We describe a unique competition based on the novel concept of robotics and mechatronics products that included evaluation of the products' engineering function and interface design. Seventy-seven students of elev...
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In this paper, we propose a co-learning particle filter approach for vehicle tracking, which is very important for intelligent vehicle. The proposal distribution of the particle filter is a combination of an extra sup...
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In this paper, we propose a co-learning particle filter approach for vehicle tracking, which is very important for intelligent vehicle. The proposal distribution of the particle filter is a combination of an extra support vector machine (SVM) detector and the motion prior. Previous works focusing on how to online update the detector or the observation likelihood using the tracking results. These approaches belong to ¿self-learning¿ fashion and easily tend to drift. The major difference between the proposed approach and previous works is that the SVM detector and the likelihood function can be mutually updated in a co-learning manner. By adopting the co-learning technology, the unlabelled samples which are generated during tracking are utilized to progressively modify the SVM detector and update the observation likelihood; therefore the resulting tracker is more robust and effectively avoids the drift problem. Finally, the performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using extensive real visual tracking examples.
Modes of melting and evaporation of metal at attogram level from individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are investigated experimentally using nanorobotic manipulation inside a transmission electron microscope. We compared...
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Modes of melting and evaporation of metal at attogram level from individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are investigated experimentally using nanorobotic manipulation inside a transmission electron microscope. We compared the melting and evaporation induced by electric current, Joule heating, charge, and ionization. Experiments show that the most effective method is by positively ionizing the encapsulated metal, therefore, an electrostatic field can be used to guide the flow. Applications and potential applications of mass transport and deposition in nanofluidic systems have been presented including self-welding, actuation, and storage.
Volume Yield Diagnostics (VYD) is crucial to diagnose critical systematic yield issues from the reports obtained by testing thousands of chips. This paper presents an efficient clustering technique for VYD that has be...
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Volume Yield Diagnostics (VYD) is crucial to diagnose critical systematic yield issues from the reports obtained by testing thousands of chips. This paper presents an efficient clustering technique for VYD that has been shown to work successfully both in the simulation environment as well as on real industrial failure data.
Making good operation decisions during abnormal power plant conditions represents in many cases the possibility to avoid a unit trip or having economical losses. This paper introduces AsistO, an intelligent assistant ...
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Making good operation decisions during abnormal power plant conditions represents in many cases the possibility to avoid a unit trip or having economical losses. This paper introduces AsistO, an intelligent assistant for the decision support based on decision theoretic planning techniques. It provides power plant operators with useful recommendations to (i) maintain a plant running under safe conditions, or (ii) deal with process transients when an unexpected event occurs. We present the formalism of Markov decision processes as the core of the intelligent assistant which uses a factored representation of plant states. We also show a very intutive algorithm to approximate decision models based on training data collected through random exploration routines in a simulated environment. We have tested our system in the steam generation system of a combined power plant to deal with load disturbances.
Based on the modular concept, this paper presents two caterpillar robot prototypes which are inspired by two typical caterpillars: inchworm and pine caterpillar. The inchworm robot prototype features simplest kinemati...
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Based on the modular concept, this paper presents two caterpillar robot prototypes which are inspired by two typical caterpillars: inchworm and pine caterpillar. The inchworm robot prototype features simplest kinematics and open chain architecture. Due to the fact that there is only one attachment module supporting the inchworm robot during crawling, we apply an unsymmetrical phase method (UPM) to realize a stable crawling gait for it. A pine caterpillar robot is derived from combining two inchworm robots together. The crawling gait of it features a repetitive changing chain: open-closed-open. Besides the UPM in open chain states, a four-links kinematic model is applied to control the corresponding joints to transfer the crawling wave along the robot body in the closed chain state. These two prototypes are all constructed and, and their crawling locomotion abilities have been tested on vertical glasses respectively.
Wireless sensor network (WSN) based structural health monitoring (SHM) system attracts increasing interest in recent years. However, the restricted bandwidth, memory and energy pose great challenges to the application...
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Wireless sensor network (WSN) based structural health monitoring (SHM) system attracts increasing interest in recent years. However, the restricted bandwidth, memory and energy pose great challenges to the application of SHM in large scale building. Supported by a real engineering project, a WSN based prototype of SHM system is designed in this paper. Acceleration data, synchronously sampled in each sensor node, are transported to a data processing computer through a base station. In order to achieve a high network throughput, a time division multiple access (TDMA) approach is proposed to reduce the packet collision and energy consumption. 17 sensor nodes, one base station and a processing computer are distributed to validate the prototype system. Test results present that the approach, we proposed, can reduce the signal collision and increase data throughput. The prototype is feasible to the SHM project of a large scale building.
Shape context algorithm is a recently proposed good method for object recognition. It is robust under small geometrical distortions and occlusion, invariant under scaling, translation, and change of illumination. Howe...
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Shape context algorithm is a recently proposed good method for object recognition. It is robust under small geometrical distortions and occlusion, invariant under scaling, translation, and change of illumination. However, because of its computational complexity, this algorithm is not suitable for online recognition. In this paper, we proposed an improved shape context algorithm which introduces an optimal hierarchical structure and gives new reference points selection criteria. Compared with the original shape context algorithm, the improved algorithm keeps the recognition accuracy and reduces the computational cost greatly. The good experimental results reveal that, this new algorithm can be applied to the pedestrian detection system online, which is an important research topic in intelligent transportation.
In this paper, we first discuss in time domain the convergence of the iterative process for fractional order linear systems. Fractional order iterative learning updating schemes are considered. Moreover, fractional or...
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In this paper, we first discuss in time domain the convergence of the iterative process for fractional order linear systems. Fractional order iterative learning updating schemes are considered. Moreover, fractional order iterative learning control for time-varying systems in convolution form are analyzed, where generalized fractional order time varying system is proposed. Finally, one simulation result is provided for illustration.
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