This paper describes the development of a practical manipulator system. The manipulator requirements dictated by space exploration, the functional elements which meet those require­ ments, and the problems encountered in imple­ menting those requirements are discussed. The paper focuses primarily on the implemen­ tation of the functional elements and the real world problems encountered by the m...

This paper deals with the driving environment perception of cybercars from a vision system. The planification of the trajectory for an Autonomous Guided Vehicle requires to robustly segment the free space around the vehicle to manage an obstacle avoidance task. Opposite to the highways conditions, the urban environment still remains as the most complex environment due to the static scene can no...

The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump Lévy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main result establishes that, when s > 12 , the free boundary is a C 1,α graph in x and t near any regular free boundary point (x0, t0) ∈ ∂{u > φ}. Furthermore, we als...

AbstractThe social world of prisons is typically described as hierarchical in the prison sociological literature where offence type, displays (hegemonic)masculinity and involvement informal economy impact prisoners’ standing. Based on fieldwork interviews (N=181) with men women seven different Norwegian prisons, this article describes prisoner cultures such hierarchies were either absent or lit...

The roles of visual exteroception (information regarding environmental characteristics) and exproprioception (the relation of body segments to the environment) during gait adaptation are not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to determine how visual exteroception regarding obstacle characteristics provided during obstacle crossing modified foot elevation and placement with and with...

micromixers are one of the most crucial components of lab-on-a-chip devices with the intention of mixing and dispersion of reagents like small molecules and particles. the challenge facing micromixers is typically insufficient mixing efficiency in basic designs, which results in longer microchannels. therefore, it is desirable to increase mixing efficiency, in order to decrease mixing length, w...

In this paper we focus on the application of reinforcement learning to obstacle avoidance in dynamic Environments in wireless sensor networks. A distributed algorithm based on reinforcement learning is developed for sensor networks to guide mobile robot through the dynamic obstacles. The sensor network models the danger of the area under coverage as obstacles, and has the property of adoption o...

This short paper focuses on the application of concepts and methods of Spatial Cognition to building analysis. We investigate the close relationship between spatial knowledge and built environment by combining theoretical analysis with user comments and behavioral data. Based on an empirical study in a complex multi-level-building two main aspect of navigational space are considered: architectu...

Firstly, we define an order for differential forms. Secondly, we also define the supersolution and subsolution of the A-harmonic equation and the obstacle problems for differential forms which satisfy theA-harmonic equation, and we obtain the relations between the solutions toA-harmonic equation and the solution to the obstacle problem of the A-harmonic equation. Finally, as an application of t...