The aim of this work is to propose a multifractal analysis method for Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) of Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The fMRI ...
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The aim of this work is to propose a multifractal analysis method for Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA) of Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The fMRI signals exhibit a 1/f power spectrum, hence their structure has self-similarity and long memory, being usually successfully analyzed by different fractal analysis methods without a previous knowledge of haemodynamic models. Therefore, to validate activation detection using the MF-DFA method, a comparison study between images obtained using General Linear Model (GLM) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) was conducted and evaluated by discrimination power, applying Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis to the results.
The paper proposes a new method to perform foreground detection by means of background modeling using the tensor concept. Sometimes, statistical modelling directly on image values is not enough to achieve a good discr...
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Presented in this paper are results of an experimental investigation on the rivet flexibility and load transmission in a riveted lap joint representative for the aircraft fuselage. The test specimens consisted of two ...
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Presented in this paper are results of an experimental investigation on the rivet flexibility and load transmission in a riveted lap joint representative for the aircraft fuselage. The test specimens consisted of two aluminium alloy Alclad sheets joined with three rows of rivets. Rivet flexibility measurements have been performed under constant amplitude fatigue loading using several methods including two novel optical techniques developed by the present authors. The axial forces in the sheets required to determine the rivet flexibility have been derived from strain gauge measurements. In order to eliminate the effect of sheet bending the strain gauges have been bonded at the same locations on the outside and faying surface of the sheet. Variations of the rivet flexibility during the fatigue loading as well as the dependence of the rivet flexibility and load transmission on the rivet squeeze force have been studied. The experiments enabled to evaluate the usefulness of various techniques to determine the rivet flexibility. It was observed that although the measured flexibility was identical for both outer rivet rows, the load transfer through either of these rows was different. Previous experimental results of the authors suggest that the non-symmetrical load transfer distribution through the joint is associated with large differences between the rivet hole expansion in the sheet adjacent to the driven rivet head and the sheet under the manufactured head. It has been concluded that commonly used computation procedures according to which the load transfer is only related to the rivet flexibility may lead to erroneous results.
Endoscopic camera for surgical navigation and 3D visualization requires precise and stable estimates of the calibration parameters. The estimation of the hand-eye transform between the camera frame and the opto-tracke...
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Endoscopic camera for surgical navigation and 3D visualization requires precise and stable estimates of the calibration parameters. The estimation of the hand-eye transform between the camera frame and the opto-tracked body of the endoscope is an important issue of the calibration. This paper presents a new stable method for the hand-eye calibration problem. The most popular method estimates the transform directly in the special euclidean group SE(3) by computing separately the rotation and the translation. The second famous approach formulates the problem in the dual quaternion space and estimates jointly the rotation and the translation. In a first glance, the simultaneous estimation seems to be always advantageous. However, and according to the experiments, this is not the case for the rotation estimation that is affected by the noise in translation. Our approach takes advantage of the both methods and uses the dual quaternion to estimate separately the rotation and the translation. We show experimentally that our algorithm is more stable with minimal number and small amplitude of motions.
The problem of crane control system is addressed in the paper to gain scheduling system created using the fuzzy controller with Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy implications. The method of fuzzy robust crane control sys...
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The problem of crane control system is addressed in the paper to gain scheduling system created using the fuzzy controller with Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy implications. The method of fuzzy robust crane control system designing was based on closed-loop crane control systems with conventional proportional-derivative (PD) controllers of crane position and the load swing derived for fixed rope length and mass of a load values, which are used as key-scheduling variables. The set of controllers, scheduled by fuzzy system, are determined using the pole placement method (PPM). The problem of selecting the minimal set of fuzzy system operating points was solved and described as well in the paper.
An antropotechnical system is the Human -Technical Object set which perform their tasks in the environment H-TO-E. In systems of this type threats are posed by: the human H technical object TO and by the impact of the...
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(纸本)9789604742103
An antropotechnical system is the Human -Technical Object set which perform their tasks in the environment H-TO-E. In systems of this type threats are posed by: the human H technical object TO and by the impact of the environment E on the technical object and people present in the system and in its environment. Threats, which result from the technical object limited task ability state, can be divided into: errors of training, decision errors and information reception errors. The errors are caused by poor condition (psychical or psychophysical) of the operator, or their inappropriate actions. Threats resulting from the state of the technical object limited usability are dependent on importance of the damaged subsystems, the more important the damage object, the higher threat level of the system operation safety. The paper deals with identification of threat occurrence sources connected with the states of the technical object limited usability and assessment of their influence on the analyzed system operation safety. For this purpose an index model has been built and the analysis hierarchy process AHP has been used.
Road transport systems are socio-technical systems of the type Human - Technical object - Environment (H-TO-E). In these systems hazards can be caused by: the man C, the technical object OT, and influence of the envir...
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(纸本)9789604742103
Road transport systems are socio-technical systems of the type Human - Technical object - Environment (H-TO-E). In these systems hazards can be caused by: the man C, the technical object OT, and influence of the environment on the technical object and people who are present in the system and its environment. The authors of the paper make an attempt to evaluate the level of threats resulting from intended or not intended actions of people situated in this environment.
In the paper the issues of the transport systems operation quality assessment are considered. The studies take into consideration the real complex socio-technical (H - M - E) (human - machine - environment) systems. T...
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(纸本)9789604742103
In the paper the issues of the transport systems operation quality assessment are considered. The studies take into consideration the real complex socio-technical (H - M - E) (human - machine - environment) systems. The assessment quality of the systems operation is based on the changes of the systems features values. The features describe the operation of the systems operators, controlled technical objects (vessels, trains, planes or cars) and the environment influence. The assessment and the support the demand quality of the systems operation from the safety, efficiency, economic and reliability point of view is the basic factor of the executed exploitation process. The paper deals with description of rules, on the basis of which the method has been developed. Algorithm of mathematical model of the systems operation quality evaluation has been built. Metrics have been elaborated, essential concepts of metric space have been used and partial order relation as well as appropriate setting systems in order in terms of their operation quality has been applied. The model can serve as a general abstract form for operation quality evaluation of a wide range of real transport systems differing with properties, structure and operation.
In this paper, we present a robust RBPF-SLAM algorithm for mobile robots in non-static environments. We propose an approach for sampling particles from multiple ancestor sets, not from just one prior set. This samplin...
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(纸本)9781424450381;9781424450404
In this paper, we present a robust RBPF-SLAM algorithm for mobile robots in non-static environments. We propose an approach for sampling particles from multiple ancestor sets, not from just one prior set. This sampling method increases the robustness of SLAM algorithm, because some particles can be updated by only observations consistent with the map, even if observation at certain time step is corrupted by environmental changes. Corrupted observations are filtered out from recursive Bayesian update process by the proposed sampling method. We also present an intermediate path estimation method to use abandoned sensor information reflected from relocated objects for map update. The map can represent the changed configuration of non-static environment by the stored sensor information and the estimated path. Results of simulations and experiments in non-static environments show the robustness of proposed RBPF-SLAM algorithm using sonar sensors.
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