Heuristic search algorithms for online POMDP planning have shown great promise in creating successful policies for maximizing agent rewards using heuristics typically focused on reducing the error bound in the agent’s cumulative future reward estimations. However, error bound-based heuristics are less informative in highly uncertain domains requiring long sequences of information gathering, suc...

BACKGROUND Family planning is an important HIV prevention tool for women living with HIV (WLHIV). In Mozambique, the prevalence of HIV among women of reproductive age is 13.1% and the average fertility rate is high. However, family planning and reproductive health for WLHIV are under-addressed in Mozambique. This study explores provider descriptions of reproductive health messages in order to i...

this paper aims to discuss the requirements of safe and smooth trajectory planning of transporter mobile robots to perform non-prehensile object manipulation task. in non-prehensile approach, the robot and the object must keep their grasp-less contact during manipulation task. to this end, dynamic grasp concept is employed for a box manipulation task and corresponding conditions are obtained an...