A new safety support system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of a wandering elderly person's location. The system employs a low transmitting power mobile phone (PHS) and a personal computer (...
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A new safety support system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of a wandering elderly person's location. The system employs a low transmitting power mobile phone (PHS) and a personal computer (PC). The PHS is carried with the elderly person as a pendant. The PHS location is identified within 100m from the receiving antenna ID. Therefore, the system can detect whether the wandering elderly person is in or out of their home. When the wandering elderly person is away from home, the system automatically informs the caregiver via voice mode and sends the wandering elderly person's location map by e-mail.
This paper proposes a method for generating behaviors based on imitation of a partner robot interacting with a human. First of all, we discuss the role of imitation, and explain the method for imitative behavior gener...
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This paper proposes a method for generating behaviors based on imitation of a partner robot interacting with a human. First of all, we discuss the role of imitation, and explain the method for imitative behavior generation of the robot based on computational intelligence. The robot searches for a human by using a CCD camera. A human hand motion pattern is extracted from a series of images taken from the CCD camera. Next, the position sequence of the extracted human hand is used as inputs to a spiking neural network in order to recognize it as a gesture. Furthermore, the trajectory for a behavior is generated and updated by a steady-state genetic algorithm based on human motions. Furthermore, a self-organizing map is used for clustering human hand motion patterns as gestures. Finally, we show several experimental results of imitative behavior generation through interaction with a human.
We propose a novel stereo scheme for obstacle detection which is aimed at practical automotive use. The basic methodology involves simple region matching between images, observed from a stereo camera rig, where it is ...
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We propose a novel stereo scheme for obstacle detection which is aimed at practical automotive use. The basic methodology involves simple region matching between images, observed from a stereo camera rig, where it is assumed the images are related by a pseudo-projective transform. It provides an effective solution for determining boundaries of obstacles in noisy conditions, e.g. caused by weather or poor illumination, which conventional planar projection approaches cannot cope with. The linearity of the camera model also contributes significantly to compensation of road inclination. Essentially, precise lane detection and prior knowledge concerning obstacles or ambient conditions are unnecessary and the proposed scheme is therefore applicable to a wide variety of outdoor scenes. We have also developed a multi-VLIW processor that fulfills the essential specifications for automotive use. Our scheme for obstacle detection is largely reflected in the processor design so that real-time on-board processing can be realized with acceptable cost to both automobile users and manufacturers. The implementation of a prototype and experimental results illustrates our method.
Fitts' law is a tool for evaluating pointing devices, which has been accepted and applied widespread in the human computer interaction field. However, there are still some problems embarrassing the researchers in ...
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(纸本)0769522165
Fitts' law is a tool for evaluating pointing devices, which has been accepted and applied widespread in the human computer interaction field. However, there are still some problems embarrassing the researchers in this field about its validity. One problem is derived from the request on input hits' distribution (i.e. spatial constraint) by the origin of Fitts' law. Therefore, a new model based on temporal distribution was developed to alter the traditional models. We carried out an experiment including five tasks with different requirement on speed and accuracy to test the effect of the new model. The new model and the traditional models are compared with both the mixed data and the individual task data of the experiment using AIC (Akaike's Information Criterion), a criterion for statistical model selection. All results show that the new model is better than the traditional ones in performance evaluation.
In this paper the authors propose a task-independent control method for spoken dialogs. This is an expansion of the frame-driven dialog control method used in text-based dialog systems, which employs knowledge specifi...
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We have carried out 115In nuclear quadrupole resonance measurements on CeCoIn5 under high pressure P. The temperature T dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 in the normal state, l/T1 ∞ T1/4, in...
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Fitts' law is a tool for evaluating pointing devices, which has been accepted and applied widespread in the human computer interaction field. However, there are still some problems embarrassing the researchers in ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769522165
Fitts' law is a tool for evaluating pointing devices, which has been accepted and applied widespread in the human computer interaction field. However, there are still some problems embarrassing the researchers in this field about its validity. One problem is derived from the request on input hits' distribution (i. e. spatial constraint) by the origin of Fitts' law. Therefore, a new model based on temporal distribution was developed to alter the traditional models. We carried out an experiment including five tasks with different requirement on speed and accuracy to test the effect of the new model. The new model and the traditional models are compared with both the mixed data and the individual task data of the experiment using AIC (Akaike's Information Criterion), a criterion for statistical model selection. All results show that the new model is better than the traditional ones in performance evaluation.
This work presents efficient techniques for least-square synthesis of linkages. Considerable attention is given to the problem statement. First, the synthesis problem is dealt with in its most general statement. It is...
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This work presents efficient techniques for least-square synthesis of linkages. Considerable attention is given to the problem statement. First, the synthesis problem is dealt with in its most general statement. It is then shown that the problem is simplified by considering particular statements having primary significance to the engineering practice. Three statements (cases) are considered along with methods for their solution. The proposed methods form an algorithmic background for efficient PC programs for approximate synthesis.
The structure of turbulence in a drag-reducing surfactant solution channel flow has been studied with particle image velocimetry. Measurements were performed for water and surfactant solution flow at three regions wit...
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The structure of turbulence in a drag-reducing surfactant solution channel flow has been studied with particle image velocimetry. Measurements were performed for water and surfactant solution flow at three regions with different drag-reducing features: regions 2, 3 and 4 with respect to the Reynolds number, in the x-y and x-z planes for a total 500 frames for each run. The drag-reducing flows at regions 2 and 3 showed different characteristics, even though the DR levels were similar. The intensity of the wall-normal velocity fluctuat韔ns was decreased at both regions, but that of the streamwise velocity fluctuations, normalized with bulk velocity, was depressed at region 2 whereas increased at region 3 near the wall. The Reynolds shear stress was depressed more greatly at region 2. At region 4, the surfactant solution flow did not display characteristic features as in a Newtonian fluid flow.
Nickel thin films for an electromagnetic wave shield were produced by magnetron sputtering with multipolar magnetic plasma confinement (MMPC). The characteristics of the electromagnetic wave shield have been measured ...
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Nickel thin films for an electromagnetic wave shield were produced by magnetron sputtering with multipolar magnetic plasma confinement (MMPC). The characteristics of the electromagnetic wave shield have been measured by the Kansai Electronic Industry Development Center (KEC) method. The effectiveness of the electromagnetic wave shields of electric field and magnetic field depends significantly on the thickness of Ni thin films deposited on the glass substrate. The shielding effectiveness of the electric field, measured at 800 MHz for 5 μm-thick deposited films, was 92 dB. The value was similar to a 2 mm-thick aluminum plate. For the magnetic field, its effectiveness was 73 dB. It is shown that the dependence of film thickness on the electromagnetic wave shield is due to attenuation loss.
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