Transference of controllers evolved in simulation to real vehicles is an important issue in evolutionary robotics (ER). We have previously evolved autonomous navigation controllers for fixed wing UAV applications usin...
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There are several approaches to the hardware/software design in embedded systems, ranging from the traditional sequential methods which focus on the determination of the hardware architecture prior to software design,...
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There are several approaches to the hardware/software design in embedded systems, ranging from the traditional sequential methods which focus on the determination of the hardware architecture prior to software design, to newer object-oriented approaches that attempt to apply software engineering methods to hardware design without a systematic process. This paper discusses a structured object-oriented methodology for the integrated co-analysis and co-design of hardware/software systems using an extended high order object-oriented modeling technique (HOOMT). This methodology offers a uniform method for hardware and software developers to jointly develop the specifications for and partitioning of the hardware and software components of a system, as well as developing the interfaces between components, and allows easy design migration of components between hardware and software. In this paper it is applied to the co-analysis/co-design of the hardware and software of a simulated advanced power grid control system.
In this paper it is demonstrated that pronking (or trotting or pacing) is the preferred mode of behavior of a fairly generic quadruped model. This gait often occurs even though no explicit control is used to force it,...
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In this paper it is demonstrated that pronking (or trotting or pacing) is the preferred mode of behavior of a fairly generic quadruped model. This gait often occurs even though no explicit control is used to force it, and thus the system is said to "self-organize." Further, it is demonstrated that, despite the complicated coupled nonlinear dynamics, the system is still amenable to analysis if certain parameters are assumed small, namely the leg masses and the hip spring constants. Explicit conditions are presented for a symmetric pronk. In one condition, the leg length and the hip spring constant determine the pronking height, which has implications for quadruped robot design.
This paper contains 3 new contributions to our previous work: First, a continuous visual servoing model for the ODIS omni-directional robot is extended to consider rotation about the robot center, instead of the camer...
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This paper contains 3 new contributions to our previous work: First, a continuous visual servoing model for the ODIS omni-directional robot is extended to consider rotation about the robot center, instead of the camera center. This is shown to lead to an undesirable limit cycle due to a Hopf bifurcation. Second, 2 new discrete controllers and models for visual servoing ODIS are derived, which are closer to the servoing methods used in experiments. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop systems are locally asymptotically stable. Finally, experiments are presented which demonstrate successful discrete visual servoing.
We propose a method for a cognitive robot behavior control in which a small number of behaviors are loaded into a workspace, called working memory, where they are combined to generate actions during a task execution. ...
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The Smith predictor is applied to the boundary control of damped wave equations with large delays at the boundary measurement. The instability problem due to large delays is solved and the scheme is proved to be robus...
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The Smith predictor is applied to the boundary control of damped wave equations with large delays at the boundary measurement. The instability problem due to large delays is solved and the scheme is proved to be robust against a small difference between the assumed delay and the actual delay.
In this paper, we discuss the application of Voronoi diagram and central Voronoi tessellations in the distributed control of mobile robots for area coverage, dynamic target tracking and feedback control of the environ...
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In this paper, we discuss the application of Voronoi diagram and central Voronoi tessellations in the distributed control of mobile robots for area coverage, dynamic target tracking and feedback control of the environment. Based on TKJ Cortes, et al., (April 2004), we extend the application of central Voronoi tessellations (CVT) to a dynamic changing environment, provided that the environment changes relatively slow. Then we describe how automatic flocking behavior of mobile robots can be achieved by using CVT in area coverage control and multiple target tracking. We also discuss the hierarchical structure of CVT-based mobile actuator/sensor network where formation control can be applied for the subgroup of robots within a Voronoi cell. Simulation results show the correctness of our proposed method.
In this paper, we presented a review on the current control issues and strategies on a group of unmanned autonomous vehicles/robots formation. Formation control has broad applications and becomes an active research to...
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In this paper, we presented a review on the current control issues and strategies on a group of unmanned autonomous vehicles/robots formation. Formation control has broad applications and becomes an active research topic in the recent years. In this paper, we attempt to review the key issues in formation control with a focus on the main control strategies for formation control under different kinds of scenarios. Then, we point out some important open questions and the possible future research directions on formation control. This paper contributes with a new and interesting consideration on formation control and its application in distributed parameter systems. We pointed out that formation control should be classified as formation regulation control and formation tracking control, similar to regulator and tracker in conventional control.
This paper presents an adaptive controller for the compensation of state-dependent disturbance with unknown amplitude in low-cost wheeled mobile robot servo control. The considered state-dependent disturbance is cause...
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This paper presents an adaptive controller for the compensation of state-dependent disturbance with unknown amplitude in low-cost wheeled mobile robot servo control. The considered state-dependent disturbance is caused by the friction and the eccentricity between the wheel axis and the motor driver. Our proposed control algorithm guarantees the asymptotical stability for both the velocity and the position tracking. Experiment results show the effectiveness of the adaptive disturbance compensator for the wheeled mobile robot in low velocity diffusion tracking.
Range identification using image sequence via observations from a traditional camera-type vision system has been discussed in the literature. In this paper, the camera-type planar imaging surface is extended to severa...
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Range identification using image sequence via observations from a traditional camera-type vision system has been discussed in the literature. In this paper, the camera-type planar imaging surface is extended to several well-known 3D surfaces, such as an arbitrary plane, a sphere, an ellipsoid, and a paraboloid. For a general imaging surface, the resulting perspective dynamic system is not guaranteed to preserve an affine form. In this case, most-existing nonlinear observers that are applicable to the perspective dynamic system observed via a camera can not be applied for the range identification problem directly. We show via simulations that our recently proposed linear approximation observer can perform the state estimation.
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