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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Human safety"”.
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Improving Human Safety through Integrated Autonomous Motion Planning
… heavy equipment or moving objects. To improve human safety in these scenarios, visual feedback is recommended to enhance a person’s situational awareness and reduce the number of collisions. Previous work on human-centric approaches have used either global planning around static obstacles or …
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Human safety and shark conservation: an analysis of surfer risk perceptions and attitudes towards shark management
South Africa has a history of human conflict with sharks and shark safety management. Management of this conflict differs throughout the country, with Cape Town opting for a non-lethal approach in the form of the Shark Spotters programme, and Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) opting for a lethal approach using …
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Resilient operations of smart electricity networks under security and reliability failures
… in severe consequences for economic activity, human safety and national security. Recent incidents suggest that risk of blackouts due to cyber-security attacks and extreme weather events is steadily increasing in many regions of the world.
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Synthesis and Design of a Bimodal Rotary Series Elastic Actuator
… developed to eliminate the compromise between human safety and robot performance. Rigid actuators can be dangerous to humans within a robot's workspace due to impacts or pinning scenarios. To increase safety, elastic elements can soften impacts and allow for escape should pinning occur. …
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Towards Safety-Assured Environments of Autonomous Robots via Intent Expressive Autonomy
This work focuses on improving the safety of human-robot coexistence via intent expressive autonomy. Intent expression between robots and humans is crucial for developing autonomous robots and will enhance human safety. Our research investigated intent expressive autonomy with …
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Secure Communication Networks for Connected Vehicles
… ubiquitous nature and direct correlation to human safety. As part of this thesis, we look at deploying a practical solution to adopt a secure large-scale vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication architecture. Then, we also try to analyze and detect vulnerabilities in vehicle-to-grid …
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A systematic approach to measuring the social behavior of bottlenose dolphins
… studies, pseudo-scientific inquiries into human-dolphin communication, and longterm field studies. Subsequent chapters illustrate use of systematic methodologies to better understand bottlenose dolphin social relations. Samuels and Gifford adapted a quantitative technique from primate …
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Comparative of Flammable and Toxic Gas Sensing behavior for Rare-Earth Elements Substituted Cobalt based Spinel Ferrites
… in households and high flammability to protect human safety. Therefore, in this research work, we present a variety of cobalt-based spinel ferrites doped with 4f electron rare-earth ions to be used as flammable gas sensors. These spinel ferrites were fabricated following a glycol hydrothermal …
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EEG-based brain-computer interface for human-robot collaboration
… robots is to work collaboratively with humans. Collaborative robots must be able to communicate with human collaborators intelligently and seamlessly. However, industrial robots in prevalence are not good at understanding human intentions and decisions. We propose to develop human-robot …
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Flammability traits of fynbos species with different post-fire regeneration strategies
… avoided to reduce fire-risk and thus increase human safety.
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Safety culture in oil and gas : factors that contribute to cultures of non-report
… The purpose of the study was to determine what human, workplace/organizational, and external factors contribute to the presence of a culture of non-report within contractor organizations that provide construction and technical services in Alberta’s oil and gas sector. The participant …
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The design of a decision support system for supply chain risk management
… supply chain could be catastrophic to business, human safety, market competitiveness, and even national and international economies. It is therefore imperative that an a priori assessment of the factors that pose a risk to the supply chain be conducted and contingency plans developed at …
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Route Optimization for Automated Bridge Inspection with Genetic Algorithm
… the process of bridge inspection will improve human safety and reduce time and money allocated to bridge inspections. To do this, we attack the problem of minimizing and balancing routes for a team of robots during a bridge inspection task. In this thesis, we present a GA with a new …
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Die wetenskapsteoretiese grondslae van die verkeersveiligheidsopvoedkunde
… research is: "What is the 'place' of traffic safety education within the epistemological area of the science of education?" The primary aim of this research has been to determine, by means of scientific-theoretical reflection, whether traffic safety education is an applied science within the …
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Precision Robotics with Mid-Weight Hardware and Software: A Swerve Drive Implementation
… and reducing error? This question impacts the safety of future systems, as robotic error at its best can mean a fully leveraged and helpful system, and at its worst can mean anything on the order of property damage to reduced quality of human safety. This paper explores an advanced robotic …
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Trajectory Tracking Control of Unmanned Ground Vehicles using an Intermittent Learning Algorithm
Traffic congestion and safety has become a major issue in the modern world's commute. Congestion has been causing people to travel billions of hours more and to purchase billions of gallons of fuel extra which account to congestion cost of billions of dollars. Autonomous driving vehicles have been …
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Integration of Data Quality, Kinetics and Mechanistic Modelling into Toxicological Assessment of Cosmetic Ingredients
… The assessment of chemicals with regard to human safety is difficult but nevertheless of high importance. Beside clinical studies, which are restricted to potential pharmaceuticals only, most toxicity data relevant for regulatory decision-making are based on in vivo data. Due to the ban on …
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Economic impacts and analysis methods of extreme precipitation estimates for eastern Colorado
Dams are designed to store water and to insure human safety and as such they must withstand, in their lifetimes, any extreme precipitation event in their drainage basin. Correct estimation of this event is critical because on one hand it must provide an adequate level of safety to not occur, but it …
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SERUM AMYLOID A IN RUMINANTS: DIAGNOSTIC VALUE AND FOOD CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENT
… Serum Amyloid A, focussing on its value as safety marker in farm animals. SAA can be considered as a natural anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory agent and local expression of SAA, at the site of the initial acute phase reaction, could protect against the deleterious effects of …
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