This paper proposes a novel algorithm for parking motion of a Car-like mobile robot. The algorithm presented here addresses calculating equations for planning a parking path in real time. Moreover, by incorporating th...
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This paper proposes a novel algorithm for parking motion of a Car-like mobile robot. The algorithm presented here addresses calculating equations for planning a parking path in real time. Moreover, by incorporating the constraints of the mechanical and kinematical characteristics of the car and the geometry of the parking lot in the path planning, we can turn a parking problem into solving algebraic equations. By tracking a planned path, the Car-like mobile robot can drive into the parking area without hitting any boundaries. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by simulation.
In video surveillance system, detection and tracking of vehicles are two foundational and significant tasks. In this paper, a vehicle detection and tracking method based on rear lamp pairs is proposed. The proposed me...
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In video surveillance system, detection and tracking of vehicles are two foundational and significant tasks. In this paper, a vehicle detection and tracking method based on rear lamp pairs is proposed. The proposed method combines color with motion information to perform vehicle detection. In order to adapt to different weather conditions like night, the rear lamps are divided into two categories: unlit lamps and lighted lamps. First, threshold segmentation are used to extract both the unlit and lighted lamp candidates in hue-saturation-value (HSV) color space and the thresholds are selected automatically by maximally stable extremal region (MSER) method. Then, all lamp candidates are tracked by using Kalman filter and lamp candidates with short-lived trajectories are removed to avoid disturbances. Next, two adjacent lamp candidates with similar speed are bound together as a region of interest (ROI), which represents a potential pair of lamps. Image cross-correlation symmetry analysis based on Gabor filter is utilized to find the ROIs with symmetrical texture and these symmetric ROIs can be regarded as pairs of lamps. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively deal with various illumination conditions and improve the accuracy and robustness of vehicle detection. In addition, this method can perform vehicle detection and tracking under complex traffic conditions and the Gabor filter based symmetry analysis can successfully suppress subtle difference between the left and right parts of a vehicle as well as environment noises.
Because the structure and function of a high-rise building is complex and the density of occupants is high, and the rescue from outside is very difficult, safe and timely evacuation is an important issue under high-ri...
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Vehicle License Plate Recognition (VLPR) system is a core module in Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS). In this paper, a VLPR system is proposed. Considering that license plate localization is the most important...
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Vehicle License Plate Recognition (VLPR) system is a core module in Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS). In this paper, a VLPR system is proposed. Considering that license plate localization is the most important and difficult part in VLPR system, we present an effective license plate localization method based on analysis of Maximally Stable Extremal Region (MSER) features. Firstly, MSER detector is utilized to extract candidate character regions. Secondly, the exact locations of license plates are inferred according to the arrangement of characters in standard license plates. The advantage of this license plate localization method is that less assumption of environmental illumination, weather and other conditions is made. After license plate localization, we continue to recognize the license plate characters and color to complete the whole VLPR system. Finally, the proposed VLPR system is tested on our own collected dataset. The experimental results show the availability and effectiveness of our VLPR system in locating and recognizing all the explicit license plates in an image.
This paper discusses Business Model transformation in corporate turnaround events. This is accomplished with a Business Model Framework and by studying a set of cases, where demand-supply constellation has dramaticall...
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To enhance classification performance by making use of easily available unlabelled data to overcome the scarcity of labelled data, this paper proposes an Embedded Co-Adaboost algorithm that integrates multi-view learn...
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With the rapid development of the Internet and E-commerce, online shopping sites are becoming a popular platform for products selling. Shopping sites such as ***, *** provide consumers with a hierarchical navigation f...
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With the rapid development of the Internet and E-commerce, online shopping sites are becoming a popular platform for products selling. Shopping sites such as ***, *** provide consumers with a hierarchical navigation for selecting products easily from overwhelming amount of products. However, those man-made navigations are so general and professional that consumers still need to spend much time in filtering out their own undesired products personally. Shopping sites provide abundant textual product descriptions for most products, which describes the details of the product. In this paper, we propose a novel model to build a topic hierarchy from the detailed product descriptions, which can automatically model words into a tree structure by hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA), besides, our model can also augment words level allocations with the conceptual relation between words in WordNet automatically. Each node in the hierarchical tree contains some relevant keywords of product descriptions, thus clarifying the meaning of the concept in the node. Therefore, consumers can pick out their interested products by using the discovered descriptive and valuable navigation of products. The experimental results on ***, one of the most popular shopping sites in America, demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed model.
With the development of image sensors and embedded technology, smart cameras become one of the most important developing directions because of its advantages in small size, low power consumption, low cost and high rel...
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With the development of image sensors and embedded technology, smart cameras become one of the most important developing directions because of its advantages in small size, low power consumption, low cost and high reliability. In this paper, we present the development and current situation of smart cameras. Then the system structure and key technology of smart cameras are described in detail. In the end, we introduce the applications of smart cameras, and the development trend of smart cameras.
This paper aims to integrate the fuzzy control with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) scheme, to provide an optimized fuzzy control performance, together with faster convergence of ADP for the help of the fuzzy prior...
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This paper aims to integrate the fuzzy control with adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) scheme, to provide an optimized fuzzy control performance, together with faster convergence of ADP for the help of the fuzzy prior knowledge. ADP usually consists of two neural networks, one is the Actor as the controller, the other is the Critic as the performance evaluator. A fuzzy controller applied in many fields can be used instead as the Actor to speed up the learning convergence, because of its simplicity and prior information on fuzzy membership and rules. The parameters of the fuzzy rules are learned by ADP scheme to approach optimal control performance. The feature of fuzzy controller makes the system steady and robust to system states and uncertainties. Simulations on under-actuated systems, a cart-pole plant and a pendubot plant, are implemented. It is verified that the proposed scheme is capable of balancing under-actuated systems and has a wider control zone.
This paper presents a novel downhole power supply control system using fuzzy PID control strategy. The control system is powered by a downhole turbine generator which generates AC voltage. The output of the turbine ge...
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