People with severe upper limb disabilities need assistance from caregivers when eating, which becomes a burden for caregivers. Our laboratory has developed meal assistance robots that use image recognition and voice r...
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People with severe upper limb disabilities need assistance from caregivers when eating, which becomes a burden for caregivers. Our laboratory has developed meal assistance robots that use image recognition and voice recognition to solve this problem. In a previous study, we proposed a region segmentation method using color and texture differences derived from input images as an image recognition method. However, this method was less effective because lighting and shadows affected the selection of appropriate features in the calculation of differences. In this study, we introduce a method for calculating the degree of difference between color segmented regions based on the HSV color space and texture obtained from color information. Furthermore, we propose a method that uses the HSV color space based on saturation and texture weight optimization to calculate differences to perform environment-independent region segmentation. A validation experiment was conducted to properly divide the food area of boxed lunch to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results showed that the accuracy exceeded 90% for all boxed lunch. Therefore, the proposed method can accurately identify food areas, regardless of the environment.
This paper discusses energy and cost comparison for 9 different combinations of Photovoltaic (PV) and Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sizes with load demand peak changes for the Kayangel Power System ...
This paper discusses energy and cost comparison for 9 different combinations of Photovoltaic (PV) and Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) sizes with load demand peak changes for the Kayangel Power System (KPS). 9 PV and BESS combinations were modeled with the existing 90kW Diesel Generator (DG) and simulated while analyzing the kWh energy values of DG operation, PV curtailment and battery power flow energy values. A comparative cost analysis was then conducted on these 3 energies using Installation Costs (IC), diesel fuel costs and energy charge costs. Following this, the study was expanded to a 20-year time period for more complete system lifetime cost estimations. Simulated energy losses and system costs showed mostly favorable values during increased PV and BESS sizes and shifted load demand peak. Simulation results also identified combinations where increased sizing and shifted load demand peak made little difference.
We present the first experimental demonstration up the authors' knowledge a high-capacity short-reach optical communication link which employs a long-short-term-memory (LSTM) and deep-neural-network (DNN) for enab...
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In this study, we fabricated deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) with Al2O3 films of 0-, 130-, and 255-nm via atomic layer deposition (ALD). In addition, the effects of the passivation layers on the DUV-...
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In this study, spike-timing-dependent-plasticity (STDP) was reproduced in devices fabricated using GTO (Ga-Sn-O). GTO was fabricated by sputtering, and the performance of the device was confirmed by I-V characteristic...
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In this paper, the overall health index of underground cable system is determined using Fuzzy Logic and Scoring and Weighting Average methods. The relevant data of 73 feeders has been collected in the prepared evaluat...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently being employed for wireless real-time interactive systems with ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) that provide high service quality for the fifth generation...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently being employed for wireless real-time interactive systems with ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) that provide high service quality for the fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) standard. Grant-free (GF) transmission with K-Repetition (K-Rep) is a transmission technique that aims to meet the URLLC requirements. However, the K-Rep increases the number of packet transmissions, which may cause severe interference and substantial energy consumption. This paper employs site diversity reception to the GF K-Rep scheme and proposes its adaptive control mechanism to decrease the number of repeated transmissions in order to improve communication reliability and energy consumption for IoT URLLC users. According to our simulation results, the proposed site diversity reception for the K-Rep scheme can significantly improve the reliability compared with the conventional K-Rep under single-cell reception. Additionally, the proposed adaptive K-Rep control scheme can reduce the transmission energy consumption greatly, hence saving battery resource of IoT URLLC users.
Plasmonic sensors exhibit high sensitivity due to enhanced local fields. But, their detectivity is poor because of their poor Q-factors. Using a plasmonic BIC, we experimentally demonstrate enhanced Q-factors in a pla...
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This study investigated the electrical properties of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with varied recess depths under the gate electrode. We demonstrated a recess depth of approximately 6 nm, which...
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This paper provides an examination of the impact of lightning strikes on a 220 kV double circuit (D/C) high voltage transmission line in Bhutan. The study employs the ATP-EMTP software to identify the leading causes o...
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