The computerized modeling of cognitive visual information has been a research field of great interest in the past several decades. The research field is interesting not only from a biological perspective, but also fro...
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(纸本)9781617825583
The computerized modeling of cognitive visual information has been a research field of great interest in the past several decades. The research field is interesting not only from a biological perspective, but also from an engineering point of view when systems are developed that aim to achieve similar goals as biological cognitive systems. This paper briefly describes a general framework for the extraction and systematic storage of low-level visual features, and demonstrates its applicability in image categorization using a linear categorization algorithm originally developed for the characterization of text documents. The performance of the algorithm together with the newly developed feature array was evaluated using the Caltech 101 database. Extremely high (95% and higher) success rates were achieved when distinguishing between pairs of categories using independent test images. Efforts were made to scale up the number of categories using a hierarchical, branch-and-bound decision tree, with limited success.
The paper describes a solution and implementing framework for the management of changes which may occur in a holonic manufacturing system. This solution is part of the semi-heterarchical control architecture developed...
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The paper describes a solution and implementing framework for the management of changes which may occur in a holonic manufacturing system. This solution is part of the semi-heterarchical control architecture developed for agile job shop assembly with intelligent robots-vision workstations. Two categories of changes in the manufacturing system are considered: (i) changes occurring in resource status at process level: resource breakdown, failure of (vision-based) in-line inspection operation, and depletion of local robot storages; (ii) changes in production orders at business (ERP) level: rush orders. All these situations trigger production plan update and rescheduling (redefine the list of Order Holons) by pipelining CNP-type resource bidding at shop-floor horizon with global product scheduling at aggregate batch horizon. Failure- and recovery management are developed as generic scenarios embedding the CNP mechanism into production self-rescheduling. Implementing solutions and experimental results are reported for a 6-station robot-vision assembly cell with twin-track closed-loop pallet transportation system and product tracking RD/WR devices. Future developments will consider manufacturing integration at enterprise level.
Predictive control recently has gained wide acceptance in the process industry. In practice mostly linear algorithms are applied. Control algorithms considering the nonlinearities of the processes would provide better...
Predictive control recently has gained wide acceptance in the process industry. In practice mostly linear algorithms are applied. Control algorithms considering the nonlinearities of the processes would provide better control performance than the linear algorithms. A new iterative nonlinear predictive control algorithm is presented here based on the quadratic parametric Volterra model. The algorithm uses a GPC-like structure. The control performance is demonstrated by a simulation case study of level control of a two-tank system. The behavior of the new algorithm is compared with other suboptimal nonlinear algorithms.
Abstract The computerized modeling of cognitive visual information has been a research field of great interest in the past several decades. The research field is interesting not only from a biological perspective, but...
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Abstract The computerized modeling of cognitive visual information has been a research field of great interest in the past several decades. The research field is interesting not only from a biological perspective, but also from an engineering point of view when systems are developed that aim to achieve similar goals as biological cognitive systems. This paper briefly describes a general framework for the extraction and systematic storage of low-level visual features, and demonstrates its applicability in image categorization using a linear categorization algorithm originally developed for the characterization of text documents. The performance of the algorithm together with the newly developed feature array was evaluated using the Caltech 101 database. Extremely high (95% and higher) success rates were achieved when distinguishing between pairs of categories using independent test images. Efforts were made to scale up the number of categories using a hierarchical, branch-and-bound decision tree, with limited success.
On-off control is still widely used in the industry, especially for discontinuous actuators, e.g. compressors, steam turbines or furnace burners. Exact set-point control is not possible by an on-off controller. Lower ...
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(纸本)9783902661661
On-off control is still widely used in the industry, especially for discontinuous actuators, e.g. compressors, steam turbines or furnace burners. Exact set-point control is not possible by an on-off controller. Lower and upper limits are defined for the control signal which should not be violated. For this predictive gap control quadratic and horizon dependent cost functions are defined. Traditional numerical optimization fails with longer prediction horizons, but a genetic algorithm can be effectively applied even for long horizons.
Abstract On-off control is still widely used in the industry, especially for discontinuous actuators, e.g. compressors, steam turbines or furnace burners. Exact set-point control is not possible by an on-off controlle...
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Abstract On-off control is still widely used in the industry, especially for discontinuous actuators, e.g. compressors, steam turbines or furnace burners. Exact set-point control is not possible by an on-off controller. Lower and upper limits are defined for the control signal which should not be violated. For this predictive gap control quadratic and horizon dependent cost functions are defined. Traditional numerical optimization fails with longer prediction horizons, but a genetic algorithm can be effectively applied even for long horizons.
In today's complex enterprise environments, providing continuous service for applications is a key component of a successful robotized implementing of manufacturing. High availability (HA) is one of the components...
In today's complex enterprise environments, providing continuous service for applications is a key component of a successful robotized implementing of manufacturing. High availability (HA) is one of the components contributing to continuous service provision for applications, by masking or eliminating both planned and unplanned systems and application downtime. This is achieved through the elimination of hardware and software single points of failure (SPOF). A high availability solution will ensure that the failure of any component of the solution - either hardware, software or system management, will not cause the application and its data to become permanently unavailable. High availability solutions should eliminate single points of failure through appropriate design, planning, hardware selection, software configuring, application control, carefully environment control and change management discipline. In short, one can define high availability as the process of ensuring an application is available for use by duplicating and/or sharing hardware resources managed by a specialized software component. A high availability solution in robotized manufacturing provides automated failure detection, diagnosis, application recovery, and node (robot controller) reintegration. The paper discusses the implementing of a high availability solution in a robotized manufacturing line.
The paper suggests PI controllers for longitudinal slip control in the framework of a laboratory Anti-lock Braking System (ABS). The new design methods make use of gain-scheduling and Iterative Feedback Tuning. They p...
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The paper investigates several pole placement methods in the linear case and suggests a new pole placement method by means of fuzzy linear equations. The linear methods concern the constant real part poles, the poles ...
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The current paper is dedicated to present browser-based multimedia-rich software tools and e-learning curriculum to support the design and modeling process of power electronics circuits and to explain sometimes rather...
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