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The Blues slumped to their sixth defeat of the Super Rugby season after going down 29-23 to the Sharks in Auckland on Friday.
The Blues slumped to their sixth defeat of the 2012 Super Rugby season after going down 29-23 to the Sharks at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday.
A terrible week for coach Pat Lam and his troops just got worse, while the Sharks leave New Zealand on a high thanks to their four-try bonus point win that puts them back in the play-offs hunt.
It was the eighth consecutive win for the South Africans over their Kiwi counterparts, who will no doubt face another barrage of criticism in the aftermath of another loss.
The Sharks raced out of the starting blocks first with a try to Steven Sykes, after the lock was on hand to take a pass from skipper Keegan Daniel who did all the hard work by intercepting a Blues pass and racing 50m to the tryline.
A try-saving tackle by Gareth Anscombe stopped Daniel just short, but the Blues pivot couldn't prevent the supporting Sykes from powering over.
Patrick Lambie couldn't add the extras, but was on target with a penalty attempt in the 15th minute to take his team into an 8-0 lead.
The Sharks struck again immediately from the restart after the Blues threw yet another intercept pass to hooker Craig Burden who didn't need a second invite to the tryline as the former wing turned on the gas for a converted score under the posts.
Fifteen points down, and the hosts were in trouble. However, after repeated surges on the Sharks line amounted to nothing, Anscombe took the three points on offer by referee Steve Walsh – who had another shocker with the whistle – to put the Blues on the board.
With half-time approaching, the Blues managed to win an illegal scrum against the feed and Tony Woodcock finished what he started with a try as the prop burrowed over for a crucial score converted by Anscombe.
The Blues pivot then made it a two-point ball game after calmly slotting over a drop-goal from bang in front to take the scores to 15-13 at the break.
The home side made the perfect start to the second half when centre Benson Stanley pounced on a sloppy pass from Sharks scrum-half Charl McLeod for his team's second try. Anscombe dually converted and the Blues were in front for the first time in the match (20-15).
Celebrations in the Eden Park stands didn't last long though as the Sharks hit back straight away with two quickfire tries through Daniel and centre Tim Whitehead – both converted by Lambie.
The first from Daniel saw the number eight dart past two defenders before crossing the line, and the second came after Lambie made a superb line break before linking with that man Daniel who offloaded to Whitehead.
Running at full tilt, the Sharks midfielder knocked the ball on to a Blues defender but managed to snatch back possession and cruise in for the bonus point try that the visitors were lucky to get away with.
With the Blues forced to play catch-up yet again, Anscombe sent over a 67th minute penalty to close the gap to six points which meant the hosts needed a converted try to win the game.
But the Sharks were up to the task, with some exceptional defence keeping the Blues at bay as the visitors hung on for victory.
The scorers:
For Blues:
Tries: Woodcock, Stanley
Cons: Anscombe 2
Pens: Anscombe 2
Drop: Anscombe
For Sharks:
Tries: Sykes, Burden, Daniel, Whitehead
Cons: Lambie 3
Pen: Lambie
Blues: 15 Rudi Wulf, 14 Hadleigh Parkes, 13 Benson Stanley, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Rene Ranger, 10 Gareth Anscombe, 9 Alby Mathewson, 8 Chris Lowrey, 7 Daniel Braid, 6 Luke Braid, 5 Liaki Moli, 4 Filo Paulo, 3 Charlie Faumuina, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Tom McCartney, 17 Tevita Mailau, 18 Ali Williams, 19 Peter Saili, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Michael Hobbs, 22 George Moala.
Sharks: 15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Louis Ludik, 13 JP Pietersen, 12 Tim Whitehead, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Patrick Lambie, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Keegan Daniel (c), 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Anton Bresler, 4 Steven Sykes, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Craig Burden, 1 Dale Chadwick.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Cooper, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Jandré Marais, 19 Willem Alberts, 20 Jacques Botes, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Frederic Michalak.
Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)

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Open Letter to the State Goverment
10 May 2013
Hon Jay Weatherill MP
Premier of South Australia
Level 16, State Administration Centre
200 Victoria Square
RE: Branding South Australia
Dear Premier
I noted with interest your recent decision to ask the Economic Development Board to develop a new brand for South Australia and welcome such an initiative. I was also pleased to see the EDB's recognition that a "brand is not a logo, a slogan or a tag line. It's much, much more. It is a value or a set of beliefs that are held to be self evident, a truth about this place that drives how we act, behave, what we build, what our future looks like and how we want others to see us".
To this end I wanted to suggest South Australia (again) considers 'standardising' our time zone and eliminating the confusing half hour. Whether that means moving forwards 30 minutes (to Australian Eastern Standard Time) or back 30 minutes to what would be the Coordinated Universal time (UTC) +8 is less important. UCL would suggest AEST. Like many organisations, we operate across states so standardisation would make business easier, coordinating identical starting times for eastern state exams, for example.
As you know, I was the State's Deputy Agent General in London for more than four years and if there was a single issue which consistently arose, with prospective South Australian investors, it was 'what's with the half hour time zone'? This was inevitably followed by laughter.
This simple policy change would send a clear and unambiguous signal to the international business community that South Australia was not 'different' when it came to doing business.
I am sure you appreciate the long history of this unique feature of our State (particularly because I recall your father was on the last Select Committee which reported on this matter in 1995.) At the time I was being appointed as the editor of the Stock Journal, the South Australian agricultural weekly. Naturally, I would expect the farming community to complain about the idea of moving forward 30 minutes, probably none more loudly than farmers on Eyre Peninsula, such as my father, a retired farmer in Cleve. Or his neighbour the Hon Peter Dunn MLC (ret), whose son leases parts of our farming property. Peter was President of the Legislative Council during that last attempt to find some sensibility on this matter in its report of 21 November 1995.
Dad and Peter's argument will be about the poor farm children who will have to get up in the dark to catch a school bus. Well, having caught the bus to Cleve Area School for 12 years, I think I have a better idea than most about this – and it is a minor impact. In 2012, the winter solstice (June 21) saw sunrise in Cleve at 0728, moving to AEST would see sunrise at 0758, still six minutes earlier than sun rise for all the children in London on the winter solstice this year (December 21) when the sun rises at 0804; and much earlier than for all the children in Tallinn (Estonia) where the sunrises at 0918 on 21 December this year. Of course you could move the time zone back 30 minutes and the business community would probably complain.
As you know, I am now the Chief Executive of University College London (Australia) and London, home of UTC, is a perfect example of where logical hour-wide zones do not have to conform to geography where there are strong reasons to innovate. Portugal and western Spain are much further west than London (GMT or UTC) yet lie an hour's time east, consistent with western continental Europe where they physically reside. The western Russia time zone (which includes St Petersburg and Moscow, now +4 UTC) did not return from daylight savings in 2011 and is now an extra hour ahead of many of its former Soviet Union 'colleagues' in eastern Europe.
The point being, there are many anomalies for South Australians to argue with – India is on a half hour, China is larger than Australia and has one time zone – but at the end of the day it requires leadership. I think the move off the 30 minute zone would be a bold and positive public policy innovation. We move forward an hour each daylight savings period, so there is a weak argument that there will be a detrimental economic cost.
It would be a positive morale boost for South Australia at a time when the economic spirit has taken a hit. Having had a 30 minute zone since 1898, now is as good as time as any to choose a move to solar time 1350 or 1500 east of the old Greenwich Mean Time (UTC).
I would be pleased to provide you more detail and a brief paper which I have prepared in support of this idea should you wish.
Yours sincerely
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Glasgow moved up to second in the PRO12 standings after coming from behind to beat Zebre 36-20 at Stadio XXV Aprile on Sunday.
Glasgow jumped up to second in the RaboDirect PRO12 standings after coming from behind to beat Zebre 36-20 at Stadio XXV Aprile on Sunday.
The Italian outfit actually led 20-17 at half-time through tries from Dries van Schalkwyk and Tito Tebaldi, while Daniel Halangahu kicked 10 points.
However, they failed to score after the break and Glasgow secured the five points with Byron McGuigan (2), Alex Dunbar, James Eddie and Peter Murchie all going over.
Despite failing to gain any sort of competitive victory this season, it was the hosts that started the brighter when number eight Van Schalkwyk powered over.
The Warriors struck back almost immediately when McGuigan scampered across the whitewash.
But, in what was a remarkable opening, Zebre touched down again after 10 minutes through Tebaldi to give them a 14-7 lead.
Once again the home side failed to build on that bright passage of play and it was the visitors that took command from there on in. Dunbar's converted effort duly levelled matters before Scott Wight's three-pointer took Gregor Townsend's men into the lead for the first time.
Successive Halangahu penalties did briefly regain the advantage at the interval, but it was all Glasgow after the break. Graeme Morrison and Filippo Ferrarini were yellow carded for either side at the start of the second half, but the Scottish outfit went ahead through McGuigan's second of the afternoon.
Eddie effectively sealed the bonus-point on 60 minutes before Murchie rounded things off with a fifth try.
The scorers:
For Zebre:
Tries: Van Schalkwyk, Tebaldi
Con: Halangahu 2
Pen: Halangahu
For Glasgow:
Tries: McGuigan 2, Dunbar, Eddie, Murchie
Con: Wight 2, Russell 2
Pen: Wight
Zebre: 15 Tito Tebaldi, 14 Andrea Bacchetti, 13 Roberto Quartaroli, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Alessandro Castagnoli, 10 Daniel Halangahu, 9 Alberto Chillon, 8 Dries van Schalkwyk, 7 Mauro Bergamasco (capt), 6 Filippo Cristiano, 5 Josh Sole, 4 Michael van Vuren, 3 David Ryan, 2 Andrea Manici, 1 Matias Aguero.
Replacements: 16 Carlo Festuccia, 17 Salvatore Perugini, 18 Luca Redolfini, 19 Marco Bortolami, 20 Emiliano Caffini, 21 Filippo Ferrarini, 22 Alberto Chiesa, 23 Alberto Benettin.
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Peter Murchie, 14 Rory Lamont, 13 Alex Dunbar, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Byron McGuigan, 10 Scott Wight, 9 Niko Matawalu, 8 Ryan Wilson (capt), 7 John Barclay, 6 Josh Strauss, 5 Tim Swinson, 4 Tom Ryder, 3 Jon Welsh, 2 Gerwyn Price, 1 Gordon Reid.
Replacements: 16 Fraser Brown, 17 Ed Kalman, 18 Ofa Fainga'anuku, 19 Nick Campbell, 20 James Eddie, 21 Sean Kennedy, 22 Finn Russell, 23 Fraser Thomson.
Referee: Andrew McMenemy (SRU)
Assistant referees: Matteo Liperini, Stefano Marrama
Citing commissioner: Maurizio Vancini (FIR)
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In Bee School we learned we need a "Bear Fence"( What the heck was that???) i knew about bear safe containers. Research done . I was looking for a BEAR FENCE, in the worst way.Now a smart Alec lady said ( at an unnamed store chain), you have bears????
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My bees are coming in april, and in Bee School, we were advised to get a bee fence As soon as possible. Needless to say, she had no idea, but she got me someone who did.
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Thanks for the visit. All is well here, I just wish the weather would warm up. Have a great week and stay safe.
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I'll be giving a talk on SourceJuicer at the London OpenSolaris User Group meeting on Wednesday 18th November. On before me is Owen Roberts from the Solaris Sustaining group, and he'll be talking about how the core of OpenSolaris will move to being built from source directly to IPS packages (yay!).
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While on the subject of SourceJuicer, George Drapeau the OSS core team lead here in ISV-Engineering at Sun has just published a video blog on installing Acquia Drupal on OpenSolaris from the /contrib repository. You can find it on George's Blog, it's very slick :o)


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The Emery High Lady Spartan softball team had blown through their first five games of the year. They had won those games by an average score of 12-3. Now they were home, it was cold, it was snowing and the field was sloppy and wet. Richfield scored 10 runs in the top of the first inning and it appeared that the streak was over but no need to fret, it wasn't. Emery scored 10 runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth inning and won the game 21-19.
Emery scored four runs in the first inning, three more in the second inning and then went scoreless the next two innings. Richfield had added five more runs and led 15-7 after four innings. It was then apparent that the game could be called if the Wildcats got ahead by 10 runs and that everyone could go and get warm.
Emery never got the word. The Spartans scored four runs in the fifth before closing out the game with the big sixth inning. Richfield added three more runs in the seventh inning but it was not enough to prevent Emery getting the win. Malorie Quick got the win in relief of starting pitcher Leslie Lake.
Sophomore Jalee Jensen is the first batter in Emery's lineup and got two hits and scored four times in the game. She also walked once and got aboard due to an error by Richfield.
Brandee Wilson walked three times and scored three times. Eve Guymon, batting third, scored three times and had three hits including a double and Emery's only homerun.
Carly Anderson, along with Eve the only seniors on the team, also had a double in the game. Lacey Erickson walked four times and scored once. Frankie Komar also had a double and scored twice.
Chelsea Skinner, Emery's catcher, walked twice had three hits including a double and scored three times as she batted eighth.
Emery defeated these same Wildcats in Richfield to start the season by a score of 17-7. Eve also had a homerun in this game. Emery's trip to Kanab was cancelled due to weather.
Emery then went south to St. George and won four games in a tournament. They first defeated Logan 5-0. Emery scored four times in the first inning in getting the win. Jalee had three hits including a triple. Eve and Chelsea each had two hits including a double.
Emery then defeated Park City 15-0. Twelve runs in the first inning had this game over early. This game featured a Miner pitcher that could not throw strikes as she walked 12 Spartans in that inning. Jalee and Eve also had singles in the inning.
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Emery then won their semi-final game over North Sevier 13-0. Jalee led Emery with four runs, three hits and a walk. Carly had four hits including two doubles in the game and scored a run. The championship game against Delta was cancelled due to weather.
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This example shows how to use a fuzzy system to model the inverse kinematics in a two-joint robotic arm.
Kinematics is the science of motion. In a two-joint robotic arm, given the angles of the joints, the kinematics equations give the location of the tip of the arm. Inverse kinematics refers to the reverse process. Given a desired location for the tip of the robotic arm, what should the angles of the joints be so as to locate the tip of the arm at the desired location. There is usually more than one solution and can at times be a difficult problem to solve.
This is a typical problem in robotics that needs to be solved to control a robotic arm to perform tasks it is designated to do. In a 2-dimensional input space, with a two-joint robotic arm and given the desired co-ordinate, the problem reduces to finding the two angles involved. The first angle is between the first arm and the ground (or whatever it is attached to). The second angle is between the first arm and the second arm.
Figure 1: Illustration showing the two-joint robotic arm with the two angles,
theta1 and
For simple structures like the two-joint robotic arm, it is possible to mathematically deduce the angles at the joints given the desired location of the tip of the arm. However with more complex structures (eg: n-joint robotic arms operating in a 3-dimensional input space) deducing a mathematical solution for the inverse kinematics may prove challenging.
Using fuzzy logic, we can construct a Fuzzy Inference System that deduces the inverse kinematics if the forward kinematics of the problem is known, hence sidestepping the need to develop an analytical solution. Also, the fuzzy solution is easily understandable and does not require special background knowledge to comprehend and evaluate it.
In the following section, a broad outline for developing such a solution is described, and later, the detailed steps are elaborated.
Since the forward kinematics formulae for the two-joint robotic arm are known, x and y co-ordinates of the tip of the arm are deduced for the entire range of angles of rotation of the two joints. The co-ordinates and the angles are saved to be used as training data to train ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System) network.
During training the ANFIS network learns to map the co-ordinates
(x,y) to the angles
(theta1, theta2). The trained ANFIS network is then used as a part of a larger control system to control the robotic arm. Knowing the desired location of the robotic arm, the control system uses the trained ANFIS network to deduce the angular positions of the joints and applies force to the joints of the robotic arm accordingly to move it to the desired location.
ANFIS stands for Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System. It is a hybrid neuro-fuzzy technique that brings learning capabilities of neural networks to fuzzy inference systems. The learning algorithm tunes the membership functions of a Sugeno-type Fuzzy Inference System using the training input-output data.
In this case, the input-output data refers to the "coordinates-angles" dataset. The coordinates act as input to the ANFIS and the angles act as the output. The learning algorithm "teaches" the ANFIS to map the co-ordinates to the angles through a process called training. At the end of training, the trained ANFIS network would have learned the input-output map and be ready to be deployed into the larger control system solution.
theta1 be the angle between the first arm and the ground. Let
theta2 be the angle between the second arm and the first arm (Refer to Figure 1 for illustration). Let the length of the first arm be
l1 and that of the second arm be
Let us assume that the first joint has limited freedom to rotate and it can rotate between 0 and 90 degrees. Similarly, assume that the second joint has limited freedom to rotate and can rotate between 0 and 180 degrees. (This assumption takes away the need to handle some special cases which will confuse the discourse). Hence,
0<=theta1<=pi/2 and
Figure 2: Illustration showing all possible
theta1 and
theta2 values.
Now, for every combination of
theta1 and
theta2 values the x and y coordinates are deduced using forward kinematics formulae.
The following code snippet shows how data is generated for all combination of
theta1 and
theta2 values and saved into a matrix to be used as training data. The reason for saving the data in two matrices is explained in the following section.
l1 = 10; % length of first arm l2 = 7; % length of second arm theta1 = 0:0.1:pi/2; % all possible theta1 values theta2 = 0:0.1:pi; % all possible theta2 values [THETA1, THETA2] = meshgrid(theta1, theta2); % generate a grid of theta1 and theta2 values X = l1 * cos(THETA1) + l2 * cos(THETA1 + THETA2); % compute x coordinates Y = l1 * sin(THETA1) + l2 * sin(THETA1 + THETA2); % compute y coordinates data1 = [X(:) Y(:) THETA1(:)]; % create x-y-theta1 dataset data2 = [X(:) Y(:) THETA2(:)]; % create x-y-theta2 dataset
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The following plot shows all the X-Y data points generated by cycling through different combinations of
theta1 and
theta2 and deducing x and y co-ordinates for each. The plot can be generated by using the code-snippet shown below. The plot is illustrated further for easier understanding.
plot(X(:), Y(:), 'r.'); axis equal; xlabel('X','fontsize',10) ylabel('Y','fontsize',10) title('X-Y co-ordinates generated for all theta1 and theta2 combinations using forward kinematics formula','fontsize',10)
Figure 3: X-Y co-ordinates generated for all
theta1 and
theta2 combinations using forward kinematics formulae
One approach to building an ANFIS solution for this problem, is to build two ANFIS networks, one to predict
theta1 and the other to predict
In order for the ANFIS networks to be able to predict the angles they have to be trained with sample input-output data. The first ANFIS network will be trained with X and Y coordinates as input and corresponding
theta1 values as output. The matrix
data1 contains the
x-y-theta1 dataset required to train the first ANFIS network. Therefore
data1 will be used as the dataset to train the first ANFIS network.
Similarly, the second ANFIS network will be trained with X and Y coordinates as input and corresponding
theta2 values as output. The matrix
data2 contains the
x-y-theta2 dataset required to train the second ANFIS network. Therefore
data2 will be used as the dataset to train the second ANFIS network.
anfis is the function that is used to train an ANFIS network. There are several syntaxes to the function. If called with the following syntax,
anfis automatically creates a Sugeno-type FIS and trains it using the training data passed to the function.
The following code may take a couple of minutes to run:
fprintf('-->%s\n','Start training first ANFIS network. It may take one minute depending on your computer system.') anfis1 = anfis(data1, 7, 150, [0,0,0,0]); % train first ANFIS network fprintf('-->%s\n','Start training second ANFIS network. It may take one minute depending on your computer system.') anfis2 = anfis(data2, 6, 150, [0,0,0,0]); % train second ANFIS network
-->Start training first ANFIS network. It may take one minute depending on your computer system. -->Start training second ANFIS network. It may take one minute depending on your computer system.
The first parameter to
anfis is the training data, the second parameter is the number of membership functions used to characterize each input and output, the third parameter is the number of training epochs and the last parameter is the options to display progress during training. The values for number of epochs and the number of membership functions have been arrived at after a fair amount of experimentation with different values.
The toolbox comes with GUI's that helps build and experiment with ANFIS networks.
anfis1 and
anfis2 represent the two trained ANFIS networks that will be deployed in the larger control system.
Once the training is complete, the two ANFIS networks would have learned to approximate the angles (
theta1, theta2) as a function of the coordinates (
x, y). One advantage of using the fuzzy approach is that the ANFIS network would now approximate the angles for coordinates that are similar but not exactly the same as it was trained with. For example, the trained ANFIS networks are now capable of approximating the angles for coordinates that lie between two points that were included in the training dataset. This will allow the final controller to move the arm smoothly in the input space.
We now have two trained ANFIS networks which are ready to be deployed into the larger system that will utilize these networks to control the robotic arms.
Having trained the networks, an important follow up step is to validate the networks to determine how well the ANFIS networks would perform inside the larger control system.
Since this example problem deals with a two-joint robotic arm whose inverse kinematics formulae can be derived, it is possible to test the answers that the ANFIS networks produce with the answers from the derived formulae.
Let's assume that it is important for the ANFIS networks to have low errors within the operating range
0<x<2 and
x = 0:0.1:2; % x coordinates for validation y = 8:0.1:10; % y coordinates for validation
theta1 and
theta2 values are deduced mathematically from the x and y coordinates using inverse kinematics formulae.
[X, Y] = meshgrid(x,y); c2 = (X.^2 + Y.^2 - l1^2 - l2^2)/(2*l1*l2); s2 = sqrt(1 - c2.^2); THETA2D = atan2(s2, c2); % theta2 is deduced k1 = l1 + l2.*c2; k2 = l2*s2; THETA1D = atan2(Y, X) - atan2(k2, k1); % theta1 is deduced
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THETA1D and
THETA2D are the variables that hold the values of
theta1 and
theta2 deduced using the inverse kinematics formulae.
theta1 and
theta2 values predicted by the trained anfis networks are obtained by using the command
evalfis which evaluates a FIS for the given inputs.
evalfis is used to find out the FIS outputs for the same x-y values used earlier in the inverse kinematics formulae.
XY = [X(:) Y(:)]; THETA1P = evalfis(XY, anfis1); % theta1 predicted by anfis1 THETA2P = evalfis(XY, anfis2); % theta2 predicted by anfis2
Now, we can see how close the FIS outputs are with respect to the deduced values.
theta1diff = THETA1D(:) - THETA1P; theta2diff = THETA2D(:) - THETA2P; subplot(2,1,1); plot(theta1diff); ylabel('THETA1D - THETA1P','fontsize',10) title('Deduced theta1 - Predicted theta1','fontsize',10) subplot(2,1,2); plot(theta2diff); ylabel('THETA2D - THETA2P','fontsize',10) title('Deduced theta2 - Predicted theta2','fontsize',10)
The errors are in the
1e-3 range which is a fairly good number for the application it is being used in. However this may not be acceptable for another application, in which case the parameters to the
anfis function may be tweaked until an acceptable solution is arrived at. Also, other techniques like input selection and alternate ways to model the problem may be explored.
Now given a specific task, such as robots picking up an object in an assembly line, the larger control system will use the trained ANFIS networks as a reference, much like a lookup table, to determine what the angles of the arms must be, given a desired location for the tip of the arm. Knowing the desired angles and the current angles of the joints, the system will apply force appropriately on the joints of the arms to move them towards the desired location.
The invkine command launches a GUI that shows how the two trained ANFIS networks perform when asked to trace an ellipse.
Figure 4: GUI for Inverse Kinematics Modeling.
The two ANFIS networks used in the example have been pre-trained and are deployed into a larger system that controls the tip of the two-joint robot arm to trace an ellipse in the input space.
The ellipse to be traced can be moved around. Move the ellipse to a slightly different location and observe how the system responds by moving the tip of the robotic arm from its current location to the closest point on the new location of the ellipse. Also observe that the system responds smoothly as long as the ellipse to be traced lies within the 'x' marked spots which represent the data grid that was used to train the networks. Once the ellipse is moved outside the range of data it was trained with, the ANFIS networks respond unpredictably. This emphasizes the importance of having relevant and representative data for training. Data must be generated based on the expected range of operation to avoid such unpredictability and instability issues.
This example illustrated using ANFIS to solve an inverse kinematics problem. Fuzzy logic has also found numerous other applications in other areas of technology like non-linear control, automatic control, signal processing, system identification, pattern recognition, time series prediction, data mining, financial applications etc.,
Explore other demos and the documentation for more insight into fuzzy logic and its applications.
ANFIS - Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System. a technique for automatically tuning Sugeno-type inference systems based on training data.
membership functions - a function that specifies the degree to which a given input belongs to a set or is related to a concept.
input space - it is a term used to define the range of all possible values
FIS - Fuzzy Inference System. The overall name for a system that uses fuzzy reasoning to map an input space to an output space.
epochs - 1 epoch of training represents one complete presentation of all the samples/datapoints/rows of the training dataset to the FIS. The inputs of each sample are presented and the FIS outputs are computed which are compared with the desired outputs to compute the error between the two. The parameters of the membership functions are then tuned to reduce the error between the desired output and the actual FIS output.


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The video eyewear company's joining with the world's second-largest PC company will allow both companies to co-brand the product as part of a new business development brand of Lenovo, officials said. The agreement establishes that Vuzix will be the exclusive third-party provider of smart glasses for Lenovo for China's industrial and commercial markets.
The product has been customized for China's consumers with features such as voice recognition of the Chinese language and mapping capabilities. Vuzix's M100s are the first official smart glasses product to have direct access into China through the partnership, officials said.
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Depends. First there are steps, and tips and whatever else your face wants to add.
- Dont think things are going to work themselves out when you are choosing between two girls if you just let things go then you will be unhappy without the one you want.
- Analyze your relationship with both girls. What do you actually want from each of the girls? Just a physical relation? Marriage? A fun time? Soul mate? This is a very important decision, or you'll be stuck with something you don't want.
- What does one girl have that the other one doesn't? If both are good looking, which one do you enjoy being with more? Which one are you more compatible with? Who do you have better conversations with? Who has the better family? Who do you have the most fun with? Who does your mother like the best?(She knows you the best so she will know who's best for you, whether she knows the girls or not) Who do you try new things with (this is important if you are thinking about a long term relationship, a key factor is to have someone who keeps things light and wont get boring.)Answer all of these questions before moving on.
- Make a table with one column for each girl, and list as many good qualities as you can think of.
- Locate any qualities that both girls share, and cross them off the list. You are now left with a list of unique qualities that each girl has. Review these qualities and compare which ones you like best. The girl with the most and best unique qualities is most likely the one you should choose. Also if you want list the bad qualities and the one with the least bad qualities is also most likely the one you should choose.
- Once you make your decision, be direct about it, and don't waste time worrying about your decision. Do not flip flop between the girls. Girls love it when you're direct. Girls love actions. Do something in front of her friends (they probably think you are a jerk.)Remember actions speak louder than words. Figure out where she is one night and surprise. Go up to her and just tell her, "I can't bear to be without you." She'll melt. They go for that stuff, once in a while. Also remember anything can be fixed.
- If you aren't satisfied with the steps above, pick whichever girl you have the most in common with.
- Let the other girl down easy. Talk to her and explain the predicament. The worst thing you can do is ignore her or bottle the feelings.
- If you've chosen already and believe you have chosen wrongly, go back and fix your mistakes. It'll take some time and some bonding, but you'll be better for it.
- Not all girls are the same, some may fall for stupid silly tricks, some may not.
- Be ready to live with your decision, if you choose one, you probably will never get the chance to go out with the other if you chose wrong. Think long and hard
- Don't let the girls know you are observing them for unique traits! They will certainly put on a show if they know you are watching. You need to determine their real qualities.
- You're unlikely to be able to see both of them at the same time. If you play with both, you may lose them both. Play one, and keep something up your sleeve should it fall through. Don't lose both girls needlessly, when one will do.
- You can't have strong feelings for one person while you're going out with someone else. It'll ruin the relationship you do have.
- If you actually say "I can't bear to live without you", make sure you say it seriously, or else most likely they will laugh.
- This will usally work, but sometimes you could over look something important. This isn't absolute, this will help you decide but you have to make the decision with who you wanted to be with.
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well orihime is annoying and fat. i hate rukia.i think that he should choose nel
I updated my post. Hopes that helps.
i cannot explain it like you said. i simply hate both of them and i find nel too sexy. i would say halibel but she is dead now.but if it is necessary to choose one of them i would say rukia.
Honestly though, besides HM's somewhat funny post, I'd rather not go into this. There are enough forums out there filled with hormone-overflowing-teenage-girls whose most fun seems to stem out of whether in a theorical universe, Ichigo would be better off with girl X, and it actually kind of frightens me. All the Sasuke-Naruto pr0n is enough :/
Luckily, I should add, this forum is probably not most frequented by the people mentioned previously... As shown with the Women in Bleach thread.
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Publications Tagged: Deployments
- Added July 01, 2005
- Who Stays and Who Goes: Army Enlisted Reserve and National Guard Retention. Authored by Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun.
- The author examines Army Reserve and National Guard enlisted retention patterns from 1995-2002. This study provides a necessary background to compare retention patterns in the past from those of today. Reserve component leadership could then assess their personnel retention efforts to adjust appropriate public policies to improve their force structure.