A system capable of supporting autonomous helicopter navigation must extract obstacle information from imagery at rates varying from ten frames per second to thirty or more frames per second. A parallel implementation...
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A system capable of supporting autonomous helicopter navigation must extract obstacle information from imagery at rates varying from ten frames per second to thirty or more frames per second. A parallel implementation of the obstacle detection/ranging method is required. The authors describe an efficient and flexible parallel implementation of a multisensor feature-based range-estimation algorithm, targeted for helicopter flight, realized on both a distributed-memory and shared-memory parallel computer.< >
Some novel issues relevant to emerging open distributed environments, of which a long term intelligent network (IN) architecture represents a telecommunication-specific example, are addressed. IN has the goal of suppo...
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Some novel issues relevant to emerging open distributed environments, of which a long term intelligent network (IN) architecture represents a telecommunication-specific example, are addressed. IN has the goal of supporting rapid introduction, modification, execution, and management of a broad range of multimedia information services and will build on advances in broadband technologies and open distributed processing. Emphasis is placed on the performance concerns and new quality of servicer requirements as a consequence of new technologies and market forces. The open distributed processing (ODP) trader component is selected to categorize the trader according to various characteristics depending on its possible operational environments. This enables the identification of various trader goals which could be achieved in part by attention to quality of service objectives. A universal publicly owned trader is studied, implementing an essentially social selection policy where an overall system delay is chosen as a performance measure having an impact on quality of service and hence overall enterprise goals. It is concluded that a minimum workload selection policy can produce acceptable system response times under assumptions of quite high delays in the provision of dynamic state information.< >
The following topics are dealt with: circuit and system theory;electron devices;electron devices and circuits;microwave and acoustic wave devices and circuits;solar cells and systems;computer aided design;testing and ...
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(纸本)0879426551
The following topics are dealt with: circuit and system theory;electron devices;electron devices and circuits;microwave and acoustic wave devices and circuits;solar cells and systems;computer aided design;testing and technologies;analog integrated circuits;digital integrated circuits;signal processing;algorithms and circuit implementations;DSP algorithms and circuit implementations;DSP for image processing;DSP for speech processing;telecommunications;ISDN;communication networks;mobile radio;antennas;optical communications;spread spectrum communications;biomedical engineering;biomedical modeling and simulation;control and robotics;model reference adaptive control;robot programming and synthesis of robot control;hardware architecture;software development;real-time systems;artificial intelligence;pattern recognition;low-level vision;power systems;power electronics;electronic equipment;operation planning;industrial power;education programs;and educational tools.
This conference Proceedings contains 38 papers covering a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects related to the development of liquid crystals and their applications. Session 1 addresses the development of nematic ...
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(纸本)0819408190
This conference Proceedings contains 38 papers covering a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects related to the development of liquid crystals and their applications. Session 1 addresses the development of nematic dispersions, in particular, polymer-dispersed liquid crystals, describing significant progress in the understanding of the use of these devices as well as detailing some interesting observations involving their properties. Session 2 is devoted to ferroelectric liquid crystals which offer promise of high speed and bistability, but have been limited by problems in manufacturing and stability. papers describe application of the 'traditional' surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal device, as well as newer implementations like the deformed helix mode and ferroelectric side-chain liquid crystalline polymers. Session 3 is devoted to materials and processes of the future. Its unifying theme is the preparation and application of novel anisotropic materials. It deals with novel methods of aligning liquid crystals and polymers, photochemically active liquid crystal materials, and nonlinear optical materials and devices. Sessions 4 and 5 are concerned with liquid crystal devices and applications, including high-performance devices, projection display systems, programmable liquid crystal holograms, laser beam deflectors, wavelength image converters, and informationprocessingsystems.
This conference Proceedings contains 38 papers covering a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects related to the development of liquid crystals and their applications. Session 1 addresses the development of nematic ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819408190
This conference Proceedings contains 38 papers covering a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects related to the development of liquid crystals and their applications. Session 1 addresses the development of nematic dispersions, in particular, polymer-dispersed liquid crystals, describing significant progress in the understanding of the use of these devices as well as detailing some interesting observations involving their properties. Session 2 is devoted to ferroelectric liquid crystals which offer promise of high speed and bistability, but have been limited by problems in manufacturing and stability. papers describe application of the 'traditional' surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal device, as well as newer implementations like the deformed helix mode and ferroelectric side-chain liquid crystalline polymers. Session 3 is devoted to materials and processes of the future. Its unifying theme is the preparation and application of novel anisotropic materials. It deals with novel methods of aligning liquid crystals and polymers, photochemically active liquid crystal materials, and nonlinear optical materials and devices. Sessions 4 and 5 are concerned with liquid crystal devices and applications, including high-performance devices, projection display systems, programmable liquid crystal holograms, laser beam deflectors, wavelength image converters, and informationprocessingsystems.
The design of techniques and protocols for media mixing and communication architectures that optimize the performance of media mixing are discussed. The performance of monostage and multistage techniques for mixing ar...
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In any laboratory to carry out temperature dependent studies a reliable temperature controller is required. Temperature controi! lers may be of analog or digital type. The main drawbacks of the analog controllers are ...
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In any laboratory to carry out temperature dependent studies a reliable temperature controller is required. Temperature controi! lers may be of analog or digital type. The main drawbacks of the analog controllers are (i) limited controllability or automation and (ii) hardware limitations in implementing mathematical computations. Digital controllers are flexible as the implementabtion of the control schemes are carried out by software only. Hence, the hardware restrictions of analog controllers can be completely eliminatec Automatic control of process parameters can be accomplished by different contrOl schemes or control algorithms such as Proportional (P), Proportional + Integral (P1), Proportinal + Differential (PD), Proportional + Integral + Differential (PID) algorithms. All the controllers produce a control output by operating on the error signal or a time series of error signals. Most process loops where the plant transfer function has not been completely defined are controlled by PID control algorithms. PID control schems can be implemented in different forms such as (i) positional or whole value form (ii) incremental or velocity form. Of the two, velocity form of PID algorithm provides certain advantages over the other. In this paper, a modified velocity form PID algorithm developed in our laboratory to control the process namely temperature is described.
The proceedings contain 76 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. The topics include: A parallel computer system for advanced informationprocessing;a decomposi...
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(纸本)9783540555995
The proceedings contain 76 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. The topics include: A parallel computer system for advanced informationprocessing;a decompositional approach to the design of efficient parallel programs;space-efficient parallel merging;on embedding interconnection networks into rings of processors;asynchronous mobile processes and graph rewriting;PTAH introduction to a new parallel architecture for highly numeric processing;optimal algorithms for dissemination of information in generalized communication modes;efficient parallel algorithms on interval graphs;a SIMD computer performing the low and intermediate levels of image processing;1-dimensional parallel FFT benchmark on SUPRENUM;on designing fault-tolerant extensions with optimal fanout for complete bipartite networks;application-specific deadlock free wormhole routing on multicomputers;scalability problems in multiprocessors with private caches;promises and issues in optical computing;a model to design reusable parallel software components;extensibility and reuse of object-oriented synchronization components;using parallelism and pipeline for the optimisation of join queries;performance evaluation of parallel transaction processing in shared nothing database systems;explicit expression of multidimensional data parallelism;programming massively parallel architectures with sequential object oriented languages;a new program transformation to minimise communication in distributed memory architectures;distributed termination enforcement;verification of systolic architecture designs;reduction operators in alpha;an operational semantics for a parallel functional language with continuations;a concurrent and distributed extension of scheme;new techniques for cycle shrinking and loop restructuring techniques for thrashing problem.
Associative processing based on content-addressable memories has been argued to be the natural solution for nonnumerical informationprocessing applications. Unfortunately, the implementation requirements of these arc...
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Associative processing based on content-addressable memories has been argued to be the natural solution for nonnumerical informationprocessing applications. Unfortunately, the implementation requirements of these architectures when one uses conventional electronic technology have been cost prohibitive;therefore associative processors have not been realized. Instead, software methods that emulate the behavior of associative processing have been promoted and mapped onto conventional location-addressable systems. However, this does not bring about the natural parallelism of associative processing, namely, the ability to access many data words simultaneously. Optics has the advantage over electronics of directly supporting associative processing by providing economic and efficient interconnects, massive parallelism, and high-speed processing. The principles of designing an optical content-addressable parallel processor (OCAPP) for the efficient support of parallel symbolic computing are presented. The architecture is designed to exploit optics advantages fully in interconnects and high-speed operations. Several parallel search-and-retrieval algorithms are mapped onto an OCAPP to illustrate its capability of supporting parallel symbolic computing. A theoretical performance analysis of these algorithms is presented. This analysis reveals that the execution times of the parallel algorithms presented are independent of the problem size, which makes the OCAPP suitable for applications in which the number of data sets to be operated on is high (e.g., massive parallel processing). A preliminary optical implementation of the architecture with currently available optical components is also presented.
Selected algorithms and application problems connected with identification methods for glass strength behavior are reported. Contactless objective image processing procedures for smart metrical measurements of break c...
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Selected algorithms and application problems connected with identification methods for glass strength behavior are reported. Contactless objective image processing procedures for smart metrical measurements of break cones within glass probes are described. Technologies for the modeling of mechanical edges by optical images and for statistical edge detection with pixel resolution are presented. Special emphasis is given to the explanation of differences between static and dynamic edge detections, as well as differences between measurements with pixel and subpixel resolutions.< >
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