Interest of light emitting diode (LED) lightings is more and more increased because of its low power consumption and long lifetime. Generally, the LED lighting is driven by a power converter. Electrolytic capacitors a...
Interest of light emitting diode (LED) lightings is more and more increased because of its low power consumption and long lifetime. Generally, the LED lighting is driven by a power converter. Electrolytic capacitors are used for stabilizing the output ripple of the power converter. However, the expected lifetime of electrolytic capacitors is very shorter than LED or other components in the power converter. As the result of that, expected life time of LED lighting is decreased. In this paper, a single-stage CCM flyback converter without electrolytic capacitors is proposed. The proposed converter is verified through simulations and experiment.
This paper presents a successful implementation of an undergraduate robotics and virtual reality course that builds upon the synergies existing between these two areas in order to introduce computers and information t...
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As an unsupervised learning method, clustering methods plays an important role in quality data mining and various other applications. This work investigates them based on swarm intelligence, introduces a new intellige...
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As an unsupervised learning method, clustering methods plays an important role in quality data mining and various other applications. This work investigates them based on swarm intelligence, introduces a new intelligence algorithm called mussels wandering optimization (MWO) to the data clustering field, and proposes a new clustering algorithm by combining K-means clustering method and MWO. Tests on six standard data sets are performed. The results demonstrate the validity and superiority of the proposed method over some representative clustering ones.
A variety of output regulation problems can be addressed via sliding mode control when system's relative degree is known. The difficulties in the implementation of sliding mode controllers emerge when the relative...
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A variety of output regulation problems can be addressed via sliding mode control when system's relative degree is known. The difficulties in the implementation of sliding mode controllers emerge when the relative degree is unknown. On the other hand, practical systems controlled by sliding mode algorithms always work under tolerance limits, which are frequently known. This behavior is called real sliding motion. In this work, the concept of practical relative degree in single-input-single-output systems controlled by sliding mode controllers is revisited from the view point of frequency analysis. Practical relative degree is understood as the smallest order of the sliding mode controller that satisfies the tolerance limits. Also, the notion of practical relative degree is analyzed in terms of the definitions of performance margins. The usefulness of the proposed concept is the way to design sliding mode controllers for systems that can be considered a black-box. The practical relative degree is studied and illustrated via examples and simulations.
In this work, the performance of the real sliding mode is characterized with the notion of performance margins under the assumption that the real sliding motion presents a limit cycle with acceptable amplitude and acc...
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(纸本)9781467360890
In this work, the performance of the real sliding mode is characterized with the notion of performance margins under the assumption that the real sliding motion presents a limit cycle with acceptable amplitude and acceptable frequency. The performance of sliding mode controllers, in real sliding motion, is improved by means of the addition of linear compensators in cascade connection with the plant. The applied compensators are phase lead controllers which modify the frequency response of the plant in order to meet the required performance margins adding robustness to the system. Bode diagram interpretation of performance margins is presented for the first time allowing the utilization of SMC combined with the classical methodology of linear compensator design where it is possible shape the Bode diagram in order to obtain desired values of performance margins. Examples supporting the proposed idea are presented.
This research proposes an automated method for planning a team of mobile robots such that a Boolean-based mission is accomplished. The specification consists of logical requirements over some regions of interest for t...
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(纸本)9781467360890
This research proposes an automated method for planning a team of mobile robots such that a Boolean-based mission is accomplished. The specification consists of logical requirements over some regions of interest for the agents' trajectories and for their final states. A Petri net (PN) with outputs models the movement capabilities of the team and the active regions of interest. The imposed specification is translated to a set of linear restrictions for some binary variables, the robot movement capabilities are formulated as linear constraints on PN markings, and the evaluations of the binary variables are linked with PN markings via linear inequalities. This allows us to solve a Mixed Integer Linear Programming problem whose solution yields robotic trajectories satisfying the task.
The current sparse representation framework is to decouple it as two subproblems, i.e., alternate sparse coding and dictionary learning using different optimizers, treating elements in bases and codes separately. In t...
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(纸本)9781479928941
The current sparse representation framework is to decouple it as two subproblems, i.e., alternate sparse coding and dictionary learning using different optimizers, treating elements in bases and codes separately. In this paper, we treat elements both in bases and codes homogenously. The original optimization is directly decoupled as several blockwise alternate subproblems rather than above two. Hence, sparse coding and bases learning optimizations are coupled together. And the variables involved in the optimization problems are partitioned into several suitable blocks with convexity preserved, making it possible to perform an exact block coordinate descent. For each separable subproblem, based on the convexity and monotonic property of the parabolic function, a closed-form solution is obtained. Thus the algorithm is simple, efficient and effective. Experimental results show that our algorithm significantly accelerates the learning process.
This paper is focusing on active fault detection (AFD) for parametric faults in closed-loop systems. This auxiliary input applied for the fault detection will also disturb the external output and consequently reduce t...
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(纸本)9781479932757
This paper is focusing on active fault detection (AFD) for parametric faults in closed-loop systems. This auxiliary input applied for the fault detection will also disturb the external output and consequently reduce the performance of the controller. Therefore, only small auxiliary inputs are used with the result that the detection and isolation time can be long. In this paper it will be shown, that this problem can be handled by using a modification of the feedback controller. By applying the YJBK-parameterization (after Youla, Jabr, Bongiorno and Kucera) for the controller, it is possible to modify the feedback controller with a minor effect on the external output in the fault free case. Further, in the faulty case, the signature of the auxiliary input can be optimized. This is obtained by using a band-pass filter for the YJBK parameter that is only effective in a small frequency range where the frequency for the auxiliary input is selected. This gives that it is possible to apply an auxiliary input with a reduced amplitude. An example is included to show the results.
Recently, sparse representation based classification (SRC) has been successfully used for visual recognition and showed impressive performance. Given a testing sample, SRC computes its sparse linear representation wit...
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Recently, sparse representation based classification (SRC) has been successfully used for visual recognition and showed impressive performance. Given a testing sample, SRC computes its sparse linear representation with respect to all the training samples and calculates the residual error for each class of training samples. However, SRC considers the training samples in each class contributing equally to the dictionary in that class, i.e., the dictionary consists of the training samples in that class. This may lead to high residual error and instability. In this paper, a class specific dictionary learning algorithm is proposed. First, by introducing the dual form of dictionary learning, an explicit relationship between the bases vectors and the original image features is represented, which enhances the interpretability. SRC can be thus considered to be a special case of the proposed algorithm. Second, blockwise coordinate descent algorithm and Lagrange multipliers are then applied to optimize the corresponding objective function. Extensive experimental results on three benchmark face recognition datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has achieved superior performance compared with conventional classification algorithms.
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