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View article: Path-Based Sensors: Will the Knowledge of Correlation in Random Variables Accelerate Information Gathering?
Path-Based Sensors: Will the Knowledge of Correlation in Random Variables Accelerate Information Gathering? Open
Effective communication is crucial for deploying robots in mission-specific tasks, but inadequate or unreliable communication can greatly reduce mission efficacy, for example in search and rescue missions where communication-denied conditi…
View article: Control and Dynamic Motion Planning for a Hybrid Air-Underwater Quadrotor: Minimizing Energy Use in a Flooded Cave Environment
Control and Dynamic Motion Planning for a Hybrid Air-Underwater Quadrotor: Minimizing Energy Use in a Flooded Cave Environment Open
We present a dynamic path planning algorithm to navigate an amphibious rotor craft through a concave time-invariant obstacle field while attempting to minimize energy usage. We create a nonlinear quaternion state model that represents the …
View article: Mathematics Education in the Context of certain classical Debates in Philosophy and Mathematics
Mathematics Education in the Context of certain classical Debates in Philosophy and Mathematics Open
The paper presents some illustrative turns in the history of the interactions between philosophy, logic, mathematics, and mathematical education since the 16th century. The underlying problem could be called the Aristotelian problem. Arist…
View article: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels
PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels Open
Computing kinodynamically feasible motion plans and repairing them on-the-fly as the environment changes is a challenging, yet relevant problem in robot-navigation. We propose a novel online single-query sampling-based motion re-planning a…
View article: Hegel, Peirce and us
Hegel, Peirce and us Open
Historically, our theme is situated within the triangle of three of Kant's students: Hegel (1770-1831), Bolzano (1781-1848) and Peirce (1839-1914). All three wanted to change Kant's strict separation of philosophy and science by developing…
View article: Some Short and Important Explications about Semiotics
Some Short and Important Explications about Semiotics Open
That language is essential to the human nature has never been doubted. However, nowadays it becomes more and more obvious that language is not enough to characterize our destinations, because the relationship between nature and society see…
View article: WHY SHOULD WE SPEAK ABOUT A COMPLEMENTARITY OF SENSE AND REFERENCE?
WHY SHOULD WE SPEAK ABOUT A COMPLEMENTARITY OF SENSE AND REFERENCE? Open
Until around 1800, Western philosophy believed that there were two types of conception in the world: the mental and the physical. Hence the extensive discussions about the analytical and synthetic knowledge that dominated the philosophy of…
View article: About Complementarity
About Complementarity Open
Niels Bohr, around 1930, when he tried to describe some processes in quantum physics, created the term ‘complementarity’. Bohr believed in the general epistemological and metaphysical significance of this principle. Since then several auth…
View article: What is the Difference Between a Definition and a Concept?
What is the Difference Between a Definition and a Concept? Open
Definitions are formulated in order to draw conclusions and to solve technical problems. Tinkering around as long as it takes, until something halfway interesting comes out or can be concluded. Definitions are cognitive and communicative f…