作者:
S.G. TzafestasP. PoulosG.G. RigatosA. KoukosIntelligent
Robotics and Automation Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens Zografou Campus 15773 Athens Greece
The rapid increase of warehouse use demands automated management services in order to make decisions for all tasks concerned. These decisions must ensure optimised usage of resources, which leads to cost reduction and...
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The rapid increase of warehouse use demands automated management services in order to make decisions for all tasks concerned. These decisions must ensure optimised usage of resources, which leads to cost reduction and better customer service. A major consideration is the way the warehouse area, which consists of different storage types and similar product groups, is exploited. The optimisation of the warehouse's occupied area is the target of replenishment, which iS essentially a constrained placement problem. In this paper, a genetic algorithm with revised operators iS developed. This algorithm is applied to real warehouse data and results show that it produces successful replenishments in a complex environment where many criteria have to be considered and met to some user-defined extent.
Presents a method to obtain room transfer functions for applications in the design of intelligent systems for video conferencing. In these applications the acoustical dynamics, for example, affects the quality of the ...
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(纸本)0780366387
Presents a method to obtain room transfer functions for applications in the design of intelligent systems for video conferencing. In these applications the acoustical dynamics, for example, affects the quality of the recorded speech signal and the ability to achieve accurate source localization. The first part of the paper gives results on the identification of parameterized room transfer functions. The second part presents a method to extrapolate room transfer functions from the identified models. The extrapolation is achieved by getting a functional form of the transfer function parameters which depends on the speaker and the microphone locations.
We propose an adaptive regularization algorithm for smoothing dense range images using a novel, first order stabilizing function. The stabilizer we suggest is based upon minimizing the reconstructed surface area and i...
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We propose an adaptive regularization algorithm for smoothing dense range images using a novel, first order stabilizing function. The stabilizer we suggest is based upon minimizing the reconstructed surface area and is derived in the native, spherical coordinate system of the range scanner. This allows adjustments to be made along only the direction of measurement, thereby preventing the data overlapping problem that can arise in dense images. Adaptation is achieved by adjusting the regularization parameter according to the results of 2D edge analysis. Results indicate effective noise suppression along with well preserved edges and details in the reconstructed, 3D surfaces.
This paper proposes a factorization method that reconstructs camera motion and scene shape based on the matching of multiple images under the condition that the camera captures a perspective view. Starting from the af...
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This paper proposes a factorization method that reconstructs camera motion and scene shape based on the matching of multiple images under the condition that the camera captures a perspective view. Starting from the affine projection camera model, the projection depth is iteratively estimated until the measurement matrix has rank 4. Then, the obtained measurement matrix is factorized to restore the three-dimensional information of the scene in the projection space. This approach eliminates noise sensitive processes, such as the calculation of the fundamental matrix, that are required in the factorization for the conventional perspective projection image, and a stable reconstruction is realized. Furthermore, the metric constraint in the conventional affine model is extended, and the metric constraint in the perspective projection condition is derived. It is shown that the reconstruction in Euclidean space is realized if the internal parameters of the camera are given.
There are considered the creation problems of organizational and manufacturing systems as formalized system-formation process according to the construction conception of resource-goal triads. Triad is formed and is us...
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There are considered the creation problems of organizational and manufacturing systems as formalized system-formation process according to the construction conception of resource-goal triads. Triad is formed and is used as the base element of description formalization of the purpose achievement procedure by means of system-formation process and connects three components necessary for creation of any system (reasons of system origin, existence purpose, possibility of creation). The proposed procedure of system-formation is a basis for development of theoretical bases for modeling and research of controlled manufacturing systems.
This paper reviews a number of recent algorithms for mobile robot path planning, navigation and motion control, which employ fuzzy logic and neuro-fuzzy learning and reasoning. Starting with a discussion of the struct...
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In this paper a class of two level systems where N linear subsystems S1, S2,…, SN in a lower hierarchical level are interconnected through a cordinator S 0 in a higher hierarchical level is considered. The model of s...
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In this paper a class of two level systems where N linear subsystems S1, S2,…, SN in a lower hierarchical level are interconnected through a cordinator S 0 in a higher hierarchical level is considered. The model of such a system is presented together with a controlling algorithm that preserves the structure of the system. The paper is mainly a survey of all related work and presents all the critical aspects of such a controlling scheme such as structural controllability, fixed modes, the algorithm itself and stability of the closed loop system.
A neural network approach is proposed for real-time collision-free motion planning of holonomic and nonholonomic car-like robots in a nonstationary environment. This model is capable of planning real-time robot motion...
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A neural network approach is proposed for real-time collision-free motion planning of holonomic and nonholonomic car-like robots in a nonstationary environment. This model is capable of planning real-time robot motion with sudden environmental changes, motion of a car with multiple targets, and motion of multiple robots. The proposed neural network model is biologically inspired, where the dynamics of each neuron in the topologically organized neural network is characterized by a shunting equation or an additive equation. There are only local connections among neurons. The real-time optimal robot motion is planned through the dynamic neural activity landscape of the neural network without explicitly searching over the free workspace nor the collision paths, without explicitly optimizing any cost functions, without any prior knowledge of the dynamic environment, without any learning process, and without any local collision checking procedures. Therefore it is computationally efficient. The stability of the neural network is guaranteed by Lyapunov stability analysis. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach are demonstrated through simulation studies.
The application of neural networks to real-time motion planning of robotic systems is studied. The proposed framework, using biologically inspired neural networks, for robot motion planning with obstacle avoidance in ...
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The application of neural networks to real-time motion planning of robotic systems is studied. The proposed framework, using biologically inspired neural networks, for robot motion planning with obstacle avoidance in a nonstationary environment is computationally efficient. The neural dynamics of each neuron in the topologically organized neural network is characterized by a simple shunting equation derived from Hodgkin and Huxley's (1952) membrane model. The real-time optimal robot motion is planned through the dynamic activity landscape of the neural network that represents the dynamic environment. The proposed model can deal with point mobile robots, manipulation robots, holonomic and nonholonomic car-like robots and multi-robot systems. The efficiency and effectiveness are demonstrated by simulation studies.
We consider a photographic studio that must schedule multiple teams of photographers to a large number of elementary and secondary schools. The photographers' schedules are to be optimized so that time constraints...
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