Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two different asset selection methodologies and further examine these by forming optimal portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – This paper deals with the problem of portfolio formation, broadly in two steps: asset selection and asset...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two different asset selection methodologies and further examine these by forming optimal portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – This paper deals with the problem of portfolio formation, broadly in two steps: asset selection and asset...

Purpose – Seeks to present a new method of trajectory planning, i.e. genetic algorithms (GA), for six‐degree‐of‐freedom (DOF) industrial robots. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the effects of the GA method with the advantage of quaternion algebra and by a process of elimination...

Purpose – Legged vehicles offer several advantages over wheeled vehicles, particularly on broken terrain, but are presently too slow to be considered for many high‐speed tasks. This paper presents an effective 3D controller for a high‐speed quadruped trot. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – Stereo vision is an attractive perception technique for mobile robots navigation. Stereo matching is a crucial part of stereo vision and its precision dominates the precision of reconstruction. Based on a geometry constraint applicable to natural terrain, the purpose of this paper is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient method for solving a vehicle scheduling problem (VSP) in 2D industrial environments. An autonomous vehicle is requested to serve a set of work centers in the shop floor providing transport and delivery tasks while avoiding...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a hybridized technique for analyzing the stochastic behavior of an industrial system. The feeding system of a paper mill situated in North India producing 200 tons of paper per day has been considered for analysis and efforts have been made to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of committing electric power generators (unit commitment, UC), considering network constraints. Design/methodology/approach – The UC is first solved with a local search based meta‐heuristic, following the assumption that all...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two different asset selection methodologies and further examine these by forming optimal portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – This paper deals with the problem of portfolio formation, broadly in two steps: asset selection and asset...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe an adaptive approach for diagnosing faulty nodes in a wireless mobile environment. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a diagnosis approach that has been previously developed for wired networks. A discussion of the novel diagnosis...