robotics technology is quickly evolving and demanding robots to perform more actions and with greater complexity. Modular construction tasks are well suited for heterogenous robots. In this paper we studied if modular...
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robotics technology is quickly evolving and demanding robots to perform more actions and with greater complexity. Modular construction tasks are well suited for heterogenous robots. In this paper we studied if modularizing a distributed multi-agent architecture with a control modular framework was a viable approach to generate complex robotic behavior with short term autonomy. To this end we tasked a heterogeneous robot team to perform an assembly task using force sensing. We also studied which robots would be better suited for a given task. Our experimental results concluded that the modular control approach was viable to generate short- term autonomous complex robotic behavior and our analysis characterized the advantages of each robot for the assembly task.
This paper investigates the use of a sensor network for localizing and tracking a moving target using only binary data. Due to the simple nature of the sensor nodes, sensing can be tampered (accidentally or maliciousl...
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This paper investigates the use of a sensor network for localizing and tracking a moving target using only binary data. Due to the simple nature of the sensor nodes, sensing can be tampered (accidentally or maliciously), resulting in a significant number of sensor nodes reporting erroneous observations. Therefore, it is essential that any event tracking algorithm used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) exhibits fault tolerant behavior in order to tolerate a number of misbehaving nodes. SNAP (Subtract on Negative Add on Positive), is a simple event localization algorithm designed for WSNs applications that exhibits this fault tolerant behavior. The main contribution of this paper is to combine the decentralized implementation of SNAP with Kalman Filter techniques for tracking the movement of a target. This efficient tracking procedure provides fairly accurate results and turns out to be fault tolerant even when a large percentage of the sensor nodes report erroneous observations.
This paper proposes a computational framework for humanoid robots to learn complex behaviors through combining robotic self-exploration and demonstrations of humans. A modified Rapidly-growing Random Tree (RRT)-Connec...
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This paper proposes a computational framework for humanoid robots to learn complex behaviors through combining robotic self-exploration and demonstrations of humans. A modified Rapidly-growing Random Tree (RRT)-Connect algorithm is used for exploration, a Linear Global Model (LGM) is used for recording demonstrations, a spatial-temporal extension of Isomap algorithm is used for dimension reduction which enables the exploration in a low-dimensional latent space, and the log likelihood function of the distribution of sampled data in the joint space is used to project the data in the latent space back to the joint space. An experiment of imitating a conducting behavior is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of this framework.
The provision of reliable location estimates in case of unpredicted failures or malicious attacks, which inject faults and compromise the performance of the positioning system, is very important. Thus, our main intere...
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The provision of reliable location estimates in case of unpredicted failures or malicious attacks, which inject faults and compromise the performance of the positioning system, is very important. Thus, our main interest is on the fault tolerance of WLAN fingerprint-based methods, rather than the absolute positioning error in the fault-free case. We study the Nearest Neighbor method and as a first step we develop a robust detection scheme to accurately detect faults. We incorporate this into a hybrid positioning method that switches to a modified distance metric, instead of the Euclidean, if faults are present. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach exhibits higher resilience to faults compared to other positioning methods.
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has received great attention in recent years as a successful global search algorithm, due to its simple implementation and inexpensive computation overhead. However, PSO still suffers...
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This paper considers the problem of improving the monitoring capability of a sparse stationary sensor network with mobile sensor nodes. The main idea is that the mobile sensors should sample the areas that are least c...
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(纸本)9781612848006
This paper considers the problem of improving the monitoring capability of a sparse stationary sensor network with mobile sensor nodes. The main idea is that the mobile sensors should sample the areas that are least covered (monitored) by the static sensors. Thus, a simple path planning strategy is presented that decides the next point to be visited using only "local" information. For a simplified scenario, the paper derives the optimal path strategy and extrapolates some of the properties of the scenario to a more general instance of the problem. Furthermore, the paper proposes a surrogate metric that can be used in order to determine the optimal searching neighborhood and presents extensive simulation results which indicated that this approach can achieve very good results.
This paper presents a social interactive robot Nancy that has been developed in Social robotics Laboratory, National University of Singapore. Fundamentally different from factory robots, Nancy's design focuses on ...
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This paper develops a filtering approach for distributed fault detection of a class of interconnected continuous-time nonlinear systems with modeling and measurement uncertainties. A distributed fault detection scheme...
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(纸本)9781612848006;9781612848013
This paper develops a filtering approach for distributed fault detection of a class of interconnected continuous-time nonlinear systems with modeling and measurement uncertainties. A distributed fault detection scheme and corresponding thresholds are designed based on filtering certain signals so that the effect of high frequency measurement uncertainty is diminished. The analysis of the proposed distributed fault detection scheme shows that the derived thresholds guarantee that there are no false alarms and characterizes quantitatively the class of detectable faults.
Hotspots are Network on-Chip (NoC) routers or modules which occasionally receive packetized traffic at a higher rate that they can process. This phenomenon reduces the performance of an NoC, especially in the case wor...
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This paper proposes and experimentally shows how we combine light penetration concept and simple image processing operations in order to identify gender of a silkworm pupa. Key features include low cost, fast, and hig...
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