Which technologies and algorithmic design are suitable for both the control strategy and the communication protocol to ensure robustness within a robotic swarm? The aim of this study is to answer this question. The st...
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Which technologies and algorithmic design are suitable for both the control strategy and the communication protocol to ensure robustness within a robotic swarm? The aim of this study is to answer this question. The study is performed by obtaining an understanding of the field of swarm robotics and proposing a robotic swarm system with robustness in mind. The robotic swarm system contains possible solutions for the con- trol strategy, the communication protocol, hardware design and an in-room localization method. The innovative part of this swarm system is the idea of joining communication and control in a cooperative manner, based on previous studies on different robotic swarms. The communication protocol was designed to establish a mesh topology using the Thread protocol, MQTT-SN and ROMANOs. ROMANOs is a new application overlay protocol based on ROMANO, and is first introduced in this project. The control strategy introduces a potential-field based PID-controller, designed for its efficiency and practical approach. The cooperation between communication and control is the fact that the estimation of signal strength values will directly affect the potential fields of the control strategy. The control strategy will then initiate control actions to maintain the communication network. The hardware design platform consists of two printed circuit boards that houses all neces- sary electronics to realize the swarm algorithm, and a 3D-printed cylindrical chassis. The in-room localization method is based on ranging measurements from laser sensors, signal strength estimates and heading computations based on magnetometer data. A listening device consisting of a Node. JS MQTT module is created in order to acquire performance data from the swarm which is stored in an SQL database and further analysed in MATLAB. The proposed swarm application yields a mostly favorable, but mixed result. The joint control- and communication algorithm is successful in finding a local minima within
This paper provide new developments in the design of observers for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown inputs whose nonlinear functions satisfy Lipschitz condition. The proposed methods guarantee the error syste...
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This paper provide new developments in the design of observers for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown inputs whose nonlinear functions satisfy Lipschitz condition. The proposed methods guarantee the error system stability without requiring the rank condition and also yield many additional degrees of freedom available to the designer. The algorithms for designing a nonlinear observer for the nonlinear systems with unknown inputs is precisely derived. The proposed observers may be used for the state estimation and fault diagnosis. A nonlinear mass-spring-damper model is given in order to highlight the efficiency of the proposed method.
University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. December ***: Aerospace Engineering and mechanics. Advisor:DemozGebre-Egziabher. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 74pages.%%%%Personal navigation concerns the tracking of humanbeings via...
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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. December ***: Aerospace Engineering and mechanics. Advisor:DemozGebre-Egziabher. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 74pages.%%%%Personal navigation concerns the tracking of humanbeings via devices carried or worn by individuals and presents aunique set of challenges in regards to navigation system andalgorithm design. Many conventional position ˉxing and deadreckoning approaches tend to perform poorly given the requirementsfor personal navigation, which may consider GNSS-deniedenvironments, a wide, highly dynamic range of motion, and low-costand small form-factor sensor limitations. A novel approach toassisting or augmenting other navigation algorithms by employing akinetic model of human gait is presented in this thesis. Thekinetic model in concert with a single-axis accelerometer is shownhere to comprise a virtual sensor capable of providing step sizeestimates in-situ for straight forward walking. Furthermore, thecombination of the kinetic model and accelerometer yields anavigation solution of comparable or better performance whencompared to a step counting dead reckoning approach. The derivationof this model is discussed, details of the experiments are given,and results are shown
Current health monitoring systems often do not concern about the needs of the elderly,leading to inaccurate health status monitoring and delayed treatment for emergency health ***,they do not consider the variable fac...
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Current health monitoring systems often do not concern about the needs of the elderly,leading to inaccurate health status monitoring and delayed treatment for emergency health ***,they do not consider the variable factors affecting each patient,resulting in discrepancies between the measured values and real health *** solve the problems,we propose a new health monitoring system with physiological parameter measurement,correction,and *** study collects clinical samples of the elderly to formulate regression equations and statistical models for analyzing the relationship between gender,age,measurement time,and physical *** multiple adjustments to measurements of physical signs,the correction algorithm compares the data with a standard *** process significantly reduces the risk of misjudgment while matching users’health status more *** application case of this paper proves the validity of the method for measuring and correcting heart rate results in the elderly and presents a specific correction ***,the correction algorithm provides a scientific basis for eliminating or modifying other influencing factors in future health monitoring studies.
Several methods have been used to solve structural optimum design problems since the creation of a need for light weight design of structures and there is still no single method for solving the optimum design problems...
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Identifying the critical nodes in a network is crucial for understanding its characteristics, controlling its structure, and determining its functionality. Cardinality-constrained CNP (CC-CNP) is a nondeterministic po...
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Identifying the critical nodes in a network is crucial for understanding its characteristics, controlling its structure, and determining its functionality. Cardinality-constrained CNP (CC-CNP) is a nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard combinatorial optimization problem that refers to minimizing a set of nodes such that after deletion, the size of the largest connected component in the residual subgraph is smaller than a prescribed value. CC-CNP is applicable to a variety of fields, such as epidemic and infectious disease control, electric power network construction and maintenance, and traffic network *** this work, we present a multistage local search (MSLS) algorithm for generating high-quality initial solutions for CC-CNP, where two strategies, circular node deletion and node change and the tabu search-based first in, first out (FIFO) principle, are utilized to prevent search detours. Then, a population-based strategy is incorporated, resulting in a genetic algorithm-based multistage local search algorithm (GAMSLS) that adopts a genetic algorithm framework, refines the initial solutions in the crossover process, and utilizes a new population update strategy to ensure the diversity and individual quality of the population. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on 75 network instances and is shown to outperform state-of-the-art algorithms for CC-CNP.
This diploma thesis maps pupils understanding about a functional principle of using commands along with testing conditions (IF, IF - THEN, REPEAT - UNTIL, etc.) when creating algorithms. The main aim of the thesis is ...
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This diploma thesis maps pupils understanding about a functional principle of using commands along with testing conditions (IF, IF - THEN, REPEAT - UNTIL, etc.) when creating algorithms. The main aim of the thesis is to design and implement a set of lessons and a teaching approach based on a theory about learning of algorithmic concepts at primary education for pupils (aged in 9-11) with the intention of verifying a functionality of designed teaching procedures and their possible impacts on pupils understanding. Data was collected through continuous monitoring of pupils behavioural characteristics, progress and solution of chosen tasks, video recordings of task solving within the suggested unplugged activities, using a virtual tool *** for monitoring of a pupils progress, audio recordings of interview with pupils, and photographs capturing a creation of own blocks of commands set up by a transcription from pupils mother language into a machine language (programming language) have all been used for a verification process of the designed teaching approach. By combining the acquired data sets, adjustments of these procedures have been made in order to eliminate the most frequent problems that pupils have encountered during teaching. The case study findings revealed that it is important for...
Accurate and reliable measurement of real-world walking activity is clinically relevant, particularly for people with mobility difficulties. Insights on walking can help understand mobility function, disease progressi...
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Accurate and reliable measurement of real-world walking activity is clinically relevant, particularly for people with mobility difficulties. Insights on walking can help understand mobility function, disease progression, and fall risks. People living in long-term residential care environments have heterogeneous and often pathological walking patterns, making it difficult for conventional algorithms paired with wearable sensors to detect their walking activity. We designed two walking bout detection algorithms for people living in long-term residential care. Both algorithms used thresholds on the magnitude of acceleration from a 3-axis accelerometer on the lower back to classify data as "walking" or "non-walking". One algorithm had generic thresholds, whereas the other used personalized thresholds. To validate and evaluate the algorithms, we compared the classifications of walking/non-walking from our algorithms to the real-time research assistant annotated labels and the classification output from an algorithm validated on a healthy population. Both the generic and personalized algorithms had acceptable accuracy (0.83 and 0.82, respectively). The personalized algorithm showed the highest specificity (0.84) of all tested algorithms, meaning it was the best suited to determine input data for gait characteristic extraction. The developed algorithms were almost 60% quicker than the previously developed algorithms, suggesting they are adaptable for real-time processing.
We present a comprehensive global sensitivity analysis of two single-objective and two multi-objective state-of-the-art global optimization evolutionary algorithms as an algorithm configuration problem. That is, we in...
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We present a comprehensive global sensitivity analysis of two single-objective and two multi-objective state-of-the-art global optimization evolutionary algorithms as an algorithm configuration problem. That is, we investigate the quality of influence hyperparameters have on the performance of algorithms in terms of their direct effect and interaction effect with other hyperparameters. Using three sensitivity analysis methods, Morris LHS, Morris, and Sobol, to systematically analyze tunable hyperparameters of covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary strategy, differential evolution, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm III, and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition, the framework reveals the behaviors of hyperparameters to sampling methods and performance metrics. That is, it answers questions like what are hyperparameters influence patterns, how they interact, how much they interact, and how much their direct influence is. Consequently, the ranking of hyper -parameters suggests their order of tuning, and the pattern of influence reveals the stability of the algorithms.
It is difficult to mine online buying behavior data by ignoring the classification of online buying behavior data, and the precision and recall are both on the low side. The training set of online buying behavior data...
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It is difficult to mine online buying behavior data by ignoring the classification of online buying behavior data, and the precision and recall are both on the low side. The training set of online buying behavior data is processed by top-down recursion, and a single decision tree is created recursively, and a decision tree classification model is constructed. Based on the classification results of behavior data, the regular estimation of online shopping features is calculated by preprocessing customer behavior features, and the deep mining algorithm is designed. Experimental results show that the decision tree model has good data clustering effect. Based on this, the precision and recall of online shopping behavior data mining are high, and the application performance is ideal.
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