current and future simulation and learning technologies

... Greater Accra region [11, 12, 13, 14 and 15] A total of nineteen fixed-dome digesters comprising six 15 m3 and two 30 m3 Deenbandhu digesters, and eight 10 m3 and three 25 m3 Chinese dome digesters ... difficult to engineer, construct and operate [23, 24 and 25] In Ghana, Tandem plants have been constructed to treat sewage by BTWAL, BCEL, IIR, and BCL Most common tandem digesters found in Ghana ... layout of tandem digesters as used by biogas service providers as opposed to the recommended layout Figure 13 (A) Tandem digester layout used by BTWAL, BCEL, and BCL, and (B) Appropriate and recommended...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... Performance, Technologies, and Learning Next Steps for Learning Leaders: Implement Learning 2.0 for Sales 2.0 Learning leaders must confront their own paradigm shift from Learning 1.0 to Learning ... re-thinking of current Learning 1.0 practices and technologies if the sales learning organization is to mobilize around the Learning 2.0 model, and thus keep pace with the knowledge and skill training ... Intrepid Learning Solutions Exploring the Paradigm Shift in Sales Performance, Technologies, and Learning About Intrepid Learning Solutions Intrepid Learning Solutions is a leading provider of learning...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... Supply and Demand Relationships Within a Space Wing: Supply, Demand, and Integrator Roles 19 Balancing Supply and Demand Is Central to Preserving and Protecting Capabilities Now and in ... systems and tools, and training and education RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development ... stations and command -and- control centers to perform current operations If, on the other hand, the integrator is too 16 Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the Balance close to the demand side,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... enables identification and quantification without derivatization and typically results in lower detection limits (below ng/L and ng/g for liquid and solid samples, respectively) and better precision ... al [4] and Thomas and Hilton [77] in the UK; Heberer et al [35] and Ternes et al [73] in Germany; Halling-Sørensen et al [34] in Denmark; Buser et al [10] and Tixier et al [77] in Switzerland; ... human drug and biologics applications US Dept of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, US Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... 1929, and the crash of 2009 People own more, expect more, and the economies of the World are very different Between 1989 and 2008, most people's lives improved in the developed World, and attitudes ... types of economies, we could have in the future Command- Capitalist A command economy was based on the old communist system were the state own most businesses, and control the economy with a series ... over key industries and banks This means that in the USA, and the UK most Mortgaged property, private business and in part many corporations are in reality owned by the state Command – Supply Economies...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... understanding and creating good learning environments and conditions is to define the bases from which this essential task can be accomplished, and how all important features of teaching and learning ... account to studies on cognition and learning can bring to light several phenomena and also expand our notion about learning, as this action allows us to define Learning in Cognitive Niches with ... cognitive investigation (Clark and Chalmers, 1998, p 10), as elicits new and fresh comprehensions about facts and phenomena relating cognitive actions and behaviours – learning, and also memory, language...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:20

... arm inertia,  ,  and  are the angular position and its derivatives, Cv and Cs are respectively the viscous and dry friction coefficients, Mx and My represent the load among x and y axes Being ... models: friction, gravity and rated flow (converted into torque units) 8 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Table and Table present the performance for both oil and water Obviously internal ... Transactions on Robotics and Automation 9(5): 571 – 580 44 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems in Terms of Quasi-Velocities 45 Modeling and Control of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 06:20

... (29) (30) is the learning rate for α and k is the step size and can be varied to change the speed of convergence 278 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges 5.3.2 Hybrid Learning Algorithm ... ΓTAW (4) 270 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges where TMotor , THull and TAW denote kinetic energies of the motor, hull and the angled wheels, respectively, and Γ denotes the number of ... 260 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe Crawling Robot 261 15 Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 06:20

... 1929, and the crash of 2009 People own more, expect more, and the economies of the World are very different Between 1989 and 2008, most people's lives improved in the developed World, and attitudes ... types of economies, we could have in the future Command- Capitalist A command economy was based on the old communist system were the state own most businesses, and control the economy with a series ... over key industries and banks This means that in the USA, and the UK most Mortgaged property, private business and in part many corporations are in reality owned by the state Command – Supply Economies...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... manuscript; and J Alejandro for technical assistance 28 Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control – Current and Future Tactics References Adamczyk, J J., Jr & Gore, J (2004) Laboratory and field ... a susceptible host and the 24 Integrated Pest Management and Pest Control – Current and Future Tactics environmental conditions are suitable, then a plant disease develops and symptoms become ... Chapter 15 Biological Studies and Pest Management of Phytophagous Mites in South America 353 Carlos Vásquez, José Morales-Sánchez, Fernando R da Silva and María Fernanda Sandoval Chapter 16 Research...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 09:20

... 2, (29) 52 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges and then define Γr ¯ Γ22 , and Γo ¯ Γ12 (30) Now, substituting (25) into (22) and then using definitions (28) and (29), we arrive at vr ... Transactions on Robotics and Automation 9(5): 571 – 580 44 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems in Terms of Quasi-Velocities 45 Modeling and Control of ... 28 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges Operational Space Dynamics of a Space Robot and Computational Efficient Algorithm 29 Operational Space Dynamics of a Space Robot and Computational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... evaluated by simulation in section Section gives discussion and conclusions Learning of Manipulation with Constraint 2.1 Problem assumptions and overview of learning method The reinforcement learning ... boundedness Berghuis and Nijmeijer (1994); Egeland (1987); Qu and Dawson (1996) and nonlinear structure variable or switching controller that can guarantee global stability Liu and Goldenberg (1996); ... z, s and s being the generalized forces, coordinates, velocities and accelerations, re˙ ¨ spectively M , C and g consist in the positive definite and symmetric mass matrix, the Coriolis and centrifugal-forces...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... q1  q1 max and q  q  q max • The object and the floor contact at a point and the object does not rotational motion • A mode where both contact points (hand and object / object and floor) are ... hands must have the same size and number of fingers and a tactile sense similar to those of the human hand It is necessary to develop dexterous robot hands Examples of multi-fingered robot hands ... comparison between Q -learning and modelbased reinforcement learning without the proposed mapping, we saw that the proposed mapping and reward function approximation improved the learning performance...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... end and the right end of the rope are represented by l1 and l2, and the left end and the right end of the object are represented by r1 and r2 The description of intersections on the rope and ... q 1and q3 are set to 90° The initial values of q5 and q6 are set to 0°, respectively q2 and q4, corresponding to θ1 and θ2 in Fig (a), respectively, are controlled by the neural oscillators and ... and to define the relationship between the knotting process and the individual skills that can be performed by a robot hand (Yamakawa et al., 2008) Finally, two kinds of knot (overhand knot and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... by the robot hand in knot manipulation Finally, we demonstrated productions of an overhand knot and a half hitch by using a highspeed multifingered hand with high-speed visual and tactile sensory ... High-speed Multifingered Hand and a High-speed Vision System, Proc IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation, pp 181-187 Inoue, H & Inaba, M (1984) Hand-eye Coordination in Rope Handling, Robotics Research: ... Bouri1, Reymond Clavel1, Yves Allemand2 and Roland Brodard2 1EPFL, LSRO Station 9, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2FSC, Rue du Commerce 2,1870 Monthey 2, Switzerland Introduction In industrialized...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... right and left wheels of TW-2 and the midpoints of the right and left wheels It was found that TW-2 is rotated by making the left driving wheel the center of rotation Robotics 2010: Current and Future ... right and left driving wheels, and ρis the distance from the rotational center to the center of TW-2 Fig 20 shows the rotational angles and load current values corresponding to the right and left ... belt (the middle) and belt with grousers (the right) Fig Vertebral structure of FMT: 3D CAD image (the left) and its anatomy chart (the right) 246 Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... (left) and sigmoidal MF’s (right) Conclusion and Future Works 7.1 Conclusion We addressed the design and development of a pipe crawler for water pipe inspection along with the detailed derivation and ... substituting (14) and (16) in (11), the generalized force Q will be computed as: )2 ρC A ( ˙ ˙ Q = Tm − ΓµbFN − K f φ − bSδ d (b + r )θSδ + ν (17) Using (17) and substituting T and V from (6) and (9) into ... motor, eb is the back EMF of the motor and i a is the armature current Here v app is the input voltage (i.e., the control variable) and i a denotes the armature current In (20) it is assumed that...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... evaluate current angular velocities Received reference angular velocities and current angular velocities are compared and PWM signals are generated via PID controllers (as inner control loop) and ... system with linear and angular velocity components In (1), U, V, W, and P, Q, R are x, y, z components of linear and angular velocities , M, and I represent displacement, mass, and mass moments ... products of inertia of a vehicle  and g are constants expressing water density and gravitational acceleration Hydrodynamic forces and moments are represented by X, Y, Z, and L, M, N, each of which is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... From the scans landmarks are extracted from scans and used in the estimation of the robot’s and landmarks’ position, and this estimate is then sent to the fusion server Any type of landmark can be ... forthcoming new technologies and devices 2) Allow existing device/system developers and users to easily use the new standard 3) Maintain minimum connectivity between various modules As for 1) and 2), ... Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp 1–6 [5] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Standard for local and metropolitan area networks: overview and architecture Amendment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... line) and standard particle filters (dashed line) representation, by calculating their mean and covariance This is done in the place of the resampling step of standard particle filters and is ... Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Supporting Technologies for Mobile Machines, Singapore, 16-18 July Wong, J Y (1994) Terramechanics – Its present and future Proceedings of 6th ... templates Fig Detecting hand-table touch and proximity events: (a) volume of interest (VOI) bounded by black and white dots, (b) cropped depth map in VOI, (c) hands touching table and (d) corresponding...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22