{"title":"Study of audiovisual asynchrony signal processing: Robot recognition system of different ages","authors":"Yanna Ren, Weiping Yang, Qiong Wu, Fengxia Wu, Satoshi Takahashi, Ejima Yoshimichi, Jinglong Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558927","url":null,"abstract":"The current studies indicated that sound can improve the visual perception. However, whether the gain is influenced by temporal disparity between visual and auditory stimuli, and whether the gain is the same for older and younger adults remains unclear. To clarify this mechanism, ten older adults and 10 younger adults were invited to confirm and visual/auditory discrimination task. The visual target task, visual irrelevant task, auditory target task, and auditory irrelevant task randomly presented on the right or left hemi-space of the central fixation point and the subjects were instructed to respond to target stimuli rapidly and accurately. The results showed that in the younger adults, the gain was greatest in the simultaneous audiovisual condition. With the enlargement of temporal disparity between visual stimulus and auditory stimulus, the gain decreased significantly, and the alterative slope was different between auditory proceeded visual stimulus and visual proceeded auditory stimulus. In the older adults, the variation tendency was similar to younger adults, but in all conditions, the response of older adults was significantly slower than that of younger adults. Our results suggested that the visual gains were influenced by temporal disparity between auditory and visual stimuli, and further suggested that the gain mechanism between auditory proceeded visual stimuli and visual proceeded auditory stimuli was different, which indicated that the development of intelligent robot should consider the condition of the target subject to switch to the adapt procedure.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121330595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on a multi-robot cooperative wireless communication control system for the spherical amphibious robot","authors":"Shuxiang Guo, Xin Li, Jian Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558723","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-robot cooperative control system where robots will complete a common task, it is significant to have a better communication among robots. This paper proposed a multi-robot cooperative control system for the spherical amphibious robot. The aim of this method is to set up a point to multipoint network which supports multiple robots link in. Moreover, Multi-robot cooperative control system is given to achieve master-slave approaches, where leader robot guides the slave robots. Multi-robot cooperative control system is a novel approach to the coordination of large numbers of relatively team robots which takes its inspiration from many aspects. We carried out some experiments, and experimental results indicated that using XBee modules with ZigBee protocol to transmit control signal to the robot is an efficiency way. ZigBee communication mode is very suitable for low power consumption, and low data transmission applications, which can be taken into consideration about the communication constraints among amphibious robots. The experimental results indicated that signals are transmitted efficiently in the low power environment by using XBee communications module, and proposed communication control system has excellent performance in low SNR environments. This communication system is very suitable in the low power environment, and the multi-robot cooperative wireless communication system can be used to underwater detection and environmental reconnaissance and military defense, etc.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131707987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of dynamic characteristics of rugged vessel in the process of hepatic perfusion","authors":"Songli Wang, Jun Liu, Yihe Liu, W. Ge","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558721","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to analyze the dynamic characteristics in the perfusion process of the hepatic vessel. A model of rugged vessel with a foreign matter was established based upon medical imaging data. The fluid flowing in the rugged vessel was simulated using the perfusion method of the symmetric pulsating flow (SPF) and the steady flow under the bidirectional fluid-structure interaction (FSI). The simulation results, on the one hand, demonstrate the feasibility of SPF within the perfusion process of the rugged vessel in liver. On the other hand, the results clearly show the dynamic behaviors which accorded with actual medical results. Comparing the perfusion results of the rugged vessel using SPF with the steady flow, the difference of vascular deformation is not obvious, while the peak of velocity in the rugged vessel used SPF is about 50% higher than that of the steady flow, that reveals SPF is more likely to take away the foreign matter. The study will be helpful to improve the quality of the donor liver and reduce the influence of subjective factors on the quality of cleaning, and it provides theoretical basis for the liver transplantation.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115737201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A force measurement system for lithium-ion battery forming tab-clamp and its electromagnetic shielding design","authors":"C. Ding, Yanzhu Yang, Pei Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558900","url":null,"abstract":"Consistency of the holding force upon the battery pole-piece is one of the most critical factors to impact the quality of lithium-ion battery formation. To ensure the consistency of holding force on the same batch of electrode tab-clamps, a set of clamping force measurement system is developed to improve quality control. This paper proposes a method to measure the quasi-static force with PVDF piezoelectric sensor, which convert force into electric charge signal. Since the electric charge easily runs off and its acquisition and conversation tend to be interrupted by the external electromagnetic interferences, the electromagnetic shielding designs, such as PCB shielding design in sealed metal shell that filled with helium, and anti-interference design through coating PVDF sensor with kapton tape and copper tape, have been optimized to solve the difficulty of measuring transient charge and realize the measurement of quasi static force on the tab-clamps. The impactful results after experiments also indicate excellent application for the similar system about electric charge measurement in the future.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131147234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Velocity measurement of intelligent wheelchair based on restoration of optical flow field","authors":"Xiuzhi Li, Chuanluo Xu, S. Jia, Shangyu Li","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558809","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the accuracy improvement of velocity measurement of intelligent wheelchair based on optical flow is studied. When wheelchair moves indoor, mechanical jittering occurs slightly, which has an impact on the accuracy of optical flow odometry. To solve the problem, a novel restoration method of optical flow field is proposed. Firstly, we select the starting and end points of optical flow vectors as the matched feature points, then solve the initial affine kinematic parameters using least square method. In the following, Kalman Filter (KF) is used to smooth the parameters with futile shake. In the end, optical flow field can be compensated to prepare for the follow-up optical flow odometry. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on velocity measurement of intelligent wheelchair.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132117811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Force feedback-based robotic catheter training system for the vascular interventional surgery","authors":"Shuxiang Guo, Lin Yan, Jian Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558907","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual catheter training system is a typical application of Virtual reality(VR) technology in the medical field. Doctors must operate catheters through experience accurately in traditional minimally invasive surgery(MIS) to ensure the safety of the operation. In order to improve the operation skills we proposed the force feedback-based robotic catheter training system. In this paper, we can obtain force feedback through the catheter with CyberGlove. We established the high precise 3D model, and then we set up the mapping relationship between CyberGlove and the virtual hand, realizing the human-computer interaction. Based on the previous work, we created a virtual environment completed the collision detection and force feedback. In addition, the relevant verification experiment confirmed that the virtual environment makes surgery more immersive, the experimental result proved this system could simulate the real force feedback process, and the feedback force is 0.619N when the biggest variable value is 0.5mm.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129815280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motion estimation using optical flow sensors and rate gyros","authors":"Xiaoming Liu, Zhongyuan Chen, W. Chen, X. Xing","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558821","url":null,"abstract":"Optical flow sensors (OFSs), with characteristics of small size, light weight, low cost, little power consumption, fast response and no radiation, are suitable for miniature aerial vehicles (MAVs) to detect the environment around them. According to our recent works, besides the velocity and the flight height above the ground, many other flight states can also be obtained using optical flow sensors and rate gyros, including attack angle, sideslip angle, MAV's Euler angles and so on. In this paper, a placement scheme of OFSs on a MAV is proposed. After establishing the measurement equations, an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is applied to estimate the flight states of the MAV. Simulation results show that the flight states can be estimated accurately and quickly. The initial error between the true values and the estimations will be distinguished in about 4 seconds. Using the estimations as feedbacks, the autopilot can control the MAV effectively. Optimal placement scheme of OFSs is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130137911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods of target motion estimation for AUV target tracking","authors":"Wang Ying, W. Hongjian, Li Chun, Li Qing","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558897","url":null,"abstract":"When the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) perform underwater target tracking tasks, it is hard to guarantee the tracking accuracy because of the complexity and changefulness of the motion of the target. To overcome this problem, the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and particle filter (PF) is designed by using Kalman filtering and particle filtering method, and both the typical motion model and nonlinear stochastic motion model of the target has been established. Now by analyzing the data collected from the forward looking sonar, the motion track can be estimated by the two filters. Finally, the simulation experiments for the nonlinear random motion have been conducted based on Matlab respectively, the results show that the estimation accuracy of UKF and PF is significantly higher that of EKF, thus the validity of the estimation of target motion by using the unscented Kalman filter and particle filter is verified.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122904830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huadong Zheng, M. Cong, Dong Liu, Yi Liu, Yuqing Du
{"title":"Automatic path and trajectory planning for laser cladding robot based on CAD","authors":"Huadong Zheng, M. Cong, Dong Liu, Yi Liu, Yuqing Du","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558757","url":null,"abstract":"The robot path planning for forming complex parts is one of the key techniques in coaxial laser cladding powder. In this paper, a method of automatic robot path generation from CAD (computer aided design) is proposed. The size information and topological information of the CAD model are extracted. The redundant vertexes are removed. The new vertexes are ordered and traversed by binary tree algorithm model. The topological relations between vertexes, edges and faces are established. The CAD model and the robot path are displayed with OpenGL. The comparison and analysis between contour planning and hyperbolic curve planning are completed. The simulation shows the feasibility and validity of the path generation based on CAD. A new way of automatic robot path generation from CAD model is given and the efficiency of the robot cladding is improved.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115651773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research review on energy storage technology","authors":"Youjie Ma, Peilin Yang, Xuesong Zhou, Zhiqiang Gao","doi":"10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558553","url":null,"abstract":"The study of high-value applications promising energy storage technology has been closely watched scientific community and the business community, which has become one of the hotspots of international energy research community. This paper describes the classification of energy storage technology, we discussed its working principle, technical status, development prospects and the advantages and disadvantages. To provide a reference for further study of energy storage technology.","PeriodicalId":260197,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125210971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}