In the application scenario of robot autonomous tasks, the robot needs to be able to complete calibration online and automatically to achieve self-maintenance, which differs from traditional robot hand-eye calibration...
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In this paper, Prioritized Experience Replay (PER) strategy and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural network are introduced to the path planning process of mobile robots, which solves the problems of slow convergence ...
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Reinforcement Learning (RL), a method of learning skills through trial-and-error, has been successfully used in many robotics applications in recent years. We combine manipulation primitives (MPs), behavior trees (BTs...
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In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a competitive approach for mobile robot navigation. However, training DRL agents often comes at the cost of difficult and tedious training procedures i...
In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a competitive approach for mobile robot navigation. However, training DRL agents often comes at the cost of difficult and tedious training procedures in which powerful hardware is required to conduct oftentimes long training runs. Especially, for complex environments, this proves to be a major bottleneck for widespread adoption of DRL approaches into industries. In this paper we integrate an efficient 2D simulator into the Arena-Rosnav framework of our previous work as an alternative simulation platform to train and develop DRL agents. Therefore, we utilized the provided API to integrate necessary components into the ecosystem of Arena-Rosnav. We evaluated our simulator by training a DRL agent within that platform and compared the training and navigational performance against the baseline 2D simulator Flatland, which is the default simulating platform of Arena-Rosnav. Results demonstrate that using our Arena2D simulator results in substantially faster training times and in some scenarios better agents. This proves to be an important step towards resource-efficient DRL training, which accelerates training times and improve the development cycle of DRL agents for navigation tasks. We made our simulator openly available at https://***/Arena-Rosnav/arena2d.
The focus of this paper is to address a novel control technique for stability and transparency analysis of bilateral telerobotic systems in the presence of data loss and time delay in the communication channel. Differ...
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The focus of this paper is to address a novel control technique for stability and transparency analysis of bilateral telerobotic systems in the presence of data loss and time delay in the communication channel. Different control strategies have been reported to compensate the effects of time delay in the communication channel;however, most of them result in poor performance under data loss. First, a model for data loss is proposed using a finite series representation of a set of periodic continuous *** improve the performance and data reconstruction, a holder circuits is also introduced. The passivity of the overall system is provided via the wave variable technique based on the proposed model for the data loss. The stability analysis of the system is then derived using the Lyapunov theorem under the time delay and the data loss. Finally, experimental results are given to illustrate the capability of the proposed control technique.
To address the challenges of sample utilization efficiency and managing temporal dependencies, this paper proposes an efficient path planning method for mobile robot in dynamic environments based on an improved twin d...
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To address the challenges of sample utilization efficiency and managing temporal dependencies, this paper proposes an efficient path planning method for mobile robot in dynamic environments based on an improved twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) algorithm. The proposed method, named PL-TD3, integrates prioritized experience replay (PER) and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks, which enhance both sample efficiency and the ability to handle time-series data. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, simulation and practical experiments were designed and conducted. In the simulation experiments, both static and dynamic obstacles were included in the test environment, along with experiments to assess generalization capabilities. The algorithm demonstrated superior performance in terms of both execution time and path efficiency. The practical experiments, based on the assumptions from the simulation tests, further confirmed that PL-TD3 has improved the effectiveness and robustness of path planning for mobile robot in dynamic environments.
In this paper, a general Gray code quantized method of binary feature descriptors is proposed for fast and efficient keypoint matching on 3D point clouds. In our method, it includes 2 variable L and N. L is rule varia...
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In this paper, a general Gray code quantized method of binary feature descriptors is proposed for fast and efficient keypoint matching on 3D point clouds. In our method, it includes 2 variable L and N. L is rule variable which can be used to set the encoding group length according to the feature of the real-valued descriptor, and N is bits variable which can be used to set the number of Gray code bits according to the actual system requirements. Be different from the exist method, such as B-SHOT, our proposed method has the advantages of reasonable and flexible. As an example, our method is applied on the feature descriptor SHOT and tested in a standard benchmark dataset, different variable combinations of L and N are tested in the Gray code quantized processes, the best combination of L and N is dubbed as GRAY-SHOT through performance comparison. At last, GRAY-SHOT is compared with the state-of-the-art binary 3D feature descriptor B-SHOT, experimental evaluation result shows that GRAY-SHOT offers better keypoint matching performances to B-SHOT on a standard benchmark dataset with a slight more memory footprint and time consumption.
We develop a novel technique to exploit the extensive data sets provided by underwater neutrino telescopes to gain information on bioluminescence in the deep sea. The passive nature of the telescopes gives us the uniq...
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M. FeemsterD.M. DawsonA. BehalW. DixonMatthew Feemster received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University
Clemson South Carolina in December 1994. Upon graduation he remained at Clemson University and received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997. During this time he also served as a research/teaching assistant. His research work focused on the design and implementation of various nonlinear control algorithms with emphasis on the induction motor and mechanical systems with friction present. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Clemson University. Darren M. Dawson was born in 1962
in Macon Georgia. He received an Associate Degree in Mathematics from Macon Junior College in 1982 and a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984. He then worked for Westinghouse as a control engineer from 1985 to 1987. In 1987 he returned to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering in March 1990. During this time he also served as a research/teaching assistant. In July 1990 he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) at Clemson University where he currently holds the position of Professor. Under the CAM director's supervision he currently leads the Robotics and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory which is jointly operated by the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments. His main research interests are in the fields of nonlinear based robust adaptive and learning control with application to electro-mechanical systems including robot manipulators motor drives magnetic bearings flexible cables flexible beams and high-speed transport systems. Aman Behal was born in India in 1973. He received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay in 1996. He is currently working towards a Ph.D in Controls and Robotics at Clemson University. His research focuses on the control of no
In this paper, we extend the observer/control strategies previously published in [25] to an n -link, serially connected, direct drive, rigid link, revolute robot operating in the presence of nonlinear friction effects...
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In this paper, we extend the observer/control strategies previously published in [25] to an n -link, serially connected, direct drive, rigid link, revolute robot operating in the presence of nonlinear friction effects modeled by the Lu-Gre model. In addition, we also present a new adaptive control technique for compensating for the nonlinear parameterizable Stribeck effects. Specifically, an adaptive observer/controller scheme is developed which contains a feedforward approximation of the Stribeck effects. This feedforward approximation is used in a composite controller/observer strategy which forces the average square integral of the position tracking error to an arbitrarily small value. Experimental results are included to illustrate the performance of the proposed controllers.
The goal of the system presented in this paper is to support several facial surgeries that are aiming to transform an unsymmetrical face to a symmetric one. There are two main techniques to achieve this goal: distract...
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