An intelligent walking-aid robot is presented for walking assistance, training and rehabilitation of the elderly. The robot is intended to provide physical support and mobility aid for the old people during their walk...
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(纸本)9781479951055
An intelligent walking-aid robot is presented for walking assistance, training and rehabilitation of the elderly. The robot is intended to provide physical support and mobility aid for the old people during their walking based on recognizing their motion intentions online. A force measuring system comprised of force sensing resisters (FSRs) is designed to obtain the interaction forces between the user and the robot. The user's motion intention is then estimated by analyzing the relationship between the measured interaction forces and human intention force/torque. Further the estimated intention is used to guide the admittance based motion control of robot. To ensure a safe walking, a laser range finder (LRF) is used to detect the distance between the robot and the user's legs. A distance restraint control is also designed and taken into action when the distance is found beyond a safe threshold. Experiments were conducted and the results verified the effectiveness of the developed robot system and control methods.
Point matching is an important component of image registration. Recent years, Coherent Point Drift (CPD) method becomes a very popular point matching approach. CPD treats point matching as a probability estimation pro...
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Point matching is an important component of image registration. Recent years, Coherent Point Drift (CPD) method becomes a very popular point matching approach. CPD treats point matching as a probability estimation problem and speeds up the process of matching a lot. In this method, one set of points are thought to be sampled from a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), which is centered by the other set of points. However, CPD is sensitive to outliers and noises, especially when the noise ratio increased or the number of outliers gets much high. To deal with this problem, we introduce shape context into the step of searching for matching points and then improve the form of prior probabilities of GMM in this paper. The main idea of our method is that if the most points in a data set are likely to be matched to a particular centroid, this Gaussian component should be have a more influence to GMM. Therefore, we set prior probability of GMM with the similarity between GMM components and the data set. And the computation of similarity is based on shape context. The experiments on 2D and 3D images show that when noise ratio is low, our method performs as well as CPD does, but as the ratio increased, our method is more robust and satisfactory than CPD.
Memristor is a nonlinear resistor with the character of memory and is proved to be suitable for simulating synapse of neuron. This paper introduces two memristors in series with the same polarity (back-to-back) as sim...
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(纸本)9781479944903
Memristor is a nonlinear resistor with the character of memory and is proved to be suitable for simulating synapse of neuron. This paper introduces two memristors in series with the same polarity (back-to-back) as simulator for neuron's synapse and presents the model of recurrent neural networks with such back-to-back memristors. By analysis techniques and fixed point theory, some sufficient conditions are obtained for recurrent neural network having single attractor flow and multiple attractors flow. At last, simulation with numeric examples is presented to illustrate our results.
A 5-kW dynamic solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC)system with a second air bypass has been developed with a model to perform both steady-state and dynamic analysis in this *** identifies and addresses the control challenges a...
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A 5-kW dynamic solid oxide fuel cell(SOFC)system with a second air bypass has been developed with a model to perform both steady-state and dynamic analysis in this *** identifies and addresses the control challenges associated with simultaneous power and thermal management under current-based control.
In this paper, we try to deal with the problem of shadow detection from static images and video sequences. In instead to considering individual regions separately, we use relative illumination conditions between segme...
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In this paper, we propose an Activity-List based Nested Partitions algorithm for solving the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem(RCPSP). This algorithm is based on traditional Serial Scheduling scheme (SSS...
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In this paper, we propose an Activity-List based Nested Partitions algorithm for solving the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem(RCPSP). This algorithm is based on traditional Serial Scheduling scheme (SSS) and partitions the feasible solution space which is formulated by activity-lists into subregions by the nested partitions approach. We also utilize Double Justification as local search to improve the solutions. The algorithm is tested on J120 in PSPLIB with the result that the algorithm is relatively effective for solving large-scale, complex RCPSPs.
Column Generation (CG) technique is popularly applied in solving the crew scheduling problem of large size, which is generally modeled as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem. The traditional CG algorithms for ...
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This paper investigates the application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to eliminate the misplacement problems in the supply chain, which consists of a risk-neutral manufacturer and a risk-averse r...
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This paper investigates the application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to eliminate the misplacement problems in the supply chain, which consists of a risk-neutral manufacturer and a risk-averse retailer. By considering both fixed cost and tag cost of RFID implementation, we study the agents' incentives to adopt RFID in both uncoordinated and coordinated cases. We focus on analyzing the impact of risk attitudes on the agents’ incentives and on the supply chain coordination. The central semi-deviation is adopted to measure the retailer's risk attitude. In the uncoordinated case, we find that, in order to induce the retailer to adopt RFID, the manufacturer must assume more fixed cost if the retailer is more risk-averse. In the coordinated case, we first show that the standard revenue sharing contract does not always coordinate the channel. If the channel is coordinated, we observe that the agents’ incentives will be perfectly aligned and independent of the risk attitudes, if the revenue sharing ratio equals the fixed cost sharing ratio. Then we propose a risk-sharing contract that offers the risk protection to the retailer, to achieve the channel coordination. An interesting finding is that the manufacturer's incentive will not decrease with the tag cost, if she takes much risk from the retailer. The corresponding impacts of RFID adoption on the two contracts are also analyzed in this paper. Finally, a case study in a tobacco industry is presented to show the real RFID cost in practice.
Inspired by the indoor localization technology of mobile robots, a novel Electronic Travel Aids (ETA) is developed based on multi-sensor fusion using an extended Kalman filter (EKF). A wearable sensor system is design...
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Inspired by the indoor localization technology of mobile robots, a novel Electronic Travel Aids (ETA) is developed based on multi-sensor fusion using an extended Kalman filter (EKF). A wearable sensor system is designed to estimate the real-time posture of user's lower limb. This system can be used both for monitoring the user's walking status and for realizing the relative localization. A belt of multiple sonar sensors worn by the user can detect the obstacle of unknown environment. Simultaneously, this sonar belt can also be used as the absolute localization device in a similar way as the mobile robot. An EKF is applied to realize the data fusion of different sensor systems. The abilities of obstacle avoidance and indoor localization of the proposed ETA are both verified through experiments.
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