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LMI-Based Control of a Double Pendulum Crane

open access: yesApplications of Modelling and Simulation, 2018
This paper presents the design of a Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based state feedback controller for position tracking, hook and payload oscillations of a double pendulum crane. In this work, a linearised model of the crane was firstly obtained.
Mustapha Muhammad   +4 more
doaj  

Event-related potentials reveal incongruent behavior of autonomous vehicles in the moral machine dilemma

open access: yesScientific Reports
We investigated event-related potentials (ERPs) in the context of autonomous vehicles (AVs)—specifically in ambiguous, morally challenging traffic situations.
Maren A. K. Bertheau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics, Uncertainty, and Macroeconomics

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017
In this article, I focus on the difference in moral judgment of macroeconomic interventions between the deterministic world of a thought experiment and the uncertain reality.
Mariusz Maziarz
doaj   +1 more source

Scalar consequentialism the right way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The rightness and wrongness of actions fits on a continuous scale. This fits the way we evaluate actions chosen among a diverse range of options, even though English speakers don’t use the words “righter” and “wronger”.
Sinhababu, Neil
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David Boonin on the Non-Identity Argument: Rejecting the Second Premise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
According to various “harm-based” approaches to the non-identity problem, an action that brings a particular child into existence can also harm that child, even if his or her life is worth living.
Gardner, Molly
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Avoiding the Intrinsic Unfairness of the Trolley Problem

open access: yes2018 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Fairness (FairWare), 2018
As an envisaged future of transportation, self-driving cars are being discussed from various perspectives, including social, economical, engineering, computer science, design, and ethical aspects.
T. Holstein, G. Dodig-Crnkovic
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modeling and simulation of quay crane control system for PID controller optimal parameters determination / Krantinės krano valdymo sistemos kompiuterinis modeliavimas optimalioms PID valdiklio vertėms nustatyti

open access: yesMokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2016
The main control object of Quay crane, which is operating in seaport intermodal terminal cargo loading and unloading process, is the crane trolley. One of the main frequent problem, which occurs, is the swinging of the container.
Tomas Eglynas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Natural Law Thinking be Made Credible in our Contemporary Context? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
One of the best-known members of the United Nations Commission which drafted the 1948 "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Jacques Maritain, famously held that the "natural rights" or "human rights" possessed by every human being are grounded and ...
Baur, Michael
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