Our purpose in this research is to contribute to developing of assistive robot and apparatus. Recently, there is a pressing need to develop a new system which assists and acts for car driving and wheelchair for the el...
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For a given mountain-valley pattern of equidistant creases on a lone paper strip, there are many folded states consistent with the pattern. Among these folded states, we like to fold a paper so that the number of the ...
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(纸本)9783642226151
For a given mountain-valley pattern of equidistant creases on a lone paper strip, there are many folded states consistent with the pattern. Among these folded states, we like to fold a paper so that the number of the paper layers between each pair of hinged paper segments. which is called the crease width at the crease point, is minimized. This problem is called the stamp folding problem and there are two variants of this problem;minimization of the maximum crease width, and minimization of the total crease width. This optimization problem is recently introduced and investigated from the viewpoint of the counting problem. However, its computational complexity is not known. In this paper, we first show that the minimization problem of the maximum crease width is strongly NP-complete. Hence we cannot solve the problem in polynomial time unless P=NP. We next propose an algorithm that solves the minimization problem. The algorithm itself is a straightforward one, but its analysis is not trivial. We show that this algorithm runs in O(n(2)((n+k)(k))) time where n is the number of creases and k is the total crease width. That is, the algorithm runs in O(n(k+2)) time for a constant k. Hence we can solve the problem efficiently for a small constant k.
Due to complex problems in under ground conditions, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) performance prediction is mostly affected by conditional environments of the following: geological formation, rock mass, rock property, a...
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A recently developed wearable device has gained attention in the area of self-discipline for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases. The present study aimed to clarify the relationship between circadian rhythm a...
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(纸本)9781424441211
A recently developed wearable device has gained attention in the area of self-discipline for the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases. The present study aimed to clarify the relationship between circadian rhythm and body shape change using actigraphy. Using a body shape vector, we classified 24 women in their 40s and 50s into 3 groups with different body shape changes. A circadian rhythm experiment was conducted on weekdays for 1 week with 24 healthy women. Amounts of activity of the non-dominant wrist and trunk, subjective evaluation of sleep quality, and subjective state of activity were surveyed. In order to maintain a constant body shape throughout life, a less sedentary lifestyle with more trunk movement during the day, getting adequate sleep at night, and having a varied sleep-wake cycle may be important factors.
Substrate noise coupling and impacts on RF integrated circuits (RFICs) have been intensively studied for intending a single chip solution of wireless communication systems. On-chip measurements characterize noises fro...
Substrate noise coupling and impacts on RF integrated circuits (RFICs) have been intensively studied for intending a single chip solution of wireless communication systems. On-chip measurements characterize noises from digital parts of mixed-signal ICs in terms of noise generation as well as noise propagation through a silicon substrate, demonstrated by silicon results with sub-100 nm CMOS test vehicles. Simulation and emulation help further understanding of the interference of such noises with RFIC operation as well as their impacts on RF communication.
One of the objectives of the paper is to describe the hybrid robot PEOPLER-II (Perpendicularly Oriented Planetary Legged Robot) with regard to switching between leg-type and wheel-type. Our robot has an easier design ...
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One of the objectives of the paper is to describe the hybrid robot PEOPLER-II (Perpendicularly Oriented Planetary Legged Robot) with regard to switching between leg-type and wheel-type. Our robot has an easier design and control system than other hybrid robots. The software and hardware control in the process of performing five robot tasks are considered. These are the walking, rolling, switching, turning and spinning. In the switching task, we show the control method based on minimization of total energy cost. Also, the hardware components and their interconnections are described. The graphical user interfaces utilized in the simulation and experiment are demonstrated. The walking, rolling and the switching without reverse rotation and arm motion are verified in simulation and with real robot, in addition to turning and spinning.
Many fatal accidents of safety critical reactive systems have occurred in unexpected situations which had not been considered during design and test phases of the systems. To prevent these accidents, reactive systems ...
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Many fatal accidents of safety critical reactive systems have occurred in unexpected situations which had not been considered during design and test phases of the systems. To prevent these accidents, reactive systems should be designed to respond appropriately to any requests of any timing from their environments. Verifying this property in specification phase reduces the development costs of safety critical reactive systems. This property of a specification is well known as realizability. If a specification was found not to be realizable, we have to determine the flaws in the unrealizable specification. Unrealizability of a specification arises from arbitrary requirements given by system designers. From a different point of view, it can be thought that the unrealizable specification implicitly imposes a precondition on the behavior of environment, which a system can not control. If it is possible to obtain the precondition in intuitively comprehensive forms, this makes it easy for system designers to understand the cause of flaws in specifications. In this paper, we propose methods for deriving constraints on the behavior of environments, which is implicitly imposed by unrealizable specifications. Instead of realizability, we use strong satisfiability which is a necessary condition for realizability, due to the fact that many practical unrealizable specifications are also strongly unsatisfiable, and strong satisfiability have the advantage of lower complexity for analysis against realizability. These methods derive constraints in propositional linear temporal logic from Büchi automata representing specifications. The expressions of derived constraints are limited to simple and intuitively comprehensive forms where only two temporal operators appear successively. We give proofs for three correctness properties of our methods, i.e. the termination property, the soundness property, and the weakest constraints derivability. We also discuss complexity of our methods. Fi
This paper proposes a program camouflage method to protect software from reverse engineering. The user of the proposed method only has to construct a piece of fake source code by modifying a piece of original source c...
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This paper proposes a program camouflage method to protect software from reverse engineering. The user of the proposed method only has to construct a piece of fake source code by modifying a piece of original source code. When an attacker statically analyzes the program that is protected by the method, the program looks like the fake code (with self-modification code fragments). However, when the program is executed, the original code is performed. The proposed method is effective especially in hiding secret instructions/data from static analysis, and preventing the extraction and reuse of secret parts in the program.
The purpose of this research is the development of a practical long distance navigation system of mobile robots in outdoor environment. We defined the research target as "An autonomous mobile robot runs on the si...
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Network inversion has been studied as a neural network based solution of inverse problems. Complex-valued network inversion has been proposed as the extension of this inversion to the complex domain. Further, regulari...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789881821034
Network inversion has been studied as a neural network based solution of inverse problems. Complex-valued network inversion has been proposed as the extension of this inversion to the complex domain. Further, regularization is considered for solving ill-posed inverse problems. On the other hand, the estimation of the parameters of a distributed generation from observed data is a complex-valued inverse problem with ill-posedness. In this paper, we propose the application of a complex-valued network inversion with regularization to the inverse estimation of a distributed generation.
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