Outliers are data values that lie away from the general cluster of other data values. Detecting the outliers of a dataset is an important research topic for data cleaning and finding new useful knowledge in many resea...
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Five years of field practice in developing and delivering Mechatronics courses in the context of a Control education curriculum, have shaped the didactic approaches in place and delivered a number concrete results fro...
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Five years of field practice in developing and delivering Mechatronics courses in the context of a Control education curriculum, have shaped the didactic approaches in place and delivered a number concrete results from hands-on experience. The paper reports on some of the main outcomes of this undertaking, presented within an integrating framework that brings together curriculum content, didactic methods, teaching tools and organizational aspects.
An environment targeted to e-learning is presented for teaching advanced test issues in digital electronics. Digital circuits and systems are getting more and more complex, and in the same time the requirements for th...
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An environment targeted to e-learning is presented for teaching advanced test issues in digital electronics. Digital circuits and systems are getting more and more complex, and in the same time the requirements for the quality of systems are getting higher and higher. This is the reason why the importance of testing as an engineering task has started to grow extremely fast. An environment which consists of a set of Java applets has been created to help the students to improve their understanding of test. The tools support university courses on digital electronics, computer hardware, testing and design for testability to learn by hands-on exercises how to generate test patterns, and how to analyze their quality. The tasks chosen for hands-on training represent simultaneously real research problems, which allow to foster in students critical thinking, problem solving skills and creativity.
One of the main problems related to regulatory network reconstruction from expression data concerns the small size and low quality of the available dataset. When trying to infer a model from little information it is n...
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One of the main problems related to regulatory network reconstruction from expression data concerns the small size and low quality of the available dataset. When trying to infer a model from little information it is necessary to give much more precedence to generalization, rather than specificity, otherwise, any attempt will be fated to overfitting. In this paper we address this issue by focusing on data sparseness and noisy information, and propose a density estimation technique that achieves regularized curves when data is scarce. We first compare the proposed method with the EM algorithm for mixture models on density estimation problems. Next, we apply the method, together with Bayesian networks, on realistic simulations of static gene networks, and compare the obtained results with the standard discrete Bayesian network model. We intend to demonstrate that adopting a discrete approach is not justifiable when only a small amount of information is available.
An environment directed to e-learning is presented for teaching test generation and fault diagnosis in digital circuits. The environment consists of a set of Java applets for learning basics of test preliminary and of...
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Guidance through waypoinis is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, which turns the vehicle directly towards the next waypoint without any reference path calculation, is computati...
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Guidance through waypoinis is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, which turns the vehicle directly towards the next waypoint without any reference path calculation, is computationally the simplest form of waypoint guidance. However, the basic algorithm gives rather poor guidance due to the missed waypoint problem, lack of sea current compensation and abrupt transitions between the consecutive waypoinis. Significant path deviations and even deadlocks are possible due to these problems. Therefore, more complex algorithms are usually used in real world applications. The research reported in this paper aims to demonstrate that significant improvements of the basic line-of-sight guidance algorithm can be achieved by several intuitive, simple corrections and additions. The simplicity of the basic line-of-sight guidance algorithm is not compromised. In particular, missed waypoint detection is performed by monitoring the distance between the vehicle and the waypoint. Introduced reference heading corrections are based upon the location of the next waypoint after the one the vehicle is currently approaching, and upon the sea current direction and intensity. The results of these corrections are shown in several simulation examples. In addition, the paper includes a short discussion about the lineof-sight guidance in the diving plane. Copyright 2004 IFAC.
In most applications, a mobile robot must be able to determine its position and orientation in the environment using only own sensors. The problem of pose tracking can be seen as a constituent part of the more general...
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In most applications, a mobile robot must be able to determine its position and orientation in the environment using only own sensors. The problem of pose tracking can be seen as a constituent part of the more general navigation problem. Our proposed approach is able to track the mobile robot pose without environment model. It is based on combining histograms and Hough transform (HHT). While histograms for position tracking (x and y histograms) are extracted directly from local occupancy grid maps, angle histogram is obtained indirectly via Hough transformation combined with a non-iterative algorithm for determination of end points and length of straight-line parts contained in obtained histograms. Histograms obtained at the actual mobile robot pose are compared to histograms saved at previous mobile robot poses to compute position displacement and orientation correction. Orientation estimation accuracy greatly influences the position estimation accuracy and is crucial for a reliable mobile robot pose tracking. Sensors used for local occupancy grid generation are sonars but other exteroceptive sensors like a laser range finder can also be used. Test results with mobile robot Pioneer 2DX simulator show the capacity of this method.
Guidance through waypoints is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, the basic waypoint guidance algorithm, is very simple, computationally inexpensive, and flexible to sudden chan...
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Guidance through waypoints is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, the basic waypoint guidance algorithm, is very simple, computationally inexpensive, and flexible to sudden changes in the desired path specification. On the other side, the basic algorithm achieves unoptimal vehicle trajectory, ignores possible side disturbances as sea currents, and can even lead to deadlock situations. Therefore it should be improved to use in the real world applications. This paper introduces several such improvements: missed waypoint detection to prevent deadlocks, novel reference heading correction method to give smoother vehicle path in turns at waypoints, and sea current compensation method to cancel its influence. This improvements address the mentioned flaws of the basic algorithm, as is demonstrated by the simulations, and yet keep it simpler than is the case for the most used waypoint-derived guidance methods.
Guidance through waypoints is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, which turns the vehicle directly towards the next waypoint without any reference path calculation, is computati...
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Guidance through waypoints is common for small autonomous marine vehicles. Guidance by the line of sight, which turns the vehicle directly towards the next waypoint without any reference path calculation, is computationally the simplest form of waypoint guidance. However, the basic algorithm gives rather poor guidance due to the missed waypoint problem, lack of sea current compensation and abrupt transitions between the consecutive waypoints. Significant path deviations and even deadlocks are possible due to these problems. Therefore, more complex algorithms are usually used in real world applications. The research reported in this paper aims to demonstrate that significant improvements of the basic line-of-sight guidance algorithm can be achieved by several intuitive, simple corrections and additions. The simplicity of the basic line-of-sight guidance algorithm is not compromised. In particular, missed waypoint detection is performed by monitoring the distance between the vehicle and the waypoint. Introduced reference heading corrections are based upon the location of the next waypoint after the one the vehicle is currently approaching, and upon the sea current direction and intensity. The results of these corrections are shown in several simulation examples. In addition, the paper includes a short discussion about the line-of-sight guidance in the diving plane.
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