This paper presents a social interactive robot Nancy that has been developed in Social Robotics laboratory, National University of Singapore. Fundamentally different from factory robots, Nancy's design focuses on ...
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This paper presents a social interactive robot Nancy that has been developed in Social Robotics laboratory, National University of Singapore. Fundamentally different from factory robots, Nancy's design focuses on social interaction and social intelligent system. The design objectives and consideration are examined in the beginning, followed by the description of hardware and software architectures. Contrast to current existing social robots, Nancy has a graphical user interface (GUI), which acts as an additional channel for human-robot interaction. This GUI helps users to have a better understanding of Nancy's internal states and hence make users feel more comfortable during the interaction with Nancy. Visitors' interaction experience with Nancy is discussed together with Nancy's social skills.
This paper presents a Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) smoother for tracking multiple maneuvering targets that follow jump Markov models. Unlike the generalization of the multiple model GM-PHD ...
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This paper presents a Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) smoother for tracking multiple maneuvering targets that follow jump Markov models. Unlike the generalization of the multiple model GM-PHD filters, our aim is to approximate the dynamics of the linear Gaussian jump Markov system (LGJMS) by a best-fitting Gaussian (BFG) distribution so that the GM-PHD smoother can be carried out with respect to an approximated linear Gaussian system. Our approach is inspired by the recognition that the BFG approximation provides an accurate performance measure for the LGJMS. Furthermore, the multiple model estimation is avoided and less computational cost is required. The effectiveness of the proposed smoother is verified with a numerical simulation.
In this paper, an adaptive iterative learning control (ILC) scheme is proposed for trajectory tracking of uncertain delay systems based on model matching technique. The reference model is a delay system operating over...
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In this paper, an adaptive iterative learning control (ILC) scheme is proposed for trajectory tracking of uncertain delay systems based on model matching technique. The reference model is a delay system operating over in a finite time interval. An iterative model matching controller is designed and an iteration domain adaptive law is chosen to estimate the unknown parameters. It shows that the model matching technique can be applied in a straightforward method to ILC problem. A simulation example is included to illustrate the designed scheme.
Service-oriented architecture and cloud computing have become the prevalent computing paradigm. In this paradigm, computing resources can be accessed like other utility services available in today's society. In th...
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Service-oriented architecture and cloud computing have become the prevalent computing paradigm. In this paradigm, computing resources can be accessed like other utility services available in today's society. In the meantime, robotics applications are joining the trend. More and more robot applications are shifting from manufacture to non-manufacture and service industries. However, for the on-demand supply of the large-scale heterogeneous robots, It is still a problem have not yet been studied, including the fundamental management and efficiency issues in using of these resources. In this paper, we design a framework of "Robot Cloud Center" (RCC) following the general cloud computing paradigm to address the current limitations in capacity and versatility of robotic applications. In this framework, a robot can be provided as a service just like a public utility service so that everyone can access the powerful robotic services easily, efficiently, and cheaply. Based on a given scenario, a robot scheduling algorithm in RCC is proposed to take advantage of the heterogeneous robot resources to meet the end user's requirement with the minimum cost.
Optical electronic nose (olfactory sensing) technologies have recently become a convenient technique to identify the quality of food and beverage products based on the odor classification. In this paper, we reported a...
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Optical electronic nose (olfactory sensing) technologies have recently become a convenient technique to identify the quality of food and beverage products based on the odor classification. In this paper, we reported an optical-based electronic nose system consisting of thin-film sensing materials, array of light emitting diode (LED), photo-detector and pattern recognition program. The organic mixtures thin film gas sensor was prepared by spin coating of Zinc-2,9,16,23- tetra-tert-butyl 29H,31H-phthalocyanine (ZnTTBPc), Zinc-5,10,15,20-tetra-phenyl-21H,23H-porphyrin (ZnTPP) and manganese(III) 5, 10, 15, 20-tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphyrin chloride (MnTPPCI) onto a clean glass substrate. The electronic nose system was developed by using the low-cost LED array as a light source. Then the light intensity that is transmitted through the organic thin film during the experiment was detected by the color light to frequency converter device (photo-detector). The ability of this system was tested by using volatile organic compound (VOCs) vapors such as methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol. Principal component analysis (PCA) has been used as the pattern recognition for this electronic nose system. The result confirms that the sensing layer that composed of the three types of organic compounds described the groups of chemical vapors by using the array of LED.
Employing a parallel crawler as a multi processes crawler causes different issues of concern in comparison to applying a single-process crawler. These issues impact on achieving the results with higher or even the sam...
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The rapid growth of the computer technologies and the advent of World Wide Web have increased the amount and the complexity of multimedia information. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system has been developed as ...
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is considered a reliable indicator of a person's vigilance level. In this paper, we use EEG recordings to discriminate three vigilance states of a person, namely alert, drowsy, and sle...
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Avoiding fatal accidents caused by low vigilance level in driving is very important in our daily lives. Electroencephalography(EEG) has been proved very effective for measuring the level of vigilance. In this paper, w...
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Many web sites have features that are only accessible after registering a user account on them. These sites include forums, on-line games, corporate Intranets and many on-line shops. The sites are typically secured th...
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