This paper addresses a stable vision system for indoor moving robot using encoder information. The proposed system uses encoder signals to calculate robot motion and rotates the camera in order to fix the target on th...
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(纸本)9781617825583
This paper addresses a stable vision system for indoor moving robot using encoder information. The proposed system uses encoder signals to calculate robot motion and rotates the camera in order to fix the target on the image frame during locomotion. Since the calculation of rotating angle of the camera is based on the integration of encoder data over time, this leads to the unbounded accumulation of error. To prevent the error accumulation, vision sensor signals are used periodically to compensate for the errors. The resulting standard deviations of the rotated camera angle error were 0.94°, 0.32° and 1.55° for rotation, translation and rotation-translation combined motion while the robot heading angles have standard deviations of 23.27°, 16.56° and 48.53°, respectively. However, the system shows performance degradation in slippery ground conditions. In our experiments the errors have trends to increase with the decrease of friction coefficient between the ground and the robot wheels. Future work should overcome this problem using additional sensors such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) that are able to detect the correct robot motion even in the case of slip disturbance.
This paper describes the wild land firefighting domain in terms of its implications for Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) types of mobile ground robots. The descriptive analysis is based on a focus group hosted by t...
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(纸本)9781615675807
This paper describes the wild land firefighting domain in terms of its implications for Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) types of mobile ground robots. The descriptive analysis is based on a focus group hosted by the Texas engineering Extension Service with eight subject matter experts and nine technologists. Wildland fire fighting is characterized by the large area affected and the longer duration of the response, on the order of weeks or months. The focus group identified six potential functions of a ground robot: 1)transport supplies, hoses, trunk lines, and people, 2) reconnoiter the fire direction, speed, and other attributes, 3) direct fire suppression, 4) identify hot spots under canopies using thermal imaging, 5) investigate areas for fire hazards from dead trees and level burnt remnants, and 6) serve as a movable weather station determining wind speed and direction, relative humidity, fuel moisture and fuel temperature. The desired functions, when combined with the general organizational, economic, and manpower constraints, in turn lead to anticipated requirements for seven capabilities. These are mobility, navigation, sensing, communications, dexterity, reusability, and transportability. The description of the needed functionality and capabilities is expected to be of use to hardware and software developers.
Recently lifestyle‐related diseases have become an object of public concern, while at the same time people are being more health conscious. As an essential factor for causing the lifestyle‐related diseases, we assum...
Recently lifestyle‐related diseases have become an object of public concern, while at the same time people are being more health conscious. As an essential factor for causing the lifestyle‐related diseases, we assume that the knowledge circulation on dietary habits is still insufficient. This paper focuses on everyday meals close to our life and proposes a well‐balanced menu planning system as a preventive measure of lifestyle‐related diseases. The system is developed by using a Web‐based frontend and it provides multi‐user services and menu information sharing capabilities like social networking services (SNS). The system is implemented on a Web server running Apache (HTTP server software), MySQL (database management system), and PHP (scripting language for dynamic Web pages). For the menu planning, a genetic algorithm is applied by understanding this problem as multidimensional 0–1 integer programming.
Color image histograms are very useful tools for content based image retrieval (CBIR) that can be applied on features such as colour, texture and shape. As these kinds of histograms results with large variations betwe...
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Color image histograms are very useful tools for content based image retrieval (CBIR) that can be applied on features such as colour, texture and shape. As these kinds of histograms results with large variations between neighbouring bins, they seem so sensitive to any kind of changes such as noise, illumination. To overcome this problem, in this paper, fuzzy linking histogram approach based on OWA aggregation operator is proposed, which is capable of projecting 3-dimensional (L*a*b*) colour histograms into single-dimension. The proposed method have been evaluated and compared with five other related methods in retrieving similar images from the common dataset which is available on http://***/~konkonst. The experimental results on 100 images within two categories of Cat and Sky reveals better performance of the proposed method in comparison with the other mentioned methods.
A new data structure dynamic watermarking scheme is proposed in this paper. Using Shamir threshold scheme and block encryption, the watermark is divided into several shares. Then these shares are embedded into the dyn...
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A new data structure dynamic watermarking scheme is proposed in this paper. Using Shamir threshold scheme and block encryption, the watermark is divided into several shares. Then these shares are embedded into the dynamic branch structure of program. Code obfuscation technique is applied during embedding. Our scheme provides watermarks with increased robustness, decreased visibility and higher cost performance ratio.
This paper is devoted to the problem of H filtering for a class of neutral stochastic systems with both discrete and distributed time-varying *** objective is to design a full order filter such that the resulting filt...
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This paper is devoted to the problem of H filtering for a class of neutral stochastic systems with both discrete and distributed time-varying *** objective is to design a full order filter such that the resulting filtering error system is stochastically asymptotically stable with a prescribed H∞performance *** on the stability theory of stochastic systems,a delay-dependent and rate-dependent sufficient condition for the existence of filter is obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs).The corresponding filter design method is also proposed,while the explicit expression for the desired filter is given.A numerical example is finally included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
This paper presents adaptive neural tracking control for a class of non-affine pure-feedback systems with multiple unknown state time-varying delays. The separation technique is introduced to decompose unknown functio...
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This paper presents adaptive neural tracking control for a class of non-affine pure-feedback systems with multiple unknown state time-varying delays. The separation technique is introduced to decompose unknown functions of all time-varying delayed states into a series of continuous functions of each delayed state. A novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is employed to compensate for the unknown function of current delayed state, which is effectively free from any restrictive assumption on unknown time-delay functions. The proposed control scheme guarantees the boundedness of all the signals in the closed-loop system and the tracking *** studies are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
The last few years have witnessed an increasing interest in modular reconfigurable robotics for education, inspired robotic research, and space applications. This paper presents the latest results of the cube-M modula...
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The last few years have witnessed an increasing interest in modular reconfigurable robotics for education, inspired robotic research, and space applications. This paper presents the latest results of the cube-M modular project. Firstly, an overview of the research achievements in modular robot is given. Then the new modular robot cube-M with one degree of freedom, an improved version of the Y1 modular robot, is presented. After that, the discussion focuses on the realization of a distributed hardware and control. Each module has embedded intelligent capabilities with an independent onboard controller to enable the realization of completely modular design. In the end, a snake-like robot prototype is built to confirm the feasibility of our design principle.
Fingerprint recognition algorithm based on minutiae has large computation, slow recognition speed as a result of complex processing, such as image enhance, smooth, binary, and thinning. A novel fingerprint recognition...
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Abstract This paper addresses a stable vision system for indoor moving robot using encoder information. The proposed system uses encoder signals to calculate robot motion and rotates the camera in order to fix the tar...
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Abstract This paper addresses a stable vision system for indoor moving robot using encoder information. The proposed system uses encoder signals to calculate robot motion and rotates the camera in order to fix the target on the image frame during locomotion. Since the calculation of rotating angle of the camera is based on the integration of encoder data over time, this leads to the unbounded accumulation of error. To prevent the error accumulation, vision sensor signals are used periodically to compensate for the errors. The resulting standard deviations of the rotated camera angle error were 0.94°, 0.32° and 1.55° for rotation, translation and rotation-translation combined motion while the robot heading angles have standard deviations of 23.27°, 16.56° and 48.53°, respectively. However, the system shows performance degradation in slippery ground conditions. In our experiments the errors have trends to increase with the decrease of friction coefficient between the ground and the robot wheels. Future work should overcome this problem using additional sensors such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) that are able to detect the correct robot motion even in the case of slip disturbance.
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