{"title":"Fractional Order Flight Control of Quadrotor UAS: an OS4 Benchmark Environment and a Case Study","authors":"Bo Shang, Yunzhou Zhang, Chengdong Wu, Y. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581196","url":null,"abstract":"The OS4 quadrotor is a classic quadrotor simulation platform. So far, many different kinds of controllers have been designed based on its plant model. Most of the research only provided a numerical simulation to verify their designed controllers. Only a few researches have put the proposed controllers back to OS4 quadrotor to verify, but they didn't share the project folder to let others continue their work. More open-source and well-documented codes are needed to accelerate the application of fractional order controllers in industry. This paper updated the OS4 folder for the latest MATLAB version. A case of study demonstrated the workflow to design a fractional order proportional derivative controller for the simulated drone. Comparisons showed that fractional order controllers perform better in a nonlinear system like OS4 than integer order PID controllers. An impulse disturbance scenario is also used as a testbed. Project folder can be accessed from: https://ww2.mathworks.cn/matlabcentral/fileexchange/67882-os4-foc. Related videos can be found from this link: https://youtu.be/heuz4tFqf64.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"16 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":"126647659","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}
Shudong Xie, Yiqun Li, Qianli Xu, Fen Fang, Liyuan Li
{"title":"Image-based Parking Place Identification for Regulating Shared Bicycle Parking","authors":"Shudong Xie, Yiqun Li, Qianli Xu, Fen Fang, Liyuan Li","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581276","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel method and system to prevent indiscriminate parking of dockless shared bicycles using location-based geo-fencing and image-based parking place identification. The geo-fencing is used to define the approximate regions for different types of bicycle parking regulations. The parking place identification uses a method based on deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) to automatically identify designated bicycle parking places from photos captured by the cyclist using a mobile phone. Combining these two modalities, the parking of shared bicycles can be restricted in designated zones in various environments. Experiments are conducted using photos taken from the designated parking places with different parking indications at various locations. We evaluate the performance of the image-based parking place identification and use heatmaps to analyze potential features that are exploit by the DCNN models. The method achieves high performance on the testing dataset; and the features used for parking place identification are largely consistent with human perceptions.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"73 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":"127240036","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":"Parameter Identification of Blimp Dynamics through Swinging Motion","authors":"Qiuyang Tao, Jaeseok Cha, Mengxue Hou, Fumin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581376","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor miniature autonomous blimp (MAB) is a small-sized aerial platform with outstanding safety and flight endurance. A detailed six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) dynamics model is critical for controller design and motion simulation. This paper presents the identification of the rotation-related parameters of the blimp dynamics model through swing motion of the robot. A pendulum-like grey box model is constructed to identify the parameters from physical measurements and system identification experiments. The pendulum-like dynamics model with identified parameters is then linearized for future controller design and validated with experimental data.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"87 11 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":"127994604","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":"Manipulation of Lotus-root Fiber Based Soft Helical Microswimmers Using Rotating Gradient Field","authors":"Meng Su, Tiantian Xu, Jia Liu, Laliphat Manamanchaiyaporn, Yanming Guan, Zhiming Hao, Xinyu Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581209","url":null,"abstract":"Untethered and wirelessly-controlled microrobots have many applications in the field of biomedicine. Therefore, many laboratories and scientists have invested more scientific research into magnetic microrobots which can make more contributions to medical care. Many magnetic field devices and microrobots are manufactured. In the development of micro-robots, helical microrobots have been well developed. Rigid-body robots account for the majority of these, but they may cause damage to human organs during treatment. However, soft and deformable robots can relieve more medical restrictions. In general, helical microrobots are driven by uniform fields which have their own limitations while the gradient magnetic field can relieve more restrictions and have more functions. This paper presents a flexible deformable helical swimmer controlled in a rotating gradient magnetic field. Helical swimmers are covered with magnetic nano-particles and the helical structure is derived from the inner fiber structure of the lotus root. The soft helical swimmers are controlled to swim several special trajectories in the rotating gradient magnetic field and we analyze the frequency and other factors for velocity or other effects.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"131 s214","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132905584","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":"An Intelligent Human Activity Recognition Method with Incremental Learning Capability for Bedridden Patients","authors":"Shengwei Luo, Chunhui Zhao, Yongji Fu","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581232","url":null,"abstract":"Human activity recognition (HAR) is now valuable for bedridden patients to prevent falling, bedsore or other dangerous situation. This work proposes an intelligent broad learning system (BLS) recognition method based on the random vector functional-link neural network (RVFLNN) to identify the actions of bedridden patients. And the actions cover six types, including turning over to left, turning over to right, sitting up, lying down, stretching out for something and exiting from the bed. With the data collected from four pressure sensors that installed at four corners of an intelligent nursing bed, first, some pivotal preprocessing such as median filtering and down sampling are adopted to make a good performance. Then sparse auto encoder (SAE) is adopted for feature extraction. Finally, the RVFLNN is used for classification. Besides, for both new samples and new categories, the proposed method offers an incremental learning ability that can easily update the model with no need of model retaining. Compared with the convolutional neural network (CNN), the proposed method has superiority in training time while the accuracy is guaranteed.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"256 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":"114942370","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":"Outlier Detection using Hierarchical Spatial Verification for Visual Place Recognition","authors":"M. Yuan, Zhengguo Li, K. Wan, W. Yau","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581070","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial verification is a key step to remove outliers for accurate feature matching in visual place recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel method for outlier detection using a hierarchical spatial verification scheme. Given a set of putative correspondences between a pair of images, we convert the matching problem into a 4D transformation space and identify promising similarity transformations using Hough voting. In the hierarchical scheme, we first use a hypothesize-and-verify technique to identify groups of correspondences according to each similarity transformation. Second, the group with the largest number of correspondences serves as a standard to subsequently remove outliers in other groups by explicit geometric consistency checking. We have compared the proposed method with the state-of-the-art solutions on five popular public datasets to show that our method has better performance in place recognition and loop closure detection.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"8 2 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":"130630862","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}
Xiaowei Fu, Jing Pan, Xiao-guang Gao, Bin Li, Jun Chen, Kun Zhang
{"title":"Task Allocation Method for Multi-UAV Teams with Limited Communication Bandwidth","authors":"Xiaowei Fu, Jing Pan, Xiao-guang Gao, Bin Li, Jun Chen, Kun Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581161","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) team often needs to perform some certain tasks cooperatively. In the process of UAVs performing these tasks, the bandwidth of the communication network will affect the task assignment results, then the problem of task allocation for multi-UAV teams under the condition of limited communication bandwidth is considered. For a target, UAVs need to perform reconnaissance, attack and assessment tasks in coordination. The Consensus-Based Bundle Algorithm(CBBA) requires each task is assigned to no more than one UAV, so this paper extends CBBA by duplicating cooperative tasks to modify the task list and adding a judgment mechanism to ensure the uniqueness of the duplicate tasks' allocation in order to achieve the purpose of allocating multiple UAVs to the same task. At the same time, this paper utilizes a bid warping link to improve the algorithm performance and applies CBBA in asynchronous environment to reduce communication burden. Simulation results show that this improved algorithm is feasible and more efficient to improve the task allocation result for multi-UAVs teams with fewer messages transmission and a larger global reward.","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":"130799611","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":"Sampled-Data Control for Optimal Gain Margin of Cart Inverted Pendulum System: Comparison with Continuous-Time Control","authors":"Sananda Chatterjee, Sarit K. Das","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581364","url":null,"abstract":"Seeking to robustly stabilize the cart-inverted-pendulum (CIP) system in the discrete domain, this paper first obtains, via an iterative approach for a sampling rate $T$, the controller that achieves a multiloop gain margin optimization that is analogous to what has been achieved via continuous-domain in [13]. Unlike what may be expected, however, the optimal gain margins obtained are not found to improve monotonically with reduction in $T$. Consequently the optimal $T$ and the corresponding discrete-domain controller that maximizes the gain margin is obtained. The same, moreover, is found to be superior to what the optimal continuous-domain design yields. An explanation for this counter intuitive observation is provided. This has also been verified using physical implementation.","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":"132907109","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":"Semantic Grid Estimation with Occupancy Grids and Semantic Segmentation Networks","authors":"Ö. Erkent, Christian Wolf, C. Laugier","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581180","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method to estimate the semantic grid for an autonomous vehicle. The semantic grid is a 2D bird's eye view map where the grid cells contain semantic characteristics such as road, car, pedestrian, signage, etc. We obtain the semantic grid by fusing the semantic segmentation information and an occupancy grid computed by using a Bayesian filter technique. To compute the semantic information from a monocular RGB image, we integrate segmentation deep neural networks into our model. We use a deep neural network to learn the relation between the semantic information and the occupancy grid which can be trained end-to-end extending our previous work on semantic grids. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of using a conditional random field to refine the results. Finally, we test our method on two datasets and compare different architecture types for semantic segmentation. We perform the experiments on KITTI dataset and Inria-Chroma dataset.","PeriodicalId":395380,"journal":{"name":"2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)","volume":"26 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":"128215882","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":"An Intelligent Torque Vectoring performance evaluation comparison for electric vehicles","authors":"A. Parra, A. Zubizarreta, Joshué Pérez","doi":"10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARCV.2018.8581190","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have become one of the main research areas, being electric vehicles (EVs) and automated vehicles key topics. To guarantee safety and comfort and maximize their efficiency, proper vehicle dynamics control systems such as Torque Vectoring (TV) are mandatory. This work proposes an intelligent TV approach for EVs which considers the vertical force distribution among the tractive wheels. This approach allows to maximize vehicle cornering capacity and also its efficiency. In order to demonstrate its effectiveness, its performance is compared using Dynacar High Fidelity vehicle simulator with three traditional approaches found in the literature: PID, Second Order Sliding Mode Control (SOSMC) and Fuzzy Control. Results show that all evaluated controllers improve the handling of the vehicle and the efficiency with respect to the baseline vehicle. However, the proposed intelligent TV system provides better overall results.","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":"131626535","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}