Complete Autonomy Research Articles

Holistic Approach Promotes Failure Prevention of Smart Mining Machines Based on Bayesian Networks

In the forthcoming era of fully autonomous mining, spanning from drilling operations to port logistics, novel approaches will be essential to pre-empt hazardous situations in the absence of human intervention. The progression towards complete autonomy in mining operations must have meticulous approaches and uncompromised security. By ensuring a secure transition, the mining industry can navigate the transformative shift towards autonomy while upholding the highest standards of safety and operational reliability. Experiments involving autonomous pathways for mining machinery that utilize AI for route optimization demonstrate a higher speed capacity than manually operated approaches; this translates to enhanced productivity, subsequently fostering increased production capacity to meet the rising demand for metals. Nonetheless, accelerated wear on crucial elements like tires, brakes, and bearings on mining machines has been observed. Autonomous mining processes will require smarter machines without humans that guide and support actions prior to a hazardous situation occurring. This paper will delve into a comprehensive perspective on the safety of autonomous mining machines by using Bayesian networks (BN) to detect possible hazard fires. The BN is tuned with a combination of empirical field data and laboratory data. Various faults have been recognized, and their correlation with the measurements has been established.

Van evidencebased medicine naar shared decision-making bij diabetes mellitus

From evidence-based medicine to shared decision-making in diabetes mellitus Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with a worldwide prevalence of more than 450 million people. It is estimated that only 14.3% of this population achieves the targets with regard to HbA1c, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. DM prevention and management are getting more and more attention. Thanks to shared decision-making (SDM), the patient’s personal context can be identified and therapy can be adjusted if needed. Currently, there is little guidance for physicians on how they should implement SDM in practice. Healthcare organizations can play a role in providing education to support the use of SDM. Various barriers such as time pressure, paternalism and ignorance hamper the use of SDM. New technologies are making it increasingly easy to exchange information between doctors and patients in a patient-friendly manner. Given the actual increase of patient participation in practice, SDM will become increasingly important. From an ethical point of view, patient education is necessary in order to achieve complete autonomy of the patient and to enable SDM. The diabetes educator plays an important role to achieve this, complemented by the use of technological tools that become more and more available such as apps, web-based applications, continuous glucose monitoring, etc. SDM has the opportunity to combine an ethical approach with scientific evidence and consequently transforming care in making the best decision for each patient.

Catch-22: A patient’s right to informational determination and the rendering of accounts by medical schemes

Many people who have reached the age of majority still qualify as financial dependents of their parents, and may be registered as dependents on their parents’ medical schemes. This poses a practical conundrum, because major persons enjoy complete autonomy over their bodies to choose healthcare services as they please, including informational determination. However, their sensitive health information may end up being disclosed in the accounts rendered to their parents, as main members of medical schemes, thereby breaching their informational privacy, medical confidentiality and possibly also damaging personal relationships. On the other hand, medical schemes must ensure that they strictly manage the business of their hospitalisation to ensure that they can adhere to their contractual and legal medical insurance obligations. Both major but financially dependent patients and medical schemes have good legal grounds to defend their respective positions. In this article, we will analyse and clarify the applicable legal and ethical grounds by considering medical confidentiality, the Protection of Personal Information Act, the Consumer Protection Act and the Medical Schemes Act and rules. We shall conclude with recommendations to accommodate the interests of both parties.

Adaptive Multi-Robot Communication System and Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Precision Agriculture

In precision farming technology, the interest of the researchers has been focused on the applications of autonomous mobile robots for agricultural operations such as planting, inspection, spraying, and harvesting. However, each autonomous robot generally performs a single agricultural task. In this context, complete autonomy in precision farming can be achieved by using coordinated multi-robot systems that can easily and safely cooperate to accomplish agricultural tasks. The efficiency of the multi-robot system depends on the number of robots, the size of the robots, the distance between each robot, the instant location and heading angle of the robots, and the size of the farmland. This paper describes the development of wireless Robot to Robot (R2R) communication system architecture and the collision avoidance algorithm for multi-robot precision farming applications. The developed system uses the fusion of a digital compass and GPS receiver for wirelessly broadcasting the spatial and temporal data of the mobile robots through WiFi. In this study, WiFi broadcasting was chosen for reasons such as the advantages of long wireless signal range and strength, not being easily affected by weather and dust, low cost, and so on. The proposed system realizes the real-time wireless broadcasting of the mobile robot information for eliminating the collision of mobile robots and improving the level of safety management. The results show that the system has flexible, reliable, and adaptable solution, and thus can increase the efficiency of the multi-robot system in precision farming applications.

PROFESSOR OF THE MOSCOW UNIVERSITY I.A. HEIM (BERNHARD ANDREAS VON HEIM) AND HIS LIFE-WORLD (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE INVENTORY OF RECTOR’S HOUSE IN 1821)

The research is based on the analysis of the 1821 detailed description of the premises of the apartment of the Moscow University professor Heim, who had just passed away. From 1781 Heim, who maintained ties with Germany, rose to professor and then to rector of the Moscow University. His home environment provides material for reconstruction of the life of a “Russian German”, a representative of academic culture (with its academic everyday life). According to the inventory, the rector’s apartment near Mokhovaya Street contains four living rooms, a kitchen and a stable (on the lower floor). The room-by-room description of furniture, clothing, utensils and other household items, and information on the composition of the home library embody the anthropological characteristics of the professor’s subculture. The author of the article views a home item as a tangle of cultural practices, and the structure of the home and its contents as an embodiment of the professor’s way of life. The list of numerous kitchen utensils, a carriage, a droshky and several sets of harness in the stable indicate the complete autonomy of existence, and a large number of chairs and dining utensils allows us to speak about a certain degree of the publicity of the space. A set of clothes (casual and ceremonial), orders, letters of loan and idle money indicate a relatively high material and social status of Heim, demonstrate prosperity, the desire for domestic convenience of a “private man”. But the restrained style of apartment decoration, lots of desks, books, measuring instruments and stationery (attributes of routine academic writing) speak of the priority of the professor’s intellectual pursuits at home. The material of the inventory, considered against historical and cultural background, allows us to expand our views on understudied subculture of university professors as a specific layer of “middle-class people”, Russian intellectual elite of the late 18th and the early 19th centuries.

Teacher autonomy: Good for pupils? Good for teachers?

AbstractShould teachers have complete autonomy over teaching methods and practices, or should some aspects of their practice be determined by school or government policy? We address this question using repeated (value‐added) maths test scores linked to rich survey data from the TALIS video study. With the possible exception of inexperienced teachers, we generally find no relationship between teacher autonomy and pupil outcomes (test scores, maths self‐efficacy or interest in maths). In partial contrast with our findings for pupil outcomes, teachers with very low levels of autonomy are more likely to report reduced job satisfaction. It may hence be that some level of restriction on teacher autonomy is justified, especially among inexperienced teachers, particularly when it represents only partial control of teachers’ approaches in the classroom and is done to introduce evidence‐based methods.

Impact of Industry 6.0 on MSME Entrepreneur's Performance and Entrepreneur's Emotional Intelligence in the Service Industry in India

Objective: The main aim of this paper is to categorize the different contributions to the transformation in robotics in the form of Digital twin, automation, and MSME entrepreneurs' emotional intelligence and their performance in the service industry. Theoretical framework: The first case is, Industry 6.0 would achieve Entrepreneurs' performance (EP) through complete autonomy through implementing full robotics. The second case is Emotional Intelligence (EI) made industry 6.0 to achieve positive performance for the whole period. Method: Based on the extensive literature review (between 2012 and 2022) and study through Scopus journals, concept studies, and case studies of Industry 6.0 predecessors and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the market, this paper highlights the present scenario of autonomous robots. Results and conclusion: The first point summarizes the outcome of the categorical literature review and highlights the novelty of the findings. The second point highlights the type of robots used to make this happen for Industry 6.0. Implications of the research: Only some service industries started utilizing autonomous robots and collaborative robots to fulfill every day operations performed by them with human mind management for attaining the complete autonomy of automation and robotics in each service industry in India. However, many things could be improved to implement this. Originality/value: Automation and Robotics system implementation and Industry 6.0 in the service industry were not evaluated before and it added value in the service industry to alleviate their concerns to have Business sustainability, environmental friendly and competitive in the market.

Use of the geospatial technologies and its implications in the maritime transport and logistics

All the shipping industry and also ship building (shipyards) are under a complex process of digital transformation (DT), and so are the maritime ports as part of this logistic chain of significant importance. This paper aims to review the successive information technology (IT)-based generations that impacted the maritime transport and logistics (computer-based optimization of transport routes; use of intelligent sensors and IoT; position monitoring by using geospatial technologies and databases; intelligence-based decisions), to identify their main features, and to propose an autonomous vessel-port management system that can be implemented in the future. The role of the geographic information system (GIS) is emphasized – as GIS-based electronic route optimization that allows ships to follow new paths and deliver goods in the most economical and efficient way; GIS-based location precision with the use of on board and ashore GIS-based sensors (electro-optics, remote sensing, LiDAR). The shipping digitalisation process is heading towards a totally autonomous and at the same time safe and reliable ship. Complete autonomy could be reached by adjoining artificial-intelligence controlled systems designed to navigate and operate the ship and that are equipped with sensing and analysis tools, situational awareness, planning, and control capabilities. The Vessel Traffic System (VTS) of the future needs innovative technologies and methodologies to be developed. The desired systems will automatically collect and process data with high precision, will provide input to decision-making systems, and suggest evasive maneuver; to deal with hazards and systems failure without human intervention onboard. The use of new technologies comes with new types of risks specific to maritime transportation and seaports (spoofing, data manipulation, cyber-attacks etc.) The implications of the findings are important for all stakeholders involved in maritime transport and associated logistics (seaports).

After all, in reality nature cannot create itself! (Once again about the true mechanisms of evolution)

How much long the human civilization exists on Earth, so much time there are practically continuous disputes between supporters of creationism and evolutionism. At that in corresponding arguments, the former usually emphasize the astonishing complexity of live systems what's deliberately thereby associated with a pretty far-fetched chance of their self-emergence. While the latter flaunt about own totally unbiased reasoning which doesn’t require introduction of additional entities. Insofar as, to a certain extent, both of them prove to be right, so having analyzed all the scientific information at our disposal, we decided that it would be correct to try anyway to combine these, at first gaze, opposite ideas into a single whole. Thus, if to resume here the most important cornerstone points on which the author relies, justifying his view over organismic evolution, then one should indicate as follows. Conceptually quite valid possibility of significant outwardly visible changes at the level of an individual – along with a strict karyotypic constancy in all its foreseeable ancestors. The dominant role of the factors of internal self-development and selection as the main driving arms of progress. The complete autonomy of the above evolutionary postulates from blind mutational entropy, i.e. the obvious independence of these routes from each other. In this way, the bold original theory presented in given article is based, by and large, just on those "three pillars".

A Planet in Distress: Cross-Curricular Integrations of Visual Texts in the Mainstream Learning Context

This article aims to explore the affordances of employing the visual mode— specifically the medium of drawing—as a multimodal pedagogy to raise awareness of deforestation and climate change in the South African mainstream school context. Conducted at several public and private schools in the Gauteng and the North West provinces, the research follows nine learners between the ages of 10 and 18, who have volunteered to participate in a three-week enrichment programme involving the multimodal reimagining of a non-curricular narrative into a series of drawings, paintings and collages. The narrative, which also serves as the primary source text during each participant’s artefactual redesign journey, is a wordless picture book that explores the concept of exponential environmental change. With this visually engaging text merely acting as a springboard for the making of new meanings in the Grade 5 to 11 Social Sciences/Geography classroom, participants are granted complete autonomy in their visual representations of how the exhaustion of our natural resources and moreover the threat of global warming may be impacting upon our daily lives on a spiritual, emotional and corporeal level. Finally, each artefact is presented as primary data to offer a tripartite focus on the latter learner experiences, the expressional properties of art, as well as the viability of the proposed pedagogy in future practice.

Challenges Facing Heads of Schools in Handling Malpractice to Teachers in Tanzania

The difficulties secondary school heads in Kinondoni Municipality face in addressing teacher misconduct were examined in this study. The study used a qualitative research methodology and a case study design as its foundation. The study included 31 respondents in total, including four (4) school administrators, nine (9) department heads, and eighteen (18) teachers who were chosen by purposive sampling methods. The information that addresses the study's posed objective was gathered using in-person interviews, focus groups, and document reviews. The study found that addressing the misconduct of teachers presented some difficulties for school administrators. These difficulties included a lack of administrative abilities, a lack of funding, political sway, and district education officers' ability to influence the choices made by the heads of the schools. The study suggests giving school heads administrative and leadership training to enable them to prevent circumstances that can cause teachers to act in ways that are inconsistent with their teaching profession and to offer practical solutions to any instances of teacher misconduct. Also, rather than relying heavily on work experience, which is the prevalent approach at the moment, school heads should be appointed based on their qualifications for the role. Moreover, sufficient funding for secondary schools should be provided to meet their needs. Additionally, school directors should have complete autonomy to appropriately use their authority.

Perceptions of decision-makers about a potential forum of cooperation in the eastern part of the North American Arctic

Cooperation in the Arctic region has been fruitful in the past few decades, generating several multilateral organizations and forums covering the entire circumpolar North. In many cases, forums were created to serve as catalysts, bringing together decision-makers from different backgrounds in a conference setting to promote dialogue and the exchange of ideas. To enquire about the possibility of creating a forum of cooperation in the eastern North American Arctic, a total of five governmental officials from Canada, Denmark, Nunavut, Québec and Greenland, and one elected representative from Greenland were interviewed with the same set of five questions. The governmental officials were in senior positions at the main department focusing on foreign affairs in their respective jurisdictions. Most thought that a new forum of cooperation in the region would be highly desirable, on the grounds of shared interests, common identity and cultural affinities. Consensual positions were also found regarding the central role that civil society would play in a new cooperative venue and on sub-national governments assuming a leading role to spearhead the initiative. Following these interviews, it is difficult to pinpoint one government that could alone spearhead this new forum of cooperation. However, the governments of Nunavut and Greenland were the most enthusiastic about such a new regional forum. Given Greenland’s drive to complete independence, this type of forum could prove to be a statement of diplomatic motivation and ambition, tilting toward proto-diplomacy and an international policy that prepares the terrain for complete autonomy.

Knowledge, attitude and perception about surrogacy among urban working women

Introduction and Aim: Infertility is a social stigma in India. Infertility affects 10% of the population in India. Surrogacy is an advanced form of assisted reproductive technique (ART) wherein one woman bears a baby for another woman. Surrogacy is an alternative for the infertile parents for whom it is difficult to have a baby due to medical reasons. The aim was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and perception about the ethical issues involved in surrogacy among urban working women.
 Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was devised to determine knowledge, attitude, and perception about surrogacy among young working women. Questionnaire was sent for validation and then distributed to urban working women between the age group of 25-35 years. The questionnaire consisted of 21 questions with a range of 4-point response options and 1 open-ended question. Based on their response given a descriptive analysis was done using SPSS 16.
 Results: The urban women were aware of the ethical principles. 63% believe women should not be forced and have complete autonomy in making decisions. 60% believed Surrogate mothers and the baby born of surrogacy should not be ill-treated by the community and 70% said they should be given respect like any other human being.
 Conclusion: Altruistic surrogacy should be promoted and not commercial surrogacy as commercial surrogacy leads to the exploitation of the mother’s womb for money. 70% of women in our study believe that the Indian government should not promote surrogacy and in order to protect the rights and prevent injustice suitable Laws should be made and put into action.

СУТНІСНІ АСПЕКТИ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ВИКОНАВЧОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ УКРАЇНИ

The article is devoted to certain essential elements of the criminal-executive policy of Ukraine. The article presents the views and positions of leading domestic scientists on this issue. Scientific concepts regarding the perception of criminal execution policy as one of the directions of domestic activity in the execution and serving of criminal punishments are analyzed. Attention is focused on the position among scientists regarding the use of the phrase "penitentiary policy" as a synonymous or alternative category to the definition of "criminal enforcement policy". The author's position is expressed that the phrase "penitentiary policy" is not the same as the penal policy of the state, since the penitentiary component focuses on the perception of policy exclusively around the process of execution and serving of punishments in places of deprivation of liberty, which, accordingly, narrows the real mechanism of legal influence of the national criminal-executive policy, which by its nature also takes into account the specifics of the implementation of punishments not related to deprivation of liberty. The article separately analyzes such an essential aspect of criminal enforcement policy as its connection with criminal law policy. The indisputable importance of the state's criminal law policy, within which the essence of punishment, its purpose, system and types of punishment, grounds and conditions for exemption from serving it, etc. is determined, is emphasized. The author's point of view is expressed that despite the importance of criminal law policy, domestic criminal-executive is still characterized by complete autonomy, taking into account the specificity and spectrum of legal relations on the implementation of which it affects. This is primarily a determination of the legal status of convicts and employees of the criminal-executive sphere of our state. Consolidation of the procedure for serving various types of criminal punishments, conditions for release from serving the punishment, supervision and control of convicts and determination of the procedure for providing assistance to such persons, etc. Thus, the specified criteria testify to the separation and independence of the criminal enforcement policy of our state from other types of policies of the criminal justice system, taking into account the criminal law policy.

Odnos islamske teologije i poezije

The relationship between religion and poetry is a complex and dynamic subject that requires consideration of many factors, including theological, cultural, historical, and personal contexts. The relationship between these two spheres throughout history was motivated differently, which is why various questions were raised on the theoretical level, such as: is literature a part of theological discourse and/or is theology a part of literary discourse? It is possible that literature and theology intertwine and influence each other in different ways, but accepting their definitive affiliation with each other remains a matter of theoretical debate. In the Eurocentric circle, the most pronounced relationship between theology and literature continues intensively in medieval literature, when the Bible becomes the paradigm according to which all other forms of human and cultural activity are determined, while in the Balkans (from the end of the 15th to the end of the 19th century) the Qur'an will also be literature of the oriental-Islamic circle. Based on several shorter theses that we presented from the Islamic theological aspect, we concluded that Islam allows, even praises, poetry, but does not give it complete autonomy. These restrictions are depicted in the form of the necessary respect and adherence to the norms of Islamic belief and religious laws, which the poet must not renounce, nor express himself poetically in terms of content, while the form of the poem itself is left to the poet's full freedom of choice. The beginning of the 21st century was marked by several literary-critical works that point to the problem of naming and classifying Islamic religious poetry in our speaking area, which indicates the necessity of forming the principles of Islamic theological aesthetics and literary theory.

법치주의와 조화로운 자치재정권 확대

Since the revival of the local autonomy system in 1995, decentralization of local autonomy has emerged as a major national task in almost all governments, and many discussions have been made on it. As the Decentralization Act defines decentralization of local autonomy and emphasizes the importance of local finance in local autonomy, the autonomy and finance of local governments is essential to complete autonomy and decentralization. Just as it is difficult to conclude that the right to self-government is clearly recognized by the current constitutional provisions, the legal guarantee for self-government and finance is not very high compared to the number of articles in the law. In particular, it may be close to impossible to increase the sovereignty of taxation within the limits of the ideology of the rule of law. The local financial system in Korea was prepared and operated for convenience in administrative management, but since the era of democratization, it has developed in the direction of promoting fiscal soundness while reflecting many factors of autonomy. Since 2005, it has been organized to some extent in the form of ‘Revenue Authority - Appropriation Authority’. However, in the legal system, the link between the Local Autonomy Act and the Local Finance Act is loose, and there are many overlapping articles, so the hierarchy of laws is not established. The general legal nature of the Local Finance Act is also somewhat skeptical. Individual laws can be evaluated without encompassing them. This is especially true when it comes to grants and subsidies. The need to strengthen fiscal decentralization is becoming more and more urgent, but the first thing to do is to face the barrier of tax legalism. Even taking into account the recognition of the ordinance enactment and the flexible tax rate, it is difficult to see it as a practical autonomy. Coexistence can be promoted through active interpretation in the current constitutional system, but there are essential limitations. With reference to extra-legislative tax under the Japanese constitution, autonomous finance under the French constitution, and the distribution of legislative power under the German constitution, the Korean constitution also requires a bold decision to recognize tax autonomy and autonomous finance. In addition to taxation, the scope of ordinance enactment rights on non-tax income such as fines for negligence is also a task that needs to be continuously reviewed in relation to the expansion of autonomous legislative power. We need to focus our attention and efforts so that the noble values of the democratic constitution, the ideology of the rule of law, and the vocation of the times, the decentralization of autonomy, do not collide and harmonize.

Calculation method for deflection of the vertical based on path gravity anomaly compensation

To solverole inefficiency and complete autonomy issues for deflection of the vertical (DOV) determination in geomatics, navigation, and military weapon launching fields, a calculation method based on path compensation has been proposed. After conducting the discretization of the Vening-Meinesz formula in the spherical surface, a novel path gravity anomaly compensation based on the ‘remove–restore’ algorithm was formulated to satisfy the requirement of regional high-precision gravity anomaly data. Meanwhile, utilizing the European Improved Gravity model of Earth by New techniques (EIGEN-6c4), the DOV was calculated using the Vening-Meinesz formula based on the ‘remove–restore’ method, unlike the previous regional direct integral calculations. Finally, to verify the reliability and feasibility of the algorithm, the gravity measurement system, consisting of the high-precision gravimeter and strapdown inertial navigation system, was constructed to conduct the simulation and shipborne experiments. The simulation and experiment results of the proposed method show that the root mean squares, relative to the real values, of DOV calculation components, are 0.89″ and 1.67″, while standard deviation values of the DOV components are the same within 2″ in experiments, which satisfies the precision requirement of the DOV.

The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace

The special issue on microaggressions highlighted how subtle interpersonal bias is complex, harms its targets, and reinforces established systems of inequity. The aim of this commentary is to contribute an organizational science perspective to this insightful and important dialogue. Given that the workplace is a microcosm of the broader society where adults spend most of their waking hours, studying microaggressions in this context can shed light on their unique manifestations and consequences, as well as methods to address this unique source of workplace adversity. Unlike other social contexts, many employees do not have complete autonomy over whom they interact with (e.g., choosing one’s supervisor, officemates, or clients) and what they are able to convey authentically and safely in those interactions (i.e., choices about how one responds to microaggressions). As a result, people from minoritized backgrounds must often maintain professional relationships with colleagues or supervisors who harbor bias and (un)consciously convey it via microinvalidations, microassaults, and microinsults. Further, reward systems in the world of work (e.g., wages, promotions) may not only reflect but also reinforce systems of disadvantage (e.g., who experiences social mobility). In addition to understanding microaggressions in the workplace, there is a need to actively address them. We engage with Ong et al., Johnson et al., and Spanierman et al. to suggest that organizational understanding and remediation of microaggressions offers a viable avenue for challenging systems of oppression and fostering employee and organizational resilience to adversity.

Ekol Ukraine: transformation and growth

Learning outcomes Students comprehend the importance of the transformational idea and apply it in their leadership. Students can analyze how to spread the transformational idea across the team and the organization. Students understand the value of working with different stakeholders (partners, headquarters). Students can analyze the role of focusing on a client and apply client-centric way of thinking. Students can apply the concept of the transformational idea to create (synthesize) possible solutions for the presented dilemma. Case overview/synopsis This case tells the transformation story of the logistics company Ekol Ukraine, which began in 2013. This company was the most successful branch of Ekol Logistics, an international corporation operating in 13 countries. From 2013 till 2021, Ekol Ukraine experienced a crisis related to the start of a conflict between Ukraine and Russian militants. It proved its ability to cope with challenges, gained almost complete autonomy from the head office, transformed the business model and culture and achieved considerable success in building an ecosystem. Having this stage of transformation completed by 2021, the company reached a plateau and had to decide what the following changes would be. In 2021, only 14% of Ukrainian businesses used outsourcing logistics services (like the ones Ekol Ukraine provided). The remaining 86% had in-house logistics and were not ready to change the model. So, Ekol Ukraine faced a problem: how could a logistics provider grow in a market that was not mentally ready to outsource? Complexity academic level MBA programs. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 7: Management science.

Human-Centered Navigation and Person-Following with Omnidirectional Robot for Indoor Assistance and Monitoring

Robot assistants and service robots are rapidly spreading out as cutting-edge automation solutions to support people in their everyday life in workplaces, health centers, and domestic environments. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased the need for service technology to help medical personnel in critical conditions in hospitals and domestic scenarios. The first requirement for an assistive robot is to navigate and follow the user in dynamic environments in complete autonomy. However, these advanced multitask behaviors require flexible mobility of the platform to accurately avoid obstacles in cluttered spaces while tracking the user. This paper presents a novel human-centered navigation system that successfully combines a real-time visual perception system with the mobility advantages provided by an omnidirectional robotic platform to precisely adjust the robot orientation and monitor a person while navigating. Our extensive experimentation conducted in a representative indoor scenario demonstrates that our solution offers efficient and safe motion planning for person-following and, more generally, for human-centered navigation tasks.