Daniel Kuhn – författare

This book provides exclusive insight into the development of a new generation of robotic underwater technologies. These robotic underwater systems will operate autonomously with the help of the most modern artificial intelligence procedures and perform environmental monitoring as well as inspection and maintenance of underwater structures.

This book provides exclusive insight into the development of a new generation of robotic underwater technologies. These robotic underwater systems will operate autonomously with the help of the most modern artificial intelligence procedures and perform environmental monitoring as well as inspection and maintenance of underwater structures.

Dieses Buch bietet einen exklusiven Einblick in die Entwicklung einer neuen Generation von Unterwasser-Robotertechnologien.Der Einsatz und die Nutzung selbst der einfachsten und robustesten mechanischen Werkzeuge ist eine Herausforderung und oft mit einem enormen Aufwand an Vorbereitung, kontinuierlicher Überwachung und Wartung verbunden.Daher werden alle disziplinären Aspekte (z. B. Systemdesign, Kommunikation, maschinelles Lernen, Kartierung und Koordination, adaptive Missionsplanung) im Detail untersucht, was insgesamt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Forschungsbereiche gibt, die die Unterwasserroboter der nächsten Generation beeinflussen.Diese Unterwasserrobotersysteme werden mit Hilfe modernster Verfahren der künstlichen Intelligenz autonom operieren und die Umweltüberwachung sowie die Inspektion und Wartung von Unterwasserstrukturen übernehmen. Die Systeme sind als modulare und rekonfigurierbare Systeme konzipiert, die langfristig autonom am Einsatzort verbleiben können. Neue Kommunikationsmethoden, die KI nutzen, ermöglichen Einsätze von hybriden Teams aus Menschen und heterogenen Robotern.Damit wird dieser Band zu einem wichtigen Nachschlagewerk für Wissenschaftler aller Qualifikationsstufen im Bereich der Unterwassertechnologien, der industriellen maritimen Anwendungen und der Meereswissenschaften.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives  similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives. Increasingly in recent years, financial management problems such as strategic asset allocation, asset-liability management, as well as asset pricing problems, have  been presented in the literature adopting formulation and solution approaches rooted in stochastic programming, robust optimization, stochastic dynamic programming (including approximate SDP) methods, as well as policy rule optimization, heuristic approaches and others. The aim of the volume is to facilitate the comprehension of  the modeling and methodological potentials of those methods, thus their common assumptions and peculiarities, relying on similar financial problems. The volume will address different valuation problems common in finance related to: asset pricing, optimal portfolio management, risk measurement, risk control and asset-liability management.The volume features chapters of theoretical and practical relevance clarifying recent advances in the associated applied field from different standpoints, relying on similar valuation problems and, as mentioned, facilitating a mutual and beneficial methodological and theoretical knowledge transfer. The distinctive aspects of the volume can be summarized as follows:Strong benchmarking philosophy, with contributors explicitly asked to underline current limits and desirable developments in their areas.Theoretical contributions, aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in the given domain with a clear potential for applicationsThe inclusion of an algorithmic-computational discussion of issues arising on similar valuation problems across different methods.Variety of applications: rarely is itpossible within a single volume to consider and analyze different, and possibly competing, alternative optimization techniques applied to well-identified financial valuation problems.Clear definition of the current state-of-the-art in each methodological and applied area to facilitate future research directions.

The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives.