abstract: application of atomic force microscope as a manipulator for pushing-based positioning of nano-particles has been of considerable interest during recent years. however a detailed modeling of the interaction forces and control on the afm tip is important for prosperous manipulation control, a reliable control of the afm tip position during the afm-based manipulation process is a main is...

We present improvements to the refinement stage of YANGsaf[1] (Yet ANother Glottal source analysis framework), a recently published F0 estimation algorithm by Kawahara et al., for noisy/breathy speech signals. The baseline system, based on time-warping and weighted average of multi-band instantaneous frequency estimates, is still sensitive to additive noise when none of the harmonic provide rel...

Recently, there has been increasing interest in autonomous navigation for the Unmanned Airship Vehicles (UAV) in indoor environments since they have the ability to navigate in low altitude and low speed for exploration applications. In this paper, we presented a two layer fuzzy approach to light-weight embedded blimp system navigates in unknown environment. The fuzzy rules base for the first la...

This paper is concerned with tracking state trajectory at remote controller, stability and performance of linear time-invariant noiseless dynamic systems with multiple observations over the packet erasure network subject to random packet dropout and transmission delay that does not necessarily use feedback channel full time. Three cases are considered in this paper: i) without feedback channel,...

We study the thermodynamic and structural properties of a simple, one-patch fluid model using the reference hypernetted-chain (RHNC) integral equation and specialized Monte Carlo simulations. In this model, the interacting particles are hard spheres, each of which carries a single identical, arbitrarily oriented and attractive circular patch on its surface; two spheres attract via a simple squa...

Although adaptivity, the ability to adapt, is an important property of complex computing systems, so far little thought has been given to its evaluation. In this paper we propose a framework and methodology for the definition of benefit-based adaptivity metrics. The metrics thus defined allow an informed choice between systems based on their adaptivity to be made. We demonstrate application of ...

In this paper we describe a control methodology for catching a fast moving object with a robot manipulator, where visual information is employed to track the trajectory of the target. Sensing, planning and control are performed in real-time to cope with possible unpredictable trajectory changes of the moving target, and prediction techniques are adopted to compensate the time delays introduced ...

A method of incorporating experience in iterative learning controllers is proposed in this paper. Importance of the selection of initial control input in the convergence of error is highlighted. It is proposed that if previous experience of the controller can be incorporated in the selection of the initial control input for a new desired trajectory tracking task, the convergence of error can be...