ANN-Based Decision Making in Station Keeping for Geotechnical Drilling Vessel

An Uncertainty-based Framework to Support Decision-making in Geotechnical Engineering Projects

Construction projects are inherently risky undertakings. They are exposed to uncertainties that can either result in failures or the impediment of the project to achieve some of its objectives. This is particularly true in the case of geotechnical engineering. Uncertainties of ground conditions can adversely affect project time, costs as well as safety on any construction project. Conventional ...

Vision Based Station Keeping and Docking for Floating Robots

This thesis describes a method of vision based station keeping and docking for floating robots. Due to the motion disturbances in the environment, these tasks are important to keep the vehicle stabilized relative to an external reference frame. A vision-based tracking system is used to measure the image deformations, as the vehicle moves with respect to a docking station. A planar surface is ch...

Real-time Vision-based Station Keeping for Underwater Robots

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a control system for automatic vision-based station keeping with an underwater ROV, relative to some visual landmark. First, a region-based tracking system is described that tracks naturally textured landmarks in the image plane, based upon full planar-projective motion models. The implementation of the algorithm is such that it allows ...

Recognition-Primed Decision-Making: Implications for Record-Keeping by Organizations

... the sources of power that are needed in natural settings are usually not analytical at all -the power of intuition, mental simulation, metaphor, and storytelling... intuition enables us to size up a situation quickly ... mental simulation lets us imagine how a course of action might be carried out... metaphor lets us draw on our experience by suggesting parallels between the current situati...

Vision based station keeping and docking for an aerial blimp