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Winter Cabin Water Tap Monitor and Release System to Reduce Risk of Freezing 10

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10th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, UEMCON 2019

作者： Kaprielian, Paul L. Pham, Thach Young, Alex Dow, Douglas E. Grenquist, Scott A. Decker, Bruce M. Program in Electronic Eng. Technology Wentworth Institute of Technology Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering BostonMA United States

ISBN: (纸本)9781728138855

Frozen water pipes lead to leaks that result in property damage and repair costs. Frozen water pipes not only occur in northern climates, but also in more moderate climates that have occasional periods of temperatures below the freezing point. Water pipes at high risk for ice formation include ones outside of buildings, in poorly insulated structures or in seasonal buildings that are not heated during the winter months. Methods of protection include heating the building, insulation and heat tape on exposed water pipes, turning off the water supply and draining all pipes of water, or turning on a water valve to allow a continual flow of water through the pipes during the entire period having risk of low temperatures. The flow would hinder ice formation in the pipes. These protective measures have associated costs for equipment, heating fuel, and water loss. If the low temperature drops further or is sustained for longer periods than expected, there would still be a risk of frozen pipes. The purpose of this project was to develop and test a prototype system to monitor temperature, and initiate intermittent bursts of water flow only when temperatures are low enough to have risk of ice formation in the water pipes. The prototype utilized a temperature sensor, Arduino microcontroller, power supply, relay switch, and solenoid valve. The solenoid valve was incorporated into the water facet of a sink. When the sensor detected temperatures below the threshold of 25°C, intermittent bursts of flow were initiated, with 20 seconds of water flow followed by 2 minutes of no flow. Each flow event was recorded in a web service. A HTTP Get request was transmitted to a Google App Script program that stored the date and time in a Google Sheet. The owner or manager could remotely monitor the intermittent flow events. © 2019 IEEE.

关键词： Temperature

Room-temperature multiple ligands-tailored SnO_(2) quantum dots endow in situ dual-interface binding for upscaling efficient perovskite photovoltaics with high V_(OC)

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Light(Science & Applications) 2021年第12期10卷 2467-2481页

作者： Zhiwei Ren Kuan Liu Hanlin Hu Xuyun Guo Yajun Gao Patrick W.K.Fong Qiong Liang Hua Tang Jiaming Huang Hengkai Zhang Minchao Qin Li Cui Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran Dong Shen Ming-Fai Lo Annie Ng Charles Surya Minhua Shao Chun-Sing Lee Xinhui Lu Frédéric Laquai Ye Zhu Gang Li Department of Electronic and Information Engineering Research Institute for Smart Energy(RISE)Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao(GHM)Joint Laboratory for Photonic-Thermal-Electrical Energy Materials and DevicesThe Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHung HomKowloonHong KongChina Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Nazarbayev UniversityNur-SultanKazakhstan The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute Shenzhen 518057China Hoffmann Institute of Advanced Materials Shenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen 518055China Department of Applied Physics The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHung HomKowloonHong KongChina Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyClear Water BayKowloonHong KongChina King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST) KAUST Solar Center(KSC)Physical Sciences and Engineering Division(PSE)Material Science and Engineering Program(MSE)Thuwal 23955-6900Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Department of Physics The Chinese University of Hong KongShatin 999077 Hong KongChina Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films(COSDAF) Department of ChemistryCity University of Hong KongHong KongChina

The benchmark tin oxide(SnO_(2))electron transporting layers(ETLs)have enabled remarkable progress in planar perovskite solar cell(PSCs).However,the energy loss is still a challenge due to the lack of“hidden interface”*** report a novel ligand-tailored ultrafine SnO_(2) quantum dots(QDs)via a facile rapid room temperature ***,the ligand-tailored SnO_(2) QDs ETL with multi-functional terminal groups in situ refines the buried interfaces with both the perovskite and transparent electrode via enhanced interface binding and perovskite *** novel ETLs induce synergistic effects of physical and chemical interfacial modulation and preferred perovskite crystallization-directing,delivering reduced interface defects,suppressed non-radiative recombination and elongated charge carrier *** conversion efficiency(PCE)of 23.02%(0.04 cm^(2))and 21.6%(0.98 cm^(2),V_(OC) loss:0.336 V)have been achieved for the blade-coated PSCs(1.54 eV E_(g))with our new ETLs,representing a record for SnO_(2) based blade-coated ***,a substantially enhanced PCE(V_(OC))from 20.4%(1.15 V)to 22.8%(1.24 V,90 mV higher V_(OC),0.04 cm^(2) device)in the blade-coated 1.61 eV PSCs system,via replacing the benchmark commercial colloidal SnO_(2) with our new ETLs.

关键词： perovskite interface quantum

FaSTrack:A Modular Framework for Real-Time Motion Planning and Guaranteed Safe Tracking

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作者： Chen, Mo Herbert, Sylvia L. Hu, Haimin Pu, Ye Fisac, Jaime Fernandez Bansal, Somil Han, Soojean Tomlin, Claire J. School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University BurnabyBCV5A 1S6 Canada Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California San Diego San DiegoCA92122 United States Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University PrincetonNJ08536 United States Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne ParkvilleVIC3010 Australia Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley BerkeleyCA94704 United States Control and Dynamical Systems Program California Institute of Technology Los AngelesCA90019 United States

Real-time, guaranteed safe trajectory planning is vital for navigation in unknown environments. However, real-time navigation algorithms typically sacrifice robustness for computation speed. Alternatively, provably safe trajectory planning tends to be too computationally intensive for real-time replanning. We propose FaSTrack, Fast and Safe Tracking, a framework that achieves both real-time replanning and guaranteed safety. In this framework, real-time computation is achieved by allowing any trajectory planner to use a simplified planning model of the system. The plan is tracked by the system, represented by a more realistic, higher dimensional tracking model. We precompute the tracking error bound (TEB) due to mismatch between the two models and due to external disturbances. We also obtain the corresponding tracking controller used to stay within the TEB. The precomputation does not require prior knowledge of the environment. We demonstrate FaSTrack using Hamilton-Jacobi reachability for precomputation and three different real-time trajectory planners with three different tracking-planning model pairs. © 1963-2012 IEEE.

关键词： Real time systems

Optimal Tracking Control for Unknown Linear Systems with Finite-Time Parameter Estimation

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Wang, Shengbo Wen, Shiping Shi, Kaibo Zhu, Song Huang, Tingwen School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu611731 China Australian AI Institute Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology SydneyNSW2007 Australia School of Information Science and Engineering Chengdu University Chengdu611040 China School of Mathematics China University of Mining and Technology Xuzhou221116 China Science Program Texas A & M University at Qatar Doha23874 Qatar

The optimal control input for linear systems can be solved from algebraic Riccati equation (ARE), from which it remains questionable to get the form of the exact solution. In engineering, the acceptable numerical solutions of ARE can be found by iteration or optimization. Recently, the gradient descent based numerical solutions has been proven effective to approximate the optimal ones. This paper introduces this method to tracking problem for heterogeneous linear systems. Differently, the parameters in the dynamics of the linear systems are all assumed to be unknown, which is intractable since the gradient as well as the allowable initialization needs the prior knowledge of system dynamics. To solve this problem, the method named dynamic regressor extension and mix (DREM) is improved to estimate the parameter matrices in finite time. Besides, a discounted factor is introduced to ensure the existence of optimal solutions for heterogeneous systems. Two simulation experiments are given to illustrate the effectiveness. © 2021, CC BY-NC-ND.

关键词： Gradient methods

Robust Adaptive Safety-Critical Control for Unknown Systems with Finite-Time Element-Wise Parameter Estimation

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Wang, Shengbo Lyu, Bo Wen, Shiping Shi, Kaibo Zhu, Song Huang, Tingwen School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu611731 China Australian AI Institute Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology SydneyNSW2007 Australia School of Information Science and Engineering Chengdu University Chengdu611040 China School of Mathematics China University of Mining and Technology Xuzhou221116 China Science Program Texas A & M University at Qatar Doha23874 Qatar

Safety is always one of the most critical principles for a system to be controlled. This paper investigates a safety-critical control scheme for unknown structured systems by using the control barrier function (CBF) method. Benefited from the dynamic regressor extension and mixing (DREM), an extended element-wise parameter identification law is utilized to dismiss the uncertainty. On the one hand, it is shown that the proposed control scheme can always guarantee the safety in the identification process with noised signal injection excitation, which was not considered in the previous study. On the other hand, the element-wise estimation process in DREM can minimize conservatism of the safe adaptive process compared to other existing adaptive CBF algorithms. The stability as well as the forward invariance of the presented safe control-estimation scheme is proved. Furthermore, the robustness of the scheme under bounded disturbances is analyzed, where a robust CBF with modest conditions is used to ensure safety. The framework is illustrated by simulations on adaptive cruise control, where the slope resistance of the following vehicle is robustly estimated in finite time against small disturbances and the potential crash risk is avoided by the proposed safe control scheme. © 2021, CC BY-NC-ND.

关键词： Parameter estimation

TargetNet: Functional microRNA target prediction with deep neural networks

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Min, Seonwoo Lee, Byunghan Yoon, Sungroh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seoul National University Seoul08826 Korea Republic of LG AI Research Seoul07796 Korea Republic of Department of Electronic and IT Media Engineering Seoul National University of Science and Technology Seoul01811 Korea Republic of Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics Seoul National University Seoul08826 Korea Republic of

Motivation: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play pivotal roles in gene expression regulation by binding to target sites of messenger RNAs (mRNAs). While identifying functional targets of miRNAs is of utmost importance, their prediction remains a great challenge. Previous computational algorithms have major limitations. They use conservative candidate target site (CTS) selection criteria mainly focusing on canonical site types, rely on laborious and time-consuming manual feature extraction, and do not fully capitalize on the information underlying miRNA-CTS interactions. Results: In this paper, we introduce TargetNet, a novel deep learning-based algorithm for functional miRNA target prediction. To address the limitations of previous approaches, TargetNet has three key components: (1) relaxed CTS selection criteria accommodating irregularities in the seed region, (2) a novel miRNA-CTS sequence encoding scheme incorporating extended seed region alignments, and (3) a deep residual network-based prediction model. The proposed model was trained with miRNA-CTS pair datasets and evaluated with miRNA-mRNA pair datasets. TargetNet advances the previous state-of-theart algorithms used in functional miRNA target classification. Furthermore, it demonstrates great potential for distinguishing high-functional miRNA targets. © 2021, CC BY-NC-ND.

关键词： RNA

AutoGMap: Learning to Map Large-scale Sparse Graphs on Memristive Crossbars

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Lyu, Bo Wang, Shengbo Wen, Shiping Shi, Kaibo Yang, Yin Zeng, Lingfang Huang, Tingwen Zhejiang Lab Hangzhou311121 China School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu611731 China Australian AI Institute Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology SydneyNSW2007 Australia School of Information Science and Engineering Chengdu University Chengdu611040 China College of Science and Engineering Hamad Bin Khalifa University Doha5855 Qatar Science Program Texas A & M University at Qatar Doha23874 Qatar

The sparse representation of graphs has shown great potential for accelerating the computation of graph applications (e.g., Social Networks, Knowledge Graphs) on traditional computing architectures (CPU, GPU, or TPU). But the exploration of large-scale sparse graph computing on processing-in-memory (PIM) platforms (typically with memristive crossbars) is still in its infancy. To implement the computation or storage of large-scale or batch graphs on memristive crossbars, a natural assumption is that a large-scale crossbar is demanded, but with low utilization. Some recent works question this assumption, to avoid the waste of storage and computational resource, the fixed-size or progressively scheduled "block partition" schemes are proposed. However, these methods are coarse-grained or static, and are not effectively sparsity-aware. This work proposes the dynamic sparsity-aware mapping scheme generating method that models the problem with a sequential decision-making model, and optimizes it by reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm (REINFORCE). Our generating model (LSTM, combined with the dynamic-fill scheme) generates remarkable mapping performance on a small-scale graph/matrix data (complete mapping costs 43% area of the original matrix) and two large-scale matrix data (costing 22.5% area on qh882 and 17.1% area on qh1484). Our method may be extended to sparse graph computing on other PIM architectures, not limited to the memristive device-based platforms. Copyright © 2021, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Memory architecture

Riemann-Encircling Exceptional Points for Efficient Asymmetric Polarization-Locked Devices

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Physical Review Letters 2022年第12期129卷 127401-127401页

作者： Aodong Li Weijin Chen Heng Wei Guowei Lu Andrea Alù Cheng-Wei Qiu Lin Chen Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore 117583 Singapore State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics School of Physics Peking University Beijing 100871 China Photonics Initiative Advanced Science Research Center City University of New York New York New York 10031 USA Physics Program Graduate Center City University of New York New York New York 10016 USA

Dynamically encircling exceptional points (EPs) have unveiled intriguing chiral dynamics in photonics. However, the traditional approach based on an open manifold of Hamiltonian parameter space fails to explore trajectories that pass through an infinite boundary. Here, by mapping the full parameter space onto a closed manifold of the Riemann sphere, we introduce a framework to describe encircling-EP loops. We demonstrate that an encircling trajectory crossing the north vertex can realize near-unity asymmetric transmission. An efficient gain-free, broadband asymmetric polarization-locked device is realized by mapping the encircling path onto L-shaped silicon waveguides.

关键词： PT-symmetric quantum mechanics Photonics

FaSTrack: A modular framework for real-time motion planning and guaranteed safe tracking

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Chen, Mo Herbert, Sylvia L. Hu, Haimin Pu, Ye Fisac, Jaime F. Bansal, Somil Han, SooJean Tomlin, Claire J. School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Canada Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UC San Diego United States Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University United States Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne Australia Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences UC Berkeley United States Control and Dynamical Systems Program California Institute of Technology United States

Real-time, guaranteed safe trajectory planning is vital for navigation in unknown environments. However, real-time navigation algorithms typically sacrifice robustness for computation speed. Alternatively, provably safe trajectory planning tends to be too computationally intensive for real-time replanning. We propose FaSTrack, Fast and Safe Tracking, a framework that achieves both real-time replanning and guaranteed safety. In this framework, real-time computation is achieved by allowing any trajectory planner to use a simplified planning model of the system. The plan is tracked by the system, represented by a more realistic, higher-dimensional tracking model. We precompute the tracking error bound (TEB) due to mismatch between the two models and due to external disturbances. We also obtain the corresponding tracking controller used to stay within the TEB. The precomputation does not require prior knowledge of the environment. We demonstrate FaSTrack using Hamilton-Jacobi reachability for precomputation and three different real-time trajectory planners with three different tracking-planning model pairs. Copyright © 2021, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Trajectories