This paper presents the hardware implementation of a neural network controller for a nonlinear system. As a learning algorithm for a neural network, the reference compensation technique has been implemented on a low cost micro-controller unit (MCU), while PID controllers with counters and PWM generators are implemented on an FPGA chip. Interface between an MCU and a field programmable gate arra...

Hand geometry is considered to achieve medium security with lesser cost along with several other advantages as compared to other available techniques. The physical dimensions of a human hand known as hand or palm geometry, contains information that is capable of authenticating the identity of an individual. The hand geometry based identity verification system is being widely used in various app...

We present a method for planning the motion of arbitrarily-shaped volumetric deformable bodies or robots through complex environments. Such robots have very highdimensional configuration spaces and we compute trajectories that satisfy the dynamics constraints using a two-stage learning method. First, we train a multitask controller parameterized using dynamic movement primitives (DMP), which en...

artificial immune systems (ais) can be defined as soft computing systems inspired by immune system of vertebrates. immune system is an adaptive pattern recognition system. ais have been used in pattern recognition, machine learning, optimization and clustering. feature reduction refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encoun...

Crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk have become popular for a wide variety of human intelligence tasks; however, quality control continues to be a significant challenge. Recently, we propose TURKONTROL, a theoretical model based on POMDPs to optimize iterative, crowdsourced workflows. However, they neither describe how to learn the model parameters, nor show its effectiveness...

With the rapid development of RS and more mature and the precision of number of field surveys on the basis of Quick-Bird remote sensing data through visual interpretation of urban public green vegetation diversity survey the exits of mixed. Pixel mixed is one important factor of influence accuracy of Remote sensing image classification. In this article, combine genetic algorithm with BP propaga...

 In order to investigate the effects of artificial substrates (vertical surface of polypropylene fabrics) on cultured shrimp, we reared 28-day old Litopenaeus vannamei post-larvae (PL28) intensively for 90 days at a density of 510 shrimp/m2 in each of 8 tanks. Two tanks containing no artificial substrate were a control group, and 1, 3 and 5 artificial substrates were present in other 6 tanks. T...

Taxonomic identification is traditionally carried out with dichotomous keys, or at least computer-based identification keys, often on the basis of subjective visual assessment and frequently unable to detect small differences at subspecies and varietal ranks. The aims of the present work were to (1) clearly discriminate a wide group of accessions (species, subspecies and varieties) belonging to...