Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life

Volume 6, Issue 2, September 2019

Review Article
1.A Method of Naimaze of Narratives Based on Kabuki Analyses and Propp’s Move Techniques for an Automated Narrative Generation System
Takashi Ogata
Pages: 71 - 78
Naimaze in kabuki has been known as a narrative creation method, or a group of techniques that combines components in existing kabuki works or in the narratives from other genres for making a new work. Various elements, such as stories, plots, characters, and places, can be used as components in naimaze....
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2.Suppression of Roll Oscillation in Turning of Quadruped Robot by Asymmetric Amplification of Central Pattern Generator Output Waveform
Makoto Kitani, Ryo Asami, Noritaka Sato, Yoshifumi Morita, Tomofumi Fujiwara, Takahiro Endo, Fumitoshi Matsuno
Pages: 79 - 83
Quadruped robots experience excessive vibrations in the roll direction when turning by controlling their hip yaw joint. In the case of image-based teleoperation of the robot, the operator cannot aware the situation of the robot, due to excessive vibrations of the viewpoint of the image from the camera...
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3.Feasibility Study of UAV Implementation in Route Surveying
Hazry Desa, Muhammad Azizi bin Azizan, Mohamad Syafiq Abdul Khadir, Muhammad Safwan Suhaimi, Noor Zulaiha Ramli, Zainudin Hat
Pages: 84 - 88
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are widely used in numerous field and the technology keeps growing. Generally, conventional method used in data collection for engineering work is tedious and requires a lot of manpower. This research focuses on the investigation of the suitability of UAV for route survey....
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4.Mean-square Quasi-composite Rotating Formation Control of Second-order Multi-agent Systems under Stochastic Communication Noises
Lipo Mo, Xiaolin Yuan, Yingmin Jia, Shaoyan Guo
Pages: 89 - 96
This paper mainly concerns the mean-square quasi-composite rotating formation problem of second-order multi-agent systems (MASs) with stochastic communication noises. Firstly, the definition of mean-square quasi-composite rotating formation is proposed. Afterwards, a distributed control protocol with...
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5.Field Robot and Sensing System
Eiji Hayashi
Pages: 97 - 100
Labors in which forestry and agriculture and factory, are working in severe circumstance. So, such workers are necessarily declines and decreases. However, it is important for us to keep going in economy, life and nature. Therefore, to prevent a devastation of the forest, the safety and the lack of food...
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6.High-performance Computing for Visual Simulations and Rendering
Jasmine Wu, Chia-Chen Kuo
Pages: 101 - 104
National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) built a render farm that provides a platform for the industry to render their work in a much more efficient timeframe, allowing for both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) rendering. The throughput has also been greatly...
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7.Izhikevich Model-based Self-repairing Control for Plants with Sensor Failures and Disturbances
Masanori Takahashi
Pages: 105 - 108
In the previous works, several types of the Self-Repairing Control Systems (SRCS) have been developed against unknown sensor failures. The SRCS can automatically detect failures, and replace failed sensors with healthy backups so as to maintain the system stability. This paper presents a new SRCS, whose...
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8.Tumble Avoidance System for Rescue Robot by Estimating the Contact Points using a 3D Depth Sensor
Noritaka Sato, Kotaro Ohshima, Yoshifumi Morita
Pages: 109 - 112
Rescue robots are expected to perform works in hazardous areas. However, when the robot runs on a rough terrain, fatal rollover falling sometimes occurs. Therefore, we propose a tumble-risk-assessment system, which calculates a normalized energy stability margin by using a 3D depth sensor. Moreover,...
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9.Pulse Point Position Tracking-control and Simulation based on 4-DOF Pulse Diagnosis Robot
Qunpo Liu, Guanghui Liu, Hongqi Wang, Xianzhe Liu, Naohiko Hanajima
Pages: 113 - 117
Pulse diagnosis has been proved to be of great practical value in the past dynasties. The key of high-quality pulse diagnosis is how to dynamically adjust the vertical relationship between the pulse and the sensor dynamically. The design adopts a four degree of freedom manipulator combined with a matrix...
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10.Design of a PID Controller using a Fictitious Exogenous Signal for a Fluctuation System
Masatoshi Kozui, Takuya Kinoshita, Toru Yamamoto
Pages: 118 - 122
The fictitious reference iterative tuning method is used to design Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) controllers to achieve desired performance for industrial machines. However, the desired control performance cannot be obtained by this method, if the system characteristics changed in steady state....
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11.Implementation of Tamias to Check Production Rules for Parsing Expression Grammar
Tetsuro Katayama, Toshihiro Miyaji, Yoshihiro Kita, Hisaaki Yamaba, Kentaro Aburada, Naonobu Okazaki
Pages: 123 - 127
Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) proposed by Ford has the higher expressive ability than traditional Backus–Naur form, but it also has problems such as prefix capture. “Prefix capture” is a problem of hiding the language to be accepted according to the order of choice. To support checking syntax files...
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12.An Efficient Structure of Organization with Complete Group Guidance
Satoshi Ikeda, Makoto Sakamoto, Takao Ito
Pages: 128 - 132
Organizational structure is one of the most important factors in determining its performance. Our interest is what kind of structures is efficient, and what conditions are required for an efficient structure? In our previous papers, we proposed a mathematical model for evaluating the hierarchical organization...
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13.An Authentication Method for Digital Audio using Wavelet Transform and Fundamental Frequencies
Yasunari Yoshitomi, Shohei Tani, Masaki Arasuna, Ryota Kan, Taro Asada, Masayoshi Tabuse
Pages: 133 - 137
Several digital watermarking techniques for audio files have been proposed for hiding data for protecting their copyrights. There is a tradeoff between the quality of watermarked audio and the tolerance of watermarks to signal processing methods, such as compression. To overcome the inevitable tradeoff,...
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14.Toward Smart Tomato Greenhouse: The Fourth Tomato Harvesting Robot Competition
Takayuki Matsuo, Takashi Sonoda, Yasunori Takemura, Masanori Sato, Kazuo Ishii
Pages: 138 - 142
Agriculture, one of the most important industries for human life, is faced with serious problems, the shortage of workers, the falling birthrate and the aging population, global warming and natural disasters, etc. Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetables, and most tomatoes in Japan are cultivated...
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