Advanced sonar systems produce both accurate range and bearing measurements rather than just range alone as in conventional systems. Previous advanced sonar rings do not process incoming echo data as it arrives, but o...
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Advanced sonar systems produce both accurate range and bearing measurements rather than just range alone as in conventional systems. Previous advanced sonar rings do not process incoming echo data as it arrives, but only after a completed measurement cycle and only on limited data samples that are above a noise floor threshold. The system described in this paper can process all echo data, as it is produced, with full matched filtering tuned to each receiver on all echo samples directly implemented in hardware. This minimises measurement latency, important for real time robotics applications and also provides optimal arrival time estimates due to the matched filters. Previous systems have used sequential firing of many transmitters around the ring to prevent interference between transmitters or used different pulses fired simultaneously. This paper presents a single transmitter solution where a reflector disperses a single ultrasonic pulse evenly around the sonar ring. Processing is performed with a dedicated hardware data processing architecture implemented with a Field Programmable Gate Array to achieve the desired real time performance. The system reports range and bearing results at a rate of 30 measurement cycles a second in a full 360 degree coverage to ranges up to 4 metres with the prototype processing over 4.9 Giga-arithmetic operations per second. Experimental results are presented that show the performance of the system is suitable for high speed mapping and localisation applications.
This paper describes a robotic system that learns visual models of symmetric objects autonomously. Our robot learns by physically interacting with an object using its end effector. This departs from eye-in-hand system...
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This paper describes a robotic system that learns visual models of symmetric objects autonomously. Our robot learns by physically interacting with an object using its end effector. This departs from eye-in-hand systems that move the camera while keeping the scene static. Our robot leverages a simple nudge action to obtain the motion segmentation of an object in stereo. The robot uses the segmentation results to pick up the object. The robot collects training images by rotating the grasped object in front of a camera. Robotic experiments show that this interactive object learning approach can deal with top-heavy and fragile objects. Trials confirm that the robot-learned object models allow robust object recognition.
SLAM is a well studied technique for robots to build a map of environments while at the same time keeping track of their pose (position and orientation). However SLAM does not provide control approaches for how the ro...
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SLAM is a well studied technique for robots to build a map of environments while at the same time keeping track of their pose (position and orientation). However SLAM does not provide control approaches for how the robot moves around the environment. This paper presents an integrated approach to create a fully autonomous exploring and mapping robot. An EKF-SLAM approach is used to fuse Advanced Sonar and Laser Scan-Matching. This also tackles the problem of map-drifts in some types of environment where lasers do not supply sufficient information in some directions such as along a corridor. In addition, the proposed exploration algorithm takes advantage of the characteristic of the Voronoi Graph to enable the robot to strategically explore the environments in a loop-closing fashion and safe manner. By revisiting areas to close loops as early as possible, the robot can build a more stable map incrementally while still reliably tracking its pose. Experimental results of the integrated approach are shown to demonstrate the algorithm provides real-time exploration of a mobile robot in an initially unknown real environment. Experimental comparisons of exploration strategies with and without early local loop closing demonstrate the benefits of the approach in the map quality.
Due to the capacity of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras to simultaneously cover a panoramic area and maintain high resolution imagery, researches in automated surveillance systems with multiple PTZ cameras have become incr...
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Due to the capacity of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras to simultaneously cover a panoramic area and maintain high resolution imagery, researches in automated surveillance systems with multiple PTZ cameras have become increasingly important. Most existing algorithms require the prior knowledge of intrinsic parameters of the PTZ camera to infer the relative positioning and orientation among multiple PTZ cameras. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel mapping algorithm that derives the relative positioning and orientation between two PTZ cameras based on a unified polynomial model. This reduces the dependence on the knowledge of intrinsic parameters of PTZ camera and relative positions. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm presents substantially reduced computational complexity and improved flexibility at the cost of slightly decreased pixel accuracy, as compared with the work of Chen and Wang. This slightly decreased pixel accuracy can be compensated by consistent labeling approaches without added cost for the application of automated surveillance systems along with changing configurations and a larger number of PTZ cameras.
Modern societies have reached a point where everyday life relies heavily on the reliable operation and intelligent management of critical infrastructures, such as electric power systems, telecommunication networks, wa...
Modern societies have reached a point where everyday life relies heavily on the reliable operation and intelligent management of critical infrastructures, such as electric power systems, telecommunication networks, water distribution networks, and transportation systems. Monitoring and controlling such systems is becoming increasingly more challenging as their size, complexity and interactions are steadily growing. Moreover, these critical infrastructures are susceptible to natural disasters, frequent failures, as well as malicious attacks. There is a need to develop a common system-theoretic framework for modelling the behavior of critical infrastructure systems and for designing algorithms for intelligent monitoring, control and security of such systems. The goal of this presentation is to motivate the key role of fault diagnostics and fault tolerant control methodologies in securing the reliable operation of critical infrastructure systems, and to provide a framework for achieving early detection, isolation and accommodation of faults in large-scale nonlinear dynamic systems. Various ideas based on distributed fault diagnostics and adaptive approximation techniques with learning algorithms will be presented, and directions for future research will be discussed.
Designing an appropriate cooperation protocol in multi-robot systems such as multi-robot object manipulation systems is a challenging task. In this paper designing and implementing a cooperation protocol between two r...
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Designing an appropriate cooperation protocol in multi-robot systems such as multi-robot object manipulation systems is a challenging task. In this paper designing and implementing a cooperation protocol between two robots pushing an object toward an arbitrary goal configuration is investigated. The proposed method benefits from task decoupling which simplifies the cooperation protocol design. Each robot gets its proper action from a particular fuzzy inference system independently. The fuzzy controllers outputs are low-level robot commands by which the need to a robot path planning algorithm is eliminated. Simulation results show that robots could push the object to the goal configuration cooperatively. Experiments have been conducted to approve the proposed system.
Reliable localization techniques applicable to indoor environments are essential for the development of advanced location aware applications. We rely on WLAN infrastructure and exploit location related information, su...
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This work extends the probabilistic roadmap (PRM) framework by efficiently incorporating the force closure (FC) criterion into motion planning. A new FC verification approach is proposed that eliminates the need for t...
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This work extends the probabilistic roadmap (PRM) framework by efficiently incorporating the force closure (FC) criterion into motion planning. A new FC verification approach is proposed that eliminates the need for testing FC in the intermediate configurations of the local planner. The algorithm is tested for special kinds of planar robots that have two wheeled-tip fingers. The wheels are actuated and can roll along the object's edges. We propose a general planning algorithm for this new mechanism without any limitations on the fingers structure and the task. The algorithm is implemented and the simulation results in ADAMS verify the validity of our algorithm.
This paper presents a formulation for fractional time-optimal control problems in terms of Riemann-Liouville fractional *** solution seeking purpose,the fractional operator is approximated using a rational approximati...
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This paper presents a formulation for fractional time-optimal control problems in terms of Riemann-Liouville fractional *** solution seeking purpose,the fractional operator is approximated using a rational approximation of the Hankel data matrix of the impulse response and the problem is *** problem is thoroughly studied for a fractional double integrator,and the solution is obtained by both numerical optimization and time-domain analysis.
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