Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in military and civil operations is getting popular. One of the challenges in effectively tasking these expensive vehicles is planning the flight routes to monitor the targets. In this work, we aim to develop an algorithm which produces routing plans for a limited number of UAVs to cover maximum number of targets considering their flight range. The...

The aim of this work is to provide a proper framework for the simulation and the optimization of the event building, the on-line third level trigger, and complete event reconstruction processor farm for the future HERA-B experiment. A discrete event, process oriented, simulation developed in concurrent μC++ is used for modelling the farm nodes running with multi-tasking constraints and differen...

This paper discusses a Cooperative Path Planning (CPP) design methodology for multi-vehicle systems and a Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG) algorithm. Three scenarios of multi-vehicle tasking are proposed at the CPP framework. The NTG algorithm is, then, used to generate realtime trajectory for desired vehicle activities. Given system dynamics and constraints, the NTG algorithm first finds ...

This paper discusses a Cooperative Path Planning (CPP) design methodology for multi-vehicle systems and a Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG) algorithm. Three scenarios of multi-vehicle tasking are proposed at the CPP framework. The NTG algorithm is, then, used to generate realtime trajectory for desired vehicle activities. Given system dynamics and constraints, the NTG algorithm first finds ...

Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in military and civil operations is getting popular. One of the challenges in effectively tasking these expensive vehicles is planning the flight routes to monitor the targets. In this work, we aim to develop an algorithm which produces routing plans for a limited number of UAVs to cover maximum number of targets considering their flight range. The...

Although several studies have shown that dual-tasking ability is impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the stage at which this deficit manifests remains unclear. This study investigated if a new paper-and-pencil assessment of dual-tasking ability could distinguish between AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and normal ageing in a sample of 50 people with AD, 49 people with MCI, and 50 healthy a...

The Ada 2005 standard features support for run-time profiles, flexible taskdispatching policies, execution-time clocks and timers, and a unification of concurrency and object-oriented features. Among these new facilities, one of the most significant is the standardization of the Ravenscar tasking profile. This subset of Ada tasking features embodies a deterministic concurrency model inherently ...

INTRODUCTION Along with amnesia, decline of attention control of executive functions is among the earliest symptoms of dementia. Task performance under conditions of divided attention, or dual-tasking, are sensitive indicators. In particular, there is mounting evidence of poor performance of walking and talking simultaneously in patients with Alzheimer’s disease [1]. While the laboratory eviden...