To plan an industrial robot's point-to-point joint motion that has velocity constraints, the cubic polynomial interpolation planning method angular acceleration discontinuity. The quintic needs to set in advance values of target points and easily causes fluctuation. Because existence polynomials, hybrid 3-5-…-5-3 also large solve these problems, a based on quartic is proposed. Cubic applied fir...

A hybrid adaptive tracking controller for rigid-link flexible-joint (RLFJ) robot manipulators is designed. The controller is hybrid in the sense that an adaptive indirect controller is used to compensate for parametric uncertainties in the rigid-link equation whereas an adaptive robust controller corrects for the dynamics (i.e. mechanical flexibilities) and parametric uncertainty associated wit...

In this paper we present IDEAL+, a parsing architecture for Italian, which pursues the goal of pairing robustness with deep linguistic analysis by extending a shallow processing kernel with a pool of hybrid constraints for the incremental identification of grammatical relations. The parsing output takes the form of dependency structures representing the full range of instantiated functional rel...

Power control and handoff are two significant problems for cellular wireless systems. While both problems have received considerable attention of late, the problems are not often treated in a joint manner. Combined downlink power control and handoff design for cellular communication systems using a hybrid system framework is considered herein. Two new algorithms are proposed. The first one is a...

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is used for gait restitution in paraplegic patients. One of the major problems is the heavily increased muscle fatigue due to unphysiological stimulation. As a possible solution, this paper introduces a hybrid neuroprosthesis for the knee joint, where muscle stimulation is complemented by a motor-driven exoskeleton. A control concept based on model predic...

This paper studies precision matrix estimation for multiple related Gaussian graphical models from a dataset consisting of different classes, based upon the formulation of this problem as group graphical lasso. In particular, this paper proposes a novel hybrid covariance thresholding algorithm that can effectively identify zero entries in the precision matrices and split a large joint graphical...

The control of a stochastic manufacturing system that executes capital asset repairs and remanufacturing in an integrated system is examined. The remanufacturing resources respond to planned returns of worn-out equipments at the end of their expected life and unplanned returns triggered by major equipment failures. Remanufacturing operations for planned demand can be executed at different rates...

This paper proposes a tempo feature extraction method. The tempo information is modeled by the narrow-band, low-pass temporal modulation component, which is decomposed into a modulation spectrum via joint frequency analysis. In implementation, the modulation spectrum is directly estimated from the modified discrete cosine transform coefficients, which are output of partial MP3 (MPEG 1 Layer 3) ...

When a hybrid Bayesian network has conditionally deterministic variables with continuous parents, the joint density function for the continuous variables does not exist. Conditional linear Gaussian distributions can handle such cases when the continuous variables have a multi-variate normal distribution and the discrete variables do not have continuous parents. In this paper, operations require...