This paper presents a novel analytical method for electro-mechanical design of a high speed long-term flywheel energy storage system and thermal evaluation of possible operating modes of the system. Flywheel's com...
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This paper presents a novel analytical method for electro-mechanical design of a high speed long-term flywheel energy storage system and thermal evaluation of possible operating modes of the system. Flywheel's composite shell rotor along with the motor/generator unit are assumed to be placed into a sealed vacuum chamber, which presents a challenge of heat transfer, produced by rotor losses. Developed method takes into account thermal radiation properties of the rotor and is realised using Mathcad software, which allows for quick investigation of any flywheel configuration. The method involves calculations for preliminary rotor sizing and determining achievable operation modes, while keeping the rotor under a specified temperature limit. Results of using this method for studying dependencies of thermal performance on initial system parameters are presented and conclusions are drawn. Based on the conducted study, recommendations on system design considerations are given.
We designed a portable electronic nose (e-nose) for rapid detection of Chinese liquors. The e-nose had an evaporation chamber wrapped with silicone heating band, which could vaporize the liquor samples in 1 minute. Th...
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(纸本)9781467384155
We designed a portable electronic nose (e-nose) for rapid detection of Chinese liquors. The e-nose had an evaporation chamber wrapped with silicone heating band, which could vaporize the liquor samples in 1 minute. The sequential sampling and clean-out lasted 100 seconds and 3 minutes, respectively. Hence, one fast detection process could be finished within 3 minutes without regard to clean-out. In order to acquire enough information from array's sampling curves for classification, we chose 60 features (including 6 features per sensor) according to the response curves, the derivative of the response curves and the relative change rate curves of conductivity. Then the dimension of features was reduced by principle component analysis (PCA). Finally, classification of Chinese liquors was performed using C-Support Vector Machine (C-SVM) and the classification rate was 96.7%.
作者:
Jianlei ZhangZengqiang ChenZhongxin LiuDepartment of Automation
College of Computer and Control Engineering Nankai University Tianjin 300071 People's Republic of China and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics Computer and Control Engineering Nankai University Tianjin 300071 People's Republic of China
Altruistic behaviors in multiplayer groups have obtained great attention in the context of the public goods game, which poses a riddle from the evolutionary viewpoint. Here we focus on a particular type of public good...
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Altruistic behaviors in multiplayer groups have obtained great attention in the context of the public goods game, which poses a riddle from the evolutionary viewpoint. Here we focus on a particular type of public goods game model in which the benefits of cooperation are either discounted or synergistically enhanced at the appearance of multiple cooperators in a group. Moreover, we focus on the three-strategies profile by adding the role of loners, besides the often-used cooperation and defection. Using the replicator dynamic equations, we investigate a range of dynamical portraits that characterizes the properties of the steady state. Analysis results indicate that loners and cooperators both have chances to be the stable equilibrium points in the presence of perturbations, while defectors fail to do so in this three-strategy competition. Moreover, the coexistence state, in which all three strategies exist in equilibrium, can be led by suitable parameters and stabilized for perturbations. These results elucidate the interplay between the characteristics of the public goods game and evolutionary dynamics in well-mixed systems.
We study distributed non-convex optimization on a time-varying multiagent network. Each node has access to its own smooth local cost function, and the collective goal is to minimize the sum of these functions. The per...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467386838
We study distributed non-convex optimization on a time-varying multiagent network. Each node has access to its own smooth local cost function, and the collective goal is to minimize the sum of these functions. The perturbed push-sum algorithm used for convex distributed optimization in [17] is considered and further studied in [8]. We generalize the result obtained in [8] to the case of non-convex functions. Under some additional assumptions on the gradients we prove the convergence of the distributed push-sum algorithm to the set of critical points of the objective function. Moreover, by utilizing perturbations on the update process, we show the almost sure convergence of the perturbed dynamics to a local minimum of the global objective function.
This paper proposes a position accuracy improvement algorithm for a low-cost global positioning system (GPS) receiver of a car navigation system considering a distance boundary. The proposed method enhances the positi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509040735
This paper proposes a position accuracy improvement algorithm for a low-cost global positioning system (GPS) receiver of a car navigation system considering a distance boundary. The proposed method enhances the position accuracy by matching the trajectory of a vehicle acquired by a GPS receiver with prebuilt map information. After acquiring the trajectory of a vehicle, the iterative closest point method is employed to compute the rotational and the translational errors among the trajectory of a vehicle and map information. These computed errors are used to correct the trajectory of a vehicle. Unlike previous studies, in the proposed method, some of map information over a certain distance away from the trajectory is ignored so that the computational efficiency can be guaranteed. Finally, the superiority of our method is proved throughout real experimental results.
This paper presents a comparative study of two controllers namely Internal Model control (IMC) decoupling controller and an inverted decoupling controller applied to a coupled-tank liquid level system. These controlle...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509025985
This paper presents a comparative study of two controllers namely Internal Model control (IMC) decoupling controller and an inverted decoupling controller applied to a coupled-tank liquid level system. These controllers are designed based on identified First Order Plus Dead Time (FOPDT) model of a coupled tank system. The performance of the two decoupling controllers are studied considering input and output multiplicative uncertainties. From the simulation and experimental studies, it is found that the inverted decoupling approach is more robust compared to IMC.
Demands for human-robot collaboration in production line has increased and the problem of safety in robot becomes more and more important. This paper presents a manipulator with counterbalancing mechanism to secure sa...
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Demands for human-robot collaboration in production line has increased and the problem of safety in robot becomes more and more important. This paper presents a manipulator with counterbalancing mechanism to secure safety of a human worker in human-robot collaboration environment by reducing a needed power to drive a manipulator. A counterbalancing torque to cancel out a gravitational torque was generated by a restoring force of spring. Also a control algorithm to minimize the effect of spring on tracking performance was proposed. Experimental results were suggested to verify the performance of the proposed method.
作者:
Christopher J. PrattKam K. LeangDARC (Design
Automation Robotics and Control) Lab University of Utah Robotics Center and Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah Salt Lake City 84112 United States of America
This paper describes the development of a flying and walking robot, called the dynamic underactuated flying-walking (DUCK) robot. The DUCK robot combines a high-mobility flying platform, such as a quadcopter (quadroto...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467380270
This paper describes the development of a flying and walking robot, called the dynamic underactuated flying-walking (DUCK) robot. The DUCK robot combines a high-mobility flying platform, such as a quadcopter (quadrotor helicopter), with passive-dynamic legs to create a versatile system that can fly and walk. One of the advantages of passive-dynamic legs for walking is that additional actuators are not needed for terrestrial locomotion. Herein, a mathematical model is presented and simulations are used to help design a prototype robot. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of combining an aerial platform with passive-dynamic legs to create an effective flying and walking robot. In particular, two modes of walking are demonstrated: (1) passive walking down inclined surfaces for low-energy terrestrial locomotion, and (2) active (powered) walking by leveraging the capabilities of the flying platform, where thrust from the quadcopter's rotors enables the DUCK robot to take steps and walk on flat surfaces or up inclined surfaces.
The paper presents results of impulse response spectral analysis that has been obtained using a method based on cross-correlation. The impulse response spectrum is achieved by correlating the impulse response and refe...
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The paper presents results of impulse response spectral analysis that has been obtained using a method based on cross-correlation. The impulse response spectrum is achieved by correlating the impulse response and reference single-harmonic signals and using Hilbert transform to obtain an envelope of cross-correlation. Then, surface area under the envelope is calculating and its plot in frequency domain is making. The spectrum obtained this way has its advantage over the fast Fourier transform (FFT) that its spectral resolution does not depend on length of impulse response. At the same time, the spectral resolution can be much greater than spectral resolution resultant from FFT. Obtained results show that presented method gives possibilities to determine frequencies of impulse response components more accurate in comparison to FFT particularly for short-time impulse responses.
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