Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) has been the subject of intensive research since its development in the early 1980s by Barber and Brown at the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical engineering, Hallamshire ...
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(纸本)9789898425355
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) has been the subject of intensive research since its development in the early 1980s by Barber and Brown at the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical engineering, Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield (UK). In particular, pulmonary measurement has been the focus of most EIT related research. One of the relatively recent advances in EIT is the development of an absolute EIT system (aEIT) which can estimate absolute values of lung resistivity and lung volumes. However, there is still active research in the area of validating and improving the accuracy and consistency of the aEIT estimation of lung volumes towards characterising the system as suitable for clinical use. In this paper we present a new approach based on Computational Intelligence (CI) modelling to model the 'Resistivity - Lung Volume' relationship that will allow more accurate lung volume predictions. Eight (8) healthy volunteers were measured simultaneously by the Sheffield aEIT system and a Spirometer and the recorded results were used to develop subject-specific Neural-Fuzzy models able to predict absolute values of lung volume based only on absolute lung resistivity data. The developed models show improved accuracy in the prediction of lung volumes, as compared with the original Sheffield aEIT system. However the interindividual differences observed in the subject-specific modelling behaviour of the 'Resistivity-Lung Volume' curves suggest that a model extension is needed, whereby the modelling structure auto-calibrates to account for subject (or patient-specific) inter-parameter variability.
In this paper, we consider the regulation problem for uncertain linear discrete time systems with bounded disturbance, bounded input and bounded output. Based on the input-output representation, an extended state spac...
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(纸本)9781612848006
In this paper, we consider the regulation problem for uncertain linear discrete time systems with bounded disturbance, bounded input and bounded output. Based on the input-output representation, an extended state space model is constructed via the delayed inputs and outputs of the systems and hence there is no need for any estimate of the unmeasured states. The control is obtained using an interpolation technique, which assures feasibility and a robustly asymptotically stable closed loop behavior.
In the last two decades, Chaos theory has received a great deal of attention from the cryptographic community. This paper presents two ideas. First idea is using chaotic functions to overcome the weaknesses of the cla...
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In the last two decades, Chaos theory has received a great deal of attention from the cryptographic community. This paper presents two ideas. First idea is using chaotic functions to overcome the weaknesses of the classical Hill cipher. The second idea is proposing a new encoder-decoder architecture, called ChaoEncoDeco, for securing JPEG images. An extra stage of encryption is embedded within the traditional JPEG codec to improve security level of such system. This security stage uses one of the chaotic functions called Logistic Map. This map is used to enhance the Hill cipher and achieve more secure encryption key. The properties of both chaotic system and of the Hill cipher encryption key are all utilized to obtain ultimate secure systems. The proposed encryption algorithm is crypto-analyzed and compared to the standard Hill cipher algorithm. Complete evaluation for the proposed architecture is also performed which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed system.
This paper focuses on how to help students engage better with control courses and to learn through doing. In parallel it discusses strategies for encouraging more independent learning into the curriculum. Two main ass...
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(纸本)9781846000386
This paper focuses on how to help students engage better with control courses and to learn through doing. In parallel it discusses strategies for encouraging more independent learning into the curriculum. Two main assumptions are made: (i) first that module design needs to embed regular student activity and (ii) student activity mostly involve more than engagement with what is covered in formal lectures. The paper is completed by student evaluations of a large group of students from three different engineering departments.
This paper presents a new approach to multi-agent coverage path planning problem. This algorithm enables multiple robots with limited sensor capabilities to perform coverage efficiently over a shared territory. Each r...
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(纸本)9814291269
This paper presents a new approach to multi-agent coverage path planning problem. This algorithm enables multiple robots with limited sensor capabilities to perform coverage efficiently over a shared territory. Each robot is assigned with an exclusive route, which enables it to carry out its cleaning process simultaneously with minimal path overlapping. The objectives of this work are (i) Identify a path for each robot such that each robot is responsible for covering a different region. In this way, there will be minimal overlap between coverage of the robots, (ii) the methods and procedures must be applicable to a group of simple mobile robots with very few sensors to guarantee their industrial interest.
This paper presents the application of a statistical method for model structure selection of lift-drag and viscous damping components in ship manoeuvring models. The damping model is posed as a family of linear stocha...
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the paper analyzes the existing Linux virtual server (LVS) cluster load balancing algorithm and its inadequacies that not real-time dynamic full makes an appraisal to the load on the each server node, designs a new Dy...
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In this paper, a hierarchical multirate control scheme for nonlinear discrete-time systems is proposed, composed of a robust model predictive controller (MPC) and a multirate integral sliding mode (MISM) controller. I...
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This paper presents a method for the estimation of thrust model parameters of uninhabited airborne systems using specific flight tests. Particular tests are proposed to simplify the estimation. The proposed estimation...
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(纸本)9783902661876
This paper presents a method for the estimation of thrust model parameters of uninhabited airborne systems using specific flight tests. Particular tests are proposed to simplify the estimation. The proposed estimation method is based on three steps. The first step uses a regression model in which the thrust is assumed constant. This allows us to obtain biased initial estimates of the aerodynamic coefficients of the surge model. In the second step, a robust nonlinear state estimator is implemented using the initial parameter estimates, and the model is augmented by considering the thrust as random walk. In the third step, the estimate of the thrust obtained by the observer is used to fit a polynomial model in terms of the propeller advanced ratio. We consider a numerical example based on Monte-Carlo simulations to quantify the sampling properties of the proposed estimator given realistic flight conditions.
The redox steam-iron process, which has been discovered in the early 1900's, was finally abandoned because the degradation of the iron oxide ores within a few cycles. Recently, this process has been reconsidered, ...
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(纸本)9789604742271
The redox steam-iron process, which has been discovered in the early 1900's, was finally abandoned because the degradation of the iron oxide ores within a few cycles. Recently, this process has been reconsidered, due to the necessity to yield cheap and pure hydrogen. In this article, we introduce a related but improved technology. At the first stage, the inlet iron oxide for the steam-iron process is the hematite, which has to be reduced to metallic iron in a gasifier called HG, by using syngas from coke (or cellulose). The hydrogen is then produced in a cyclic process, based upon the reduction of metallic iron by means of steam. At the second stage, another hematite, at any granulation, is reduced to iron powder in a reactor called IPR, at about 570°C by using the hydrogen of HG.
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