Mobile robots have important applications in high speed, rough-terrain scenarios. In these scenarios, unexpected and hazardous situations can occur that require rapid hazard avoidance maneuvers. At high speeds, there is limited time to perform re-planning based on detailed vehicle and terrain models. Furthermore, detailed models often do not accurately predict the robot’s performance due to mod...

Most studies that compare price and quantity controls for greenhouse gas emissions under uncertainty find that price mechanisms perform substantially better. In these studies, the benefits from reducing emissions are proportional to the level of reductions, and such linear benefits strongly favor price policies (Weitzman 1974). Catastrophic damages, however, challenge that intuition as conseque...

We show that when a meaningful proportion of firms in an economy engage in tax avoidance strategies, the covariance between a firm’s cash flow and the market cash flows increases, thereby increasing a firm’s cost of capital. This negative externality is imposed on all firms in the economy, not just tax-avoiding firms. The negative externality results regardless of the level of uncertainty assoc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Research suggests that individuals high in Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) have information processing biases, which may explain the close relationship between IU and worry. Specifically, high IU individuals show an attentional bias for uncertainty, and negatively interpret uncertain information. However, evidence of a memory bias for uncertainty among high IU individu...

We present decentralized collision avoidance algorithms for quadrotor swarms operating under uncertain state estimation. Our approach exploits the differential flatness property and feedforward linearization to approximate dynamics performs reciprocal avoidance. account uncertainty in position velocity by formulating constraints as chance constraints, which describe a set of velocities that avo...

Human purchasing behavior is affected by many influential factors. Culture at macro-level and personality at microlevel influence consumer purchasing behavior. People of different cultures tend to accept the values of their own group and consequently have different purchasing behavior. Also, people in the same culture have some differences in their purchases which can be described by their pers...

Websites contain multiple visual stimuli. The visual complexes presented on webpages result in diverse levels of information uncertainty (IU) and induce viewers’ perceptive and cognitive responses (Eroglu, Machleit, & Davis, 2003). The inclination of one’s uncertainty avoidance (UA) relates to his/her emotional responses and adapts the information uncertainty in a contrary direction. (Marcus, 2...

High comorbidity between psychological disorders causes attention to the mechanisms responsible for this comorbidity and common cognitive factors involved in these disorders. These are known as transdiagniostic factors. Similarity evidence and high comorbidity between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) introduce them as neighboring disorders. The purpose ...