Safe and intuitive manual guidance of a robot manipulator using adaptive admittance control towards robot agility

Key areas of robot agility include methods that increase capability and flexibility of industrial robots and facilitate robot re-tasking. Manual guidance can achieve robot agility effectively, provided that a safe and smooth interaction is guaranteed when the user exerts an external force on the end effector. We approach this by designing an adaptive admittance law that can adjust its parameters to modify the robot compliance in critical areas of the workspace, such as near and on configuration singularities, joint limits, and workspace limits, for a smooth and safe operation. Experimental validation was done with two tests: a constraint activation test and a 3D shape tracing task. In the first one, we validate the proper response to constraints and in the second one, we compare the proposed approach with different admittance parameter tuning strategies using a drawing task where the user is asked to guide the robot to trace a 3D profile with an accuracy or speed directive and evaluate performance considering path length error and execution time as metrics, and a questionnaire for user perception. Results show that appropriate response to individual and simultaneous activation of the aforementioned constraints for a safe and intuitive manual guidance interaction is achieved and that the proposed parameter tuning strategy has better performance in terms of accuracy, execution time, and subjective evaluation of users.     

多机器人网络中资源公平分配的研究

就如何实现多机器人网络中各独立任务资源的公平分配及其服务质量最优化提出了一种新方法。该方法通过对增益控制参数的模糊控制,增强了系统的鲁棒性,并尽可能快速平稳地实现各项独立任务所需资源的公平分配。     

IPv6在QoS上的三项重要改进

本文主要分析了IPv6相对于IPv4在QoS上所做的基本报头、ICMP控制机制及基本报头中的QoS元素三项改进,从而为有效支持QoS提供理论支持。     

gain bounds for systems with sector bounded and slope‐restricted nonlinearities

This paper proposes a new method for calculating a bound on the gain of a system comprising a linear time invariant part and a static nonlinear part, which is odd, bounded, zero at zero and has a restriction on its slope. The nonlinear part is also assumed to be sector bounded, with the sector bound being (possibly) different from that implied by the slope restriction. The computation of the gain bound is found by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities, which arise from an integral quadratic constraint formulation of a multiplier problem involving both Zames‐Falb and Popov multipliers. Examples illustrate the effectiveness of the results, and comparisons are made against the state‐of‐the‐art. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Routing with multiple quality-of-services constraints: An approximation perspective

Finding a path that satisfies multiple Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraints is vital to the deployment of current emerged services. However, existing algorithms are not very efficient and effective at finding such a path. Moreover, few works focus on three or more QoS constraints. In this paper, we present an enhanced version of fully polynomial time approximation scheme (EFPTAS) for multiconstrainted path optimal (MCOP) problem. Specifically, we make four major contributions. We first allow the proposed algorithm to construct an auxiliary graph, through which the QoS parameters on each of the finding path can be guaranteed not to exceed the given constraints. Then we adopt a concept, called nonlinear definition of path constraints in EFPTAS for reducing both time and space complexity. Also, we enable EFPTAS to run iteratively to facilitate a progressive refinement of the finding result. In addition to these, we identify some “deployment” issues for proposed algorithm, the essential steps that how and when the EFPTAS takes place are presented. By analyzing the proposed algorithm theoretically, we find that the presented EFPTAS can find a (1+ε)-approximation path in the network with time complexity O(|E||V|/ε) (where |E| is the number of edges and |V| is the number of nodes), which outperforms the previous best-known algorithm for MCOP. We conduct an extensive comparison between the algorithm presented in this paper and previous best-known study experimentally, our results indicate that EFPTAS can find a path with low complexity and preferable quality.     

Semantic analysis in XTRA,an English — Chinese machine translation system

This paper concerns the resolution of lexical ambiguity in a machine translation environment. We describe the integration of principles of selection restrictions. Preference Semantics, and intelligent relaxation of constraints in handling lexical ambiguity. The approach differs from many previous MT systems in that it is more powerful than brute force systems, while more realistic than systems that assume a large degree of coded encyclopedia information for full understanding.     

一种面向SOA业务恢复的服务选择算法

针对SOA业务恢复的服务选择问题,本文提出了一种QoS近似全局最优的服务选择算法GALSA:首先利用GA算法将全局QoS约束分解为最优的局部QoS约束,然后利用LSA算法选取出满足局部QoS约束的最优服务。算法不仅能作用于服务重构的服务选择过程中,而且在单个服务节点失效时亦能选取出满足全局QoS约束的服务进行替换。理论分析与实验结果说明了算法的可行性和有效性。     

带特征指标约束描述的设计模式分类挖掘

为解决设计模式挖掘正确率较低的问题, 提出一种带特征指标约束描述的设计模式分类挖掘方法。归纳了47种特征指标, 给出了设计模式约束定义, 对设计模式特征进行了描述, 以Adapter模式、Command模式、Factory Method模式为例, 分结构型、行为型与创建型3类挖掘设计模式, 设计了3个基准系统与4个经典系统的设计模式挖掘试验。试验结果表明, 本研究方法对基准系统的Adapter模式、Command模式、Factory Method模式挖掘正确率为96.13%、91.67%、72.23%, 对经典系统挖掘正确率分别为84.3%、81.26%、73.17%, 与传统方法比较, 本研究方法取得了较好的效果。     

基于可行空间并行的安全约束最优潮流

为了提高电网控制决策的实时性,文中将计及预想故障安全约束的经济性优化问题分解为以发电成本最小为目标的基态最优潮流主问题和预想故障安全校核子问题,并提出一种基于可调空间切片并行的分解协调算法进行求解,以避免交替迭代。首先,按不同比例对可调空间进行切片形成多个切片方案,并基于并行计算平台采用原始-对偶内点法对各切片方案进行基态最优潮流主问题求解;然后,对各优化后方式进行预想故障并行安全校核;接着从通过安全校核的切片方案中挑选出发电成本最小的方案;最后,以贵州省某市电网为算例分析验证了所提方法的有效性。     

A fuzzy constraint-based approach to data reconciliation in material flow analysis

Data reconciliation consists in modifying noisy or unreliable data in order to make them consistent with a mathematical model (herein a material flow network). The conventional approach relies on least-squares minimization. Here, we use a fuzzy set-based approach, replacing Gaussian likelihood functions by fuzzy intervals, and a leximin criterion. We show that the setting of fuzzy sets provides a generalized approach to the choice of estimated values, that is more flexible and less dependent on oftentimes debatable probabilistic justifications. It potentially encompasses interval-based formulations and the least squares method, by choosing appropriate membership functions and aggregation operations. This paper also lays bare the fact that data reconciliation under the fuzzy set approach is viewed as an information fusion problem, as opposed to the statistical tradition which solves an estimation problem.