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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SWENSON, ENMAHINSKE, EBSTOUTENBURGH, JSCapt. Erick N. Swenson
USNR (Ret.):is a project manager for special projects in the Surface Ship Systems Division Hughes Aircraft Company Fullerton Calif where he has been employed since his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1975. Originally trained as an electronics technician during WWII in the Captain Eddy program he later received a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester Rochester N. Y. in 1950. Subsequent engineering education was received at the University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Penn. and the Naval Postgraduate School Monterey Calif. After commissioning he was ordered to duty as the electronics division officer on the USSMissouri(BB-63) and electronics ships superintendent at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard San Francisco Calif. When the design of the Naval Tactical Data System began in the mid-1950s Lt. (j.g.) Swenson was ordered to the Bureau of Ships Navy Department Washington D.C. as the junior engineering duty only officer assigned to the project. From 1962 to 1965 LCdr. Swenson was assigned as the BuShips technical representative on the program at Remington Rand Univac St. Paul Minn. For the next ten years he returned to BuShips/NavSea/NAVSEC as the NTDS project officer. During this time the project expanded considerably foreign military sales were heavily involved and interoperability with other services and countries were established. His final effort on active duty was to instigate the redesign of the previousSpruanceclass destroyers into the newerAdmiral Kiddclass improvement program. He is a registered professional electrical engineer in the State of California listed inWho's Who in the Worldis a life member of ASNE and chairman of the Long Beach/Greater LA Section. Capt. Edmund B. Mahinske
USN (Ret.):is an alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. His technical background is in electronics and he specialized in the management of programs involving the application of comp
A little over thirty years ago, a group of naval engineers were assembled by the Bureau of Ships to develop a new system approach to the combat information center (CIC). The CIC of World War II, with its “grease pen...
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A little over thirty years ago, a group of naval engineers were assembled by the Bureau of Ships to develop a new system approach to the combat information center (CIC). The CIC of World War II, with its “grease pencil” plots and voice telling of tactical information from sensors and other ships, could no longer provide the timely, coordinated reaction to postwar threats. This project group led the Navy into the new world of large-scale, high-speed digital electronics and into a new mode of conducting naval warfare as well. There were no off-the-shelf computers of the requisite capability, size and reliability; what were available were monstrous vacuum tube computers. There were no display equipments that were “conversant” in both the digital language of the computer and the analog language of the sensors and the weapon systems. Who ever heard, at that time, of a computer running a tactical communication net automatically? It was hard enough to find sufficient numbers of engineers who knew what a digital computer was. This paper, by three naval engineers in the implementing engineering office, depicts the evolvement of the Naval Tactical Data systems (NTDS) as they saw it. It discusses the problems that stemmed from the transition from the old world of analog into the new digital world, the system concepts that steered the development; the key decisions that were made; new electronic equipment and processes that became necessary; and the need of the mangagement to face the real world of deadlines, ship schedules and operational requirements.
A new, flexible, mixed-integer formulation is presented for solving the single-stage AC-transmission expansion planning problem. This new formulation handles the discrete nature of equipment additions without resortin...
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A new, flexible, mixed-integer formulation is presented for solving the single-stage AC-transmission expansion planning problem. This new formulation handles the discrete nature of equipment additions without resorting to linearized incremental approaches, but still uses integer linear programming. Even the interconnection of an initially disjoint system is handled directly without resorting to an arbitrary initially connected system. The optimal configuration at the end of the planning step under consideration minimizes an annually amortized cost function including the investment cost for equipment additions and the operating cost in terms of real-power transmission losses. Using a new, efficient, linear load-flow model, the formulation developed here is characterized by a complete decoupling between real and reactive equations. Examples have been incorporated to illustrate the potentials of this new optimum planning formulation. A major contribution of this paper is in showing how the power system transmission expansion planning problem can fit into the standard, mixed-integer, linear programming format in both a conventional sensitivity formulation and also with our new implicit enumeration formulation.
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