In today’s hyper-competitive business environments virtual organisations are becoming highly dynamic and unpredictable. Individuals may want to work together across organisation boundaries but do not have much prior ...
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The control of dynamical systems with inherent non-linear characteristics has motivated research in non-linear control theory. Two main approaches to dealing with uncertainties in control systems design are adaptive a...
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The control of dynamical systems with inherent non-linear characteristics has motivated research in non-linear control theory. Two main approaches to dealing with uncertainties in control systems design are adaptive and robust control. In this paper, discrete direct adaptive control of unknown non-linear SISO systems is considered. The controller is implemented using a fuzzy neural network. The control concept is tested on a laboratory pilot plant and compared to a standard discrete PID Takahashi controller
This paper deals with nonholonomic control systems subject to affine constraints. We first derive several preliminary properties of nonholonomic dynamic systems with affine constraints (NDSAC). We then investigate loc...
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This paper deals with nonholonomic control systems subject to affine constraints. We first derive several preliminary properties of nonholonomic dynamic systems with affine constraints (NDSAC). We then investigate local accessibility and local controllability of the NDSAC based on both Sussmann's theorem and linear approximation approaches. Conditions for local asymptotic stabilizability of the NDSAC by linear state feedback and nonlinear smooth state feedback are also derived. Finally, two physical examples are illustrated to confirm the results.
This paper presents the comparison of two approaches based on artificial intelligence techniques solving the task of on-line recognition of metabolic state of baker's yeast culture in a fed-batch cultivation. The ...
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A class of sparse regularization functions is considered for the developing sparse classifiers for determining facial gender. The sparse classification method aims to both select the most important features and maximi...
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A class of sparse regularization functions is considered for the developing sparse classifiers for determining facial gender. The sparse classification method aims to both select the most important features and maximize the classification margin, in a manner similar to support vector machines. An efficient process for directly calculating the complete set of optimal, sparse classifiers is developed. A single classification hyper-plane, which maximizes posterior probability of describing training data, is then efficiently selected. The classifier is tested on a Japanese gender-divided ensemble, described via a collection of appearance models. Performance is comparable with a linear SVM, and allows effective manipulation of apparent gender.
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 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.
This paper presents the comparison of two approaches based on artificial intelligence techniques solving the task of on-line recognition of metabolic state of baker's yeast culture in a fed-batch cultivation. The ...
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This paper presents the comparison of two approaches based on artificial intelligence techniques solving the task of on-line recognition of metabolic state of baker's yeast culture in a fed-batch cultivation. The first approach iS represented by a knowledge-based system containing expert knowledge in the form of production rules. The other approach is based on the application of the fuzzy neural network paradigm enabling the automatic extraction of the recognition rules from. experimental data. Performance of both approaches is discussed using results obtamed from tests on experimental data from a laboratory cultivation unit.
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.
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