Mobile robot navigation in smart environment has always been one of the most critical issues in robot research. Deployment of wireless sensor network (WSN) in new environment can provide the mobile robot with efficien...
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Mobile robot navigation in smart environment has always been one of the most critical issues in robot research. Deployment of wireless sensor network (WSN) in new environment can provide the mobile robot with efficient aid of navigation and tracking. In this paper, we present a feasible scheme of WSN-aided mobile robot navigation which includes initial localization of mobile robot, orientation adjustment, network-layer path planning, motion tracking and correction based on RSSI in Grid-pattern WSN. Unlike other methods of robot navigation which might require a complex and intelligent robotic system for mapping and path planning, the aim of our method is to transfer complex environment detection and calculation from the robot to network and to decrease the reliance of intelligence on the robot itself. Experimental result shows that our proposed scheme is well-performed and can effectively navigate the robot equipped only with simply sensors for communication and obstacle avoidance.
Facility layout problem (FLP) which deals with the placement of facilities in the plant area is one of the most critical problems in manufacturing systems design. This paper presents a novel facility layout approach b...
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(纸本)9781479927456
Facility layout problem (FLP) which deals with the placement of facilities in the plant area is one of the most critical problems in manufacturing systems design. This paper presents a novel facility layout approach based on differential evolution (DE) algorithm. Firstly, mathematical model with constraints for the FLP is established. Then, a new facility layout algorithm based on DE is proposed, which can improve the convergence rate by using the interference checking method. Finally, a simulation platform with three-dimensional visualization is developed. The comparison experiments of the proposed method and genetic algorithm (GA) based on robot work cell layout problem show that the proposed method converges faster and can obtain better optimal layout.
Voting strategy is very useful in pattern recognition. Many methods, like Boosting and Bagging, are proposed and are successfully used in some applications using this strategy. However, these methods are infeasible or...
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Voting strategy is very useful in pattern recognition. Many methods, like Boosting and Bagging, are proposed and are successfully used in some applications using this strategy. However, these methods are infeasible or unsuitable for handwritten Chinese character recognition because of the problem's characteristics. In this paper, a self-generation voting method is proposed for further improving the recognition rate in handwritten Chinese character recognition. This method learns a set of parameters first for generating a set of samples from the test sample, and then classify these generated samples using a base-line classifier. At last, it gives the final recognition result by voting. Experimental results on two databases show that the proposed method is effective and useful in handwritten Chinese character recognition systems.
A biomimetic underwater vehicle propelled by two undulating long-fins is introduced in this paper. The concerned vehicle is propelled by two symmetrical undulating long-fins installed on both sides. Ten servo motors a...
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A biomimetic underwater vehicle propelled by two undulating long-fins is introduced in this paper. The concerned vehicle is propelled by two symmetrical undulating long-fins installed on both sides. Ten servo motors are employed to drive the long-fins and cosine wave function is employed for motor control. A real-time controlsystem is designed for controlling the long-fins by adjusting its oscillating frequency and oscillating amplitude. An inertial measurement unit is installed to collect the accelerations and angular velocity. To obtain the relationship between oscillating frequency/amplitude and swimming performance, kinematic analysis and hydromechanic analysis are given. By dividing the long-fin into many small elements and computing the hydrodynamic force acting on each element, the instantaneous thrust generated by the long-fin is obtained. Then the average thrust of the long-fin is obtained by summing up the forces acted on the elements in one undulating period. Then swimming experiments are carried out to validate the vehicle design and kinematic analysis and hydromechanic analysis. And two swimming motion modes including marching and rotating locomotion are chosen. Finally, discussions between the swimming performance and the oscillating parameters are given.
In traffic video surveillance systems, vehicles with various distances from the camera have different sizes, resolutions, and angles in traffic images. The common multi-scale method, which scales one vehicle template ...
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In traffic video surveillance systems, vehicles with various distances from the camera have different sizes, resolutions, and angles in traffic images. The common multi-scale method, which scales one vehicle template or the input image for detecting vehicles with different sizes, may fail to detect vehicles with various distances from the camera due to the change of the resolution and angle. To deal with this problem, we have proposed a multi-scale model including multiple templates with different scales and features. Our method includes two steps: constructing the multi-scale model and its probability model, and detecting vehicles from traffic images. In the first step, the multi-scale model is constructed by using three templates T 1 , T 2 , T 3 which represent vehicles with the short, medium, and long distance from the camera respectively. Each template contains one or some combination of sketch, texture, flatness, and color. In the second step, the three templates are applied for vehicle detection by using the template matching with local maximization operations. The main innovation of this paper is that the combination of multi-template and multi-scale method is applied to detect vehicles with various distances from the camera. To test our method, we have done several experiments on various traffic conditions. The experimental results show that our method effectively copes with vehicles with various distances from the camera and provides the detailed vehicle information after vehicle detection. Moreover, our method adapts to various weather conditions, slight pose variance, and slight occlusion.
Understanding the rapid information diffusion process in social media is critical for crisis management. Most of existing studies mainly focus on information diffusion patterns under the word-of-mouth spread mechanism...
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As the computing technology develops, micro-simulation becomes more and more important in the Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) research, because it can provide detailed descriptions of the system. However, for...
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Group behavior forecasting is an emergent re- search and application field in social computing. Most of the existing group behavior forecasting methods have heavily re- lied on structured data which is usually hard to...
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Group behavior forecasting is an emergent re- search and application field in social computing. Most of the existing group behavior forecasting methods have heavily re- lied on structured data which is usually hard to obtain. To ease the heavy reliance on structured data, in this paper, we pro- pose a computational approach based on the recognition of multiple plans/intentions underlying group behavior. We fur- ther conduct human experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Among the most important and distinctive actionable knowledge are actionable behavioral rules that can directly and explicitly suggest specific actions to take to influence the behavior in the users' best interest...
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(纸本)9781467362146
Among the most important and distinctive actionable knowledge are actionable behavioral rules that can directly and explicitly suggest specific actions to take to influence the behavior in the users' best interest. However, in mining such rules, it often occurs that different rules may suggest the same actions with different expected utilities, which we call conflicting rules. To resolve the conflicts, a previous pruning method was proposed. However, inconsistency of the measure for rule pruning may hinder its performance. To overcome this problem, we develop a new pruning method to achieve rule pruning in actionable rule discovery. We conduct several experiments to test our proposed approach and evaluate the sensitivity of the weight parameter. Empirical results based on a benchmark terrorism dataset indicate that our approach outperforms those from previous research.
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