Research topics in robotic application is quite varies but one of the most interesting topic is odor source localization. This research combine the robot ability to recognize odor and track the movement so that robot ...
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Research topics in robotic application is quite varies but one of the most interesting topic is odor source localization. This research combine the robot ability to recognize odor and track the movement so that robot can find the source. Most of the research are done to improve the algorithm to localize the source by using simulation software. This paper tries to verify the robustness of one of the localization method known as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in the real-world implementation. This paper will shows robot model that used in the experiment and also discuss the architecture to implement robot behavior. A group of mobile robots equipped with wireless communication device and odor sensors is employed. The experiment is conduct in area of 488cm × 488cm with dynamic odor source in one end. The experiment also used a set of camera to track robots position. The experiement result verifies that PSO is technically sound for real-world odor source localization. In this experiment, PSO can localized the source in 360 seconds or bellow.
News articles have always been a prominent force in the formation of a company's financial image in the minds of the general public, especially the investors. Given the large amount of news being generated these d...
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(纸本)9781618392466
News articles have always been a prominent force in the formation of a company's financial image in the minds of the general public, especially the investors. Given the large amount of news being generated these days through various websites, it is possible to mine the general sentiment of a particular company being portrayed by media agencies over a period of time, which can be utilized to gauge the long term impact on the investment potential of the company. However, given such a vast amount of news data, we need to first separate corporate news from other kinds namely, sports, entertainment, science & technology, etc. We propose a system which takes news as, checks whether it is of corporate nature, and then identifies the polarity of the sentiment expressed in the news. The system is also capable of distinguishing the company/organization which is the subject of the news from other organizations which find mention, and this is used to pair the sentiment polarity with the identified company.
The increasing demands for multimedia applications with various QoS requirements arouse the interest of researchers in the Fourth-generation wireless networks such as WiMAX. In order to ensure that the QoS requirement...
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(纸本)9781457703898
The increasing demands for multimedia applications with various QoS requirements arouse the interest of researchers in the Fourth-generation wireless networks such as WiMAX. In order to ensure that the QoS requirements of these applications are met, effective scheduling algorithms must be designed. Even though it may be trivial to ensure that the minimum QoS of all service classes is attained, this often results in a marked degradation of the overall system throughput. In this paper, we propose a fair bandwidth assignment algorithm that allocates the bandwidth among different services classes based on a hierarchical scheduler. By taking the overall system throughput and the QoS requirements into consideration, our proposed algorithm dynamically assigns the available bandwidth to the various service classes in such a way that the network resource utilization is optimized. Simulations result showed that the proposed algorithm optimize the overall system throughput and assigns bandwidth effectively to the different service classes while ensuring that the QoS requirements are satisfied.
Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been deployed into a variety of applications including homeland security, military systems, and health care. Sensor nodes deployed in such networks are subject to several...
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Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) of traffic network are very important data for the plan and decision making. How to estimate AADT and VMT on local area roads is a long-time existin...
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(纸本)9781612848006
Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) of traffic network are very important data for the plan and decision making. How to estimate AADT and VMT on local area roads is a long-time existing problem due to lack of traffic monitor counts. This paper presents a novel approach to the community area AADT and VMT estimation by developing circuit network model and simulation to solve this difficult problem for community local traffic network roads. The circuit network model is developed based on the community traffic network, and has three sub-models combined by the least squares method (LSM). These sub-models respectively represent even, local and separate distributions of the entrance traffic flows among households in a community. The method is well validated by sampled measurement data and circuit network simulation results. In addition, it is discovered that the total entrance traffic amount is strongly related to the total number of households in communities. Thus, it makes the new method feasible to estimate the AADT and VMT on community local area roads even without any measurement in future. The proposed method not only can provide accurate estimate, but also can dramatically reduce the labor load and cost of traffic counts.
Abstract Seasonal factors are very important to the estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). It is used to transfer one or two days measured traffic data at portable traffic ...
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Abstract Seasonal factors are very important to the estimation of annual average daily traffic (AADT) and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). It is used to transfer one or two days measured traffic data at portable traffic monitoring sites to the AADT. Most literatures focus on taking the average of seasonal factors within groups of roads. Factor grouping including three techniques to calculate seasonal factors has been recommended by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). However, as recognized it is difficult to select a representative group sample of roads. In this paper, to calculate seasonal factors, we propose a new nonparametric approach by introducing the distance kernel and by using the local weights. Moreover, the proposed approach can be extended to grouping cases if prior information of grouping is available. The assumptions used in the approach are established. The nonparametric seasonal factors estimation and test procedure are presented. Finally, the real example demonstrates the new approach by using the data observed in the North Carolina.
In this work we build the first BI-RADS parser for Portuguese free texts, modeled after existing approaches to extract BI-RADS features from English medical records. Our concept finder uses a semantic grammar based on...
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In this work we build the first BI-RADS parser for Portuguese free texts, modeled after existing approaches to extract BI-RADS features from English medical records. Our concept finder uses a semantic grammar based on the BI-RADS lexicon and on iterative transferred expert knowledge. We compare the performance of our algorithm to manual annotation by a specialist in mammography. Our results show that our parser's performance is comparable to the manual method.
The convergence of electrical power control systems and communication techniques enables the intelligence over current and future power grid system which evolves to the smart grid. Demand response (DR) is considered a...
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The convergence of electrical power control systems and communication techniques enables the intelligence over current and future power grid system which evolves to the smart grid. Demand response (DR) is considered as a killer application for so-called smart grid. Real-time DR control relies on efficient and reliable communication services. In this paper, the impact of packet losses during communication on DR control has been investigated, using the control strategy in [1]. Then, an analytical model for quantifying the performance of packet loss and energy consumption for transmission in a clustering-based multi-hop wireless communication network has been established. Finally, how to improve the design of wireless communication networks is proposed to satisfy the DR control requirements and to minimize the energy consumption for communications.
Brain computer Interface (BCI) enables the capturing and processing of motor imagery related brain signals which can be interpreted by computers. BCI systems capture the motor imagery signals via Electroencephalogram ...
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Brain computer Interface (BCI) enables the capturing and processing of motor imagery related brain signals which can be interpreted by computers. BCI systems capture the motor imagery signals via Electroencephalogram or Electrocorticogram. The processing of the signal is usually attempted by extracting feature vectors in the frequency domain and using classification algorithms to interpret the motor imagery action. In this paper we investigate the motor imagery signals obtained from BCI competition dataset IVA using the Fast Hartley Transform (FHT) for feature vector extraction and feature reduction using support vector machine. The processed data is trained and classified using the Bayes Net.
Mathematical models of biochemical networks, such as metabolic, signaling, and gene networks, have been studied extensively and have been shown to provide accurate descriptions of various cell processes. Nevertheless,...
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(纸本)9781612848006
Mathematical models of biochemical networks, such as metabolic, signaling, and gene networks, have been studied extensively and have been shown to provide accurate descriptions of various cell processes. Nevertheless, their usage is restricted by the fact that they are usually studied in isolation, without feedback from the environment in which they evolve. Integrating these models in a global framework is a promising direction in order to increase both their accuracy and predictive capacity. In this paper, we describe the integration of large-scale metabolic and signaling networks with a regulatory gene network. We focus on the response to infection in mouse macrophage cells. Our computational framework allows to virtually simulate any type of infection and to follow its effect on the cell. The model comprises 3,507 chemical species involved in 4,630 reactions evolving at the fast time scale of metabolic and signaling processes. These interact with 20 genes evolving at the slow time scale of gene expression and regulation. We develop a simulator for this model and use it to study infections with Porphyromonas gingivalis.
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