presence detection and methods for mitigation

... value of the information should dictate CSM form and function for each organization It is critically important to be clear on both the information needs and how results will be used for improvement ... both for mail surveys (Dillman, 1978) and electronic survey methods Electronic surveys are probably the easiest to administer and also the lowest in total cost (even when making additional efforts ... bias is less a concern than it is for mail or electronic surveys (ASQ Quality Management Division, 1999) Like in-person methods, quality for both quantitative and qualitative data (comments) is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... present and discuss the state-of-the-art in each one of the above categories We compare and analyze different methods based on technical publications and on commercial product and patent information ... three or more landmarks must be "in view" to allow position estimation Landmark positioning has the advantage that the position errors are bounded, but detection of external landmarks and real-time ... Active Beacons Sensors for Map-based Positioning Part II: Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning Reduction of Dead-reckoning Errors Active Beacon Navigation Systems Landmark Navigation...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 21:16

... present and discuss the state-of-the-art in each one of the above categories We compare and analyze different methods based on technical publications and on commercial product and patent information ... three or more landmarks must be "in view" to allow position estimation Landmark positioning has the advantage that the position errors are bounded, but detection of external landmarks and real-time ... Active Beacons Sensors for Map-based Positioning Part II: Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning Reduction of Dead-reckoning Errors Active Beacon Navigation Systems Landmark Navigation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 14:15

... The Andrew Autogyro Model 3ARG (Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].) 44 Part I Sensors for Mobile Robot Positioning Table 2.1: Selected specifications for the Andrew Autogyro Navigator (Courtesy of [Andrew ... suitable for mobile robot applications In this section we introduce two such systems 2.3.6.1 The Andrew “Autogyro" Andrew Corp [ANDREW] offers the low-cost Autogyro, shown in Figure 2.11, for terrestrial ... closed-loop path The constructive and destructive interference patterns formed by splitting off and mixing parts of the two beams can be used to determine the rate and direction of rotation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 20:16

... VORAD Vehicle Detection and Driver Alert System 125 4.3.2 Safety First Systems Vehicular Obstacle Detection and Warning System 127 PART II SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE ... 7KH8QLYHUVLW\RI0LFKLJDQ Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning by J Borenstein , H R Everett2, and L Feng3 Contributing authors: S W Lee and R H Byrne Edited and compiled by J Borenstein ... Hamel, D&D Technical Coordinator, and Dr Clyde Ward, Landfill Operations Technical Coordinator for their technical and financial support of the research, which forms the basis of this work The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 20:16

... present and discuss the state-of-the-art in each one of the above categories We compare and analyze different methods based on technical publications and on commercial product and patent information ... three or more landmarks must be "in view" to allow position estimation Landmark positioning has the advantage that the position errors are bounded, but detection of external landmarks and real-time ... Active Beacons Sensors for Map-based Positioning Part II: Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning Reduction of Dead-reckoning Errors Active Beacon Navigation Systems Landmark Navigation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 19:20

... VORAD Vehicle Detection and Driver Alert System 125 4.3.2 Safety First Systems Vehicular Obstacle Detection and Warning System 127 PART II SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE ... 7KH8QLYHUVLW\RI0LFKLJDQ Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning by J Borenstein , H R Everett2, and L Feng3 Contributing authors: S W Lee and R H Byrne Edited and compiled by J Borenstein ... Hamel, D&D Technical Coordinator, and Dr Clyde Ward, Landfill Operations Technical Coordinator for their technical and financial support of the research, which forms the basis of this work The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 09:20

... VORAD Vehicle Detection and Driver Alert System 125 4.3.2 Safety First Systems Vehicular Obstacle Detection and Warning System 127 PART II SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE ... 7KH8QLYHUVLW\RI0LFKLJDQ Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning by J Borenstein , H R Everett2, and L Feng3 Contributing authors: S W Lee and R H Byrne Edited and compiled by J Borenstein ... Hamel, D&D Technical Coordinator, and Dr Clyde Ward, Landfill Operations Technical Coordinator for their technical and financial support of the research, which forms the basis of this work The...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2014, 23:09

... incidence rates for Hispanic children and Asian/Pacific Islander children were intermediate to those for whites and blacks The rates for Asian/ Pacific Islanders were similar to whites for leukemia ... was malignant tumors of the central nervous system for younger than and 5-9 years of age, and lymphoma for 10-14 and leukemia for 1519 year olds (Table 1) ICCC Group Leukemia - I Lymphoma - II ... was used for racial/ethnic comparisons because it was the only time period except for the decennial census years (1980 and 1990) for which the Census Bureau provided population estimates for racial...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation OT89 Tarantola FM2.qxp 11/18/2004 3:50 PM Page OT89 Tarantola FM2.qxp 11/18/2004 3:50 PM Page Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model ... equations of this book to formulate the inverse problem 23 For some general information on geostatistics, see Journel and Huijbregts, 1978, Goovaerts, 1997, and Deutsch and Journel, 1998 ✐ ✐ ✐ ... characterization (at right in equation (1.40)) for the conjunction of probability distributions, it is quite easy to find an expression for (P ∧ MB ) For the given B ⊆ X , and for any A ⊆ X , one finds (P ∧ MB...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:24

... have forced us to abandon the case-based approach to obstacle avoidance, and alternative algorithms are being pursued http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/2/1/30 Yamaha Roland Frisch and Andrew ... designed and fabricated the sensor bar and bump sensors for the footrests and rear of the wheelchair References Declaration of competing interests AT Sciences has applied for a patent for the ... task for the visually-impaired participant, in courses and Time to 11 Time to complete the navigation task for the visually-impaired participant, in courses and Page of 11 (page number not for...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... function estimation for any family of nonstationary random processes” by J Sandberg and M Hansson-Sandsten, the covariance function estimate of a zero-mean nonstationary random process in discrete ... optimal for many other random processes as well Three papers are concerned with applications of wavelet and wideband signal processing In the paper “Nonstationary system analysis methods for underwater ... approach for the detection and correction of stripes in the sinogram: suppression of ring artifacts in CT imaging” by A N M A N M Ashrafuzzaman et al., novel techniques are proposed for the detection...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... for 1024-bit string enables a per-symbol formulation for D p and results in a conservative approximation for R log2 (R) over the likely range of R The per-symbol descriptive cost can now be formulated: ... symbols without the formation of the candidate phrase and r j is the frequency of the jth symbol in the candidate phrase Model costs require a method for not only spelling out the candidate phrase ... Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick, DM 217-5014 in Grants W81XWH-0-1-0501 (to SE and AT) and W8IWXH-04-1-0474 (to DSC) The content and information not necessarily reflect...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... proposed, formerly for single-user systems [13, 14], and then for multiuser systems [15, 16] In particular, the paper [16] develops subspace-based blind adaptive multiuser detectors for short-code ... that bk t (0) = 0, for all k = 0, , K − ,nr and for all nt = 1, , Nt In the above equation, hl,nt −1 and k,p u,nt ,nr hk,p−1 denote the discretized contributions of the waveforms hnt ,nr (t ... bits are randomly generated and used to generate the discrete-time vectors r(1), , r(B); then, random errors with probability p(e) are introduced on the Nt (B − T) information bits and, after...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... VORAD Vehicle Detection and Driver Alert System 125 4.3.2 Safety First Systems Vehicular Obstacle Detection and Warning System 127 PART II SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE ... 7KH8QLYHUVLW\RI0LFKLJDQ Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning by J Borenstein , H R Everett2, and L Feng3 Contributing authors: S W Lee and R H Byrne Edited and compiled by J Borenstein ... Hamel, D&D Technical Coordinator, and Dr Clyde Ward, Landfill Operations Technical Coordinator for their technical and financial support of the research, which forms the basis of this work The...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... transformer to be of very small design and therefore gains great advantages in weight and volume compared to devices with 50-Hz transformers Rectifier Rectification and smoothing of the transformer ... Transformer The transformer T1 galvanically separates the battery and the consumer and can be additionally employed for voltage adaptation Output Filters L1, C1 A filter behind the transformer ... 772 there are two standard characteristics for controlled battery chargers: For the IU characteristics (Figure 13.5) the output voltage is kept between 2.23 and 2.40 V/cell and below the charger’s...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:20

... Robotics and Automation, San Diego, CA, May 8-13, 1994, pp 30853090 Paper 52 Shoval, S., Borenstein, J., and Koren, Y., 1994f, "Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance in a Computerized Travel Aid for the ... Presented at the ANS 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems," Monterey, California, February 5-10, 1995 Paper 59 Borenstein, J and Feng L., 1995b, "Correction of Systematic Dead-reckoning ... on Intelligen t Robots and Systems (IROS '95), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 5-9, 1995, pp 569574 Paper 60 Borenstein, J and Feng L., 1995c, "UMBmark: A Benchmark Test for Measuring Deadreckoning...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... VORAD Vehicle Detection and Driver Alert System 125 4.3.2 Safety First Systems Vehicular Obstacle Detection and Warning System 127 PART II SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE ... 7KH8QLYHUVLW\RI0LFKLJDQ Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning by J Borenstein , H R Everett2, and L Feng3 Contributing authors: S W Lee and R H Byrne Edited and compiled by J Borenstein ... Hamel, D&D Technical Coordinator, and Dr Clyde Ward, Landfill Operations Technical Coordinator for their technical and financial support of the research, which forms the basis of this work The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... 1.10 and Figure 1.11 When a foot pivots during a turn, the attached wheel rotates in the appropriate direction to minimize floor and tire wear, power consumption, and slippage Note that for correct ... Multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) vehicles have multiple drive and steer motors Different designs are possible For example, HERMIES-III, a sophisticated platform designed and built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ... 1991; Killough and Pin, 1992; Pin and Killough, 1994; Borenstein, 1995] Resulting problems include increased wheel slippage and thus reduced odometry accuracy Recently, Reister and Unseren [1992;...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21

... The Andrew Autogyro Model 3ARG (Courtesy of [Andrew Corp].) 44 Part I Sensors for Mobile Robot Positioning Table 2.1: Selected specifications for the Andrew Autogyro Navigator (Courtesy of [Andrew ... suitable for mobile robot applications In this section we introduce two such systems 2.3.6.1 The Andrew “Autogyro" Andrew Corp [ANDREW] offers the low-cost Autogyro, shown in Figure 2.11, for terrestrial ... insensitivity to gravity effects, quick start-up, and good sensitivity in terms of bias drift rate and the random walk coefficient Coil geometry is not critical, and no path length control is needed Some...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:21