Deriving the critical density to achieve region coverage for random sensor deployment is a fundamentally important problem in the area of Internet of Things (IoT). Most of the existing works on sensor coverage mainly ...
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We present a system that performs Related Entity Finding, that is, Question Answering that exploits Semantic Information from the WWW and returns URIs as answers. Our system uses a search engine to gather all candidat...
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The Robotic Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (RDPSO) recently introduced in the literature has the ability to dynamically partition the whole population of robots based on simple 'punish-reward' rules. Al...
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In this paper experimental results of testing slip-based traction control system (TCS) with an on-line road condition estimation are presented. TCS is designed for a car with in-wheel electric motors, so that estimati...
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(纸本)9781479909964
In this paper experimental results of testing slip-based traction control system (TCS) with an on-line road condition estimation are presented. TCS is designed for a car with in-wheel electric motors, so that estimation and control are implemented independently for each wheel thus enabling the optimal friction coefficient for every wheel, even if they are on different surfaces or have different tire characteristics. A road condition is approximated using a function which is estimated in the real-time and used as the input to the TCS. The design of the presented TCS is based on the wheel slip ratio, controlled to it's optimal value by a PI controller and with the addition of a feedforward branch for the transition response speed up. System is tested on a newly developed experimental setup consisting of the wheel with embedded (in-wheel) motor rolling on the metal drum loaded by the second motor simulating car behaviour.
This paper presents a path planning approach of several UAVs for Radio Frequency (RF) source localization in None Line Of Sight (NLOS) propagation condition using the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI). The pa...
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This paper presents a path planning approach of several UAVs for Radio Frequency (RF) source localization in None Line Of Sight (NLOS) propagation condition using the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI). The paths are planned such that the lower bound of standard deviation of localization error, which is equivalent to the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of the estimation, minimized at any time. Due to the complexity of Jacobin calculation to perform global CRLB optimization, the local values of CRLBs in the current waypoint and next probable waypoints are used in the steepest decent approach to determine the best path. Furthermore, the complexity is reduced by discretizing the space for UAVs to make the computation feasible. The effect of NLOS propagation on the RSSI measurements is simulated by a log-normal distribution and the last estimation of radio source location is used to calculate the local CRLBs. The proposed approach has been simulated and compared with the basic bio-inspired approach of going toward the sensed direction of the source. The result shows better performance than the basic approach.
The hybrid localization using Angle of Arrival (AOA) and Received Strength Signal Indicator (RSSI) of an RF source, such as a cell phone in a search and rescue mission, with unknown power and None Line Of Sight (NLOS)...
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The hybrid localization using Angle of Arrival (AOA) and Received Strength Signal Indicator (RSSI) of an RF source, such as a cell phone in a search and rescue mission, with unknown power and None Line Of Sight (NLOS) condition have been proven to be advantageous compared to using each method separately. The hybrid approach has been proposed to benefit from both RSSI and AOA measurements. In this paper, the initial hybrid method, which was implemented using particle filters due to the multi-modal/non-Gaussian nature of localization in NLOS condition, has been replaced by a multi-step Gaussian filtering approach which provides nearly similar accuracy with better performance. The proposed method has been implemented using extended Kalman filter and Unscented Kalman filter. The simulation results show that the multi-step Gaussian filtering is comparable to particle filter in all cases with better performance. For further evaluation, the effects of uncertainty in the propagation parameters have been studied to show the robustness of each filter to these uncertainties.
The most standard image object detectors are usually comprised of one or multiple feature extractors or classifiers within a sliding window framework. Nevertheless, this type of approach has demonstrated a very limite...
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The most standard image object detectors are usually comprised of one or multiple feature extractors or classifiers within a sliding window framework. Nevertheless, this type of approach has demonstrated a very limited performance under datasets of cluttered scenes and real life situations. To tackle these issues, LIDAR space is exploited here in order to detect 2D objects in 3D space, avoiding all the inherent problems of regular sliding window techniques. Additionally, we propose a relational parts-based pedestrian detection in a probabilistic non-iid framework. With the proposed framework, we have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a pedestrian dataset gathered in a challenging urban scenario. The proposed system demonstrated superior performance in comparison with pure sliding-window-based image detectors.
There is widespread interest in the deployment of fleets of marine robots with the potential to roam the oceans freely and collect data at an unprecedented scale. This calls for the development of efficient algorithms...
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An important aspect of robotic path planning for is ensuring that the vehicle is in the best location to collect the data necessary for the problem at hand. Given that features of in- terest are dynamic and move with ...
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(纸本)9780980740448
An important aspect of robotic path planning for is ensuring that the vehicle is in the best location to collect the data necessary for the problem at hand. Given that features of in- terest are dynamic and move with oceanic cur- rents, vehicle speed is an important factor in any planning exercises to ensure vehicles are at the right place at the right time. Here, we examine different Gaussian process models to find a suitable predictive kinematic model that enable the speed of an underactuated, au- tonomous surface vehicle to be accurately pre- dicted given a set of input environmental pa-rameters.
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