The rst part of the study is centered on control design and analysis for nonlinear systems which can be converted to chained-form systems. Solutions to various control problems (open-loop steering, partial or complete state feedback stabilization) are either recalled, generalized, or developped by extending an approach followed by the author in previous papers on mobile robot control. In partic...

Abstract A new control scheme is presented for nonholonomic mobile robots. The main idea of this paper is to consider the natural algebraic structure of the chained form system together with ideas from sliding mode theory while designing the control law. At first, the system model is converted into a single-input time-varying linear system by setting one input as a time-varying function. We des...

In this paper, we present a new concept and its circuit implementation for high-speed associative memories based on Hamming distance. A chained search logic embedded in a memory cell enables a word-parallel search operation based on Hamming distance. A hierarchically chained search architecture maintains a high-speed operation with faultless precision in a large input number. We also propose a ...

The increasing popularity of crowdsourcing platforms, i.e., Amazon Mechanical Turk, changes how datasets for supervised learning are built. In these cases, instead having labeled by one source (which is supposed to be an expert who provided the absolute gold standard), databases holding multiple annotators provided. However, most state-of-the-art methods devoted from experts assume that labeler...

On the surface of mesoporous silica thin films (MSTF) which were fabricated by sol-gel approach there are existences of water and three different silanol types including chained, germinal and isolated silanol. Their amounts changes as a function of aging time of used sol solution, as confirmed by FT-IR. The adsorbed water generates ionic carriers such as H+ and OHand passivates the Si dangling ...