# IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

## Issue 1 • Jan. 2018

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Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):C1 - 1
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): C2
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• ### Integration of Learning-Based Testing and Supervisory Control for Requirements Conformance of Black-Box Reactive Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):2 - 15
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A fundamental requirement of the supervisory control theory (SCT) of discrete-event systems is a finite automaton model of the plant. The requirement does not hold for black-box systems whose source code and logical model are not accessible. To apply SCT to black-box systems, we integrate automaton learning technology with SCT and apply the new method to improve the requirements conformance of sof... View full abstract»

• ### Asymptotic Tracking and Robustness of MAS Transitions Under a New Communication Topology

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):16 - 32
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We have recently applied the principles of continuum mechanics to develop a new leader–follower model for the collective motion of a multiagent system (MAS). Agents are modeled as particles of a continuum body that can deform in $mathbb {R}^{n}$ ( $n=1,2,3$ View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Sensor Placement for Monitoring of Spatial Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):33 - 44
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The problem of optimal placement of sensors for monitoring a spatial network (e.g., a road network with moving ground targets or intruders) is considered in this paper. In particular, the optimization of locations of a set of sensors (that can each obtain measurements in a local region around the sensor location) is considered so as to maximize an overall sensor coverage metric defined over the sp... View full abstract»

• ### Image-Guided Nanopositioning Scheme for SEM

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):45 - 56
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Positioning of micro-nanoobjects inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for manipulation is a key and challenging task to perform. Often it is performed by skilled operators via teleoperation, which is tedious and lacks repeatability. In this paper, rendering this task as an image-guided problem, we present a frequency domain scheme for automatic control of positioning platform movements. The... View full abstract»

• ### Continuous Tracking Control for a Compliant Actuator With Two-Stage Stiffness

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):57 - 66
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Emerging applications of robots with direct physical interactions with humans have led to the development of a variety of series elastic actuators (SEAs) which are compliant, force controllable, and back drivable. The performance of current SEAs is mainly dependent on the specific stiffness of the spring. In our previous work, a compliant actuator with two-stage stiffness has been designed to over... View full abstract»

• ### A Methodological Approach to Model-Driven Design and Development of Automation Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):67 - 79
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The growing complexity of industrial automation demands the adoption of software engineering principles for improving the development process of control systems. This paper presents a methodological approach to the design and development of complex automation systems relying on model-driven engineering (MDE). A benefit of this approach is the integration of methods and techniques widespread within... View full abstract»

• ### Simultaneous Multiple-Nanowire Motion Control, Planning, and Manipulation Under Electric Fields in Fluid Suspension

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):80 - 91
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To fully take advantage of the enormous potential of functional nanodevices, it is crucial to automate their manufacture with efficient steering and manipulation of multiple nanowires with controlled orientations to specific spatial locations. In this paper, we present motion planning and control algorithms for simultaneously steering multiple nanowires in liquid suspension. The motion planning an... View full abstract»

• ### Event-Based Supervisory Control for Energy Efficient Manufacturing Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):92 - 103
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It becomes more and more critical for manufacturing enterprises to improve energy efficiency because of the escalating energy prices, increasing global competitions, and more rigorous government regulations. In this paper, a systematic method is developed to improve the energy efficiency of a multistage manufacturing system through production control. The method aims at reducing energy consumption... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Vector Field for Different Subphases of Gait and Regeneration of Gait Pattern

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):104 - 110
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In this paper, we have designed the vector fields (VFs) for all the six joints (hip, knee, and ankle) of a bipedal walking model. The bipedal gait is the manifestation of temporal changes in the six joints angles, two each for hip, knee, and ankle values and it is a combination of seven different discrete subphases. Developing the correct joint trajectories for all the six joints was difficult fro... View full abstract»

• ### Curved Reflection Symmetric Axes on Free-Form Surfaces and Their Extraction

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):111 - 126
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Feature detection on smooth free-form surfaces is much more difficult than that on shapes with sharp features. In this paper, we extract the curved reflection axes (CRAs) of an arbitrary free-form surface as features if they exist. The extraction result is robust to boundary noises and strongly sensitive to extrinsic properties of the surface such as projected normals and curvatures. Compared with... View full abstract»

• ### A Spectral Graph Theoretic Approach for Monitoring Multivariate Time Series Data From Complex Dynamical Processes

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):127 - 144
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The objective of this paper is to monitor complex process dynamics manifest in multivariate (multidimensional) time series data using a spectral (algebraic) graph theoretic approach. We test the hypothesis that the spectral graph-based topological invariants detect incipient process drifts earlier [lower average run length (ARL1)] and with higher fidelity (consistency of detection) when... View full abstract»

• ### Multifeature, Sparse-Based Approach for Defects Detection and Classification in Semiconductor Units

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):145 - 159
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Automated inspection systems play an important role in manufacturing to guarantee higher quality and reduce production costs. In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, assembly and testing processes are getting more complex, resulting in a greater tendency of defects to impact the production process. These defects can cause field failures and can result in customer dissatisfactions and returns.... View full abstract»

• ### Set-Membership-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Robotic Assembly of Electrical Connectors

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):160 - 171
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This paper addresses the fault detection and isolation (FDI) problem for robotic assembly of electrical connectors in the framework of set-membership. Both the fault-free and faulty cases of assembly are modeled by different switched linear models with known switching sequences, bounded parameters, and external disturbances. The locations of switching points of each model are assumed to be inside ... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis and Observations From the First Amazon Picking Challenge

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):172 - 188
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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This paper presents an overview of the inaugural Amazon Picking Challenge along with a summary of a survey conducted among the 26 participating teams. The challenge goal was to design an autonomous robot to pick items from a warehouse shelf. This task is currently performed by human workers, and there is hope that robots can someday help increase efficiency and throughput while lowering cost. We r... View full abstract»

• ### Planning and Control for Collision-Free Cooperative Aerial Transportation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):189 - 201
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This paper presents planning and control synthesis for multiple aerial manipulators to transport a common object. Each aerial manipulator that consists of a hexacopter and a two-degree-of-freedom robotic arm is controlled by an augmented adaptive sliding mode controller based on a closed-chain robot dynamics. We propose a motion planning algorithm by exploiting rapidly exploring random tree star (... View full abstract»

• ### Machining-Based Coverage Path Planning for Automated Structural Inspection

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):202 - 213
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The automation of robotically delivered nondestructive evaluation inspection shares many aims with traditional manufacture machining. This paper presents a new hardware and software system for automated thickness mapping of large-scale areas, with multiple obstacles, by employing computer-aided drawing (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)-inspired path planning to implement control of a novel ... View full abstract»

• ### Using Degradation Messages to Predict Hydraulic System Failures in a Commercial Aircraft

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):214 - 224
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This paper presents a failure prognostics methodology based on degradation messages using a particle filter framework. In the proposed method, the degradation messages are interpreted as quantized measurements. The use of degradation messages reduces the need for data communication bandwidth, since they only need to be transmitted or stored when some predefined threshold is crossed. In contrast, t... View full abstract»

• ### Data-Defect Inspection With Kernel-Neighbor-Density-Change Outlier Factor

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):225 - 238
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Data-defect would affect the data quality and the analysis results of data mining. This paper presents a data-defect inspection method with kernel-neighbor-density-change outlier factor (KNDCOF). The definition of kernel neighbor density is proposed to represent the density of each object in database, and the ascending distance series (ADS) of each object is calculated based on the kernel distance... View full abstract»

• ### Collision Detection and Signal Recovery for UHF RFID Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):239 - 250
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In this paper, we present a novel high-throughput anti-collision algorithm for passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems. Our algorithm utilizes signal recovery techniques of collided tag signals to both recover tag communications and obtain an accurate count of all tags in the field. Passive UHF RFID systems are used for long-range passive communications for ... View full abstract»

• ### A Noise-Tolerant Algorithm for Robot-Sensor Calibration Using a Planar Disk of Arbitrary 3-D Orientation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):251 - 263
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In a 3-D scanning task, a robot-sensor system controls a robotic arm to move a laser sensor. In order to align the coordinate system of the robotic arm and laser sensor, prior calibration is required to derive the transformation between both coordinate systems. This paper proposes a new calibration method in three steps: manual data collection, sensing data calculation, and transformation solution... View full abstract»

• ### Census Signal Temporal Logic Inference for Multiagent Group Behavior Analysis

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):264 - 277
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, we define a novel census signal temporal logic (CensusSTL) that focuses on the number of agents in different subsets of a group that complete a certain task specified by the STL. CensusSTL consists of an “inner logic” STL formula and an “outer logic” STL formula. We present a new inference algorithm to infer CensusSTL for... View full abstract»

• ### Efficient Planar Caging Test Using Space Mapping

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):278 - 289
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This paper presents an efficient algorithm to test whether a planar object can be caged by a formation of point agents (point fingertips or point mobile robots). The algorithm is based on a space mapping between the 2-D work space ( $mathcal {W}$ space) and the 3-D configuration space ( View full abstract»

• ### Steering and Control of Miniaturized Untethered Soft Magnetic Grippers With Haptic Assistance

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):290 - 306
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Untethered miniature robotics have recently shown promising results in several scenarios at the microscale, such as targeted drug delivery, microassembly, and biopsy procedures. However, the vast majority of these small-scale robots have very limited manipulation capabilities, and none of the steering systems currently available enables humans to intuitively and effectively control dexterous minia... View full abstract»

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