The determination of the content of impurities is a very frequent analysis performed on virgin olive oil samples, but the official method established in the European norm CE 2568/91 is quite work-intensive, and it wou...
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The determination of the content of impurities is a very frequent analysis performed on virgin olive oil samples, but the official method established in the European norm CE 2568/91 is quite work-intensive, and it would be convenient to have an alternative approximate method to evaluate the performance of the impurity removal process. In this work we develop a system based on computervision and pattern recognition to classify the content of impurities of the olive oil samples in three sets, indicative of the goodness of the separation process of olive oil after its extraction from the paste. Starting from the histograms of the channels of the RGB, CIELAB and HSV color spaces, we construct an initial input parameter vector and perform a feature extraction previous to the classification. Several linear and non-linear feature extraction techniques were evaluated, and the classifiers used were Support Vector Machines. The best classification rate achieved was 87.66%, obtained using KPCA and a grade-3-polynomial kernel SVM.
This paper presents a navigation system for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which merges standard dead reckoning navigation data with absolute position fixes from an Ultra-Short Base Line (USBL) system. Traditi...
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This paper presents a navigation system for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which merges standard dead reckoning navigation data with absolute position fixes from an Ultra-Short Base Line (USBL) system. Traditionally, the USBL transceiver is located on the surface, which makes necessary to feed the position fixes back to the AUV by means of an acoustic modem. An Information filter, which maintains a bounded circular buffer of past vehicle poses, is in charge of the sensor data fusion while dealing with the delays induced by the acoustic communication. The method is validated using a data set gathered for a dam inspection task.
This paper addresses the challenge of developing techniques for the effective teaching of computervision. It reports on the experience of using the technique of project-based learning as a motivating method for teach...
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This paper addresses the challenge of developing techniques for the effective teaching of computervision. It reports on the experience of using the technique of project-based learning as a motivating method for teaching computervision strategies within the context of a Master's program module in Visual Perception at the University of Girona (Spain). Students were asked to generate projects which involved the use of invariant features, i.e. algorithms to detect and describe local features in images. Within this project-based context, students were encouraged to search for information resources that would accompany their project ideas. Every student team was supervised by a tutoring instructor and periodic meetings were scheduled during this six-week project to follow their progress.
This paper presents a novel approach for augmenting simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with planning. We use dynamically generated topological maps in conjunction with a utility function to decide which acti...
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This paper presents a novel approach for augmenting simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with planning. We use dynamically generated topological maps in conjunction with a utility function to decide which actions the robot should perform in order to improve mapping efficiency. We execute a series of simulated and real experiments in order to study the performance of the proposed approach and results show a significant improvement of mapping efficiency.
Localization is a fundamental problem that arises in many potential applications. The use of wireless technologies to perform localization has been a trend in recent years. Most existing approaches use the received si...
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Localization is a fundamental problem that arises in many potential applications. The use of wireless technologies to perform localization has been a trend in recent years. Most existing approaches use the received signal strength indication (RSSI) to localize. In general, one of the several existing wireless standards such as ZigBee, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, is chosen as the target standard. In this paper we present an experimental study on the use of multiple wireless technologies to perform mobile robot localization in indoor environments. We use real ZigBee and Wi-Fi compliant devices. In our study we analyse results obtained by fusing robot odometry data with distance estimations between the robot and wireless beacons. These distances are estimated based on the RSSI obtained from radio frequency (RF) signals received from those technologies compliant devices. The extended kalman filter (EKF) is used to fuse these information. We show that robots equipped with multiple wireless interfaces from different technologies can achieve better localization in regions where the coverage of one technology is reduced (e.g., we show that the robot can maintain a reasonable localization accuracy even in areas where Wi-Fi coverage is very poor, due to the presence of Zigbee sensor nodes). We also present a discussion of advantages and challenges of using multiple wireless technologies to perform localization in indoor environments.
The ability to perceive possible interactions with the environment is a key capability of task-guided robotic agents. An important subset of possible interactions depends solely on the objects of interest and their po...
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The ability to perceive possible interactions with the environment is a key capability of task-guided robotic agents. An important subset of possible interactions depends solely on the objects of interest and their position and orientation in the scene. We call these object-based interactions 0-order affordances and divide them among non-hidden and hidden whether the current configuration of an object in the scene renders its affordance directly usable or not. Conversely to other works, we propose that detecting affordances that are not directly perceivable increase the usefulness of robotic agents with manipulation capabilities, so that by appropriate manipulation they can modify the object configuration until the seeked affordance becomes available. In this paper we show how 0-order affordances depending on the geometry of the objects and their pose can be learned using a supervised learning strategy on 3D mesh representations of the objects allowing the use of the whole object geometry. Moreover, we show how the learned affordances can be detected in real scenes obtained with a low-cost depth sensor like the Microsoft Kinect through object recognition and 6D0F pose estimation and present results for both learning on meshes and detection on real scenes to demonstrate the practical application of the presented approach.
We consider the scenario where an autonomous platform that is searching or traversing a building may observe unstable masonry or may need to travel over unstable rubble. A purely behaviour-based system may handle thes...
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Recent work by Mullane, Vo, and Adams has re-examined the probabilistic foundations of feature-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), casting the problem in terms of filtering with random finite sets. Alg...
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Recent work by Mullane, Vo, and Adams has re-examined the probabilistic foundations of feature-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), casting the problem in terms of filtering with random finite sets. Algorithms were developed based on Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filtering techniques that provided superior performance to leading feature-based SLAM algorithms in challenging measurement scenarios with high false alarm rates, high missed detection rates, and high levels of measurement noise. We investigate this approach further by considering a hierarchical point process, or single-cluster multi-object, model, where we consider the state to consist of a map of landmarks conditioned on a vehicle state. Using Finite Set Statistics, we are able to find tractable formulae to approximate the joint vehicle-landmark state based on a single Poisson multi-object assumption on the predicted density. We describe the single-cluster PHD filter and the practical implementation developed based on a particle-system representation of the vehicle state and a Gaussian mixture approximation of the map for each particle. Synthetic simulation results are presented to compare the novel algorithm against the previous PHD filter SLAM algorithm. Results presented indicate a superior performance in vehicle and map landmark localization, and comparable performance in landmark cardinality estimation.
The analysis of the quality of a virgin olive oil involves the determination of a series of chemical indexes and organoleptic characteristics. In this work we propose an online prediction model for three chemical inde...
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The analysis of the quality of a virgin olive oil involves the determination of a series of chemical indexes and organoleptic characteristics. In this work we propose an online prediction model for three chemical indexes: acidity, peroxide index and humidity content, based on an hyperspectral artificial vision system. Two methods have been developed for the construction of the model: (1) partial least squares regression (PLS) using all the captured spectral components, and (2) partial least squares regression over a subset of the components obtained applying a genetic algorithm (GA-PLS). The design and validation was carried out using olive oil samples from different seasons analysed by a renowned laboratory.
In this paper, we present an inexpensive system for diverless video capture and fast image stitching of image frames for rapid reef assessment of shallow coral reefs. Our system has two main components: 1) Teardrop, a...
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