This paper presents a function discovery system FFS that has two core parts: FFS-0-CORE and FFS-1-CORE. Both cores are with polynomial time complexity in discovering functions of either a•f(x)+b form or a 1 f 1 (x)+…...
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This paper presents a function discovery system FFS that has two core parts: FFS-0-CORE and FFS-1-CORE. Both cores are with polynomial time complexity in discovering functions of either a•f(x)+b form or a 1 f 1 (x)+…+a n f n (x)+b form. FFS-0-CORE allows users to define their own models. FFS-1-CORE uses novel principles to increase information which helps the function discovery procedures. Three computational examples are included.
The study is based on two assumptions: 1) the child is an active, goal-oriented participant in his or her own development; and 2) physical manipulation of objects is a major contributing factor in the development of c...
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The study is based on two assumptions: 1) the child is an active, goal-oriented participant in his or her own development; and 2) physical manipulation of objects is a major contributing factor in the development of cognitive and language skills in a very young child. The CRS robot arm system is used in our study. All the functions are under the control of a computer based software control algorithm. The training program uses either the teach pedant or a series of text commands to train the arm. With the teach pedant, the operator can move the arm in desired directions by pressing the button on the teach pedant. In the text training mode, the arm moves according to the command set predefined. Another important aspect of the project is how to set up the interface and communication environment between the young children and the robot arm. The final program lets the child to accomplish a series of processing complex tasks through simple operation of certain buttons. The programmed activities have a development sequence, which eventually brings the robot arm under the control of the child; at the same time it facilitates the learning process of the child.
In many industrial applications such as autonomous vehicle guidance and robotic manipulations, reliable 3-D informations must be extracted from the scene in order to provide a robust description of the environment in ...
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In many industrial applications such as autonomous vehicle guidance and robotic manipulations, reliable 3-D informations must be extracted from the scene in order to provide a robust description of the environment in which the system evolves. This paper presents the TRID sensor, a simple, fast, robust and accurate 3-D sensing device based on the Biris technology. TRID is limited to a lateral resolution of one point. Experimental results show that an accuracy better than 0.15% can be obtained for the depth component (Z) of 3-D points at a distance of 1.3 meter from a wooden black painted beam surface with an acquisition rate of 8.5 points/s.
A variety of techniques in machine vision involve representation of objects by using their shape skeleton. In this paper we present a method to obtain the skeletal shape of binary images in the presence of both bounda...
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A variety of techniques in machine vision involve representation of objects by using their shape skeleton. In this paper we present a method to obtain the skeletal shape of binary images in the presence of both boundary noise and noise occurring inside object regions. We propose to obtain the skeletal shape of such images by a modified version of the Kohonen self-organizing map, implemented in a batch processing mode. The modifications allow the map to adapt to the input shape distribution. At each iteration, a competitive Hebbian rule is used to progressively compute the Delaunay triangulation of the shape. Information from the triangulation augments the map topology to yield the final skeletal shape. The batch mode implementation of the self-organizing process, allows our approach to compare very favourably, in terms of computational time, with the traditional flowthrough implementations. Encouraging experimental performance has been obtained on a variety of shapes under varying signal to noise ratios.
The passivity property of dissipative mechanical structures has long been exploited in designing passive controllers that provide robust stability even in the presence of unmodeled dynamics of the system. For an input...
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The passivity property of dissipative mechanical structures has long been exploited in designing passive controllers that provide robust stability even in the presence of unmodeled dynamics of the system. For an input/output map of a flexible structure to be passive, collocation of the actuators and sensors is required and also the sensors should measure the velocity of the system. The so-called smart structures frequently have more sensors than actuators. Therefore, the passive controller can at best utilize only a subset of the sensors. In this paper we consider the design of a squaring down matrix which would render a system passive subject to some additional performance considerations. The problem of obtaining the synthesized passive output is cast as a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be efficiently solved by the LMI Toolbox in Matlab. We apply this procedure with the assumption that the sensors provide both displacement and velocity information which is generally not true. We show that the passive controllers can be implemented without the use of velocity information. By using synthesized passive outputs in addition to naturally occurring passive outputs, we obtain better system performance. We present experimental results involving a single flexible beam with torque input and hub angular position and strain gage outputs.
Nodule identification is a major issue in chest radiography and cancer prevention and detection. The recognition of cancer nodule characteristics in chest radiographs is a key point to the detection procedure. The met...
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Nodule identification is a major issue in chest radiography and cancer prevention and detection. The recognition of cancer nodule characteristics in chest radiographs is a key point to the detection procedure. The method described here is based on the extraction of the major geometrical as well as luminance characteristics that make nodule recognizable and easy to detect. The purpose of the proposed method is to detect within a given block of chest X-ray image any homogeneous and autonomous mass that might means the existence of a nodule or some structure within it. The idea of pixels of interest is introduced which makes the growing a finite steps procedure. The growing of the region around a given point is realized gradually in a finite number of iterations at each one of which a set of criteria is evaluated. These criteria are established in a prior training procedure.
This paper addresses the control problem of masterslave systems which involve severe modeling errors and other high-level uncertainties, using neural networks. The solution approach is based on a recent teleoperator c...
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This paper addresses the control problem of masterslave systems which involve severe modeling errors and other high-level uncertainties, using neural networks. The solution approach is based on a recent teleoperator control scheme of S. Lee and H.S. Lee (1993, 1994), which is suitably enhanced such that to become capable of compensating the uncertainties. The class of radial-basis functions (RBF) neural networks are employed in a multipartitioned neural network architecture, and a special learning scheme is adopted which distributes the learning error to each subnetwork and allows online learning. The effectiveness of the present RBF neurocontroller was investigated through extensive simulation and compared to that of MLP (multilayer perceptron) neurocontroller and a robust sliding-mode controller representative.
Due to increasing safety and reliability demands fault detection and accommodation is a key issue in the design of industrial control systems. This paper presents a neural network based method for fault detection and ...
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Due to increasing safety and reliability demands fault detection and accommodation is a key issue in the design of industrial control systems. This paper presents a neural network based method for fault detection and accommodation, appropriate for interconnected power systems. The simulation results show that the method is very promising.
Data acquisition and learning capabilities are necessary for an intelligent system operating in unstructured, dynamically changing environments. For this purpose, a method for the effective use of multiple sensors mus...
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Data acquisition and learning capabilities are necessary for an intelligent system operating in unstructured, dynamically changing environments. For this purpose, a method for the effective use of multiple sensors must be developed. This paper shows how multisensor fusion can be accomplished by neural networks. It first summarizes the conventional fusion techniques and consequently describes the use of neural networks for sensor fusion as well as their advantages. Finally, an application is presented where a neural network is used to fuse the signals of several sensors, of different type, for material identification purposes.
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