A variable-capacitance harmonic side-drive motor is presented and the operation of this motor and ordinary variable-capacitance side-drive motors without the need for air-levitation assist is reported. Native oxide fo...
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A variable-capacitance harmonic side-drive motor is presented and the operation of this motor and ordinary variable-capacitance side-drive motors without the need for air-levitation assist is reported. Native oxide formation on motor polysilicon surfaces, resulting from the clamping of the rotor to the shield beneath it, is identified as the cause of motor operational failure. With proper release and testing directed at minimizing this oxide formation, the motors can be readily operated. Operational characteristics of the micromotors, including the role of rotor electric shielding, speed, and frictional effects, are studied. For the side-drive motors, measurements of stopping and starting voltages indicate that the drive torque required to sustain motor operation is 5-7 pN-m, while that required to initiate motor operation after a 30 second rest is nearly twice as high.< >
A nonstationary analysis technique is applied to speech, with encouraging results. This technique makes use of a generalized time-frequency representation (GTFR) which uses a kernel that allows finite-time support whi...
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A nonstationary analysis technique is applied to speech, with encouraging results. This technique makes use of a generalized time-frequency representation (GTFR) which uses a kernel that allows finite-time support while suppressing interference terms. This kernel has a cone shape in the (t, tau ) plane, where t is time of a signal and tau is an autocorrelationlike lag. The processing thus allows time and frequency resolution equivalent to the Wigner distribution but does not have significant interference terms. It is shown that the effect of this distribution on the long-term (1.5-s) display of speech is a visible enhancement of formant tracks. Potentially more important shorter-term (30-ms or less) advantages are illustrated and quantified as more accurate locations of bursts in the time-frequency distribution. It is shown that the GTFR technique offers a representation which is less sensitive to threshold settings and is thus more robust.< >
A new model is introduced for avoiding accidents where a tugboat capsizes or trips when towing a larger vessel. The development of the Tripping Avoidance Knowledge Base (TAKB) is described in terms of the relevant des...
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A new model is introduced for avoiding accidents where a tugboat capsizes or trips when towing a larger vessel. The development of the Tripping Avoidance Knowledge Base (TAKB) is described in terms of the relevant descriptive parameters, the graphical representation of the knowledge base and its conversion to a decision matrix is also shown. As with any AI application in a new and promising area, there are many unclear points which this paper highlights. The paper closes with the authors' recommendations for future development and refinement of the knowledge base.
We give semantics for imperative while-programs by assigning a set of single-assignments and a value function to each program. The semantics is shown to be consistent with Dijkstra's predicate transformers. Every ...
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Kerr electrooptic field mapping measurements were made in liquid nitrogen at 70 psi and -177 degrees C. A sensitive measurement technique was used whereby a small-signal AC voltage was superimposed on a DC level. The ...
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Kerr electrooptic field mapping measurements were made in liquid nitrogen at 70 psi and -177 degrees C. A sensitive measurement technique was used whereby a small-signal AC voltage was superimposed on a DC level. The nonlinear optical effect then gave an optical signal with a DC level and AC harmonic at the same frequency as the AC voltage. The amplitude of the AC optical signal was proportional to the local electric field and was measured with a lock-in amplifier. For 6330-nm-wavelength light the Kerr constant was measured to be B approximately=10/sup -16/ m/V/sup 2/. Steady-state electric fields between parallel stainless steel electrodes of gap 7 mm and area 31.6 cm/sup 2/ were shown to be essentially uniform for field strengths up to 90 kV/cm with no significant space charge distortion. The DC voltage-current characteristic was also measured and found to be nonohmic, reaching constant current of approximately=13 nA over the voltage range of approximately=30-60 kV.< >
Chaotic dynamics can be used to model shapes and render textures in digital images. This paper addresses the problem of how to model geometrically shapes and textures of two dimensional images using iterated function ...
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A solution is presented to the L/sup 1/ minimization problem for plants with commensurate delays. In the special case where the weight has one pole, the problem can be solved by a single linear programming problem. Ot...
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A solution is presented to the L/sup 1/ minimization problem for plants with commensurate delays. In the special case where the weight has one pole, the problem can be solved by a single linear programming problem. Other special cases are also presented. A method for computing the optimal performance and a characterization of minimizing solutions are given.< >
A decentralized adaptive control is proposed to stabilize and track the nonlinear interconnected subsystems with unknown parameters. The adaptation of the controller gain is derived by using model reference adaptive c...
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A decentralized adaptive control is proposed to stabilize and track the nonlinear interconnected subsystems with unknown parameters. The adaptation of the controller gain is derived by using model reference adaptive control theory based on Lyapunov's direct method. The adaptive gains consist of sigma , proportional, and integral combination of the measured and reference values of the corresponding subsystem. The proposed control is applied to the joint control of a two-link robot manipulator, and the performance in computer simulation corresponds with what is expected in theoretical development.< >
Object-oriented programming is a promising approach to the industrialization of the software development process. However, it has not yet been incorporated in a development method for large systems. The approaches tak...
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A scheme is proposed for image decomposition into components having spatial frequency band and orientation selectivity characteristic of the visual system. The Hexagonal-discrete-Fourier-transform (HDFT) of an hexagon...
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