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[Studies in Computational Intelligence 481] Artur Babiarz, Robert Bieda, Karol Jędrasiak, Aleksander Nawrat (auth.), Aleksander Nawrat, Zygmunt Kuś (eds.) - Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications (2013, Sprin

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212 M. Mellado and K. Skrzypczyk<br />

where , 0,1 <strong>in</strong> (12) denotes a detection correctness of the object. If the<br />

object was detected correctly , takes the value 1 and 0 otherwise. Us<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

value of (12) we can determ<strong>in</strong>e the agent reliability based on a s<strong>in</strong>gle pick<strong>in</strong>g up<br />

operation. The reliability value is calculated as a function of the (12). In this research<br />

an sigmoid function was applied to assign the value of reliability on the<br />

basis of the detection correctness error. Hence the reliability factor def<strong>in</strong>ed for <br />

agent us<strong>in</strong>g the pick<strong>in</strong>g up experiment is def<strong>in</strong>ed as:<br />

, 1<br />

1<br />

1 , <br />

where parameter tunes the steepness of the curve around the threshold . This<br />

parameter def<strong>in</strong>es the maximal acceptable error (12), by which it is possible to set<br />

the agent reliability at the level of 1. Apply<strong>in</strong>g the equation (13) to each object<br />

from the set (10) it is possible to determ<strong>in</strong>e the reliability of the agent at the <br />

stage of the system operation. In this study it is obta<strong>in</strong>ed by averag<strong>in</strong>g results:<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

1 ,,<br />

<br />

<br />

The detection and recognition process is performed on the basis of the data collected<br />

<strong>in</strong> the s<strong>in</strong>gle operation cycle of the sensory system. Therefore calculat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the agent reliability as the average given by (14) seems to be valid approach. F<strong>in</strong>ally,<br />

the reliability of the agent at the stage of the process can be evaluated<br />

as an exponential mov<strong>in</strong>g average with a time w<strong>in</strong>dow of length . It can be<br />

determ<strong>in</strong>ed recursively us<strong>in</strong>g the follow<strong>in</strong>g formula:<br />

(13)<br />

(14)<br />

0 <br />

<br />

<br />

1 1, 0<br />

(15)<br />

where is a constant smooth<strong>in</strong>g factor which value can be from 0 to 1. It<br />

represents the weight<strong>in</strong>g factors applied to the values calculated <strong>in</strong> the past. The<br />

higher value of the faster discount<strong>in</strong>g older values is. In this study this coefficient<br />

is expressed <strong>in</strong> terms of the time w<strong>in</strong>dow length:<br />

2<br />

(16)<br />

1<br />

Apply<strong>in</strong>g the above reason<strong>in</strong>g to every agent, we can assess their reliability at<br />

each stage of the process.<br />

4 Data Fusion<br />

As was stated <strong>in</strong> the previous sections <strong>in</strong> the MAS <strong>in</strong>formation about the process<br />

performed is distributed among multiple agents. Due to different perception

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