The task of gripping has been identified as the rate-limiting step in development tree-fruit harvesting systems. There is, however, no set universally adopted ‘specifications’ with standardized measurement procedures for characterization gripper performance harvest soft tree fruit. A metrics were defined evaluation end effectors used based on (i) laboratory-based trials using termed ‘picking ar...

Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder present with a heterogeneous mix of features beyond the core symptoms of the disorder. These features can be emotional, cognitive or behavioral. Behavioral symptoms often include self-injury, and this may take the form of repetitive skin-picking. The prevalence of skin-picking disorder in Autism is unknown. Skin-picking may lead to significant medical and ...

Order picking is a labour-intensive operation and so it represents significant costs, with any underperformance leading to high operational cost for the whole supply chain. Hence, the objective of the present work is to assess and restructure the storage assignment in the picking area and the order picking process (namely the routing method) in order to enhance the order picking process of Luis...

Individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a genetic disorder caused by mutations to the q11-13 region on chromosome 15, commonly show severe skin-picking behaviors that can cause open wounds and sores on the body. To our knowledge, however, no studies have examined the potential neural mechanisms underlying these behaviors. Seventeen individuals with PWS, aged 6-25 years, who showed severe ...

In the last lecture, we introduced code concatenation, where we compose an outer code Cout with an inner code Cin. We derived the Zyablov bound by picking Cout on the Singleton bound and Cin on the GV bound. We also presented a polynomial time construction of a code that achieves the Zyablov bound (and hence, an asymptotically good code). A somewhat unsatisfactory aspect of this construction wa...

Order picking is the problem of collecting a set of products in a warehouse in a minimum amount of time. It is currently a major bottleneck in supply-chain because of its cost in time and labor force. This article presents two exact and effective algorithms for this problem. Firstly, a sparse formulation in mixedinteger programming is strengthened by preprocessing and valid inequalities. Second...