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This paper presents a new solution for a field-reconfigurable modular micro mobile robot. The robot design encompasses some new attributes. It is small enough that it can be used for searching in tight spaces, where humans cannot easily reach and the ...

This research develops and analyzes a new three degree of freedom parallel robotic structured hip exoskeleton. Compared with a typical exoskeleton designed as a serial mechanism for the entire leg or entire body, the parallel mechanism is a structure ...

The development of new compliant parallel mechanism (CPM) based on simulation driven design is a rapid approach to discover the unique features or advantages of conceptual model. In this research, a novel CPM which can generate three degrees-of-freedom ...

This paper presents a novel design of a three degrees of freedom (DOFs) MEMS-based precision manipulator. The purpose of the manipulator is to position a microscope tool on the work plate doing small movement tasks. A parallel kinematic mechanism with ...

Radio fingerprint matching localization method promises high localization accuracy but requires extensive infrastructural effort and search operations. This paper proposes a new search strategy for radio fingerprint matching method, which sharply ...

In this study, an real-time multiple-vehicle detection and tracking system in complex environments with automatic lane detection and reducing shadow effects is proposed. First, lane marks can be automatically detected, and this automation makes the ...

Cycloid reducers compared with classical reducers have low axial and radial gauge, high transmission ratio, and a better reliability. Cycloid gearing roller, through its qualities, has an important role in modern mechanical transmissions. The difference ...

Current research for Learning From Demonstration (LfD) seems to concentrate on the learning kernel. This paper outlines the need for a more useful variable selection technique using the training dataset. The paper presents a new training dataset ...

This paper proposes a robust video watermarking for H.264/AVC using block polarity and AC correlation schemes. In the proposed method, the intra frames are used for watermarking embedding and protection. Block polarity is obtained using the nonzero ...

In the paper, we proposed a gender recognition scheme based on color information. The proposed gender recognition scheme is comprised of four parts: face detection, eye detection, feature extraction, and gender classifier. To evaluate the proposed ...

Virtual colonoscopy (VC) is a safe and fast medical imaging procedure to screen the colon for polyps. And it has become very popular recently. Colon segmentation is a necessary and important step of such an examination procedure. In this paper, an ...

C-means had been used for data clustering problems for recently years. However, if it uses the non-robust objective function of FCM (Fuzzy C-Means), we will get poor result if data corrupted because some noises. To improve these problems, this paper ...

The identification of bloodstains in color images is critical in some accident investigation cases. A suspected bloodstain segmentation method was proposed in this study. The algorithm transforms the RGB to the YCgCr color space after the image ...

This paper presented a novel modular recognition method, which was the Fuzzy Neural Network Inference Recognition (FNNIR) method based on the total matching degree computing of multi-features. The Modular Recognition Functional Component (MRFC) was ...

Based on wireless local area networks (WLAN), this paper presents the navigation of a robotic wheelchair. We propose a radio based robot localization with a particle filter by using received signal strength from WLAN. An intelligent strategy is proposed ...

This paper presents a 4-axis robot system model which is analyzed from kinematic aspect and simulated by SimulationX. Firstly, the robot kinematics model is established and robot workspace is obtained based on the robot kinematics analysis by means of ...

Computer programming is one of the major skills required for engineering students. This research focuses on developing a programming method that combines static interaction with dynamic interaction. The static interaction procedure shows the program ...

Time-frequency analysis is one of the most important and commonly used analytical tools for evaluating physiological signals. In the past, many researchers investigated the effect of meditation on stress relief and disease improvement. In this research, ...

This study proposes a "pure skill-based" fuzzy logic control (FLC) approach to reverse a car-like mobile robot(CLMR) into an empty parking bay automatically. The FLC approach was expressed in the form of fuzzy rules based on the knowledge of skilled ...

Visual odometry is an effective method to localize the mobile robotic vehicles. This paper presents GLS and RMKF based visual odometry for a UUV platform, to realize local-area localization or navigation, and a certain underwater experimental results ...

Machine vision system, which is an important part in robotic soccer. During the period of the competition, for real color, it is easily to cause the robot vision unable, for example, misrecognizing or error recognition under the different brightness. ...

A design of the sliding surfaces for the position tracking control problem for two-link robot manipulator based on the Lyapunov stability theorem, the back stepping control (BC) and the sliding mode control (SMC) is addressed. By applying the adaptive ...

This paper presents a new method for improving the positioning precision of micro-assembly system. The spatial positioning precision is extremely requested for the micro-manufacturing applications. Therefore, develop an optimum method to improve the ...

Integrating machine vision and motion control method into a double layers alignment system is a popular issue in flat panel display and semiconductor industry. An ultra-low stage is considered to compensate the posture between the upper and nether ...

The parallel robots have attracted many researchers attention for its great potential in high speed pick-and-place operation. In this paper, a short description about the development and construction of parallel robot in Metal Industries Research and ...