Download or read book Multisensor Fusion A Minimal Representation Framework written by Rajive Joshi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-12-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fusion of information from sensors with different physical characteristics, such as sight, touch, sound, etc., enhances the understanding of our surroundings and provides the basis for planning, decision-making, and control of autonomous and intelligent machines.The minimal representation approach to multisensor fusion is based on the use of an information measure as a universal yardstick for fusion. Using models of sensor uncertainty, the representation size guides the integration of widely varying types of data and maximizes the information contributed to a consistent interpretation.In this book, the general theory of minimal representation multisensor fusion is developed and applied in a series of experimental studies of sensor-based robot manipulation. A novel application of differential evolutionary computation is introduced to achieve practical and effective solutions to this difficult computational problem.
Download or read book Differential Evolution written by Kenneth Price and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems demanding globally optimal solutions are ubiquitous, yet many are intractable when they involve constrained functions having many local optima and interacting, mixed-type variables. The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a practical approach to global numerical optimization which is easy to understand, simple to implement, reliable, and fast. Packed with illustrations, computer code, new insights, and practical advice, this volume explores DE in both principle and practice. It is a valuable resource for professionals needing a proven optimizer and for students wanting an evolutionary perspective on global numerical optimization.
Download or read book Multisensor Data Fusion written by Hassen Fourati and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multisensor Data Fusion: From Algorithms and Architectural Design to Applications covers the contemporary theory and practice of multisensor data fusion, from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge techniques drawn from a broad array of disciplines. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading data fusion researchers and academicians, this authoritative book: Presents state-of-the-art advances in the design of multisensor data fusion algorithms, addressing issues related to the nature, location, and computational ability of the sensors Describes new materials and achievements in optimal fusion and multisensor filters Discusses the advantages and challenges associated with multisensor data fusion, from extended spatial and temporal coverage to imperfection and diversity in sensor technologies Explores the topology, communication structure, computational resources, fusion level, goals, and optimization of multisensor data fusion system architectures Showcases applications of multisensor data fusion in fields such as medicine, transportation's traffic, defense, and navigation Multisensor Data Fusion: From Algorithms and Architectural Design to Applications is a robust collection of modern multisensor data fusion methodologies. The book instills a deeper understanding of the basics of multisensor data fusion as well as a practical knowledge of the problems that can be faced during its execution.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques written by Segall, Richard S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital age has presented an exponential growth in the amount of data available to individuals looking to draw conclusions based on given or collected information across industries. Challenges associated with the analysis, security, sharing, storage, and visualization of large and complex data sets continue to plague data scientists and analysts alike as traditional data processing applications struggle to adequately manage big data. The Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques is a critical scholarly resource that explores big data analytics and technologies and their role in developing a broad understanding of issues pertaining to the use of big data in multidisciplinary fields. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as architecture patterns, programing systems, and computational energy, this publication is geared towards professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research and application topics on the subject.
Download or read book Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of Systems written by Alex Meystel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differential Evolution in Electromagnetics written by Anyong Qing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential evolution has proven itself a very simple while very powerful stochastic global optimizer. It has been applied to solve problems in many scientific and engineering fields. This book focuses on applications of differential evolution in electromagnetics to showcase its achievement and capability in solving synthesis and design problems in electromagnetics.Topics covered in this book include:• A comprehensive up-to-date literature survey on differential evolution• A systematic description of differential evolution• A topical review on applications of differential evolution in electromagnetics• Five new application examplesThis book is ideal for electromagnetic researchers and people in differential evolution community. It is also a valuable reference book for researchers and students in the optimization or electrical and electronic engineering field. In addition, managers and engineers in relevant fields will find it a helpful introductory guide.
Download or read book Knowledge Discovery Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management written by Ana Fred and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2012. The 29 best papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 347 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development; knowledge management and information sharing.
Download or read book Differential Evolution written by Anyong Qing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential evolution is a very simple but very powerful stochastic optimizer. Since its inception, it has proved very efficient and robust in function optimization and has been applied to solve problems in many scientific and engineering fields. In Differential Evolution , Dr. Qing begins with an overview of optimization, followed by a state-of-the-art review of differential evolution, including its fundamentals and up-to-date advances. He goes on to explore the relationship between differential evolution strategies, intrinsic control parameters, non-intrinsic control parameters, and problem features through a parametric study. Findings and recommendations on the selection of strategies and intrinsic control parameter values are presented. Lastly, after an introductory review of reported applications in electrical and electronic engineering fields, different research groups demonstrate how the methods can be applied to such areas as: multicast routing, multisite mapping in grid environments, antenna arrays, analog electric circuit sizing, electricity markets, stochastic tracking in video sequences, and color quantization. Contains a systematic and comprehensive overview of differential evolution Reviews the latest differential evolution research Describes a comprehensive parametric study conducted over a large test bed Shows how methods can be practically applied to mobile communications grid computing circuits image processing power engineering Sample applications demonstrated by research groups in the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Turkey, China, and Eastern Europe Provides access to companion website with code examples for download Differential Evolution is ideal for application engineers, who can use the methods described to solve specific engineering problems. It is also a valuable reference for post-graduates and researchers working in evolutionary computation, design optimization and artificial intelligence. Researchers in the optimization field or engineers and managers involved in operations research will also find the book a helpful introduction to the topic.
Download or read book Advances In Computational Intelligence Theory And Applications written by Fei-yue Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Intelligence (CI) is a recently emerging area in fundamental and applied research, exploiting a number of advanced information processing technologies that mainly embody neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation. With a major concern to exploiting the tolerance for imperfection, uncertainty, and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost, it becomes evident that composing methods of CI should be working concurrently rather than separately. It is this conviction that research on the synergism of CI paradigms has experienced significant growth in the last decade with some areas nearing maturity while many others remaining unresolved. This book systematically summarizes the latest findings and sheds light on the respective fields that might lead to future breakthroughs.
Download or read book Advanced Studies Of Flexible Robotic Manipulators Modeling Design Control And Applications written by Yanqing Gao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible robotic manipulators pose various challenges in research as compared to rigid robotic manipulators, ranging from system design, structural optimization, and construction to modeling, sensing, and control. Although significant progress has been made in many aspects over the last one-and-a-half decades, many issues are not resolved yet, and simple, effective, and reliable controls of flexible manipulators still remain an open quest. Clearly, further efforts and results in this area will contribute significantly to robotics (particularly automation) as well as its application and education in general control engineering. To accelerate this process, the leading experts in this important area present in this book the state of the art in advanced studies of the design, modeling, control and applications of flexible manipulators.
Download or read book Network based Distributed Planning Using Coevolutionary Algorithms written by Raj Subbu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, efficient and scalable coevolutionary algorithms for distributed, network-based decision-making, which utilize objective functions are developed in a networked environment where internode communications are a primary factor in system performance. A theoretical foundation for this class of coevolutionary algorithms is introduced using techniques from stochastic process theory and mathematical analysis. A case study in distributed, network-based decision-making presents an implementation and detailed evaluation of the coevolutionary decision-making framework that incorporates distributed evolutionary agents and mobile agents. The methodology discussed in this book can have a fundamental impact on the principles and practice of engineering in the distributed, network-based environment that is emerging within and among corporate enterprise systems. In addition, the conceptual framework of the approach to distributed decision systems described may have much wider implications for network-based systems and applications. Contents: Background and Related Work; Problem Formulation and Analysis; Theory and Analysis of Evolutionary Optimization; Theory and Analysis of Distributed Coevolutionary Optimization; Performance Evaluation Based on Ideal Objectives; Coevolutionary Virtual Design Environment; Evaluation and Analysis. Readership: Researchers and engineers in artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation and decision sciences.
Download or read book Advances in Computational Intelligence written by Fei-Yue Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Intelligence (CI) is a recently emerging area in fundamental and applied research, exploiting a number of advanced information processing technologies that mainly embody neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation. With a major concern to exploiting the tolerance for imperfection, uncertainty, and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost, it becomes evident that composing methods of CI should be working concurrently rather than separately. It is this conviction that research on the synergism of CI paradigms has experienced significant growth in the last decade with some areas nearing maturity while many others remaining unresolved. This book systematically summarizes the latest findings and sheds light on the respective fields that might lead to future breakthroughs. Contents: A Quest for Granular Computing and Logic Processing (W Pedrycz); Abstraction and Linguistic Analysis of Conventional Numerical Dynamic Systems (F-Y Wang); Slicing: A Distributed Learning Approach (S A Eschrich & L O Hall); Marginal Learning Algorithms in Statistical Machine Learning (Q Tao & J Wang); Constraint Handling in Genetic Algorithm for Optimization (G G Yen); Hybrid PSO-EA Algorithm for Training Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks for Challenging Problems (X Cai et al.); Modular Wavelet-Fuzzy Networks (Y Lin & F-Y Wang); Ant Colony Algorithms: The State-of-the-Art (J Zhang et al.); Motif Discoveries in DNA and Protein Sequences Using Self-Organizing Neural Networks (D Liu & X Xiong); Computational Complexities of Combinatorial Problems with Applications to Reverse Engineering of Biological Networks (P Berman et al.); Advances in Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms with Application (J Tian et al.); Adaptation and Predictive Control Observed in Neuromuscular Control Systems (J He); Robust Adaptive Approximation Based Backstepping via Localized Adaptive Bounding (Y Zhao & J A Farrell); Dynamically Connected Fuzzy Single Input Rule Modules and Application to Underactuated Systems (J Yi et al.). Readership: Researchers, graduate and senior level undergraduate students in electrical & electronic engineering, computer engineering, neural networks, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Robotics State Of The Art And Future Challenges written by George A Bekey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of an assessment of the state of robotics in Japan, South Korea, Western Europe and Australia and a comparison of robotics R&D programs in these countries with those in the United States. The comparisons include areas like robotic vehicles, space robotics, service robots, humanoid robots, networked robots, and robots for biological and medical applications, and based on criteria such as quality, scope, funding and commercialization. This important study identifies a number of areas where the traditional lead of the United States is being overtaken by developments in other countries./a
Download or read book Entropy In Control Engineering written by George N Saridis and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to couple control engineering with modern developments in science, through the concept of entropy. Such disciplines as intelligent machines, economics, manufacturing, environmental systems, waste etc. can be favorably affected and their performance can be improved or their catastrophic effects minimized. Entropy is used as the unifying measure of the various, seemingly disjoint, disciplines to represent the cost of producing work that improves the standard of living, both in engineering and in science. Modeling is done through probabilistic methods, thus establishing the irreversibility of the processes involved. This is in accordance with the modern view of science. In addition, the behavior of control for an arbitrary but fixed controller away from the optimal (equilibrium) has been obtained, the analytic expression of which should lead to chaotic solutions. The control activity is explained, based on the principle that control is making a system do what we want it to do. This helps to relate control theory with the sciences.
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