Autonomous vehicles have been demonstrated able to reach the end of a 220 miles off-road trail (in the DARPA Grand Challenge), and1 negotiate traffic and obey traffic rules (in the DARPA Urban Challenge), but no one ever tested their capabilities on a long, intercontinental trip and stressed their systems for 3 months in a row on extreme conditions. This invited paper presents the vehicles that...

This document presents a new exciting effort in the intelligent vehicles arena which is going to set a new milestone in the history of vehicular robotics. Autonomous vehicles have been demonstrated able to reach the end of a 220 miles off-road trail (in the DARPA Grand Challenge), to negotiate traffic and obey traffic rules (in the DARPA Urban Challenge), but no one ever tested their capabiliti...

paragangliomas are neoplasms of neural crest origin. in the head and neck, they uncommonly involve the larynx. the distinction between paragangliomas and other neuroendocrine tumors can be difficult. precise diagnosis is important in order to optimize patient treatment. diagnosis relies mostly on histopathologic examination followed by immunohistochemistry. here we report a 77-year-old woman wi...

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On Fusion of Multiple Objectives for UAV Search & Track Path Optimization..... 27 Vesselin P. Jilkov, and X. Rong Li, University of New Orleans, USA T2T and M2T Association with Combined Hypotheses ............................................. 40 Javier Areta,Yaakov Bar-Shalom, and Krishna R. Pattipati, University of Connecticut, USA A Market-based Approach to Sensor Management ...................

Before its collapse, Kosovo's healthcare system was an integrated part of the Former Yugoslav Republics System (known as relatively well advanced for its time). Standstill had begun in the last decade of the twentieth century as the result of political disintegration of the former state. The enthusiasm of the healthcare professionals and the people of Kosovo that at the end of the conflict heal...

Flight test results and lessons learned are presented for a helicopter UAV low-altitude navigation and landing system. Results are given for both urban and natural settings. The navigation component uses a quasi-3D A* approach to route planning that enables maneuver through complex terrain using real-time sensor data. The landing component performs landings to sites that it determines to be saf...