In the chapter some developments in the control performance assessment are provided. The solution based on quadratic performance criteria which taking control effort into account was proposed in return for popular MV measure. This further broke about the definition of trade-off curve using standard deviation of both control and error signals. The s...
This Chapter concentrates on the mine action technology problem and more specifically on the description of the processing algorithms used in the SMART project on area reduction. Nevertheless, the SMART approach has its limitations. The general knowledge used in SMART is strongly context-dependent. It has been currently derived from the study of th...
This chapter describes and demonstrates a novel approach for a service robot to navigate autonomously in a large, natural complex environment. The only sensor is an omnidirectional colour camera. As environment representation, a topological map is chosen. This is more flexible and less memory demanding than metric 3D maps. Moreover, it does
In this paper, using the images of walking human, an absolute position estimation method for a human following robot in ISpace was presented. First, the position estimation uncertainty of the mobile robot is quantitatively represented by the uncertainty ellipsoid.
In this paper, the outline of the "common platform technology for next-generation robots" promoted in the coordination program of science and technology projects for nextgeneration robots were introduced. Two projects, the robot town project and the world
This work was partly supported by Mizuho Foundation for the Promotion of Sciences.
In this article, we introduced a distance presentation method using speech audio. Although the experiment was conducted within a short walking distance inside a laboratory, we
The advent of Web 3.0, claiming for personalization in interactive systems (Lassila & Hendler, 2007), and the need for systems capable of interacting in a more natural way in the future society flooded with computer systems and devices (Harper et al., 2008) show that great advances in HCI should be done. This chapter presents some contributions of ...
Simulation modelling has been introduced as a decision support tool for front end planning and design analysis of projects. An integrated approach has been discussed linking project scope, end product or project facility performance and the strategic project objectives at the early stage of projects. The case study example on tram network demonstra...
