Zhen Fan's research while affiliated with Zhejiang University and other places

Publications (37)

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Robots need more intelligence to complete cognitive tasks in home environments. In this paper, we present a new cloud-assisted cognition adaptation mechanism for home service robots, which learns new knowledge from other robots. In this mechanism, a change detection approach is implemented in the robot to detect changes in the user’s home environme...
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Passive detection can work for a long time with low energy consumption in underwater surveillance. However, tracking unknown non-cooperative targets with only direction angles is challenging, and the tracking performance of multiple targets is poor. Based on several passive sensors in the underwater sensor network, a feature-aided state estimation...
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Smart homes can provide complementary information to assist home service robots. We present a robotic misplaced item finding (MIF) system, which uses human historical trajectory data obtained in a smart home environment. First, a multi-sensor fusion method is developed to localize and track a resident. Second, a path-planning method is developed to...
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This paper addresses the latency of visual feedback in an immersive telepresence robotic system. The latency is defined as the delay between the real event occurring in the robot‘s environment and the event displayed to the user. While it has been a widely recognized problem in teleoperation and telepresence, the existing research mainly focuses on...
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Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) can provide a promising solution to underwater target tracking. Due to limited energy and bandwidth resources, only a small number of nodes are selected to track a target at each interval. Because all measurements are fused together to provide information in a fusion center, fusion weights of all selected...
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Underwater wireless sensor networks are significantly different from terrestrial wireless sensor networks in that sound is mainly used as the communication medium. The limited bandwidth, long propagation delay and high bit error rate pose great challenges in Media Access Control (MAC) protocol design for underwater wireless sensor networks. In this...
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In order to solve the problem of human target tracking in smart-home Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment, and only based on limited measurement data of Binary PIR sensors, the sensor networks joint likelihood is derived, which proposes the indoor PIR sensor network Binary Auxiliary Particle Filter (Bin-APF) fusion estimate algorithm further m...
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Sensor management plays an important role in data fusion system, the airborne multi-sensor system typically operates under resource constraints that prevents the simultaneous use of all resources all of the time. Considered the multi-sensor management, this paper presents an algorithm of modified efficiency function which synthetically considers th...
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In this paper, we propose a multiple-model (MM) version of the extended target multi-Bernoulli (ET-MB) filter for estimating multiple maneuvering extended targets. A Gaussian mixture (GM) implementation of the MM-ET-MB filter for linear Gaussian models and a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) implementation of the MM-ET-MB filter for nonlinear models are...
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Noise statistics are essential for estimation performance. In practical situations, however, a priori information of noise statistics is often imperfect. Previous work on noise statistics identification in linear systems still requires initial prior knowledge of the noise. A novel approach is presented in this paper to solve this paradox. First, we...
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The Silk Relics Expert System is developed based on the research on silk relics preservation and reconstruction. This article mainly introduces the process of developing the Silk Relics Expert System, including the knowledge's extraction and expression based on the expert experience and professional knowledge on silk relics area, the process of con...
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Ancient fabrics are of high importance to the modern fabric industry, and have attracted large amounts of amateurs. Therefore, they should be protected properly while accessible. In order to solve the problem, this paper designed and implemented a system to provide services for ancient fabric managers, product designers, system administrators and a...
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A fabric simulation system of 2D virtual scene is researched and implemented in this paper. The system not only simulates the folds and transformations of the scene realistically but also allows replacement and modification of fabric. The finite element mesh algorithm is used to model the virtual scene. In order to avert deformations of texture map...
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This paper presents an exponential synchronization scheme between two chaotic systems with different structures and parameters. A unified model consisting of a linear dynamic system and a bounded static nonlinear operator is employed to describe these totally different chaotic systems. A novel state feedback control law is established to exponentia...
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This paper investigates the H∞ synchronization problem for two discrete time-varying-delayed nonlinear systems such as Hopfield neural networks, complex systems, recurrent multilayer perceptrons (RMLPs), Chua's circuits etc., which can be transformed into the unified model consisting of a linear dynamic system and a static nonlinear operator. Throu...
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Voice communication is the main part of wireless communication. ZigBee is a new wireless network technology, which includes low-rate, low-cost, low-energy consumption, and short distance. Although it is not designed for voice communication, its 250kbps bandwidth is enough to support the voice communication. In this paper, we achieve wireless real-t...
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There are some problems in the traditional warehousing monitoring systems, such as complex wiring and high power consumption. Sometimes the warehousing is so remote that it is not quite convenient to supply the alternating current with cable. This paper introduces a new warehousing environment monitor system based on wireless sensor network (WSN),...
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In general, the design of silk products relies on the user's preferences. Conventional design system for silk products utilizes an old-fashioned design method that designers need to design the products manually. However, this task is very complicated and difficult. Therefore, the automation of products' design is very necessary. In this paper, we h...
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The traditional JavaEE existed in large enterprise web applications, uses Enterprise JavaBean as the core component, which results in high coupling and low scalability. Based on the three kinds of opening source frameworks which are Struts2, Spring and Hibernate (SSH), this paper proposes an integrated web application architecture for silk relic in...
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The automatic identification of the woven fabric structures is usually based on the study of the fabric structure blocks. Generally, in the identification process of a textile fabric image which contains several different woven fabric structures, blocks of different woven fabric structures need to be located and extracted manually. This defect extr...
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In this paper, H∞ synchronization and state estimation problems are considered for different types of chaotic systems. A unified model consisting of a linear dynamic system and a bounded static nonlinear operator is employed to describe these chaotic systems, such as Hopfield neural networks, cellular neural networks, Chua's circuits, unified chaot...
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In order to increase the localization coverage while keeping the localization error small in a unique network architecture in which there are not evenly distributed anchor nodes with great ability of communication or additional infrastructure, a Top-down Positioning Scheme (TPS) for underwater acoustic sensor networks is proposed. By defining node’...
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This paper is concerned with the problem of state estimation for a class of discrete-time chaotic systems with or without time delays. A unified model consisting of a linear dynamic system and a bounded static nonlinear operator is employed to describe these systems, such as chaotic neural networks, Chua's circuits, Hénon map, etc. Based on the H(∞...
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This paper presents a unified model, consisting of a linear dynamic system and a bounded static nonlinear operator. Most discrete-time chaotic systems, such as chaotic neural networks, Chua's circuits, and Hénon map etc, can be transformed into this unified model. Based on the H∞ performance analysis of the estimation error system between the unifi...

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... In addition, sensor networks have been used in several domains such as user behaviors [4], testing blood sugar [5], or in robots [6]. However, this technology has been predominantly utilized in the field of energy. ...
... The λ t is set to be 0.2, which gives the optimum solution ofW t . The penalty term λ t is set to 0.2 for reduced position RMSE, and velocity RMSE of the moving target, accurately estimating the initial position, and velocity of moving targets shown in Fig. 4, Fig. 5 [18,31,48,56]. By using theW t in Eq. (52), we estimate the initial position ðm 0 Þ, and velocity ðvÞ of moving targets. ...
... Scholars have been trying for decades to artificially extract features from underwater acoustic targets [6][7][8], and the methods include short-time Fourier transform (STFT) [9], low frequency analysis and recording (LOFAR) [10], Mel-frequency spectrum [6], demon noise envelope modulation detection (DEMON) [11], and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) [12]. Traditional algorithm, such as GMM [13] and SVM [14], were used for the underwater acoustic field. These manually extracted features and algorithms have played a significant role in the underwater acoustic field, for example, MFCC features were extracted in a lot of work [15][16][17] for UATR. ...
... No se proporciona información sobre el ltrado de la nube, lo que podría causar errores en la estimación nal de la forma del objeto. Los trabajos presentados en (Liu et al., 2019;Lin et al., 2021;Grinvald et al., 2019;Qi et al., 2020) generan mapas semánticos con objetos basados en SLAM. En todos estos casos, se aplica un ltro después de recortar la nube de puntos. ...
... Typically, literatures [19,20] integrated the attention module, Suppression Network into Mask RCNN to improve the detection performance, but the category was single. Wang et al. [21] proposed a solution for common items misplaced in the indoor scene. Through wearable motion sensor, service robot can perform data fusion and planning on the human movement path, and use YOLOv1 to detect items, but the detection accuracy needs to be improved. ...
... Accuracy of the studied schemes on the NSL-KDD dataset [3,19,20,22,24,25,[28][29][30][31][32][33]35,36,38,39,44,47,49,50,58,59,61,62,64,68,70,75,76,78,111]. Figure 11. Accuracy of the studied schemes on the KDD Cup99 dataset [16,17,19,23,26,39,40,62,65,69,72,74,76,77]. [15,18,41,[44][45][46]48,52,66,68,71,73,76]. Figure 13. ...
... We also developed a simple interface to allows users to initiate and set-up various system functions for the robot, camera, and calibration system ( Figure 7). Our initial evaluation of latency, based on the network latency method [50,51] indicates an average of 11.64 ms (SD = 3.40), which was measured from the moment positional and rotational data of the IK model were read in the Unity3D environment to the moment the servomotor angles are executed on Piton. Previous works in telexistence and virtual reality indicate that latency should be less than 200 ms in order to provide a smooth experience and not induce simulator sickness [52,53]. ...
... Considering the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in the world [4], Social Companion Robots (SCRs) integrated with various sensing technologies such as vision, voice, or touch to interact with other smart devices in the home can enable the development of advanced artificial intelligence solutions towards Smart Home Care with assistive services to address the needs of the elderly and disabled [1]. The knowledge of the spatial distribution of physical quantities in Smart Home (SH) supports the development of new context-aware applications where new methodologies for multi-sensor data fusion and information processing are needed [5], with possible applications such as multi-point path planning for a home mobile robot [6]. The increasing isolation of elderly people in their own homes and in homes for the elderly has made the problem of caring for the elderly living alone an urgent priority. ...
... Expanding on this work, AN et al. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have played astonishing performance in various domains, including object recognition [25] [26], tracking [27]. CNNs excel at recognizing patterns in images by automatically learning high-level descriptive features, eliminating the need for manual feature engineering employed in old-fashioned mechanisms. ...
... Target tracking refers to the estimation of the motion state of the interest target, considering factors such as noisy measurements, false alarm clutter, and imperfect measurements (Da et al., 2021;Zhu et al., 2021). It is widely used in various fields, such as aircraft target tracking (Zhou et al., 2020;Zheng and Cai, 2021) and underwater target tracking (Zhang D et al., 2018). Depending on the nature of the tracked targets, target tracking algorithms can be categorized into point target tracking, extended target tracking, and group target tracking (Guo et al., 2019(Guo et al., , 2020aWang et al., 2021). ...