The increased mobility requirements of modern lifestyles put more stress on existing traffic infrastructure, which causes reduced traffic flow, especially in peak traffic hours. This calls for new and advanced solutions in traffic flow regulation and management. One approach towards optimisation is a transition from static to dynamic traffic light intervals, especially in spots where pedestrian crossing cause stops in road traffic flow.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDynamic movement primitives (DMPs) have proven to be an effective movement representation for motor skill learning. In this paper, we propose a new approach for training deep neural networks to synthesize dynamic movement primitives. The distinguishing property of our approach is that it can utilize a novel loss function that measures the physical distance between movement trajectories as opposed to measuring the distance between the parameters of DMPs that have no physical meaning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA number of studies discuss the design and control of various exoskeleton mechanisms, yet relatively few address the effect on the energy expenditure of the user. In this paper, we discuss the effect of a performance augmenting exoskeleton on the metabolic cost of an able-bodied user/pilot during periodic squatting. We investigated whether an exoskeleton device will significantly reduce the metabolic cost and what is the influence of the chosen device control strategy.
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