This work addresses the problem of trajectory planning and control for a team of drones, so that a vehicle that is following a target as part of a multi-vehicle formation flight can be safely replaced with minimum imp...
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This work addresses the problem of trajectory planning and control for a team of drones, so that a vehicle that is following a target as part of a multi-vehicle formation flight can be safely replaced with minimum impact on the formation objectives. An optimal trajectory generation method is presented, which relies on formulating a nonlinear optimization problem with constraints imposed by the physical limitations of the vehicle, the formation, and the surrounding environment, including nonlinear constraints to enforce inter-vehicle collision avoidance and clear visibility of the target. An online planning and control strategy is also implemented through a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control problem, based on the dynamic model of the system, a quadratic objective function, and a set of constraints, that again include collision avoidance and clear visibility. The proposed algorithms are validated in software-in-the-loop simulations that include the autopilot software.
The Nets-within-Nets formalism (NWN) allows to model complex biological systems expressing hierarchy, encapsulation, selective communication, spatiality, quantitative mechanisms, and stochasticity. To make NWN usable ...
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Given field experiment data collected by the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP), we aim to design and create a relational database to store the data and support efficient queries. As one of the most widely-k...
Given field experiment data collected by the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP), we aim to design and create a relational database to store the data and support efficient queries. As one of the most widely-known turfgrass research programs in the world, NTEP has generated large volumes of data on turfgrass cultivars and experimental germplasm since the early 1980s, providing invaluable information for a variety of user groups (e.g., homeowners, seed companies, golf course managers, retailers, turfgrass researchers) to select cultivars that best fit their needs (e.g., winter survival, pest tolerance, turf quality). The datasets have historically been stored in large sets of text files and spreadsheets. Currently, NTEP data are delivered to users through a website ( *** ) as summary reports and it can be extremely tedious (e.g., hundreds of clicks, data merging, jargon) to perform a simple query (e.g., best cultivar selection with typical conditions). This significantly limits the use of NTEP data and hides its value from the public. To address these limitations, we carried out an interdisciplinary effort with horticulture and computer science researchers to design and create the first NTEP database – NTEP-DB 1.0 – to reduce the manual efforts and expert knowledge currently required to extract meaningful information from the data. Experiments confirm that the query results are correct, and that the database can greatly reduce manual efforts. Anticipating next-generation advances, we also recommend incorporating spatial data types and analytical techniques into future designs of the database.
been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation. In this paper, we present an automated fact checking platform which given a claim, it retrieves relevant textual evidence fr...
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A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real...
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We present an extension of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) that strongly increases its efficiency for trees with asymmetry and/or loops. Asymmetric termination of search trees introduces a type of uncertainty for which...
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Video summarization methods produce a video abstraction that permits users to obtain an informative video frames with minimum storage space and in less time. The keyframes is significantly characterize the salient con...
Video summarization methods produce a video abstraction that permits users to obtain an informative video frames with minimum storage space and in less time. The keyframes is significantly characterize the salient contents of the video. This paper presents a design of video summarization framework for Internet videos to provide a quick way to realize, browse and review its contents. The main objective is to determine, extract and collect the most informative frames in the acquired video to formulate a summary video related to the original video. We have suggested a suitable approach for shot boundary detection along video frames. The sudden change benchmark between successive frames has calculated based on spline curve representation of frame data points inspired by capturing the visual difference. As well as, a selection and integration of the key frames from each shot is specified through clustering the higher differences between shot frames, in order to tackle the redundant frames issue and generate the video summary. From the experimental results, the proposed video summary approach is capable of capturing an informative content of video shots and preventing redundancy frames with minimum requirements in terms of storage space.
This abstract presents an experimental study of the impact of using a high flux in radiation ground tests on the measured cross-section of SRAMs. Experimental results obtained with 15 MeV protons will show that using ...
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This abstract presents an experimental study of the impact of using a high flux in radiation ground tests on the measured cross-section of SRAMs. Experimental results obtained with 15 MeV protons will show that using a high particle flux makes the measured cross-section increase by almost 1 order of magnitude.
When predictive models are used to support complex and important decisions, the ability to explain a model's reasoning can increase trust, expose hidden biases, and reduce vulnerability to adversarial attacks. How...
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