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# IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

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Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C1
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering publication information

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): C2
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• ### Automating Knowledge Discovery Workflow Composition Through Ontology-Based Planning

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):253 - 264
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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The problem addressed in this paper is the challenge of automated construction of knowledge discovery workflows, given the types of inputs and the required outputs of the knowledge discovery process. Our methodology consists of two main ingredients. The first one is defining a formal conceptualization of knowledge types and data mining algorithms by means of knowledge discovery ontology. The secon... View full abstract»

• ### A Totally Decoupled Piezo-Driven XYZ Flexure Parallel Micropositioning Stage for Micro/Nanomanipulation

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):265 - 279
Cited by:  Papers (59)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper reports the design and development processes of a totally decoupled flexure-based XYZ parallel-kinematics micropositioning stage with piezoelectric actuation. The uniqueness of the proposed XYZ stage lies in that it possesses both input and output decoupling properties with integrated displacement amplifiers. The input decoupling is realized by actuation isolation using double compound ... View full abstract»

• ### A Car-Seat Example of Automated Anthropomorphic Testing of Fabrics Using Force-Controlled Robot Motions

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):280 - 291
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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For the last years, automation is widely used to relieve humans from repetitive tasks, primarily and firstly within manufacturing. However, for products with less ideal (or hard to model) properties, and when forces depends on human interaction, auto mated testing has not been explored until now. This work presents the analysis of the (human-dependent) motions/forces based on a fully implemented t... View full abstract»

• ### Rapid Color Grading for Fruit Quality Evaluation Using Direct Color Mapping

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):292 - 302
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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Color grading is a crucial step in the processing of fruits and vegetables that directly affects profitability, because the quality of agricultural products is often associated with their color. Most existing automatic color grading systems determine color quality either by directly comparing product color against a predefined and fixed set of reference colors or by using a set of color separating... View full abstract»

• ### Statistical Weight Kinetics Modeling and Estimation for Silica Nanowire Growth Catalyzed by Pd Thin Film

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):303 - 310
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This work intends to understand and model the kinetic aspect or the change of substrate weight over time in the selective growth of silica nanowires (NWs) catalyzed through Pd thin film. Various adsorption-induced, diffusion-induced, or unified vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth models have been developed to describe the NW length varying with time. Since NW length has been difficult to be measured, ... View full abstract»

• ### Selection Schemes of Dual Virtual-Metrology Outputs for Enhancing Prediction Accuracy

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):311 - 318
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Selection schemes between neural-network (NN) and multiple-regression (MR) outputs of a virtual metrology system (VMS) are studied in this paper. Both NN and MR are applicable algorithms for implementing virtual-metrology (VM) conjecture models. A MR algorithm may achieve better accuracy only with a stable process, whereas a NN algorithm may have superior accuracy when equipment property drift or ... View full abstract»

• ### A Three Degree-of-Freedom Optical Orientation Measurement Method for Spherical Actuator Applications

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):319 - 326
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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The advance of robotics, actuators and manufacturing technology motivates the research on measurement of multiple degree-of-freedom (DOF) rotational motions. A novel laser-based noncontact high-precision spherical displacement measurement methodology has been proposed for spherical actuator applications in this paper. The laser detector is utilized to measure the distance from the target to the de... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Measurement for Automated Field Reconstruction and Calibration of Magnetic Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):327 - 337
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper presents an efficient method to adaptively determine the locations for taking measurements for automated calibration of electromagnetic systems using reconstructed magnetic fields. This coupled measurement- computation method solves the Laplace's equation with measured boundary conditions. Along with the formulation of two selection criteria (chord-height and data-spacing), an adaptive ... View full abstract»

• ### In-Process Truing for ELID (Electrolytic In-Process Dressing) Grinding by Pulsewidth Control

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):338 - 346
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID) grinding is a well established technology for achieving highest quality surface finish on hard and brittle materials such as optical glass, ceramics, and silicon compounds. In conventional ELID grinding, constant voltage is applied on the metal-bonded diamond wheels to ensure constant protrusion of super fine cutting grits throughout the grinding cycle. Howe... View full abstract»

• ### Fast Intersection-Free Offset Surface Generation From Freeform Models With Triangular Meshes

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):347 - 360
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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A fast offset surface generation approach is presented in this paper to construct intersection-free offset surfaces, which preserve sharp features, from freeform triangular mesh surfaces. The basic spirit of our algorithm is to sample a narrowband signed distance-field from the input model on a uniform grid and then employ a contouring algorithm to build the resultant offset mesh surface from the ... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control in a Make-to-Stock Queue With Information on the Production Status

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):361 - 373
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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This paper addresses the dynamic pricing problem of a single-item, make-to-stock production system. Demand arrives according to Poisson processes with changeable arrival rate dependent on the selling price. Item processing times follow an Erlang distribution, which allows to use the information on the production status in a tractable way. The objective is to identify a dynamic control policy that ... View full abstract»

• ### Design of a Maximally Permissive Liveness- Enforcing Petri Net Supervisor for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):374 - 393
Cited by:  Papers (135)
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Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient method to design optimal control places, and an iteration approach that only computes the reachability graph of a plant Petri net model once in order to obtain a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor for an FMS. By u... View full abstract»

• ### Least-Cost Transition Firing Sequence Estimation in Labeled Petri Nets With Unobservable Transitions

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):394 - 403
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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This paper proposes an approach for estimating the least-cost transition firing sequence(s) that matches (match) the observation of a sequence of labels produced by transition activity in a given labeled Petri net. Each transition in the labeled net is associated with a (possibly empty) label and also with a nonnegative cost which captures its likelihood (e.g., in terms of the amount of workload o... View full abstract»

• ### Improvement of Suboptimal Siphon- and FBM-Based Control Model of a Well-Known ${rm S}^{3}{rm PR}$

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):404 - 411
Cited by:  Papers (33)
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Siphon-based deadlock control of Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) runs faster by avoiding reachability analysis, but reaches fewer states than an optimal. First-met bad marking (FBM) method requires more monitors, but reaches more states by refining some monitors with smaller (hence less disturbed) controller regions. However, the same refinement leads to more monitors for other siphons, which ... View full abstract»

• ### An Enhanced Nested Partitions Algorithm Using Solution Value Prediction

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):412 - 419
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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Metaheuristics are an important branch of optimization algorithms that attract lots of research and application efforts. In this paper, the research of predicting solution value for Nested Partitions (NP) is proposed, which is a newly developed metaheuristic algorithm for solving large-scale optimization problems. The lower bound embedded prediction procedures are developed to predict the future p... View full abstract»

• ### Automated Multi-Agent Search Using Centroidal Voronoi Configuration

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):420 - 423
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper addresses the problem of automated multiagent search in an unknown environment. Autonomous agents equipped with sensors carry out a search operation in a search space, where the uncertainty, or lack of information about the environment, is known a priori as an uncertainty density distribution function. The agents are deployed in the search space to maximize single step search effectiven... View full abstract»

• ### A SNCCDBAGG-Based NN Ensemble Approach for Quality Prediction in Injection Molding Process

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):424 - 427
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper presents a SNCCDBAGG-based neural network (NN) ensemble approach for quality prediction in injection molding process. Bagging is used to create NNs for the ensemble by independently training these NNs on different training sets. Negative correlation learning via correlation-corrected data (NCCD) is used to achieve negative correlation of each network's error against errors for the rest ... View full abstract»

• ### Bouc–Wen Modeling and Inverse Multiplicative Structure to Compensate Hysteresis Nonlinearity in Piezoelectric Actuators

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):428 - 431
Cited by:  Papers (112)
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A new approach to compensate the strong hysteresis nonlinearity in piezoelectric materials is proposed. Based on the inverse multiplicative scheme, the approach avoids models inversion as employed in existing works. The compensator is therefore simple to implement and does not require additional computation as soon as the direct model is available. The proposed compensation technique is valuable f... View full abstract»

• ### KnitSketch: A Sketch Pad for Conceptual Design of 2D Garment Patterns

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):431 - 437
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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In this paper, we present a new sketch-based system - KnitSketch, to improve the efficiency of process planning for knitting garments at an early design stage. The KnitSketch system utilizes sketching interface with the pen-paper metaphor and users only need to draw outlines of different parts of the garment. Based on sketching understanding, the system automatically makes reasonable geometric inf... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Paint Gun Orientation in Spray Paint Applications—Experimental Results

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):438 - 442
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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In this paper, we present the experimental results of a new spray paint algorithm presented in previous publications. Both theory and simulations indicate that the proposed method allows a robotic manipulator to paint a given surface using substantially lower joint torques than with conventional approaches. In this paper, we confirm this by implementing the algorithm on an ABB robot and we find th... View full abstract»

• ### A Framework to Model the Topological Structure of Supply Networks

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):442 - 446
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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Topological structure is considered more and more important in managing a supply network or predicting its development. In this paper, a new framework is proposed to model the topological structure of supply networks, where different types of supply networks can be created just by introducing different supplier-customer connecting rules. Generally, the networks created in the framework are much di... View full abstract»

• ### An Integer Programming Approach for Analyzing the Measurement Redundancy in Structured Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):447 - 450
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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A linear system whose model matrix is of size n×p is considered structured if some p row vectors in the model matrix are linearly dependent. Computing the degree of redundancy for structured linear systems is proven NP-hard. Previous computation strategy is divide-and-conquer, materialized in a bound-and-decompose algorithm, which, when the required conditions are satisfied, can compute the... View full abstract»

• ### ICRA preliminary announcement

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 451
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