The quality of skills learned by robots from demonstrations depends on the level of demonstration by the instructor, while models such as Dynamic Motion Primitives (DMP) are extremely sensitive to the quality of demon...
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In the automation upgrading process of traditional labor-intensive industries, positioning method of workpiece affects the automated operation quality, efficiency, and system cost directly. Traditional workpiece posit...
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Although it has many design restrictions, the discipline of power electronics is essential to robotics and automation applications. Key design restrictions are examined in this study, including those related to dynami...
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Automatic drilling systems based on 6-DOF robots are widely used in aviation manufacturing and other fields. However, as traditional serial robots with weak stiffness, the influence of stiffness on the machining syste...
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(纸本)9798331517939;9788993215380
Automatic drilling systems based on 6-DOF robots are widely used in aviation manufacturing and other fields. However, as traditional serial robots with weak stiffness, the influence of stiffness on the machining system cannot be ignored in loading or working. Thus, it is significant to recognize the stiffness characteristic of robotic drilling systems precisely and rapidly. This paper presents a comprehensive study of the mechanical properties of serial manipulators, specifically focusing on stiffness and vibration theories. A novel model, the serial rigid links connected by elastic joints (SRLCEJ) with Spong's joints, is introduced to describe the pose deformations under external forces, considering the links as rigid bodies for equivalent joint stiffness conversion. The paper further proposes a dynamic stiffness recognition method, integrating modal vibration theory. The efficacy and accuracy of the proposed theories and methods are validated through simulation results. The findings confirm that joint stiffness parameters can be obtained by vibration responses. In this method, the system stiffness properties can be estimated by neither setting any additional sensor on the end effector nor undertaking any other test when the robot reaches a new posture, which would be more convenient to operate. and may play an important role in robot dynamic stiffness control, online measurement, and real-time error compensation.
Parkinson's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disorder that affects sensorimotor control. In particular, several gait impairments are reported, including a decrease of long-range autocorrelations in stride dur...
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(纸本)9781728196817
Parkinson's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disorder that affects sensorimotor control. In particular, several gait impairments are reported, including a decrease of long-range autocorrelations in stride duration time series. This complex statistics is potentially a biomarker of the risk of falling. This paper aims at developing model-based predictions about the loss of long-range autocorrelations in the gait of Parkinsonian patients, and how these autocorrelations can be restored by an oscillator-based walking assistance. Using a Super Central Pattern Generator model coupled with an adaptive oscillator, we show that this type of assistance has the potential to improve long-range autocorrelations in time series of Parkinsonian walkers. This requires however to tune the adaptive oscillator with slow learning gains, raising challenges for porting this method to an actual device.
Autonomous robotics and mechatronics have drastically changed the manufacturing and healthcare sectors by increasing productivity, precision, and flexibility. This work addresses the pressing need for new methods to a...
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Loop closure detection is an important building block that ensures the accuracy and robustness of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. Due to their generalization ability, CNN-based approaches have re...
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(纸本)9781728196817
Loop closure detection is an important building block that ensures the accuracy and robustness of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. Due to their generalization ability, CNN-based approaches have received increasing attention. Although they normally benefit from training on datasets that are diverse and reflective of the environments, new environments often emerge after the model is deployed. It is therefore desirable to incorporate the data newly collected during operation for incremental learning. Nevertheless, simply finetuning the model on new data is infeasible since it may cause the model's performance on previously learned data to degrade over time, which is also known as the problem of catastrophic forgetting. In this paper, we present AirLoop, a method that leverages techniques from lifelong learning to minimize forgetting when training loop closure detection models incrementally. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of AirLoop on TartanAir, Nordland, and RobotCar datasets. To the best of our knowledge, AirLoop is one of the first works to achieve lifelong learning of deep loop closure detectors.
In this study, our focus is on exploring the implications of incorporating release date constraints into both mathematical models and heuristic methods designed to tackle the hybrid flow shop problem with dedicated ma...
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The success of motion prediction for autonomous driving relies on integration of information from the HD maps. As maps are naturally graph-structured, investigation on graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding HD maps...
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(纸本)9781728196817
The success of motion prediction for autonomous driving relies on integration of information from the HD maps. As maps are naturally graph-structured, investigation on graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding HD maps is burgeoning in recent years. However, unlike many other applications where GNNs have been straightforwardly deployed, HD maps are heterogeneous graphs where vertices (lanes) are connected by edges (lane-lane interaction relationships) of various nature, and most graph-based models are not designed to understand the variety of edge types which provide crucial cues for predicting how the agents would travel the lanes. To overcome this challenge, we propose Path-Aware Graph Attention, a novel attention architecture that infers the attention between two vertices by parsing the sequence of edges forming the paths that connect them. Our analysis illustrates how the proposed attention mechanism can facilitate learning in a didactic problem where existing graph networks like GCN struggle. By improving map encoding, the proposed model surpasses previous state of the art on the Argoverse Motion Forecasting dataset, and won the first place in the 2021 Argoverse Motion Forecasting Competition.
This paper presents a novel control approach for autonomous systems operating under uncertainty. We combine Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control with Covariance Steering (CS) theory to obtain a robust control...
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(纸本)9781728196817
This paper presents a novel control approach for autonomous systems operating under uncertainty. We combine Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control with Covariance Steering (CS) theory to obtain a robust controller for general nonlinear systems. The proposed Covariance-Controlled Model Predictive Path Integral (CC-MPPI) controller addresses the performance degradation observed in some MPPI implementations owing to unexpected disturbances and uncertainties. Namely, in cases where the environment changes too fast or the simulated dynamics during the MPPI rollouts do not capture the noise and uncertainty in the actual dynamics, the baseline MPPI implementation may lead to divergence. The proposed CC-MPPI controller avoids divergence by controlling the dispersion of the rollout trajectories at the end of the prediction horizon. Furthermore, the CC-MPPI has adjustable trajectory sampling distributions that can be changed according to the environment to achieve efficient sampling. Numerical examples using a ground vehicle navigating in challenging environments demonstrate the proposed approach.
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