The signed distance function can effectively support many geometry processing tasks such as decimates, smoothing and shape reconstruction since it provides efficient access to distance estimates. In this talk, we present an adaptive method to approximate the signed distance function of a smooth curve by using polynomial splines over type-2 triangulation. The trimmed offsets are also studied.

Abstract—In fuzzy control systems, fuzzification and defuzzification are two important procedures. Defuzzification plays an important part in the implementation of a fuzzy system, since the fuzzy data is not suitable for real time applications; it needs to be converted into crisp data. This paper proposes a novel VLSI architecture of a weighted average method (WAM) defuzzification method. The W...

It was suggested in 2004 by some researchers that it might be possible to improve production systems performance by applying the first and second laws of thermodynamics to reduce system entropy. Then these laws were used to modify the economic order quantity (EOQ) model to derive an equivalent entropic order quantity (EnOQ). Moreover the political instability or uncertainty of a country (as wel...

In this paper, we consider fuzzy inventory with backorder. First, we fuzzify the storing cost a, backorder cost b, cost of placing an order c, total demand r, order quantity q, and shortage quantity s as the triangular fuzzy numbers in the total cost. From these, we can obtain the fuzzy total cost. Using the signed distance method to defuzzify, we get the estimate of the total cost in the fuzzy...

We introduce and study a family of generalized double-layer potentials which are used to build smooth and accurate approximants for the signed distance function. Given a surface, the value of an approximant at a given point is a power mean of distances from the point to the surface points parameterized by the angle they are viewed from the given point. We analyze mathematical properties of the ...

This thesis is concerned with topics related to dense mapping of large scale three-dimensional spaces. In particular, the motivating scenario of this work is one in which a mobile robot with limited computational resources explores an unknown environment using a depth-camera. To this end, low-level topics such as sensor noise, map representation, interpolation, bit-rates, compression are invest...

A novel technique of designing application specific defuzzification strategies with neural learning is presented. The proposed neural architecture considered as a universal defuzzification approximator is validated by showing the convergence when approximating several existing defuzzification strategies. The method is successfully tested with fuzzy controlled reverse driving of a model truck. T...

For the total cost of the inventory without backorder model, if we fuzzify the order quantity, the total demand, the cost of storing and the cost of placing an order as fuzzy numbers then we can obtain the fuzzy total cost. In this paper, we apply the signed distance method to defuzzify the fuzzy total cost and then solve the optimal order quantity.