{"title":"Facility locations revisited: An efficient belief propagation approach","authors":"Wenye Li, Linli Xu, Dale Schuurmans","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585318","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the fixed-charge facility location problem---an important problem in logistics and operations research that has wide application to many areas of commerce and industry. The problem is to locate a small number of facilities among nodes in a network to provide good service to the client nodes while confining the total construction cost. The problem is NP-hard, but of sufficient importance to warrant developing practical heuristics. To handle large instances, we propose an algorithm based on recent advances in belief propagation and graphical models. In particular, we adapt a form of affinity propagation to approximate the problem at hand. Our experimental results demonstrate significant improvements over other popular heuristics for large-scale facility location problems.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127275467","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 new camera calibration method for multi-camera localization","authors":"Bo Sun, Qing He, Chao Hu, M. Meng","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585376","url":null,"abstract":"Camera calibration is a necessary step in 3D computer vision in order to extract metric information from 2D images. In the camera calibration applying to multi-camera localization, it's prerequisite that all cameras, which mounted apart from each other, must observe the whole calibration object simultaneously. However, it's inconvenient to satisfy using traditional 3D or 2D calibration objects. In the paper, we propose a new calibration object contains five points placed in the shape of ‘+’. Meanwhile the calibration method based on the new object is also presented. Our calibration object is a midway between 1-D and 2-D calibration objects. Furthermore, in the procedure of calibration, the calibration object can be freely moved.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130497884","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}
Jun Zhang, Li Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Hu, Jianwei Zhang
{"title":"Integrating HTN planner in cleaning-security robot: Handling planning with memory and problem template","authors":"Jun Zhang, Li Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Hu, Jianwei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585384","url":null,"abstract":"As the pioneers of robots for family services, the current cleaning and security robots cannot implement high-level and multi-task planning; an efficient solution to adapt the dynamic environments of household work is desired. To deal with this issue and enhance the flexibility of robots with partial observability, a HTN (Hierarchical Task Network) -based semantic planner integrating the robot's control system is developed in this paper. An approach for handling the planning with incomplete information and exception is proposed by using the robots' memory and problem template. Finally, several experiments demonstrate that the approach is applicable in an unstructured house environment.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127886073","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":"FPGA based real-time adaptive fuzzy logic controller","authors":"Aws Abu-Khudhair, R. Muresan, Simon X. Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585344","url":null,"abstract":"Fuzzy logic based control systems provide a simple and efficient method to control highly complex and imprecise systems. However, the lack of a simple hardware design that is capable of modifying the fuzzy controller's parameters to adapt for any changes in the operation environment, or behavior of the plant system limits the applicability of fuzzy based control systems in the automotive and industrial environments. The design and implementation of an FPGA based fuzzy logic controller, that allows real-time modification of its membership functions and rule base is introduced in this paper. The development of the controller's architecture is carried out on a National Instruments Intelligent DAQ board (PCI-7833R) with a reconfigurable Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA. The proposed design combines the performance advantages of existing static FPGA based fuzzy control architectures, with the flexibility and ease of implementation of conventional micro-controllers and general purpose processors. To test the efficiency of the controller and its ability to stabilize a highly dynamic system, a semi-active suspension system was developed. Simulation results for the proposed FPGA controller showed a 56% characteristic enhancement over the standard passive suspension system.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117196240","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 novel wireless capsule endoscope with JPEG compression engine","authors":"Chang Cheng, Zhiyong Liu, Chao Hu, M. Meng","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585345","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the quality of images collected by the wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) and to decrease the system energy consumption, we proposed a novel design of WCE. This WCE system integrates a CMOS sensor with an optional JPEG compression engine, a low power consumption high-performance micro-controller and an ultra low power RF transceiver in a small capsule (less than 10mm× 25mm). Experiment results show that this WCE system can collect much more images with its JPEG compression engine and the image quality can also be improved. In this paper, we will introduce the architecture of the WCE system. The experiment results and the performances of the system will also be presented.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124294115","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":"Immune genetic algorithm for flexible job-shop scheduling problem","authors":"Jia Ma, Yunlong Zhu, Gang Shi","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585331","url":null,"abstract":"An kind of immune genetic algorithm(IGA) is proposed for solving the flexible job-shop scheduling problem(FJSP). Based on the globalsearching method of classic genetic algorithm (SG), and using the diversity preservation strategy of antibodies in biology immunity mechanism, the method greatly improves the colony diversity of GA and compared to genetic algorithm. The results show that immune genetic algorithm performs better in aspect of global and local search ability and search speed.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124317370","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":"Anomalies in business process models for mobile scenarios with Location Constraints","authors":"Haiying Che, M. Decker","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585300","url":null,"abstract":"One of the salient characteristic of business processes from the domain of logistics is the physical mobility of the actors. However, the graphical notations to depict business processes available so far do not provide support to express the spatial dimension. In this article at hand we therefore introduce an extension to Activity Diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which supports defining several types of so called Location Constraints. Such a location constraint makes a statement about the eligible location(s) of an actor for individual activities. After an exemplification of this modeling approach with a scenario from the domain of logistics the article turns towards a discussion how location constraints assigned to an activity diagram can be checked against anomalies.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124434404","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}
M. Roman, D. Selișteanu, E. Petre, C. Ionete, D. Popescu
{"title":"Modeling and estimation strategies for a fed-batch prototype bioprocess","authors":"M. Roman, D. Selișteanu, E. Petre, C. Ionete, D. Popescu","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585391","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the Bond Graph modeling and the design of estimation strategies for a nonlinear fed-batch prototype bioprocess. The proposed strategies are developed for an aerobic microbial growth process coupled with an enzyme-catalyzed reaction, which is a usual bioprocess that takes place in fed-batch bioreactors. The rules for the design of pseudo Bond Graph model are obtained by using the reaction schemes and the analysis of biochemical phenomena. Two kinds of on-line estimation strategies are approached. First, a general state observer is analyzed and the exponential observability of the bioprocess is tested; two state estimation algorithms are designed: an extended Luenberger observer and an asymptotic observer. Second, an observer-based estimator is derived for the estimation of unknown kinetics. In order to test the behavior of proposed strategies, numerical simulations are included.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124550967","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":"Coordination optimization-based decoupling control for a multi-degree of freedom hydraulic system","authors":"Yang Yong, Lian Yuzhong, Wang Zhongsheng","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585296","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) hydraulic systems normally consist of multiple hydraulic actuators. Motion synchronization among the multiple hydraulic actuators is crucial to determine the control performance in the applications of MDOF hydraulic systems. A coordination optimization-based decoupling control has been proposed and applied to a MDOF hydraulic system. A model of the MDOF hydraulic system is first presented. The proposed control method considers the interaction between two hydraulic actuators. The coordination optimization-based decoupling controller combines the merits of decoupling control, coordination-based integral as well as Gaussian coordination optimization. The satisfying dynamical and steady-state control performances as well as obvious alleviating interaction effectiveness are obtained.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122773064","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":"Decentralized control for small-scaled conveyor modules with cellular automata","authors":"Tobias Kruhn, S. Falkenberg, L. Overmeyer","doi":"10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585288","url":null,"abstract":"In-plant material handling faces new challenges due to fast changing material flows and small lot sizes. Small-scaled, multi-directional conveyor modules which are smaller than the goods to be transported provide outstanding flexibility. This paper presents a decentralized, self-organizing control for these modules based on cellular automata. To fulfill the transportation task, each module participates in the solution process. The presented control makes the system easy to reconfigure and scalable. Simulations show, that a complex system behavior emerges from simple rules defining the cellular automaton.","PeriodicalId":393739,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809180","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}