Unmanned marine vehicles are useful tools for various hydrographical tasks especially when operating for extended periods and in hazardous environments. The autonomy of these vehicles depends on the design of robust n...
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(纸本)3642158520;9783642158520
Unmanned marine vehicles are useful tools for various hydrographical tasks especially when operating for extended periods and in hazardous environments. The autonomy of these vehicles depends on the design of robust navigation, guidance and controlsystems. This paper concerns the preliminary design of an automatic guidance system for unmanned surface vehicles based on standardised rules defined by the International Maritime Organisation. A guidance system determines "reasonable" and safe actions in order to complete a task at hand. Thus, autonomous guidance can be regarded as the mechanism that brings self-reliance to the whole system. The strategy here is based on way-point guidance by line-of-sight coupled with a manual biasing scheme. Simulation results demonstrate the functioning of the proposed approach for multiple stationary as well as dynamic obstacles.
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a neurological disease that affects millions of individuals in the world. Majority of TLE patients suffer from refractory seizures. Determining abnormal/damaged regions of the brain tha...
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This paper presents an efficient grid-based robotic path planning algorithm. This method is motivated by the engineering requirement in practical embedded systems where the hardware resource is always limited. The mai...
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This paper presents an efficient grid-based robotic path planning algorithm. This method is motivated by the engineering requirement in practical embedded systems where the hardware resource is always limited. The main target of this algorithm is to reduce the searching time and to achieve the minimum number of movements. In order to assess the performance, the classical A* algorithm is also developed as a reference point to verify the effectiveness and determine the performance of the proposed algorithm. The comparison results confirm that the proposed approach considerably shortens the searching time by nearly half and produces smoother paths with less jagged segments than A* algorithm.
Communications load in a wireless channel can saturate the network when the wireless link between stations is weak. This paper shows that, by using a state-differential event based sampling scheme with QoS, this load ...
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(纸本)9781424474264
Communications load in a wireless channel can saturate the network when the wireless link between stations is weak. This paper shows that, by using a state-differential event based sampling scheme with QoS, this load can be reduced such that a control loop closed over that network can remain stable for much worse wireless channel conditions. By varying the event threshold, systems with high state variance will have higher sampling rates than those without, while the overall throughput of the system is reduced to a level which does not saturate the network.
A large nonlinear dynamic system usually has complex dynamic modes corresponding to the system's eigenvalues. These eigenvalues govern the system's local behavior and thus are critical information for designin...
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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...
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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.
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.
Recently, cluster synchronization has attracted an increasing interest in various disciplines, including mathematics, physics, and engineering sciences. This paper further investigates the cluster synchronization of a...
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(纸本)9781424464500;9781424464531
Recently, cluster synchronization has attracted an increasing interest in various disciplines, including mathematics, physics, and engineering sciences. This paper further investigates the cluster synchronization of a complex dynamical network by using adaptive and impulsive control techniques, respectively. Based on a complex dynamical network with two different clusters, several adaptive and impulsive cluster synchronization criteria are then proposed. It should be especially pointed out that the dynamics and its dimensions of the individual dynamical systems are different in the two different clusters. Also, some numerical simulations are given to verify the effectiveness of the above theoretical results.
Dish-Stirling systems are a form of concentrating solar power (CSP) emerging as an efficient and reliable source of renewable energy. Various technical hurdles are involved in the grid interconnection of dish-Stirling...
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Dish-Stirling systems are a form of concentrating solar power (CSP) emerging as an efficient and reliable source of renewable energy. Various technical hurdles are involved in the grid interconnection of dish-Stirling systems, particularly with issues related to power factor correction, low voltage ride-through capability, and reactive power planning. While there are no grid-interconnection requirements specific to dish-Stirling technology, the requirements currently established for wind farms are used as a starting point due to the similar design and operating characteristics between wind farms and dish-Stirling solar farms. A dish-Stirling solar farm requires external reactive power compensation to meet the power factor requirements presently set for wind farms. The following paper provides a brief overview of dish-Stirling technology, along with an analysis of methods for meeting power factor grid interconnection requirements and maintaining necessary voltage levels under varying irradiance conditions due to cloud cover. Simulation results for voltage and power factor of the solar farm are provided for both steady state and cloud transient conditions within a 12-bus network.
Many real natural or man-made dynamic systems can be better characterized using a fractional order dynamic model. Since in such a case the order assumes a non-integer value, it is of interest to consider the effect of...
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Many real natural or man-made dynamic systems can be better characterized using a fractional order dynamic model. Since in such a case the order assumes a non-integer value, it is of interest to consider the effect of small perturbation around the nominal value. It is of practical importance to analyze the influence of the order variations on the system behavior. This paper establishes an analytical method for the analysis of the sensitivity function of LTI fractional order dynamic systems with respect to the orders. The continuous dependent condition of the orders of fractional Green's function is derived, which is proved as a necessary and sufficient condition. The singularity of fractional Green's functions is discussed. Several examples are included for illustration.
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