01503oam 2200457Ia 450 991070091350332120110919162157.0(CKB)5470000002413896(OCoLC)697978368(EXLCZ)99547000000241389620110122d2011 ua 0engurmn||||a||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierH-1B visa program[electronic resource] reforms are needed to minimize the risks and costs of current program : report to congressional committees[Washington, D.C.] :U.S. Govt. Accountability Office,[2011]1 online resource (v, 109 pages) illustrations, mapsTitle from cover screen (viewed Jan. 22, 2011)."January 2011.""GAO-11-26."Includes bibliographical references.H-1B visa program VisasEconomic aspectsUnited StatesForeign workersEconomic aspectsUnited StatesManpower policyUnited StatesLabor marketUnited StatesVisasEconomic aspectsForeign workersEconomic aspectsManpower policyLabor marketDIDDIDDIDOCLCQGPOBOOK9910700913503321H-1B visa program3426692UNINA03442oam 2200469 450 991029947590332120190911112726.03-319-03707-210.1007/978-3-319-03707-3(OCoLC)869937958(MiFhGG)GVRL6XXD(EXLCZ)99255000000119950320131126d2014 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrPlanning and decision making for aerial robots /Yasmina Bestaoui Sebbane1st ed. 2014.Cham, Switzerland :Springer,2014.1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) illustrationsIntelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering,2213-8986 ;71"ISSN: 2213-8986.""ISSN: 2213-8994 (electronic)."3-319-03706-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Motion Planning -- 3 Deterministic Decision Making -- 4 Decision Making Under Uncertainty -- 5 Multi Aerial Robot Planning -- 6 General Conclusions -- Index.This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of planning and decision making for aerial robots. An aerial robot is the ultimate form of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, an aircraft endowed with built-in intelligence, requiring no direct human control and able to perform a specific task. It must be able to fly within a partially structured environment, to react and adapt to changing environmental conditions and to accommodate for the uncertainty that exists in the physical world. An aerial robot can be termed as a physical agent that exists and flies in the real 3D world, can sense its environment and act on it to achieve specific goals. So throughout this book, an aerial robot will also be termed as an agent.   Fundamental problems in aerial robotics include the tasks of spatial motion, spatial sensing and spatial reasoning. Reasoning in complex environments represents a difficult problem. The issues specific to spatial reasoning are planning and decision making. Planning deals with the trajectory algorithmic development based on the available information, while decision making determines priorities and evaluates potential environmental uncertainties.   The issues specific to planning and decision making for aerial robots in their environment are examined in this book and categorized as follows: motion planning, deterministic decision making, decision making under uncertainty, and finally multi-robot planning. A variety of techniques  are presented in this book, and a number of relevant case studies are examined. The topics considered in this book are multidisciplinary in nature and lie at the intersection of Robotics, Control Theory, Operational Research and Artificial Intelligence.International series on intelligent systems, control and automation--science and engineering ;volume 71.Drone aircraftRoboticsDrone aircraft.Robotics.629.130924Bestaoui Sebbane Yasminaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut871301MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910299475903321Planning and Decision Making for Aerial Robots1945050UNINA