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Decentralized and Distributed Transient Control for Microgrids

This paper treats the problem of primary and secondary control design in low-inertia power grids with mixed lines and a large amount of inverter-interfaced generation. A dynamic phasor model is developed that represents the electromagnetic and electromecha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Practical control methods for vacuum driven soft actuator modules

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuator (VSPA) Modules have been described to afford advantages for rapid development of reconfigurable, multi-DoF soft pneumatic robots powered by vacuum by reducing their logistical complexity, however they also present new ...

2017

Learning Autonomous Behaviours for the Body of a Flexible Surgical Robot

Sylvain Calinon

This paper presents a novel strategy to learn a positional controller for the body of a flexible surgical manipulator used for minimally invasive surgery. The manipulator is developed within the STIFF-FLOP European project and is targeted for a laparoscopi ...

2017

280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Hamza Harkous, Amit Gupta

We propose a novel fully-automated approach towards inducing multilingual taxonomies from Wikipedia. Given an English taxonomy, our approach first leverages the interlanguage links of Wikipedia to automatically construct training datasets for the is-a rela ...

arxiv.org2017

A Computer Vision System to Localize and Classify Wastes on the Streets

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Andreas von Kaenel, André Droux

Littering quantification is an important step for improving cleanliness of cities. When human interpretation is too cumbersome or in some cases impossible, an objective index of cleanliness could reduce the littering by awareness actions. In this paper, we ...

Springer International Publishing2017

The SaPPART COST Action: main outcomes and deliverables

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron

The deployment of autonomous vehicles is becoming a reality on the European road network and will significantly affect the future liability of different actors in the road and transport sectors. Liability is strongly linked with the trust that you can have ...

2017

Phace: Physics-based Face Modeling and Animation

Mark Pauly, Ladislav Kavan, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a novel physics-based approach to facial animation. Contrary to commonly used generative methods, our solution computes facial expressions by minimizing a set of non-linear potential energies that model the physical interaction of passive flesh, ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Distributed Intelligent Modules System Using Power-line Communication for Electrical Appliance Automation

Maher Kayal, Laurent Fabre, Fabrizio Lo Conte, Thierry Barras

In a first aspect the invention provides a system that comprising a plurality of electronic modules, each one of the electronic modules configured for enabling automation of an electrical appliance to be connected to the electronic module. Each electronic ...

2016

Real-Time, Online Automated System for Measurement of Water-Soluble Reactive Phosphate Ions in Atmospheric Particles

Athanasios Nenes, Kalliopi Violaki

We present a novel automated system for real-time measurements of water-soluble reactive phosphate (SRP) ions in atmospheric particles. Detection of SRP is based on molybdenum blue chemistry with Sn(II) chloride dihydrate reduction. The instrumentation con ...

American Chemical Society2016

STEP-NC machine tool data model and its applications

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

The machine tool data model of STEP-NC (ISO 14649) was conceived as a necessary extension to the original STEP-NC set of standards to make efficient control possible. The intention of this paper is to describe the background to the data model as well as re ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

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