The paper proposes a synchronization mechanism in a set of nonlinear oscillators interconnected through a communication network. In contrast to many existing results, we do not employ strong, diffusive couplings betwe...
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The paper proposes a synchronization mechanism in a set of nonlinear oscillators interconnected through a communication network. In contrast to many existing results, we do not employ strong, diffusive couplings between the individual oscillators. Instead, each individual oscillator is weakly forced by a linear resonator system. The resonator systems are synchronized using results from consensus theory. The synchronized resonator systems force the frequencies of the nonlinear oscillators to a constant frequency and thereby yield synchronization of the oscillators. We prove this result using the theory of small forcings of stable oscillators. This synchronization scheme allows for synchronization of nonlinear oscillators over uniformly connected communication graphs.
An important issue in the analysis of two-dimensional electrophoresis images is the detection and quantification of protein spots. The main challenges in the segmentation of 2DGE images are to separate overlapping pro...
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An important issue in the analysis of two-dimensional electrophoresis images is the detection and quantification of protein spots. The main challenges in the segmentation of 2DGE images are to separate overlapping protein spots correctly and to find the abundance of weak protein spots. To enable comparison of protein patterns between different samples, it is necessary to match the patterns so that homologous spots are identified. In this paper we describe a new robust technique to segment and model the different spots present in the gels. The watershed segmentation algorithm is modified to handle the problem of over segmentation by initially partitioning the image to mosaic regions using the composition of fuzzy relations. The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm to overcome the over segmentation problem associated with the available algorithms.
The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is nonconvex and generally hard to solve. We provide a sufficient condition under which the OPF problem is equivalent to a convex problem and therefore is efficiently solvable. Spe...
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The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is nonconvex and generally hard to solve. We provide a sufficient condition under which the OPF problem is equivalent to a convex problem and therefore is efficiently solvable. Specifically, we prove that the dual of OPF is a semidefinite program and our sufficient condition guarantees that the duality gap is zero and a globally optimal solution of OPF is recoverable from a dual optimal solution. This sufficient condition is satisfied by standard IEEE benchmark systems with 14, 30, 57, 118 and 300 buses after small resistance (10 -5 per unit) is added to every transformer that originally assumes zero resistance. We justify why the condition might hold widely in practice from algebraic and geometric perspectives. The main underlying reason is that physical quantities such as resistance, capacitance and inductance, are all positive.
Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are central problems in bioinformatics. In this paper, two kinds of profile-level building blocks of protein sequences, binary profiles and N-nary profiles, are p...
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Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are central problems in bioinformatics. In this paper, two kinds of profile-level building blocks of protein sequences, binary profiles and N-nary profiles, are presented, which contain the evolutionary information of the protein sequence frequency profile. The two building blocks are applied for protein remote homology and fold detection tasks. The latent semantic analysis (LSA) model is adopted to further improve the performance of our methods. Experiment results show that the methods based on profile-level building blocks give better results compared to related methods.
This paper investigates gene function annotation of Yeast by using semi-supervised multi-label learning. Multi-label learning has been a hot topic in the bioinformatics field, but there are many samples unlabeled. Sem...
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User Adaptive Systems (UAS) are growing in past time along with expansion of intelligent ubiquitous systems to every piece of embedded device around us. These systems provide a many of interesting and useful services ...
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Improving the control of shading blinds, lights, natural ventilation, and HVAC systems while satisfying human comfort requirements can result in significant energy cost savings with time-of-day electricity pricing. Tr...
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The vision tracking system in this paper estimates the robot position relative to a target and rotates the camera towards the target. To estimate the robot position of mobile robot, the system combines information fro...
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The vision tracking system in this paper estimates the robot position relative to a target and rotates the camera towards the target. To estimate the robot position of mobile robot, the system combines information from an accelerometer, a gyroscope, two encoders, and a vision sensor. The encoders can provide fairly accurate robot position information, but the encoder data are not reliable when robot wheels slip. Accelerometer data can provide the robot position information even when the wheels are slipping, but a long term position estimation is difficult, because of integration of errors arising from bias and noise. To overcome the drawbacks of each method mentioned in the above, the proposed system uses data fusion with two Kalman filters and a slip detector. One Kalman filter is for the slip case, and the other is for the no-slip case. Each Kalman filter uses a different sensor combination for estimating the robot motion. The slip detector compares the data from the accelerometer with the data from the encoders, and decides if a slip condition has occurred. Accordingly, based on the decision of the slip detector, the system chooses one of the outputs of the two Kalman filters, which is subsequently used for calculating the camera angle of the vision tracking system. The vision tracking system is implemented on a two-wheeled robot. To evaluate the tracking and recognition performance of the implemented system, experiments are performed for various robot motion scenarios in various environments.
This paper presents a sensor-data-fusion method using an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), to implement an accurate localization system for mobile robots. Integration of data from various sensors using an efficient senso...
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This paper presents a sensor-data-fusion method using an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), to implement an accurate localization system for mobile robots. Integration of data from various sensors using an efficient sensor fusion algorithm is required to achieve a continuous and accurate localization of mobile robots. We use data from low cost accelerometer, gyroscope, and encoders to obtain robot motion information. The UKF, used as an efficient sensor fusion algorithm, is an advanced filtering technique which outperforms the widely-used Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) in many applications. The system is able to compensate for the slip errors by switching between two different UKF models built for slip and no-slip cases. Since the accelerometer error accumulates with time because of the double integration, the data from accelerometer is only used in slip model of the UKF. The results obtained from UKF sensor fusion algorithm are compared with the results from an accurate distance laser sensor. The experimental results show that the system is able to accurately track the motion of the robot in various robot motion scenarios including the scenario when robot's encoders data is not reliable due to the slip occurrence.
This paper deals with the conceptual design and kinematic analysis of a novel 2-DOF translational parallel robot for pick-and-place operations named as T2. The proposed architecture is composed of two actuated kinemat...
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