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The Urban Forum Dialogue Tool: Reflecting on a Designerly Apparoach to Transdisciplinary Research

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Modelling mode dependent lane discipline in hybrid traffic

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Time to collision (TTC) is a key indicator of human locomotion, encompassing both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Applications of the TTC concept span a wide spectrum from safety to traffic flow dynamics. However, there exists no generic formulation for ...

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Towards Efficient Gas Leak Detection in Built Environments: Data-Driven Plume Modeling for Gas Sensing Robots

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The deployment of robots for Gas Source Lo- calization (GSL) tasks in hazardous scenarios significantly reduces the risk to humans and animals. Gas sensing using mobile robots focuses primarily on simplified scenarios, due to the complexity of gas dispersi ...

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The sense of touch can provide a robot with a wealth of information about the contact region when interacting with an unknown environment. Nevertheless, utilizing touch information to plan exploration paths and adjust robot posture to improve task efficien ...

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End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling With Semi-Structured Knowledge Management

Antoine Bosselut, Silin Gao

Current task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems mostly manage structured knowledge (e.g. databases and tables) to guide the goal-oriented conversations. However, they fall short of handling dialogs which also involve unstructured knowledge (e.g. reviews and doc ...

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