Structured Circuit Semantics (SCS) is a formal semantics of robotic languages that can be used to explicitly represent the control behavior of various robotic control systems. Our approach to the design of SCS has been to incorporate the most essential features of other reactive plan execution systems in a compact, yet rich formal semantics. A formal speciication of a reactive plan is essential...

Applications in mobile manipulation require sophisticated motion execution skills to address issues like redundancy resolution, reactive obstacle avoidance, and transitioning between diflerent motion behaviors. The elastic strip framework is an approach to reactive mot ion generation providing an integrated solution to these problems. Novel techniques within the elastic strip framework are pres...

The movement parameters of yellow fin tuna schools were analyzed by means of scanning sonar in tuna purse seine capture situations in the Oman Sea in June 2010. There was significant difference in swimming speed and radial swimming direction between the escaped and captured schools. In escaped cases, the fish schools swam faster with mostly horizontal avoidance behavior to the sound stimuli fro...

Structured Circuit Semantics (SCS) is a formal semantics of robotic languages that can be used to explicitly represent the control behavior of various robotic control systems. Our approach to the design of SCS has been to incorporate the most essential features of other reactive plan execution systems in a compact, yet rich formal semantics. A formal specification of a reactive plan is essentia...

Most of our everyday decisions rely crucially on context: foraging for food in the fridge may be appropriate at home, but not at someone else’s house. Yet the mechanism by which context modulates how we respond to stimuli remains a topic of intense investigation. In order to isolate such decisions experimentally, investigators have employed simple context-based decision-making tasks like the AX...

Decolorization of aqueous solutions containing ionic dyes (Reactive Blue 19 and Acid Black 172) by a TFC commercial polyamide nanofilter (NF) in a spiral wound configuration was studied. The effect of operating parameters including feed concentration (60-180 mg/l), pressure (0.5-1.1 MPa) and pH (6-10) on dye removal efficiency was evaluated. The response surface method (RSM) was utilized for th...

In this paper we propose a new configuration of the wind farm connecting with an electrical grid. The proposed Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) is based on a two stages six-leg matrix converter using to drive a two Doubly Fed Induction Machines operating at different wind speeds. Each Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) is controlled through the rotor currents using the Finite Set Model P...

This paper presents an approach to the optimal method for behavior generation of mobile robot. Recently, a hybrid system that supplements gap between reactive and plan-based approaches by employing a reactive system for lower level control for fast reaction and a planner for higher level for generation of optimal sequence of behaviors has gained popularity. Behavior network structures may gener...

reactive oxygen species (ros)plays an important role in sperm motility. the physiological generation at low concentration induces beneficial effects on sperm functions and plays a significant role in sperm metabolism. meanwhile, the excessive generation of reactive oxygen species can overwhelm protective mechanism and triggers changes in lipid and protein layers of sperm plasma membrane, which ...