This study focuses on biomimetic sensory motor control of a robotic arm. We have developed a command circuit that was mathematically deduced from physical and mathematical constraints describing the function of cerebe...
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This study focuses on biomimetic sensory motor control of a robotic arm. We have developed a command circuit that was mathematically deduced from physical and mathematical constraints describing the function of cerebellar pathways. The control circuit contains an internal predictive model of the direct biomechanical function of the limb placed in a closed loop, so that the circuit computes an approximate inverse function. The structure of the model resembles the anatomic connectivity of the cerebellar pathways. In this paper, we present an application of this model to the control of a 2-link robotic arm actuated by four single-joint McKibben muscles and report the results obtained by simulation and real-time learning of 2 degrees of freedom pointing movements.
There is a growing interest in employing digital signalprocessing methods to compensate the distortions typical of the next generation optical systems. For instance, several works considered the multi-user constant m...
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There is a growing interest in employing digital signalprocessing methods to compensate the distortions typical of the next generation optical systems. For instance, several works considered the multi-user constant modulus algorithm (MU-CMA) to recover the transmitted signals in Polarization Division Multiplexing (PDM) systems. In this work, the same problem is tackled through independent component analysis methods. The obtained results point out that, differently from the MU-CMA, our proposal is robust against sources loss even when polarization dependent loss is present.
Simple weighted undirected graphs with a fixed number of vertices and fixed vertex orderings can be used to represent data and patterns in a wide variety of scientific and engineering domains. Classification of such g...
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In order to reduce the demodulation delay of the conventional successive interference cancelator (SIC) and improve the BER (bit error rate) performance of each stage, an improved SIC was proposed based on the diagonal...
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In order to reduce the demodulation delay of the conventional successive interference cancelator (SIC) and improve the BER (bit error rate) performance of each stage, an improved SIC was proposed based on the diagonal loading method and the interval grouping method. This improved SIC loads the correlation matrix of each stage diagonally. Through the selection of loading parameters, the output signal interference ratio of grouping users is maximized so that the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) detection can be realized and the update of the linear operator in each stage is only related to the diagonal loading parameters. Theoretic analysis and simulation results show that compared with the conventional SIC and the MMSE detector, the improved SIC reduces demodulation delays and achieves a better BER performance.
We consider the problem of distributed classification of multiple observations of the same object that are collected in an ad-hoc network of vision sensors. Assuming that each sensor captures a different observation o...
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We consider the problem of distributed classification of multiple observations of the same object that are collected in an ad-hoc network of vision sensors. Assuming that each sensor captures a different observation of the same object, the problem is to classify this object by distributed processing from the sensors. We present a graph-based problem formulation whose objective function captures the smoothness of candidate labels on the data manifold. We design a distributed average consensus algorithm for estimating the unknown object class by computing the value of the above smoothness objective function for different class hypotheses. It initially estimates the objective function locally, based on the observation of each sensor. All the observations are then progressively taken into account in the estimation of the objective function, along the iterations of the distributed consensus algorithm. We illustrate the performance of the distributed classification algorithm by simulation of multi-view face recognition in an ad-hoc network of vision sensors. When the training set is sufficiently large, the simulation results show that the consensus classification decision is equivalent to the decision of a centralized system that would have access to all observations.
Wireless tomography, a novel approach to remote sensing, is proposed in Part I of this series. The methodology, literature review, related work, and system engineering are presented. Concrete algorithms and hardware p...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424482009
Wireless tomography, a novel approach to remote sensing, is proposed in Part I of this series. The methodology, literature review, related work, and system engineering are presented. Concrete algorithms and hardware platforms are implemented to demonstrate this concept. Self-cohering tomography is studied in depth. More research will be reported, following this initiative.
This is the introduction paper to a special session held on ESANN conference 2011. It reviews and highlights recent developments and new direction in information related learning, which is a fastly developing research...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9782874190445
This is the introduction paper to a special session held on ESANN conference 2011. It reviews and highlights recent developments and new direction in information related learning, which is a fastly developing research area. These algorithms are based on the fundamental principles of information theory and relate them implicitly or explicitly to learning algoithms and strategies.
Simple weighted undirected graphs with a fixed number of vertices and fixed vertex orderings can be used to represent data and patterns in a wide variety of scientific and engineering domains. Classification of such g...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424475421
Simple weighted undirected graphs with a fixed number of vertices and fixed vertex orderings can be used to represent data and patterns in a wide variety of scientific and engineering domains. Classification of such graphs by existing graph matching methods perform rather poorly because they do not exploit their specificity. As an alternative, methods relying on vector-space embedding hold promising potential. We propose two such techniques that can be deployed as a front-end for any pattern recognition classifiers: one has low computational cost but generates high-dimensional spaces, while the other is more computationally demanding but can yield relatively low-dimensional vector space representations. We show experimental results on an fMRI brain state decoding task and discuss the shortfalls of graph edit distance for the type of graph under consideration.
We consider the problem of distributed average consensus where sensors exchange quantized data with their neighbors. We deploy a polynomial filtering approach in the network nodes in order to accelerate the convergenc...
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We consider the problem of distributed average consensus where sensors exchange quantized data with their neighbors. We deploy a polynomial filtering approach in the network nodes in order to accelerate the convergence of the consensus problem. The quantization of the values computed by the sensors however imposes a careful design of the polynomial filter. We first study the impact of the quantization noise in the performance of accelerated consensus based on polynomial filtering. It occurs that the performance is clearly penalized by the quantization noise, whose impact directly depends on the filter coefficients. We then formulate a convex optimization problem for determining the coefficients of a polynomial filter, which is able to control the quantization noise while accelerating the convergence rate. The simulation results show that the proposed solution is robust to quantization noise while assuring a high convergence speed to the average value in the network.
Wireless tomography, a novel approach to remote sensing, is proposed in Part I of this series. The methodology, literature review, related work, and system engineering are presented. Concrete algorithms and hardware p...
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Wireless tomography, a novel approach to remote sensing, is proposed in Part I of this series. The methodology, literature review, related work, and system engineering are presented. Concrete algorithms and hardware platforms are implemented to demonstrate this concept. Self-cohering tomography is studied in depth. More research will be reported, following this initiative.
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