Model-based control is a crucial component of robotic navigation. However, it often struggles with entrapment in local minima due to its inherent nature as a finite, myopic optimization procedure. Previous studies hav...
详细信息
The demand for efficient power management solutions in electronic devices has increased significantly, especially for microcontrollers operating in low-power modes. This article presents the design and implementation ...
详细信息
Deformable objects especially large-size de-formable objects grasping is unappreciated but widespread in industrial applications (e.g., clothes recycling). While it encounters several challenges, for example, the exis...
详细信息
ISBN:
(数字)9798350375022
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350375039
Deformable objects especially large-size de-formable objects grasping is unappreciated but widespread in industrial applications (e.g., clothes recycling). While it encounters several challenges, for example, the existing methods didn’t take large-size deformable objects into account, no typical boundary of deformable objects. To solve the challenges, we proposed a grasp detection framework consisting of a self-trained object detection network, an instance segmentation module, and a grasp pose generation pipeline. The experiments were successfully conducted on the industrial laundry mock-up with an 88.9% success ratio. The experiments result indicates the effectiveness of the proposed framework on spatial-constrained large-size deformable objects grasping in clutter.
Vibratory treatment is widely used in various industries for performing finishing technological operations, e.g., lapping, polishing, glazing, strengthening (hardening), etc. The problems of maximizing the treatment a...
详细信息
We present closed-form expressions for marginalizing and conditioning Gaussians onto linear manifolds, and demonstrate how to apply these expressions to smooth nonlinear manifolds through linearization. Although margi...
详细信息
Analog meters equipped with one or multiple pointers are wildly utilized to monitor vital devices' status in industrial sites for safety concerns. Reading these legacy meters autonomously remains an open problem s...
详细信息
Analog meters equipped with one or multiple pointers are wildly utilized to monitor vital devices' status in industrial sites for safety concerns. Reading these legacy meters autonomously remains an open problem since estimating pointer origin and direction under imaging damping factors imposed in the wild could be challenging. Nevertheless, high accuracy, flexibility, and real-time performance are demanded. In this work, we propose the vector detection network (VDN) to detect analog meters' pointers given their images, eliminating the barriers for autonomously reading such meters using intelligent agents like robots. We tackled the pointer as a 2-D vector, whose initial point coincides with the tip, and the direction is along tail-to-tip. The network estimates a confidence map, wherein the peak pixels are treated as vectors' initial points, along with a two-layer scalar map, whose pixel values at each peak form the scalar components in the directions of the coordinate axes. We established the Pointer-10 K dataset composing of real-world analog meter images to evaluate our approach due to no similar dataset is available for now. Experiments on the dataset demonstrated that our methods generalize well to various meters, robust to harsh imaging factors, and run in real-time. Impact Statement-From the automatic meter recognition perspective, this work proposes an accurate, flexible, and ready-to-use pointer detection algorithm that contributes to dealing with legacy pointer-type meters, which still serve in industrial sites to date and require extensive human inspection. Adopting this technique to automatic agents could save human labor and promote the effectiveness and efficiency of getting data. It also inspires particular object detection problems, wherein the object could be considered a vector whose position is concerned, and its orientation also matters. The proposed VDN is agnostic to the semantic meaning of the vectors it detects. Thus it could also be used to
Data acquisition systems are commonplace in the current era of digitalization and Industry 4.0. These systems are typically used to obtain data from sensors, whether analog or digital, which is then stored for process...
Data acquisition systems are commonplace in the current era of digitalization and Industry 4.0. These systems are typically used to obtain data from sensors, whether analog or digital, which is then stored for processing in subsequent stages. However, the implementation of hardware for creating data acquisition systems can be challenging due to constraints such as laboratory facilities, budget limitations, and other factors. Therefore, in this research, SimulIDE simulation software was employed to simulate electronic components and the Arduino Uno. To make this virtual Arduino appear as a physical one to the host computer, PyVirtualSerialPorts was used as a virtual serial port. The data acquisition system was created using Python programming with several key features: it can store data in CSV format, present data plots and graphs, and display the frequency spectrum of signals. The system achieved a sampling speed of 1000 data points per second, with input signals limited to a maximum of 10 Hz. This study also shows that signal distortion can occur due to excessively frequent data plotting and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing. Therefore, the use of SimulIDE simulator, virtual serial port, and Python can be utilized in the learning process of a simple data acquisition system.
This paper presents a method to design a linear state feedback controller for the mecanum wheel omnidirectional to track a NURBS curve trajectory. Firstly, the robot's kinematic model and kinematic error were esta...
详细信息
Additive manufacturing of fibre-reinforced composites show high potential for fabrication of next-generation lightweight complex structural parts. In this study, the effects of building orientation and fibre type, i.e...
详细信息
A micro-robotic system with in-vivo patterning and spatial control in the vasculature has the potential to improve cancer research, brain research and vasculature biology. Optical tweezers have shown in vivo spatial c...
详细信息
暂无评论