Accurately tracking the robotic arm and human joints is crucial to ensure safety during human-robot interaction. However, traditional pose tracking methods often exhibit insufficient performance and robustness in comp...
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Visual localization is a crucial component in the application of mobile robot and autonomous *** retrieval is an efficient and effective technique in image-based localization *** to the drastic variability of environm...
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Visual localization is a crucial component in the application of mobile robot and autonomous *** retrieval is an efficient and effective technique in image-based localization *** to the drastic variability of environmental conditions,e.g.,illumination changes,retrievalbased visual localization is severely affected and becomes a challenging *** this work,a general architecture is first formulated probabilistically to extract domain-invariant features through multi-domain image ***,a novel gradientweighted similarity activation mapping loss(Grad-SAM)is incorporated for finer localization with high *** also propose a new adaptive triplet loss to boost the contrastive learning of the embedding in a self-supervised *** final coarse-to-fine image retrieval pipeline is implemented as the sequential combination of models with and without Grad-SAM *** experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on the CMU-Seasons *** strong generalization ability of our approach is verified with the RobotCar dataset using models pre-trained on urban parts of the CMU-Seasons *** performance is on par with or even outperforms the state-of-the-art image-based localization baselines in medium or high precision,especially under challenging environments with illumination variance,vegetation,and night-time ***,real-site experiments have been conducted to validate the efficiency and effectiveness of the coarse-to-fine strategy for localization.
Continuum soft robots are nonlinear mechanical systems with theoretically infinite degrees of freedom (DoFs) that exhibit complex behaviors. Achieving motor intelligence under dynamic conditions necessitates the devel...
Continuum soft robots are nonlinear mechanical systems with theoretically infinite degrees of freedom (DoFs) that exhibit complex behaviors. Achieving motor intelligence under dynamic conditions necessitates the development of control-oriented reduced-order models (ROMs), which employ as few DoFs as possible while still accurately capturing the core characteristics of the theoretically infinite-dimensional dynamics. However, there is no quantitative way to measure if the ROM of a soft robot has succeeded in this task. In other fields, like structural dynamics or flexible link robotics, linear normal modes are routinely used to this end. Yet, this theory is not applicable to soft robots due to their nonlinearities. In this work, we propose to use the recent nonlinear extension in modal theory -called eigenmanifolds- as a means to evaluate control-oriented models for soft robots and compare them. To achieve this, we propose three similarity metrics relying on the projection of the nonlinear modes of the system into a task space of interest. We use this approach to compare quantitatively, for the first time, ROMs of increasing order generated under the piecewise constant curvature (PCC) hypothesis with a high-dimensional finite element (FE)-like model of a soft arm. Results show that by increasing the order of the discretization, the eigenmanifolds of the PCC model converge to those of the FE model.
This paper highlights the benefits of using series elastic actuators (SEA) in designing a cost-efficient, easily controlled, and functional prosthetic hand. The designed 3D-printed hand uses only two motors in an anta...
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(数字)9798350377705
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(纸本)9798350377712
This paper highlights the benefits of using series elastic actuators (SEA) in designing a cost-efficient, easily controlled, and functional prosthetic hand. The designed 3D-printed hand uses only two motors in an antagonistic configuration, transferring power to the fingers via pulleys, cables, and springs; i.e., the motors are in an SEA configuration with the load/fingers. In the designed underactuated prosthetic hand, the thumb is adjustable for various tasks, and the optimization of pulley diameters ensures synchronized finger movement during hand flexion and extension. Thanks to the SEA configuration of the motors and fingers, simple position control of the motor enables features like hand position control, morphological grasp, force control, impedance control, slippage detection, safe interaction, and efficient grasp. An extensive set of experiments has been conducted to evaluate the designed prosthetic hand’s performance. The experiments confirm the hand’s satisfactory performance while also highlighting the importance of improving the proposed design in different aspects. To attain better position control and morphological grasp, minimizing the cable-body and joint friction is recommended. A higher resolution of the current/torque sensor is needed for the precise force control and slippage detection. Finally, a motor brake system is required to achieve efficient grasping.
We present a methodology for designing a dynamic controller with delayed output feedback for achieving non-collocated vibration suppression with a focus on the multi-frequency case. To synthesize the delay-based contr...
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We present a methodology for designing a dynamic controller with delayed output feedback for achieving non-collocated vibration suppression with a focus on the multi-frequency case. To synthesize the delay-based controller, we first remodel the system of equations as a delay-differential algebraic equation (DDAE) in such a way that existing tools for design of a static output feedback controller can be easily adapted. The problem of achieving non-collocated vibration suppression with sufficient damping is formulated as a constrained optimization problem of minimizing the spectral abscissa in the presence of zero-location constraints, with the constraints exhibiting polynomial dependence on its parameters. We transform the problem into an unconstrained one using elimination, following which we solve the resulting non-convex, non-smooth optimization problem.
Medical image fusion is considered the best method for obtaining one image with rich details for efficient medical diagnosis and *** learning provides a high performance for several medical image analysis *** paper pr...
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Medical image fusion is considered the best method for obtaining one image with rich details for efficient medical diagnosis and *** learning provides a high performance for several medical image analysis *** paper proposes a deep learning model for the medical image fusion *** model depends on Convolutional Neural Network(CNN).The basic idea of the proposed model is to extract features from both CT and MR ***,an additional process is executed on the extracted *** that,the fused feature map is reconstructed to obtain the resulting fused ***,the quality of the resulting fused image is enhanced by various enhancement techniques such as Histogram Matching(HM),Histogram Equalization(HE),fuzzy technique,fuzzy type,and Contrast Limited Histogram Equalization(CLAHE).The performance of the proposed fusion-based CNN model is measured by various metrics of the fusion and enhancement *** realistic datasets of different modalities and diseases are tested and ***,real datasets are tested in the simulation analysis.
Dual-arm manipulation is a key enabler for significantly enhancing the interaction between humans and robots, and their capabilities to purposefully shape the surrounding environment. However, the spatiotemporal coord...
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(数字)9798331509231
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331509248
Dual-arm manipulation is a key enabler for significantly enhancing the interaction between humans and robots, and their capabilities to purposefully shape the surrounding environment. However, the spatiotemporal coordination between the motion of the hands required for this type of actions makes their planning not trivial. A proper definition of these coordination patterns moving from the human example could simplify their translation on the robot side, fostering the generation of effective bimanual tasks. In this work, we propose Multivariate functional Principal Component Analysis (MfPCA) as a mathematical tool to encode inter-hands temporal kinematic covariations in terms of principal spatiotemporal coordination patterns in the Cartesian domain. We compared these patterns extracted from a dataset of human bimanual tasks with those resulting from the usage of classical fPCA, applied independently to each hand (univariate fPCA). We found that MfPCA allows for a better classification of the tasks, with respect to a state of the art taxonomy. For what concerns motion planning, MfPCA and fPCA yield similar accuracy in the reconstruction of the motion, but with a smaller number of principal components needed in the MfPCA case. These results, although preliminary, can open interesting perspectives for the usage of MfPCA for human-like bimanual motion planning and control of robotic manipulators, as well as for action recognition, to enable a more effective human-robot interaction.
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables the construction of models by combining clients with different features without compromising privacy. Existing VFL methods exhibit tightly coupled participant parameters, resu...
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Continuum soft robots are nonlinear mechanical systems with theoretically infinite degrees of freedom (DoFs) that exhibit complex behaviors. Achieving motor intelligence under dynamic conditions necessitates the devel...
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This paper introduces the task of Auditory Referring Multi-Object Tracking (AR-MOT), which dynamically tracks specific objects in a video sequence based on audio expressions and appears as a challenging problem in aut...
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