Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

Governance in global value chains

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Robotics and autonomous systems

The mechanical characteristics of dissimilar Al–Cu connections, joined by a novel, robust laser braze-welding process are reported. A fiber laser is used in combination with a 2D galvoscanner to provide spatial power modulation by superposed circular beam oscillation. With the help of statistical experimental design, a broad range of processing parameters has been investigated in order to understand their effects on the joint characteristics. A maximum shear strength of 121 MPa has been detected within the scope of the experiments.

Mechanical characteristics of laser braze-welded aluminium–copper connections

Electrical performance of laser braze-welded aluminum–copper interconnects

Position Identification in Force-Guided Robotic Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks

This article addresses the problem of contact-state (CS) monitoring for peg-in-hole force-controlled robotic assembly tasks. In order to perform such a monitoring target, the wrench (Cartesian forces and torques) and pose (Cartesian position and orientation) signals of the manipulated object are firstly captured for different CS’s of the object (peg) with respect to the environment including the hole. The captured signals are employed in building a model (a recognizer) for each CS, and in the framework of pattern classification, the CS monitoring would be addressed. It will be shown that the captured signals are nonstationary, i.e., they have non-normal distribution that would result in performance degradation if using the available monitoring approaches. In this article, the concept of the Gaussian mixtures models (GMM) is used in building the likelihood of each signal and the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is employed in finding the GMM parameters. The use of the GMM would accommodate the signals nonstationary behavior and the EM algorithm would guarantee the estimation of the optimal parameters set of the GMM for each signal, and hence the modeling accuracy would be significantly enhanced. In order to see the performance of the suggested CS monitoring scheme, we installed a test stand that is composed of a KUKA lightweight robot (LWR) doing peg-in-hole tasks. Two experiments are considered; in the first experiment, we use the EM-GMM in monitoring a typical peg-in-hole robotic assembly process, and in the second experiment, we consider the robotic assembly of camshaft caps assembly of an automotive powertrain and use the EM-GMM in monitoring its CS’s. For both experiments, the excellent monitoring performance will be shown. Furthermore, we compare the performance of the EM-GMM with that obtained when using available CS monitoring approaches. Classification success rate (CSR) and computational time will be considered as comparison indices, and the EM-GMM will be shown to have a superior CSR performance with reduced a computational time.

Contact-State Monitoring of Force-Guided Robotic Assembly Tasks Using Expectation Maximization-based Gaussian Mixtures Models

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Peter Plapper

Papers

Mechanical characteristics of laser braze-welded aluminium–copper connections

Electrical performance of laser braze-welded aluminum–copper interconnects

Position Identification in Force-Guided Robotic Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks

Contact-State Monitoring of Force-Guided Robotic Assembly Tasks Using Expectation Maximization-based Gaussian Mixtures Models

Deriving essential components of lean and industry 4.0 assessment model for manufacturing SMEs