{"title":"Consensus conditions of continuous-time multi-agent systems under the $G$-expectation frame","authors":"Li Zhang, Shuai Liu, Xin Tai","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581137","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the control problem of multi-agent systems with additive noises in the uncertain situation, (which means we are not sure about a particular probability space.) With mild condition, both $G$-mean square convergence and $G$-mean square steady-state error are analyzed by graph theory and $G$-martingale convergence. Different from classical probability, weak convergence in capacity and weak convergence in capacity 1 are considered.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"09 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130416757","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}
Li Wang, Ruifeng Li, Jingwen Sun, S. H. Soon, C. K. Quah, Lijun Zhao
{"title":"Feature-Based and Convolutional Neural Network Fusion Method for Visual Relocalization","authors":"Li Wang, Ruifeng Li, Jingwen Sun, S. H. Soon, C. K. Quah, Lijun Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581204","url":null,"abstract":"Relocalization is one of the necessary modules for mobile robots in long-term autonomous movement in an environment. Currently, visual relocalization algorithms mainly include feature-based methods and CNN-based (Convolutional Neural Network) methods. Feature-based methods can achieve high localization accuracy in feature-rich scenes, but the error is quite large or it even fails in cases with motion blur, texture-less scene and changing view angle. CNN-based methods usually have better robustness but poor localization accuracy. For this reason, a visual relocalization algorithm that combines the advantages of the two methods is proposed in this paper. The BoVW (Bag of Visual Words) model is used to search for the most similar image in the training dataset. PnP (Perspective n Points) and RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus) are employed to estimate an initial pose. Then the number of inliers is utilized as a criterion whether the feature-based method or the CNN-based method is to be leveraged. Compared with a previous CNN-based method, PoseNet, the average position error is reduced by 45.6% and the average orientation error is reduced by 67.4% on Microsoft's 7-Scenes datasets, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130494632","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}
T. T. Huan, Khuu Bach Thy, Nguyen Ho Hieu Trung, H. Anh
{"title":"Stable Gait Optimization for Small-Sized Humanoid Robot Using CFO","authors":"T. T. Huan, Khuu Bach Thy, Nguyen Ho Hieu Trung, H. Anh","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581188","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new way to optimize the gait design for human robots that allows stable stepping with preset foot-lifting magnitude. The novel Central Force Optimization (CFO) algorithm is used to optimize the gait parameters to help humanoid robot walk steadily. The efficiency of the proposed method is compared with the GA-Genetic Algorithm, PSO-Particle Swarm Optimization and improved differential evolution algorithm (MDE-Modified Differential Evolution). The simulated and experimental results applied on the small-sized humanoid robot show that the newly proposed algorithm offers an efficient and stable gait for humanoid robots with accurate foot-lifting magnitude.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129179884","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}
Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Ravindra Ranasinghe, Lakshitha Dantanarayana, G. Dissanayake, Dikai Liu
{"title":"Calibration of a Rotating Laser Range Finder using Intensity Features","authors":"Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Ravindra Ranasinghe, Lakshitha Dantanarayana, G. Dissanayake, Dikai Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581350","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an algorithm for calibrating a “3D range sensor” constructed using a two-dimensional laser range finder (LRF), that is rotated about an axis using a motor to obtain a three-dimensional point cloud. The sensor assembly is modelled as a two degree of freedom open kinematic chain, with one joint corresponding to the axis of the internal mirror in the LRF and the other joint set along the axis of the motor used to rotate the body of the LRF. In the application described in this paper, the sensor unit is mounted on a robot arm used for infrastructure inspection. The objective of the calibration process is to obtain the coordinate transform required to compute the locations of the 3D points with respect to the robot coordinate frame. Proposed strategy uses observations of a set of markers arbitrarily placed in the environment. Distances between these markers are measured and a metric multidimensional scaling is used to obtain the coordinates of the markers with respect to a local coordinate frame. Intensity associated with each beam point of a laser scan is used to locate the reflective markers in the 3D point cloud and a least squares problem is formulated to compute the relationship between the robot coordinate frame, LRF coordinate frame and the marker coordinate frame. Results from experiments using the robot, LRF combination to map a cavity inside a steel bridge structure are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the calibration process.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"385 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126734361","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}
Mingyu Wang, Yaqiong Wang, Zhan Yang, Tao Chen, Lining Sun, T. Fukuda
{"title":"Detection and Compensation of Motion Error for Nanomanipulation Platform in Scanning Electron Microscope","authors":"Mingyu Wang, Yaqiong Wang, Zhan Yang, Tao Chen, Lining Sun, T. Fukuda","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581134","url":null,"abstract":"Nanomanipulation system based on scanning electron microscope(SEM) with good real-time visual feedback and nanoscale observation resolution had high operability in a vacuum working environment. Different nanomanipulation tasks of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are carried out through the nanomanipulation system in SEM. Nanomanipulation platform existed inherent manufacture errors, installation errors and other errors, and imprecise nanomanipulation system were also time-consuming and laborious for operators. This paper presentes a method of combining the visual feedback and feedforward control to detect and compensate the motion error of the multi-dimensional SmarAct nanomanipulation platform in the nanomanipulation system in SEM. This method reduces the motion error in the X-Y direction and achieved higher operating accuracy. At the different step speed, the motion error in the X direction and Y direction is 135.7nm and 112.9nm respectively. After the feedforward compensation, the motion error in the X direction and Y direction reduces to 61.3nm and 54.1nm respectively.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121499486","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}
Lei Wang, Zhengguo Li, C. Wen, Renjie He, Fanghong Guo
{"title":"Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots","authors":"Lei Wang, Zhengguo Li, C. Wen, Renjie He, Fanghong Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581239","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, reciprocal collision avoidance is studied for nonholonomic mobile robots to achieve an efficient navigation. Two strategies are proposed to respectively adjust the linear and angular velocities so that a collision-free navigation can be achieved. By characterizing the collision-free navigation as a set of changing ratios for linear velocities, it is shown that collision can be avoided if the changing ratio of linear velocities is inside this set. Moreover, the strategy of the adjusting angular velocities is established following TTC-based method. With the combination of these two strategies, a simulation is done for four robots crossing the intersection, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121539364","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":"Nash Equilibrium Seeking for Games in Hybrid Systems","authors":"Maojiao Ye","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581159","url":null,"abstract":"Nash equilibrium seeking for games in a class of hybrid systems is investigated in this paper. Different from the existing works, the players in the present game framework are composite of a set of continuous-time players and a set of discrete-time players. Nash equilibrium seeking for such a hybrid game is challenging as some players update their actions in continuous time while the remainders update their actions in discrete time. To accommodate the hybrid games, we firstly consider a case in which the players update their actions according to the hybrid gradient play (i.e., the continuous-time players update their actions according to the continuous-time gradient play with sampled information flow while the discrete-time players update their actions according to the discrete-time gradient play). Then, we consider the case in which the players have restricted access to their opponents' actions. A hybrid consensus-based strategy is proposed for this case. The stability of the Nash equilibrium under the proposed hybrid seeking strategies is theoretically proven by utilizing Lyapunov stability analysis. Lastly, the hybrid seeking strategies are validated through a numerical example.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116043042","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":"Cooperative Landing Control of Vertical Take Off and Landing Aircrafts on Oscillating Platform","authors":"Guofeng Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581377","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers a cooperative landing problem of a group of planar vertical take off and landing (PV-TOL) aircrafts to be heterogeneous with uncertain parameters. Specifically, we focus on the situation that the landing platform is oscillating and establish a cooperative landing maneuver so that each aircraft can track the platform motion in a safe height. We shall show a specific design based on cooperative output regulation theory under the modest undirected static communication topology.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123796525","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":"Camera Based Decision Making at Roundabouts for Autonomous Vehicles","authors":"Weichao Wang, Q. Meng, P. Chung","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581347","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to join roundabouts correctly is crucial for an autonomous vehicle to maintain not only its own safety but also a normal traffic order for others. In order to know the right time and speed for entering roundabouts, the location, speed and direction of the approaching vehicles need to be taken into consideration. This study investigated the feasibility of leveraging computer vision and machine learning to help autonomous vehicles decide to wait or to enter when reaching roundabouts. A grid-based image processing approach with a single camera at normal roundabouts (GBIPA-SC-NR) is proposed in this paper to characterize traffic situations that can be used for machine learning algorithms to learn the roundabout joining criteria. Video road clips recorded when human drivers reach and then join various roundabouts at different locations were utilised for this learning process, with a selection of four supervised classification algorithms (i.e. the Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, K-Nearest Neighbours, and Decision Tree). The trained classifiers using the proposed approach were evaluated on 507 test videos captured at roundabouts, where the SVM showed the best performance with a 90.28% classification accuracy. This result suggests that the proposed grid-based image processing method can be applied to effectively help autonomous vehicles made the right decision when reaching a roundabout.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124895803","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":"Performance Enhancement of Predictive Functional Control Using Disturbance Observer and Zero Phase Error Tracking Controller","authors":"T. Satoh, N. Saito, J. Nagase, N. Saga","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581128","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates a method to enhance the performance of the predictive functional control (PFC) using the disturbance observer (DOB). A control method that combines the PFC and DOB has been developed and shown to be effective in the past few years. However, there remains room for performance improvement by using a feedforward controller. Here, an approach to improving the tracking performance of the DOB-based PFC is presented by applying feedforward compensation using a zero phase error tracking controller (ZPETC). We provide the detailed background for this approach, and present properties of PFC controllers concerned with the transfer function representation. To verify the proposed method, we compare it experimentally to DOB-based and standard PFCs. We show that the tracking performance of the proposed method is much better than the other two control methods.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121475687","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}