This paper presents a novel state and output feedback control law for the tracking control of a class of multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) continuous time nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and disturbance input. F...
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(纸本)9781612848006
This paper presents a novel state and output feedback control law for the tracking control of a class of multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) continuous time nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and disturbance input. First the state feedback based control law is designed which consists of the robust integral of a neural network (NN) output plus the sign of the tracking error signal multiplied with an adaptive gain. The two-layer NN learns the system dynamics in an online manner while the NN residual reconstruction errors and the bounded system disturbances are overcome by the error sign signal. Both of the NN output and error sign signal are included into the integral to ensure the control input is a smooth function. Since certain states are not available in practice, subsequently, a high-gain observer is utilized to estimate the unmeasurable system states and output feedback based controller is designed. A semi-global asymptotic tracking performance is guaranteed in the case of state feedback while boundedness in the case of output feedback and the NN weights and all other signals are shown to be bounded by using the Lyapunov method. Finally, theoretical results are verified in the simulation environment.
High throughput biological experiments such as DNA Microarrays are very powerful tools to understand and characterize multiple illnesses. These types of experiments, however, have also been described as large, complex...
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High throughput biological experiments such as DNA Microarrays are very powerful tools to understand and characterize multiple illnesses. These types of experiments, however, have also been described as large, complex, expensive and hard to analyze. For these reasons, analyses with linear assumptions are frequently bypassed for more sophisticated procedures with higher complexity. In this work, a search procedure for potential biomarkers using data from microarray experiments is proposed under purely linear assumptions. The method shows a high discrimination rate and does not require the adjustment of parameters by the user, thus preserving analysis objectivity and repeatability. A case study in the identification of potential biomarkers for cervix cancer is presented to illustrate the application of the proposed procedure.
In automatic sleep stage classification, as in any other signal processing task involving the easily contaminated EEG signals, denoising constitutes a crucial pre-processing step that must be addressed before carrying...
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In automatic sleep stage classification, as in any other signal processing task involving the easily contaminated EEG signals, denoising constitutes a crucial pre-processing step that must be addressed before carrying out further analysis on the EEG signals. Discrete wavelet transform offers an effective solution for denoising nonstationary signals such as EEG due to its shrinkage property. In this paper, we explored the application of wavelet denoising method to EEG signals acquired during different sleep stages classified according to the RK rules, with the objective to identify suitable thresholding rules and threshold values. Preliminary results showed that the combination of soft thresholding rule applied to the Detailed wavelet coefficients with the Universal threshold value produced better performance measures such as a smaller Minimum Squared Error (MSE) and a larger signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Similarly improved results were obtained for Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4 and REM stage EEG signals using this combination. Such thresholding rule and values are equally well applicable to denoising EEG epochs acquired from deep sleep stages.
This article explores, through a case study, measures of energy efficiency in data processing centers. An analysis of this case demonstrates how the design criteria could improve the rate of consumption in IT centers,...
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This article explores, through a case study, measures of energy efficiency in data processing centers. An analysis of this case demonstrates how the design criteria could improve the rate of consumption in IT centers, which is currently the second most contaminating industry on the planet, and is the responsible for 2% of CO2 emissions, surpassed only by the aeronautical industry. The present and future situation of IT center energy consumption and associated environmental effects is analyzed, and also looks at how state-of-the-art technology, correctly implemented, could ensure significant rationalization of data processing center energy consumption. The article will examine optimization techniques, specific problems and case studies.
The analysis and characterization of different types of metamaterials patterns, such as fractal cells, Jerusalem-Cross-Pair, SRR - split ring resonator and CSRR - complementary split ring resonator, associated with an...
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The analysis and characterization of different types of metamaterials patterns, such as fractal cells, Jerusalem-Cross-Pair, SRR - split ring resonator and CSRR - complementary split ring resonator, associated with an UHF Quasi-Yagi antenna are performed. The basic metamaterial cells pattern employed are composed by periodical arrangement of cooper strips located at strategic positions of the structure. Owing to its unit cell symmetry, isotropic response is provided to any linearly polarized incident wave. The target of this study is to define the best combination of metamaterial patterns for RFID applications.
This paper proposes a closed-loop propofol admission strategy for depth of hypnosis control in anesthesia. A population-based, robustly tuned controller brings the patient to a desired level of hypnosis. The novelty l...
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(纸本)9781612848006
This paper proposes a closed-loop propofol admission strategy for depth of hypnosis control in anesthesia. A population-based, robustly tuned controller brings the patient to a desired level of hypnosis. The novelty lies in individualizing the controller once a stable level of hypnosis is reached. This is based on the identified patient parameters and enhances suppression of output disturbances, representing surgical stimuli. The system was evaluated in simulation on models of 44 patients obtained from clinical trials. A large amount of improvement (20 - 30percent) in load suppression performance is obtained by the proposed individualized control.
In this paper, a quadruped robot is studied in bounding motion. A new simplified model of quadruped robot in bounding motion with four actuated and two unactuated joints is developed. The kinetic and potential energie...
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In this paper, a quadruped robot is studied in bounding motion. A new simplified model of quadruped robot in bounding motion with four actuated and two unactuated joints is developed. The kinetic and potential energies of the under-actuated mechanical model of the quadruped robot are obtained and the dynamics of the robot model is derived using the Lagrangian method. It is shown that the dynamical equation of the proposed simplified model belongs to a class of second-order nonholonomic mechanical systems. The main motivation of this paper is to obtain quadruped model in bounding motion such that one can apply different control methods directly or after transformation in the obtained dynamic equations. Utilizing MATLAB, dynamics of the planar model has been simulated in backward and forward states. Physical parameters of the Little-Dog robot as an instance of the quadruped robot are considered in simulation The simulation is without control and therefore is unstable but it illustrates robot's manner in bounding motion before instability.
The energy balancing is one of the main concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Different from current methods, this paper attempts to solve the unbalanced energy consumption problem in the orthogonal frequency d...
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The energy balancing is one of the main concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Different from current methods, this paper attempts to solve the unbalanced energy consumption problem in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system for a WSN. The objective is to increase the sum throughput with almost equal energy consumption among the sensor nodes. Inspired by this goal, we formulated the optimization problem. Then a heuristic method is designed to solve this complex problem. The impact of number of subcarriers and sensor nodes on the fairness are studied in the numerical simulation. Comparisons with different common methods are made to show that the proposed method could achieve the excellent energy consumption fairness and better achievable throughput.
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an imaging technology that enables close examination of the interior of the entire small intestine. A major problem associated with this new technology is that a large volume of vid...
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Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an imaging technology that enables close examination of the interior of the entire small intestine. A major problem associated with this new technology is that a large volume of video data need to be examined manually by clinicians. It is therefore useful to design a mechanism that allows the clinicians to gain certain evaluation of a video without watching the whole video. In this paper, a shot detection-based method is presented for automatically establishing the WCE video static storyboard, and then moving storyboard is extracted based on the selected representative frames under the supervision of clinicians. Experimental results show that most of the representative frames containing relevant features can be extracted from the original WCE video. The proposed method can significantly and safely reduce the number of frames that need to be examined by clinicians and thus speed up the diagnosis procedures.
A fastest consensus problem of topology fixed networks has been formulated as an optimal linear iteration problem and efficiently solved by Xiao and Boyd [1]. Considering a kind of predictive mechanism, we show that t...
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A fastest consensus problem of topology fixed networks has been formulated as an optimal linear iteration problem and efficiently solved by Xiao and Boyd [1]. Considering a kind of predictive mechanism, we show that the consensus evolution can be further accelerated while physically maintaining the network topology. The underlaying mechanism is that an effective prediction is able to convert the network status along temporal dimension to that in spatial dimension and hence induce a network with a virtually denser topology. With this topology, an even faster consensus is expected to occur. The result is motivated by the predictive mechanism widely existing in biological swarms, flocks, and synchronization networks.
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