This survey discusses current approaches to the robust control of the motion of rigid robots and summarizes the available literature on the subject. The five major designs discussed are the “Linear-Multivariable” ap...
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A parallel-jaw type multiple-d.o.f. robot hand is designed and implemented to manipulate workpieces within the hand by rotation and translation. An efficient manipulator control algorithm and part mating application i...
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A parallel-jaw type multiple-d.o.f. robot hand is designed and implemented to manipulate workpieces within the hand by rotation and translation. An efficient manipulator control algorithm and part mating application is developed. A simulation result is also presented to show the changes of force during part insertion to verify the models developed.< >
Dynamic segmentation is a method for improving the performance of cooperating tasks executed on loosely coupled multiprocessors. Four different data transfer techniques that can be used for intersegment data transfers...
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Dynamic segmentation is a method for improving the performance of cooperating tasks executed on loosely coupled multiprocessors. Four different data transfer techniques that can be used for intersegment data transfers in dynamically segmented buses are analyzed. Preemptive data transfers are considered for uniform message latencies and results are provided for message latency comparisons using various locality factors. These results indicate dynamic segmentation improves performance considerably, at a fraction of the cost of more complex interconnection networks such as multiple buses.< >
The authors present a knowledge-based image description system that uses fractal features. A knowledge-based recognition process is incorporated in this natural scene description system to enhance the capability of na...
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The authors present a knowledge-based image description system that uses fractal features. A knowledge-based recognition process is incorporated in this natural scene description system to enhance the capability of natural scene understanding. The scene description system is based on a fractal model. The fractal model provides useful information. A set of fractal features was developed from the fractal model which can effectively be used in image segmentation. After an image is divided into many regions based on fractal features, the scene information is derived with a knowledge-based scene recognition process. The structure of this system and its interaction strategy for the extraction of scene description are presented. The experimental results are also discussed.< >
A novel method for solving the motion planning problem in the presence of moving obstacles is presented. Compared to previous approaches, the proposed method is more general in that obstacles are allowed to move with ...
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A novel method for solving the motion planning problem in the presence of moving obstacles is presented. Compared to previous approaches, the proposed method is more general in that obstacles are allowed to move with translation and rotation at nonlinear velocity. Using path/velocity decomposition, the method emphasizes the development of an efficient algorithm for collision detection between the robot and moving polygons. This algorithm is devised using transversability vector theory to determine the geometric relationships between any two convex polygons or convex components of concave polygons. The interference between the robot and the moving obstacles is detected and registered on the constraint map to represent time constraints on the robot's motion along the path. The constraint map is then used for velocity planning using a simple algorithm. The problem of a robot crossing the street is used as an example for computational analysis.< >
A hierarchical stereo system is described that uses structural descriptions up to the surface level. Surface descriptions are computed from monocular images, by using a perceptual grouping technique. Occlusion can be ...
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A hierarchical stereo system is described that uses structural descriptions up to the surface level. Surface descriptions are computed from monocular images, by using a perceptual grouping technique. Occlusion can be a major problem in stereo analysis and is often not treated explicitly. An analysis is presented of occlusion effects in stereo, and it is shown how structural descriptions can be used to deal with them. Experimental results are given for scenes with curved objects and significant occlusions.< >
An early-processing algorithm to extract motion information from closely sampled image sequences is presented. This method outputs dense displacement field, based on the extraction of strips in slices taken from the i...
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An early-processing algorithm to extract motion information from closely sampled image sequences is presented. This method outputs dense displacement field, based on the extraction of strips in slices taken from the image volume along the temporal dimension. The extracted strips provide estimates of the velocity component along the slice orientation. Because of the high sampling rate, the motion is assumed to be piecewisely translational. A voting scheme to estimate the position of FOE while extracting strips is proposed. The true velocity can then be calculated. Results on several real image sequences and a promising speedup from the parallel implementation on the Connection Machine are presented.< >
A new approach to solving the collision detection problem for mobile robots in the presence of moving obstacles is proposed. Both the robot and obstacles in the two-dimensional space are assumed to be polygonal and ar...
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A new approach to solving the collision detection problem for mobile robots in the presence of moving obstacles is proposed. Both the robot and obstacles in the two-dimensional space are assumed to be polygonal and are composed of a set of convex polygons. The half-plane representation uses an algebraic method to describe the object motion including translation and rotation through time. Compared with previous methods, the proposed representation is more general in that obstacles are now allowed to move at nonconstant velocities. To detect collision between polygonal objects, a traversability vector method was developed. Traversability vectors are a simple mechanism used to analyze geometric constraints imposed by polygons. Using these vectors, a simple algorithm for predicting collision is derived. computer simulations were conducted to show the feasibility of the proposed method.< >
Neural net architectures, with a hidden layer or functional links have been utilized to generate predictions for 1D differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) applied to still image coding. In this approach, the predic...
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Neural net architectures, with a hidden layer or functional links have been utilized to generate predictions for 1D differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) applied to still image coding. In this approach, the predictor is designed by supervised training based on a typical sequence of pixel values, i.e. the values of the coefficients of the predictor are determined by training on examples. Nonlinear and linear correlations are exploited. computer simulation experiments have been carried out to evaluate the resulting performance. At a transmission rate of 1 bit/pixel, for the images LENA and BABOON, the 1D neural network DPCM provides a 4.17 and 3.74 db improvement in peak SNR, respectively, over the standard linear DPCM system.< >
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