One of the main challenges in human-swarm interactions is the construction of suitable abstractions that make an entire robot team amenable to human control. For such abstractions to be useful, they need to scale gracefully as the number of robots increases. In this work, we consider the use of time-varying density functions to externally influence a robot swarm. Density functions abstract away...

ntroduction: electrocautery device is one of the most widely used electronic devices in operating rooms despite its advantages in operations, production risks such as the halo of smoke above the operating position. the smoke with hazardous substances,cause to transmitting hiv, hpv and hepatitis and complications such as respiratory distress, nausea and vomiting, eye irritation, headache, and so...

since it was first diagnosed in 1914 in marrakesh, schistosomiasis has been a public health problem in morocco for decades. a national control program launched in 1982 has led to a considerable reduction in the incidence and morbidity associated with the disease. consequently, the program has shifted from disease control to an elimination process launched in 1994. this process aimed to eliminat...

Team ARAIBO (Advanced Robotics with Artificial Intelligence for Ball Operation) has taken part in RoboCup since 1999. Even though we could not get the top three positions in Four-legged Robot League, we have proposed several novel issues such as jumping heading, uniform Monte Carlo localization, dynamic programming, memory squeeze by strategy maps and so forth. We always tried to introduce theo...

R oboCup was created in 1996 by a group of Japanese, American, and European artificial intelligence and robotics researchers with a formidable, visionary long-term challenge: By 2050 a team of robot soccer players will beat the human World Cup champion team. At that time — the mid 1990s — there were very few effective mobile robots, and the Honda P2 humanoid robot had just been presented to the...

Research teams are the fundamental social unit of science, and yet there is currently no model that describes their basic property: size. In most fields, teams have grown significantly in recent decades. We show that this is partly due to the change in the character of team size distribution. We explain these changes with a comprehensive yet straightforward model of how teams of different sizes...

Most of the straight-forward learning approaches in cooperative robotics imply for each learning robot a state space growth exponential in the number of team members. To remedy the exponentially large state space, we propose to investigate a less demanding cooperation mechanism—i.e., various levels of awareness—instead of communication. We define awareness as the perception of other robots loca...

The amount of data collected and used by companies has grown rapidly in size over the last decade. Business leaders are now using Business Intelligence (BI) systems to make effective business decisions against large amounts of data. The growth in the size of data has been a major challenge for Database Administrators (DBAs). The increase in the number and size of databases at the speed they hav...

In the event of an earthquake or fire, search and rescue efforts may be delayed until it is safe for humans to enter the area. Instead of allowing that time to be completely wasted, a team of robots could enter in advance to create maps and collect images and locations of interest to the rescue team, so that the human team may plan their approach once it is safe for them to enter. In a disaster...