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Structural features by MCR expression for printed Arabic character recognition
This paper discribes how stroke features in document images are extracted and used for the recognition of printed Arabic characters. It is of importance to provide a good base representation that facilitate an...
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Intelligent Manipulation Robot in Micro and Nano meter World
Miniaturization of target objects is progressing in many fields such as electronics, mechanical engineering and medical care in consequence of the improvements of microscope, precision measurement, precision p...
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Intelligence and Autonomy for Human-machine Cooperative System
The project of “Emerging Mechanism of Machine Intelligence: A Tightly-Coupled Perception-Motion Behavior Approach” supported by Japanese Ministry of Education has been conducted for these tree years. The main ...
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Building Spined Muscle-Tendon Humanoid
Human can perform variety of limber whole-body motions using numerous muscles and huge number of various sensors. The human brain has all the connections to the sensors and muscles, and learn how to manage the...
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PSA for Depressurization Hazards in ISS Module
As quantitative safety assessment increases its necessity for better understanding of risk, the methodology of PSA for JEM has been established. JAXA conducts the PSA for the JEM System to be attached to ISS. ...
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Markov Model Analysis for Efficient Plant Maintenance
In the probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants, unavailability of a component is normally evaluated by taking into accounts the loss-time of function caused by failures and the maintenanc...
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Analytical Framework for Estimation of Uncertainties in Fault Tree
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) plays an important role in probabilistic safety I risk assessment. In general, however, data used in FTA, such as failureIrepair rates, have uncertainties. Hence it is necessary to ev...
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Probability of Failure on Demand in IEC 61508
This paper presents a new and explicit approach for estimation of average Probability of Failure to perform its design function on Demand (PFD), based on the expectations of fault duration / repair time in acc...
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PML Probabilistic Assessment for Fire & Explosion Risk in Oil Industry
The present paper outlines how to assess the probability of PML (Probable Maximum Loss) caused by a fire or explosion in the oil industry. PML is assessed by use of both loss statistics and an ETA system devel...
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Development of Fire Risk Evaluation System — System Improvement —
A fire risk evaluation system is developed and improved. The system calculates fire risks of whole kinds of buildings even with a large number of compartments and various types of fire propagation scenarios sy...
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Open Forum
The twelve short presentations on current work, progress and future projects were put in perspective by Henrik Christensen’s talk who recalled through an overview of the July 1983 special issue on robotics of ...
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Session Summary
Medical robotics should deal with 1) a bio cell world, 2) a medical world, and 3) a human world to interface between human and bio/medical worlds. Four papers in this session deal with these worlds by putting ...
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Designing an Encountered-Type Haptic Display for Multiple Fingertip Contacts Based on the Observation of Human Gras** Behavior
Unlike conventional haptic devices, an encountered-type device is not held by a user all the time. Instead, the device stays at the location of a virtual object and waits for the user to encounter it. In this ...
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Dexterous Motion Design for a DD Parallel Robot
This paper deals with design of a dexterous motion for a robot consisting of a six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) closed kinematic chain, and driven by direct-drive (DD) motors. The robot can move very fast and, the...
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SVM-Based Human Action Recognition and Its Remarkable Motion Features Discovery Algorithm
This paper proposes a discovery algorithm of knowledge of remarkable motion features in SVM-based action recognition. The main characteristics of the proposed method are a) basic scheme of the algorithm is bas...
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Session Overview Networked Robotics
Robot systems with network capability is a promising frontier of robotics not only to realize new services by combining multiple RT(robot technology) and IT(information technology) components but also to know ...
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Fundamental Study for Relationship between Cognitive Task and Brain Activity During Car Driving
For a long period, many researches about the human spatial recognition are being carried on. They are needed to make robot and automatic driving system for a car or wheelchair and with functions as high as tho...
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Development of a Manipulation Component for a Container Transferring Robot in Living Space
This paper discusses significance of passive compliant mechanisms in home-use robots, and describes development of a manipulation component for transferring home-use containers. The component has two character...
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Approximately Solving Aggregate k-Nearest Neighbor Queries over Web Services
In this paper, we propose a procedure for solving aggregate k-nearest neighbor (k-ANN) queries, which is effective in building location-based services (LBSs) by mashing up several Web services. In order to get th...
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An Application of Dominant Method: Empirical Approach to Public Sector Reform
Under tight financial conditions, local governments in Japan are required to conduct performance-based administrative management and subsequent public sector reform. Concerning public sector reform, a joint re...