Rather than using traditional artificial intelligence techniques, which are ineffective when applied to the complexities of real-world robot navigaiton, Connell describes a methodology of reconstructing intelligent robots with distributed, multiagent control systems. After presenting this methodology, hte author describes a complex, robust, and successful application-a mobile robot "can collection machine" which operates in an unmodified offifce environment...

This book is an integrated approach towards the applications of coal (organic) petrology and discusses the role of this science in the field of coal and coal-related topics. Coal petrology needs to be seen as a continuum of organic (macerals) and inorganic (minerals and trace elements) contributions to the total coal structure, with the overprint of coal rank. All this influences the behavior of coal in utilization, the coal by-products, the properties...

IQ, EQ, and nowàCQ! A proven way to measure cultural intelligence, with strategies for pushing the score higher. The CQ Self Assessment is not available in this electronic edition of The Cultural Intelligence Difference. You can purchase the assessment at www.CulturalQ.com or access it by purchasing a print edition of this book. Most people know that some basic cultural sensitivity is important. But few have developed the deep cultural intelligence...