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30 August 2024
At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman sat down with Unitree founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and Tony Yang, VP of Business Development, to talk about the company’s newest humanoid, the G1 model. Smaller, more flexible, and elegant, the G1 robot is designed for general use in service and industry,...
23 July 2024
Follow along as we build and test one of our favorite kits of all time, the Discrete 555 Timer! Build a huge version of one of the most iconic and surprisingly versatile integrated circuits of all time from transistor and resistors. The 555 chip has been used at one time...
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21 July 2023
The globally fixed-time stabilization and $H_{infty }$ control for the port-Hamiltonian differential algebraic equation (PH-DAE) is addressed by applying the structural properties of the port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems, and the interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) technique. For fixed-time control design of the differential algebraic equation systems, the main obstacle...
21 July 2023
This article investigates the problem of fault-tolerant control (FTC) for nonstrict-feedback (NSF) stochastic nonlinear systems subject to actuator faults and output constraints. Most of the existing backstepping-based FTC techniques have been developed for strict-feedback systems, which may cause algebraic loop problems when applied directly to NSF systems. In this work,...
21 July 2023
Quadratic programming (QP)-based controllers allow many robotic systems, such as humanoids, to successfully undertake complex motions and interactions. However, these approaches rely heavily on adequately capturing the underlying model of the environment and the robot’s dynamics. This assumption, nevertheless, is rarely satisfied, and we usually turn to well-tuned end-effector PD...
21 July 2023
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21 July 2023
This article investigates the sliding mode control (SMC) for discrete-time nonlinear semi-Markov jump models with a partly known semi-Markov kernel (SMK). The nonlinear system is characterized by the Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy model, where the membership functions for fuzzy rules are designed to be related to the system mode. In view...
01 June 2023
Human mental workload can profoundly impact human performance and is thus an important consideration in the design and operation of many systems. The standard method for assessing human mental workload is the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX). This involves a human operator subjectively rating a task based on six dimensions....
01 June 2023
Temporal action localization plays an important role in video analysis, which aims to localize and classify actions in untrimmed videos. Previous methods often predict actions on a feature space of a single temporal scale. However, the temporal features of a low-level scale lack sufficient semantics for action classification, while a...
01 April 2023
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19 June 2023
This article investigates $H_{infty }$ global asymptotic synchronization (GAS) of switched nonlinear systems with delay. By introducing mode-dependent double event-triggering mechanisms (DETMs), the communication resources in both system–controller (S-C) channel and controller–actuator (C-A) channel are saved as much as possible. By designing a new multiple Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) with time-varying...
18 June 2023
Major challenges of controlling human–robot collaboration (HRC)-oriented modular robot manipulators (MRMs) include the estimation of human motion intention while cooperating with a robot and performance optimization. This article proposes a cooperative game-based approximate optimal control method of MRMs for HRC tasks. A harmonic drive compliance model-based human motion intention estimation...
16 June 2023
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is a promising candidate for actuation in light-driven soft robot applications. Due to the fact that LCE has complex hysteretic nonlinearities, which are highly dependent on the environment, modeling of actuators made of LCE is a very challenging issue. In this article, a model is proposed...
20 May 2023
Recently, with the development of the marine economy, marine risers have garnered increasing attention as they present facile and reliable methods for oil and gas transportation. However, these risers are susceptible to vibrations, which can lead to system performance degradation and fatigue damage. Therefore, effective vibration control strategies are required...
27 May 2023
Gender difference in how technology is used has been a long-time concern in education. This study examined the impact of the rapid transition from face-to-face learning to remote learning (RL) for students of selected higher education institutions in South Africa. The study employed a quantitative census sampling method as an...
26 May 2023
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01 April 2023
Detecting driver inattentive behaviors is crucial for driving safety in a driver monitoring system (DMS). Recent works treat driver distraction detection as a multiclass action recognition problem or a binary anomaly detection problem. The former approach aims to classify a fixed set of action classes. Although specific distraction classes can...
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- eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024
Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article E-CARGO/RBC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Era of AI, written by Haibin Zhu Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Domenico Lofù Meet SMC Member Prof. Sarah Power Student Corner Interview with...
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- eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024
Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 83, December 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article E-CARGO/RBC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Era of AI, written by Haibin Zhu Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Domenico Lofù Meet SMC Member Prof. Sarah Power Student Corner Interview with...
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Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 82, September 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article Lessons Learned in the Wild West of AI Projects, written by Dr. Nihad Bassis Academic Corner Meet SMC Member Prof. Samia Bouchafa-Bruneau from Université d’Evry Paris-Saclay Student Corner Interview with Ms....
Read More > - eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 81, June 2024
Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 81, June 2024 Editorial Welcome from the EiC Featured Article Trust Management for Human-AI Symbiosis Industry Corner Interview with Dr. Antoine Fagette (Thales, Canada) Student Corner Interview with Rakesh Joshi Interview with Anne Kamatham Interview with Yong Ding Society News About...
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