Utilization of inertial actuators, such as torque wheels, for vibration damping of a single-link flexible manipulator is considered. The torque wheel is mounted at the end effector of the manipulator to provide a bend...
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Utilization of inertial actuators, such as torque wheels, for vibration damping of a single-link flexible manipulator is considered. The torque wheel is mounted at the end effector of the manipulator to provide a bending moment at the tip for vibration suppression and pointing purposes. The torque exerted by the torque wheel at the end-effector of the manipulator is achieved through controlling the velocity of the torque wheel. A decentralized control scheme is advocated in this paper for slewing and vibration suppression. The local loop around the torque wheel is closed through feedback of the accelerometer signal at the tip. Experimental results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method for end-effector positioning of flexible-link manipulators. Although the experimental results reported are for a single-link flexible manipulator, the results are applicable to the multi-link case. It may be shown that the dynamics from the voltage input to the torque wheel mounted at the tip to the tip position is minimum phase and hence invertible given that an inner-loop controller has been applied to stabilize the rigid-body motion.< >
This paper reviews progress in developing a mathematical framework to evaluate the performance of mobile radio links. It takes into account multi-ray multipath fading with Rician or Nakagami probability density, logno...
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This paper reviews progress in developing a mathematical framework to evaluate the performance of mobile radio links. It takes into account multi-ray multipath fading with Rician or Nakagami probability density, lognormal shadowing and path loss of wanted and interfering transmitters, additive white Gaussian noise, man-made burst noise and discontinuous transmission. The method uses Laplace transforms of the PDF of the power of each interfering signal. This method is computationally efficient and allows inclusion of a wide range of link aspects. We also show that, in contrast to common belief, it is not realistic to approximate the Rician fading of the wanted signal by a Nakagami model. New results are given for microcells along highways.
Al planning systems must be able to update their internal model of the domain in order to determine the effects of a possible action. The most widely used update method is the STRIPS operator. STRIPS operators are ext...
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This paper proposes a radio architecture that offers two-way transmission services essential to intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) using only a single (30 kHz) radio channel. Within this bandwidth multiple com...
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This paper proposes a radio architecture that offers two-way transmission services essential to intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) using only a single (30 kHz) radio channel. Within this bandwidth multiple communication services can be supported, including datacasting, packet switched transmission to and from vehicles, collection of traffic data from probe vehicles and transmission of emergency messages. The design is based on theoretical investigations reported at PIMRC '93 and VTC '94 on packet-switched downlink transmissions and ALOHA random access for traffic reports from probe vehicles, respectively. These analyses revealed that contiguous frequency reuse gives optimum packet delay and highest spectrum efficiency. New results are included for datacasting messages to groups of vehicles.
Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of estimators and controllers meeting desired H/sub /spl infin// performance criterion are given for the case where the finite sensor delays exist. A complete characte...
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of estimators and controllers meeting desired H/sub /spl infin// performance criterion are given for the case where the finite sensor delays exist. A complete characterization of such controllers is also presented. The necessary and sufficient conditions are computable and are framed in terms of two algebraic Riccati equations and one finite-horizon Riccati differential equation. The controllers and estimators that are obtained here have a linear periodic structure and are easily implementable. At the foundation of these results lies a modified Nehari problem, the state space solution for which may be of independent interest.
In this paper we discuss pattern generations and switching for robot manipulators to perform tasks under qualitative changes of the dynamic environment. The approach is to compose continuous type artificial neural ele...
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In this paper we discuss pattern generations and switching for robot manipulators to perform tasks under qualitative changes of the dynamic environment. The approach is to compose continuous type artificial neural elements as an oscillator based on mutual entrainment and generate trajectories for the manipulators. Using the neural oscillator, juggling control of manipulators is considered as a concrete task, and a method to alternate patterns of the trajectories according to the change of the desired value and environment is proposed. Some numerical examples show the efficiency of the proposed method.< >
A code division multiple access detector that employs a combination of a decorrelator and a multidimensional interference canceler is considered. The weights of the canceler are adaptively controlled using a steepest ...
A code division multiple access detector that employs a combination of a decorrelator and a multidimensional interference canceler is considered. The weights of the canceler are adaptively controlled using a steepest descent algorithm. The probability of error is evaluated and compared to those of the decorrelating detector and a similar, fixed-weights scheme that requires an estimation of received signal energies. It is shown that the proposed two-stage detector provides substantial improvement over the decorrelating detector, particularly in the presence of strong interfering signals. This is especially noticeable in the high bandwidth efficiency cases. It is also observed that in the presence of weak interferers, the proposed scheme performs better than its fixed-weights counterpart.
A code division multiple access detector that employs a combination of a correlation detector and a multiuser adaptive interference canceler was previously proposed by the authors. The weights of the canceler are adap...
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A code division multiple access detector that employs a combination of a correlation detector and a multiuser adaptive interference canceler was previously proposed by the authors. The weights of the canceler are adaptively controlled by the steepest descent algorithm using the minimum power criterion of the canceler outputs. It was shown that such a canceler substantially outperforms the decorrelating detector and has almost the same error probability as a canceler that uses reliable estimates of the received signal energies. In this paper, a different weight control criterion based on minimizing the correlation between the signals at the outputs of the canceler is used, and its performance is compared to that obtained with the minimum power criterion. It is shown that both cancelers have almost the same performance, particularly when SNR is modestly high. Although it is not shown in this paper, we believe that minimizing correlation rather than power outputs is a more suitable criterion when dealing with highly dispersive channels.< >
The decision feedback equalizer has the advantage of compensating for channel amplitude distortion without enhancing noise. Conventional decision feedback equalizers require a training sequence to help them adapt to u...
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The decision feedback equalizer has the advantage of compensating for channel amplitude distortion without enhancing noise. Conventional decision feedback equalizers require a training sequence to help them adapt to unknown channel characteristics. Training sequences are not always appropriate. In such situations blind equalizers are more suitable. The blind decision feedback equalizer inherits from the conventional the advantage of not enhancing noise, while compensating for severe ISI. It is thus superior over the blind linear equalizer. On the other hand the blind decision feedback equalizer also suffers from error propagation. In this paper we study the transient behavior of the blind DFE. This is done by deriving an upper bound on the probability of error due to residual ISI and show that it vanishes for the noiseless case. We also determine lower and upper bounds on the probability of error for the additive white Gaussian noise case. The upper bound obtained is the same as that of Duttweiler, et al. (1974). Using a different approach from that of Duttweiler, et al., we derive a lower bound. This bound is tighter than tile "no ISI" lower bound.< >
A discrete-time algorithm for simple adaptive control (SAG) was proposed by Shibata and Kurebayashi (1993). The algorithm solves the problem of additional time delay arising in discretization of continuous-time algori...
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A discrete-time algorithm for simple adaptive control (SAG) was proposed by Shibata and Kurebayashi (1993). The algorithm solves the problem of additional time delay arising in discretization of continuous-time algorithm, and therefore becomes reliable in theoretical strictness. This paper applies the algorithm to the position control of a DC motor with variable load, Experimental results illustrate satisfactory performance even if the load is largely changed.< >
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