Abstract The theoretical bases of optimal tracking systems synthesis are considered. main purpose such is to keep the error between actual and desired outputs system at a low level with minimal energy consumption. This concept appealing fact that vast majority control solve problems without regard expediency using internal resources itself. task an automated guided vehicle move from one point a...

Path-following methods for primal-dual active set strategies requiring a regularization parameter are introduced. Existence of a path and its differentiability properties are analyzed. Monotonicity and convexity of the primal-dual path value function are investigated. Both feasible and infeasible approximations are considered. Numerical path following strategies are developed and their efficien...

Inspired by the previous work of Aicardi et al.[1] a path following controller for underactuated planar vehicles is designed by adopting a polar-like kinematic model of the system. The solution proposed does not generally guarantee null asymptotic path following error, but only its boundedness below an adjustable upper threshold. However, knowledge of the path curvature is not necessary, thus r...

We introduce a novel semantic representation formalism, Almost Flat Functional semantics (AFF), which is designed as an intelligent compromise between linguistically motivated predicate/argument semantics and ad hoc engineering solutions based on flat feature/value lists; the central idea is to tag each semantic element with the functional marking which most closely surrounds it. We argue that ...

The Registro Informatizado de Enfermedad TromboEmbólica (RIETE Registry) is an ongoing, international, prospective registry of consecutive patients with acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) designed to gather and analyze data on treatment patterns and outcomes in patients with acute VTE. It started in Spain in 2001, and 6 years later the database was translated into English with the aim to expand...

BACKGROUND Efforts to improve quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are a national priority. To date, there have been few studies that have prospectively evaluated hospital quality improvement (QI) interventions. METHODS AND RESULTS Using hospitals in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) ACTION Registry-GWTG, a cluster randomized trial of the effectiv...

In this paper, we present a novel solution for a path following problem in partially-known static environments. Given linearized error dynamic equations, model predictive control (MPC) is employed to produce a sequence of angular velocities. Since the forward velocity of the robot has to be adapted to environmental constraints and robot dynamics while the robot is following a path, we propose a...

This paper describes the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), which is designed as an alternative to current proprietary disk image formats. AFF offers two significant benefits. First, it is more flexible because it allows extensive metadata to be stored with images. Second, AFF images consume less disk space than images in other formats (e.g., EnCase images). This paper also describes the Advanced ...

We study the existential closures of several propositional languages L considered recently as target languages for knowledge compilation (KC), namely the incomplete fragments KROM-C, HORN-C, K/H-C, renH-C, AFF, and the corresponding disjunction closures KROM-C[∨], HORN-C[∨], K/H-C[∨], renH-C[∨], and AFF[∨]. We analyze the queries, transformations, expressiveness and succinctness of the resultin...

In this study, by recognizing geographical location changes of the sun-path diagram, we present a selection of sustainable architectural guidelines that influence the climatic element of sunshine. For this purpose, after the introduction of triple zones of the earth in terms of how the sun is exposed(include:Tropical, temperate and polar), the function of the earth's curvature to create geograp...