Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, is an extremely costly public health problem. Catheter-based ablation is a common minimally invasive procedure to treat AF. Contemporary mapping ...
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Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, is an extremely costly public health problem. Catheter-based ablation is a common minimally invasive procedure to treat AF. Contemporary mapping methods are highly dependent on the accuracy of anatomic localization of rotor sources within the atria. In this paper, using simulated atrial intracardiac electrograms (IEGMs) during AF, we propose a computationally efficient method for localizing the tip of the electrical rotor with an Archimedean/arithmetic spiral wavefront. The proposed method deploys the locations of electrodes of a catheter and their IEGMs activation times to estimate the unknown parameters of the spiral wavefront including its tip location. The proposed method is able to localize the spiral as soon as the wave hits three electrodes of the catheter. Our simulation results show that the method can efficiently localize the spiral wavefront that rotates either clockwise or counterclockwise.
Permanent-magnet (PM) motors have been widely used in industrial applications and automobiles. However, owing to the design tolerances, manufacturing uncertainties, and material inconsistency, deviations from the idea...
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Permanent-magnet (PM) motors have been widely used in industrial applications and automobiles. However, owing to the design tolerances, manufacturing uncertainties, and material inconsistency, deviations from the ideal motor inevitably occur with parasitic effects, such as additional cogging torque and vibration. One of the most significant obstacles for evaluating these uncertainties is the large computational burden caused by the countless uncertain combinations, which must be computed via the finite-element method (FEM). Herein, a worst-uncertain-combination-analyze (WUCA) method is proposed to significantly reduce the computational cost. A widely used analytical method is modified to identify the origin of additional cogging-torque harmonics caused by uncertainties. Different types of uncertainties for the surface-mounted PM machine and interior PM machine can be analyzed simultaneously. With the WUCA method, the worst-case combinations can be confirmed theoretically;thus, FEM calculations for only a few combinations of uncertainties are required, rather than thousands. Compared with the widely adopted design of experiments based uncertain combining methods, the worst-case cogging torque obtained from the WUCA is higher. FEM verification of different pole/slot configurations revealed that the WUCA method was a general and effective method for quickly estimating the worst-case cogging torque under manufacturing uncertainties.
In modern digital communication systems, a high-order modulation and advanced channel coding are often jointly used to increase the spectral efficiency and coding gain. In this work, the authors investigate a computat...
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In modern digital communication systems, a high-order modulation and advanced channel coding are often jointly used to increase the spectral efficiency and coding gain. In this work, the authors investigate a computationally efficient method for evaluating the bitwise log-likelihood ratios of generalised M-ary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) signals with the Min approximation. The proposed scheme is simple and can be applied to demodulate the M-ary PAM having an arbitrary symbol spacing and a bit stream mapping. The computational complexity and upper bounds of the approximation error are also provided for a better understanding of the proposed scheme.
A computationally efficient method is developed to simulate the radiances in a scattering and absorbing atmosphere along an arbitrary path in the spectral region ranging from visible to far-infrared with a spectral re...
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A computationally efficient method is developed to simulate the radiances in a scattering and absorbing atmosphere along an arbitrary path in the spectral region ranging from visible to far-infrared with a spectral resolution of 1 cm(-1), For a given spectral region, the method is based on fitting radiances pre-calculated from the discrete ordinate radiative transfer (DISORT) at several wavenumbers. Radiances at other wavenumbers are interpolated based on the pre-computed total absorption and scattering optical thicknesses and the surface albedo. The computational efficiency and accuracy of the method are tested in comparison with rigorous simulations for various scenarios under the same conditions. For both clear-sky and cloud atmospheres, the present method is at least 140 times faster than the direct application of DISORT. Across the spectral range, the standard relative differences between the new method and the DISORT are less than 2% for clear-sky conditions. Root-mean-square (RMS) differences of the top of the atmosphere (TOA) brightness temperatures between the new method and DISORT, for atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) channels over clear-sky, ice cloudy and water cloudy skies, are within the noise equivalent differential temperature (NEDT) of the AIRS sensor. The fast method is also applied to simulations of the spectral downwelling radiance measured by the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) interferometer, and to the simulations of the AIRS upwelling radiances under clear-sky and cloudy conditions. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Ewald-type method, its modified version and the Lekner-type method for summing Coulomb interactions in a system periodic along one direction are presented and compared. Advantages and disadvantages of these method...
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The Ewald-type method, its modified version and the Lekner-type method for summing Coulomb interactions in a system periodic along one direction are presented and compared. Advantages and disadvantages of these methods are discussed, and the methods are tested in molecular dynamics simulations of acetone molecules confined to cylindrical silica pores.
A subspace training method is presented for multiuser detection in dispersive DS-CDMA channels with the presence of multiple access interference (MAI). By using a small number of training symbols of the desired user, ...
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A subspace training method is presented for multiuser detection in dispersive DS-CDMA channels with the presence of multiple access interference (MAI). By using a small number of training symbols of the desired user, the proposed method is computationallyefficient and near-far resistant.
A method based on adaptive regularisation for range super-resolution is presented. The method is computationallyefficient and has low SNR threshold close to that of the maximum likelihood (ML) method. The method can ...
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A method based on adaptive regularisation for range super-resolution is presented. The method is computationallyefficient and has low SNR threshold close to that of the maximum likelihood (ML) method. The method can simultaneously estimate the number and time delays of the overlapping echoes, whereas determining the number of echoes in ML-type algorithms is difficult. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the performance and show that the method is capable of simply and effectively achieving enhanced range resolution.
We present a computationally efficient method to stimulate lossy transmission lines using iterative linear least square fitting (ILLSF) model synthesis and piecewise recursive convolution (PRC). Based on the generaliz...
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We present a computationally efficient method to stimulate lossy transmission lines using iterative linear least square fitting (ILLSF) model synthesis and piecewise recursive convolution (PRC). Based on the generalized method of characteristics, transmission lines are modeled with characteristic impedances and waveform generators. Thus the first major task involves network synthesis. The second is efficient computation of the synthesized waveform generators which requires computationally expensive convolution integral evaluation during transient simulation of transmission lines. The superior performance of ILLSF and the efficiency of PRC will be demonstrated for the transient simulation of coupled lossy transmission lines.
A computationally efficient method is presented for analysing the scattering from frequency selective surfaces (FSS) composed of arbitrarily shaped patches with finite conductivity. In this technique the generalised b...
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A computationally efficient method is presented for analysing the scattering from frequency selective surfaces (FSS) composed of arbitrarily shaped patches with finite conductivity. In this technique the generalised biconjugate gradient (BiCG) method and fast Fourier transform (FFT) are used to solve for the induced current densities. It is shown that this method requires fewer iterations than the conjugate gradient (CG) or the preconditioned CG method
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