Several types of energy recovery systems (i.e. shaft generators etc.) have been installed in marine vessels, in order to reduce the fuel consumption and ultimately improve the efficiency of the vessels. In this paper,...
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(纸本)9781479982776
Several types of energy recovery systems (i.e. shaft generators etc.) have been installed in marine vessels, in order to reduce the fuel consumption and ultimately improve the efficiency of the vessels. In this paper, an energy recovery system utilizing the thermal losses of a real ship is investigated. The main goal of this work is to improve the overall efficiency of the ship. Therefore, a theoretical study and apparatus selection is conducted for every part of a proposed Waste Heat Recovery System. Moreover, simulation results of each part, as well as of the whole system, are presented in this paper.
In this paper, we address the wellposedness and online resolution of algebraic loop arising from the feedback interconnection of a linear time invariant system and a static nonlinearity whose input-output characterist...
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Biometric applications are faced with enormous performance challenges due to submission of low quality facial images. Previous research studies used only one property of the face or one feature within the recognition ...
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(纸本)9789881925275
Biometric applications are faced with enormous performance challenges due to submission of low quality facial images. Previous research studies used only one property of the face or one feature within the recognition process to assess facial image quality, others employed expensive and cumbersome partial or no-reference subjective quality assessment protocols. In this work, an enhanced face verification and image quality assessment (FVIQA) scheme for predicting images in low quality surveillance scenarios was developed. Pose, faceness, illumination, contrast and similarity quality attributes were extracted using an objective full- reference quality assessment protocol but emphasis was placed on the modified Lucas and Kanade's algorithm for measuring pose displacement between a pair of probe and gallery image from same subject. Structured image verification experiments were conducted on the surveillance camera (SCface) database to collect individual quality scores and algorithm matching scores from FVIQA using three recognition algorithms namely principal component analysis (PCA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and a commercial recognition SDK. Results from the experiments were improved and shows consistency with previous studies. FVIQA accurately assigns quality scores to probe image samples and the quality scores highly correlate with the algorithms matching scores. The pose quality scores (QP) was significantly improved with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.982 and 0.839 with OQS and AMS respectively. In future FVIQA could be extended to a larger set of assessment and enhancement techniques such as age, color neutrality, exposure, out-of-focus and blur.
This paper investigates the achievable sum-rate of uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems considering a practical channel impairment, namely, aged channel state information (CSI). Taking into acc...
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(纸本)9781467377058
This paper investigates the achievable sum-rate of uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems considering a practical channel impairment, namely, aged channel state information (CSI). Taking into account both maximum ratio combining (MRC) and zero-forcing (ZF) receivers at the base station, we present tight closed-form lower bounds on the sum-rate for both receivers, which provide efficient means to evaluate the sum-rate of the system. More importantly, we characterize the impact of channel aging on the power scaling law. Specifically, we show that the transmit power of each user can be scaled down by 1/√(M), which indicates that aged CSI does not affect the power scaling law; instead, it causes only a reduction on the sum rate by reducing the effective signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR).
This paper demonstrates the optimization of a radar waveform based on ambiguity function measurements and spectral mask criteria. Compliance with spectral mask criteria is becoming ever-critical in radar systems due t...
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Deadlocks are a rather undesirable phenomenon in flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs).This work,by adding monitors,develops a deadlock prevention policy for FMSs that can be modeled by a class of Petri nets called-S3 ...
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(纸本)9781479947249
Deadlocks are a rather undesirable phenomenon in flexible manufacturing systems(FMSs).This work,by adding monitors,develops a deadlock prevention policy for FMSs that can be modeled by a class of Petri nets called-S3 PR ***,an algorithm is given to reduce an S3 PR via *** on it,-resources in-S3 PRs are classified into A--resources and ***,for an-S3 PR with only B--resources,it is proved that a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor can be designed by M-controlling all the emptied strict minimal siphons(SMSs).For an-S3 PR containing A--resources,a liveness-enforcing supervisor can be designed by iteratively reducing the net via A--resources and adding the corresponding ***,a comprehensive deadlock prevention algorithm for-S3 PRs is *** FMS example is used to illustrate its application.
Motivated by the fact that bounded variation (often discontinuous) functions frequently appear when studying integral equations that describe physical phenomena, we focus on the existence of bounded variation solution...
Motivated by the fact that bounded variation (often discontinuous) functions frequently appear when studying integral equations that describe physical phenomena, we focus on the existence of bounded variation solutions for Urysohn integral measure driven equations. Due to numerous applications of Urysohn integral equations in various domains, problems of this kind have been extensively studied in literature, under more restrictive assumptions. Our approach concerns the framework of Kurzweil-Stieltjes integration, which allows the occurrence of high oscillatory features on the right hand side of the equation. A discussion about interesting consequences of our main result (given by particular cases of the measure driving the equation) is presented. Finally, we show the generality of our results by investigating two examples of impulsive type problems (from both theoretical and numerical perspective) and giving an application in electronics industry concerning polarization properties of ferroelectric materials.
Supervisory control reconfiguration can handle the uncertainties including resource failures and task changes in discrete event systems. It was not addressed to exploit the robustness of closed-loop systems to accommo...
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The paper studies the formation merging problem for a leader-follower network. That is, how to control a team of agents called followers so that they are merged with a team of agents called leaders to form a larger gl...
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An Ultraviolet (UV) photodetector with high responsivity and relative fast response speed was fabricated from three dimensional WO3 nanowires/reduced graphene oxide (3D WO3 NWs/RGO) composite materials. The 3D WO3 NDs...
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