Navigating in a previously unknown environment and recognizing naturally occurring text in a scene are two important autonomous capabilities that are typically treated as distinct. However, these two tasks are potenti...
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Navigating in a previously unknown environment and recognizing naturally occurring text in a scene are two important autonomous capabilities that are typically treated as distinct. However, these two tasks are potentially complementary, (i) scene and pose priors can benefit text spotting, and (ii) the ability to identify and associate text features can benefit navigation accuracy through loop closures. Previous approaches to autonomous text spotting typically require significant training data and are too slow for real-time implementation. In this work, we propose a novel high-level feature descriptor, the "junction", which is particularly well-suited to text representation and is also fast to compute. We show that we are able to improve SLAM through text spotting on datasets collected with a Google Tango, illustrating how location priors enable improved loop closure with text features.
Kinematically complex robots such as legged robots provide a large degree of mobility and flexibility, but demand a sophisticated motion control, which has more tunable parameters than a general planning and decision ...
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Kinematically complex robots such as legged robots provide a large degree of mobility and flexibility, but demand a sophisticated motion control, which has more tunable parameters than a general planning and decision layer should take into consideration. A lot of parameterizations exist which produce locomotion behaviors that fulfill the desired action but with varying performance, e.g., stability or efficiency. In addition, the performance of a locomotion behavior at any given time is highly depending on the current environmental context. Consequently, a complex mapping is required that closes the gap between robot-independent actions and robot-specific control parameters considering the environmental context and a given prioritization of performance indices.
This paper describes the design and manufacturing of soft artificial skin with an array of embedded soft strain sensors for detecting various hand gestures by measuring joint motions of five fingers. The proposed skin...
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(纸本)9781479969241
This paper describes the design and manufacturing of soft artificial skin with an array of embedded soft strain sensors for detecting various hand gestures by measuring joint motions of five fingers. The proposed skin was made of a hyperelastic elastomer material with embedded microchannels filled with two different liquid conductors, an ionic liquid and a liquid metal. The ionic liquid microchannels were used to detect the mechanical strain changes of the sensing material, and the liquid metal microchannels were used as flexible and stretchable electrical wires for connecting the sensors to an external control circuit. The two heterogeneous liquid conductors were electrically interfaced through flexible conductive threads to prevent the two liquid from being intermixed. The skin device was connected to a computer through a microcontroller instrumentation circuit for reconstructing the 3-D hand motions graphically. The paper also presents preliminary calibration and experimental results.
In this paper, we show that the existence of centrally synergistic potential functions on the n-dimensional sphere, denoted by S~n, is a sufficient condition for the global asymptotic stabilization of a point in S~n. ...
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(纸本)9781479917730
In this paper, we show that the existence of centrally synergistic potential functions on the n-dimensional sphere, denoted by S~n, is a sufficient condition for the global asymptotic stabilization of a point in S~n. Additionally, if these functions decrease exponentially fast during flows and are bounded from above and from below by some polynomial function of the tracking error, then the reference point can be globally exponentially stabilized. We construct two kinds of centrally synergistic functions: the first kind consists of a finite family of potential functions on S~n while the second kind consists of an uncountable number of potential functions on S~n. While the former generates a simpler jump logic, the latter is optimal in the sense that it generates flows with minimal length.
Dust generated at an electric arc furnace during steel production industry is still not a solved problem. Electric arc furnace dust (EAF) is a hazardous solid waste. Sintering of well-prepared briquetted mixtures in a...
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Dust generated at an electric arc furnace during steel production industry is still not a solved problem. Electric arc furnace dust (EAF) is a hazardous solid waste. Sintering of well-prepared briquetted mixtures in a shaft furnace is one of possible methods of EAFD utilisation. Simultaneously some metal oxides from exhaust gases can be separated. In this way, various metals are obtained, particularly zinc is recovered. As a result, zinc-free briquettes are received with high iron content which can be used in the steelmaking process. The purpose of the research was selecting the appropriate chemical composition of briquettes of the required strength and coke content necessary for the reduction of zinc oxide in a shaft furnace. Based on the results of the research the composition of the briquettes was selected. The best binder hydrated lime and sugar molasses and the range of proper moisture of mixture to receive briquettes of high mechanical strength were also chosen and tested. Additionally, in order to determine the thermal stability for the selected mixtures for briquetting thermal analysis was performed. A technological line of briquetting was developed to apply in a steelworks.
One fundamental problem in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is place recognition, used to create loop closures, necessary to improve map quality. Ideally, the sensor data alone should be used to detect loop closu...
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(纸本)9781479987375
One fundamental problem in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is place recognition, used to create loop closures, necessary to improve map quality. Ideally, the sensor data alone should be used to detect loop closures, referred to as appearance-based methods. Such methods usually employ feature descriptors, especially popular in underwater research are 2D visual features, and the bag-of-words approach. Here we demonstrate the combined use of 2D visual and 3D surface features, which is specifically interesting in the context of 3D underwater mapping with stereo data. Different sensor and feature types excel at different situations, and thus would benefit from a joint treatment in a bag-of-words based place recognition method. Specifically, this paper presents a method to employ multiple dictionaries computed from different feature types, extracted from different raw data in a single FAB-MAP-based place recognition method. Experiments on an underwater dataset show an increase of performance of the method when using a combination of feature types instead of single feature types.
We address the problem of performing spatial and topological queries on simplicial and cellular meshes. These arise in several application domains including 3D GIS, scientific visualization and finite element analysis...
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In the near future we will be surrounded by plenty of smart interconnected objects and by objects linked to their virtual counterpart on the Web. The availability of a virtual object connected to the physical object c...
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Various studies have shown that human visual attention is generally attracted by motion in the field of view. In order to embody this kind of social behavior in a robot, its gaze should focus on key points in its envi...
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Robots that interact with humans must learn to not only adapt to different human partners but also to new interactions. Such a form of learning can be achieved by demonstrations and imitation. A recently introduced me...
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