In recent years, Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are gaining attention as computational acceleration devices in the field of high-performance computing. By implementing specialized circuits that can be customiz...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350383454
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(纸本)9798350383461
In recent years, Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are gaining attention as computational acceleration devices in the field of high-performance computing. By implementing specialized circuits that can be customized to specific problems, FPGAs can achieve efficient parallelization with low latency even for complex tasks.
Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces ...
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Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces with strong chiral responses to the incident light have been reported, these responses are typically limited to a narrow range of incident angles. In this study, we demonstrate a nonlocal metasurface that showcases strong chirality, characterized by circular dichroism (∼0.6), over a wide range of incident angles ±5°. Its quality factor, circular dichroism and resonant frequency can be optimized by design. These findings pave the way to further advance the development of valley-selective optical cavities and augmented reality applications.
At present, few validated clinical tests provide the assessment of mobility in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) during the execution of complex tasks. To verify the feasibility of a virtual environment based...
At present, few validated clinical tests provide the assessment of mobility in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) during the execution of complex tasks. To verify the feasibility of a virtual environment based on a Microsoft Kinect sensor as a tool to evaluate the functional mobility of people with PD. An analytical, observational and transversal pilot study was held. The sample consisted of 12 patients with PD and 12 healthy young adults. All participants were evaluated on gait tests and in the virtual environment. The System Usability Scale (SUS) was applied to the PD group to evaluate the virtual environment usability. Significant differences were found in groups' performance in the virtual environment. Regular and strong relations were found on patients' performance on gait tests and virtual environment tests. The virtual environment usability was considered acceptable among patients with PD. The virtual environment developed is potentially viable as a functional mobility assessment tool for patients with PD.
One way to increase solar photovoltaic penetration in the grid is management of voltage fluctuations. This is because a photovoltaic plant cannot be interconnected to the grid if it causes voltage violations. Voltage ...
One way to increase solar photovoltaic penetration in the grid is management of voltage fluctuations. This is because a photovoltaic plant cannot be interconnected to the grid if it causes voltage violations. Voltage violation is where voltage exceeds the acceptable range. Often, grid operators request photovoltaic plant owners to regulate voltage sufficiently with expensive and space-consuming static Var compensators. Unfortunately, this sometimes makes the project less feasible. This paper argues that there are better ways to regulate voltage. We ran a simulation with a 70 MWp photovoltaic plant as an addition to the grid. Without voltage regulation, voltage violations were found to be significant. This paper found that oversizing the inverter sufficiently would remove all voltage violations without deploying a static Var compensator. This is often a cheaper and space-saving solution for voltage management. This paper argues that economics and spatial efficiency of reactive power compensation devices is key to increasing photovoltaic penetration.
This paper proposes a low-cost interface and refined digital twin for the Raven-II surgical robot. Previous simulations of the Raven-II, e.g. via the Asynchronous Multibody Framework (AMBF), presented salient drawback...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350377118
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(纸本)9798350377125
This paper proposes a low-cost interface and refined digital twin for the Raven-II surgical robot. Previous simulations of the Raven-II, e.g. via the Asynchronous Multibody Framework (AMBF), presented salient drawbacks, including control inputs inconsistent with Raven-II software, and lack of stable, high-fidelity physical contact simulations. This work bridges both of these gaps, both (1) enabling robust, simulated contact mechanics for dynamic physical interactions with the Raven-II, and (2) developing a universal input format for both simulated and physical platforms. The method furthermore proposes a low cost, commodity game-controller interface for controlling both virtual and real realizations of Raven-II, thus greatly reducing the barrier to access for Raven-II research and collaboration. Overall, this work aims to eliminate the inconsistencies between simulated and real representations of the Raven-II. Such a development can expand the reach of surgical robotics research. Namely, providing end-to-end transparency between the simulated AMBF and physical Raven-II platforms enables a software testbed previously unavailable, e.g. for training real surgeons, for creating digital synthetic datasets, or for prototyping novel architectures like shared control strategies. Experiments validate this transparency by comparing joint trajectories between digital twin and physical testbed given identical inputs. This work may be extended and incorporated into recent efforts in developing modular or common software infrastructures for both simulation and control of real robotic devices, such as the Collaborative Robotics Toolkit (CRTK).
Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) are able to measure dynamic strain and temperature signals quantitatively along several kilometers of optical fiber using the properties of backscattering light. A drawback of DAS is...
Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) are able to measure dynamic strain and temperature signals quantitatively along several kilometers of optical fiber using the properties of backscattering light. A drawback of DAS is the sensing resolution of around 1 meter long. This paper analyses the use of DAS as a vibration sensor for a thin plate structure using an acoustic excitation. A coiled method of arranging the sensing optical fibers enhances the measured signal and using a calibration method, the strain in the sensed region is obtained. The method can be used to characterize structures acoustically allowing the structure to detect the direction and reconstruct nearby acoustic events. Acoustic excitations were performed using a speaker at 1 meter distance to a 1 millimeter thick free-free 40 centimeters by 73 centimeter instrumented stainless steel plate inside an anechoic chamber. Results measured using reference microphones and accelerometers were compared to the optical fiber sensor through a Finite Element Model. The results demonstrate that the optical fiber system is able to measure the frequency response with an average 54 dB sound pressure level sound source chirp signal for flexural modes with a clear differentiation between angles of incidence up to 500 Hz.
SummaryIn this study, we demonstrated light shift detection in a running atomic clock using the multi-photodetection method. This method enables the observation of atomic resonances with different intensities using th...
SummaryIn this study, we demonstrated light shift detection in a running atomic clock using the multi-photodetection method. This method enables the observation of atomic resonances with different intensities using the intensity distribution of the laser beam. As it requires only two photodiodes to detect light shifts, it is easily applicable to miniature vapor-cell-based atomic clocks such as chip-scale atomic clocks and miniature atomic clocks.
Agriculture is one of the sources of income a region can rely on to support its economy. Traditional agriculture relies primarily on human performance and observation, resulting in greater production costs and, subseq...
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(数字)9781665410205
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(纸本)9781665410212
Agriculture is one of the sources of income a region can rely on to support its economy. Traditional agriculture relies primarily on human performance and observation, resulting in greater production costs and, subsequently, higher selling prices. Artificial intelligence-based technology can be used to reduce production costs, increase productivity, and provide consumer convenience. An indicator that is easy to interpret in measuring the quality and optimization of plant growth is the visualization of the condition of the leaves. The artificial intelligence technique that can be implemented in this regard is the object detection model. However, the challenge is the complex, multi-object, and multi-intersection condition of the leaves, which causes the model to be less optimal in conducting classification and detection tasks regarding whether the leaf condition is good or not. A YOLOv7 model will be employed in order to detect leaf quality, whether in an “optimal” or “not optimal” condition. To enhance the model's performance by improving accuracy through feature extraction enhancement, YOLOv7 will be integrated with the attention module, called the convolutional block attention module (CBAM). The case study in this research is detecting a mango plant which is one of the plants that can provide a high economic impact and the object observed is the mango plant leaf. Several previous studies related to the implementation of attention modules in object detection include the improved pest-YOLO for real-time pest detection by combining YOLOv3 with efficient channel attention (ECA) and a transformer encoder. The ECA module and transformer encoder were integrated into the backbone and neck block systems of YOLO [1]. The lightweight YOLO model combined with SE-CSPGhostnet by improving the backbone block which employs squeeze-and-excitation networks (SENet) and a convolution technique consisting of regular convolution and ghost convolution [2]. There is a highlighted improvem
This paper deals with the design of a novel static nonlinear controller to regulate the voltage of boost converters while fulfilling physical constraints; at any time instant, the states need to be positive, and the d...
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This paper deals with the design of a novel static nonlinear controller to regulate the voltage of boost converters while fulfilling physical constraints; at any time instant, the states need to be positive, and the duty cycle of the converter takes an admissible value between zero and one. The proposed controller is based on a shifted Lyapunov function and asymptotically stabilizes the desired equilibrium point of the closed-loop system as long as the voltage and current are positive at any time instant. To guarantee positivity, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition for identifying a feasible level set that is contained in the positive orthant and is positively invariant. Next, to ensure a feasible implementation and operation of the proposed controller, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition on the controller feedback gain to ensure that the converter duty cycle takes admissible values between zero and one. Finally, the most significant theoretical results are validated in simulation.
This study presents a novel approach utilizing THz nanostructures to observe Pd catalytic reactions. By integrating Pd with THz metamaterials, we achieved real-time monitoring of Pd state during catalytic reaction, pr...
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