With expanding environmental and climate change regulatory frameworks, the fossil-based baseload generation is forced to decline, thus making room for more based on renewable other carbon-free energy sources. This paper deals with a number of controversial issues open questions concerning growing penetration sources into power systems, often without due care impacts variable as compared convent...

Many of the most promising applications for mobile robots require very high reliability. The current generation of mobile robots is, for the most part, highly unreliable. The few mobile robots that currently demonstrate high reliability achieve this reliability at a high financial cost. In order for mobile robots to be more widely used, it will be necessary to find ways to provide high mission ...