The subband adaptive system, where the idea of the filter bank is applied to the adaptive filter, has a feature that a higher-order adaptation can be reduced to lower-order adaptations. The reduction of the order of t...
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The subband adaptive system, where the idea of the filter bank is applied to the adaptive filter, has a feature that a higher-order adaptation can be reduced to lower-order adaptations. The reduction of the order of the adaptive filter is related closely to the number of channels and the decimation ratio. The order of adaptive digital filter (ADF) is decreased greatly when the number of subbands is increased, and the decimation ratio is increased up to the maximum value. Then, however, the number of coefficient-updates per unit time is decreased, which results in the deterioration of the convergence Speed. From such a viewpoint, this paper discusses a method to improve the convergence speed, which is deteriorated in the subband adaptive system, due to the decimation. The idea of the proposed method is to utilize effectively the data which have been discarded in the decimation process and to improve the convergence speed. It is called the multirate repeating method. As the first step, the multirate repeating method is applied to the conventional subband adaptive system and the convergence speed is improved. Then a subband adaptive system is introduced in which the multirate repeating method can be utilized more effectively. As a result, a faster convergence is realized while retaining the ADF order-reduction effect, which is an advantage of the subband adaptive system.
Robotic applications often involve manipulation of objects where position and orientation are not perfectly known. Pushing an object for instance by a fence, can be employed to accurately align parts, reducing uncerta...
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Robotic applications often involve manipulation of objects where position and orientation are not perfectly known. Pushing an object for instance by a fence, can be employed to accurately align parts, reducing uncertainty to only one degree of freedom. In this paper a pushing task involving two fingers that completely constrains an object in a plane is proposed. The stability of orientation and position of an object being pushed is discussed. The solution obtained is unique despite the fact that the distribution of forces supporting the object cannot, in general, be known. The proposed task of pushing is simple although some preliminary information about the initial position and orientation of an object is required. An approach to avoid the ambiguity in orientation, owing to the effect of friction between the object and the pusher, by introducing up and down movement of the pusher is also presented.
The process of converting a given design into the form of a rawstock minus a series of machining features is known as machining-features extraction. One step towards automatic machining-features extraction is the extr...
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The process of converting a given design into the form of a rawstock minus a series of machining features is known as machining-features extraction. One step towards automatic machining-features extraction is the extraction of machining regions. The paper is concerned with the extraction of machining regions from the constructive-solid-geometry representation of a given object. The proposed method for the extraction of machining regions is based on manipulating the original CSG tree, representing the object, evaluating the various machining regions by using octrees, and pruning the CSG tree accordingly. If necessary, an additional stage of compacting follows. As a result, each machining region is represented by a compact CSG tree offering the following advantages. The CSG tree to be analysed is reduced in size, and thus the problem of machining-features extraction is simplified. The information is compact and concise. Moreover, no information is lost (CSG representation is kept rather than boundary representation), and the designer's intensions are conveyed to the process planner more clearly. In the special case in which the machining regions are identical to machining features, the method does offer the automatic extraction of machining features. In addition, the nesting level of the various machining regions is determined when needed.
In order to solve the speed problem and shallow reasoning problem met in current research in fault diagnosis expert system, this paper presents a model based parallel fault diagnosis expert system for energy managemen...
We present an approach to a typical task of active sensing, namely how to successively position the sensor in order to accomplish a given task. The approach is data driven since it is only the data that provides the i...
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We present a novel approach to reliable and efficient recovery of part-descriptions from range images. We show that a set of superquadric models can be directly recovered from unsegmented range data, as opposed to met...
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Volumetric part models play an important part in robotic applications such as grasping, path planning, object avoidance, and modeling kinematic chains. The authors present a novel method for reliable and efficient rec...
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Volumetric part models play an important part in robotic applications such as grasping, path planning, object avoidance, and modeling kinematic chains. The authors present a novel method for reliable and efficient recovery of part-descriptions in terms of superquadric models from range images. In contrast to usual approaches which perform the recovery of volumetric models in several steps (from curves, surfaces to volumes), the authors show that a direct recovery is possible. This is achieved by combining two existing methods: recover-and-select paradigm and recovery of superquadric models. A redundant set of superquadratics is initiated in the image and only the recovered models resulting in the simplest overall description are selected. The author show the results on several real range images.< >
A PC-based system for real-time left ventricular endocardial contour detection on echocardiographic images has been developed in our laboratories. The system consists of an IBM-compatible PC equipped with a commercial...
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A PC-based system for real-time left ventricular endocardial contour detection on echocardiographic images has been developed in our laboratories. The system consists of an IBM-compatible PC equipped with a commercially available frame grabber and the special-purpose Minimum Cost Contour Detector (MCCD) board developed for this project. The MCCD board uses 1 or 2 Intel i960 processors and receives digital images (512*512*8 bit) from the frame grabber over a digital video bar in real time. The contour detection algorithm is based on dynamic programming. Detected contours and other results are transferred to the host via the AT-bus. Processing time is short enough for real-time performance in a practical situation. Area of contours and regional areas in 8 segments are calculated in real time and displayed in graphs on the host system. The MCCD board is fully programmable and may be used for similar real-time contour detection applications, e.g. for X-ray angiography and intravascular ultrasound.< >
This paper describes a hybrid approach towards design management. It was applied in a case study linking automated software development and behavioral synthesis. The process-centered software development environment M...
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This paper describes a hybrid approach towards design management. It was applied in a case study linking automated software development and behavioral synthesis. The process-centered software development environment MARVEL is combined with the ALLIANCE design tool box to provide a flexible hardware design management environment. It automatically activates tools according to the design flow, checks access rights of designers, and maintains consistency of design data. Some lessons learned from the experiment are reported.< >
In this paper we discuss synchronization techniques-and specifically their implementation at the hardware, operating system and high-level language levels-that can be used to achieve deadline satisfaction. In particul...
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In this paper we discuss synchronization techniques-and specifically their implementation at the hardware, operating system and high-level language levels-that can be used to achieve deadline satisfaction. In particular, it is shown that by endowing process control computers with fully parallel input and output mechanisms making use of exact time specifications, synchronization and deadline satisfaction can be achieved at the same time without any jitter. Continuous multimedia applications require accurate synchronization of the clocks in different processors. The available solutions have considerable accuracy or applicability. Local clock synchronization by radio transmitted time information turns out to be the only general purpose and high accuracy technique that is applicable with reasonable effort.< >
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