Download or read book Probabilistic Framework for Sensor Management written by Marco Huber and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probabilistic sensor management framework is introduced, which maximizes the utility of sensor systems with many different sensing modalities by dynamically configuring the sensor system in the most beneficial way. For this purpose, techniques from stochastic control and Bayesian estimation are combined such that long-term effects of possible sensor configurations and stochastic uncertainties resulting from noisy measurements can be incorporated into the sensor management decisions.
Download or read book Learning Dynamic Systems for Intention Recognition in Human Robot Cooperation written by Peter Krauthausen and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is concerned with intention recognition for a humanoid robot and investigates how the challenges of uncertain and incomplete observations, a high degree of detail of the used models, and real-time inference may be addressed by modeling the human rationale as hybrid, dynamic Bayesian networks and performing inference with these models. The key focus lies on the automatic identification of the employed nonlinear stochastic dependencies and the situation-specific inference.
Download or read book State Estimation for Distributed Systems with Stochastic and Set membership Uncertainties written by Noack, Benjamin and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State estimation techniques for centralized, distributed, and decentralized systems are studied. An easy-to-implement state estimation concept is introduced that generalizes and combines basic principles of Kalman filter theory and ellipsoidal calculus. By means of this method, stochastic and set-membership uncertainties can be taken into consideration simultaneously. Different solutions for implementing these estimation algorithms in distributed networked systems are presented.
Download or read book Simultaneous Tracking and Shape Estimation of Extended Objects written by Baum, Marcus and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is concerned with the simultaneous tracking and shape estimation of a mobile extended object based on noisy sensor measurements. Novel methods are developed for coping with the following two main challenges: i) The computational complexity due to the nonlinearity and high-dimensionality of the problem, and ii) the lack of statistical knowledge about possible measurement sources on the extended object.
Download or read book Tracking Extended Objects in Noisy Point Clouds with Application in Telepresence Systems written by Faion, Florian and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We discuss theory and application of extended object tracking. This task is challenging as sensor noise prevents a correct association of the measurements to their sources on the object, the shape itself might be unknown a priori, and due to occlusion effects, only parts of the object are visible at a given time. We propose an approach to track the parameters of arbitrary objects, which provides new solutions to the above challenges, and marks a significant advance to the state of the art.
Download or read book Directional Estimation for Robotic Beating Heart Surgery written by Kurz, Gerhard and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In robotic beating heart surgery, a remote-controlled robot can be used to carry out the operation while automatically canceling out the heart motion. The surgeon controlling the robot is shown a stabilized view of the heart. First, we consider the use of directional statistics for estimation of the phase of the heartbeat. Second, we deal with reconstruction of a moving and deformable surface. Third, we address the question of obtaining a stabilized image of the heart.
Download or read book Haptic Guidance for Extended Range Telepresence written by Antonia Pérez Arias and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel navigation assistance for extended range telepresence is presented. The haptic information from the target environment is augmented with guidance commands to assist the user in reaching desired goals in the arbitrarily large target environment from the spatially restricted user environment. Furthermore, a semi-mobile haptic interface was developed, one whose lightweight design and setup configuration atop the user provide for an absolutely safe operation and high force display quality.
Download or read book Aviation and Human Factors written by Jose Sanchez-Alarcos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air safety is right now at a point where the chances of being killed in an aviation accident are far lower than the chances to winning a jackpot in any of the major lotteries. However, keeping or improving that performance level requires a critical analysis of some events that, despite scarce, point to structural failures in the learning process. The effect of these failures could increase soon if there is not a clear and right development path. This book tries to identify what is wrong, why there are things to fix, and some human factors principles to keep in aircraft design and operations. Features Shows, through different events, how the system learns through technology, practices, and regulations and the pitfalls of that learning process Discusses the use of information technology in safety-critical environments and why procedural knowledge is not enough Presents air safety management as a successful process, but at the same time, failures coming from technological and organizational features are shown Offers ways to improve from the human factors side by getting the right lessons from recent events
Download or read book Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Workshop of Fraunhofer IOSB and Institute for Anthropomatics Vision and Fusion Laboratory written by Jürgen Beyerer and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 15 reviewed technical reports summarizing the presentations at the 2011 Joint Workshop of Fraunhofer IOSB and Institute for Anthropomatics, Vision and Fusion Laboratory. The covered topics include image processing, optical signal processing, visual inspection, pattern recognition and classification, human-machine interaction, world and situation modeling, autonomous system localization and mapping, information fusion, and trust propagation in sensor networks.
Download or read book Intraoperative Planning and Execution of Arbitrary Orthopedic Interventions Using Handheld Robotics and Augmented Reality written by Klemm, Martin and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this work is a generic, intraoperative and image-free planning and execution application for arbitrary orthopedic interventions using a novel handheld robotic device and optical see-through glasses (AR). This medical CAD application enables the surgeon to intraoperatively plan the intervention directly on the patient's bone. The glasses and all the other instruments are accurately calibrated using new techniques. Several interventions show the effectiveness of this approach.
Download or read book Tracking Extended Objects with Active Models and Negative Measurements written by Zea Cobo, Antonio Kleber and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extended object tracking deals with estimating the shape and pose of an object based on noisy point measurements. This task is not straightforward, as we may be faced with scarce low-quality measurements, little a priori information, or we may be unable to observe the entire target. This work aims to address these challenges by incorporating ideas from active contours and exploiting information from negative measurements, which tell us where the target cannot be.
Download or read book Multitarget Tracking Using Orientation Estimation for Optical Belt Sorting written by Pfaff, Florian and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Modeling for Intelligent Autonomous Systems written by Belkin, Andrey and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The functioning of intelligent autonomous systems requires constant situation awareness and cognition analysis. Thus, it needs a memory structure that contains a description of the surrounding environment (world model) and serves as a central information hub. This book presents a row of theoretical and experimental results in the field of world modeling. This includes areas of dynamic and prior knowledge modeling, information fusion, management and qualitative/quantitative information analysis.
Download or read book Nonlinear Gaussian Filtering Theory Algorithms and Applications written by Huber, Marco and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By restricting to Gaussian distributions, the optimal Bayesian filtering problem can be transformed into an algebraically simple form, which allows for computationally efficient algorithms. Three problem settings are discussed in this thesis: (1) filtering with Gaussians only, (2) Gaussian mixture filtering for strong nonlinearities, (3) Gaussian process filtering for purely data-driven scenarios. For each setting, efficient algorithms are derived and applied to real-world problems.
Download or read book Recent Advances in Aircraft Technology written by Ramesh K. Agarwal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the state of the art and latest advancements in technologies for various areas of aircraft systems. In particular it covers wide variety of topics in aircraft structures and advanced materials, control systems, electrical systems, inspection and maintenance, avionics and radar and some miscellaneous topics such as green aviation. The authors are leading experts in their fields. Both the researchers and the students should find the material useful in their work.
Download or read book Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management written by Alfred Olivier Hero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers control theory signal processing and relevant applications in a unified manner. It introduces the area, takes stock of advances, and describes open problems and challenges in order to advance the field. The editors and contributors to this book are pioneers in the area of active sensing and sensor management, and represent the diverse communities that are targeted.
