A bi-branchiate robot is presented for the inspection of the high-voltage power transmission lines. With a symmetrical mechanical structure, the robot can roll along the power lines and negotiating all the obstacles i...
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A bi-branchiate robot is presented for the inspection of the high-voltage power transmission lines. With a symmetrical mechanical structure, the robot can roll along the power lines and negotiating all the obstacles in the lines to complete the inspection work. A hierarchical structure based on modular approach are used to design the controlsystem of the robot. A combination mode composed of teleoperation via RF module and local intelligence based on visual servoing is developed to control the inspection robot. Using an image feature acquisition method based on Otsu adaptive threshold, the position and width of the power line in image plane are extracted as the basis of controller design. Experiments of obstacle negotiation and automatic line grasping in laboratory prove the effectiveness of the proposed robot prototype and the relative control method.
A wireless power transmission technique based robotic power managementsystem for prolonging continuous working time of one transmission line inspection robot is introduced in this paper. Magnetic resonance coupled WP...
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(纸本)9781467351942
A wireless power transmission technique based robotic power managementsystem for prolonging continuous working time of one transmission line inspection robot is introduced in this paper. Magnetic resonance coupled WPT (wireless power transmission) unit is designed and analyzed in form of electrical circuit mode theory. Impedance matching is introduced and a special matching method for four coils resonance coupled based WPT is given. The output power of WPT unit is modeled and relationship between coupled coefficient, angular frequency and amount of output power is given and energy consumption of each unit in power managementsystem is quantified. Experiment shows that models can precisely describe the character of WPT system and it performs to be applicable for charging the inspection robot wirelessly.
Inspired by the characteristics of high agility and stability of live jellyfish, a novel biomimetic robotic jellyfish based on multi-linkage mechanism is developed in this paper. The robotic jellyfish consists of a st...
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(纸本)9781479900305
Inspired by the characteristics of high agility and stability of live jellyfish, a novel biomimetic robotic jellyfish based on multi-linkage mechanism is developed in this paper. The robotic jellyfish consists of a streamlined head, a cavity shell, four driving devices with bevel gears, four actuators based on multi-linkage mechanism, a regulating mechanism for adjusting barycenter and a skin. The four centrosymmetric actuators is used to imitate the locomotion of jellyfish, including the relaxation phase and the contraction phase. The mutually independent and coordinated control of the four actuators is able to achieve diversified movements such as swimming forward, pitching and yawing. As a new type of bio-inspired robots, the robotic jellyfish with high agility, stability and low noise, will serve as a platform for underwater reconnaissance and environmental monitoring.
Generally, surgeons of minimally invasive surgery should possess good ability to coordinate their both hands. The manipulation of guide wire is considered a core skill. Obtaining that core skill to perform minimally i...
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(纸本)9781479927456
Generally, surgeons of minimally invasive surgery should possess good ability to coordinate their both hands. The manipulation of guide wire is considered a core skill. Obtaining that core skill to perform minimally invasive surgery requires training. In minimally invasive surgery, a surgical robot can assist doctors to position precisely and provide stable operation platform. Therefore, to develop a virtual reality simulators for training purpose based on a robotic guide wire operating system is an important and challenging subject. In this paper, a multi-body mass-spring model for simulating guide wire is presented and evaluated. In order to overcome the disadvantage of using mass-spring approach to model the guide wire, we propose a new collision detection algorithm and a new collision response algorithm. Finally, we test our guide wire with a complex and realistic 3D vascular model, which is selected from computer tomography database of real patients. The result shows that the virtual reality training simulators is effective and promising.
A general vision approach for environment understanding of mobile robot is proposed, which is inspired by biological visual cortex. Gray level image from robot camera is firstly processed in the selective attention la...
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(纸本)9781479927456
A general vision approach for environment understanding of mobile robot is proposed, which is inspired by biological visual cortex. Gray level image from robot camera is firstly processed in the selective attention layer, and then in S and C layers for meaningful structure elements. With the help of the Sc layer designed for endpoints detection, the line segments map is generated to serve as the form of environment understanding results. Experiments on mobile robot are implemented by the task of avoiding obstacles with different sizes and shapes, pits, sharp cliffs, et al. The experimental results demonstrate the adaptability and versatility of the proposed approach.
This paper presents a collision-free path planning approach based on Bezier curve for a mobile manipulator with the endpoints restricted by the manipulator. Based on these candidate endpoints and the initial posture o...
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(纸本)9781479927456
This paper presents a collision-free path planning approach based on Bezier curve for a mobile manipulator with the endpoints restricted by the manipulator. Based on these candidate endpoints and the initial posture of mobile manipulator, a series of feasible Bezier paths are obtained with the constraints from velocity, acceleration and environment. And then the optimal collision-free path is determined according to the related information of the path as well as obstacles. The mobile manipulator has the ability to adapt to the environment and the optimal path will be updated once the new detected obstacles block this path. The path planning approach is verified by simulations.
Particle swarm optimization is a focus on queue control, path optimization, destination search, and so on in multiple robot systems, of which the main idea is that the optimization solution of swarm behaviors are to b...
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Particle swarm optimization is a focus on queue control, path optimization, destination search, and so on in multiple robot systems, of which the main idea is that the optimization solution of swarm behaviors are to be obtained through iteration update of velocities and coordinate positions of particles. Based on analysis of particle swarm principle and of mechanism of its main parameters, comparative researches on particle swarm with genetic algorithm, ant colony algorithm, and neural network are given, respectively. Then a survey on research progresses of particle swarm optimization and relative modified new optimization algorithms applied in robot/multi-robot systems is given. Finally, the outlook of future work on particle swarm optimization applied in multi-robot systems under community perception networks is proposed.
Current freeway traffic flow prediction techniques pay attention to time series prediction or introduce the upstream adjacent road segments in the short-term prediction model. In this paper, all of the road segments o...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479929153
Current freeway traffic flow prediction techniques pay attention to time series prediction or introduce the upstream adjacent road segments in the short-term prediction model. In this paper, all of the road segments on the freeway are considered as candidates of the independent variables fed into the prediction model. A spatio-temporal multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) approach is proposed for the road network analysis and to predict the short-term traffic volume at the observation stations on the freeway. The actual traffic data are collected from a series of observation stations along a freeway in Portland every 15 minutes. In the first phase, the macroscopic dependency relationships of the stations on the freeway are investigated via MARS method. Subsequently the stations most related to the object station are selected and fed into the MARS prediction model to generate the short-term volume. The experiments are carried out on the actual traffic data and the results indicate that the proposed spatio-temporal MARS model can generate superior prediction accuracy in contrast with the historical data based MARS model, the parametric ARIMA, and the nonparametric PPR methods.
Vehicle detection is a foundational and significant task in video surveillance systems. In this paper, a vehicle detection method using a deformable model and symmetry is proposed. First, we learn the active basis mod...
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This paper is concerned with a generalized iterative adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm for discrete-time nonlinear systems. The idea is to use iterative ADP algorithm to obtain iterative control laws which ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467327626
This paper is concerned with a generalized iterative adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm for discrete-time nonlinear systems. The idea is to use iterative ADP algorithm to obtain iterative control laws which make the iterative performance index function reach the optimum. It is proved that for an arbitrary positive semi-definite function, the iterative performance index functions will converge to the optimum. For different initial functions, it shows that the convergence procedures of the iterative performance index functions are different. Stability properties of the system are analyzed in this paper to show that the iterative control can stabilize the system for suitable initial performance index functions. Admissible control properties of the iterative control laws obtained by the present generalized iterative ADP algorithm are also given in this paper.
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