A heuristic algorithm for multiple vehicles routing problem with stochastic demand is proposed and the goal is to minimize the total traveling cost. Two-phase method is adopted to deal with this problem. In the first ...
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A heuristic algorithm for multiple vehicles routing problem with stochastic demand is proposed and the goal is to minimize the total traveling cost. Two-phase method is adopted to deal with this problem. In the first phase, an algorithm is proposed to partition customers into clusters, and the main task of the second phase is to design an effective routing through each cluster of customers to minimize the total expected traveling cost. Both the a priori strategy and the reoptimization strategy are used to obtain the optimal routing. The experiment results indicate that this method can produce solutions of good quality and is an effective algorithm for the multiple vehicles routing problem with stochastic demand
In this paper, we propose an environment-adaptive antipersonnel mine detection system called Advanced Mine Sweeper. Advanced Mine Sweeper is developed based on sensing technologies, access-control technologies and sys...
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In this paper, we propose an environment-adaptive antipersonnel mine detection system called Advanced Mine Sweeper. Advanced Mine Sweeper is developed based on sensing technologies, access-control technologies and system integration technologies for safe and effective demining procedure after the Level II survey. Advanced Mine Sweeper consists of a sensing vehicle/unit, an access vehicle, and an assist vehicle. The sensing vehicle/unit is composed of an integrated sensor and a small-reaction sensor head manipulator. The access vehicle is parked facing a mine field in order to control the sensing unit position in a global area using its boom. The assist vehicle is parked keeping some distance from a mine field. It controls the sensing vehicle/unit and access vehicle and then displays the processed sensing information for landmine detection, receiving sensing information and sensing position. By using this system, experiments in the field buried dummy landmines were carried out for the utility and performance evaluation
Intelligent rescue systems with high information and robot technology have been expected to mitigate disaster damages, especially in Japan after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. In development of robots for search a...
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Intelligent rescue systems with high information and robot technology have been expected to mitigate disaster damages, especially in Japan after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. In development of robots for search and rescue tasks it is important to develop a robot which can actually work in a real disaster site. Several robots were used for the search and detection operation in the collapsed World Trade Center building in September 2001. From 2002 "Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas" (5 years project) launched by Ministry of Education, Culture, Spots, Science and Technology, Japan. It aims at significant mitigation the earthquake disaster damage on the scale of the Great Hanshin earthquake, in densely populated areas in big city regions such as Tokyo metropolitan area and Keihanshin area. In this paper, we introduce the activities of the mission unit on the information collection by on-rubble mobile platforms
Intracellular stress transmission through subcellular structural components has been proposed to affect activation of localized mechano-sensing sites such as focal adhesions in adherent cells. Previous studies reporte...
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Actin bundles in vascular endothelial cells (ECs) play a critical role in transmitting intracellular forces between separate focal adhesion sites. However, quantitative descriptions of tension level in single actin bu...
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Sensorineural hearing loss, resulting from a dysfunction of cochlear amplification, is observed in a steadily increasing number of younger patients as well as in aged patients. The majority of these hearing-impaired i...
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(纸本)9781627481496
Sensorineural hearing loss, resulting from a dysfunction of cochlear amplification, is observed in a steadily increasing number of younger patients as well as in aged patients. The majority of these hearing-impaired individuals use conventional hearing aids, which are mainly composed of an earphone, a microphone and an amplifier. However, some patients who use conventional hearing aids remain unsatisfied owing to various problems such as sound distortion, feedback and so on. To circumvent some of the problems inherent in conventional hearing aids, implantable hearing aids have been developed. The most prominent feature of implantable hearing aids is that a transducer is directly coupled to the one of the middle-ear ossicles. However, since invasive surgery is necessary for implantation of these hearing aids, they have not as yet been widely employed. We therefore constructed a new non-implantable hearing aid which can generate an excitation force to vibrate the ossicles by a coil adhered to the tympanic membrane. In this study, the excitation force generated by this hearing aid was evaluated using human temporal bones. The best result of experiments using three bones indicates that the newly developed hearing aid can generate an excitation force of more than 80 dB SPL in terms of sound pressure at frequencies between 0.8 and 3.2 kHz.
In this study, an apparatus that quasi-statically measures the relationship between the load applied to the ossicles and the displacement of the ossicles was developed, and the ossicular mobility in human temporal bon...
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(纸本)9781627481496
In this study, an apparatus that quasi-statically measures the relationship between the load applied to the ossicles and the displacement of the ossicles was developed, and the ossicular mobility in human temporal bones was measured before and after the ossicles were artificially fixed. Results were compared with estimates of vibration amplitude of the ossicles obtained with a laser Doppler velocimeter in the same temporal bones when sound stimulus was applied to the tympanic membrane. Although the data set is small, a correlation was seen between the ossicular mobility measured with our apparatus and the vibration amplitude of the ossicles. This result suggests that our apparatus is able to detect the difference in mobility between fixed and normal ears, and indicates that our apparatus is a potentially useful tool for the estimation of ossicular disorders.
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