. Most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important fact...