The connection of the tractor to the inactive trailer or motor vehicle causes a motion control problem when turning in the screw, forward or backward movements and high speeds. This is due to the inactive trailer being controlled by the tracking using a physical link that is not affected by the movement. Trailers usually take tracks under these conditions. This phenomenon is called Jack Knife. ...

In this paper we introduce the concept of knowledge granularity and study its in uence on an agent's action selection process. Action selection is critical to an agent performing a task in a dynamic, unpredictable environment. Knowledge representation is central to the agent's action selection process. It is important to study what kind of knowledge the agent should represent and the preferred ...

Action selection, the problem of choosing what to do next, is central to any autonomous agent architecture. We use here a multi-disciplinary approach at the convergence of neuroscience, dynamical system theory and autonomous robotics, in order to propose an efficient action selection mechanism based on a new model of the basal ganglia. We first describe new developments of contraction theory re...

in this paper, stability analysis of walking gaits and robustness analysis are developed for a five-link and four-actuator biped robot. stability conditions are derived by studying unactuated dynamics and using the poincarã© map associated with periodic walking gaits. a stable gait is designed by an optimization process satisfying physical constraints and stability conditions. also, considering...

Stochastic Search and Surveillance Strategies for Mixed Human-Robot Teams Vaibhav Srivastava Mixed human-robot teams are becoming increasingly important in complex and information rich systems. The purpose of the mixed teams is to exploit the human cognitive abilities in complex missions. It has been evident that the information overload in these complex missions has a detrimental effect on the...

Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Advanced manufacturing technologies provide a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. Proper decision making in pre-implement and implementation of Robot technology as one of the types of AMT plays an importa...

Perception triggered response behavior together with the selection of the appropriate environmental cues can properly guide the robot towards its goal. But often landmarks are difficult to be recognised by the robot; these difficulties are increased due to the morphology of the robot and its movements. Dynamic orientation of the camera’s parameters, fixing the attention of the visual system on ...

Contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and itsstrongly effect on firm`s performance. Because a significant amount of auniversity`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is animportant problem for the financial status of universities. Since Contractor selectionis a multi-criteria decision making problem (MCDM), lots of methods proposed ...

In this letter, we consider a distributed submodular maximization problem for multi-robot systems when attacked by adversaries. One of the major challenges is to increase resilience against failures or attacks. This particularly important under attack as there no central point command that can detect, mitigate, and recover from Instead, system must coordinate effectively overcome adversarial wo...