In this paper we present a method for image feature extraction using coordinate logic filters. Coordinate logic filters constitute a new kind of nonlinear filter, which are closely related to morphological fillers. Th...
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In this paper we present a method for image feature extraction using coordinate logic filters. Coordinate logic filters constitute a new kind of nonlinear filter, which are closely related to morphological fillers. The key issue to the coordinate logic analysis of images is the methodology of fast successive filtering and managing of the residues. The desired processing is succeeded by executing only direct logic operations among the pixels of the given image. The coordinate logic filters can be easily implemented using logic circuits or cellular automata.
The passivity property of dissipative mechanical structures has long been exploited in designing passive controllers that provide robust stability even in the presence of unmodeled dynamics of the system. For an input...
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The passivity property of dissipative mechanical structures has long been exploited in designing passive controllers that provide robust stability even in the presence of unmodeled dynamics of the system. For an input/output map of a flexible structure to be passive, collocation of the actuators and sensors is required and also the sensors should measure the velocity of the system. The so-called smart structures frequently have more sensors than actuators. Therefore, the passive controller can at best utilize only a subset of the sensors. In this paper we consider the design of a squaring down matrix which would render a system passive subject to some additional performance considerations. The problem of obtaining the synthesized passive output is cast as a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be efficiently solved by the LMI Toolbox in Matlab. We apply this procedure with the assumption that the sensors provide both displacement and velocity information which is generally not true. We show that the passive controllers can be implemented without the use of velocity information. By using synthesized passive outputs in addition to naturally occurring passive outputs, we obtain better system performance. We present experimental results involving a single flexible beam with torque input and hub angular position and strain gage outputs.
In this paper the regulation problem of linear discrete-time systems with uncertain parameters under state and control constraints is studied. In the frrst part of the paper, two theorems concerning necessary and suff...
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In this paper the regulation problem of linear discrete-time systems with uncertain parameters under state and control constraints is studied. In the frrst part of the paper, two theorems concerning necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to this problem are presented. Due to the constructive form of the proof of these theorems, these results can be used for the derivation of a control law transferring to the origin any state belonging to a given set of initial states while respecting the state and controI constraints. So, a design technique is developed. By this technique the initial problem. is reduced to simple mathematical programming problems. Dans cet article, on étudie le problème de regulation des systémes linéaires discrets avec des parametres imprécis et contraintes sur la commande et l'état. Dans la première partie de l'article, on présente deux théorèmes concemant les conditions nécessaires et suffisantes pour l'existence d'une solution a ce problème. Grace au caraètere constructive de la démonstration de ces théoremes, ces resultats peuvent etre utilises pour la dérivation d'une lois de commande permettant le transf ère a l'origine de tous les états appartennant à un ensemble donne des états initiaux, sans violer les contraintes sur la commande et l'état.
In many industrial applications such as autonomous vehicle guidance and robotic manipulations, reliable 3-D informations must be extracted from the scene in order to provide a robust description of the environment in ...
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In many industrial applications such as autonomous vehicle guidance and robotic manipulations, reliable 3-D informations must be extracted from the scene in order to provide a robust description of the environment in which the system evolves. This paper presents the TRID sensor, a simple, fast, robust and accurate 3-D sensing device based on the Biris technology. TRID is limited to a lateral resolution of one point. Experimental results show that an accuracy better than 0.15% can be obtained for the depth component (Z) of 3-D points at a distance of 1.3 meter from a wooden black painted beam surface with an acquisition rate of 8.5 points/s.
Tradeoffs between low feedgas emissions and smooth brake torque are discussed in the context of an engine equipped with variable camshaft timing (VCT). The use of VCT lowers the generation of feedgas emissions but adv...
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Tradeoffs between low feedgas emissions and smooth brake torque are discussed in the context of an engine equipped with variable camshaft timing (VCT). The use of VCT lowers the generation of feedgas emissions but adversely affects the torque response. However, with the addition of an electronic throttle and knowledge of online torque, the tradeoffs between emissions and drivability in the VCT engine can be lessened; conventional (nonVCT) engine torque response can be achieved while simultaneously preserving most of the emissions benefits gained by using VCT.
In order to maintain a high quality service and keep up with the ever increasing demands in the field of public transport, London Transport Buses (LTB) equipped bus routes in a test area in North London with a new sys...
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In order to maintain a high quality service and keep up with the ever increasing demands in the field of public transport, London Transport Buses (LTB) equipped bus routes in a test area in North London with a new system called Countdown. The system calculates arrival time estimations which inform both the customers and the operators of the company about the running of their buses. The calculations should be as accurate as possible in the interest of customer satisfaction. This paper shows that the use of a dynamic Kalman filter instead of a previously used static averaging algorithm, improves the error distribution up to 7% and often reduces maximum absolute error figures significantly. This technique may also prove to be a useful tool for other predicting systems.
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Bonitz, RGHsia, TCSystems
Controland Robotics LaboratoryDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Davis CA USA
An internal force-based impedance control scheme for cooperating manipulators is introduced which controls the motion of the objects being manipulated and the internal force on the objects. The controller enforces a r...
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An internal force-based impedance control scheme for cooperating manipulators is introduced which controls the motion of the objects being manipulated and the internal force on the objects. The controller enforces a relationship between the velocity of each manipulator and the internal force on the manipulated objects. Each manipulator is directly given the properties of an impedance by the controller;thus, eliminating the gain limitation inherent in the structure of previously proposed schemes. The controller uses the forces sensed at the robot end effecters to compensate for the effects of the objects' dynamics and to compute the internal force using only kinematic relationships. Thus, knowledge of the objects' dynamics is not required. Stability of the system is proven using Lyapunov theory and simulation results are presented validating the proposed concepts. The effect of computational delays in digital control implementations is analyzed vis-a-vis stability and a lower bound derived on the size of the desired manipulator inertia relative to the actual manipulator endpoint inertia. The bound is independent of the sample time.
The fast implementation of the linear and of the angular velocities of the end-effector of robotic manipulators, using the distributed arithmetic technique is described. The linear and angular velocities of the end-ef...
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The fast implementation of the linear and of the angular velocities of the end-effector of robotic manipulators, using the distributed arithmetic technique is described. The linear and angular velocities of the end-effector as well as the positional and the orientational Jacobian matrices is calculated by a cascade configuration of two pipelined arrays. The building blocks of the arrays are the distributed arithmetic-based circuits that implement the matrix-vector multiplications involved in the calculations. The digit-serial configuration of the proposed implementation of the linear and angular velocities of the end-effector is described, while the serial and the parallel configurations may result as special cases of the digit-serial configuration. The proposed distributed arithmetic computer architecture may be used in the real-time operation of the robot control system that requires the on-line computation of the position, of the linear and angular velocities of the end-effector and of the Jacobian matrix.
This paper describes a binary image representation scheme, called Image Block Representation and presents new algorithms for a number of basic binary image processing and analysis operations, which are rapidly impleme...
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This paper describes a binary image representation scheme, called Image Block Representation and presents new algorithms for a number of basic binary image processing and analysis operations, which are rapidly implemented on block-represented binary images. The main purpose of the Image Block Representation is to provide an efficient binary image representation that permits the execution of operations on image areas instead of image points.
An adaptive controller with improved performance characteristics is introduced. The proposed controller extends recent results in this area since it achieves performance improvement of the zero-state output error in t...
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An adaptive controller with improved performance characteristics is introduced. The proposed controller extends recent results in this area since it achieves performance improvement of the zero-state output error in the presence of some uncertainty on the high-frequency gain of the plant.
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