Safety guarantee prior to the deployment of robots can be difficult due unexpected disturbances in runtime. This article presents a real-time receding-horizon robust trajectory planning algorithm for nonlinear closed-loop systems, which guarantees safety system under unknown but bounded disturbances. We characterize forward reachable sets (FRSs) based on Hamilton–Jacobi reachability analysis as...

Natural resource management organizations carry out a range of activities to examine possible future conditions and trends as part of their planning process, but the distinct approach of formal horizon scanning is often a missing component of strategic thinking and strategy development in these organizations. Horizon scanning is a process for finding and interpreting early indications of change...

Academic approaches considering demand uncertainty in lot sizing are seldom used practice. Industry typically implements deterministic models and accounts for uncertainties by using a rolling-horizon planning framework with frequent forecast updates. This paper bridges this gap proposing stochastic lot-sizing methodology adapted to processes. Using the martingale model of evolution (MMFE), we a...

This article copes with signal source localization by employing a receding horizon control approach temporal logic planning in the light of single mobile robot. First, is proposed such that task requirements from specifications can be effectively dealt based on product automaton an offline fashion. Second, order to label key nodes automaton, particle filter utilized predict positions as nodes. ...

a linear programming model has been presented for finding an appropriate planning in order to maximize hotel revenue. in this model, a special planning horizon has been considered that includes several busy days of a year. there are several reservation periods that may start a few months earlier. each period of reservation may have different prices and so result different incomes. hotel custome...

This paper analyzes an infinite horizon dynamic duopoly with stochastic demand in which firms face planning costs. In this set-up we derive the following results. First, non-synchronized planning equilibria can only exist if products are strategic substitutes while synchronized planning equilibria can only exist if products are strategic complements. This result is in sharp contrast to the pred...

Ever been surprised by an authorization request for a new procedure or technology you’d never heard of? Like cardiac stents to treat multiple sclerosis? Or autologous mesenchymal stem cells for yet another orthopedic indication? Or fecal transplantation for Crohn’s disease? Ever been surprised by a request for a costly new targeted drug that got FDA approval months sooner than indicated in the ...

Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) optimization using Proportional Hazards Model (PHM) is a kind of maintenance optimization problem in which inspections of a system relevant to its failure rate depending on the age and value of covariates are performed in time intervals. The general approach for constructing a CBM based on PHM for a system is to minimize a long run average cost per unit of time...