For traditional semiconducting materials, band gap is a unique characteristic which limits the material's applications and device's performance. The capability of on-chip adjusting semiconducting material'...
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This paper analyzes the possibility of using a new philosophy of experimental engineering laboratory for power electronic converters applied to electric machine control. The aim is to develop an environment which, on ...
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(纸本)9780889867741
This paper analyzes the possibility of using a new philosophy of experimental engineering laboratory for power electronic converters applied to electric machine control. The aim is to develop an environment which, on the one hand, permits the students to design hardware and software blocks that can be incorporated into an electronic power system and, on the other hand, allows the communication and control of this system via the web. The students work in groups, on asynchronous and synchronous software platforms, on the same task and they should look for the best solution for the required design. The drawbacks related to high voltages and currents, waiting for attention from the professor, the high cost of maintenance and updating of an experimental laboratory can be overcome with the use of the Shared Hybrid Virtual-Experimental Laboratory (SHVEL). The validation of the proposed method has been carried out on an experimental system based on the digital signal processor DSP56F807 and on the free software platform FreeMaster from the commercial firm Freescale™.
Automated terrain classification for electric powered wheelchairs (EPWs) has two primary motivations. First, certain terrains (e.g., sand and gravel) make wheelchair mobility more difficult. To alleviate this problem ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780889867406
Automated terrain classification for electric powered wheelchairs (EPWs) has two primary motivations. First, certain terrains (e.g., sand and gravel) make wheelchair mobility more difficult. To alleviate this problem the wheelchair control system can be manually tuned for maximum speeds and/or accelerations to help adapt to various terrains. Terrain classification can then be used to automate the switch from one control mode to another. Second, terrain classification can help yield a better understanding of the surfaces traversed by various groups of wheelchair users. This can provide the data needed to develop wheelchairs geared to specific groups of users. This paper presents an algorithm for vibration-based terrain classification on EPWs. This algorithm has been shown to be highly accurate in offline analysis of experimental data. Future work will stress online implementation and algorithm improvements.
As technology is used to support team-based activities, one important factor affecting the performance of teams is the kind of mental model shared between team members. This paper describes a novel conceptual graph ba...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781605583549
As technology is used to support team-based activities, one important factor affecting the performance of teams is the kind of mental model shared between team members. This paper describes a novel conceptual graph based methodology to study these mental models to better understand how shared mental models affect performance and other factors of a team's behavior. Copyright 2008 ACM.
Fixed-outline floorplanning, which enables hierarchical design, is considered more and more important nowadays. In this paper, a novel SA-based Fixed-outline Floorplanner with the Optimal Area utilization named SAFFOA...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424428205
Fixed-outline floorplanning, which enables hierarchical design, is considered more and more important nowadays. In this paper, a novel SA-based Fixed-outline Floorplanner with the Optimal Area utilization named SAFFOA is introduced to improve the total wirelength. The basic idea is to build and solve a group of four quadratic equations in four variables iteratively, which can handle the fixed-outline constraint of any aspect ratio. A new topological representation called Ordered Quadtree is then custom-made for this basic idea to facilitate its integration into SA iterations. After the fixed-outline constraint with 100% area utilization is achieved, we will solve the tradeoff between the chip area and wirelength and thus concentrate on the latter in SA process. Experimental results show that the chip wirelength is decreased by about 16.8% and 8.6% on average, compared with two previous fixed-outline floorplanners on soft modules, which are both proved to be better than Parquet. Besides, our method is still competitive on the wirelength, even if compared with some leading-edge outline-free floorplanners. At last, Local Refinement is also adopted to guide the SA process and reshape soft modules to meet the constraint on their aspect ratios (ARs). With its help, SAFFOA can still generate feasible floorplans with no deadspace under a strict AR constraint such as [0.5,2].
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite images have been widely used in environmental and land cover monitoring. Before delivering to the consumers, NOAA images need to be accurately transform...
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Using traditional software profiling to optimize embedded software in an MPSoC design is not reliable. With multiple processors running concurrently and programs interacting, traditional profiling on individual proces...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781605584706
Using traditional software profiling to optimize embedded software in an MPSoC design is not reliable. With multiple processors running concurrently and programs interacting, traditional profiling on individual processors cannot capture useful execution information to assist software optimization. A new method to model parallel executions of interacting programs is needed. In this paper, we consider the software optimization problem for throughput-constrained MPSoC designs. We define the "longest delay path" as a sequence of steps leading to a throughput constraint violation and propose an algorithm to build up the path dynamically during simulation. Using an industrial-strength MPEG-2 decoder design in our case study and custom instructions for software optimization, we show that we can optimize the software efficiently in MPSoC designs using frequently executed statement information from the longest delay path. Copyright 2008 ACM.
Document binarization is an active research area for many years. There are many difficulties associated with satisfactory binarization of document images and especially in cases of degraded historical documents. In th...
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A new guidance law which minimizes the l∞-norm of the pursuer dynamics is considered. The optimal guidance law is derived as the limit of the lp-optimal law for even q which tends to infinity. The new guidance law na...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781605601274
A new guidance law which minimizes the l∞-norm of the pursuer dynamics is considered. The optimal guidance law is derived as the limit of the lp-optimal law for even q which tends to infinity. The new guidance law named Hyper-quadratic Guidance Law (HQN), can be applied to both maneuvering and non-maneuvering targets and leads, in the limit where q tends to infinity, to Augmented Proportional Navigation with navigation ratio of 2. The performance of HQN for several values of q is compared with those of Augmented Proportional Navigation with navigation ratio 3 which is known to minimize the l2 cost function. The comparison shows, as expected, smaller maximal maneuvers applied by HQN.
In this paper, we study the use of iterative multiuser detectors for co-channel interference suppression in wireless cellular systems. We demonstrate that a receiver with a single receive antenna is capable of detecti...
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In this paper, we study the use of iterative multiuser detectors for co-channel interference suppression in wireless cellular systems. We demonstrate that a receiver with a single receive antenna is capable of detecting and cancelling a single in-band interferer that uses the same coding and modulation scheme as the desired signal. We investigate the benefits of using such an interference canceller in the mobile receiver in the downlink scenario of a two-hop relay network. Results show significant improvements with iterative interference cancellation in terms of the average system throughput and outage probability. Because the interference canceller is so effective, more aggressive frequency reuse schemes can be now considered, such as using smaller cluster sizes, using 3-sectored cells where all sectors share the same frequency band, and using non-orthogonal channels for relaying.
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