In this paper, a data-based method is developed for analyzing the controllability and observability of discrete-time linear systems in noisy environment. This method uses measured data to estimate the controllability ...
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In this paper, a data-based method is developed for analyzing the controllability and observability of discrete-time linear systems in noisy environment. This method uses measured data to estimate the controllability matrix and the observability matrix without identifying system models. The unbiasedness and consistency of this estimate with measurement noise and system noise are proven, respectively. As the estimated error of system parameters will not accumulate in calculating the controllability matrix and observability matrix, this method has a higher precision than traditional methods, especially in high-dimensional state space. In the simulation, the advantages of the data-based method in accuracy and convergence are illustrated. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social systems (TCSS) for 2018, and Happy New Year to everyone. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, this is the year of the Dog, which in Chine...
Welcome to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social systems (TCSS) for 2018, and Happy New Year to everyone. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, this is the year of the Dog, which in Chinese culture represents trust, loyalty, dedication, and energy. As such, I would like to take this opportunity to express my best wishes of a happy, healthy, and high-producing 2018 to each and every one of our readers, reviewers, and editors.
The ability to detect concept drift, i.e., a structural change in the acquired datastream, and react accordingly is a major achievement for intelligent sensing units. This ability allows the unit, for actively tuning ...
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The ability to detect concept drift, i.e., a structural change in the acquired datastream, and react accordingly is a major achievement for intelligent sensing units. This ability allows the unit, for actively tuning the application, to maintain high performance, changing online the operational strategy, detecting and isolating possible occurring faults to name a few tasks. In the paper, we consider a just-in-time strategy for adaptation;the sensing unit reacts exactly when needed, i.e., when concept drift is detected. Change detection tests (CDTs), designed to inspect structural changes in industrial and environmental data, are coupled here with adaptive k-nearest neighbor and support vector machine classifiers, and suitably retrained when the change is detected. Computational complexity and memory requirements of the CDT and the classifier, due to precious limited resources in embedded sensing, are taken into account in the application design. We show that a hierarchical CDT coupled with an adaptive resource-aware classifier is a suitable tool for processing and classifying sequential streams of data.
In this paper, the H-infinity optimal control problem for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems is investigated using event-triggered method. First, the H-infinity optimal control problem is formulated as a two...
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In this paper, the H-infinity optimal control problem for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems is investigated using event-triggered method. First, the H-infinity optimal control problem is formulated as a two-player zero-sum (ZS) differential game. Then, an adaptive triggering condition is derived for the ZS game with an event-triggered control policy and a time-triggered disturbance policy. The event-triggered controller is updated only when the triggering condition is not satisfied. Therefore, the communication between the plant and the controller is reduced. Furthermore, a positive lower bound on the minimal intersample time is provided to avoid Zeno behavior. For implementation purpose, the event-triggered concurrent learning algorithm is proposed, where only one critic neural network (NN) is used to approximate the value function, the control policy and the disturbance policy. During the learning process, the traditional persistence of excitation condition is relaxed using the recorded data and instantaneous data together. Meanwhile, the stability of closed-loop system and the uniform ultimate boundedness (UUB) of the critic NN's parameters are proved by using Lyapunov technique. Finally, simulation results verify the feasibility to the ZS game and the corresponding H-infinity control problem.
Graph matching is a fundamental problem in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this paper we introduce a novel graph matching algorithm to find the specified number of best vertex assignments between two label...
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Graph matching is a fundamental problem in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this paper we introduce a novel graph matching algorithm to find the specified number of best vertex assignments between two labeled weighted graphs. The problem is first explicitly formulated as the minimization of a quadratic objective function and then solved by an optimization algorithm based on the recently proposed graduated nonconvexity and concavity procedure (GNCCP). Simulations on both synthetic data and real world images witness the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
This paper proposes a novel leg orthosis for lower limb rehabilitation robots of the sitting/lying type. It consists of three joint mechanisms: hip, knee and ankle, and two sets of links: thigh and crus. Each driving ...
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This paper proposes a novel leg orthosis for lower limb rehabilitation robots of the sitting/lying type. It consists of three joint mechanisms: hip, knee and ankle, and two sets of links: thigh and crus. Each driving motor is located close to the associated joint and the rotational axis of each joint mechanism is unique and stable. These features make it outperform the similar mechanisms in stability and dynamic performance. Different forms of eccentric slider-crank mechanisms are applied in the three joint mechanisms, respectively, such that they can be optimized independently. The optimization problems for the hip and knee joint mechanisms, characterized as strongly nonlinear, are developed respectively. Then, a particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to obtain the optimal solutions, which are subsequently validated by comprehensive comparisons. Moreover, the kinematics necessary for motion control and trajectory tracking are investigated, which denote the relationships between the displacements and velocities of the joint mechanisms, lead screws and the end effector. Finally, this paper illustrates the feasibility of the application of the leg orthosis to actual rehabilitation exercises by a simulation example. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper, the first probably approximately correct (PAC) algorithm for continuous deterministic systems without relying on any system dynamics is proposed. It combines the state aggregation technique and the effi...
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In this paper, the first probably approximately correct (PAC) algorithm for continuous deterministic systems without relying on any system dynamics is proposed. It combines the state aggregation technique and the efficient exploration principle, and makes high utilization of online observed samples. We use a grid to partition the continuous state space into different cells to save samples. A near-upper Q operator is defined to produce a near-upper Q function using samples in each cell. The corresponding greedy policy effectively balances between exploration and exploitation. With the rigorous analysis, we prove that there is a polynomial time bound of executing nonoptimal actions in our algorithm. After finite steps, the final policy reaches near optimal in the framework of PAC. The implementation requires no knowledge of systems and has less computation complexity. Simulation studies confirm that it is a better performance than other similar PAC algorithms.
The optimal formation problem of multirobot systems is solved by a recurrent neural network in this paper. The desired formation is described by the shape theory. This theory can generate a set of feasible formations ...
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The optimal formation problem of multirobot systems is solved by a recurrent neural network in this paper. The desired formation is described by the shape theory. This theory can generate a set of feasible formations that share the same relative relation among robots. An optimal formation means that finding one formation from the feasible formation set, which has the minimum distance to the initial formation of the multirobot system. Then, the formation problem is transformed into an optimization problem. In addition, the orientation, scale, and admissible range of the formation can also be considered as the constraints in the optimization problem. Furthermore, if all robots are identical, their positions in the system are exchangeable. Then, each robot does not necessarily move to one specific position in the formation. In this case, the optimal formation problem becomes a combinational optimization problem, whose optimal solution is very hard to obtain. Inspired by the penalty method, this combinational optimization problem can be approximately transformed into a convex optimization problem. Due to the involvement of the Euclidean norm in the distance, the objective function of these optimization problems are nonsmooth. To solve these nonsmooth optimization problems efficiently, a recurrent neural network approach is employed, owing to its parallel computation ability. Finally, some simulations and experiments are given to validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed optimal formation approach.
Crosstalk is a primary defect in affecting the image quality of stereoscopic three-dimensional (3-D) displays. Until now, the crosstalk reduction methods either require extra devices or need tedious calibration proced...
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Crosstalk is a primary defect in affecting the image quality of stereoscopic three-dimensional (3-D) displays. Until now, the crosstalk reduction methods either require extra devices or need tedious calibration procedures, which require precise measurement on each display device. We propose herein a new method of synthesizing lenticular 3-D display based on the light field decomposition and optimization to minimize the crosstalk. The light field concept is introduced into lenticular 3-D display. Rays of multiview light field are back-projected to the LCD plane to form a synthetic image, with subpixel resolution. A weighted value considering all arriving rays is assigned for the subpixel to reduce crosstalk. We developed a new algorithm of ray's mergence and assignment for a smooth fusion of different views and crosstalk reduction. We also performed validation experiments which convincingly demonstrated that our new method is capable of reducing the crosstalk on synthetic graph. Compared with existing methods, our proposed new method is simple and effective, and implementation cost is low.
In this paper, we establish error bounds of adaptive dynamic programming algorithms for solving undiscounted infinite-horizon optimal control problems of discrete-time deterministic nonlinear systems. We consider appr...
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In this paper, we establish error bounds of adaptive dynamic programming algorithms for solving undiscounted infinite-horizon optimal control problems of discrete-time deterministic nonlinear systems. We consider approximation errors in the update equations of both value function and control policy. We utilize a new assumption instead of the contraction assumption in discounted optimal control problems. We establish the error bounds for approximate value iteration based on a new error condition. Furthermore, we also establish the error bounds for approximate policy iteration and approximate optimistic policy iteration algorithms. It is shown that the iterative approximate value function can converge to a finite neighborhood of the optimal value function under some conditions. To implement the developed algorithms, critic and action neural networks are used to approximate the value function and control policy, respectively. Finally, a simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed algorithms.
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