Crosslinked poly(meth)acrylate polymers with a variety of morphologies were synthesized with two steps. In the first step, a microporous glass membrane (Shirasu Porous Glass, SPG) was employed to prepare uniform emuls...
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Crosslinked poly(meth)acrylate polymers with a variety of morphologies were synthesized with two steps. In the first step, a microporous glass membrane (Shirasu Porous Glass, SPG) was employed to prepare uniform emulsion droplets by applying an adequate pressure to the monomer phase, which was composed of the ADVN initiator, solvent of toluene or heptane or their mixture, and a mixture of (meth)acrylate monomers. The droplets were formed continuously through the membrane and suspended in the aqueous solution, which contained a PVA-127 suspending agent, SLS emulsifier, and NaNO 2 inhibitor to suppress the nucleation of secondary particles. SPG pore sizes of 0.90, 5.25, and 9.25 μm were used. Then the emulsion droplets were polymerized at 343 K with a rotation rate 160 rpm for 24 h. The (meth)acrylate monomers 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (2-EHA), 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate (2-EHMA), cyclohexyl acrylate (CHA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), lauryl acrylate (LA), and lauryl methacrylate (LMA) were used in this research. The influences of the ratios of the monomer and crosslinking agent EGDMA, the amount of diluents, the monomer type on the polymer particle morphology, the swelling degree, and the polymer particle size were investigated. It was found that an increase in the concentrations of EGDMA and heptane resulted in higher coarse porous spheres and smaller polymer particle sizes. A coefficient with a variation close to 10%, or a standard deviation of about 4, was obtained. The capacity of these spheres as solvent absorption materials was examined. The highest swelling degrees of heptane and toluene were obtained when LA was employed as the monomer with 30% (by weight) of EGDMA and 70% (by weight) of heptane as an inert solvent. The highest capacity of the solvent absorption was obtained when using a polymer particle size of 4.81 μm, as prepared by SPG pore size 0.9 μm. The polymer particles were able to absorb aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents, aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, and
Folding reaction of goat α-lactalbumin has been studied by stopped-flow circular dichroism and molecular dynamics simulations. The effects of four single mutations and a double mutation on the stability of the protei...
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It is very important to estimate the residual life of structures by analysing a strong response quantitatively, because it is necessary to judge whether they can be used or not in the future, after they are damaged by...
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A decentralized control scheme is proposed for three-dimensional (3-D) positioning of spatial redundant manipulators having all rotational joints. A cyclic kinematic algorithm is introduced that generates a closed joi...
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A decentralized control scheme is proposed for three-dimensional (3-D) positioning of spatial redundant manipulators having all rotational joints. A cyclic kinematic algorithm is introduced that generates a closed joint-space trajectory corresponding to a closed end-effector path in Cartesian space. Cyclicity is a very important property for manipulators that must perform repeated tasks without the requirement for intermediate re-configuration maneuvers. Once the joint-space trajectory is generated, control of the manipulator becomes a joint-based control; independent control units for each joint are formed by the implementation of a proportional/derivative (PD) feedback controller and a disturbance observer at each joint. The validity of the proposed control scheme is shown by several simulations on multi-jointed redundant spatial manipulators and by experimental results from a 6-link planar redundant manipulator.
Dion-Jacobson type compound, CsLa2NbMn2O10, containing Mn ion as a transition metal was prepared by a conventional solid state reaction for the first time. Cesium ions in this compound can be exchanged by lithium ions...
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Dion-Jacobson type compound, CsLa2NbMn2O10, containing Mn ion as a transition metal was prepared by a conventional solid state reaction for the first time. Cesium ions in this compound can be exchanged by lithium ions. Crystal structure of new compound, CsLa2NbMn2O10, was estimated by simulation of X-ray diffraction pattern. Lithium ion-exchange changes the space group of this layered perovskite from P4/mmm to body-center I4/mmm.
Automatic recognition of individuals is a significant problem in the development of pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce a simple technique for personal identification of human faces in cluttered scenes ba...
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Automatic recognition of individuals is a significant problem in the development of pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce a simple technique for personal identification of human faces in cluttered scenes based on neural nets. In the detection phase, neural nets are used to test whether a window of 20/spl times/20 pixels contains a face or not. A major difficulty in the learning process comes from the large database required for face/nonface images. We solve this problem by dividing the data into two groups. Such division results in reduction of computational complexity, thus decreasing the time and memory needed during the image test. For the recognition phase, feature measurements are made through Fourier descriptors. Such features are modified to reduce the number of neurons in the hidden layer. Simulation results for the proposed algorithm show good performance compared with previous results.
In this study, a robot that utilizes a parallel mechanism at parts of its body is proposed. The robot combines locomotion and manipulation, and consists mainly of four units of three degree of freedom (hereafter calle...
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In this study, a robot that utilizes a parallel mechanism at parts of its body is proposed. The robot combines locomotion and manipulation, and consists mainly of four units of three degree of freedom (hereafter called DOF) parallel mechanism with linear actuators and two grippers attached to both sides of its body. The robot has high redundancy with 14-DOF without grippers. The purpose of this study is to realize the 'intelligent motion' in the redundant parallel manipulator that performs the basic motion of the proposed robot. The robot determines its motion while considering its redundancy and improves it using actuator information derived from the motion. First, we analyze the kinematics and statics about the parallel manipulator, and show a method to optimize the solution of inverse kinematics that includes the redundancy problem. Next, we discuss the intelligent motion task planning of the parallel manipulator using actuator information. Two methods are proposed based on the optimization of inverse kinematics. One optimizes the motion by iteration. The other optimizes the motion successively in continuous motion tasks. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methods is verified experimentally.
The saturation (output) function is important to cellular neural networks (CNN) because it affects the operation, stable equilibrium points, and the performance of CNN. However, to the best of our knowledge, a systema...
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The saturation (output) function is important to cellular neural networks (CNN) because it affects the operation, stable equilibrium points, and the performance of CNN. However, to the best of our knowledge, a systematic design procedure for the output function is not available in the literature. In this paper, we present a simple, yet effective design method for the tri-output cellular neural network (TCNN). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the output function using our design procedure, we tested TCNN on synthesized images. In addition, we applied the tri-output cellular neural network to the diagnosis of liver diseases and obtained very encouraging results.
Takeshi Yamao, Naoto Nishimura, Makoto Hagiwara, Motohiro Matsuura; Nonlinear transport phenomena in a superconductive ceramics of YBa2Cu4O8 at the intergrain o
Takeshi Yamao, Naoto Nishimura, Makoto Hagiwara, Motohiro Matsuura; Nonlinear transport phenomena in a superconductive ceramics of YBa2Cu4O8 at the intergrain o
A position based impedance control with a fuzzy compensator is proposed to improve a force control performance, in which the environment has unknown dynamics or curved surface. The main attraction of the fuzzy compens...
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A position based impedance control with a fuzzy compensator is proposed to improve a force control performance, in which the environment has unknown dynamics or curved surface. The main attraction of the fuzzy compensator is that it generates proper position compensation as feedforward command so that overshoots and oscillations in the direction of force control can be suppressed satisfactorily. Profiling control simulations using the dynamics of the PUMA560 manipulator are shown to demonstrate the effectiveness and promise of the fuzzy compensator under the environment having unknown dynamic characteristics.
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