This paper describes a probabilistic online map merging system for a single mobile robot. It performs intermittent exploration by fusing laser scan matching and omnidirectional vision. Moreover, it can also be adapted...
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This paper describes a probabilistic online map merging system for a single mobile robot. It performs intermittent exploration by fusing laser scan matching and omnidirectional vision. Moreover, it can also be adapted to a multi-robot system for large scale environments. Map merging is achieved by means of a probabilistic Haar-based place recognition system using omnidirectional images and is capable of discriminating new and previously visited locations in the current or previously collected maps. This dramatically reduces the search space for laser scan matching. The combination of laser range finding and omnidirectional vision is very attractive because they reinforce one another when there is sufficient structure and visual information in the environment. In other cases, they complement one another, leading to improved robustness of the system. This is the first system to combine a probabilistic Haar-based place recognition system using omnidirectional images with laser range finding to merge maps. The proposed system is also algorithmically simple, efficient and does not require any offline processing. Experimental results of the approach clearly illustrate that the proposed system can perform both online map merging and exploration robustly using a single robot configuration in a real indoor lab environment.
In this paper a visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm suitable for indoor area measurement applications is proposed. The algorithm is focused on computational effectiveness. The only sensor use...
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We are extremely pleased to present this special issue of the Journal of Control Theory and *** dynamic programming (ADP) is a general and effective approach for solving optimal control and estimation problems by adap...
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We are extremely pleased to present this special issue of the Journal of Control Theory and *** dynamic programming (ADP) is a general and effective approach for solving optimal control and estimation problems by adapting to uncertain environments over *** optimizes the sensing objectives accrued over a future time interval with respect to an adaptive control law,conditioned on prior knowledge of the system,its state,and uncertainties.A numerical search over the present value of the control minimizes a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation providing a basis for real-time,approximate optimal control.
A high frequency transformer is a critical component in a dual active bridge converter (DAB) used in a power electronics-based solid state transformer. Operation of a DAB converter requires its transformer to have a s...
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A method based on textural features and Adaboost for detecting buildings in satellite images is proposed. Several local textural features including mean and standard deviation of image intensity and gradient, Zernike ...
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A method based on textural features and Adaboost for detecting buildings in satellite images is proposed. Several local textural features including mean and standard deviation of image intensity and gradient, Zernike moments, Circular-Mellin features, Haralick features, Fourier Power Spectrum, Wavelets, Gabor Filters, and a set features extracted from HSV color space are extracted. Adaboost learning algorithm is employed for both classification and determining the beneficial feature subset, due to its feature selector nature. Some operation including morphological operators are applied for post processing. The approach was tested on a set of satellite images having different types of buildings and promising experimental results are achieved.
The maze traversal problem involves finding the shortest distance to the goal from any position in a maze. Such maze solving problems have been an interesting challenge in computational intelligence. Previous work has...
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The maze traversal problem involves finding the shortest distance to the goal from any position in a maze. Such maze solving problems have been an interesting challenge in computational intelligence. Previous work has shown that grid-to-grid neural networks such as the cellular simultaneous recurrent neural network (CSRN) can effectively solve simple maze traversing problems better than other iterative algorithms such as the feedforward multi layer perceptron (MLP). In this work, we investigate improved learning for the CSRN maze solving problem by exploiting relevant information about the maze. We cluster parts of the maze using relevant state information and show an improvement in learning performance. We also study the effect of the number of clusters on the learning rate for the maze solving problem. Furthermore, we investigate a few code optimization techniques to improve the run time efficiency. The outcome of this research may have direct implication in rapid search and recovery, disaster planning and autonomous navigation among others.
Energy storage is generally recommended in presence of an intermittent source like wind farm for a better control over the power generation from the wind turbine with the variation of the wind speed. In this paper, th...
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Energy storage is generally recommended in presence of an intermittent source like wind farm for a better control over the power generation from the wind turbine with the variation of the wind speed. In this paper, the potential of plug-in electric vehicle parking lot (SmartPark) as an energy storage in a power system with a large wind farm has been investigated. Also, a fuzzy logic based coordination controller of the wind farm and the distributed SmartParks has been proposed in this paper. The fuzzy controller uses the total state-of-charge of the SmartParks and the difference between instantaneous demand and the available wind power generation as the inputs and thereby generates the charging or discharging power commands of the SmartParks and the pitch angle reference for the wind turbine. A 12-bus multimachine power system with a 400 MW wind farm is used as a test system. Six SmartParks are also connected to the same bus where the wind farm is connected. The entire model is developed in Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) for power system. The results demonstrate the action of the coordinated controller to reduce the oscillations in the tie-line power flow with the sudden variations of the wind speed.
The prediction of gene function from genome sequences is one of the main issues in Bioinformatics. Most computational approaches are based on the similarity between sequences to infer gene function. However, the avail...
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The prediction of gene function from genome sequences is one of the main issues in Bioinformatics. Most computational approaches are based on the similarity between sequences to infer gene function. However, the availability of several fully sequenced genomes has enabled alternative approaches, such as phylogenetic profiles. Phylogenetic profiles are vectors which indicate the presence or absence of a gene in other genomes. The main concept of phylogenetic profiles is that proteins participating in a common structural complex or metabolic pathway are likely to evolve in a correlated fashion. In this paper, a multi level clustering algorithm of phylogenetic profiles is presented, which aims to detect inter- and intra-genome gene clusters.
In this paper a visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm suitable for indoor area measurement applications is proposed. The algorithm is focused on computational effectiveness. The only sensor use...
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In this paper a visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm suitable for indoor area measurement applications is proposed. The algorithm is focused on computational effectiveness. The only sensor used is a stereo camera placed onboard a moving robot. The algorithm processes the acquired images calculating the depth of the scenery, detecting occupied areas and progressively building a map of the environment. The stereo vision-based SLAM algorithm embodies a custom-tailored stereo correspondence algorithm, the robust scale and rotation invariant feature detection and matching Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) method, a computationally effective v-disparity image calculation scheme, a novel map-merging module, as well as a sophisticated Cellular Automata (CA)-based enhancement stage. The proposed algorithm is suitable for autonomously mapping and measuring indoor areas using robots. The algorithm is presented and experimental results for self-captured image sets are provided and analyzed.
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