Navigation through obstacles such as mine fields is an important capability for autonomous underwater vehicles. One way to produce robust behavior is to perform projective planning. However, real-time performance is a critical requirement in navigation. What is needed for a truly autonomous vehicle are robust reactive rules that perform well in a wide variety of situations, and that also achiev...

Each year landmines kill and maim an estimated 26 000 people worldwide. About 10%–40% of these victims are children, most of whom are affected long after the cessation of hostilities. 3 These deaths and injuries are potentially preventable but planning measures are hampered by the lack of data on determinants of landmine injuries in children; consequently mine awareness programmes for children ...

This paper addresses the need for improved sensors for mine clearance operations and humanitarian demining efforts. These operations require an information system that is capable of supporting activities such as planning, training, simulation, execution, documentation and assessment. To achieve this goal the system is best implemented using a service-based architecture, with sensors and other s...

With rapid development of complex networks, it is difficult to only use figures and charts for their management and planning. Visualization technology can offers an effective approach to understand the structure and characteristics of complex networks, so as to mine more valuable information. This paper presents a complex network visualization method, which is based on smoothed-particle hydrody...

Nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide gases together with dust are known as the major pollutants arising during the blasting operations using the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive at the Sungun surface mine, located in the northwest of Iran. The pollutants were monitored during some blasting operations at the mine. It was concluded that the gases and dust clouds initially went up to the ...