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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Wall-following"”.
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Electrosensory-based Search Strategies In Weakly Electric Fish
… a higher total displacement and preference for wall-following. A subsequent study on the behavioural function of wall-following in the two species suggested that wall-following is used for exploration in weakly electric fish, rather than for protection, and is not an artifact of restricted …
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Bioinspired Robust Underwater Behaviors Using Fluid Flow Sensing
… a wide variety of behaviors such as rheotaxis, wall-following, prey detection, and obstacle and predator avoidance. Currently there are no equivalent engineering analogues that can sense fluid flow perturbation to determine location of obstacles and demonstrate closed loop obstacle avoidance. In …
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Fatigue Microcracking of Composite Material IM7/977-2
… lead to propellant permeation through the tank wall. Transverse matrix cracks in unidirectional wound, or placed, plies can provide a path for permeation of pressurized fluid if the cracks interlink from the interior to the exterior of the tank wall. Following research on an energy based …
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Plan Acquisition Through Intentional Learning in BDI Multi-Agent Systems
… such as target-searching and left-handed wall-following. Learning in both decision strata, single and collective, is tested in a more challenging and socially relevant environment: the Disaster-Rescue problem.
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Circumventing the fuzzy type reduction for autonomous vehicle controller
… and then experimentally measured using a wall-following behaviour, which is the most important action for many autonomous vehicles. The resultant execution time-gain of the proposed technique has reached to 200%. This evaluated with respect to the execution time of the original, …
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Theoretical prediction of drug release in GI tract from spherical matrix systems
… for predicting drug release from CRDDS in vitro following conventional approaches. These models describe drug release from various types of controlled delivery devices for perfect sink conditions. However in a real system (human body) a sink condition may not be applicable. For a CRDDS along with …
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Thermal transient computation for a CTR blanket following a major plasma disruption
… and transient thermal study of the first wall and blanket region of a typical controlled thermonuclear reactor (CTR). Previous studies assumed a neutron wall loading of 1 ~ 5 MW/m², and usually an infinite slab for a blanket region in calculating the transient thermal behavior following a …
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Obstacle Navigation Decision-Making: Modeling Insect Behavior for Robot Autonomy
Robotic exploration is valuable in many practical applications. Even something as simple for a human as lawn-mowing is a nontrivial challenge for robotic controllers. It is possible to build a safe obstacle-edging reflex based on range sensor filtering. However, in some situations, a reflex is …
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Qualitative topological coverage of unknown environments by mobile robots
… cells, where each cell can be covered by a robot following a zigzag pattern. A new coverage path planning algorithm, called topological coverage algorithm, is developed to generate paths from the incomplete topological map/slice decomposition, thus allowing simultaneous exploration and coverage of …
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Optimization of timber-based strengthening techniques for the seismic retrofit of existing masonry buildings
… such timber-based elements to the surface of the walls of a building by using mechanical or adhesive point-to-point connections. The analysed solutions see the use of strong-backs and timber panels combined with membranes and insulation layers to obtain integrated and highly efficient …