Authors are developing a rotorcraft with autonomous controller for the remote sensing of agricultural fields. Accurate position sensing is essential to the development of the autonomous control system. One major metho...
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Authors are developing a rotorcraft with autonomous controller for the remote sensing of agricultural fields. Accurate position sensing is essential to the development of the autonomous control system. One major method for the position sensing is to use the image processing technique. Among the image processing techniques labeling processing is most practical and is widely used for detecting the position of target objects. The labeling technique often requires high computing performance. In order to make our remote sensing system available at various practical fields, our labeling technique should be realized in compact system with enough processing speed. In this study, a FPGA based compact vision sensor to achieve fast labeling procedures is proposed. A feature of our vision sensor is that labeling process is simplified and fastened by introducing the horizontal center line information on behalf of contour data of the target objects. Therefore the performance of the processing speed and memory usage are enhanced. Due to our original technique, real-time labeling process could be achieved on the FPGA based compact vision sensor. Through several experiments, the excellent performance of the prototyped vision sensor on target detection was demonstrated.
The authors have been developing a mechano-electric artificial myocardial assist system (artificial myocardium) which is capable of supporting natural contractile functions from the outside of the ventricle without bl...
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The authors have been developing a mechano-electric artificial myocardial assist system (artificial myocardium) which is capable of supporting natural contractile functions from the outside of the ventricle without blood contacting surface. In this study, a nano-tech covalent type shape memory alloy fibre (Biometal, Toki Corp, Japan) was employed and the parallel-link structured myocardial assist device was developed. And basic characteristics of the system were examined in a mechanical circulatory system as well as in animal experiments using goats. The contractile functions were evaluated with the mock circulatory system that simulated systemic circulation with a silicone left ventricular model and an aortic afterload. Hemodynamic performance was also examined in goats. Prior to the measurement, the artificial myocardial assist device was installed into the goat's thoracic cavity and attached onto the ventricular wall. As a result, the system could be installed successfully without severe complications related to the heating, and the aortic flow rate was increased by 15% and the systolic left ventricular pressure was elevated by 7% under the cardiac output condition of 3L/min in a goat And those values were elevated by the improvement of the design which was capable of the natural morphological myocardial tissue streamlines. Therefore it was indicated that the effective assistance might be achieved by the contraction by the newly-designed artificial myocardial assist system using Biometal. Moreover it was suggested that the assistance gain might be obtained by the optimised configuration design along with the natural anatomical myocardial stream line.
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a three-dimensional imaging technique providing an arbitrary set of reconstruction planes in the breast with limited series of projection images. This paper describes a comparison...
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Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a three-dimensional imaging technique providing an arbitrary set of reconstruction planes in the breast with limited series of projection images. This paper describes a comparison between traditional shift-and-add (SAA) and point-by-point back projection (BP) algorithms by impulse response and modulation transfer function (MTF) analysis. Due to the partial isocentric motion of the x-ray tube in DBT, structures such as microcalcifications appear slightly blurred in traditional shift-and-add (SAA) images in the direction perpendicular to the direction of tube's motion. Point-by-point BP improved rendition of microcalcifications. The sharpness and morphology of calcifications were improved in a human subject images. A filtered back projection (FBP) deblurring approach was used to demonstrate deblurred point-by-point BP tomosynthesis images. The point-by-point BP rather than traditional SAA should be considered as the foundation of further deblurring algorithms for DBT reconstruction.
While the pedagogy of Service-Learning (S-L) has been applied beneficially in a variety of disciplines, only recently have engineeringdepartments begun to adopt the practice of integrating academically-relevant commu...
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Teachers are often asked or required to introduce their students to concepts and content that the teacher does not have a background or training in. Pre-engineering concepts certainly fall within this list of things f...
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