As a part of routine oesophageal HDR Brachytherapy procedure, treatment planning takes about 45 minutes while patients are under light sedation. Some patients may suffer gagging and/or spasms before the 90-minute brachytherapy procedure complete, and the treatment may need to be aborted. A pre-prepared plan generated before patient’s sedation may reduce the brachytherapy procedure time by 40 mi...

The planning process is central to goal-directed behaviour in any task that requires the organization of a series of actions aimed at achieving a goal. Although the planning process has been investigated thoroughly, relatively little is known about how this process emerges and evolves during childhood. In this paper we describe three reinforcement learning models of planning, in the Tower of Lo...

O Plan is a command planning and control architecture which has an open modular structure intended to allow experimentation on or replacement of various components The research is seeking to isolate functionality that may be generally required in a number of applications and across a number of di erent planning scheduling and control systems This paper describes the way in which plan constraint...

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning is a popular approach that cuts down on the classical planning search space by relying on a given hierarchical library of domain control knowledge. This provides an intuitive methodology for specifying high-level instructions on how robots and agents should perform tasks, while also giving the planner enough flexibility to choose the lower-level steps an...

Background This study aimed to examine Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) impact on employee job satisfaction.   Methods The study presents a case study over six years following the implementation of the SCQM programme in a public hospital. A validated questionnaire was used to measure employees’ job satisfaction. The impact of the intervention was measured by comparing the pre-i...

While learners’ ability to speak academic language develops over time in content-based programs, the development of their nonacademic language appears to lag behind. Students’ speaking in content-based (CB) classrooms is confined to an academic discourse style. In the researchers’ point of view, the gap of less amount of nonacademic speaking can be bridged by the application of the conceptual f...

Planning is the most generic AI technique to generate intelligent behaviour for virtual actors, in computer animation or computer games. In the animation domain, planning capabilities will consist in finding a right sequence of actions that let an agent achieve pre-defined goals. Each action generated can be played in the environment to produce an animation. Hence entire animations can be gener...

The problem of planning for a robot that operates in environments containing large number objects, taking actions to move itself through the world as well change state is known task and motion (TAMP). TAMP problems contain elements discrete planning, discrete–continuous mathematical programming, continuous thus cannot be effectively addressed by any these fields directly. In this article, we de...

Abstract This paper proposes a robotic manipulation task relaxation method applied to and motion planning framework adapted from the literature. The consists of defining regions interest instead end-effector pose, which can potentially increase robot’s redundancy with respect task. Tasks are relaxed by controlling distance target plane while respecting suitable constraints in task-space. We for...