This paper presents a Si-CMOS-MEMS fabrication process that forms released structures out of a 10 m CMOS metal and oxide stack along with a 50 μm-thick section of the underlying silicon substrate. The process employs...
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The paper addresses the problem of choosing automatically, and without user intervention, the best possible 2D image that should be used to map as a texture on polygons of a geometric model of complex scenes made of s...
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This paper introduces a new approach, based on the application of the fuzzy ART neural architecture, for online map building from actual sensor data collected with a mobile robot. This method is then integrated as a c...
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This paper introduces a new approach, based on the application of the fuzzy ART neural architecture, for online map building from actual sensor data collected with a mobile robot. This method is then integrated as a complement, on the parti-game learning approach, allowing the system to make a more efficient use of collected sensor information. Also, a predictive online trajectory filtering method is introduced on the learning approach. Instead of having a mechanical device (robot) moving to search the world the idea is to have the system analysing trajectories in a predictive mode, by taking advantage of the improved world model. The real robot will only move to try trajectories that have been predicted to be successful, allowing lower exploration costs. This results on an overall new and powerful method for simultaneous and cooperative construction of a world model, and learning to navigate from an initial position to a goal region on an unknown world. It is assumed that the robot knows its own current world location. It is additionally assumed that the mobile robot is able to perform sensor-based obstacle detection (not avoidance), and straight-line motions. Results of experiments with a real Nomad 200 mobile robot will be presented, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
The problem of control of a robot manipulator performing compliant tasks is addressed. The force and position control is based on the Smith predictor design. For the overall control we are pursuing a behaviour-based a...
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The problem of control of a robot manipulator performing compliant tasks is addressed. The force and position control is based on the Smith predictor design. For the overall control we are pursuing a behaviour-based architecture approach. The paper describes a 3D surface tracking behaviour controller. The tracking operation is performed in real-time using contact force feedback. Surface tracking is an important operation for self-teaching and exploratory tasks in unknown environments. It can be seen as a first step to the more general and important problem of surface following in contact. A method for tool tip contact frame calibration is presented. Results of simulations and real-time implementation are presented and discussed.< >
This work discusses the nonlinear modeling of healthy and cancer cell population growth under the influence of radiotherapy, and proposes predictive control techniques to determine the optimal dose for tumor control, ...
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This paper considers the design of distributed optimization algorithms in the server-client setting, with the goal of achieving better communication efficiency, a crucial desiderata in modern distributed machine learn...
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This paper considers the design of distributed optimization algorithms in the server-client setting, with the goal of achieving better communication efficiency, a crucial desiderata in modern distributed machine learning applications. One popular approach to reduce communication is to impose more computation between communication rounds, by letting each client optimize an approximation of the global objective function-constructed using the local objective function and aggregated history information-and exchange the updates with the parameter server for global consensus. In particular, judiciously incorporating second-order information in the local approximation often leads to better communication efficiency when the problem is ill-conditioned. However, existing methods construct the second-order correction term in an isotropic manner, without taking into account the curvature information of the global objective function accumulated over the course of the algorithm. This paper proposes a novel algorithm that refines this idea by constructing a second-order correction term using a BFGS-style update formula, where the kernel matrix is updated recursively using only history gradients to harvest curvature information for accelerating convergence. Numerical experiments demonstrate improved communication efficiency over competitive baseline algorithms on both synthetic and real datasets.
This paper deals with the problem of finding a mobile robot path on an unknown world environment. It is desired that the robot navigates to a known goal-region without colliding with physical obstracles. A learning ap...
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This paper deals with the problem of finding a mobile robot path on an unknown world environment. It is desired that the robot navigates to a known goal-region without colliding with physical obstracles. A learning approach will be presented for this purpose. It is supposed that the root has no initial map of Its environment. The robot uses its own infrared distance-sensors to detect obstacles present on its path. Simulation results will be presented that validate the effectiveness of the approach, where, besides detecting obstacles, the only other initial robot's ability is to perform straight-line motions.
The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is an extremely difficult problem because it requires very large combinational search space and the precedence constraint between machines. A software tool called Hybrid and Flex...
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(纸本)1424413656;9781424413652
The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is an extremely difficult problem because it requires very large combinational search space and the precedence constraint between machines. A software tool called Hybrid and Flexible Genetic Algorithm (HybFlexGA) was developed for solving the JSSP. Computational results demonstrate that the proposed HybFlexGA is very efficient and potentially useful in solving the JSSP. The results obtained with standard JSSP benchmark demonstrate its efficiency.
This paper proposes a high-efficiency synchronous reluctance motor drive for the traction system of an electric vehicle. A vector control system, along with a maximum torque per ampere strategy was implemented taking ...
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This paper proposes a high-efficiency synchronous reluctance motor drive for the traction system of an electric vehicle. A vector control system, along with a maximum torque per ampere strategy was implemented taking into account the cross-magnetic saturation in the motor, to achieve a high- efficiency drive with a good dynamic behavior. Experimental results obtained in the laboratory, both in steady-state and transient regimes, demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the developed control system for the target application.
This paper proposes a nonlinear control architecture for the stabilization of a quadrotor vehicle based on image measurements of a set of landmarks obtained from a pan and tilt camera. The vehicle is stabilized vertic...
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(纸本)9781424477456
This paper proposes a nonlinear control architecture for the stabilization of a quadrotor vehicle based on image measurements of a set of landmarks obtained from a pan and tilt camera. The vehicle is stabilized vertically using an additional vertical position sensor and lateral-longitudinal stabilization is achieved with a nested saturation control law by feedback of image measurements, body attitude, and angular rate. Additionally, the pan and tilt camera is actively actuated to to keep the landmarks visible in the image sensor for most operating conditions. Simulation results are presented to assess the performance of the proposed control architecture.
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