Bilateral teleoperation offers an intriguing solution towards shared autonomy with aerial vehicles in contact-based inspection and manipulation tasks. Omnidirectional aerial robots allow for full pose operations, maki...
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(纸本)9781728196817
Bilateral teleoperation offers an intriguing solution towards shared autonomy with aerial vehicles in contact-based inspection and manipulation tasks. Omnidirectional aerial robots allow for full pose operations, making them particularly attractive in such tasks. Naturally, the question arises whether standard bilateral teleoperation methodologies are suitable for use with these vehicles. In this work, a fully decoupled 6DoF bilateral teleoperation framework for aerial physical interaction is designed and tested for the first time. The method is based on the well established rate control, recentering and interaction force feedback policy. However, practical experiments evince the difficulty of performing decoupled motions in a single axis only. As such, this work shows that the trivial extension of standard methods is insufficient for omnidirectional teleoperation, due to the operator's physical inability to properly decouple all input DoFs. This suggests that further studies on enhanced haptic feedback are necessary.
Natural gas load forecasting is crucial for the safe operation of urban natural gas. Based on the system identification method, the short-term natural gas load forecasting is studied in the paper. Employing a multi-st...
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Correspondence learning is a fundamental problem in robotics, which aims to learn a mapping between state, action pairs of agents of different dynamics or embodiments. However, current correspondence learning methods ...
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(纸本)9781728196817
Correspondence learning is a fundamental problem in robotics, which aims to learn a mapping between state, action pairs of agents of different dynamics or embodiments. However, current correspondence learning methods either leverage strictly paired data-which are often difficult to collect-or learn in an unsupervised fashion from unpaired data using regularization techniques such as cycle-consistency-which suffer from severe misalignment issues. We propose a weakly supervised correspondence learning approach that trades off between strong supervision over strictly paired data and unsupervised learning with a regularizer over unpaired data. Our idea is to leverage two types of weak supervision: i) temporal ordering of states and actions to reduce the compounding error, and ii) paired abstractions, instead of paired data, to alleviate the misalignment problem and learn a more accurate correspondence. The two types of weak supervision are easy to access in real-world applications, which simultaneously reduces the high cost of annotating strictly paired data and improves the quality of the learned correspondence. We show the videos of the experiments on our website.
The control of swarm systems is relatively well understood for simple robotic platforms at the macro scale. However, there are still several unanswered questions about how similar results can be achieved for microrobo...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665459730
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665459730
The control of swarm systems is relatively well understood for simple robotic platforms at the macro scale. However, there are still several unanswered questions about how similar results can be achieved for microrobots. In this paper, we propose a modeling framework based on a dynamic model of magnetized self-propelling Janus microrobots under a global magnetic field. We verify our model experimentally and provide methods that can aim at accurately describing the behavior of microrobots while modeling their simultaneous control. The model can be generalized to other microrobotic platforms in low Reynolds number environments.
Planning the motion of bearings-only sensors is critical for enabling accurate tracking of the positions of moving targets. In this paper, we demonstrate planning the observer's motion over horizons greater than o...
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(纸本)9781728196817
Planning the motion of bearings-only sensors is critical for enabling accurate tracking of the positions of moving targets. In this paper, we demonstrate planning the observer's motion over horizons greater than one step for estimating an unknown and varying number of indistinguishable, maneuvering targets of interest using a probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter, with a Renyi divergence reward for selecting actions. We describe approximations to make this approach computationally feasible, and we propose using Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) to further reduce the cost. Finally, we present simulation results showing that longer planning horizons reduce the error in the estimates and that MCTS can reduce the cost of planning without sacrificing the quality of the estimates.
Electronic component is one of the key design elements considered during the development of automotive ECU (Electronic Control Unit). As the current state-of-the-art method, FEM (Finite-Element Method) simulation is w...
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(纸本)9798350353808
Electronic component is one of the key design elements considered during the development of automotive ECU (Electronic Control Unit). As the current state-of-the-art method, FEM (Finite-Element Method) simulation is widely used for thermal design optimization and solder joint reliability assessment of electronics at early stage of ECU development. To address the challenges of modeling fidelity and efficiency, the AI (Artificial Intelligence) integrated automated simulation workflow platform is developed. Leveraging standard and Bosch in-house developed Python libraries called "pyact", an Ansys-based automation toolset has been developed which accelerates the simulation workflow. With the assistance of AI methodologies, more precise electronic component models could be expected during calibration process. This paper presents 3 different industrial practices and examples focusing on the board level thermal management and solder joint reliability assessment. The first industrial example presents the standardization and automatization of the reliability simulation workflow of chip-resistor components. Utilizing Ansys ACT (Application Customization Toolkit), basic APIs (Application Programming Interface) of ACT are encapsulated into the Python library as pyact, enabling a fully automated simulation workflow to predicted solder joint lifetime. To further realize the fast assessment of reliability and component virtual release, an AI metamodel is derived from automated simulation-based DoE (Design of Experiments). For pursuit of accuracy for simulation models, the second industrial example presents the combination of Bayesian Optimization with BGA (Ball Grid Array) warpage calibration process to outperform the traditional manual methods. The third industrial example outlines another application of Bayesian optimization into the Zth (Transient Thermal Impedance) calibration process for component thermal models. Utilizing the multi-objective optimization algorithm, the Zth c
This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating (interpolating and smoothing) the shape (pose and the six modes of deformation) of a slender flexible body from multiple camera measurements. This problem is impo...
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(纸本)9781728196817
This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating (interpolating and smoothing) the shape (pose and the six modes of deformation) of a slender flexible body from multiple camera measurements. This problem is important in both biology, where slender, soft, and elastic structures are ubiquitously encountered across species, and in engineering, particularly in the area of soft robotics. The proposed mathematical formulation for shape estimation is physics-informed, based on the use of the special Cosserat rod theory whose equations encode slender body mechanics in the presence of bending, shearing, twisting and stretching. The approach is used to derive numerical algorithms which are experimentally demonstrated for fiber reinforced and cable-driven soft robot arms. These experimental demonstrations show that the methodology is accurate (<5 mm error, three times less than the arm diameter) and robust to noise and uncertainties.
Nowadays, it is important to implement intellectual analysis methods in information systems of different areas. Processes in such systems are described by temporal data and can be presented in the form of time series....
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This paper presents an integrated motion planning system for autonomous vehicle (AV) parking in the presence of other moving vehicles. The proposed system includes 1) a hybrid environment predictor that predicts the m...
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(纸本)9781728196817
This paper presents an integrated motion planning system for autonomous vehicle (AV) parking in the presence of other moving vehicles. The proposed system includes 1) a hybrid environment predictor that predicts the motions of the surrounding vehicles and 2) a strategic motion planner that reacts to the predictions. The hybrid environment predictor performs short-term predictions via an extended Kalman filter and an adaptive observer. It also combines short-term predictions with a driver behavior cost-map to make long-term predictions. The strategic motion planner comprises 1) a model predictive control-based safety controller for trajectory tracking;2) a search-based retreating planner for finding an evasion path in an emergency;3) an optimization-based repairing planner for planning a new path when the original path is invalidated. Simulation validation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of initial planning, motion prediction, safe tracking, retreating in an emergency, and trajectory repairing.
In this paper, a distributed coordinated control method of dual-arm reconfigurable manipulators based on adaptive dynamic programming is proposed. Through kinematic analysis, the dynamic models of the reconfigurable m...
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