In today's complex engineered systems, comprising a multitude of interacting components, preserving system performance is of utmost importance. The challenge often lies in effectively prioritizing components with the highest potential to compromise system reliability, mainly when human interaction...
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Vigilance refers to the capability of humans to respond accordingly to relevant and unpre- dictable tasks and surrounding environment changes over prolonged periods of time. Identifying vigilance decrements can, therefore, have huge and vital impacts on several operational environments in which a...
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The drivers' distraction plays a crucial role in road safety as it is one of the main impacting causes of road accidents. The phenomenon of distraction encompasses both psychological and environmental factors and, therefore, addressing the complex interplay contributing to human distraction in...
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Background and Objectives This article aims to describe how sustainable procurement of medical devices (MDs) can be implemented in operational projects in the context of developing countries. It also further details how sustainability principles and concepts of value-based procurement can be...
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Offshore wind farms will play a vital role in the global ambition of net zero energy generation. Future offshore wind farms will be larger and further from the coast, meaning that traditional human-based operations and maintenance approaches will become infeasible due to safety, cost, and skills...
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Several real-world problems in engineering and applied science require the selection of sequences that maximize a given reward function. Optimizing over sequences as opposed to sets requires exploring an exponentially larger search space and can become prohibitive in most cases of practical...
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Autonomous exploration is highly challenging in subterranean applications due to the constraints imposed by the nature of the environments (e.g., dead-end branches, unstructured regions, narrow passages and bifurcations). Robots need to constantly balance their exploration objectives with measures...
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We study a range-constrained variant of the multi-UAV target search problem where commercially available UAVs are used for target search in tandem with ground-based mobile recharging vehicles (MRVs) that can travel, via the road network, to meet up with and recharge a UAV. We propose a pipeline for...
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Search and tracking is the problem of locating a moving target and following it to its destination. In this work, we consider a scenario in which the target moves across a large geographical area by following a road network and the search is performed by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)....
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