In a hard real-time distributed computing system (HRTDCS), all the tasks are required to meet their associated deadlines; a task not meeting its deadline leads to a catastrophic failure of the system. The authors cons...
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In a hard real-time distributed computing system (HRTDCS), all the tasks are required to meet their associated deadlines; a task not meeting its deadline leads to a catastrophic failure of the system. The authors consider an HRTDCS that executes both periodic and aperiodic tasks associated with timing, precedence, and resource constraints. The fault-tolerance capability in such a system is achieved through the use of time redundancy. The problem of workload redistribution for fault tolerance in an HRTDCS is studied. A graph model to represent the system workload is developed. Three performance measures for the analysis of an HRTDCS are defined. A nonpreemptive scheduling algorithm is proposed to distribute the workload of the operational nodes of the HRTDCS in the presence of both hardware and task failures. This task allocation strategy is applied to a practical system, namely, the HRTDCS onboard a spacecraft. The performance measures obtained for a typical system workload indicate that the algorithm is quite suitable for an HRTDCS with regard to uniform workload distribution.< >
Robust Schur stability conditions are obtained for polynomials of orders two to five. For n=2 and 3, the conditions obtained are related to stability of the corner points, while for n=4 and 5, the conditions are relat...
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Robust Schur stability conditions are obtained for polynomials of orders two to five. For n=2 and 3, the conditions obtained are related to stability of the corner points, while for n=4 and 5, the conditions are related to stability of corner and possible supplementary points. The number of points increases substantially as the polynomial order increases. The obtained results are of importance in the robust design of controlsystems. The difficulty in extending the approach to higher-order polynomials is discussed. Special cases for such extensions are mentioned. Further applications of the results obtained may be of use in the stability study of two-dimensional systems. Some examples for the application of the stability conditions are given and, in particular, the two counterexamples presented in the literature are discussed.
The most straightforward way to incorporate knowledge of formant perception in LPC scalar quantization is by quantizing the LPC poles. The authors measured directly the perceptual sensitivity to changes in the poles d...
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The most straightforward way to incorporate knowledge of formant perception in LPC scalar quantization is by quantizing the LPC poles. The authors measured directly the perceptual sensitivity to changes in the poles during continuous speech, and used these data in the design of a scalar quantization scheme. The average pole-frequency just noticeable difference (JND) was found to strongly decrease with increasing formant bandwidth, and to depend to a lesser degree on the frequency. A considerable coding efficiency was achieved by utilizing the JND data and the measured distribution ranges of the pole frequencies. A 30 bits per frame quantization produced similar speech quality as that obtained with a standard 41 bits quantization of the reflection coefficients.< >
Many profoundly hearing-impaired individuals that use hearing-aid devices suffer from poor auditory capacity, and therefore mainly rely on speechreading information. Previous studies suggest that presenting signals ca...
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Many profoundly hearing-impaired individuals that use hearing-aid devices suffer from poor auditory capacity, and therefore mainly rely on speechreading information. Previous studies suggest that presenting signals carrying prosodic information has great potential for improving speechreading. The authors present the computerized intonator, which is a microprogrammed acoustic pitch-aid device that provides the user in real-time with the fundamental frequency modulated by the amplitude envelope. The device implementation provides maximum flexibility for designing the output stimuli to suit individual needs. The benefit of the device is presently being evaluated using the connected discourse tracking test.< >
An on-line scheme to fault detection in adaptive controlsystems is proposed by introducing Kullbaek Discrimination Information (KDI) as a detection index. When a physical parameter change due to a failure has occurre...
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An on-line scheme to fault detection in adaptive controlsystems is proposed by introducing Kullbaek Discrimination Information (KDI) as a detection index. When a physical parameter change due to a failure has occurred in a system under adaptive control, the failure effect will hardly be visible in the output performance because of the adaptation mechanism. Such a parameter change is also difficult to detect by monitoring the regulator parameters, which are determined by a recursive identification based on the direct approach. Since the failure effect is reflected as a change in the predictor model used for the adaptive control design, the fault detection leads to a model discrimination problem. It has been shown that the KDI can be used as an effective distortion measure for the model discrimination and the index can be applied in a modified form to detect a fault on-line. Simulation studies on a second order damped oscillatory system have been carried out to demonstrate the efficiency of the method.
This paper presents general frequency domain criteria for the robust stability of systems with parametric uncertainities. The criteria are applied to the robust stability verification of LTI systems with or without ti...
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This paper presents general frequency domain criteria for the robust stability of systems with parametric uncertainities. The criteria are applied to the robust stability verification of LTI systems with or without time delays and of LTI systems operating under possibly nonlinear passive feedback.
An iterative algorithm is presented to compute lower bounds for the structured singular value ( mu ). The algorithm resembles a mixture of power methods for eigenvalues and singular values, since the structured singul...
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An iterative algorithm is presented to compute lower bounds for the structured singular value ( mu ). The algorithm resembles a mixture of power methods for eigenvalues and singular values, since the structured singular value can be viewed as a generalization of both. If the algorithm converges, a lower bound for mu results. The authors prove that mu is always an equilibrium point of the algorithm. However, since in general there are many equilibrium points, some heuristic ideas to achieve convergence are presented. Extensive numerical experience with the algorithm is discussed.< >
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D.K. FrederickM. RimerElectrical
Computer and Systems Engineering Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy 12180 USA Stability
Control and Flying Qualities Group B21-35 Grumman Aerospace Corporation Bethpage 11714 USA
The need for having benchmark problems for the evaluation of software for computer-aided control system analysis and design is discussed. The two benchmark problems that have been released to date by the Benchmark Wor...
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The need for having benchmark problems for the evaluation of software for computer-aided control system analysis and design is discussed. The two benchmark problems that have been released to date by the Benchmark Working Group of the Technical Committee on computer-aided control System Design of the IEEE controlsystems Society are described, as are the plans for future problems. Information that has been learned about the preparation, distribution, and dissemination of results for this type of problem is included.
In this paper we present a theoretical basis for an integrated approach to the design of reliable controlsystems. In this approach, the control and diagnostic modules of a reliable control system are designed togethe...
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In this paper we present a theoretical basis for an integrated approach to the design of reliable controlsystems. In this approach, the control and diagnostic modules of a reliable control system are designed together, instead of independently, thereby accounting for the interactions which occur between these two modules in a functioning reliable control system. The approach makes use of a significant generalisation of the familiar 2-parameter controller known as the 4-parameter controller. This controller has two vector inputs and not one, but two vector outputs; correspondingly, this controller is comprised of not two, but four matrix parameters. The additional controller output is monitored to detect and isolate sensor and actuator faults, thereby providing the controller with diagnostic capabilities, or "intelligence," in addition to its control capabilities. Using a parameterization of all stabilising 4-parameter controllers, the fundamental limitations and inherent tradeoffs governing the design of reliable controlsystems are clarly delineated, with special attention given the issues of uncertainty and control/diagnostic interaction. Several means for resolving these desig tradeoffs are proposed, and illustrated by way of non-trivial examples. These results are expected to pave the way for the achievement of improved overall control/dignostic performance in reliable controlsystems, and also to pave the way for the achivement of significant complexity reductions in both the design and implementation of reliable controlsystems.
The estimation of sinusoidal frequencies by the overdetermined Yule-Walker (OYW) Method is considered. An explicit expression is derived for the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimation errors. The effect of inc...
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The estimation of sinusoidal frequencies by the overdetermined Yule-Walker (OYW) Method is considered. An explicit expression is derived for the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimation errors. The effect of increasing the number of Yule-Walker equations on estimation accuracy is analyzed. The asymptotic estimation accuracy of the OYW method is compared to the best achievable accuracy corresponding to the Cramér-Rao bound
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