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.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of L2-L∞ filtering for a class of stochastic linear continuous repetitive processes. Attention is focused on the design of full-order filter that guarantees the filtering err...
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In this paper, we investigate the problem of L2-L∞ filtering for a class of stochastic linear continuous repetitive processes. Attention is focused on the design of full-order filter that guarantees the filtering error repetitive processes to be mean-square asymptotically stable and to have a prespecified L2-L∞ performance γ with respect to all energy-bounded input signals. Sufficient conditions are proposed in terms of linear matrix inequality, and the corresponding filter design is cast into a convex optimization problem. A numerical example illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed design scheme.
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.
The modified analytic embedded atom method (MAEAM) model and the anharmonic theory are used to study the bulk modulus of fcc A1 metal. The result shows that the bulk modulus can be described by a quadratic function ...
The modified analytic embedded atom method (MAEAM) model and the anharmonic theory are used to study the bulk modulus of fcc A1 metal. The result shows that the bulk modulus can be described by a quadratic function of temperature. The result is in good agreement with the experimental data and theoretical results calculated by the first principle calculation etc. This outcome indicates that the temperature dependence of the bulk modulus for f cc A1 metal can be academically studied with the MAEAM model combining with the anharmonic theory.
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 deals with the problem of robust stochastic stabilization for Markovian jump nonlinear singular systems with Wiener process via a fuzzy-control approach. The Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is employed to r...
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This paper deals with the problem of robust stochastic stabilization for Markovian jump nonlinear singular systems with Wiener process via a fuzzy-control approach. The Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is employed to represent a nonlinear singular system with norm-bounded parameter uncertainties and Markovian jump parameters. The purpose of the robust stochastic stabilization problem is to design a state feedback fuzzy controller such that the closed-loop fuzzy system is robustly stochastically stable for all admissible uncertainties. Linear matrix inequality (LMI) sufficient conditions are developed to solve the above problem. The expression of desired state feedback fuzzy controller is given. Finally, a numerical simulation is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
As the number of deployed sensor nodes is increasing, the requirement for reprogramming becomes more important. While reprogramming operation runs, sensor nodes must use little energy due to its limited energy charact...
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As the number of deployed sensor nodes is increasing, the requirement for reprogramming becomes more important. While reprogramming operation runs, sensor nodes must use little energy due to its limited energy characteristic. Many kinds of conventional studies about reprogramming have tried to solve the energy consumption problem. However, they have not considered the entire sensor network system for reprogramming. In this paper, we propose the novel encoding and decoding scheme for energy-efficient reprogramming. It reduces the number of usage times at Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), program memory, and radio during the reprogramming procedure. Experimental results show that our scheme outperforms the previous reprogramming schemes in terms of the energy consumption.
A distributed medium access control (D-MAC) protocol has been proposed to support high-rate wireless personal area networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. The WiMedia D-MAC solves the problems of the IEEE 802.15....
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A distributed medium access control (D-MAC) protocol has been proposed to support high-rate wireless personal area networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. The WiMedia D-MAC solves the problems of the IEEE 802.15.3 MAC caused its centralized architecture. However, due to mobility of WiMedia devices in multi-hop environment, DRP (distributed reservation protocol) reservation conflicts happen frequently among devices within three-hop range distance. To solve this problem, we propose a new DRP reservation scheme using a new 2-hop range DRP availability IE for three-hop mobility support in WiMedia MAC with ultrawideband (UWB) technology. It is shown by simulation results that throughputs of devices at frequent three-hop range DRP reservation conflicts are largely increased.
Because traditional genetic algorithm has the phenomenon of prematureconvergence and can not guarantee the diversity of population in the processionof evolution, a noval path planning algorithm, for mobile robots in c...
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This paper develops an integrated strategy for maintaining voltage stability for online applications. The proposed strategy employs real time data in the computation of a voltage stability index for voltage stability ...
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This paper develops an integrated strategy for maintaining voltage stability for online applications. The proposed strategy employs real time data in the computation of a voltage stability index for voltage stability monitoring and control. The index chosen allows for the fast evaluation of the voltage stability margin for real-time assessment. A fast control operation based on fuzzy logic control is used to determine the VAr compensation required for the mitigation of occurrences of voltage instability.
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