Auditory perception is one of the most important functions for robotics applications. Microphone arrays are widely used for auditory perception in which the spatial structure of microphones is usually known. In practi...
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Artificial Immune Systems (AISs) are composed of techniques inspired by immunology. The clonal selection principle ensures the organism adaptation to fight invading antigens by an immune response activated by the bind...
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Recently, a method for estimating permittivity distributions was reported. The method combined a numerical technique (Finite Element Method) with Genetic Algorithm (GA). However, methods for estimating the distributio...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of applications requiring extensive communications either to interconnect the UAVs with each other or to connect them with Ground Cont...
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This work shows the production of optical channel waveguides in polymethyl methacrylate slabs. A writing technique employing an Argon laser at 488 nm was used. Parameters in the writing step were adjusted to obtain wa...
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This work shows the production of optical channel waveguides in polymethyl methacrylate slabs. A writing technique employing an Argon laser at 488 nm was used. Parameters in the writing step were adjusted to obtain waveguides with different characteristics. Writing scanning speeds of 5 mm/s, 3 mm/s and 1 mm/s resulted in waveguides widths of 0.4 mm, 0.5 mm and 0.8 mm, respectively. Transversal profiles of refractive index of waveguides were measured by means of Optical Coherence Tomography. Guiding capability was determined by the near field pattern diffraction.
Designed to Delay Tolerant Networks, the Cultural Greedy GrAnt (CGrAnt) routing protocol uses Ant Colony Optimization to represent the population space of a Cultural Algorithm. CGrAnt aims to improve the message forwa...
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Designed to Delay Tolerant Networks, the Cultural Greedy GrAnt (CGrAnt) routing protocol uses Ant Colony Optimization to represent the population space of a Cultural Algorithm. CGrAnt aims to improve the message forwarding by analyzing the network characteristics based on three distinct knowledge: Domain, History, and Situational. The Domain knowledge plays a central role in the CGrAnt operation as it provides a good balance between search space exploration (through the selection of new solutions) and exploitation (through the selection of previously found solutions). This work proposes alternative metrics to be used by the Domain knowledge of CGrAnt. Results show that the new proposed metrics increase the CGrAnt performance.
Image reconstruction based on inverse problems has the potential for providing good image quality in ultrasound imaging. In this paper, two Inverse Problems-Based (IPB) methods, i.e., Regularized Least Squares (RLS) a...
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Image reconstruction based on inverse problems has the potential for providing good image quality in ultrasound imaging. In this paper, two Inverse Problems-Based (IPB) methods, i.e., Regularized Least Squares (RLS) and the iterative Conjugated Gradient (CG), are evaluated in comparison to the traditional Delay-And-Sum (DAS) Beamrfoming method. It is shown an improvement from 0:36mm to 0:2mm for the axial resolution when comparing the traditional DAS method with the IPB methods, showing the high potential of the method for improving image quality. Similarly, an improvement from 0:5mm to 0:2mm in lateral resolution was found. Further evaluation need to be carried out using data from actual ultrasound systems when noise and speckle is expected.
We present an evolutionary algorithm for the inference of context-free grammars from positive and negative examples. The algorithm is based on genetic programming and uses a local optimization operator that is capable...
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This work shows a method to determine, in real time, external impact location on planar structures based on responses of optical fiber strain sensors. In order to demonstrate experimentally the sensing approach, four ...
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This work shows a method to determine, in real time, external impact location on planar structures based on responses of optical fiber strain sensors. In order to demonstrate experimentally the sensing approach, four fibre Bragg gratings were attached to a polymeric board for detecting the disturbance caused by a drop weight impact. An artificial neural network was used to process the sensor responses and to identify the quadrant location of the impact on the structure. The results demonstrate that such location can be predicted with correct classification rate of approximately 85.0% in validation step.
Many normal and pathological biological processes involve the migration of epithelial cell sheets. This arises from complex emergent behaviour resulting from the interplay between cellular signalling networks and the ...
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Many normal and pathological biological processes involve the migration of epithelial cell sheets. This arises from complex emergent behaviour resulting from the interplay between cellular signalling networks and the forces that physically couple the cells. Here, we demonstrate that collective migration of an epithelium can be interactively guided by applying electric fields that bias the underlying signalling networks. We show that complex, spatiotemporal cues are locally interpreted by the epithelium, resulting in rapid, coordinated responses such as a collective U-turn, divergent migration, and unchecked migration against an obstacle. We observed that the degree of external control depends on the size and shape of the cell population, and on the existence of physical coupling between cells. Together, our results offer design and engineering principles for the rational manipulation of the collective behaviour and material properties of a tissue.
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