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The accessible presentation of this book gives both a general view of the entire computer vision enterprise and also offers sufficient detail to be able to build useful applications. Users learn techniques that have proven to be useful by first-hand experience and a wide range of mathematical methods. A CD-ROM with every copy of the text contains source code for programming practice, color images, and illustrative movies. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book includes essential topics that either reflect practical significance or are of theoretical importance. Topics are discussed in substantial and increasing depth. Application surveys describe numerous important application areas such as image based rendering and digital libraries. Many important algorithms broken down and illustrated in pseudo code. Appropriate for use by engineers as a comprehensive reference to the computer vision enterprise.

Computer vision : a modern approach = 计算机视觉 : 一种现代的方法

In this paper, we provide the finalized definition of Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom). Following the definition, we briefly describe the scope and goals of CogInfoCom, and discuss the common interests between CogInfoCom and the various research disciplines which contribute to this new field in a synergistic way.

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Definition and synergies of cognitive infocommunications

Survey paper: A survey on industrial applications of fuzzy control

In the last decade, we have witnessed a drastic change in the form factor of audio and vision technologies, from heavy and grounded machines to lightweight devices that naturally fit our bodies. However, only recently, haptic systems have started to be designed with wearability in mind. The wearability of haptic systems enables novel forms of communication, cooperation, and integration between humans and machines. Wearable haptic interfaces are capable of communicating with the human wearers during their interaction with the environment they share, in a natural and yet private way. This paper presents a taxonomy and review of wearable haptic systems for the fingertip and the hand, focusing on those systems directly addressing wearability challenges. The paper also discusses the main technological and design challenges for the development of wearable haptic interfaces, and it reports on the future perspectives of the field. Finally, the paper includes two tables summarizing the characteristics and features of the most representative wearable haptic systems for the fingertip and the hand.

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Wearable Haptic Systems for the Fingertip and the Hand: Taxonomy, Review, and Perspectives

This paper presents a sum of squares (SOS) approach for modeling and control of nonlinear dynamical systems using polynomial fuzzy systems. The proposed SOS-based framework provides a number of innovations and improvements over the existing linear matrix inequality (LMI)-based approaches to Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy modeling and control. First, we propose a polynomial fuzzy modeling and control framework that is more general and effective than the well-known T--S fuzzy modeling and control. Secondly, we obtain stability and stabilizability conditions of the polynomial fuzzy systems based on polynomial Lyapunov functions that contain quadratic Lyapunov functions as a special case. Hence, the stability and stabilizability conditions presented in this paper are more general and relaxed than those of the existing LMI-based approaches to T-S fuzzy modeling and control. Moreover, the derived stability and stabilizability conditions are represented in terms of SOS and can be numerically (partially symbolically) solved via the recently developed SOSTOOLS. To illustrate the validity and applicability of the proposed approach, a number of analysis and design examples are provided. The first example shows that the SOS approach renders more relaxed stability results than those of both the LMI-based approaches and a polynomial system approach. The second example presents an extensive application of the SOS approach in comparison with a piecewise Lyapunov function approach. The last example is a design exercise that demonstrates the viability of the SOS-based approach to synthesizing a stabilizing controller.

A Sum-of-Squares Approach to Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Polynomial Fuzzy Systems

TP-Model Transformation-Based-Control Design Frameworks

The present paper proves that the vertexes of the tensor product TP model type polytopic representation of a given quasi linear parameter varying qLPV state-space model strongly interfere with the feasibility regions of linear matrix inequality LMI-based control design methods. Furthermore this is valid both for the LMI-based feasibility of the controller and the observer design, but the influence differs for the controller and the observer system components. More specifically, the factors influencing the feasibility regions of the LMI-based control design include: i the manipulation of the vertexes' position; and ii the size and complexity of the TP model type polytopic representation, i.e. the number of the vertexes contained in the TP model representation. The proof is based on a complex control design example, where the influence of these factors stated above can be easily and clearly indicated. Furthermore the paper shows via the example that the maximal parameter space of the controller and observer also depends on these factors. The example model consists of the complex Nonlinear Aeroelastic Test Apparatus NATA model of the three degree of freedom aeroelastic wing section model including Stribeck friction and the control design method is based on the relaxed TP model transformation-based control design framework that supports the flexible manipulation of these factors.

Influence of the Tensor Product Model Representation Of QLPV Models on The Feasibility of Linear Matrix Inequality

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asjc.1566

Influence of the Tensor Product Model Representation of qLPV Models on the Feasibility of Linear Matrix Inequality Based Stability Analysis

Based on the most recent Tensor Product model transformation solutions, the paper presents an improved control performance for the most recent version of the three Degree of Freedom aeroelastic wing section model including Stribeck friction, according to signals pitch, plunge, trailing edge and control value, based on practical engineering criteria such as overshoot, undershoot, signal end values and settling time. This is achieved through proposing a novel two dimensional parametric convex hull manipulation based method for Tensor Product model transformation based Control Design Frameworks. The approach provides two TP model representations for the different requirements of the controller and observer of a given model, opening the possibility to utilize the TP model transformation's convex hull manipulation potential in control performance optimization for a separate optimization of the two TP model representations. Numerical simulation results are provided to illustrate the control performance improvements of the aeroelastic wing section model through the proposed 2D parametric convex hull manipulation based design method.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asjc.1418

Improved control performance of the 3-DoF aeroelastic wing section: a TP model based 2D parametric control performance optimization

The main objective of the paper is to introduce how the concept of tensor HOSVD (higher order singular value decomposition) can be carried over to the TP (tensor product) dynamic models. We term this decomposition as HOSVD based canonical form of TP model or polytopic model form. The key idea and the basic concept of this decomposition was proposed recently with the TP model transformation based control design methodology. The novelty of this paper is to present the mathematical background of this concept. The paper shows convergency theorems how the TP model transformation is capable of reconstructing this HOSVD based canonical form numerically.

Peter Baranyi

Papers

TP-Model Transformation-Based-Control Design Frameworks

Influence of the Tensor Product Model Representation Of QLPV Models on The Feasibility of Linear Matrix Inequality

Influence of the Tensor Product Model Representation of qLPV Models on the Feasibility of Linear Matrix Inequality Based Stability Analysis

Improved control performance of the 3-DoF aeroelastic wing section: a TP model based 2D parametric control performance optimization

Numerical Reconstruction of the HOSVD Based Canonical Form of Polytopic Dynamic Models