Object detection and tracking is a challenging task, especially for unmanned aerial robots in complex environments where both static and dynamic objects are present. It is, however, essential for ensuring safety of th...
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Object detection and tracking is a challenging task, especially for unmanned aerial robots in complex environments where both static and dynamic objects are present. It is, however, essential for ensuring safety of the robot during navigation in such environments. In this work we present a practical online approach which is based on a 2D LIDAR. Unlike common approaches in the literature of modeling the environment as 2D or 3D occupancy grids, our approach offers a fast and robust method to represent the objects in the environment in a compact form, which is significantly more efficient in terms of both memory and computation in comparison withthe former. Our approach is also capable of classifying objects into categories such as static and dynamic, and tracking dynamic objects as well as estimating their velocities with reasonable accuracy.
Turning machining is an important manufacturing process, widely used in industry. Dynamic interaction between the tool and the workpiece may cause regenerative chatter, which is associated with problems of poor surfac...
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Turning machining is an important manufacturing process, widely used in industry. Dynamic interaction between the tool and the workpiece may cause regenerative chatter, which is associated with problems of poor surface finish, reduced product quality and low productivity. the demand for high accuracy motivates development of active vibration control methods that are based on realistic dynamical models of the turning process. this paper discusses the development of an active robust control law that is based on an extended regenerative chatter vibration model for orthogonal cutting. Its novelty stems from the way the workpiece elastic behavior is taken into consideration. the presented numerical results show that the vibration level can be reduced significantly, even in the presence of external disturbances, parametric uncertainty and (open loop) unstable machining conditions.
Magnetic levitation system is an interesting equipment to demonstrate an intricate control design problem. Because of its non-linearity and exhibit uncertain open-loop properties together critically unstable in nature...
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Magnetic levitation system is an interesting equipment to demonstrate an intricate control design problem. Because of its non-linearity and exhibit uncertain open-loop properties together critically unstable in nature, identifying such system and then designing an effective controller is very demanding. this paper proposes identification and control strategy for real-time magnetic levitation system based on fractional theory and an orthogonal series. Without removing the controller from the loop, the unknown system is identified in form of low-order fractional model accurately. then, a new fractional controller namely FOPID (fractional-order-proportional-integral-derivative) is tuned to improve the system performance. Real-time experiment study clearly illustrates the effectiveness of the presented tuning method.
Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. the state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation typically ...
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Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. the state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation typically rely on the knowledge of scene structure of the frame and the correspondence between frames. However, withthe availability of large RGB-D data captured from depth sensors, learning representations for estimation of scene flow has become possible. this paper introduces a first effort to apply a deep learning method for direct estimation of scene flow by presenting a fully convolutional neural network with an encoder-decoder (ED) architecture. the proposed network SceneEDNet involves estimation of three dimensional motion vectors of all the scene points from sequence of stereo images. the training for direct estimation of scene flow is done using consecutive pairs of stereo images and corresponding scene flow ground truth.
this paper proposes a point memory-based adaptive gain robust controller with L 2 gain performance for a class of uncertain linear systems with state delays. the point memory adaptive gain robust controller presented...
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this paper proposes a point memory-based adaptive gain robust controller with L 2 gain performance for a class of uncertain linear systems with state delays. the point memory adaptive gain robust controller presented in this paper consists of a fixed gain controller and a adaptive gain one. In this paper, we show that LMI-based sufficient conditions for the existence of the proposed adaptive gain robust controller are presented. Finally, a simple illustrative example is included to show the effectiveness of the proposed robust control system.
Stabilization of the inverse model of the target system is a critical problem in a current disturbance observer (DOB) based control scheme. When the system is identified as a second order system by the recursive least...
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Stabilization of the inverse model of the target system is a critical problem in a current disturbance observer (DOB) based control scheme. When the system is identified as a second order system by the recursive least square (RLS) algorithm, the minimum phase (MP) of the model is not guaranteed. this paper addresses a guaranteed minimum phase method of the identified second order model. Jury's test is conducted to check the stability. All-Pass-Filtering (APF) process are conducted for updating prior parameters of RLS to satisfy the minimum phase criteria. To verify the proposal, a single-wheel robot is identified as a second order model by the RLS method with guaranteed stability. Disturbance observer is designed based on the model. Balancing control experiments of a single-wheel robot are conducted.
this paper studies the design of a distributed sensor scheduling policy for a sensor network, in which each dynamical target can only be measured by partial sensors due to the restriction of sensor resources while eac...
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this paper studies the design of a distributed sensor scheduling policy for a sensor network, in which each dynamical target can only be measured by partial sensors due to the restriction of sensor resources while each sensor requires to monitor all targets. Consensus Kalman filtering algorithm and stochastic scheduling strategy are applied. Firstly, a necessary condition of the observation probabilities of the targets, which can guarantee the boundedness of the expected covariance of the network, is provided. Secondly, the marginal utility of the expected covariance with respect to the observation probability is proved. then, an algorithm is proposed to compute the optimal probabilities, which requires less complex calculations. Numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithms.
this paper addresses the problem of motion planning for a multirobot system in a partially known environment where conditions such as uncertainty about robots' positions and communication delays are real. In parti...
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this paper addresses the problem of motion planning for a multirobot system in a partially known environment where conditions such as uncertainty about robots' positions and communication delays are real. In particular, we detail the use of a Distributed Receding Horizon Approach that guarantees collision avoidance with static obstacles and between robots communicating with each other. Underlying optimization problems are solved by using a Sequential Least Squares Programming algorithm. Experiments with real nonholonomic mobile platforms are performed. the proposed framework is compared withthe Dynamic Window approach to motion planning in a single robot setup. A second experiment shows results for a multirobot case using two robots where collision is avoided even in presence of significant localization uncertainties.
We present an integrated, open-source platform for the control of assistive vehicles. the system is vehicle-agnostic and can be controlled using a myoelectric interface to translate muscle contractions into vehicular ...
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We present an integrated, open-source platform for the control of assistive vehicles. the system is vehicle-agnostic and can be controlled using a myoelectric interface to translate muscle contractions into vehicular commands. A modular shared-control system was used to enhance safety and ease of use, and three collision avoidance systems were included and verified in both an included test platform and on a quadcopter operating in a simulated environment. Seven subjects performed the experiments and rated the user experience of the system under each of the provided collision avoidance systems with positive results. Qualitative tests withthe quadcopter validated the proposed system and shared-control techniques. this open-source platform for shared control between humans and machines integrates decoding of motor volition withcontrol engineering to expedite further investigation into the operation of mobile robots.
this paper presents an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) push recovery operation using model predictive control (MPC) and moving horizon estimation (MHE) in a symmetric manner. this utilization is motivated by the active ...
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this paper presents an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) push recovery operation using model predictive control (MPC) and moving horizon estimation (MHE) in a symmetric manner. this utilization is motivated by the active use of UAVs, particularly for the contact based inspection of the surrounding's ceilings. To enable a physical interaction operation by an optimization-based algorithm, a primal-dual quadratic programming (QP) solver is structured for the MPC and MHE. the designed system consists of (a) an interaction model to be implemented both on the control and the estimation;(b) an integral action in the predictive controller;(c) a disturbance estimation by MHE to update the MPC. Consequently, the nominal MPC, the integral action in MPC, and the disturbance observer based MPC are compared for a UAV push recovery operation. the numerical investigations demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach.
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