This paper proposes a multi-scale control scheme aimed at controlling speed, dwell time, and charging time of electric and automated buses performing the transport service on lines where there are no reserved lanes. T...
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Interaction in immersive virtual reality can be enhanced by merging physical objects with virtual stimuli, thus creating extended reality scenarios. Such approaches could be exploited to implement physi-cal obstacle a...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350374490
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(纸本)9798350374506
Interaction in immersive virtual reality can be enhanced by merging physical objects with virtual stimuli, thus creating extended reality scenarios. Such approaches could be exploited to implement physi-cal obstacle avoidance and to provide the missing haptic feedback when touching, grasping, and manipulating objects. Effective solutions rely on the correct detection and tracking of the 6DOF pose of the objects and the accurate 3D reconstruction of the physical elements. Here, we focus on the latter aspect, analyzing different 3D reconstruction techniques to create and segment the meshes necessary to merge the physical objects with virtual counterparts. We consider six 3D reconstruction software and six different fur-nished rooms, analyzing the time necessary to create the 3D mesh from scratch, the reconstruction success rate, and the percentage of volume shift between the real objects and the reconstructed ones. The quantitative results show several off-the-shelf 3D reconstruction techniques that can be used as input for the considered extended reality system. Although fine 3D reconstruction and meshes are not necessary, the considered techniques can catch the sizes of the real objects in the scene and can be used to create virtual environments coherently aligned with the real ones.
AI and LLM technologies have emerged rapidly, creating more opportunities to develop and enhance e-learning. This paper provides a detailed account of the tools built by the current and future generations of LLMs and ...
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This paper deals with the optimal speed control of two platoons that share part of their freeway routes and need to perform merging and diverging procedures. The proposed control scheme has a centralized nature and is...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783907144107
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(纸本)9798331540920
This paper deals with the optimal speed control of two platoons that share part of their freeway routes and need to perform merging and diverging procedures. The proposed control scheme has a centralized nature and is applied periodically by the platoons coordinator which receives in real time the state of the platoons and the traffic measurements on the network, based on which a traffic prediction is made. Based on this information, the coordinator applies specific optimal control algorithms to decide whether the merger is convenient or not and to compute the optimal speed profiles of the two platoons before the merging, during the shared journey and after the diverging phase.
This paper considers a last-mile delivery problem in which autonomous robots are employed for transporting parcels in a pedestrian area. The deliveries to the different buildings are organized through a common collect...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350358513
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350358520
This paper considers a last-mile delivery problem in which autonomous robots are employed for transporting parcels in a pedestrian area. The deliveries to the different buildings are organized through a common collection point, in which couriers unload the parcels and from which a set of autonomous robots move to deliver them to the final customers. The common collection point is located in a building provided with renewable sources and a battery storage and controlled with an energy management system. The proposed planning algorithm acts according to a discrete-time logic, in which the dispatching and charging operations of the robots are planned at each time step. The main objectives are the full exploitation of the robot capacity, the reduction of the delivery delay, the minimization of the travel costs and the smart energy exploitation. This algorithm is tested on a real case study in the Savona Campus of the University of Genova.
In this paper, we face the problem of using video-based learning with multimedia content, which is expected to assume a prominent role in the post-pandemic world. In this respect, we have investigated the possibility ...
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Total skin electron therapy TSET is mainly used in the treatment of mycosis fungoides, a rare cutaneous T-cell lymphoma affecting the first few millimeters of skin. The Skinscan project aims to optimize irradiation by...
Machine-learning models demand periodic updates to improve their average accuracy, exploiting novel architectures and additional data. However, a newly updated model may commit mistakes that the previous model did not...
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This paper deals with the optimal control of electric and automated buses that have to follow an intercity line, where some stops are equipped with a flash-charging infrastructure to charge the batteries, while others...
This paper deals with the optimal control of electric and automated buses that have to follow an intercity line, where some stops are equipped with a flash-charging infrastructure to charge the batteries, while others are not. In order to control these buses, it is necessary to account for the traffic conditions along the roads of the bus line, and to minimize two objectives related to the deviations from the bus timetable and the lack of energy, at the end of the bus trip, with respect to a desired final energy level. The resulting optimal control problem is a multi-objective linear quadratic problem with both continuous and integer variables. In this paper, we propose and apply two methods based on lexicographic ordering aimed at determining the Pareto-optimal solutions of the control problem in twelve scenarios inspired by a real case.
This work explores a novel approach to empowering robots with visual perception capabilities using textual descriptions. Our approach involves the integration of GPT-4 with dense captioning, enabling robots to perceiv...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350384574
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350384581
This work explores a novel approach to empowering robots with visual perception capabilities using textual descriptions. Our approach involves the integration of GPT-4 with dense captioning, enabling robots to perceive and interpret the visual world through detailed text-based descriptions. To assess both user experience and the technical feasibility of this approach, experiments were conducted with human participants interacting with a Pepper robot equipped with visual capabilities. The results affirm the viability of the proposed approach, allowing to perform vision-based conversations effectively, despite processing time limitations.
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