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...
详细信息
The dynamic stiffness method is proposed to examine the dispersion of waves in an inclusion-reinforced composite plate. The shape of inclusion is modelled as spheroid that enables the composite reinforcement geometric...
详细信息
The dynamic stiffness method is proposed to examine the dispersion of waves in an inclusion-reinforced composite plate. The shape of inclusion is modelled as spheroid that enables the composite reinforcement geometrical configurations ranging from sphere to short and continuous fiber. Using the Mori-Tanaka mean-field theory, the effective elastic moduli of the composite plate are predicted explicitly and are able to elucidate the effect of inclusion's shape and volume fraction on the composite elastic behaviour. The resulting moduli are then applied to the dynamic stiffness matrix. From these findings indispensable information on the requirements for examining the dispersion of waves in the plate in vacuo are obtained. Numerical simulations have been given for dispersions in various wave types at various inclusion shape, inclusion content, and plate thickness as well. The results indicate that the inclusion content, aspect ratio and the plate thickness affect the propagation velocity and wavenumbers. Larger aspect ratios generally possess higher propagation speed. In other words, using short fibers generally results in a lower propagation speed.
Distance learning is a learning style that can overcome the limitation of time and space. Because of the distance, teachers can not handle the student's learning situation, and they do not know whether the student...
详细信息
Distance learning is a learning style that can overcome the limitation of time and space. Because of the distance, teachers can not handle the student's learning situation, and they do not know whether the student is attentive, drowsy or absent. If teachers can know the student's affective state, they can overcome the difficult. The research applies the image recognition technologies to capture the face images of students when they are learning and analyzes their face features to evaluate the student's affective state by Fuzzy Integral. Finally, teachers can monitor the student's behavior by the detection results on the system interface.
It is proposed in this session that the interactivity necessary in ubiquitous learning can be enhanced by the virtual tutor who mediates between the learner and the e-learning contents. Arousing students' intellec...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9780769531588;9780769534114
It is proposed in this session that the interactivity necessary in ubiquitous learning can be enhanced by the virtual tutor who mediates between the learner and the e-learning contents. Arousing students' intellectual curiosity and raising their motivation to learn are the two great goals for e-learning contents developers. It is supposed that the interaction in the communication between the teacher and his/her students in a regular classroom can be maintained in e-learning with the help of virtual tutor, which appears on the learning contents in a timely fashion to give learners advice, encouragement, reminders, and such. The session includes discussions to develop such a system making use of the most updated technology as well as demonstrations of such a system which has been experimented at Department of Media Informatics. It is proved that the learning environment where human interactivity is essential can be reconstructed in terms of the proposed virtual tutor. This paper presentation includes demonstrations of QED as well as a discussion of the importance of interactivity in ubiquitous e-learning.
In order for solid state lighting technology to become a mainstream technology, one of the major challenges to overcome is increasing the efficiency of these devices while maintaining a proper color balance. A signifi...
详细信息
The next generation of wireless sensor networks will integrate communication systems beyond the third generation paradigm. As a result of this integration, the new communication systems will be fed by the sensor netwo...
详细信息
The next generation of wireless sensor networks will integrate communication systems beyond the third generation paradigm. As a result of this integration, the new communication systems will be fed by the sensor networks with information gathered from the environment, achieving context awareness. To reach the necessary end-to-end connectivity between all-IP networks and sensor networks, the IETF 6LoWPAN working group has designed an IPv6 adaptation layer for low power devices. This protocol stack provides IPv6 interoperability to the sensor networks, thus avoiding as much overhead as possible. This paper analyses and evaluates the associated IP communication overhead in each possible 6LoWPAN scenario, from intra to inter network communication. We conclude that, even the 6LoWPAN offering a light weight IP solution for link local sensor network communication, it has a relatively high overhead when data flows between different networks. In order to avoid the communication overhead when global IPv6 addressing is necessary we propose a new solution based on a 6LoWPAN global-to-link-layer address translation.
Learner attention affects learning efficiency. However, in many classes, teachers cannot assess the degree of attention of every student. When a teacher is capable of addressing inattentive students immediately, he ca...
详细信息
Learner attention affects learning efficiency. However, in many classes, teachers cannot assess the degree of attention of every student. When a teacher is capable of addressing inattentive students immediately, he can avoid situations in which students are inattentive. Many studies have analyzed student attentiveness by the applying of image detection technologies. If this mechanism can be applied to in-class learning, it will help teachers keep students attentive, and reduce teacher load during class. This study mainly applies fuzzy logic analysis of student facial images when participating in class. Applying fuzzy logic can prevent erroneous judgments associated with a single term, and help teachers deal with student attentiveness.
In this paper, a method of estimating both the position and the rotation angle of an object on a measurement stage was proposed. The system utilizes the radio communication technology and the directivity of an antenna...
In this paper, a method of estimating both the position and the rotation angle of an object on a measurement stage was proposed. The system utilizes the radio communication technology and the directivity of an antenna. As a prototype system, a measurement stage (a circle 240mm in diameter) with 36 antennas that placed in each 10 degrees was developed. Two transmitter antennas are settled in a right angle on the stage as the target object, and the position and the rotation angle is estimated by measuring efficiency of the radio communication of each 36 antennas. The experimental result revealed that even when the estimated location is not so accurate (about a 30 mm error), the rotation angle is accurately estimated (about 2.33 degree error on average). The result suggests that the proposed method will be useful for estimating the location and the direction of an object.
In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining the heart rate of a user while riding a bicycle. The system was designed to measure the user's heart rate by only gripping the handle of a bicycle...
In this paper, a handle-electrode system is proposed for obtaining the heart rate of a user while riding a bicycle. The system was designed to measure the user's heart rate by only gripping the handle of a bicycle. Three electrodes made from conductive cloth were adhered to the handle. A method detecting heart-rate from the obtained electrocardiogram was also proposed. To assess the applicability of the proposed system, a simple experiment was performed. The experiment was performed in four conditions of road surfaces; lawn, asphalt, a tiled, and an uneven road. Experimental result suggests that the proposed system can be useful for obtaining R waves while riding a bicycle.
Recommendation accuracy is especially important in mobile e-commerce environments due to the limited screen size of mobile devices and relatively expensive connection costs. Mobile content tends to be fashionable and ...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)1601320639
Recommendation accuracy is especially important in mobile e-commerce environments due to the limited screen size of mobile devices and relatively expensive connection costs. Mobile content tends to be fashionable and are geared for young users. This paper presents a novel method of building a more accurate recommender system for mobile content in a mobile ecommerce environment. The method is based on collaborative filtering, and models content diffusion and user preference transition and incorporates them in constructing pseudo ratings from implicit feedback data. In a variety of experiments, recommender systems based on the method showed significantly better recommendation accuracy than a pure collaborative filtering-based recommender system.
暂无评论