1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784208003321

Autore

Snyder Herbert

Titolo

Small change, big problems [[electronic resource] ] : detecting and preventing financial misconduct in your library / / Herbert Snyder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : American Library Association, 2006

ISBN

0-8389-9835-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

025.1/1

Soggetti

Library finance

Fraud - Prevention

Fraud investigation

Libraries - Corrupt practices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographic references (p. 141-142) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fraud : how it occurs in organizations and why libraries are susceptible -- Internal control : what it is and why libraries need it -- Common weaknesses in your library's internal control system : how to recognize and correct them -- Change management and fraud prevention : allowing the improvements you make to work -- Specific types of fraud : understanding, detecting, and preventing them -- Uncovering fraud : techniques for your library to use -- If fraud happens : dealing with the fallout -- A closing thought : getting what you pay for in fraud prevention.

Sommario/riassunto

Fraud requires three conditions: financial need, rationalization, and opportunity. Lax or nonexistent financial management, along with an "it can't happen here" attitude, create the quintessential fraud opportunity waiting to happen in many libraries. This hands-on guide discusses the unique vulnerabilities of libraries, especially as their assets grow. From daily book fines to budgets in six or seven figures, libraries offer ample opportunities for the attentive thief, often someone in a position of trust. Proactively putting financial controls into the library can remove a source of temptati



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254315003321

Titolo

Robot Operating System (ROS) : The Complete Reference  (Volume 2) / / edited by Anis Koubaa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-54927-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 655 p. 344 illus., 256 illus. in color.)

Collana

Studies in Computational Intelligence, , 1860-949X ; ; 707

Disciplina

629.892

Soggetti

Robotics

Automation

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Robotics and Automation

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Model Predictive Control for Trajectory Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using ROS -- Design of Fuzzy Logic Controllers to ROS-based UAVs -- Flying Multiple UAVs Using ROS -- SkiROS -- A skill-based robot control architecture on top of ROS -- Control of Mobile Robots using ActionLib -- Parametric Identification of the Dynamics of Mobile Robots and Its Application for the Tuning of Controllers in ROS -- ROSLink: Bridging ROS with the Internet-of-Things for Cloud Robotics -- A ROS Package for Dynamic Bandwidth Management in Multi-Robot Systems -- An autonomous companion UAV for the SpaceBot Cup competition 2015. .

Sommario/riassunto

This second volume is a continuation of the successful first volume of this Springer book, and as well as addressing broader topics it puts a particular focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Robot Operating System (ROS). Consisting of three types of chapters: tutorials, cases studies, and research papers, it provides comprehensive additional material on ROS and the aspects of



developing robotics systems, algorithms, frameworks, and applications with ROS. ROS is being increasingly integrated in almost all kinds of robots and is becoming the de-facto standard for developing applications and systems for robotics. Although the research community is actively developing applications with ROS and extending its features, amount of literature references is not representative of the huge amount of work being done. The book includes 19 chapters organized into six parts: Part 1 presents the control of UAVs with ROS, while in Part 2, three chapters deal with control of mobile robots. Part 3 provides recent work toward integrating ROS with Internet, cloud and distributed systems. Part 4 offers five case studies of service robots and field experiments. Part 5 presents signal-processing tools for perception and sensing, and lastly, Part 6 introduces advanced simulation frameworks. The diversity of topics in the book makes it a unique and valuable reference resource for ROS users, researchers, learners and developers. .