According to the functions of database required by the vehicle monitoring system, three entities, including the vehicle, the vehicle terminal and the user, and their relationships are created and described by an entit...
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According to the functions of database required by the vehicle monitoring system, three entities, including the vehicle, the vehicle terminal and the user, and their relationships are created and described by an entity-relationship (E-R) diagram for the database concept design. The database logical model is built. In order to improve the performance of the database application, three kinds of optimization are proposed in different aspects. First, to improve the low efficiency of data accessing caused by a huge table, multiple sub-tables are divided from the original huge table by a distributed storage solution, which greatly increases the storage capability of the database based on decentralized management. Secondly, zoning optimizations are made for the single tables with a large amount of data. Due to the parallel processing for data, a good performance can be obtained even when the data accessing is frequent. Finally, the query speed of a specific table is improved by making fair use of the clustered index under the guide of different application purposes. Performance of the database in an actual vehicle monitoring system is evaluated. The results show that the optimized database can timely respond the real-time requests of data accessing. It is powerful for data storage and management, which ensures the stability and reliability of the system performance.
An adaptive threshold segmentation algorithm based on HS joint statistics using HSI color model is introduced in order to improve the performance of image segmentation and the robustness of object recognition to illum...
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An adaptive threshold segmentation algorithm based on HS joint statistics using HSI color model is introduced in order to improve the performance of image segmentation and the robustness of object recognition to illumination change. Statistics of H and S component value of all the pixels in the region of interest (ROI) is obtained after image segmentation in HSI color space. The changing rule of statistics is verified while an empirical scale factor is applied to reflect the difference between the influence of H value and S value on segmentation threshold. The threshold is thus adjusted online according to the proposed approach. Experimental results demonstrate the decrease trend of H and S component value with intensified light. Furthermore, it validates the robustness of the approach under the circumstance of changing illumination. Thus the accuracy of the vision-based robot grasping is significantly improved.
A conceptual map model of environments is proposed for task planning of service robots in semantic knowledge space. Such model is characterized with a layered structure containing ontology, spatial and user knowledge....
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A conceptual map model of environments is proposed for task planning of service robots in semantic knowledge space. Such model is characterized with a layered structure containing ontology, spatial and user knowledge. It is capable of inferring environmental knowledge and mapping semantic plans onto the instantial perception space. A scene recognition based method for conceptual map building and updating is proposed to support the environment learning capabilities of robots. Using such model, a layered topological and metric navigation strategy is proposed, in which map switching technique ensures that Monte Carlo localization and metric path planning are performed within each small-scale grid map. Experimental results in large-scale office environments validate the effectiveness and efficiency of robot localization and navigation, and a semantic navigation manner is achieved.
Chimera states in spatiotemporal dynamical systems have been investigated in physical, chemical, and biological systems, and have been shown to be robust against random perturbations. How do chimera states achieve the...
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Chimera states in spatiotemporal dynamical systems have been investigated in physical, chemical, and biological systems, and have been shown to be robust against random perturbations. How do chimera states achieve their robustness? We uncover a self-adaptation behavior by which, upon a spatially localized perturbation, the coherent component of the chimera state spontaneously drifts to an optimal location as far away from the perturbation as possible, exposing only its incoherent component to the perturbation to minimize the disturbance. A systematic numerical analysis of the evolution of the spatiotemporal pattern of the chimera state towards the optimal stable state reveals an exponential relaxation process independent of the spatial location of the perturbation, implying that its effects can be modeled as restoring and damping forces in a mechanical system and enabling the articulation of a phenomenological model. Not only is the model able to reproduce the numerical results, it can also predict the trajectory of drifting. Our finding is striking as it reveals that, inherently, chimera states possess a kind of “intelligence” in achieving robustness through self-adaptation. The behavior can be exploited for the controlled generation of chimera states with their coherent component placed in any desired spatial region of the system.
A class of complex hybrid time-delay models for network controlsystems have been constructed by taking the characteristics of network into account. Based on a LMI(linear matrix inequality) method, a kind of Lyapunov-...
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A class of complex hybrid time-delay models for network controlsystems have been constructed by taking the characteristics of network into account. Based on a LMI(linear matrix inequality) method, a kind of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is employed, and the controller design is discussed for this type of systems. As input control is in discrete-time and the input delay constant is known, while state is in continuous-time and the state delay constant is not known exactly, so the system is constructed based on two models in both continuous-time domain and discrete-time domain. At the same time, a new type of adaptive control strategy for the unknown delay parameter is proposed in this paper, which realizes that the unknown delay parameter can always be reflected in the memory state-feedback controller. Delay-dependent sufficient conditions for the existence of the feedback controller in terms of LMIS are obtained.
The classical mean shift tracking algorithm is apt to make errors or lose the target if the target is occluded for a very long time. Thus an improved mean shift tracking algorithm is proposed. This algorithm divides t...
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The classical mean shift tracking algorithm is apt to make errors or lose the target if the target is occluded for a very long time. Thus an improved mean shift tracking algorithm is proposed. This algorithm divides the target into multiple fragments and integrates spatial information by using different weights of each image fragment. The similarity coefficient between target template and candidate template consists of the Bhattacharyya coefficients of the corresponding multiple fragments. Experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient when the target is occluded for a long time. A new method named edge-histogram is used. This method is based on original scale updating mechanism and make a further judgment that whether the target is smaller or not by calculating the Bhattacharyya coefficient between the target's edge-histograms of the current frame and the previous one. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can deal with the scale problem very well.
In order to solve the problems of inaccurate positioning in current vehicle monitoring systems, an intelligent vehicle monitoring system based on mobile video and WebGIS (Web geographic information system) is proposed...
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In order to solve the problems of inaccurate positioning in current vehicle monitoring systems, an intelligent vehicle monitoring system based on mobile video and WebGIS (Web geographic information system) is proposed and designed. The system is composed of front-end equipment, system platform and client. The instant image information captured by vehicle mobile video and the GPS(global positioning system) positioning location information received by the terminal are transmitted from front-end to system platform via the GPRS(general packet radio service) mobile communications platform. Also, a highly compressed digital video and audio codec technology standard named H.264/AVC is employed to compress the real-time mobile video information and the Google Maps API is called to display the current position of vehicles on the electronic map. Furthermore, the spatial analysis capabilities of GIS plus the GPS information not only make tracking feasibly, but also provide aid in decision making. It is shown that the system can not only reproduce the video data timely and accurately, but also accurately position the mobile vehicles so as to provide a better service in monitoring, control, management, analysis, decision-making and command functions, which expands the application fields and development prospects of WebGIS and mobile video monitoring technology.
In this paper, the prediction-based distributed filtering problem is discussed for a class of time-varying stochastic systems with communication delay and different types of noises over sensor networks. The communicat...
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In this paper, the prediction-based distributed filtering problem is discussed for a class of time-varying stochastic systems with communication delay and different types of noises over sensor networks. The communication delay is characterized when the state estimations are transmitted between adjacent sensor nodes. In order to compensate the effects induced by the communication delay, the prediction-based idea is employed and then the active compensation estimation is provided when designing the time-varying distributed filter. In particular, both the prediction-based state estimation and its own innovation measurements are utilized in terms of the concerned sensor networks under given topological structure. Subsequently, a locally minimum upper bound of the filtering error covariance is given by determining the filter gain at each time step. Finally, the validity and advantages of the presented prediction-based distributed filtering method are illustrated by some simulations.
In order to achieve the goal of data statistic and task management under the embedded systems, together with the consideration of processing speed and the internal storage capacity, the embedded database is introduced...
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In order to achieve the goal of data statistic and task management under the embedded systems, together with the consideration of processing speed and the internal storage capacity, the embedded database is introduced. The features of embedded database are small in size, multi-functional, portable, highly efficient and stable. Taking the data management in the home energy monitor system as an example, a statistical method of time sharing is proposed. The embedded database Berkeley DB is transplanted, and the resource occupancy and response speed before and after using Berkeley DB are compared. Testing data show that although taking up more storage resources, the use of Berkeley DB provides more efficient data management capabilities. The application of Berkeley DB improves the system response, and provides a better human-computer interaction. Under the allowance of the hardware resources of device, this practice of using space for performance is feasible.
When it comes to the issue of path planning for mobile service robots in structured indoor environments, traditional A* algorithm fails to display a good performance of real-time path tracking. Therefore, a new method...
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When it comes to the issue of path planning for mobile service robots in structured indoor environments, traditional A* algorithm fails to display a good performance of real-time path tracking. Therefore, a new method is proposed to design a near-optimal smooth path. Mobile robots can thus track the path smoothly and reach the goal fast. At first, the improved A* algorithm is applied to plan a proper trajectory for the mobile robot. Then a key-point optimization process is applied to make the global path simplified to be connections among a series of key points. The most important improvement lies in the introduction of the polar polynomials curve to smooth the path according to the constraints of position, curvature and slope. However, when the arc turns become 90° or more, the optimized piecewise-polynomial-function curve is generated to replace the original one. Experimental results prove that the path generated meets the dynamic characteristics of the mobile robots as well as the geometric features. The requirements of quick real-time computation of path tracking process can be well satisfied.
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