In practical applications of machine learning and knowledge discovery, handling multi-class problems and real numbers are important issues. While attribute-value learners address these problems as a rule, very few ILP...
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A fixture is an arrangement of fixturing modules that locate and hold a workpart during a manufacturing operation. In this work we consider fixtures with frictionless point contacts and present a method for placement ...
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A fixture is an arrangement of fixturing modules that locate and hold a workpart during a manufacturing operation. In this work we consider fixtures with frictionless point contacts and present a method for placement of contact points on a non-prismatic 3D workpart. It is a nondeterministic, potential field algorithm for contact point placement. The method provides a basic framework for the integration of heterogeneous high-level fixturing agents through an interface based on zones of attraction and repulsion on the workpart boundary. The algorithm may produce redundant fixtures, and can augment partial solutions to complete form closure fixtures.
Controlling multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. The nonlinear friction, the impact problem and other plant uncertainties require a special kind...
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Controlling multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. The nonlinear friction, the impact problem and other plant uncertainties require a special kind of control and tuning of the controller. Some simple linear and nonlinear controllers for the Karlsruhe Dexterous Hand are presented and the results and advantages of the controllers are shown. Also, a new adaptive fuzzy controller is presented to overcome the time consuming process of fine-tuning the membership functions. Finally, a short glance at the hardware platform is taken in order to show the control system architecture.
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J. YenLiang WangCenter for Fuzzy Logic
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Department of Computer Science Texas A and M University College Station TX USA
It is known that removal of those redundant fuzzy rules from a rule base can result in a more compact fuzzy model with better generalizing ability. In this paper we propose a number of orthogonal transformation based ...
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It is known that removal of those redundant fuzzy rules from a rule base can result in a more compact fuzzy model with better generalizing ability. In this paper we propose a number of orthogonal transformation based methods which provide new or alternative tools for rule extraction. A common attribute of these methods is that they all work on a truth value matrix and employ some measure index to detect the rules that should be retained and eliminated. The performance of these methods is illustrated using a nonlinear plant modeling example.
The standard procedure for building a fuzzy model often involves trying several candidates with varying number of fuzzy rules and training parameters in order to achieve acceptable model accuracy. Typically, one of th...
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The standard procedure for building a fuzzy model often involves trying several candidates with varying number of fuzzy rules and training parameters in order to achieve acceptable model accuracy. Typically, one of the candidates is chosen as best, while the rest are discarded. When the system being considered is highly nonlinear or includes a number of input variables, the number of fuzzy rules constituting the underlying model is usually large. The paper proposes an alternative approach to designing fuzzy systems. The essential scheme is to decompose the overall system into subsystems and then combine their individual outputs. This offers advantages of speed, reliability, and simplicity of design. The concept of competition developed in modular networks theory is used to derive an identification algorithm. The utility of the proposed approach is illustrated by a nonlinear function approximation example.
The objective of software design is to build a system that meets the customer's requirements. Often requirements can be achieved by a set of different design alternatives. Identifying the impacts of various design...
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The objective of software design is to build a system that meets the customer's requirements. Often requirements can be achieved by a set of different design alternatives. Identifying the impacts of various design alternatives on requirements thus become very important. In this paper, we proposed a formal framework to identify and reason impacts of design alternatives on imprecise requirements. Our approach captures the elasticity of imprecise requirements using fuzzy logic and represents design alternatives directly based on the representation of requirements. Based on these representations, we can: (1) identify relationships between requirements and between design alternatives; (2) reason implicit impacts of the design alternatives on requirements based on the identified requirement-requirement relationships, and design-requirement relationships; and (3) facilitate capture of the design rationale. The goal of identifying the impacts of design alternatives on requirements is to guide design engineers in evaluating design alternatives, to reduce design errors, to facilitate design rationale capture, and to build a system that better satisfies the customer.
We present an efficient path planning approach which represents a path by a series of via points connected by elastic strings that are subject to displacement due to collisions with obstacles as well as constraints pe...
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We present an efficient path planning approach which represents a path by a series of via points connected by elastic strings that are subject to displacement due to collisions with obstacles as well as constraints pertaining to the domain to which path planning is applied. Obstacle regions are represented by a potential field created by a multilayered neural network. A fast simulated annealing approach is used for local minima problems from the potential field. The automatic generation and removal of via points is incorporated in the path planning approach to ensure collision-free planning regardless of the complexity of the environment (e.g., convex, concave or complicated obstacle regions). Our path planning approach is flexible due to the automatic generation and removal of via points based on the complexity of the domain of the path planning process, efficient due to the use of the necessary via points for the path representation at all times, and massively parallel due to the parallel computation of motions of via points with only local information.
We present an efficient potential-field based path planning approach for point or higher dimensional objects which avoids effectively any local extreme problems. The approach represents a path by a series of via point...
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We present an efficient potential-field based path planning approach for point or higher dimensional objects which avoids effectively any local extreme problems. The approach represents a path by a series of via points connected by elastic strings which are subject to displacement due to collisions with obstacle regions as well as constraints pertaining to the domain to which path planning is applied. Obstacle regions are represented by a potential field created by a multilayered neural network. A fast simulated annealing approach is used for local minima problems from the potential field. The automatic generation and removal of via points is incorporated in the path planning approach to ensure collision-free planning regardless of the complexity of the environment. Local and global bias on the potential field is used to avoid any existing singularities and local minima. Our path planning approach is flexible, efficient and massively parallel.
—This paper describes a multiple criteria, statistical technique for mobile robot evaluation. The evaluation method measures the time and energy costs of a particular class of exploratory mission. The method is imple...
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The need for simulation in medical environments increases with the complexity and risks of operations. Exact geometric planning is one of the main problems a surgeon has to deal with. The goal of the authors' rese...
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The need for simulation in medical environments increases with the complexity and risks of operations. Exact geometric planning is one of the main problems a surgeon has to deal with. The goal of the authors' research is the development of a graphical simulation of the human mastication system. Therefore, they are developing an integrated model of the jaw by parameterizing the bones (maxilla and mandible) and modeling the motion capabilities as well as the mastication muscles. The main focus of the paper is the introduction of a kinematic model of the temporomandibular joint and modeling of the mastication muscles. The kinematic model describes the geometrical and analytical movement of the jaw by specially defined axes. By modifying the axes or the geometrical model of the mandible, a surgeon can get a first impression of the post-operative result of, for example, a repositioning. Through integration of the muscles and muscle forces, one can even obtain a dynamic simulation of the whole mastication system.
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