Most existing decision-theoretic planners represent uncertainty about the state of the world with a precisely specified probability distribution over world states. This representation is not expressive enough to model...
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The regulation problem of linear discrete-time systems under state and control constraints is investigated. In the first part of the paper necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to the con...
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The regulation problem of linear discrete-time systems under state and control constraints is investigated. In the first part of the paper necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to the constrained control problem are established. The constructive form of the proof of this result provides also a method for the derivation of a control law transferring to the origin any state belonging to a given set of initial states while respecting the state and control constraints. Then a design technique for the determination of a solution to the constrained control problem is developed. The proposed technique is based on the reduction of the constrained control problem to simple linear programming problems.
A robust internal force-based impedance control scheme for coordinating manipulators is introduced. Internal force-based impedance control enforces a relationship between the velocity of each manipulator and the inter...
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A robust internal force-based impedance control scheme for coordinating manipulators is introduced. Internal force-based impedance control enforces a relationship between the velocity of each manipulator and the internal force on the manipulated objects and requires no knowledge of the object dynamic model. Each manipulator's nonlinear dynamics is compensated by a robust auxiliary controller which is insensitive to robot-model uncertainty and payload variation. The controller is only weakly-dependent on each manipulator's inertia matrix. Stability of the system is analyzed. The scheme is computationally inexpensive and suitable for general-purpose microcomputer implementation. Rigorous experimental investigations are performed and the results presented which validate the proposed concepts.
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R.G. BonitzT.C. HsiaSystems
Control and Robotics Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Los Angeles Davis CA USA
An internal force-based impedance control scheme for two coordinating robots manipulating a rigid object via palm grasping is introduced. The minimal internal force required to maintain the grasp on the object is comp...
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An internal force-based impedance control scheme for two coordinating robots manipulating a rigid object via palm grasping is introduced. The minimal internal force required to maintain the grasp on the object is computed from the frictional constraints and sensed forces. A closed-form solution to the minimization problem is developed which makes the algorithm suitable for real-time control. The controller uses sensed moments at the palm interface to maintain proper orientation of the palms to achieve maximum surface contact. Each manipulator's nonlinear dynamics is compensated by a robust auxiliary controller which is insensitive to robot-model uncertainty and payload variation. The controller is only weakly-dependent on each manipulator's inertia matrix. Stability of the system is analyzed. Rigorous experimental investigations are are performed and the results presented which validate the proposed concepts.
Short-range scatterometer systems are used to obtain radar backscatter signatures for understanding the interaction between electromagnetic energy and geophysical media in a number of remote sensing applications. Unli...
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Short-range scatterometer systems are used to obtain radar backscatter signatures for understanding the interaction between electromagnetic energy and geophysical media in a number of remote sensing applications. Unlike long-range and intermediate-range radar systems, the sensitivity of short-range radars is not limited by thermal noise, but rather by reflections and leakage signals from the antenna and RF section. These leakage signals and their sidelobes are the primary sources of unwanted signals (coherent noise) in short-range FM radar systems. The authors have employed coherent noise reduction techniques to reduce the effects of these unwanted signal sources. Reduction of these coherent noise sources is critical to obtaining accurate backscatter measurements from geophysical targets. Recent advances include the use of phase correction to overcome limitations due to drift of local oscillators and effects of temperature changes on the system. The authors present results from the standard and phase-corrected coherent noise reduction techniques. These techniques increased the dynamic range of field and laboratory measurements of radar backscatter from sea ice and allows the authors to use data from past experiments that had previously been discarded due to low signal-to-noise ratio.
Visibility analysis algorithms use digital elevation models (DEMs), which represent terrain topography, to determine visibility at each point on the terrain from a given location in space. This analysis can be computa...
Visibility analysis algorithms use digital elevation models (DEMs), which represent terrain topography, to determine visibility at each point on the terrain from a given location in space. This analysis can be computationally very demanding, particularly when manipulating high resolution DEMs accurately at interactive response rates. Massively data-parallel computers offer high computing capabilities and are very well-suited to handling and processing large regular spatial data structures. In the paper, the authors present a new scanline-based data-parallel algorithm for visibility analysis. Results from an implementation onto a MasPar massively data-parallel SIMD computer are also presented.
Many physical systems that occur in applications are naturally passive, for example, mechanical systems with dual sensors and actuators, and electrical circuits with passive components. Taking advantage of this proper...
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Many physical systems that occur in applications are naturally passive, for example, mechanical systems with dual sensors and actuators, and electrical circuits with passive components. Taking advantage of this property, many controller schemes have been proposed with the property that the controller is strictly positive real. Due to design and implementation considerations, the plant or the controller may need to be approximated by a lower-order system. It is highly desirable for the reduced-order system to also possess the positive realness property to guarantee that the resulting closed-loop system remains stable. Motivated by this problem, this paper considers the general model-reduction problem for a positive real system under the constraint that the reduced system is also positive real. We present a solution based on the balanced stochastic truncation. When the higher-order system is strictly positive real, we derive an H(infinity) norm bound on the approximation error. We also consider alternate approaches of approximating the spectral factors with associated H(infinity) norm error bounds. An example is included to show the efficacy of this method and comparison with other approaches.
Reactive ion etching is an important process in the fabrication of microelectronic devices. This article reports on work in progress towards developing a strategy for controlling sidewall profile during this process. ...
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Reactive ion etching is an important process in the fabrication of microelectronic devices. This article reports on work in progress towards developing a strategy for controlling sidewall profile during this process. In this strategy, a response surf...
We study genetic algorithms (GAs)-based identification for nonlinear systems in the presence of unknown driving noise, using both feedforward multilayer neural network models and radial basis function network models. ...
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We study genetic algorithms (GAs)-based identification for nonlinear systems in the presence of unknown driving noise, using both feedforward multilayer neural network models and radial basis function network models. Under perfect state measurements, we first show that a standard GA-based estimation scheme, in its full potential, even though leading to a satisfactory model for state estimation, may generally not yield a sufficiently accurate system model, i.e. the parameter estimates do not secure a good approximant for the system nonlinearity. We then introduce a new approach that utilizes a robust identification scheme, which leads to a good approximation of the nonlinearity in the system. Several numerical and simulation studies included in the paper demonstrate the effective use of GAs in this framework, in searching for the parameter values that lead to the "best" finite-dimensional approximation of the nonlinearities in the system dynamics.
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