Published in Wetlands
Dating recent peat deposits (i.e., past } 300 yrs of peat accumulation) has emerged as an important yet challenging task for estimating rates of organic matter accumulation and atmospheric pollutant deposition in peatlands. Due to their ombrotrophic nature and the tendency for Sphagnum-derived peat to have high cation exchange capacity, peatlands a...
As the sensorial capacity of the robots increases, for example with the availability of MEMS sensors, it will be a requisite for good real-time performance to wisely select and manage them, in order to fulfill the strong time requirements of machines moving in human environments. This work represents a first approach towards solving this kind of pr...
In this work, we developed an adaptive fuzzy controller which : 1) does not require an accurate mathematical model of plant under control; 2) uses the error vector as controller's input, therefore it does not require all that components of state vector to be measurable; and 3) guarantees the global stability of the close-loop system. The simulation...
Experiments were carried out to prove the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic weighted voting technique. The experiments were carried on fourteen experimental fields with four different behaviour combinations. The results and comparison of the different experiments wee discussed. These results appear to show that the dynamic weighted voting techn...
In this paper, a method for tracking multiple skin-colored objects has been presented. The proposed method can cope successfully with multiple objects moving in complex patterns as they dynamically enter and exit the field of view of a camera. Since the tracker is not based on explicit background modeling and subtraction, it may operate even on ima...
This research has explored a new automated approach for synthesizing designs for mechatronic systems. By taking advantage of genetic programming as a search method for competent designs and the bond graph as a representation for mechatronic systems, we have created a design environment in which open-ended topological search can be accomplished in a...
The previous investigations have shown that it is possible to measure dynamic trajectory properties of industrial robots with gyro-less inertial navigation systems. As typical for INS, there are certain sources of errors which distort the overall analysis results to a certain extent. The proposed measurement principle is especially very sensitive t...
The technology of unmanned vehicles, in all its aspects, is an exciting one, especially since it holds the promise of saving human lives by letting machines do dull, dirty or dangerous missions into high-threat environments or just unknown environments
The variety of currently available walking machines gives many solutions to the problem of artificial walking for many applications. Combining properly suitable designs of 574
