Increasing autonomy in publically owned services

Mission Plan Recovery for Increasing Vehicle Autonomy

Autonomy for autonomous vehicles is achieved at the level of decision making. This paper discusses the lack of autonomous decision making in current unmanned vehicle platforms. Although current unmanned vehicles are often termed as autonomous, they rely on the communications and decisions established with and by the operator. In order to achieve this autonomy during mission without requiring op...

Forced to be free? Increasing patient autonomy by constraining it

It is universally accepted in bioethics that doctors and other medical professionals have an obligation to procure the informed consent of their patients. Informed consent is required because patients have the moral right to autonomy in furthering the pursuit of their most important goals. In the present work, it is argued that evidence from psychology shows that human beings are subject to a n...

Increasing Autonomy of Learning Sensorimotor Transformations with Dynamic Neural Fields

In this paper, we introduce a neuraldynamic architecture that enables autonomous learning of sensory-motor mappings in a closed behavioral loop. Dynamic neural fields ensure stability of perceptual and motor representations, a neural-dynamic representation of the condition-of-satisfaction autonomously terminates the current action and enables activation of the next action, triggering a transien...

Public services , increasing returns , and equilibrium dynamics

This paper is concerned with casting o! the standard assumption } the production function displays socially constant returns to scale } in a simple growth model with public inputs. In the model, public services work as a source of utility and as an input to production. Making use of the global bifurcation technique, we show that the model can generate a whole spectrum of interesting dynamics, w...

Increasing private delivery of publicly funded services?