Pulsed Phase Thermography has considerably evolved since it was originally introduced in 1996. In this paper, a general review of the technique is presented. The different types of uncertainties related to data acquis...
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A novel supply voltage switching mechanism for reducing power dissipation of array structures is presented. With this mechanism, the supply voltage levels are successively activated by external clock signal in the dir...
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A novel supply voltage switching mechanism for reducing power dissipation of array structures is presented. With this mechanism, the supply voltage levels are successively activated by external clock signal in the direction of signal propagation. The mechanism eliminates power dissipated by the glitches while the speed of the array structure can be maintained. The mechanism is easily incorporated so that no circuit change in the existing array structure is required.
This paper investigates digital modeling and control strategies applied to the voltage regulation of a microgenerator system, placed in the Electric Energy Generation laboratory of Federal University of Para. Identifi...
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This paper investigates digital modeling and control strategies applied to the voltage regulation of a microgenerator system, placed in the Electric Energy Generation laboratory of Federal University of Para. Identification parametric techniques are used in order to obtain a representative model for the controller design. With a suitable model, controllers of proportional integral type are designed, based on the root locus and fuzzy systems strategies, in order to improve the voltage regulation of the microgenerator system.
Several factors must be considered for robotic task execution in the presence of a fault, including: detection, identification, and accommodation for the fault. In this paper, a prediction error based dead-zone residu...
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Several factors must be considered for robotic task execution in the presence of a fault, including: detection, identification, and accommodation for the fault. In this paper, a prediction error based dead-zone residual function and nonlinear observers are used to detect and identify a class of actuator faults. Advantages of the proposed fault detection and identification methods are that they are based on the nonlinear dynamic model of a robot manipulator (and hence, can be extended to a number of general Euler Lagrange systems), they do not require acceleration measurements, and they are independent from the controller. A Lyapunov-based analysis is provided to prove that the developed fault observer converges to the actual fault.
Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize sound sources. Such a capability can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting event in the environment, and als...
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Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize sound sources. Such a capability can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting event in the environment, and also to provide enhanced processing for other capabilities such as speech recognition. We present a robust sound source localization method in three-dimensional space using an array of 8 microphones. The method is based on a frequency-domain implementation of a steered beamformer along with a probabilistic post-processor. Results show that a mobile robot can localize in real time multiple moving sources of different types over a range of 5 meters with a response time of 200 ms.
We propose a system that gives a mobile robot the ability to separate simultaneous sound sources. A microphone array is used along with a real-time dedicated implementation of geometric source separation and a post-fi...
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We propose a system that gives a mobile robot the ability to separate simultaneous sound sources. A microphone array is used along with a real-time dedicated implementation of geometric source separation and a post-filter that gives us a further reduction of interferences from other sources. We present results and comparisons for separation of multiple non-stationary speech sources combined with noise sources. The main advantage of our approach for mobile robots resides in the fact that both the frequency domain geometric source separation algorithm and the post-filter are able to adapt rapidly to new sources and non-stationarity. Separation results are presented for three simultaneous interfering speakers in the presence of noise. A reduction of log spectral distortion (LSD) and increase of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of approximately 10 dB and 14 dB are observed.
This paper describes a method of generating continuously parametrized maneuver classes based on a finite number of user-provided examples motions. A trajectory interpolation algorithm performs a smooth transformation ...
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This paper discusses the issues related to the physical modeling of electric machines. The concept of physical modeling is introduced through reviewing the assumptions made in ideal models. In addition to the FE model...
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This paper discusses the issues related to the physical modeling of electric machines. The concept of physical modeling is introduced through reviewing the assumptions made in ideal models. In addition to the FE models, a physical phase variable model is proposed. The inductances as well as flux linkages are calculated from nonlinear transient FE solutions. Simulink implementations of both FE model and the phase variable model are studied. A PM synchronous motor and a PM brushless motor are used as objects of this research. The physical models of them are built and applied to various motor drive simulation systems. The obtained results show the ability of physical modeling in obtaining accurate results at much more faster speed.
In this contribution, new paradigms of laser interaction and imaging through scattering media are presented. Specifically, the imaging potential of efficient optical polarimetric techniques, for active imaging through...
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In this contribution, new paradigms of laser interaction and imaging through scattering media are presented. Specifically, the imaging potential of efficient optical polarimetric techniques, for active imaging through scattering media has been studied. The depolarization of backscattered polarized laser light, based on the Mueller-matrices formalism, has been investigated. The experimental results indicates clearly that, scattered photons from disperse media maintain a high degree of polarization. As a result, image quality and target recognition can be improved significantly.
The need for interoperability is prominent in the industrial enterprise environment. Different applications and systems that cover the overall range of the industrial infrastructure from the field to the enterprise le...
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The need for interoperability is prominent in the industrial enterprise environment. Different applications and systems that cover the overall range of the industrial infrastructure from the field to the enterprise level need to interoperate. This quest is driven by the enterprise need for greater flexibility and for the wider possible integration of the enterprise systems. The current paper presents an architecture that utilizes three predominant state-of-the-art technologies, namely workflows, ontologies and Web services in order to address the above quest in an efficient way.
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