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Omid ShakerniaYi MaT. John KooShankar SastryDept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley Berkeley CA94720-1774 U.S.A. Tak-Kuen John Koo received the B.Eng. degree in 1992 in Electronic Engineering and the M.Phil. in 1994 in Information Engineering both from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1994 to 1995
he was a graduate student in Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include nonlinear control theory hybrid systems inertial navigation systems with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles. He received the Distinguished M.Phil. Thesis Award of the Faculty of Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994. He was a consultant of SRI International in 1998. Currently he is the team leader of the Berkeley AeRobot Team and a delegate of The Graduate Assembly University of California at Berkeley. He is a student member of IEEE and SIAM. S. Shankar Sastry received his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California
Berkeley. He was on the faculty of MIT from 1980-82 and Harvard University as a Gordon McKay professor in 1994. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Bioengineering and Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University Canberra the University of Rome Scuola Normale and University of Pisa the CNRS laboratory LAAS in Toulouse (poste rouge) and as a Vinton Hayes Visiting fellow at the Center for Intelligent Control Systems at MIT. His areas of research are nonlinear and adaptive control robotic telesurgery control of hybrid systems and biological motor control. He is a coauthor (with M. Bodson) of “Adaptive Control: Stability Convergence and Robustness Prentice Hall 1989.” and (with R. Murray and Z. Li) of “A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulati
In this paper, we use computer vision as a feedback sensor in a control loop for landing an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) on a landing pad. The vision problem we address here is then a special case of the classic ego-mot...
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In this paper, we use computer vision as a feedback sensor in a control loop for landing an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) on a landing pad. The vision problem we address here is then a special case of the classic ego-motion estimation problem since all feature points lie on a planar surface (the landing pad). We study together the discrete and differential versions of the ego-motion estimation, in order to obtain both position and velocity of the UAV relative to the landing pad. After briefly reviewing existing algorithm for the discrete case, we present, in a unified geometric framework, a new estimation scheme for solving the differential case. We further show how the obtained algorithms enable the vision sensor to be placed in the feedback loop as a state observer for landing control. These algorithms are linear, numerically robust, and computationally inexpensive hence suitable for real-time implementation. We present a thorough performance evaluation of the motion estimation algorithms under varying levels of image measurement noise, altitudes of the camera above the landing pad, and different camera motions relative to the landing pad. A landing controller is then designed for a full dynamic model of the UAV. Using geometric nonlinear control theory, the dynamics of the UAV are decoupled into an inner system and outer system. The proposed control scheme is then based on the differential flatness of the outer system. For the overall closed-loop system, conditions are provided under which exponential stability can be guaranteed. In the closed-loop system, the controller is tightly coupled with the vision based state estimation and the only auxiliary sensor are accelerometers for measuring acceleration of the UAV. Finally, we show through simulation results that the designed vision-in-the-loop controller generates stable landing maneuvers even for large levels of image measurement noise. Experiments on a real UAV will be presented in future work.
In this paper, we attempt to automatically annotate the Penn Chinese Treebank with semantic dependency structure. Initially a small portion of the Penn Chinese Treebank was manually annotated with headword and semanti...
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In this paper, we attempt to automatically annotate the Penn Chinese Treebank with semantic dependency structure. Initially a small portion of the Penn Chinese Treebank was manually annotated with headword and semantic dependency relations. An initial investigation is then done using a Naive Bayesian Classifier and some handcrafted rules. The results show that the algorithms and proposed approach are effective at determining semantic dependency structure automatically. The Naive Bayesian Classifier makes a good baseline algorithm for future research.
In multi-target tracking, the maintaining of the correct identity of targets is challenging. In the presented tracking method, accurate target identification is achieved by incorporating the appearance information of ...
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The approach of emotion estimation from the conventional text was for estimating superficial emotion expression mainly. However emotions may be included in human's utterance even if emotion expressions are not in ...
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A minimal prefix (MP) trie is a tree structure for key retrieval, and a double-array is an efficient data structure for the MP trie. This paper presents two compression methods for the double-array. One method removes...
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A minimal prefix (MP) trie is a tree structure for key retrieval, and a double-array is an efficient data structure for the MP trie. This paper presents two compression methods for the double-array. One method removes leaf nodes following two-way arcs (named twin leaves) from the MP trie. The other method unifies common suffixes. Experimental results show that space usage of the double-array is reduced to about 60% by the two methods.
The metal injection molding process was used to produce the Ti-4.3Fe-7.1Cr alloy compacts using the mixture of Ti and Fe-Cr alloy powders, and mixed elemental powder. The effect of mixed powder and sintering temperatu...
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The metal injection molding process was used to produce the Ti-4.3Fe-7.1Cr alloy compacts using the mixture of Ti and Fe-Cr alloy powders, and mixed elemental powder. The effect of mixed powder and sintering temperature on the densification behavior, mechanical properties and microstructures of the compacts were mainly investigated. The compacts sintered at below 1423 K using a mixed elemental powder showed higher density and tensile strength as compared to the compacts using a mixture of Ti and Fe-Cr alloy powders. However, the tensile elongation at fracture of sintered compacts using both mixed powders was about 3%. Characteristic X-ray images and X-ray diffraction measurement confirms a particle dispersion, which is thought to be precipitation of αTi phase, along the grain boundaries. Eventually, the tensile strength and relative density of the compacts sintered at 1423 K using a mixed elemental powder attain 1160 MPa and 96.9%, respectively.
Electronic commerce (EC) is a promising field for applying agent and artificial intelligence technologies. This article shows an overview of the theory of Internet auctions. First, we explain the basic terms and conce...
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Electronic commerce (EC) is a promising field for applying agent and artificial intelligence technologies. This article shows an overview of the theory of Internet auctions. First, we explain the basic terms and concepts used in auction and game theory literature. Then, we describe various auction protocols and examine the theoretical characteristics of these protocols.
In multi-target tracking, the maintaining of the correct identity of targets is challenging. In the presented tracking method, accurate target identification is achieved by incorporating the appearance information of ...
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In multi-target tracking, the maintaining of the correct identity of targets is challenging. In the presented tracking method, accurate target identification is achieved by incorporating the appearance information of the spatial and temporal context of each target. The spatial context of a target involves local background and nearby targets. The first contribution of the paper is to provide a new discriminative model for multi-target tracking with the embedded classification of each target against its context. As a result, the tracker not only searches for the image region similar to the target but also avoids latching on nearby targets or on a background region. The temporal context of a target includes its appearances seen during tracking in the past. The past appearances are used to train a probabilistic PCA that is used as the measurement model of the target at the present. As the second contribution, we develop a new incremental scheme for probabilistic PCA. It can update accurately the full set of parameters including a noise parameter still ignored in related literature. The experiments show robust tracking performance under the condition of severe clutter, occlusions and pose changes.
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