scholarly journals Justification of the using of the method of air reconnaissance of area of intensive application of mine weapons

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Kotsyuruba ◽  
Sergei Tsybulia ◽  
Viktor Rybalko
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Full Coverage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Object Based ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Management Cycle

The article is devoted to the analysis of the current state of mine protection that concerns troops, it is a set of measures carried out by all types and branches of troops, and it is aimed at protecting personnel and military equipment from mine weapons. One of the ways to increase mine protection of troops is to enlarge the efficiency of informing the troops about the mine situation directly in the area of combat operations. Therefore, the timeliness of carrying out activities for the search, identification, fixation of explosive objects in the ground, as well as the timely collection and communication to relevant officials and departments of this information is the main goal of engineering intelligence in areas of intensive mine warfare. One of the ways to improve the effectiveness of engineering intelligence is to introduce the practice of identifying mine-explosive barriers and countering the enemy sabotage, reconnaissance forces and illegal armed groups that install them in order to establish new ways of conducting intelligence. The methods are based on the using of modern means of obtaining, processing and promptly bringing intelligence data about the mine situation. So a significant increasing of the intelligence capabilities of engineering units is possible through the using of unmanned aerial vehicles. When units are equipped with such devices, it becomes possible to move from an object-based method of conducting reconnaissance to a more efficient one — a zonal one, the essence of which lies in certain subunits of intelligence in areas of responsibility. This will allow the intelligence units to introduce continuous monitoring of the terrain with its full coverage, carrying out maneuvers, if necessary, largely by means, not forces. It will lead to increase effectiveness of the using of engineering reconnaissance units, their full coverage of the operation band, a reduction in the time management cycle of exploration and the achievement of a high degree of efficiency in providing information to the commanders on the mine situation.

scholarly journals Efficient Reactive Obstacle Avoidance Using Spirals for Escape

Drones ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Fábio Azevedo ◽  
Jaime S. Cardoso ◽  
André Ferreira ◽  
Tiago Fernandes ◽  
Miguel Moreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Mobile Robotics ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Depth Camera ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Robust Method ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Correct Execution ◽  
Low Altitude ◽  
High Degree

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has increased in recent years and new application scenarios have emerged. Some of them involve tasks that require a high degree of autonomy, leading to increasingly complex systems. In order for a robot to be autonomous, it requires appropriate perception sensors that interpret the environment and enable the correct execution of the main task of mobile robotics: navigation. In the case of UAVs, flying at low altitude greatly increases the probability of encountering obstacles, so they need a fast, simple, and robust method of collision avoidance. This work covers the problem of navigation in unknown scenarios by implementing a simple, yet robust, environment-reactive approach. The implementation is done with both CPU and GPU map representations to allow wider coverage of possible applications. This method searches for obstacles that cross a cylindrical safety volume, and selects an escape point from a spiral for avoiding the obstacle. The algorithm is able to successfully navigate in complex scenarios, using both a high and low-power computer, typically found aboard UAVs, relying only on a depth camera with a limited FOV and range. Depending on the configuration, the algorithm can process point clouds at nearly 40 Hz in Jetson Nano, while checking for threats at 10 kHz. Some preliminary tests were conducted with real-world scenarios, showing both the advantages and limitations of CPU and GPU-based methodologies.

Age-Related Considerations in the Treatment of ADHD

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (S23) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. Newcorn
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Occupational Performance ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Attentional Function ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Core Symptoms ◽  
High Degree

Although the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be found in many “normal” people, these symptoms are present to a greater extent in those affected by the disorder. In these patients, ADHD symptoms cause substantial functional impairment. Therefore, the goal of treatment is not simply to reduce core symptoms, but also to decrease the level of impairment caused by these symptoms.Common impairments in adolescents and adults include academic and occupational problems that are particularly evident in the context of tasks requiring a high degree of organization or attentional function. These impairments result in problems related to task completion, prioritizing work and other obligations, and time management, etc. These symptoms often impact successful completion of tasks in school or at work, and can also result in a variety of problems in initiating and managing relationships (Slide 1).Mood and anxiety disorders often co-occur with ADHD in adults. The accumulation of experiences related to impaired academic and/or occupational performance, and or persistent relationship problems, due to the symptoms of ADHD, can lead to either depressed mood or anxiety related to performance and/or social situations. Therefore, in treating adults with ADHD, reduction of those co-occurring symptom presentations is also an important goal.

CARNIVAL POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES: MASKS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN MODERN RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
A.V. SKIPERSKIKH ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Organism ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Game Forms ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of the research is to present how the carnival element in the regional policy is associated with the legitimating of power. Also made of the current state of the regional political process in some constituent entities of the Russian Federation, characterized by a high degree of carnivalization. As a result, the importance of the practices of the regional elite, resorting to game forms of their own positioning. The legitimacy of the regional power to depend on festive discourse. A routine political process in the constituent entities of the Russia does not evoke public emotions that have a positive effect on the legitimation of power. The demand for the politics of spectacle is also present in municipal political practices in a very dangerous epoch of COVID-19. A social organism that needs emotions, as well as control, does not experience serious transformations. In society penchant for spectacle, as well as the political class in the production of carnival events, there are deep historical roots, as well as the cultural specificity of a particular region. The points out that in the regional political process one can increasingly see accents on festivals. So, the government solves two important problems: the first one is a public request for a show, it is resolved in conditions of a rather unpleasant and unpromising accumulation of negative for the authorities due to the deterioration of the socio-economic situation in general, the second one is the production of the play solves the issues of legitimation regional and municipal authorities.

scholarly journals Capabilities of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Logistic Support

10.37105/sd.5 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Michalska Anna ◽  
Karpińska Katarzyna
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Logistic Support ◽  
The Military

The main focus of this paper is the capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a military logistic support in conflicts areas. The conducted research addresses the problems of traditional military delivery methods. Next, the problem of using UAVs only for civilian purposes is considered. The paper begins with short elucidation of logistic support and further provides the classification of logistic materials and discusses five categories of military equipment from the logistics point of view. Next, the paper discusses the characteristics of the parameters and properties of the chosen existing UAVs that are used for the delivery of materials. Consequently, a comparison of the UAVs is carried out, and new technologies for logistic transport are presented. This paper is concluded with the claim that it is necessary to modernize the process of logistic support in the military.

Security enabled UAVs for Tech-Agriculture monitoring rice crops using FIBOR architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
J V N Lakshmi
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Design Flexibility ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Farming Industry ◽  
Technical Collaboration

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles usage has significantly improved in all the sectors. Various industries are using drones as a platform for development with eco- nomic investment. Drastic advancement in design, flexibility, equipment and technical improvements has a great impact in creating airborne domain of IoT. Hence, drones have become a part of farming industry. Indian agriculture economy concentrates more on producing rice as this is considered as a staple food in various states. For increasing the production of rice sensors are equipped in the fields to track the water supply and humidity components. Whereas, identifying weeds, early stages of disease detection, recognizing failed crops, spraying fertilizers and continuous monitoring from bleats, locust and other dangerous insects are some of the technical collaboration with UAVs with respect farming sector. However, use of UAVs in real time environment involves many security and privacy challenges. In order to preserve UAVs from external vulnerabilities and hacking the collaborative environment requires a tough security model. In this proposed article a framework is implemented applying FIBOR security model on UAVs to suppress the threats from data hackers and protect the data in cloud from attackers. This proposed model enabled with drone technology provides a secured framework and also improves the crop yield by 15% by adapting a controlled network environment.

A Systematic Snapshot of Small Packaged Software Vendors' Enterprises

2021 ◽  
pp. 1262-1285
Author(s):  
Moutasm Tamimi ◽  
Issam Jebreen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Software Life Cycle ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Packaged Software ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Current State ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

This article describes how small packaged software vendors' enterprises (SPSVEs) have played a massive role in a software environment and contributed dramatically to economies. The purpose of this article is to investigate and categorize the most recent of literature addressing small packaged software vendors' enterprises through a systematic snapshot research in order to identify current research topics and highlight some areas needing more consideration. The pattern of the authors' systematic approach is based on developing a classification scheme which targets a collection of papers published within the period of 2007-2017. The authors analysed one hundred and one papers from peer-reviewed conferences, journals, and workshops to examine the current state of SPSVE's research in order to provide systematic snapshot mapping (SSM) that includes the small packaged software life cycle, research methods used, and country of study. The systematic snapshot of 101 papers reveals that the majority of the literature has focused on the planning and implementation phases of SPSVEs. Figuring out a new model of packaged software life-cycle in SMEs will occur by applying the model of categorizations with regard to the life cycle with its factors and sub factors. Moreover, it will contribute to finding research methods, regions, top ten citation, articles type classifications, and other kinds of classifications. This research is targeted to small packaged software vendors' enterprises (SPSVEs). The authors' finding is intended for software research areas more than economic research areas. This article has presented a high degree of benefits in order to assist researchers in evidence-based decision making in terms of investigating hot research areas in line with the small packaged software vendors' enterprises (SPSVEs).

scholarly journals Distributed Control of Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Valley Area Coverage

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mengji Shi ◽  
Kaiyu Qin
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Distributed Control ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Law ◽  
Full Coverage ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Crash Avoidance ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Valley Area

The paper provides a novel cooperative motion scheme for networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to fully sweep-cover a priori unknown elongated areas with curved borders, which are termed “valley areas.” The UAVs’ motion is confined between the borders. Different from former research on straight-corridor-sweep-coverage, in each valley area, the width of different portions varies dramatically: the UAVs need to line up across the valley area to achieve full coverage of the widest portions while they can only pass through the narrowest parts one by one in a queue. The UAVs are provided with barrier detection and inter-UAV communication. According to the scheme, a distributed control law has been offered for discrete-time multi-UAV systems, guaranteeing crash avoidance and full coverage while considering the constrained mobility of the UAVs. Regular and extreme simulations are carried out to verify the efficacy and stability of the proposed algorithm. Solutions to U-shaped valley coverage and the case of insufficient UAVs available are discussed with validation simulations. Comparison simulations are conducted with respect to a line-sweep-coverage algorithm developed by a closely related work, and differences in performance are revealed subsequently. Conclusions are drawn with possible directions of future research.

scholarly journals P.058 Software algorithms for atrial fibrillation screening with wearable devices: a systematic review

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (S2) ◽  
pp. S27-S28
Author(s):  
GA Jewett ◽  
S Crooks ◽  
JL Sapp
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Heart Rhythm ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Current State ◽  
Software Algorithms ◽  
Similar Accuracy ◽  
English Articles

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important risk factor for ischemic stroke but has no recognized screening method. Wearable devices have the potential to provide near continuous monitoring to detect AF. This systematic review evaluates the current state of software capable of detecting AF using wearable devices. Methods: We conducted a systematic search using PRISMA method of Medline, CENTRAL, PubMed and trial registries up to January 15, 2017. Abstracts and titles were screened, and relevant articles reviewed fully. English articles were selected if reporting on (1) software for AF detection (2) using heart rhythm signal, (3) theoretically applicable to wearable technology. Quality was evaluated with Cochrane GRADE. Results: Of 269 unique abstracts, 54 were identified for full review. 20 studies met inclusion criteria for algorithm accuracy analysis. Sensitivity and specificity ranged from 87.0 - 97.6% and 89.0 - 99.6%, respectively. 4 studies analyzed signal acquired using mobile devices with similar accuracy. Algorithms were potentially portable to wearable devices. Qualitative observations on the state and applicability of technology were made. Conclusions: Software analysing heart rhythm may be accurate for AF screening, but has not been tested on wearable devices. Such technology is promising but may be limited by hardware accuracy and high false positive rates.

scholarly journals Risk Management in Product Design: Current State, Conceptual Model and Future Research

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Oehmen ◽  
Mohammad Ben-Daya ◽  
Warren Seering ◽  
Muhammad Al-Salamah
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Current State ◽  
Iso 31000 ◽  
Risk Treatment ◽  
Process Elements ◽  
High Degree

Risk management is an important element of product design. It helps to minimize the project- and product-related risks such as project budget and schedule overrun, or missing product cost and quality targets. Risk management is especially important for complex, international product design projects that involve a high degree of novel technology. This paper reviews the literature on risk management in product design. It examines the newly released international standard ISO 31000 “Risk management — Principles and guidelines” and explores its applicability to product design. The new standard consists of the seven process steps communication and consultation; establishing the context; risk identification; risk analysis; risk evaluation; risk treatment; and monitoring and review. A literature review reveals, among other findings, that the general ISO 31000 process model seems applicable to risk management in product design; the literature addresses different process elements to varying degrees, but none fully according to ISO recommendations; and that the integration of product design risk management with risk management of other disciplines, or between project and portfolio level in product design, is not well developed.

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