Applications of robotics are quickly changing. Just as computer use evolved from research purposes to everyday functions, applications of robotics are making a transition to mainstream usage. With this change in appli...
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Applications of robotics are quickly changing. Just as computer use evolved from research purposes to everyday functions, applications of robotics are making a transition to mainstream usage. With this change in applications comes a change in the user base of robotics, and there is a pronounced move to reduce the complexity of robotic control. The move to reduce complexity is linked to the separation of the role of robot designer and robot operator. For many target applications, the operator of the robot needs to be able to correct and augment its capabilities. One method to enable this is learning from human data, which has already been successfully applied to robotics. We assert that this learning process is only viable when the demonstrated human behavior is coherent. In this work we test the hypothesis that quantifying the coherence in the provided instruction can provide useful information about the progress of the learning process. We discuss results from the application of this method to reactive behaviors. Such behaviors permit the learning process to be computationally tractable in real-time. These results support the hypothesis that coherence is important for this type of learning and also show that this property can be used to provide an avenue for self regulation of the learning process.
The paper proposes an interpolation based control method as a possible solution to the constrained H ∞ control of discrete-time, linear parameter varying (LPV) systems. The control policy is constructed by interpola...
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The paper proposes an interpolation based control method as a possible solution to the constrained H ∞ control of discrete-time, linear parameter varying (LPV) systems. The control policy is constructed by interpolating among a priori designed, unconstrained state feedback controllers. The predefined H ∞ performance level remains guaranteed under hard state and input constrains. By applying invariant set theory it is also shown that the domain of applicability of the proposed control method is significantly larger than that can be achieved by any, single state feedback.
This paper is focusing on rollover prevention to provide a heavy vehicle with the ability to resist overturning moments generated during cornering. A combined yaw-roll model including the roll dynamics of unsprung mas...
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This paper addresses the switching LPV techniques aiming to improve the control performance of a class of nonlinear systems that can be approximated by a family of linear parameter varying (LPV) models for the entire ...
This paper addresses the switching LPV techniques aiming to improve the control performance of a class of nonlinear systems that can be approximated by a family of linear parameter varying (LPV) models for the entire operation envelope. The proposed method provides a systematical strategy for the controller synthesis for such class system which can guarantee the global stability of the closed loop. The proposed method is further applied to the air path system of diesel engines which is critical for reducing the emissions. Due to its strong nonlinearity the working envelope of the air path system is divided into four subregions and in each subregion an LPV model is built. Accordingly, a gain scheduled LPV controller is synthesized for each nominal LPV model, the system is then regulated by hysteresis switching logic among a family of LPV controllers. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by simulations.
This paper addresses the issue on gain scheduled quasi linear parameter varying (LPV) control strategy for the air path system of diesel engines, which plays a critical role for the emission reduction of diesel engine...
This paper addresses the issue on gain scheduled quasi linear parameter varying (LPV) control strategy for the air path system of diesel engines, which plays a critical role for the emission reduction of diesel engines. Due to the strong nonlinearities of the underlying system, traditional linear control algorithm can not achieve a satisfactory control performance. In this paper, the considered nonlinear plant is approximated as an Hammerstein quasi-LPV system in the first place. An advanced quasi-LPV gain scheduled control strategy is applied to the underlying system. The effectiveness of the new control algorithm is illustrated by the simulations.
The trajectory tracking control of a 6-degree-of- freedom (DOF) rigid robot arm is described in this paper. The trajectories for the joint variables are generated in third-order spline form using general constrained n...
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The trajectory tracking control of a 6-degree-of- freedom (DOF) rigid robot arm is described in this paper. The trajectories for the joint variables are generated in third-order spline form using general constrained nonlinear optimization, taking into consideration the joint position, velocity, acceleration, jerk and overall current consumption constraints during the movement. The trajectory tracking of the individual joints is solved using a discrete-time linear controller design. The obtained trajectories are previously checked to avoid collisions using oriented bounding boxes and their separating axis theorem tests. The complete inverse kinematics of the arm is symbolically calculated in the Mathematica computing environment and implemented in C++. Simulations and measurements show the applicability of the proposed method.
Visual tracking usually involves an optimization process for estimating the motion of an object from measured images in a video sequence. In this paper, a new evolutionary approach, PSO (particle swarm optimization), ...
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Visual tracking usually involves an optimization process for estimating the motion of an object from measured images in a video sequence. In this paper, a new evolutionary approach, PSO (particle swarm optimization), is adopted for visual tracking. Since the tracking process is a dynamic optimization problem which is simultaneously influenced by the object state and the time, we propose a sequential particle swarm optimization framework by incorporating the temporal continuity information into the traditional PSO algorithm. In addition, the parameters in PSO are changed adaptively according to the fitness values of particles and the predicted motion of the tracked object, leading to a favourable performance in tracking applications. Furthermore, we show theoretically that, in a Bayesian inference view, the sequential PSO framework is in essence a multi-layer importance sampling based particle filter. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the state-of-the-art particle filter and its variation-the unscented particle filter, the proposed tracking algorithm is more robust and effective, especially when the object has an arbitrary motion or undergoes large appearance changes.
This paper considers two open problems associated with simultaneous stabilization of linear systems, namely French champagne problem and Belgian chocolate problem. Based on the recent development in automated inequali...
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This paper considers two open problems associated with simultaneous stabilization of linear systems, namely French champagne problem and Belgian chocolate problem. Based on the recent development in automated inequality-type theorem proving, the explicit bounds which guarantee the existence of stabilizing controllers with fixed order are determined. In addition, two conjectures concerning the Belgian chocolate problem are formulated. Some numerical examples are worked out.
The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has gained great significance in the R&D activities of several institutions, and numerous realizations have been constructed. controlling the movement of a UAV is one of...
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The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has gained great significance in the R&D activities of several institutions, and numerous realizations have been constructed. controlling the movement of a UAV is one of the most significant tasks in the hierarchical control system that should be realized in order to successfully manage UAVs in several missions. Precise control of the movement requires accurate mathematical models of the aircraft that correspond to the several control schemes that are intended to apply, including linearised, LPV, and nonlinear ones. The source of mathematical models includes the physical model constructed on the basis of the Newtonian equations and the rules of aerodynamics, as well as the use of empirical observations, measurements. The methodology of system identification offers the tools that can be used to manage this field. The systems and controllaboratory of the computer and automation Research institute in cooperation with University of Minnesota and Budapest University of Technology and Economics has built - as a part of a more general framework established to solve complex UAV control problems - small UAVs, equipped with on-board sensors and embedded computer with the purpose of obtaining an adequate test platform for the aircraft experiments. Based on on-board measurements acquired during the flight tests performed with the UAVs, the opportunity has been given to test several system identification approaches corresponding to the control tasks to be solved. This paper gives an outline of the system identification and modelling methods that have successfully been applied, and also analyzes the problems encountered in the data-acquisition - signal processing - computing chain.
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