The most important factor characterizing an emergency situation is the lack of information or the difficult access to it. The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in this type of applications allows having an almost ...
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The effective operation of service robots relies on developmental programs that allow the robot to expand its knowledge about its dynamic operating environment. Motivation theories from neuroscience and neuropsycholog...
The effective operation of service robots relies on developmental programs that allow the robot to expand its knowledge about its dynamic operating environment. Motivation theories from neuroscience and neuropsychology study the underlying mechanisms that drive the engagement of biological creatures to certain activities, such as learning. This research uses a physical Willow Garage PR2 robot, which is equipped with a cumulative learning mechanism driven by the intrinsic motivation of novelty detection based on computational models of biological habituation. It cumulatively learns the 360° appearance of novel real-world objects by picking them up. This paper discusses the theoretical motivations and background information on intrinsic motivations as novelty detection. The results and conclusions from the experimental study are presented.
This paper extends reasoning issues on medical diagnosis related to Virtual Doctor System (VDS). Intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation functions have been used to represent concept reflective to the mental model of the VDS...
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This paper extends reasoning issues on medical diagnosis related to Virtual Doctor System (VDS). Intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation functions have been used to represent concept reflective to the mental model of the VDS. The VDS project used two physical ontology model and mental ontology model aligned on medical ontology for reasoning. In this paper the mental ontology related to medical diagnosis is the main emphasis. The mental Ontology is represented as two models: Emotion state model, and ego state model. The attributes of mental state are represented as fuzzy intuitionistic criteria. The emotion state related attributes are represented using harmonic hybrid weighted Ordered Intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation function. The ego state related attributes are represented using Bonferroni ordered weight average aggregate function. The both aggregate functions as well as the physical ontology aggregate functions are aligned on medical knowledge based. The model is built for testing.
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful matrix decomposition technique that approximates a nonnegative matrix by the product of two low-rank nonnegative matrix factors. It has been widely applied to signa...
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Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful matrix decomposition technique that approximates a nonnegative matrix by the product of two low-rank nonnegative matrix factors. It has been widely applied to signal processing, computer vision, and data mining. Traditional NMF solvers include the multiplicative update rule (MUR), the projected gradient method (PG), the projected nonnegative least squares (PNLS), and the active set method (AS). However, they suffer from one or some of the following three problems: slow convergence rate, numerical instability and nonconvergence. In this paper, we present a new efficient NeNMF solver to simultaneously overcome the aforementioned problems. It applies Nesterov's optimal gradient method to alternatively optimize one factor with another fixed. In particular, at each iteration round, the matrix factor is updated by using the PG method performed on a smartly chosen search point, where the step size is determined by the Lipschitz constant. Since NeNMF does not use the time consuming line search and converges optimally at rate in optimizing each matrix factor, it is superior to MUR and PG in terms of efficiency as well as approximation accuracy. Compared to PNLS and AS that suffer from numerical instability problem in the worst case, NeNMF overcomes this deficiency. In addition, NeNMF can be used to solve -norm, -norm and manifold regularized NMF with the optimal convergence rate. Numerical experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show the efficiency of NeNMF for NMF and its variants comparing to representative NMF solvers. Extensive experiments on document clustering suggest the effectiveness of NeNMF.
In this paper, a unique multiple mobile robots system is proposed to enable students or mechanical engineers to efficiently learn a subsumption architecture for swarm intelligence. The subsumption architecture is know...
In this paper, a unique multiple mobile robots system is proposed to enable students or mechanical engineers to efficiently learn a subsumption architecture for swarm intelligence. The subsumption architecture is known as one of the behaviour-based artificial intelligences. Each of multiple mobile robots has three wheels driven by DC motors and six PSD (Position Sensitive Detector) sensors. A network-based subsumption architecture is considered to realize a schooling behaviour by using only information from the PSD sensors. Further, a server supervisory control is introduced for poor hardware platforms with limitations of software development, i.e., the mobile robots that can only behave based on the most simply subdivided reaction behaviours, i.e., reflex actions, generated from agents. Experimental results show interesting behaviour among the multiple mobile robots, such as following, avoidance and schooling.
Cartoon characters retrieval frequently suffers from the distance estimation problem. In this paper, a multiple hypergraph fusion based approach is presented to solve this problem. We build multiple hypergraphs on car...
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This paper proposes an object placement planner for a grasped object during pick-and-place tasks. The proposed planner automatically determines the pose of an object stably placed near a user assigned point on an envi...
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(纸本)9781467317375
This paper proposes an object placement planner for a grasped object during pick-and-place tasks. The proposed planner automatically determines the pose of an object stably placed near a user assigned point on an environment surface. The proposed method first constructs a polygon model of the surrounding environment, and then clusters the polygon model of both the environment and the object where each cluster is approximated by a planar region. The placement of the object can be determined by selecting a pair of clusters between the object and the environment. We further impose several conditions to determine the pose of the object placed on the environment. We show that we can determine the position/orientation of the object placed on the environment for several cases such as hanging a mug cup on a bar. The effectiveness of the proposed research is confirmed through several numerical examples.
This study is concerned with the development of an Electro-Rheological (ER) Gel Linear Actuator (ERGLA) as the principle component of a high torque controllable clutch that has applications in robots that coexist with...
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In an emergency situation, the information availability, reliability, security and delay of its delivery are critical to the success of rescue operations. The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in this type of appl...
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(纸本)9781467315180
In an emergency situation, the information availability, reliability, security and delay of its delivery are critical to the success of rescue operations. The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in this type of applications allows having an almost real situation about the supervised area by collecting relevant information. This paper proposes a new Framework Ad-M-QoS-DS (Adaptive Management of QoS in different situations) that permits an adaptive management according to the QoS requirements of each situation in the supervised area by grouping multiple parameters. The proposed Framework Ad-MQoS-DS includes security architecture based on the base station.
A design of fuzzy model-based predictive control for industrial furnaces has been derived and applied to the model of three-zone 25 MW RZS pusher furnace at Skopje Steelworks. The fuzzy-neural variant of Sugeno fuzzy ...
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