Path smoothing is an important operation in a number of path planning applications. While several approaches have been proposed in the literature, a lack of simple and effective methods with quality-based termination ...
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Path smoothing is an important operation in a number of path planning applications. While several approaches have been proposed in the literature, a lack of simple and effective methods with quality-based termination conditions can be observed. In this paper we propose a deterministic shortcut-based smoothing method that is simple to be implemented and achieves user-specified termination conditions based on solution quality, overcoming one of the main limitations observed in traditional random-based approaches. We present several benchmarks demonstrating that our method produces higher-quality results when compared to the traditional random shortcuts approach.
Tactile pose estimation and tactile servoing are fundamental capabilities of robot touch. Reliable and precise pose estimation can be provided by applying deep learning models to high-resolution optical tactile sensor...
Tactile pose estimation and tactile servoing are fundamental capabilities of robot touch. Reliable and precise pose estimation can be provided by applying deep learning models to high-resolution optical tactile sensors. Given the recent successes of Graph Neural Network (GNN) and the effectiveness of Voronoi features, we developed a Tactile Voronoi Graph Neural Network (Tac-VGNN) to achieve reliable pose-based tactile servoing relying on a biomimetic optical tactile sensor (TacTip). The GNN is well suited to modeling the distribution relationship between shear motions of the tactile markers, while the Voronoi diagram supplements this with area-based tactile features related to contact depth. The experiment results showed that the Tac-VGNN model can help enhance data interpretability during graph generation and model training efficiency significantly than CNN-based methods. It also improved pose estimation accuracy along vertical depth by 28.57% over vanilla GNN without Voronoi features and achieved better performance on the real surface following tasks with smoother robot control trajectories. For more project details, please view our website: https://***/view/tac-vgnn/home
Purpose: Causal deep learning (DL) using normalizing flows allows the generation of true counterfactual images, which is relevant for many medical applications such as explainability of decisions, image harmonization,...
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The economic sector includes agriculture as a major player. Around the world, the primary issue and hot topic is agriculture automation. As a result of the population boom, there is a huge increase in the need for bot...
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Human gait motions differ depending on age. We estimated peoples’ age using kernel regression analysis with reported height and weight and representative gait parameters as explanatory variables. The samples were Jap...
Human gait motions differ depending on age. We estimated peoples’ age using kernel regression analysis with reported height and weight and representative gait parameters as explanatory variables. The samples were Japanese women aged in their 20s-70s represented in an open database. The estimated ages exhibited a correlation coefficient of 0.65 with the actual ages, and the mean absolute error was 17.7 years. Estimation errors were significantly greater for older adults than for young people. Given that the method involves gait parameters that can be measured using wearable devices, such as inertial measurement units, this technique provides an accessible way for people to independently monitor their physical health in daily life.
Mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems consist of a fleet of shared vehicles that can be hailed for one-way point-to-point trips. The total distance driven by the vehicles and the fleet size can be reduced by employing ride...
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The industrial operation of oxy-fuel metal cutting via gas torches involves tasks such as ignition, preheating, and combustion along the target surface. Automated oxy-fuel cutting systems are exposed to risks and anom...
The industrial operation of oxy-fuel metal cutting via gas torches involves tasks such as ignition, preheating, and combustion along the target surface. Automated oxy-fuel cutting systems are exposed to risks and anomalies that can lead to incorrect actions and safety hazards. In this paper, we develop a classifier for online task state estimation to assess the cutting robot's actions, detect anomalies, and reduce the risk of hazards. Using representative footage from our robotic cutting experiments, we curate an image dataset labeled with four types of cutting task states. Using deep learning methods, we design and train a convolutional neural network model for classifying the cutting task state from input images. The classifier architecture is optimized for rapid inferences during online estimation. After evaluation, our classifier achieves an overall accuracy of 93.8 % with high inference speeds on two types of representative hardware. Our ‘Oxy-fuel Cutting Task State’ (OCTS) dataset is available at ***/10.5281/zenodo.7734951.
The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve is a critical tool for binary classification analysis in medicine, with the Area Under the ROC Curve (AUROC) serving as a widely accepted metric to evaluate the perfor...
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Autonomous racing is a challenging problem, as the vehicle needs to operate at the friction or handling limits in order to achieve minimum lap times. Autonomous race cars require highly accurate perception, state esti...
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Price and quality level of products are two important decisions of any business. This paper provides equilibrium solutions for these decisions of two players for a cybersecurity ecosystem, including a solution provide...
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