This paper deals with the design of a high order sliding mode observer for a class of nonlinear systems that can be described in the São called triangular input observer form. The mathematical tools required to m...
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In previous work, we presented an adaptive evolvable oscillator that enables online, in-flight, adaptation of a rigorous controller for hovering in an insect-scale flapping wing micro air vehicle based on the Harvard ...
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In previous work, we presented an adaptive evolvable oscillator that enables online, in-flight, adaptation of a rigorous controller for hovering in an insect-scale flapping wing micro air vehicle based on the Harvard RoboFly. That particular evolvable hardware oscillator, however, was a proof-of-concept prototype and is incapable of supporting the types of signal adaptation necessary to support on-line correction for other flight modes (E.G. roll, pitch, forward translation, etc.). This paper introduces a new oscillator design capable of supporting signal adaptation for all possible flight modes of the vehicle. It will also present preliminary experimental results demonstrating the adaptive oscillator to be capable of correcting for vehicle faults in a two degree of freedom (2DOF) control task requiring simultaneous regulation of vehicle altitude and roll. The paper will conclude with discussion of application of this adaptive, evolvable oscillator to full vehicle control.
In this paper, we study marginal problems for a class of binary pairwise Gibbs random fields (BPW-GRFs). Given a BPW-GRF associated with a family of binary positive pairwise potentials, finding the exact marginal for ...
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In this paper, we study marginal problems for a class of binary pairwise Gibbs random fields (BPW-GRFs). Given a BPW-GRF associated with a family of binary positive pairwise potentials, finding the exact marginal for each random variable is typically an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we develop upper and lower bounds of the true marginals in BPW-GRFs. Our bounds can be easily computed via an iteration on appropriate trees that are constructed from the corresponding BPW-GRF graphs. We prove that these marginal bounds outperform existing bounds. We also show via simulations that this improvement is significant on graphs with weak potentials.
It has been shown that there is a strong correlation between breast tissue density/patterns and the risk of developing breast cancer. Thus, modelling mammographic tissue patterns is important for quantitative analysis...
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Novice Java programmers often cannot make well structured program,so that the program does not have much *** dependency between fields and methods in classes often causes such inappropriate class structure,so responsi...
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Novice Java programmers often cannot make well structured program,so that the program does not have much *** dependency between fields and methods in classes often causes such inappropriate class structure,so responsibility of each class becomes unclear and the readability of the program is *** programs are difficult to identify the causes of bugs,so that novice programmers often lose the desire to learn *** paper proposes a way to learn how to develop a well structured Java program,which includes subject design,evaluation tool,and a web-based programming exercise environment by analyzing some source codes of novice Java programmers.
This paper introduces the use of annotation tags for human activity recognition in video. Recent methods in human activity recognition use more complex and realistic datasets obtained from TV shows or movies, which ma...
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(纸本)9781457700293
This paper introduces the use of annotation tags for human activity recognition in video. Recent methods in human activity recognition use more complex and realistic datasets obtained from TV shows or movies, which makes it difficult to obtain the high recognition accuracies. We improve the recognition accuracies using annotation tags of the video. Tags tend to be related to video contents, and human activity videos frequently contain tags relevant to their activities. We first collect a human activity dataset containing tags from YouTube. Under this dataset, we automatically discover relevant tags and their correlation with human activities. We finally develop a framework using visual content and tags for activity recognition. We show that our approach can improve recognition accuracies compared with other approaches that only use visual content.
In this paper, we presented an integrated design methodology for a five-bar mechanism. Five-bar mechanisms are often used in applications that require high speed and high precision motion control. One example of such ...
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In this paper, we presented an integrated design methodology for a five-bar mechanism. Five-bar mechanisms are often used in applications that require high speed and high precision motion control. One example of such applications is the semiconductor wire bonding process. In this process, the tip acceleration needs to reach 10g to 15g with sub-micron precision and little vibration. In order to meet such strict design requirements, we first developed a dynamic equation for the rigid five-bar mechanism and obtained a simplified model for designing the structure distribution of the mechanism. Secondly, taking both mechanical and controller parameters as design variables, we formulated the settling time and overshoot functions of the closed-loop system and investigated the convexity features of them. By properly choosing optimal variables, we obtained a convex function which is treated as an objective function with a set of real constraints in an optimization problem. Finally, by optimization algorithm of differential evolution, we obtained a set of global optimal values including mechanical and controller parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed design approach is demonstrated by simulation results.
This paper presents a surface electromyographic (sEMG)-based, optimal control strategy for a prosthetic hand. System Identification (SI) is used to obtain the dynamic relation between the sEMG and the corresponding sk...
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(纸本)9781424441211
This paper presents a surface electromyographic (sEMG)-based, optimal control strategy for a prosthetic hand. System Identification (SI) is used to obtain the dynamic relation between the sEMG and the corresponding skeletal muscle force. The input sEMG signal is preprocessed using a Half-Gaussian filter and fed to a fusion-based Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) skeletal muscle force model. This MISO system model provides the estimated finger forces to be produced as input to the prosthetic hand. Optimal tracking method has been applied to track the estimated force profile of the Fusion based sEMG-force model. The simulation results show good agreement between reference force profile and the actual force.
This paper presents a novel control methodology for the tracking control of a high-order continuous time nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and external disturbance. The control signal consists of the robust inte...
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This paper presents a novel control methodology for the tracking control of a high-order continuous time nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and external disturbance. The control signal consists of the robust integral of the sign of the error (RISE) feedback signal multiplied with an adaptive gain plus neural network (NN) output. The two-layer NN learns the system dynamics in an online manner while residual reconstruction errors and the external bounded system disturbances are overcome by the RISE signal. Semi-global asymptotic tracking performance is theoretically guaranteed by using the Lyapunov standard method, while the NN weights and all other signals are shown to be bounded. Further, simulations results are present to illustrate the control performance.
Modeling and predicting human behavior is indispensable when industrial robots interacting with human operators are to be manipulated safely and efficiently. One challenge is that human operators tend to follow differ...
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Modeling and predicting human behavior is indispensable when industrial robots interacting with human operators are to be manipulated safely and efficiently. One challenge is that human operators tend to follow different motion patterns, depending on their intention and the structure of the environment. This precludes the use of classical estimation techniques based on kinematic or dynamic models, especially for the purpose of long-term prediction. In this paper, we propose a method based on Hidden Markov Models to predict the region of the workspace that is possibly occupied by the human within a prediction horizon. In contrast to predictions in the form of single points such as most likely human positions as obtained from previous approaches, the regions obtained here may serve as safety constraints when the robot motion is planned or optimized. This way one avoids collisions with a probability not less than a predefined threshold. The practicability of our method is demonstrated by successfully and accurately predicting the motion of a human arm in two scenarios involving multiple motion patterns.
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