Sensing is one of the most essential aspects of any robotic application, be it manufacturing or any automated process. Robotic sensors can be divided into two classes of " internal " and " external &quo...
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Sensing is one of the most essential aspects of any robotic application, be it manufacturing or any automated process. Robotic sensors can be divided into two classes of " internal " and " external ". Examples of the first group are position or velocity, while the second group includes proximity, touch, or vision to name a few. The other important problem in manufacturing is interfacing with the environment within a cell. The object of this tutorial paper is to survey the two issues of "sensing" and "interfacing" in robotics and manufacturing.
With the objective a controlled electrical delivery of single-component toner from a hopper to an image developing region, the traveling-wave induced pumping of dilute triboelectrified particles along the semi-insulat...
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With the objective a controlled electrical delivery of single-component toner from a hopper to an image developing region, the traveling-wave induced pumping of dilute triboelectrified particles along the semi-insulating surface of a 100 mu m thick insulating layer is studied. Fabricated on a circuit board underlying the layer are electrodes connected to a six-phase high-voltage system so as to give a traveling-wave of 7 mm wavelength and frequency that varies from 1 to 100 Hz. Measurements of the migration of a band of particles, displaying synchronous and asynchronous pumping regimes, are compared to a theoretical model developed elsewhere. Provision for leakage of image triboelectrification charge is shown to provide for unipolar pumping. Synchronous pumping, with particles hopping along the surface in positive and/or negative bands displaced by a half-wavelength, is shown to prevail up to a critical frequency beyond which the well-controlled phase bands are replaced by a asynchronous motions that tend to be airborne.< >
We report the fabrication and characterization of a vertical pn power diode which is realized using two separate epitaxial-growth mechanisms: (a) p-GaN over p-(4H)SiC, and (b) p-GaN over n-(4H)SiC with A1N as...
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We report the fabrication and characterization of a vertical pn power diode which is realized using two separate epitaxial-growth mechanisms: (a) p-GaN over p-(4H)SiC, and (b) p-GaN over n-(4H)SiC with A1N as the interface layer. In all of the cases, n+-doped (4H)SiC serves as the cathode substrate. Pd(200 A)/Au(10000 A) is used for the anode contact while Ni(1000A) is used for the bottom cathode contact. The measured forward drop of the pn diode with A1N as the interface material is found to be around 5.1 V; whereas, it is 3 V for the other sample structure. The measured reverse-blocking voltage is found to be greater than 200 V.
A new image enhancement technique using the Intensity, Hue and Saturation (IHS) colour space is presented in this letter Experimental results illustrating the enhancement capabilities of the proposed technique are giv...
A new image enhancement technique using the Intensity, Hue and Saturation (IHS) colour space is presented in this letter Experimental results illustrating the enhancement capabilities of the proposed technique are given. Comparative examples of the proposed technique to the grey level histogram equalisation technique are also included.
This paper presents the development of a Cellular Neural Network (CNN) architecture that is capable of learning the behaviour of a Cellular Automaton (CA) operating under local rule 30. Such a CA rule models the compl...
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This paper presents the development of a Cellular Neural Network (CNN) architecture that is capable of learning the behaviour of a Cellular Automaton (CA) operating under local rule 30. Such a CA rule models the complex behaviour of a random system. The CNN was trained using the Levenberg-Marquardt approximation to Newton's method and convergence was achieved very fast. The proposed CNN was able to generalize efficiently and it can be used as a pseudorandom number generator. The CNN architecture proposed in this paper is especially suited to VLSI implementation due to its inherent regularity, modularity and parallelism and also, due to the locality of interconnections.
An improvement of the majority gale algorithm suitable for grey scale morphological operations is presented in the Letter. The redundancy of temporal signals led to a simplified hardware implementation. It is shown th...
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An improvement of the majority gale algorithm suitable for grey scale morphological operations is presented in the Letter. The redundancy of temporal signals led to a simplified hardware implementation. It is shown that maximin operators can be computed by the same circuit. A new pipelined systolic array architecture based oil this circuit is illustrated for dilation/erosion operations.
This article proposes an air-cored three-phase tubular permanent magnet linear generator (3P-TPMLG) with a novel free-piston Stirling engines (FPSEs) structure. First, the concrete construction and initial dimensions ...
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Precise cell classification is essential in biomedical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring, particularly for identifying diverse cell types involved in various diseases. Traditional cell classification methods such...
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An investigation on the impact and significance of the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol Go match is conducted, and concludes with a conjecture of the AlphaGo Thesis and its extension in accordance with the Church-Turing Thesis i...
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A new focal plane architecture for motion computation is presented. The design is based on the Smart Sensor paradigm: combining transduction and early processing at sensor level. The sensor computes focal plane motion...
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A new focal plane architecture for motion computation is presented. The design is based on the Smart Sensor paradigm: combining transduction and early processing at sensor level. The sensor computes focal plane motion and direction in a subsampled space, with programmable spatiotemporal bandwidth. The architecture is designed around an array of neuromorphic analog processing cells with local photo-transduction, computation of temporal variations in the image and correlation between neighbor pixels. The inherent process of serial read-out is used for further integration of low-level processing and reduction of complexity of each pixel. An external dedicated digital processor controls the system, interprets, and integrates the information from sets of four processing pixels in order to create a motion-based medium-level description of the image. The approach developed for VLSI implementation offers an excellent combination of small pixel area and a computationally efficient method for image motion measurement. The architecture is being implemented in a standard 1.5 mu m CMOS process. (C) 1996 Academic Press Limited
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