To improve the performance of autonomous vehicles operating in a factory environment, it is important to develop an intelligent planning system to avoic. vehicle collisions as well as to design a good path network whi...
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Surface reconstruction from cross-sectional contours has become increasingly important in medical image applications. In this paper, a method of reconstructing the surface of an object based on the descriptions of cro...
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In this paper, a novel approach to solve the mobile robot path planning problem in an unknown environment is presented. Inherently, the obstacle information from robot perception is contaminated with uncertainties, an...
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The objective of this paper is to present a 3D object recognition system with emphasis on an optimum placement strategy for a mobile 3D range sensor. The theoretical aspects leading to the development of the 3D sensor...
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If database management systems are to play an important role in CAD/CAM technologies, building engineering indices must be a primary task even though it is beyond conventional database practice. Information regarding ...
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If database management systems are to play an important role in CAD/CAM technologies, building engineering indices must be a primary task even though it is beyond conventional database practice. Information regarding design semantics or functionalities is often embedded in the geometric description of design objects, and is therefore not directly available for indexing. Presented in this paper is an efficient and flexible indexing mechanism for retrieving design objects that possess similar design features as described by the user. The underlying database is composed of rotational objects represented by constructive solid geometry (CSG). Although domain-specific representation schemes and algorithms are involved, the main objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of engineering indices and to illustrate the effort required to build as well as to use such indices.
Due to lack of robustness, the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach to the design of control systems is enhanced by Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) techniques. However, the robustness is recovered with the price paid...
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Due to lack of robustness, the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach to the design of control systems is enhanced by Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) techniques. However, the robustness is recovered with the price paid to the unduly large or infinite bandwidth of the compensator. Such compensators are undesirable because plant output measurement noise is greatly amplified so as to degrade the system performance. A simple method is presented for reducing compensator bandwidth by H ∞ - optimization of a stable function which combines the usual sensitivity function difference with a weighted closed-loop transfer function from noise to plant input. An example is given to show the improvement achievable by this new design method.
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adaptive version of the ...
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adaptive version of the command generator is proposed. The main feature of this command generator is that the inverse Jacobian is estimated on-line (using least-squares algorithms), thus the explicit form of the inverse Jacobian is not required. Since the Jacobian is dependent on the end-effector orientation representation, the adaptive command generator is then inherently flexible in accommodating any choice of orientation representation during Cartesian trajectory planning. The only knowledge required is the forward kinematics of the robot. Thus inverse kinematic transformation of robot trajectories can be carried out with a minimum amount of kinematic information. Extensive simulation studies of the proposed scheme have been carried out which showed that the adaptive command generator is computationally feasible and highly accurate. Different orientation representations have been tested with equal success. Some typical simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of the adaptive command generator.
A summary of fault detection and isolation methodologies used to accommodate system actuator and sensor failures is given. The four-parameter controller for failure diagnostic problems is described in detail. Applicat...
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A summary of fault detection and isolation methodologies used to accommodate system actuator and sensor failures is given. The four-parameter controller for failure diagnostic problems is described in detail. Applications of this novel approach to robot control are discussed.< >
An efficient planning technique for the organization and formulation of complete plans applicable to both Robotic Assemblies and Intelligent Robotic Systems is proposed. Constraints are introduced to facilitate and op...
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An efficient planning technique for the organization and formulation of complete plans applicable to both Robotic Assemblies and Intelligent Robotic Systems is proposed. Constraints are introduced to facilitate and optimize the organizer operations. An example demonstrates the feasibility and applicability of the proposed methodology.
Wc have developed an innovative ray-tracing simulation algorithm to describe Welativistic Effects in SpaceTime ("REST"). Our algorithm, called REST-frame, models light rays that have assumed infinite speed i...
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