Abstract: This paper addresses a real-life stochastic car batching and sequencing problem in the body shop of a vehicle plant. Unlike previous research on similar problems in the paint shop or ...

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A model of the ancient environment suggests a new theory about how some of the first cities in human history were built. The research, published in PLOS One, proposes that the beginnings of urban ...

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Abstract: This article develops a novel online adaptive dynamic programming algorithm with adjustable convergence rate to address the optimal control problem of nonlinear systems. Relaxation factors ...

The (dynamic_rrt_connect) is a fusion of dynamic-RRT algorithm and RT-CONNECT algorithm. It implements: (1) Bidirectional growth of branches, while retaining the original function of dynamic-rrt to ...

Machine learning is, more or less, a way for computers to learn things without being specifically programmed. But how does that actually happen? Most simply: algorithms. We’ve put together a summary ...

In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system was biased against female applicants. In 2016, a ProPublica investigation ...

ABSTRACT: A parallel version of the traditional grid based cost-to-go function generation algorithm used in robot path planning is introduced. The process takes advantage of the spatial layout of an ...