scholarly journals Application of Sustainability Principles for Harsh Environment Exploration by Autonomous Robot

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bausys ◽  
Cavallaro ◽  
Semenas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Autonomous Agent ◽  
Harsh Environment ◽  
Map Building ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Neutrosophic Sets ◽  
Environment Exploration ◽  
Sustainability Principles

Currently, the European Union (EU) is focusing on a large-scale campaign dedicated to developing a competitive circular economy and expanding the single digital market. One of the main goals of this campaign is the implementation of the sustainability principles in the development and deployment cycle of the new generation technologies. This paper focuses on the fast-growing field of autonomous mobile robots and the harsh environment exploration problem. Currently, most state-of-the-art navigation methods are utilising the idea of evaluating candidate observation locations by combining different task-related criteria. However, these map building solutions are often designed for operating in near-perfect environments, neglecting such factors as the danger to the robot. In this paper, a new strategy that aims to address the safety and re-usability of the autonomous mobile agent by implementing the economic sustainability principles is proposed. A novel multi-criteria decision-making method of Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment—Single-Valued Neutrosophic Sets, namely WASPAS-SVNS, and the weight selection method of Step-Wise Weights Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) are applied to model a dynamic decision-making system. The experimental evaluation of the proposed strategy shows that increased survivability of the autonomous agent can be observed. Compared to the greedy baseline strategy, the proposed method forms the movement path which orients the autonomous agent away from dangerous obstacles.

scholarly journals Modelling of Autonomous Search and Rescue Missions by Interval-Valued Neutrosophic WASPAS Framework

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rokas Semenas ◽  
Romualdas Bausys
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Neutrosophic Sets ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Evaluation Strategy ◽  
Environment Exploration ◽  
Interval Valued

The application of autonomous robots in search and rescue missions represents a complex task which requires a robot to make robust decisions in unknown and dangerous environments. However, imprecise robot movements and small measurement errors obtained by robot sensors can have an impact on the autonomous environment exploration quality, and therefore, should be addressed while designing search and rescue (SAR) robots. In this paper, a novel frontier evaluation strategy is proposed, that address technical, economic, social, and environmental factors of the sustainable environment exploration process, and a new extension of the weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) method, modelled under interval-valued neutrosophic sets (IVNS), is introduced for autonomous mobile robots. The general-purpose Pioneer 3-AT robot platform is applied in simulated search and rescue missions, and the conducted experimental assessment shows the proposed method efficiency in commercial and public-type building exploration. By addressing the estimated measurement errors in the initial data obtained by the robot sensors, the proposed decision-making framework provides additional reliability for comparing and ranking candidate frontiers. The interval-valued multi-criteria decision-making method combined with the proposed frontier evaluation strategy enables the robot to exhaustively explore and map smaller SAR mission environments as well as ensure robot safety and efficient energy consumption in relatively larger public-type building environments.

scholarly journals Wheeling and dealing behind closed doors: estimating the causal effect of transparency on policy evaluations using a survey experiment

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Juhl ◽  
David Hilpert
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Transatlantic Trade ◽  
The Us ◽  
Trade And Investment

Abstract The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the US is highly technical. Still, the negotiations triggered large-scale protests among citizens with very diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Why has a complex issue such an enormous mobilizing effect although the economic consequences are either unclear or favorable for the participating economies? We argue that the transparency of negotiations is an important consideration for people evaluating the negotiation outcome. Conducting a survey experiment, we show that non-transparent decision-making decreases citizens' appraisal of the agreement independent of its outcome: A non-transparent negotiation is, on average, almost 16 percent less likely to find public approval than a transparent but otherwise identical agreement. Our findings have important implications for democratic decision-making.

scholarly journals MODELING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING IN DYNAMIC NEUTROSOPHIC ENVIRONMENTS BASES ON CHOQUET INTEGRAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tho Thong ◽  
Cu Nguyen Giap ◽  
Tran Manh Tuan ◽  
Pham Minh Chuan ◽  
Pham Minh Hoang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Choquet Integral ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Neutrosophic Set ◽  
Neutrosophic Sets ◽  
National University ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Decision Making Model

Multi-attributes decision-making problem in dynamic neutrosophic environment is an open and highly-interesting research area with many potential applications in real life. The concept of the dynamic interval-valued neutrosophic set and its application for the dynamic decision-making are proposed recently, however the inter-dependence among criteria or preference is not dealt with in the proposed operations to well treat inter-dependence problems. Therefore, the definitions, mathematical operations and its properties are mentioned and discussed in detail.Then, Choquet integral-based distance between dynamic inteval-valued neutrosophic sets is defined and used to develop a new decision making model based on the proposed theory. A practical application of proposed approach is constructed and tested on the data of lecturers' performance collected from Vietnam National University (VNU) to illustrate the efficiency of new proposal.

scholarly journals MODELING MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING IN DYNAMIC NEUTROSOPHIC ENVIRONMENTS BASES ON CHOQUET INTEGRAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tho Thong ◽  
Cu Nguyen Giap ◽  
Tran Manh Tuan ◽  
Pham Minh Chuan ◽  
Pham Minh Hoang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Choquet Integral ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Neutrosophic Set ◽  
Neutrosophic Sets ◽  
National University ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Decision Making Model

Multi-attributes decision-making problem in dynamic neutrosophic environment is an open and highly-interesting research area with many potential applications in real life. The concept of the dynamic interval-valued neutrosophic set and its application for the dynamic decision-making are proposed recently, however the inter-dependence among criteria or preference is not dealt with in the proposed operations to well treat inter-dependence problems. Therefore, the definitions, mathematical operations and its properties are mentioned and discussed in detail.Then, Choquet integral-based distance between dynamic inteval-valued neutrosophic sets is defined and used to develop a new decision making model based on the proposed theory. A practical application of proposed approach is constructed and tested on the data of lecturers' performance collected from Vietnam National University (VNU) to illustrate the efficiency of new proposal.

Conscious versus Unconscious Processing in Dynamic Decision Making Tasks

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Dominik Guss ◽  
Jarrett Evans ◽  
Devon Murray ◽  
Harald Schaub
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Unconscious Processing

The Influence of Goals on Dynamic Decision Making

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Weinhardt ◽  
Jeff Vancouver ◽  
Claudia Gonzalez Vallejo ◽  
Jason Harman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making
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