Automatic monitoring of beach video streams is important for improving safety, environmental monitoring, research, and education related to beach activities. This paper introduces a novel approach for monitoring water...
Automatic monitoring of beach video streams is important for improving safety, environmental monitoring, research, and education related to beach activities. This paper introduces a novel approach for monitoring water bodies by analyzing beach video streams. In contrast to earlier works, in the proposed approach we analyze not only the behavior of water bodies, or of humans on beach videos, but also the interactions between them. By integrating human activity and water behavior analysis, the approach provides new insights that are unattainable by analyzing each separately. To accomplish this objective, deep neural networks are utilized to analyze video streams from existing beach webcams. The analysis includes the detection and tracking of people and waves, as well as higher level analysis. We use the task of characterizing surfing conditions as a case study and demonstrate our ability to estimate the values of key parameters that can help determine the quality of a surf spot at a given time.
In recent years, the application of robotics has significantly advanced many fields, providing robust performance and efficiency in complex tasks without the need for human intervention. Robot control is a key area of...
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(数字)9798331542726
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(纸本)9798331542733
In recent years, the application of robotics has significantly advanced many fields, providing robust performance and efficiency in complex tasks without the need for human intervention. Robot control is a key area of robotics that has received a lot of interest and technological development. Active Disturbance Rejection Controllers (ADRCs) are widely adopted due to several features, including their ability to maintain robust performance and effectively reject disturbances. The manual tuning of controller parameters is time-consuming and highlights the need for automation. This paper presents an innovative approach to tune the parameters of ADRC using Reinforcement Learning (RL) based on Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) for a Differential Drive Mobile Robot (DDMR). The RL agent learns the ideal parameters of the ADRC through real-time, iterative interactions with the simulated environment, improving ADRC's performance without manual tuning. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed idea in improving the trajectory tracking performance. Combining RL and ADRC provides a promising automated controller tuning solution, opening the door to more intelligent and adaptive robotic systems. 10.0pt.
Designing high-power-delivery and low-system-mass electric power systems (EPS) is a major goal to achieve the next generation of electrified aircraft. As one of its major components, cables must be redesigned to obtai...
Designing high-power-delivery and low-system-mass electric power systems (EPS) is a major goal to achieve the next generation of electrified aircraft. As one of its major components, cables must be redesigned to obtain high-power-density and low-system-mass EPS. Among challenges in designing aircraft cables such as arc and arc tracking, partial discharges (PD), and thermal management, the latter is decisive since the thermal properties of the cable determine its maximum ampacity. The maximum permissible current of a cable depends on radiative and convective heat transfers from its surface to the ambient environment. At the cruising altitude (12.2 km) of wide-body aircraft where the air pressure is 18.8 kPa, the convective heat transfer is greatly reduced which results in a reduction in maximum permissible current. Moreover, both radiative and convective heat transfers depend on the surface area of the cable. One way to increase the heat transfers and compensate for the reduction of convective heat transfer from a limited air pressure is to change the geometry of the cable. The cuboid geometry design provides a larger contact area with the ambient environment for the same cross-section area, so it is expected that the heat transfer will increase compared to conventional cylindrical cables, and in turn, the maximum power carrying capacity of the cable will be larger. Here, the question is whether the hypothesis is true, and if so, how much improvement can be expected. The purpose of this paper is to answer these questions and, for the first time, an MVDC (5 kVdc) high power (1 kA) cuboid shape cable is designed for future AEA to increase the maximum permissible current of the cable.
This paper studies the relationship between a graph neural network (GNN) and a manifold neural network (MNN) when the graph is constructed from a set of points sampled from the manifold, thus encoding geometric inform...
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This paper presents a numerical investigation of positive streamers in a liquid-solid composite dielectric system, specifically in the context of wet-mate DC connectors. The study focuses on the influence of different...
This paper presents a numerical investigation of positive streamers in a liquid-solid composite dielectric system, specifically in the context of wet-mate DC connectors. The study focuses on the influence of different materials and relative permittivity values of the solid dielectric on streamer behavior. The study employs a non-dimensionalized electric field-dependent molecular ionization streamer model to describe the initiation and propagation of streamers within a needle-sphere electrode system. A 2D-axisymmetric COMSOL model is utilized, where a solid tube-like dielectric is placed near the needle tip in an electrode system filled with transformer oil. The effects of varying relative permittivity values on the electric field distribution, streamer propagation velocity, ionization and attachment rates, and spatiotemporal evolution of charged species (electrons, positive ions, and negative ions) are studied. By analyzing these aspects, the paper aims to enhance the understanding of streamer dynamics and provide valuable information for optimizing the design and performance of equipment utilizing liquid-solid composite dielectric systems.
In this talk, I will present recent advancements on understanding and controlling the radiative and non-radiative recombination rates in various 2D semiconductor systems. I will discuss the mechanisms by which non-rad...
In this talk, I will present recent advancements on understanding and controlling the radiative and non-radiative recombination rates in various 2D semiconductor systems. I will discuss the mechanisms by which non-radiative recombination can be fully suppressed in TMDC monolayers, resulting in near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield at room temperature despite the presence of large defect densities. I will discuss an AC carrier injection mechanism to enable bright light emitting devices using monolayers, overcoming the problem of Schottky contacts. Finally, I will discuss potential applications for black phosphorous (BP) thin films for midwave-IR photo detection and emission. Specifically, the BP based devices are shown to exhibit higher detectivity and luminescence efficiencies over state-of-the-art III-V and II-VI devices in mid-IR, owing to the lower Auger recombination rates and unusually low surface recombination velocity.
This paper investigates the consensus problem for linear multi-agent systems with the heterogeneous disturbances generated by the Brown *** main contribution is that a control scheme is designed to achieve the dynamic...
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This paper investigates the consensus problem for linear multi-agent systems with the heterogeneous disturbances generated by the Brown *** main contribution is that a control scheme is designed to achieve the dynamic consensus for the multi-agent systems in directed topology interfered by stochastic *** traditional ways,the coupling weights depending on the communication structure are static.A new distributed controller is designed based on Riccati inequalities,while updating the coupling weights associated with the gain matrix by state errors between adjacent *** introducing time-varying coupling weights into this novel control law,the state errors between leader and followers asymptotically converge to the minimum value utilizing the local *** the Lyapunov directed method and It?formula,the stability of the closed-loop system with the proposed control law is *** simulation results conducted by the new and traditional schemes are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of the developed control method.
With the development of urbanization, the number of residents' motor vehicles has increased sharply, and traffic congestion problem has become increasingly serious. The construction of Intelligent Traffic System (...
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We demonstrate high-resolution cryogenic photoluminescence measurements on exciton complexes emitting ≈ 1 µm of a single-site-controlled highly-symmetric quantum dot-nanocavity system. Observed fine spectral fea...
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This work introduces EffiSegNet, a novel segmentation framework leveraging transfer learning with a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier as its backbone. Deviating from traditional architectures w...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350371499
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350371505
This work introduces EffiSegNet, a novel segmentation framework leveraging transfer learning with a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier as its backbone. Deviating from traditional architectures with a symmetric U-shape, EffiSegNet simplifies the decoder and utilizes full-scale feature fusion to minimize computational cost and the number of parameters. We evaluated our model on the gastrointestinal polyp segmentation task using the publicly available Kvasir-SEG dataset, achieving state-of-the-art results. Specifically, the EffiSegNet-B4 network variant achieved an F 1 score of 0.9552, mean Dice (mDice) 0.9483, mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) 0.9056, Precision 0.9679, and Recall 0.9429 with a pre-trained backbone – to the best of our knowledge, the highest reported scores in the literature for this dataset. Additional training from scratch also demonstrated exceptional performance compared to previous work, achieving an F 1 score of 0.9286, mDice 0.9207, mIoU 0.8668, Precision 0.9311 and Recall 0.9262. These results underscore the importance of a well-designed encoder in image segmentation networks and the effectiveness of transfer learning approaches.
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