This paper studies consensus control for multi-input/multi-output(MIMO)discrete-time multi-agent systems(MASs).It makes use of the novel idea of resource allocation in designing both the communication graph and feedba...
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This paper studies consensus control for multi-input/multi-output(MIMO)discrete-time multi-agent systems(MASs).It makes use of the novel idea of resource allocation in designing both the communication graph and feedback *** weakest consensusability condition is obtained for MASs over both directed and undirected graphs,which extends the existing results to MIMO discrete-time *** synthesis procedures are also *** work demonstrates the importance of the graph and controller co-design based on resource allocation for MIMO discrete-time MASs.
Biological features, such as, genes, transcription factor binding sites, SNPs, etc., are usually denoted with genome-based coordinates as the genomic features. While genome-based representation is usually very effecti...
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(纸本)9781467368001
Biological features, such as, genes, transcription factor binding sites, SNPs, etc., are usually denoted with genome-based coordinates as the genomic features. While genome-based representation is usually very effective, it can be tedious to examine the distribution of RNA-related genomic features on RNA transcripts with existing tools due to the conversion and comparison between genome-based coordinates to RNA-based coordinates. We developed here an open source R package Travis for sketching the transcriptomic view of genomic features so as to facilitate the analysis of RNA-related but genome-based coordinates. Internally, Travis package extracts the coordinates relative to the landmarks of transcripts, with which the distribution of RNA-related genomic features can then be conveniently analyzed. We demonstrated the usage of Travis package in analyzing post-transcriptional RNA modifications (5-MethylCytosine and N6-MethylAdenosine) derived from high-throughput sequencing approaches (MeRIP-Seq and RNA BS-Seq). The Travis R package is now publicly available from GitHub: .
Research on bio-inspired flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) has experienced a steady growth over the past two decades. In particular, experiments on insect flight dynamics may provide new solutions for various...
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The problem of inverse kinematics is revisited in the present paper. The paper is focusing on the problem of solving the inverse kinematics problem while respecting velocity limits on both the robot's joints and t...
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(纸本)9781467372435
The problem of inverse kinematics is revisited in the present paper. The paper is focusing on the problem of solving the inverse kinematics problem while respecting velocity limits on both the robot's joints and the end-effector. Even-though the conventional inverse kinematics algorithms have been proven to be efficient in many applications, defining an admissible trajectory for the end-effector is still a burdensome task for the user, and the problem can easily become unsolvable. The main idea behind the proposed algorithms is to consider the sampling time as a free variable, hence adding more flexibility to the optimization problem associated with the inverse kinematics. We prove that the reformulated problem has always a solution if the end-effector path is in the reachable space of the robot, thus solving the problem of infeasibility of conventional inverse kinematics methods. To validate the proposed approach, we have conducted three simulations scenarios. The simulation results point that while the conventional inverse kinematics methods fail to track precisely a desired end-effector trajectory, the proposed algorithms always succeed.
One key challenge of facial trait recognition is the large non-rigid appearance variations due to some irrelevant real world factors, such as viewpoint and expression changes. In this paper, we explore how the shape i...
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(纸本)9781467369657
One key challenge of facial trait recognition is the large non-rigid appearance variations due to some irrelevant real world factors, such as viewpoint and expression changes. In this paper, we explore how the shape information, i.e. facial landmark positions, can be explicitly deployed into the popular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture to disentangle such irrelevant non-rigid appearance variations. First, instead of using fixed kernels, we propose a kernel adaptation method to dynamically determine the convolutional kernels according to the spatial distribution of facial landmarks, which helps learning more robust features. Second, motivated by the intuition that different local facial regions may demand different adaptation functions, we further propose a tree-structured convolutional architecture to hierarchically fuse multiple local adaptive CNN subnetworks. Comprehensive experiments on WebFace, Morph II and MultiPIE databases well validate the effectiveness of the proposed kernel adaptation method and tree-structured convolutional architecture for facial trait recognition tasks, including identity, age and gender recognition. For all the tasks, the proposed architecture consistently achieves the state-of-the-art performances.
The performance of an ad-hoc network is greatly limited by collisions due to hidden terminals. In this paper, we propose a receiver tracking contention (RTC) scheme, which achieves high throughput by allowing the rece...
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(纸本)9781479982172
The performance of an ad-hoc network is greatly limited by collisions due to hidden terminals. In this paper, we propose a receiver tracking contention (RTC) scheme, which achieves high throughput by allowing the receivers to assist for channel contention. In RTC, link is the basic unit for channel access contention. Specifically, transmitter is used to contend for the channel and receiver is used to announce the potential collision. Based on INT message coding scheme, transmitter and its corresponding receiver can be well coordinated. In such mechanism, hidden terminals are avoided and exposed terminals are encouraged to transmit simultaneously. Based on OFDM modulation, RTC packets several subcarriers as subcontention unit and operates channel contention over multiple subcontention units. Furthermore, each subcontention unit maintains a transmission set, where collision-free links are allowed to merged into the transmission set In this case, the transmission set of subcontention unit can be aggregated after each contention period. When the subcontention unit i is the smallest index of non-empty subcontention unit, the transmission set of unit i will win the channel contention and transmitters of unit i will start to transmit in the following data transmission period. Analysis and simulation results show that RTC achieves a notable throughput gain over Back2f as high as 190% through simulation.
In general, power converters are operated in closed-loop systems, and any characteristic variations in one component will simultaneously alter the operating point of other components, resulting in a shift in overall r...
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The concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which combine computation, networking, and physical processes, is considered to be beneficial to smart grid applications. This study presents an integrated simulation en...
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The concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), which combine computation, networking, and physical processes, is considered to be beneficial to smart grid applications. This study presents an integrated simulation environment to provide a unified platform for the investigation of smart grid applications involving power grid monitoring, communication, and control. In contrast to the existing approaches, this environment allows the network simulator to operate independently, importing its results to the power system simulation. This resolves conflicts between discrete event simulation and continuous simulation. In addition, several data compensation methods are proposed and investigated under different network delay conditions. A case study of wide-area monitoring and control is provided, and the efficiency of the proposed simulation framework has been evaluated based on the experimental results.
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