This work investigates three energy-shaping control approaches to address the trajectory-tracking problem for specific classes of underactuated mechanical systems. In particular, the notions of contractive systems and...
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This paper considers the problem of robust eigenstructure assignment, which involves finding a feedback gain matrix that makes the closed-loop system insensitive to perturbations or parameter variations. The main cont...
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Having a robust speech recognition scheme that can be relied upon in different environments is a strong requirement for modern systems. Previous works in field of lipreading mainly have used a level of segmentation at...
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When dealing with target tracking problem for maneuvering targets, it may be the case that a first order extended Kalman filter can not track the target and diverges due to neglecting the higher order terms of Taylor ...
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Color Doppler Twinkling Artifact (TA) images acquired from the internal body stones contain coded information about the roughness level of the tissue calculi which can be used for treatment management. The TA time ser...
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Heart sound segmentation is the primary step in automatic diagnosis of heart sounds. Since heart sound components have great diversity in frequency and amplitude, the focus of this paper is on time domain analysis. Ti...
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This paper proposes some methods to improve the fault-tolerance in distributed systems specifically in deterministic situations by distributed decision-making and co-ordination. Providing a distributed system with fau...
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This paper proposes some methods to improve the fault-tolerance in distributed systems specifically in deterministic situations by distributed decision-making and co-ordination. Providing a distributed system with fault tolerance is a feasible but hard problem due to the intrinsic aspects of such systems such as: independency, unpredictability and communication problem. A multi-agent system as an instance of distributed system, can handle different kinds of fault by using traditional fault tolerance techniques. But what 'focused in this paper are agent-based techniques. In fact, proposed methods are based on agent-based help provision by distributed cooperation among helper agents. The helpers try to tune their normal roles such that they can undertake the faulty agents' tasks too. These helpers go through a sub-optimal task selection algorithm, to decide whom to help. It is important to remark that there is no explicit interaction;instead they coordinate their decisions implicitly by adopting the most appropriate task in terms of their speed, relative reliability and the task's criticality coefficient. Proposed ideas are tested on a DCS-like testbed to improve its fault tolerance. The results illustrate the effectiveness of the approaches in comparison to the case of no help situation and the case of using purely redundant components.
Simulation of crowd behaviors in emergency contexts is a critical issue concerning human lives. However, lack of human behavioral data in most of current simulation tools made them unrealistic. This is partially becau...
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Aphasia is a language disability that has several subdivisions such as Anomic, Broca, Global, and Wernicke. Some reasons such as dissension in description of aphasia and its symptoms, large number of test items which ...
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This paper presents an automated algorithm for shadow regions detection in IVUS images using a histogram modification method for threshold selection. The method employs the Type2 Fuzzy Set together with spatial inform...
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