This paper proposes two novel rescue robots,including a cutter robot and a jack robot,which are aimed to contribute to rescue activities such as to cut through obstacles and to jack up debris in dangerous sites and na...This paper proposes two novel rescue robots,including a cutter robot and a jack robot,which are aimed to contribute to rescue activities such as to cut through obstacles and to jack up debris in dangerous sites and narrow spaces,where a rescue team can not work or approach.Firstly,a multilinked tracked rescue robot platform composed of connected crawler vehicles is developed,which has high mobility on irregular terrain and ability to move into narrow collapsed structures.Then,the cutter robot and jack robot are designed on the basis of rescue robot platform equipped with a cutter or a jack mechanism and corresponding manipulators in the front segment.The cutter refitted by an angle grinder is able to cut through 10 mm diameter steel bars.The electric jack mechanism designed based on multiple layers screw sleeves structure can lift up 300 kg load from 70 mm to 400 mm.Experimental results validate the capability of the two rescue robots.展开更多
Person re-identification (re-id) on robot platform is an important application for human-robot- interaction (HRI), which aims at making the robot recognize the around persons in varying scenes. Although many effec...Person re-identification (re-id) on robot platform is an important application for human-robot- interaction (HRI), which aims at making the robot recognize the around persons in varying scenes. Although many effective methods have been proposed for surveillance re-id in recent years, re-id on robot platform is still a novel unsolved problem. Most existing methods adapt the supervised metric learning offline to improve the accuracy. However, these methods can not adapt to unknown scenes. To solve this problem, an online re-id framework is proposed. Considering that robotics can afford to use high-resolution RGB-D sensors and clear human face may be captured, face information is used to update the metric model. Firstly, the metric model is pre-trained offline using labeled data. Then during the online stage, we use face information to mine incorrect body matching pairs which are collected to update the metric model online. In addition, to make full use of both appearance and skeleton information provided by RGB-D sensors, a novel feature funnel model (FFM) is proposed. Comparison studies show our approach is more effective and adaptable to varying environments.展开更多
In this study, we propose an incremental learning approach based on a machine-machine interaction via relative attribute feedbacks that exploit comparative relationships among top level image categories. One machine a...In this study, we propose an incremental learning approach based on a machine-machine interaction via relative attribute feedbacks that exploit comparative relationships among top level image categories. One machine acts as 'Student (S)' with initially limited information and it endeavors to capture the task domain gradually by questioning its mentor on a pool of unlabeled data. The other machine is 'Teacher (T)' with the implicit knowledge for helping S on learning the class models. T initiates relative attributes as a communication channel by randomly sorting the classes on attribute space in an unsupervised manner. S starts modeling the categories in this intermediate level by using only a limited number of labeled data. Thereafter, it first selects an entropy-based sample from the pool of unlabeled data and triggers the conversation by propagating the selected image with its belief class in a query. Since T already knows the ground truth labels, it not only decides whether the belief is true or false, but it also provides an attribute-based feedback to S in each case without revealing the true label of the query sample if the belief is false. So the number of training data is increased virtually by dropping the falsely predicted sample back into the unlabeled pool. Next, S updates the attribute space which, in fact, has an impact on T's future responses, and then the category models are updated concurrently for the next run. We experience the weakly supervised algorithm on the real world datasets of faces and natural scenes in comparison with direct attribute prediction and semi-supervised learning approaches, and a noteworthy performance increase is achieved.展开更多
Recently, Japan has experienced a low birthrate and an aging population. The development of communication robots, such as cleaning and a care-giver robot, has been progressing. Care-giver robots provide daily assistan...Recently, Japan has experienced a low birthrate and an aging population. The development of communication robots, such as cleaning and a care-giver robot, has been progressing. Care-giver robots provide daily assistance, including contacting emergency services. This study is part of the "study on planning techniques of living space in harmony with robots", and focused on the elderly. Minimum distance was the subjects felt "I do not want any more approached". Subjects were 21 elderly persons (eight males and thirteen females), aged 66-86 years. The experimental room was an assembly room in a public accommodation (14 m× 6.5 m). The small mobile robot used in this experiment was external form dimensions of 120 mm (W)× 130 mm (D)× 70 mm (H), In this experiment, considering the personal space as the small mobile robot is watching robot without support function for person. The robot moved toward standing or sitting subjects at constant velocities from a distance 5 m apart. Research factors are 5 angles (0°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180°) and 2 speeds (0.08 m/s and 0.24 m/s).展开更多
When considering indigenous people in Brazil, both in academic and non-academic settings, the individuals' names are almost always ignored for the sake of representing their collectivity as communities, as Peoples. D...When considering indigenous people in Brazil, both in academic and non-academic settings, the individuals' names are almost always ignored for the sake of representing their collectivity as communities, as Peoples. Discussing autobiographies or indigenous biographies is still an uncommon endeavor, even in our field of Letters/Liberal Arts or in Indigenous Ethnology. However, since the beginning of the process of reclaiming the lands that once belonged to them, the indigenous Peoples have been producing autobiographical narratives, demonstrating how this genre of text production--traditionally linked to the development of the Western individual---can constitute and be appropriated in different Amerindian translations. It is fi'om this perspective that I intend to present a discussion about those text productions, analyzing what their collective signatures express, and how their proper names are constructed and signified on behalf of the group.展开更多
A co-evolutional immune algorithm for the optimization of a function with real parameters is de-scribed.It uses a cooperative co-evolution of two populations,one is a population of antibodies and theother is a populat...A co-evolutional immune algorithm for the optimization of a function with real parameters is de-scribed.It uses a cooperative co-evolution of two populations,one is a population of antibodies and theother is a population of successful mutation vectors.These two population evolve together to improve thediversity of the antibodies.The algorithm described is then tested on a suite of optimization problems.The results show that on most of test functions,this algorithm can converge to the global optimum atquicker rate in a given range,the performance of optimization is improved effetely.展开更多
Now environment is an important topic in academic field.Many researches focus on the negative outcomes of nature which are being continually created by human and much attention has been paid to how the environment is ...Now environment is an important topic in academic field.Many researches focus on the negative outcomes of nature which are being continually created by human and much attention has been paid to how the environment is protected through integrated research,movement and policy.But few studies are concentrated on population and environment and are to find out the interconnectivity and underlying mechanism that have an effect on people's preferring additional children and perception to environment.Many researchers claim that population growth is a great problem for environment but they do not provide the indepth integrated knowledge and mechanism that influence fertility trend and environmental problems.It is very crucial to develop practical and concrete initiatives to confirm a transition to reduce population growth and redirect the perception on population and environment.展开更多
The current management idea of college teaching management lags, the management system rigidities, administration is centralized and management team is limited. These showed a lack of faculty administrator of this con...The current management idea of college teaching management lags, the management system rigidities, administration is centralized and management team is limited. These showed a lack of faculty administrator of this concept. University teaching management people of this concept refers to respect for human presence in the teaching management process, human development as a starting point, all management is to human development, human-centered teaching management activities undertaken.展开更多
The globe has been confronting a new set of challenges. Such challenges are unique to each country context. The overarching challenge, all above other challenges is, to seek appropriate knowledge as a tool and mean to...The globe has been confronting a new set of challenges. Such challenges are unique to each country context. The overarching challenge, all above other challenges is, to seek appropriate knowledge as a tool and mean to resolve such challenges. A critical such knowledge to be accumulated in all days is on how to develop people or human resources. However, with the existing knowledge claims in this regard, countries have been unable to resolve such challenges. Human Development, one such knowledge claim, is too broader, and therefore, no guided protocol is suggested in finding solutions. Human Resource Development, as another such knowledge claim is too limited in scope to address broader level challenges. National Human Resource Development (NHRD) has emerged to bridge this gap, emphasising people oriented solutions to resolve country level challenges. The NHRD literature encourages NHRD country case studies, and that, justifications for starting NHRD country case studies is needed. This study justifies such a research on NHRD practices in Malaysia's country context, using content analysis. As a result, this study has shown higher level country challenges, derived a need of people based approach in resolving such challenges, highlighted NHRD as capable as possible in guiding to establish people development knowledge claim, and finally justified an NHRD research to be done within Malaysia's context to see how Malaysia practices NHRD.展开更多
The purpose of this article is to raise the question of how important decentralisation and local governments are for the successful transition and eventually for sustainable human development of a state. The paper foc...The purpose of this article is to raise the question of how important decentralisation and local governments are for the successful transition and eventually for sustainable human development of a state. The paper focuses on the gap between development or transition and decentralisation within academic and international policy discourse. In article, the author tries to answer such questions as how local government can contribute to SHD (sustainable human development). And how should the international community contribute to and support the transition and development process of the developing countries? Article shows that local self-government can be a school of democracy and responsibility for the wealth of the state and citizens. By sharing the Polish decentralisation experience, the author shows how important decentralisation might be for successful transition, democratization and sustainable development. The paper also includes a short introduction to the European Charter, recent African efforts like AMCOD or UCLGA and European Union development assistance policy. The purpose of this is to show how little attention is paid to local governments and decentralisation within international policy and how huge is the gap between Europe's (developed) states and Africa's (developing) states related to their decentralisation policy, law and practice.展开更多
In this paper, we explore the process of emotional state transition. And the process is impacted by emotional state of interaction objects. First of all, the cognitive reasoning process and the micro-expressions recog...In this paper, we explore the process of emotional state transition. And the process is impacted by emotional state of interaction objects. First of all, the cognitive reasoning process and the micro-expressions recognition is the basis of affective computing adjustment process. Secondly, the threshold function and attenuation function are proposed to quantify the emotional changes. In the actual environment, the emotional state of the robot and external stimulus are also quantified as the transferring probability. Finally, the Gaussian cloud distribution is introduced to the Gross model to calculate the emotional transitional probabilities. The experimental results show that the model in human-computer interaction can effectively regulate the emotional states, and can significantly improve the humanoid and intelligent ability of the robot. This model is consistent with experimental and emulational significance of the psychology, and allows the robot to get rid of the mechanical emotional transfer process.展开更多
This paper mainly discusses leadership soft skills, which comprise of collaboration or teamwork, communication skills, initiative, leadership ability, people development or coaching, personal effectiveness or personal...This paper mainly discusses leadership soft skills, which comprise of collaboration or teamwork, communication skills, initiative, leadership ability, people development or coaching, personal effectiveness or personal mastery, planning and organizing, and presentation skills. Leaders need to be masters of soft skills because leadership is determined by those who can demonstrate their ability to drive an organization toward excellence and results. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge and literature in leadership soft skills for educational leaders in higher education institutions. In addition, this paper also provides exposure to administrators to understand the importance of leadership soft skills besides highlighting the two relevant models. Furthermore, it also provides an advantage to administrators in developing high quality interpersonal relationships with the people who they associate with in promoting positive working environment. Leadership soft skills can be seen as providing a vital contribution for organizations and administrators in the process of developing of quality human resource.展开更多
Since the city of Chongqing became a municipality on 14th March, 1997, the structure of Chongqing population has undergone tremendous changes. Especially the young, born after the 1980s, will play an important part in...Since the city of Chongqing became a municipality on 14th March, 1997, the structure of Chongqing population has undergone tremendous changes. Especially the young, born after the 1980s, will play an important part in the future housing market. So it seems quite urgem to effectively satisfy the housing needs of young people. Massive research and practices indicate that the housing industrialization conserves the environment, improves quality and reduces cost of housing and is among the most effective ways to boost sustainable development of housing industry. The main objective of the paper is to discuss how to meet the growing housing demands of the young and concludes that housing with recreation, sports and other ancillary facilities will be better fit to the young to rent or to own. Furthermore, an analysis of the Chongqing housing market potential of young people's wish to rent or to purchase satisfactory housing demonstrates that some real estate investors may be failing to exploit serious opportunities that could arise from providing service to the young. And this case study of meeting the changing housing needs of the young may help accelerate the process of housing industrialization in Chongqing as well as providing a useful study concerning housing industry.展开更多
Extending the retirement age is an inevitable trend with the extension of the life expectancy of the population, reducing the financial burden of pensions, increasing the utilization rate of human capital, alleviating...Extending the retirement age is an inevitable trend with the extension of the life expectancy of the population, reducing the financial burden of pensions, increasing the utilization rate of human capital, alleviating the shortage of the labor market and other social problems. More and more countries are beginning to impose extended retirement policies, like United States, South Korea, Canada and Nordic countries and so on, all have taken some measures to delay retirement. However, the general social recognition is not high. Both the aged group, the education level and the individual's lifestyle have a significant impact on the delayed retirement age policy. Severe aging situation puts the future pension system at risk, based on the interests of the country, delayed retirement will help utilize the human capital and relieve the country' s financial pressure; from individual perspective, extending retirement age can help reduce the provision for the aged people. This article based on previous literatures review, through conducted the survey of people in Halmstad to analyze the local citizen's perception on delayed retirement and the influencing factors behind. Concluded that willingness of delayed retirement among people is not very high, reasons vary from different kinds of people.展开更多
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China(No.#2012AA041505)
文摘This paper proposes two novel rescue robots,including a cutter robot and a jack robot,which are aimed to contribute to rescue activities such as to cut through obstacles and to jack up debris in dangerous sites and narrow spaces,where a rescue team can not work or approach.Firstly,a multilinked tracked rescue robot platform composed of connected crawler vehicles is developed,which has high mobility on irregular terrain and ability to move into narrow collapsed structures.Then,the cutter robot and jack robot are designed on the basis of rescue robot platform equipped with a cutter or a jack mechanism and corresponding manipulators in the front segment.The cutter refitted by an angle grinder is able to cut through 10 mm diameter steel bars.The electric jack mechanism designed based on multiple layers screw sleeves structure can lift up 300 kg load from 70 mm to 400 mm.Experimental results validate the capability of the two rescue robots.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, nos. 61340046), the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China (863 Programme, no. 2006AA04Z247), the Scientific and Technical Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (nos. JCYJ20130331144631730), and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Programme of Higher Education (SRFDP, no. 20130001110011).
文摘Person re-identification (re-id) on robot platform is an important application for human-robot- interaction (HRI), which aims at making the robot recognize the around persons in varying scenes. Although many effective methods have been proposed for surveillance re-id in recent years, re-id on robot platform is still a novel unsolved problem. Most existing methods adapt the supervised metric learning offline to improve the accuracy. However, these methods can not adapt to unknown scenes. To solve this problem, an online re-id framework is proposed. Considering that robotics can afford to use high-resolution RGB-D sensors and clear human face may be captured, face information is used to update the metric model. Firstly, the metric model is pre-trained offline using labeled data. Then during the online stage, we use face information to mine incorrect body matching pairs which are collected to update the metric model online. In addition, to make full use of both appearance and skeleton information provided by RGB-D sensors, a novel feature funnel model (FFM) is proposed. Comparison studies show our approach is more effective and adaptable to varying environments.
文摘In this study, we propose an incremental learning approach based on a machine-machine interaction via relative attribute feedbacks that exploit comparative relationships among top level image categories. One machine acts as 'Student (S)' with initially limited information and it endeavors to capture the task domain gradually by questioning its mentor on a pool of unlabeled data. The other machine is 'Teacher (T)' with the implicit knowledge for helping S on learning the class models. T initiates relative attributes as a communication channel by randomly sorting the classes on attribute space in an unsupervised manner. S starts modeling the categories in this intermediate level by using only a limited number of labeled data. Thereafter, it first selects an entropy-based sample from the pool of unlabeled data and triggers the conversation by propagating the selected image with its belief class in a query. Since T already knows the ground truth labels, it not only decides whether the belief is true or false, but it also provides an attribute-based feedback to S in each case without revealing the true label of the query sample if the belief is false. So the number of training data is increased virtually by dropping the falsely predicted sample back into the unlabeled pool. Next, S updates the attribute space which, in fact, has an impact on T's future responses, and then the category models are updated concurrently for the next run. We experience the weakly supervised algorithm on the real world datasets of faces and natural scenes in comparison with direct attribute prediction and semi-supervised learning approaches, and a noteworthy performance increase is achieved.
文摘Recently, Japan has experienced a low birthrate and an aging population. The development of communication robots, such as cleaning and a care-giver robot, has been progressing. Care-giver robots provide daily assistance, including contacting emergency services. This study is part of the "study on planning techniques of living space in harmony with robots", and focused on the elderly. Minimum distance was the subjects felt "I do not want any more approached". Subjects were 21 elderly persons (eight males and thirteen females), aged 66-86 years. The experimental room was an assembly room in a public accommodation (14 m× 6.5 m). The small mobile robot used in this experiment was external form dimensions of 120 mm (W)× 130 mm (D)× 70 mm (H), In this experiment, considering the personal space as the small mobile robot is watching robot without support function for person. The robot moved toward standing or sitting subjects at constant velocities from a distance 5 m apart. Research factors are 5 angles (0°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180°) and 2 speeds (0.08 m/s and 0.24 m/s).
文摘When considering indigenous people in Brazil, both in academic and non-academic settings, the individuals' names are almost always ignored for the sake of representing their collectivity as communities, as Peoples. Discussing autobiographies or indigenous biographies is still an uncommon endeavor, even in our field of Letters/Liberal Arts or in Indigenous Ethnology. However, since the beginning of the process of reclaiming the lands that once belonged to them, the indigenous Peoples have been producing autobiographical narratives, demonstrating how this genre of text production--traditionally linked to the development of the Western individual---can constitute and be appropriated in different Amerindian translations. It is fi'om this perspective that I intend to present a discussion about those text productions, analyzing what their collective signatures express, and how their proper names are constructed and signified on behalf of the group.
基金Supported by the National Fundamental Research Project(A1420060159)
文摘A co-evolutional immune algorithm for the optimization of a function with real parameters is de-scribed.It uses a cooperative co-evolution of two populations,one is a population of antibodies and theother is a population of successful mutation vectors.These two population evolve together to improve thediversity of the antibodies.The algorithm described is then tested on a suite of optimization problems.The results show that on most of test functions,this algorithm can converge to the global optimum atquicker rate in a given range,the performance of optimization is improved effetely.
文摘Now environment is an important topic in academic field.Many researches focus on the negative outcomes of nature which are being continually created by human and much attention has been paid to how the environment is protected through integrated research,movement and policy.But few studies are concentrated on population and environment and are to find out the interconnectivity and underlying mechanism that have an effect on people's preferring additional children and perception to environment.Many researchers claim that population growth is a great problem for environment but they do not provide the indepth integrated knowledge and mechanism that influence fertility trend and environmental problems.It is very crucial to develop practical and concrete initiatives to confirm a transition to reduce population growth and redirect the perception on population and environment.
文摘The current management idea of college teaching management lags, the management system rigidities, administration is centralized and management team is limited. These showed a lack of faculty administrator of this concept. University teaching management people of this concept refers to respect for human presence in the teaching management process, human development as a starting point, all management is to human development, human-centered teaching management activities undertaken.
文摘The globe has been confronting a new set of challenges. Such challenges are unique to each country context. The overarching challenge, all above other challenges is, to seek appropriate knowledge as a tool and mean to resolve such challenges. A critical such knowledge to be accumulated in all days is on how to develop people or human resources. However, with the existing knowledge claims in this regard, countries have been unable to resolve such challenges. Human Development, one such knowledge claim, is too broader, and therefore, no guided protocol is suggested in finding solutions. Human Resource Development, as another such knowledge claim is too limited in scope to address broader level challenges. National Human Resource Development (NHRD) has emerged to bridge this gap, emphasising people oriented solutions to resolve country level challenges. The NHRD literature encourages NHRD country case studies, and that, justifications for starting NHRD country case studies is needed. This study justifies such a research on NHRD practices in Malaysia's country context, using content analysis. As a result, this study has shown higher level country challenges, derived a need of people based approach in resolving such challenges, highlighted NHRD as capable as possible in guiding to establish people development knowledge claim, and finally justified an NHRD research to be done within Malaysia's context to see how Malaysia practices NHRD.
文摘The purpose of this article is to raise the question of how important decentralisation and local governments are for the successful transition and eventually for sustainable human development of a state. The paper focuses on the gap between development or transition and decentralisation within academic and international policy discourse. In article, the author tries to answer such questions as how local government can contribute to SHD (sustainable human development). And how should the international community contribute to and support the transition and development process of the developing countries? Article shows that local self-government can be a school of democracy and responsibility for the wealth of the state and citizens. By sharing the Polish decentralisation experience, the author shows how important decentralisation might be for successful transition, democratization and sustainable development. The paper also includes a short introduction to the European Charter, recent African efforts like AMCOD or UCLGA and European Union development assistance policy. The purpose of this is to show how little attention is paid to local governments and decentralisation within international policy and how huge is the gap between Europe's (developed) states and Africa's (developing) states related to their decentralisation policy, law and practice.
文摘In this paper, we explore the process of emotional state transition. And the process is impacted by emotional state of interaction objects. First of all, the cognitive reasoning process and the micro-expressions recognition is the basis of affective computing adjustment process. Secondly, the threshold function and attenuation function are proposed to quantify the emotional changes. In the actual environment, the emotional state of the robot and external stimulus are also quantified as the transferring probability. Finally, the Gaussian cloud distribution is introduced to the Gross model to calculate the emotional transitional probabilities. The experimental results show that the model in human-computer interaction can effectively regulate the emotional states, and can significantly improve the humanoid and intelligent ability of the robot. This model is consistent with experimental and emulational significance of the psychology, and allows the robot to get rid of the mechanical emotional transfer process.
文摘This paper mainly discusses leadership soft skills, which comprise of collaboration or teamwork, communication skills, initiative, leadership ability, people development or coaching, personal effectiveness or personal mastery, planning and organizing, and presentation skills. Leaders need to be masters of soft skills because leadership is determined by those who can demonstrate their ability to drive an organization toward excellence and results. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the body of knowledge and literature in leadership soft skills for educational leaders in higher education institutions. In addition, this paper also provides exposure to administrators to understand the importance of leadership soft skills besides highlighting the two relevant models. Furthermore, it also provides an advantage to administrators in developing high quality interpersonal relationships with the people who they associate with in promoting positive working environment. Leadership soft skills can be seen as providing a vital contribution for organizations and administrators in the process of developing of quality human resource.
文摘Since the city of Chongqing became a municipality on 14th March, 1997, the structure of Chongqing population has undergone tremendous changes. Especially the young, born after the 1980s, will play an important part in the future housing market. So it seems quite urgem to effectively satisfy the housing needs of young people. Massive research and practices indicate that the housing industrialization conserves the environment, improves quality and reduces cost of housing and is among the most effective ways to boost sustainable development of housing industry. The main objective of the paper is to discuss how to meet the growing housing demands of the young and concludes that housing with recreation, sports and other ancillary facilities will be better fit to the young to rent or to own. Furthermore, an analysis of the Chongqing housing market potential of young people's wish to rent or to purchase satisfactory housing demonstrates that some real estate investors may be failing to exploit serious opportunities that could arise from providing service to the young. And this case study of meeting the changing housing needs of the young may help accelerate the process of housing industrialization in Chongqing as well as providing a useful study concerning housing industry.
文摘Extending the retirement age is an inevitable trend with the extension of the life expectancy of the population, reducing the financial burden of pensions, increasing the utilization rate of human capital, alleviating the shortage of the labor market and other social problems. More and more countries are beginning to impose extended retirement policies, like United States, South Korea, Canada and Nordic countries and so on, all have taken some measures to delay retirement. However, the general social recognition is not high. Both the aged group, the education level and the individual's lifestyle have a significant impact on the delayed retirement age policy. Severe aging situation puts the future pension system at risk, based on the interests of the country, delayed retirement will help utilize the human capital and relieve the country' s financial pressure; from individual perspective, extending retirement age can help reduce the provision for the aged people. This article based on previous literatures review, through conducted the survey of people in Halmstad to analyze the local citizen's perception on delayed retirement and the influencing factors behind. Concluded that willingness of delayed retirement among people is not very high, reasons vary from different kinds of people.