Unmanned vehicle is future vehicle technology. Lateral control technology and longitudinal control technology are needed for unmanned vehicle. Automatic steering system is lateral control technology. A automatic steer...
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Previous demonstrations of brain-machine interfaces have shown the potential for controlling a neuroprosthesis under pure motion control, i.e. predicting end effector kinematics from neural ensemble activity. For real...
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Previous demonstrations of brain-machine interfaces have shown the potential for controlling a neuroprosthesis under pure motion control, i.e. predicting end effector kinematics from neural ensemble activity. For real world tasks, however, pure motion control lacks the information required for versatile manipulation in which the dynamic interactions of forces and torques between the musculoskeletal system and the environment play a crucial role. Thus, our current efforts aim at enabling a subject using a brain-machine interface to volitionally control the mechanical impedance of the prosthetic device. Here we propose the use of a two-link arm exoskeleton to investigate upper limb stiffness in non-human primates. We show that the device can be used to experimentally measure end-point limb stiffness, as well as to control the stiffness when the exoskeleton is used in slave-robot mode. Experimental results show that this platform allows for both stiffness measurement and control of the robotic device.
Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) provides high-resolution three-dimensional optical images of highly-scattering samples with large depth-of-field without scanning the focal plane, ISAM can function...
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In this paper, we tackle robust human pose recognition using unlabelled markers obtained from an optical marker-based motion capture system. A coarse-to-fine fast pose matching algorithm is presented with the followin...
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In this paper, we tackle robust human pose recognition using unlabelled markers obtained from an optical marker-based motion capture system. A coarse-to-fine fast pose matching algorithm is presented with the following three steps. Given a query pose, firstly, the majority of the non-matching poses are rejected according to marker distributions along the radius and height dimensions. Secondly, relative rotation angles between the query pose and the remaining candidate poses are estimated using a fast histogram matching method based on circular convolution implemented using the fast Fourier transform. Finally, rotation angle estimates are refined using nonlinear least square minimization through the Levenberg-Marquardt minimization. In the presence of multiple solutions, false poses can be effectively removed by thresholding the minimized matching scores. The proposed framework can handle missing markers caused by occlusion. Experimental results using real motion capture data show the efficacy of the proposed approach.
Photonic crystal surfaces represent a class of resonant optical structures that are capable of supporting high intensity electromagnetic standing waves with near-field and far-field properties that can be exploited fo...
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Visual surveillance with dynamic background is one of the most active research topics in computer vision. Especially, researches for abandoned detection in the public place have been caused by preventing terror and ac...
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Visual surveillance with dynamic background is one of the most active research topics in computer vision. Especially, researches for abandoned detection in the public place have been caused by preventing terror and accident. Previous researches for abandoned detection have been based on a static image and used an image difference. In this paper we present an algorithm for a mobile robot and we use optical flow for detecting a static object and distances from abandoned objects. For this purpose, we find abandoned objects and predict a position of objects using a mobile robot visual system with a single camera.
DNA microarrays provide such a huge amount of data that unsupervised methods are required to reduce the dimension of the data set and to extract meaningful biological information. This work shows that Independent Comp...
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(纸本)9783540737490
DNA microarrays provide such a huge amount of data that unsupervised methods are required to reduce the dimension of the data set and to extract meaningful biological information. This work shows that Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a promising approach for the analysis of genome-wide transcriptomic data. The paper first presents an overview of the most popular algorithms to perform ICA. These algorithms are then applied on a microarray breast-cancer data set. Some issues about the application of ICA and the evaluation of biological relevance of the results are discussed. This study indicates that ICA significantly outperforms Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
In this paper, we present a method for the label-free detection of PCR products using impedance spectroscopy. Instead of using conventional optical detection instruments, our method provides a direct detection of ampl...
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Computational acceleration on graphics processing units (GPUs) can make advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction algorithms attractive in clinical settings, thereby improving the quality of MR images a...
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(纸本)9781605580777
Computational acceleration on graphics processing units (GPUs) can make advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction algorithms attractive in clinical settings, thereby improving the quality of MR images across a broad spectrum of applications. At present, MR imaging is often limited by high noise levels, significant imaging artifacts, and/or long data acquisition (scan) times. Advanced image reconstruction algorithms can mitigate these limitations and improve image quality by simultaneously operating on scan data acquired with arbitrary trajectories and incorporating additional information such as anatomical constraints. However, the improvements in image quality come at the expense of a considerable increase in computation. This paper describes the acceleration of an advanced reconstruction algorithm on NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5600. Optimizations such as register allocating the voxel data, tiling the scan data, and storing the scan data in the Quadro's constant memory dramatically reduce the reconstruction's required bandwidth to off-chip memory. The Quadro's special functional units provide substantial acceleration of the trigonometric computations in the algorithm's inner loops, and experimentally-tuned code transformations increase the reconstruction's performance by an additional 20%. The reconstruction of a 3D image with 1283 voxels ultimately achieves 150 GFLOPS and requires less than two minutes on the Quadro, while reconstruction on a quadcore CPU is thirteen times slower. Furthermore, relative to the true image, the error exhibited by the advanced reconstruction is only 12%, while conventional reconstruction techniques incur error of 42%. In short, the acceleration afforded by the GPU greatly increases the appeal of the advanced reconstruction for clinical MRI applications. Copyright 2008 ACM.
The third international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2008) was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 12-15, 2008. The theme of HRI-2008, "living with robots," highlights the importance of t...
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