In this paper, we propose a continuous-time-based LiDAR-inertial-vehicle odometry method, which can tightly fuse the data from Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), inertial measurement units (IMU), and vehicle measure...
In this paper, we propose a continuous-time-based LiDAR-inertial-vehicle odometry method, which can tightly fuse the data from Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), inertial measurement units (IMU), and vehicle measurements. The lateral acceleration constraint is further added to trajectory estimation to make the estimated trajectory follow the motion characteristics of vehicles. In addition, since vehicle model parameters vary with different motion conditions and tyre pressure, we estimate vehicle correction factors that rectify changes in vehicle model parameters online, and also analyze the observability of these vehicle correction factors. In experiments, the proposed method is evaluated and compared with state-of-the-art methods in the public dataset. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves more accurate results in all sequences since we add additional sensor measurements and utilize the characteristic of vehicle motion to restrict the trajectory estimation. The ablation study also proved the effectiveness of continuous-time representation, online correction factor estimation, and incorporation of lateral acceleration constraint.
Inspired by human proteins that are synthesized from only 20 types of amino acids, the development of self-assembly methods that allow robots to be built simply by randomly stirring the parts has been explored for man...
Inspired by human proteins that are synthesized from only 20 types of amino acids, the development of self-assembly methods that allow robots to be built simply by randomly stirring the parts has been explored for many years. The key challenges include how to synthesize parts in pieces into a three-dimensional functional structure in a practical time, and subsequently, achieve a controlled robotic motion, all with minimal human intervention. This study proposes a method of self-assembling a 3D robot by first self-assembling random parts into a 2D structure and then self-folding it into a 3D shape. Once self-folded, the robot, whose compositional parts contain magnets, becomes capable of performing basic tasks such as block-pushing upon an application of an external magnetic field. Self-assembly from parts into a two-dimensional structure was performed by repeatedly colliding the parts with each other, and combining them with complementary-shaped parts, like matching jigsaw puzzle pieces. Self-folding was performed by shrinking a heat-responsive film attached across the hinge of each assembly part in hot water, causing the entire 2D structure to self-fold. The experiment demonstrated a series of 13 parts self-assembling into the shape of a 3D beetle, then walking and pushing an object in 13 minutes. The self-assembly process is programmed (mechanically) to generate the same geometry even if the number of parts is greater than the necessary number for the structure, thus is capable of generating multiple structures simultaneously.
With the growth of the communication industry, the demand for spectrum resources has been increasing steadily. However, the spectrum resources are limited and the utilization rate is low. In this case, Cognitive Radio...
With the growth of the communication industry, the demand for spectrum resources has been increasing steadily. However, the spectrum resources are limited and the utilization rate is low. In this case, Cognitive Radio (CR) technologies and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technology are proposed to improve the number of user access and spectrum resource utilization. In this paper, we consider a CR-inspired NOMA network and propose a power allocation problem based on a time-varying system. Due to the dynamic nature of CR, traditional methods are often faced with problems such as low training efficiency and high network volatility. To address the problem, we propose a novel Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) algorithm with quantum world model, interacting with the environment in the quantum way. Specifically, we construct a quantum soft actor-critic algorithm using variable quantum circuit (VQC), and the experience data is encoded into a quantum sum tree and transformed into quantum world model. Simulation results show the superior performance of the proposed framework.
Human pose estimation and tracking are fundamental tasks for understanding human behaviors in videos. Existing top-down framework-based methods usually perform three-stage tasks: human detection, pose estimation and t...
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Field transformation, as an extension of the transformation optics, provides a unique means for nonreciprocal wave manipulation, while the experimental realization remains a significant challenge as it requires string...
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Computation offloading is one of the key issues in mobile edge computing (MEC) that alleviates the tension between user equipment's limited capabilities and mobile application's high requirements. To achieve m...
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(数字)9798350383508
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350383515
Computation offloading is one of the key issues in mobile edge computing (MEC) that alleviates the tension between user equipment's limited capabilities and mobile application's high requirements. To achieve model-free computation offloading when reliable MEC dynamics are unavailable, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a popular methodology. However, most existing DRL-based offloading approaches are developed for a single MEC environment, with invariant system bandwidth, edge capability, task types, etc., while realistic MEC scenarios tend to be of high diversity. Unfortunately, in multi-MEC environments, DRL-based offloading faces at least two challenges, learning inefficiency and interference of offloading experiences. To address the challenges, we propose a DRL-based Multi-environmental Module-compositional Modelfree computation OFFloading (M
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OFF) framework. M
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OFF generates offloading policies using module composition instead of a single DRL network so that learning efficiency could be improved by reusing the same modules and learning interference could be reduced by composing different modules. Furthermore, we design multiple module composition-specific training methods for M
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OFF, including alternate modules-and-composer updates to improve training stability, loss-regularization to avoid module degeneration, and module-dropout to mitigate overfitting. Extensive experimental results on both simulation and testbed demonstrate that M
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OFF outperforms the performances of most state-of-the-arts in multi-MEC and reaches close to single-MEC.
Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training via periodically synchronizing model updates among participants. Communication overhead becomes a dominant constraint of FL since participating clients usually suff...
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(数字)9798350383508
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350383515
Federated learning (FL) enables distributed training via periodically synchronizing model updates among participants. Communication overhead becomes a dominant constraint of FL since participating clients usually suffer from limited bandwidth. To tackle this issue, top-k based gradient compression techniques are broadly explored in FL context, manifesting powerful capabilities in reducing gradient volumes via picking significant entries. However, previous studies are primarily conducted on the raw gradients where massive spatial redundancies exist and positions of non-zero (top-k) entries vary greatly between gradients, which both impede the achievement of deeper compressions. Top-k may also degrade the performance of trained models due to biased gradient estimations. Targeting the above issues, we propose FedTC, a novel transform coding based compression framework. FedTC transforms gradients into a new domain with more compact energy distributions, which facilitates reducing spatial redundancies and biases in subsequent sparsification. Furthermore, non-zero entries across clients from different rounds become highly aligned in the transform domain, motivating us to partition the gradients into smaller entry blocks with various alignment levels to better exploit these alignments. Lastly, positions and values of non-zero entries are independently compressed in a block-wise manner with our customized designs, through which a higher compression ratio is achieved. Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments consistently demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) can outperform classical reinforcement learning (RL) by utilizing quantum parallel theory and quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement. Although some excellent work...
Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) can outperform classical reinforcement learning (RL) by utilizing quantum parallel theory and quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement. Although some excellent work has been done on QRL, most existing works either fail to show the exponential advantage of quantum computation over classical computation in terms of performance or are too demanding on quantum devices. In this paper, we provide a novel perspective on combining quantum computing and RL with faster convergence speed and relatively relaxed demands on quantum devices. Specifically, we propose a method to construct a world model with quantum circuit that allows it to interact in a quantum way. In addition, we use Grover's algorithm to efficiently extract high-value information from the quantum world model. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed method can have superior performance compared to classical RL algorithms.
Hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration aims at recov-ering clean images from degraded observations and plays a vital role in downstream tasks. Existing model-based methods have limitations in accurately modeling the co...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350353006
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350353013
Hyperspectral image (HSI) restoration aims at recov-ering clean images from degraded observations and plays a vital role in downstream tasks. Existing model-based methods have limitations in accurately modeling the com-plex image characteristics with handcraft priors, and deep learning-based methods suffer from poor generalization ability. To alleviate these issues, this paper proposes an unsupervised HSI restoration framework with pre-trained diffusion model (HIR-Diff), which restores the clean HSls from the product of two low-rank components, i.e., the re-duced image and the coefficient matrix. Specifically, the re-duced image, which has a low spectral dimension, lies in the image field and can be inferred from our improved diffusion model where a new guidance function with total variation (TV) prior is designed to ensure that the reduced image can be well sampled. The coefficient matrix can be effectively pre-estimated based on singular value decomposition (SVD) and rank-revealing QR (RRQR) factorization. Fur-thermore, a novel exponential noise schedule is proposed to accelerate the restoration process (about 5 x acceleration for denoising) with little performance decrease. Ex-tensive experimental results validate the superiority of our method in both performance and speed on a variety of HSI restoration tasks, including HSI denoising, noisy HSI super-resolution, and noisy HSI inpainting. The code is available at https://***/LiPang/HIRDiff.
In recent years, there has been significant advancement in object detection. However, applying off-the-shelf detectors to a new domain leads to significant performance drop, caused by the domain gap. These detectors e...
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