https://www2.law.temple.edu/voices/taking-the-sting-out-using-direct-examination-to-anticipate-and-undercut-attacks-on-your-witness/
Sadly, it can be the rare witness who does not come with some baggage – a criminal conviction, a potential bias, an inconsistent statement, or some other challenge to her/his credibility. So, the proponent of that witness has to make a choice – bring it out first, or simply wait for the sting of cross-examination. The suggestion of this article is to do the former, a technique supported by ...
https://sites.temple.edu/trail/files/2021/11/XieXinDamesIROS2021.pdf
Zhanteng Xie, Pujie Xin, and Philip Dames Abstract—This paper proposes a novel neural network-based control policy to enable a mobile robot to navigate safety through environments filled with both static obstacles, such as tables and chairs, and dense crowds of pedestrians. The network architecture uses early fusion to combine a short history of lidar data with kinematic data about nearby ...