Robots act upon and perceive the world from a particular perspective. It is important to recognize this relativity to perspective if one is not to be overly demanding in specifyin...
Mechanical systems, of the kinds which are of interest for qualitative reasoning, are characterized by a set of real-valued parameters, each of which is a piecewise continuous fun...
— When problems are present in production, equipment or the process which are critical for organizations, many management personnel and experts have to meet to propose a solution...
— Industrial plants makes a carefully trace of the human intervention on the process. This intervention happens at different points in the history of the facility, since the desi...
Symbolic AI systems typically have difficulty reasoning about motion in continuous environments, such as determining whether a cornering car will clear a close obstacle. Bimodal s...