A single unmanned-aerial-vehicle(UAV) based odor source localization(OSL) method for outdoor multi-building environments was proposed. The simulated annealing(SA) algorithm was introduced in this problem in considerat...
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A single unmanned-aerial-vehicle(UAV) based odor source localization(OSL) method for outdoor multi-building environments was proposed. The simulated annealing(SA) algorithm was introduced in this problem in consideration of the difficulties of relatively large search space, turbulent airflow in the building environment, and local concentration extrema near the building walls. To avoid the effect of rotating UAV rotors on airflow, a tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy(TDLAS) rather than the contact gas sensor was used to collect odor information remotely. Moreover, a three-mode(plume finding, tracking, and escaping local extremum) searching framework was designed in the SA-based OSL method to equip the UAV with abilities of traversing the searching area and escaping local extrema rapidly. Simulation results on a robot active olfaction simulator show that, the UAV could effectively escape the local extremum, track the plume and localize the odor source in the area of 30×30×10 m with an average time of about 119 steps and an average error of 1.56 m.
In this paper, we show our novel teleoperation system that mediates proximity perception at the slave system as tactile information to the user. We have equipped a robot's end-effector with a capacitive proximity ...
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(数字)9781728144603
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(纸本)9781728144610
In this paper, we show our novel teleoperation system that mediates proximity perception at the slave system as tactile information to the user. We have equipped a robot's end-effector with a capacitive proximity sensor array. Based on the proximity information, tactile feedback is generated for the user via a tactile display. Thus, the user can feel some of an object's features through his fingers, without the need for establishing contact between the slave system and the object. In our setting, the proximity sensing-based feedback complements the visual feedback provided by a workspace camera and a robot tool camera. Both the sensor array and the tactile display, have a spatial resolution of 4×4. To evaluate the impact, we conducted a user study covering scenarios with visual occlusion and distortion in pre-touch and pre-manipulation phases. The study revealed an improvement in the accuracy of positioning of the end-effector when the visual and the tactile feedback were both provided to the user. The study also showed high acceptance of the new modality by the users.
The evaluation of the odor emitted by the interior materials is of great significance to the air quality control in the vehicle. This paper focuses on the multi-label classification problem of the odor type(i.e. the t...
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The evaluation of the odor emitted by the interior materials is of great significance to the air quality control in the vehicle. This paper focuses on the multi-label classification problem of the odor type(i.e. the type of material from which the odor is released) and the grade evaluation in the vehicle. Two multi-label classifiers based on binary relevance(BR) and classification chain(CC) were designed to distinguish odor types and grades simultaneously and to distinguish odor types first and then grades, respectively. Based on the self-designed portable E-nose, six grades of odors released from six types of common interior materials were detected and classified. Experimental results showed that both the multi-label classifiers achieved better recognition accuracy, but the CC had an average recognition rate of 88.17% slightly better than the BR. It is preliminarily verified that the portable E-nose based multi-label classifiers could be used to evaluate the odor of automotive interior materials.
To achieve vertical profile exploration of deep-sea hybrid structures, a multi-joint autonomous underwater vehicle(MJ-AUV) with the orthogonal joints structure was designed, and its virtual prototype was built using A...
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To achieve vertical profile exploration of deep-sea hybrid structures, a multi-joint autonomous underwater vehicle(MJ-AUV) with the orthogonal joints structure was designed, and its virtual prototype was built using Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems(ADAMS). This paper focuses on the attitude control of the designed MJ-AUV which is a nonlinear system with strong coupling, big hysteresis, large inertia, and time-varying disturbance. According to the special structure of the MJ-AUV, an error based variable gain linear active disturbance rejection controller(EVG-LADRC) was proposed and compared with the traditional proportional-integral-derivative(PID) controller and LADRC. Simulation results demonstrated that EVG-LADRC outperformed the PID and LADRC in terms of rapidity, anti-interference, and accuracy.
Vision-based lane detection (LD) is a key part of autonomous driving technology, and it is also a challenging problem. As one of the important constraints of scene composition, vanishing point (VP) may provide a usefu...
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Significant progress has been made in the field of visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). However, the localization accuracy of visual SLAM can be significantly reduced in low-texture and illumination-ch...
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(数字)9789881563903
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(纸本)9781728165233
Significant progress has been made in the field of visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). However, the localization accuracy of visual SLAM can be significantly reduced in low-texture and illumination-changing environments. To solve these problems, an enhanced visual SLAM algorithm based on VGG (Visual Geometry Group) network was proposed in this paper. Firstly, the VGG network for feature point extraction was incorporated into the visual odometry (VO) to achieve robust camera pose estimation. Secondly, an automatic corner annotation method was adopted to set up the training database, which could reduce the workload of data annotation. Thirdly, to make the backend optimization more suitable for the VGG based VO, the BA (bundle adjustment) optimization process was improved. Experimental results showed that, the proposed visual SLAM method outperformed the mainstream ORB-SLAM (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF SLAM) method, in terms of the number of effective feature points, the robustness of feature matching process to light changes, and the accuracy of robot pose estimation.
To detect parts per billion (ppb)-level volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in automobiles, a pre-concentrator is generally needed for electronic noses (e-noses), which can enrich ppb-level concentration to parts per mi...
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(数字)9789881563903
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(纸本)9781728165233
To detect parts per billion (ppb)-level volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in automobiles, a pre-concentrator is generally needed for electronic noses (e-noses), which can enrich ppb-level concentration to parts per million (ppm) level. However, the current e-nose chamber structure could dilute the pre-concentrated gases and then the detection performance is reduced. To solve this problem, a novel chamber design was proposed in this paper. The core design idea was to reduce the space for the gas flow in the chamber, taking into account the shape and size of the gas sensors. Specially, for the pin-type gas sensors, a series of cylindrical structure design was adopted, and for the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) patch-type sensors, the headspace was compressed. The results of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based simulation showed that the concentration of pre-concentrated gases in the novel chamber was higher than that of the traditional chamber. The designed chambers were manufactured using polylactic acid (PLA) material by 3D printing. Experimental gases were prepared from polyurethane (PU) leather and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) leather to verify the performance of the chambers, and the results demonstrated that the proposed new e-nose chamber was superior to the traditional one in terms of the pre-concentration effect, repeatability and classification performance.
Indoor layout estimation (ILE) is a challenging research that segments the natural indoor scene image into floor, walls and ceiling, and it has a wide range of application prospects in the fields such as scene underst...
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(数字)9789881563903
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(纸本)9781728165233
Indoor layout estimation (ILE) is a challenging research that segments the natural indoor scene image into floor, walls and ceiling, and it has a wide range of application prospects in the fields such as scene understanding, reconstruction, robot positioning, and virtual reality. An ILE method by merging multiple features from a monocular red-green-blue (RGB) image was proposed. Firstly, the High-resolution networks (HRNet) was used to extract the features of indoor corner keypoints (CKs) and informative edges (IEs) in the form of heatmaps. Secondly, the extracted features were then selected through a room type (RT) classification network. Finally, a feature fusion algorithm was proposed, which obtained the initial layout hypothesis through CK features and then continuously optimized the layout hypothesis with IE features. The proposed ILE method was validated on the large scene understanding challenge (LSUN) dataset.
As an important part of linear perspective, vanishing points (VPs) provide useful clues for mapping objects from 2D photos to 3D space. Existing methods are mainly focused on extracting structural features such as lin...
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Unstructured road vanishing point (VP) detection is a challenging problem, especially in the field of autonomous driving. In this paper, we proposed a novel solution combining the convolutional neural network (CNN) an...
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