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Risk-Aware Neural Navigation for Interactive Driving
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)Safety has been a key goal for autonomous driving since its inception, and we believe recognizing and responding to risk is a key component of safety. In this work, we aim to answer the question, "How can explainable risk ... -
A risk-based approach to optimal margins in ship design
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Risk-based treatment of uncertainty in trade space exploration : application via Monte Carlo simulation on a manned, mini-submersible model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In design, modeling and simulation are commonly used to answer questions of interest as it is both inefficient and expensive to physically build and evaluate numerous possibilities. Any modeling effort aims to build the ... -
Risk-bounded autonomous information gathering for localization of phenomena in hazardous environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Exploration of new environments is often conducted in search of some phenomenon of interest. Examples include the search for extreme forms of life in the deep ocean or under the ice on Europa, or localizing resource deposits ... -
Risk-bounded coordination of human-robot teams through concurrent intent recognition and adaptation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)There is an ever-growing demand for humans and robots to work fluidly together in a number of important domains, such as home care, manufacturing, and medical robotics. In order to achieve this fluidity, robots must be ... -
Risk-Bounded Dynamic Scheduling of Temporal Plans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)Real-world activities often have uncontrollable durations, which is a scheduling challenge for temporal planners, where despite uncertainty, we need to meet deadlines and coordination constraints. Missing these requirements ... -
Risk-bounded Programming using Constrained, Hierarchical, Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)The escalating demand for autonomous systems that enhance human lives has emphasized a pressing need to ensure their safety. However, guaranteeing safety in the face of extensive decision-making and uncertain scenarios has ... -
Risk-informed applications and online maintenance in France and the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)During the past twenty-five years, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been progressing toward a more risk-informed, performance-based regulation. This regulatory framework has effectively supported the development ... -
Risk-informed design changes for a passive cooling system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The failure probability of a passive decay heat removal system after a LOCA is evaluated as part of a risk-informed design process for a helium-cooled fast reactor. The system was modeled using RELAP5-3D. The epistemic ... -
Risk-informed design guidance for a Generation-IV gas-cooled fast reactor emergency core cooling system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Fundamental objectives of sustainability, economics, safety and reliability, and proliferation resistance, physical protection and stakeholder relations must be considered during the design of an advanced reactor. However, ... -
Risk-informed incident management for nuclear power plants
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Decision making as a part of nuclear power plant operations is a critical, but common, task. Plant management is forced to make decisions that may have safety and economic consequences. Formal decision theory offers the ... -
Risk-informed public safety policy for seismic events in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) are potentially vulnerable to accidents, which can either be internally or externally initiated. External events include natural events like tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes. The purpose ... -
Risk-informed, performance-based regulatory implications of improved emergency diesel generator reliability
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Risk-informing decisions about high-level nuclear waste repositories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Performance assessments (PAs) are important sources of information for societal decisions in high-level radioactive waste (HLW) management, particularly in evaluating safety cases for proposed HLW repository development. ... -
Risk-minimizing program execution in robotic domains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis, we argue that autonomous robots operating in hostile and uncertain environments can improve robustness by computing and reasoning explicitly about risk. Autonomous robots with a keen sensitivity to risk can ... -
Risks and decision making in development of new power plant projects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Power plant development projects are typically capital intensive and subject to a complex network of interconnected risks that impact development's performance. Failure to develop a power plant to meet performance constraints ... -
Risks And returns Of fixed income arbitrage strategies in varying economic environments : a model based on empirical considerations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)I propose a discrete time model of financial markets in which an arbitrageur has investment opportunities but faces a number of financial constraints. Investment opportunities arise when the price discrepancy between a ... -
Risks and rewards of continuing care retirement communities : a developers's perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
Ritual elements : a cemetery in Montana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)"As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there So walls guard the shape of man even when man has fled and is no longer there. " -- George Seferis. The walls we make are the culmination ... -
Ritual space : an urban monastery
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
