In a controlled indoor environment,line tracking has become the most practical and reliable navigation strategy for autonomous mobile robots.A line tracking robot is a self-mobile machine that can recognize and track ...In a controlled indoor environment,line tracking has become the most practical and reliable navigation strategy for autonomous mobile robots.A line tracking robot is a self-mobile machine that can recognize and track a painted line on thefloor.In general,the path is set and can be visible,such as a black line on a white surface with high contrasting colors.The robot’s path is marked by a distinct line or track,which the robot follows to move.Several scientific contributions from the disciplines of vision and control have been made to mobile robot vision-based navigation.Localization,automated map generation,autonomous navigation and path tracking is all becoming more frequent in vision applications.A visual navigation line tracking robot should detect the line with a camera using an image processing technique.The paper focuses on combining computer vision techniques with a proportional-integral-derivative(PID)control-ler for automatic steering and speed control.A prototype line tracking robot is used to evaluate the proposed control strategy.展开更多
Electrical trees are an aging mechanismmost associated with partial discharge(PD)activities in crosslinked polyethylene(XLPE)insulation of high-voltage(HV)cables.Characterization of electrical tree structures gained c...Electrical trees are an aging mechanismmost associated with partial discharge(PD)activities in crosslinked polyethylene(XLPE)insulation of high-voltage(HV)cables.Characterization of electrical tree structures gained considerable attention from researchers since a deep understanding of the tree morphology is required to develop new insulation material.Two-dimensional(2D)optical microscopy is primarily used to examine tree structures and propagation shapes with image segmentation methods.However,since electrical trees can emerge in different shapes such as bush-type or branch-type,treeing images are complicated to segment due to manifestation of convoluted tree branches,leading to a high misclassification rate during segmentation.Therefore,this study proposed a new method for segmenting 2D electrical tree images based on the multi-scale line tracking algorithm(MSLTA)by integrating batch processing method.The proposed method,h-MSLTA aims to provide accurate segmentation of electrical tree images obtained over a period of tree propagation observation under optical microscopy.The initial phase involves XLPE sample preparation and treeing image acquisition under real-time microscopy observation.The treeing images are then sampled and binarized in pre-processing.In the next phase,segmentation of tree structures is performed using the h-MSLTA by utilizing batch processing in multiple instances of treeing duration.Finally,the comparative investigation has been conducted using standard performance assessment metrics,including accuracy,sensitivity,specificity,Dice coefficient and Matthew’s correlation coefficient(MCC).Based on segmentation performance evaluation against several established segmentation methods,h-MSLTA achieved better results of 95.43%accuracy,97.28%specificity,69.43%sensitivity rate with 23.38%and 24.16%average improvement in Dice coefficient and MCC score respectively over the original algorithm.In addition,h-MSLTA produced accurate measurement results of global tree parameters of length and width in comparison with the ground truth image.These results indicated that the proposed method had a solid performance in terms of segmenting electrical tree branches in 2D treeing images compared to other established techniques.展开更多
A pair of synchronous line-tracking robots based on STM 32 are designed.Each robot is actually a small intelligent car with seven reflective infrared photoelectric sensors ST 188 installed in the front to track the li...A pair of synchronous line-tracking robots based on STM 32 are designed.Each robot is actually a small intelligent car with seven reflective infrared photoelectric sensors ST 188 installed in the front to track the line.Two rear wheels each driven by a moter are the driving wheels,while each moter is driven by an H-bridge circuit.The running direction is controlled by the turning of a servo fastened to the front wheel and the adjustment of speed difference between the rear wheels.Besides,the light-adaptive line-tracking can be performed.The speeds of the motors are controlled by adjusting pulse-width modulation(PWM)values and an angular displacement transducer is used to detect the relative position of the cars in real time.Thus,the speeds of the cars can be adjusted in time so that the synchronism of the cars can be achieved.Through experiments,the fast and accurate synchronous tracking can be well realized.展开更多
The authoros specialize in the field of optunization and automatic programme oftrain working graph. In this peper, at frist, a mixed 0-1 integer progranimingmodel about this problem for duuble-track lines is set up, t...The authoros specialize in the field of optunization and automatic programme oftrain working graph. In this peper, at frist, a mixed 0-1 integer progranimingmodel about this problem for duuble-track lines is set up, then the principle andProcess of selution are stated, with an application exaiiiple put forward.展开更多
基金funding from the researchers supporting project number(RSP2022R474)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘In a controlled indoor environment,line tracking has become the most practical and reliable navigation strategy for autonomous mobile robots.A line tracking robot is a self-mobile machine that can recognize and track a painted line on thefloor.In general,the path is set and can be visible,such as a black line on a white surface with high contrasting colors.The robot’s path is marked by a distinct line or track,which the robot follows to move.Several scientific contributions from the disciplines of vision and control have been made to mobile robot vision-based navigation.Localization,automated map generation,autonomous navigation and path tracking is all becoming more frequent in vision applications.A visual navigation line tracking robot should detect the line with a camera using an image processing technique.The paper focuses on combining computer vision techniques with a proportional-integral-derivative(PID)control-ler for automatic steering and speed control.A prototype line tracking robot is used to evaluate the proposed control strategy.
基金the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for financially supported under the FundamentalResearch Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2020/TK0/UNIMAP/02/17).
文摘Electrical trees are an aging mechanismmost associated with partial discharge(PD)activities in crosslinked polyethylene(XLPE)insulation of high-voltage(HV)cables.Characterization of electrical tree structures gained considerable attention from researchers since a deep understanding of the tree morphology is required to develop new insulation material.Two-dimensional(2D)optical microscopy is primarily used to examine tree structures and propagation shapes with image segmentation methods.However,since electrical trees can emerge in different shapes such as bush-type or branch-type,treeing images are complicated to segment due to manifestation of convoluted tree branches,leading to a high misclassification rate during segmentation.Therefore,this study proposed a new method for segmenting 2D electrical tree images based on the multi-scale line tracking algorithm(MSLTA)by integrating batch processing method.The proposed method,h-MSLTA aims to provide accurate segmentation of electrical tree images obtained over a period of tree propagation observation under optical microscopy.The initial phase involves XLPE sample preparation and treeing image acquisition under real-time microscopy observation.The treeing images are then sampled and binarized in pre-processing.In the next phase,segmentation of tree structures is performed using the h-MSLTA by utilizing batch processing in multiple instances of treeing duration.Finally,the comparative investigation has been conducted using standard performance assessment metrics,including accuracy,sensitivity,specificity,Dice coefficient and Matthew’s correlation coefficient(MCC).Based on segmentation performance evaluation against several established segmentation methods,h-MSLTA achieved better results of 95.43%accuracy,97.28%specificity,69.43%sensitivity rate with 23.38%and 24.16%average improvement in Dice coefficient and MCC score respectively over the original algorithm.In addition,h-MSLTA produced accurate measurement results of global tree parameters of length and width in comparison with the ground truth image.These results indicated that the proposed method had a solid performance in terms of segmenting electrical tree branches in 2D treeing images compared to other established techniques.
文摘A pair of synchronous line-tracking robots based on STM 32 are designed.Each robot is actually a small intelligent car with seven reflective infrared photoelectric sensors ST 188 installed in the front to track the line.Two rear wheels each driven by a moter are the driving wheels,while each moter is driven by an H-bridge circuit.The running direction is controlled by the turning of a servo fastened to the front wheel and the adjustment of speed difference between the rear wheels.Besides,the light-adaptive line-tracking can be performed.The speeds of the motors are controlled by adjusting pulse-width modulation(PWM)values and an angular displacement transducer is used to detect the relative position of the cars in real time.Thus,the speeds of the cars can be adjusted in time so that the synchronism of the cars can be achieved.Through experiments,the fast and accurate synchronous tracking can be well realized.
文摘The authoros specialize in the field of optunization and automatic programme oftrain working graph. In this peper, at frist, a mixed 0-1 integer progranimingmodel about this problem for duuble-track lines is set up, then the principle andProcess of selution are stated, with an application exaiiiple put forward.
