A prototype concurrent engineering tool has been developed for the preliminary design of composite topside structures for modern navy warships. This tool, named GELS for the Concurrent engineering of Layered Structure...
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A prototype concurrent engineering tool has been developed for the preliminary design of composite topside structures for modern navy warships. This tool, named GELS for the Concurrent engineering of Layered Structures, provides designers with an immediate assessment of the impacts of their decisions on several disciplines which are important to the performance of a modern naval topside structure, including electromagnetic interference effects (EMI), radar cross section (RCS), structural integrity, cost, and weight. Preliminary analysis modules in each of these disciplines are integrated to operate from a common set of design variables and a common materials database. Performance in each discipline and an overall fitness function for the concept are then evaluated. A graphical user interface (GUI) is used to define requirements and to display the results from the technical analysis modules. Optimization techniques, including feasible sequential quadratic programming (FSQP) and exhaustive search are used to modify the design variables to satisfy all requirements simultaneously. The development of this tool, the technical modules, and their integration are discussed noting the decisions and compromises required to develop and integrate the modules into a prototype conceptual design tool.
The design and VLSI implementation of a new ASIC which performs the operation of grey-scale dilation using both image and structuring element threshold decomposition is presented in this paper. The minimum rate of ext...
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The design and VLSI implementation of a new ASIC which performs the operation of grey-scale dilation using both image and structuring element threshold decomposition is presented in this paper. The minimum rate of external operations of this ASIC is 30 MPix/sec and it can handle 3 x 3 pixel images and structuring elements of up to 4-bit resolution. The high speed of operation is achieved using the pipelining technique. The ASIC is implemented using a DLM, 1.0 mu m, N-well, CMOS process provided by the European Silicon Structures (ES2), and it occupies a silicon area of 5.48 x 5.77 mm = 31.61 mm(2). It is intended to be used in machine vision applications, where the need for short processing times is crucial (e.g. robotics and military systems).
An improvement of the majority gale algorithm suitable for grey scale morphological operations is presented in the Letter. The redundancy of temporal signals led to a simplified hardware implementation. It is shown th...
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An improvement of the majority gale algorithm suitable for grey scale morphological operations is presented in the Letter. The redundancy of temporal signals led to a simplified hardware implementation. It is shown that maximin operators can be computed by the same circuit. A new pipelined systolic array architecture based oil this circuit is illustrated for dilation/erosion operations.
This paper presents the design and VLSI implementation of a new automated visual inspection system based on a cellular automaton architecture, suitable for circular object inspection. Cellular Automata (CA) transform ...
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This paper presents the design and VLSI implementation of a new automated visual inspection system based on a cellular automaton architecture, suitable for circular object inspection. Cellular Automata (CA) transform the area of the object of interest into a number of evolution steps in the CA space. The proposed technique does not require the extraction of image features, such as boundary length and total area, which are computationally expensive in other methods. The die size dimensions of the chip, for a 16 x 16 pixel image, are 3.73 mm x 3.09 mm = 11.52 mm(2) and its maximum frequency of operation is 25 MHz. Experimental results using computer-generated images, as well as real images obtained and processed through a commercial vision system, showing the suitability of the proposed hardware module for detecting circular objects, are also presented. Targeted applications include inspection tasks (accept/reject operations) of circular objects, such as tablets in the pharmaceutical industry, and detection of uncoated areas, foreign objects and level of bake in the confectionery and food industry.
To exploit instruction level parallelism in programs over multiple basic blocks, programs should have reducible control flow graphs. However not all programs satisfy this property. A new method, called Controlled Node...
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We present a pulse-driven asynchronous logic gate family based on a high-speed, low-power Josephson-junction device of rapid single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) circuits. Dual-rail logic is used and clock-free operation is rea...
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We present a pulse-driven asynchronous logic gate family based on a high-speed, low-power Josephson-junction device of rapid single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) circuits. Dual-rail logic is used and clock-free operation is realized. The proper operation of the circuits is confirmed by the numerical simulation which shows logic delays are about 60 ps for an AND and about 80 ps for an XOR. Power consumption is estimated to be 10 /spl mu/W/gate.
This paper presents the design and VLSI implementation, on a single chip, of a new real-time colour space converter, which performs the transformation of the RCB colour coordinates to the intensity, hue and saturation...
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This paper presents the design and VLSI implementation, on a single chip, of a new real-time colour space converter, which performs the transformation of the RCB colour coordinates to the intensity, hue and saturation (IHS) colour space. This high speed VLSI chip is designed to work at 13.3 MHz and can process high resolution colour images of up to 697 pixels per horizontal line. Its minimum rate of operation is 133 MIPS. The high speed of operation was achieved by pipelining the data in a vector fashion. The chip was implemented using a DLM, 1.0 mu m, N-well, CMOS process provided by European Silicon Structures and the die size dimensions for the chip are 5.669 mm x 6.144 mm = 34.830 mm(2). The chip is intended to be used as the front end of colour machine vision systems in inspection tasks and in autonomous applications, where the need for short processing times is crucial. Finally, simulation results exhibiting the usefulness of the IHS colour space transform using the proposed ASIC and real colour image data are also presented.
A new image enhancement technique using the Intensity, Hue and Saturation (IHS) colour space is presented in this letter Experimental results illustrating the enhancement capabilities of the proposed technique are giv...
A new image enhancement technique using the Intensity, Hue and Saturation (IHS) colour space is presented in this letter Experimental results illustrating the enhancement capabilities of the proposed technique are given. Comparative examples of the proposed technique to the grey level histogram equalisation technique are also included.
This paper presents a new parallel algorithm for collision-free path planning of a diamond-shaped robot among arbitrarily-shaped obstacles and its implementation in VLSI. The proposed algorithm is based on the computa...
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This paper presents a new parallel algorithm for collision-free path planning of a diamond-shaped robot among arbitrarily-shaped obstacles and its implementation in VLSI. The proposed algorithm is based on the computational geometry concept known as the "Voronoi diagram", which is constructed through the time evolution of Cellular Automata, after an initial phase during which the boundaries of obstacles are identified and coded with respect to their orientation.
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional cours...
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional course information through various types of computer media as opposed to the classic CAL systems. The philosophy and techniques employed to design the system are investigated. Usage of the implemented system and its merits have been illustrated through its application to teach engineering students and technicians the theory and concepts of marine radar. System design, implementation, test, and revision phases are presented and discussed.
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