In smart factories, several mobile and autonomous robots are being utilized in warehouses to reduce overhead operating costs. this context, paper presents a consensus-based fault-resilient intelligent mechanism called Consensual Fault-Resilient Behavior (CFRB). The proposed approach is based on three hierarchical plans: imposition, negotiation, consensus. Fault resilience achieved using the col...

It is accustomed to call robust design a design that is resilient to noise. A product could be designed to be robust by methods such as Taguchi's (1987). The idea is to manipulate the design parameters that could be controlled by designers to minimize the effect of the noise on the planned behavior in the designated environment. We are concerned with a broader perspective of robustness, one tha...

Experimental models of depression often entail exposing a rodent to a stressor and subsequently characterizing changes in learning and anhedonia, which may reflect symptoms of human depression. Importantly, not all people, and not all laboratory rats, exposed to stressors develop depressed behavior; these "resilient" individuals are the focus of our review. Herein we describe research from the ...

The erosion of a set in Euclidean space by a radius r > 0 is the subset of X consisting of points at distance ≥ r from the complement of X. A set is resilient to erosion if it is similar to its erosion by some positive radius. We give a somewhat surprising characterization of resilient sets, consisting in one part of simple geometric constraints on convex resilient sets, and, in another, a corr...

The main construction for resilient functions uses linear error-correcting codes; a resilient function constructed in this way is said to be linear. It has been conjectured that if there exists a resilient function, then there exists a linear function with the same parameters. In this note, we construct innnite classes of non-linear resilient functions from the Kerdock and Preparata codes. We a...

IEEE is currently conducting an effort to standardize a full duplex, spatial reuse, ring network architecture, called the Resilient Packet Ring (IEEE P802.17). We discuss the relationship between spatial reuse and head of line blocking in such a ring. An algorithm that schedules packets individually based on destination address is outlined. We have written a model of the RPR architecture in the...