This paper is devoted to the exploration of three-dimensional (3-D) maneuvers using a free-swimming fishlike robot. For the sake of a better maneuverability, an Esox lucius robotic fish consisting of a yawing head, tw...
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Computer vision based road detection is an indispensable and challenging task in many real-world applications such as obstacle detection in autonomous driving. Low-level image features (e.g., color and texture) and pr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509003587
Computer vision based road detection is an indispensable and challenging task in many real-world applications such as obstacle detection in autonomous driving. Low-level image features (e.g., color and texture) and pre-trained models are commonly used for this task. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach to detect roads from a single image, which avoids the supervised model training that typically relies on a considerable number of labeled images. The key idea is to leverage unsupervised feature learning to obtain good road representations. Specifically, we first represent an input road image as a set of image patches. The K-means clustering algorithm is then applied to these image patches (after pre-processing) to generate K cluster centroids. Thus obtained centroids will be used together with a nonlinear mapping function and a bag-of-words projection to derive the image's feature representation in pixel and region levels respectively. All pixels (of the input image) using the former mapping will be clustered by Density Peaks algorithm into several regions, and the regions represented by the latter feature will be grouped by a graph cut method into two classes: road and non-road. Experimental results on several complicated road images demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Nowadays, with the development of the vehicular ad hoc network, the reliability and stability of the communication network between RSUs has become a critical issue. So in the case of cascading failure, what topologica...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467372121
Nowadays, with the development of the vehicular ad hoc network, the reliability and stability of the communication network between RSUs has become a critical issue. So in the case of cascading failure, what topological structure can generate a relatively robust network with a relatively low cost? In this paper, we take advantage of a cascading failure model to simulate the cascading failure process of the network, at the same time, we make use of an evolution algorithm to evolve the network. Thus can obtain the network with relatively best comprehensive properties. Then take advantage of the statistical characteristics to analyze the topological structure of the network. The analysis shows that, the high clustering, high assortativity and the relatively large average shortest path length are all beneficial to improve the comprehensive properties of the network, while the network with good comprehensive properties also has a relatively homogeneous degree distribution.
Epidemic routing has emerged as a promising candidate for providing message dissemination method in vehicular ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present a novel model to evaluate the capacity of epidemic routing in ve...
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(纸本)9781467372121
Epidemic routing has emerged as a promising candidate for providing message dissemination method in vehicular ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present a novel model to evaluate the capacity of epidemic routing in vehicular networks with considering the traffic signal control as a significant factor in urban area. Our study reveal that epidemic routing can behave differently in various traffic signal control situations where messages can be forwarded by vehicles passing through the intersections from other directions. The simulation results prove the accuracy of the model.
Multi-variable systems widely exist in the practical engineering controlsystems whose performances are always severely interrupted by strong disturbances including unmodeled dynamics, parameter variations, couplings ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479947249
Multi-variable systems widely exist in the practical engineering controlsystems whose performances are always severely interrupted by strong disturbances including unmodeled dynamics, parameter variations, couplings and external disturbances. Disturbance observer(DOB) is known as an effective technique to estimate disturbances and has been extensively applied for feed-forward compensation design in the presence of disturbances. Yet many disturbance observer techniques in previous literature are just used for single-input-single-output(SISO) systems or the DOBs can be applied in the multi-variable systems, but the DOBs are still SISO DOBs. A decoupled robust multi-input-multi-output neural network disturbance observer(MNNDOB) is designed for the multi-input-multi-output(MIMO) systems. Simulation results on the mixing tank show that the proposed method has better disturbance estimation performance when there are severe model mismatches compared with the MIMO linear disturbance observer.
To design a control strategy for iLeg, an exoskeleton robot developed for lower limb rehabilitation aiming at investigating the feasibility of integrating functional electrical stimulation (FES) with robot-based rehab...
To design a control strategy for iLeg, an exoskeleton robot developed for lower limb rehabilitation aiming at investigating the feasibility of integrating functional electrical stimulation (FES) with robot-based rehabilitation training, an FES-assisted training strategy combined with impedance control, has been proposed in this paper. Through impedance control, an active compliance of the robot is established, and the patient’s voluntary effort to accomplish the training task is inspired. During the training process, the patient’s related muscles are applied with FES which provides an extra assistance to the patient. The intensity of the FES is properly chosen in order to induce a desired active torque which is proportional to the voluntary effort extracted from the electromyography signals of the related muscles using back propagation neural networks. This kind of enhancement serves as a positive feedback which reminds the patient of the correct attempt to fulfill the desired motion. FES control is conducted by a combination of neural network-based feedforward controller and a PD feedback controller. Simulation conducted using Matlab and the experiment with a spinal cord injury subject and a healthy subject have shown satisfactory results which verify the feasibility of this control strategy.
We consider the event-triggered state estimation of a finite-state hidden Markov model with a general stochastic event-triggering condition. Utilizing the change of probability measure approach and the event-triggered...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479978878
We consider the event-triggered state estimation of a finite-state hidden Markov model with a general stochastic event-triggering condition. Utilizing the change of probability measure approach and the event-triggered measurement information available to the estimator, analytical expressions for the conditional probability distributions of the states are obtained, based on which the minimum mean square error event-based state estimates are further calculated. We show that the results also cover the case of packet dropout, under a special parameterization of the event-triggering conditions. With the results on state estimation, a closed-form expression of the average sensor-to-estimator communication rate is also presented. The effectiveness of the proposed results is illustrated by a numerical example and comparative simulations.
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple but powerful evolutionary algorithm, which has been widely and successfully used in many areas. In this paper, an impulsive control method is introduced to the DE framework, and...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479974931
Differential evolution (DE) is a simple but powerful evolutionary algorithm, which has been widely and successfully used in many areas. In this paper, an impulsive control method is introduced to the DE framework, and the impulsive DE (IpDE) is proposed for improving the performance of DE. The impulsive control operation instantly moves the individuals which do not update for continuous pre-defined generations to a desired state based on the individuals with better fitness values in the current population. This way, IpDE controls individuals' positions in the space domain according to the stagnation status of the population. In order to validate the effectiveness of IpDE, the presented framework is applied to the original DE algorithms, as well as several state-of-the-art DE variants. Experimental results exhibit that IpDE is a simple but effective framework to improve the performance of the studied DE algorithms.
For a cone-beam three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT) scanning system, voxel size is an important indicator to guarantee the accuracy of data analysis and feature measurement based on 3D-CT images. Meanwhile...
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For a cone-beam three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT) scanning system, voxel size is an important indicator to guarantee the accuracy of data analysis and feature measurement based on 3D-CT images. Meanwhile, the voxel size changes with the movement of the rotary stage along X-ray direction. In order to realize the automatic calibration of the voxel size, a new and easily-implemented method is proposed. According to this method, several projections of a spherical phantom are captured at different imaging positions and the corresponding voxel size values are calculated by non-linear least-square fitting. Through these interpolation values, a linear equation is obtained that reflects the relationship between the voxel size and the rotary stage translation distance from its nominal zero position. Finally, the linear equation is imported into the calibration module of the 3D-CT scanning system. When the rotary stage is moving along X-ray direction, the accurate value of the voxel size is dynamically exported. The experimental results prove that this method meets the requirements of the actual CT scanning system, and has virtues of easy implementation and high accuracy.
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