A prototype concurrent engineering tool has been developed for the preliminary design of composite topside structures for modern navy warships. This tool, named GELS for the Concurrent engineering of Layered Structure...
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A prototype concurrent engineering tool has been developed for the preliminary design of composite topside structures for modern navy warships. This tool, named GELS for the Concurrent engineering of Layered Structures, provides designers with an immediate assessment of the impacts of their decisions on several disciplines which are important to the performance of a modern naval topside structure, including electromagnetic interference effects (EMI), radar cross section (RCS), structural integrity, cost, and weight. Preliminary analysis modules in each of these disciplines are integrated to operate from a common set of design variables and a common materials database. Performance in each discipline and an overall fitness function for the concept are then evaluated. A graphical user interface (GUI) is used to define requirements and to display the results from the technical analysis modules. Optimization techniques, including feasible sequential quadratic programming (FSQP) and exhaustive search are used to modify the design variables to satisfy all requirements simultaneously. The development of this tool, the technical modules, and their integration are discussed noting the decisions and compromises required to develop and integrate the modules into a prototype conceptual design tool.
A real time knowledge processing procedure is proposed for rule-based systems in general and control systems applications in particular. Distinguishing features of the procedure include a mechanism for rule base compr...
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A real time knowledge processing procedure is proposed for rule-based systems in general and control systems applications in particular. Distinguishing features of the procedure include a mechanism for rule base compression and an inference scheme based on matrix operators. The procedure is also amenable for schedulability analysis to provide response time warranty An application concerning supervisory group control of elevators is also included to show the usefulness of the proposed procedure.
In this article, a new analogic CNN algorithm to extract features of postage stamps in fray-scale images is introduced. The Gradient Controlled Diffusion method plays an important role in the approach. In our algorith...
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In this article, a new analogic CNN algorithm to extract features of postage stamps in fray-scale images is introduced. The Gradient Controlled Diffusion method plays an important role in the approach. In our algorithm, it is used for smoothing and separating Arabic figures drawn with a color which is similar to the background color. We extract Arabic figures in postage stamps by combining Gradient Controlled Diffusion with nearest neighbor linear CNN template and logic operations. Applying the feature extraction algorithm to different test images it has been verified that it is also effective in complete segmentation problems.
The paper presents results of research with the new predictive autopilot structure (PIP+D) with gain scheduling. The autopilot is tested and compared with conventional PID autopilot for a mariner class ship. The autop...
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The paper presents results of research with the new predictive autopilot structure (PIP+D) with gain scheduling. The autopilot is tested and compared with conventional PID autopilot for a mariner class ship. The autopilot parameters are changed with the speed of the ship using the gain scheduling technique. Results obtained during the research show that the proposed autopilot structure is to be recommended if improved performance is of prime interest, when the velocity of the ship is changing. The analysis is based on the simulation of a mariner class ship as a nonlinear system, with the steering servo system taken as a nonlinear model. Results of the simulation are included.
The fact that the reception of optical information by the retinal photoreceptor and the process of its transformation to the membrane voltage response are due to an interaction between the photocurrent from the outer ...
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The fact that the reception of optical information by the retinal photoreceptor and the process of its transformation to the membrane voltage response are due to an interaction between the photocurrent from the outer segment and each ionic current in the inner segment has been confirmed by many physiological experiments. However, the properties of each ionic current in the photoreceptor have not been clear since no physiologically reliable model of the retinal photoreceptor has been constructed. This paper proposes a model of a retinal photoreceptor, which is a combination of the outer segment model (devised by Torre et al.) and the inner segment model (devised by the present authors). It has been confirmed that this model can accurately represent the electron physiological properties of a retinal photoreceptor. Using this model simulation, the relationship between the photocurrent and the photoresponse dynamics, and an oscillatory phenomena caused by a strong light flash have been analyzed. The results show that the dynamic and nonlinear response characteristics of a retinal photoreceptor are due to the interactions between the nonlinear ionic current in the inner segment and the mechanism of the intracellular calcium.
The printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefore it is well suited to the cellular neural network (CNN) paradigm. Two layout errors are detected here namel...
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The printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefore it is well suited to the cellular neural network (CNN) paradigm. Two layout errors are detected here namely, the breaks in the wires and some kind of short circuits. The designed analogic algorithms to solve the problems above were tested on real life examples using an experimental system based on our CNN-HAC1M digital multiprocessor add-on-board, with 1 million cell space and 2.0 /spl mu/s/cell/iteration speed.
In this paper, we discuss CNN based adaptive nonlinear filters derived from robust statistic and geometry-driven diffusion paradigms. The base models of both approaches are defined as difference controlled nonlinear (...
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In this paper, we discuss CNN based adaptive nonlinear filters derived from robust statistic and geometry-driven diffusion paradigms. The base models of both approaches are defined as difference controlled nonlinear (DCN) CNN templates while the self-adjusting property is ensured by simple analogic (analog and logic) CNN algorithms. The proposed methods provide a practical framework for VLSI implementation, since all nonlinear cell interactions of the CNN architecture are deduced to two fundamental nonlinearities, to a sigmoid-type and a radial basis function. These nonlinear characteristics in DCN templates can be approximated by simple piecewise-linear functions of the difference voltage of neighboring cells. The simplification makes possible to convert all space invariant nonlinear templates of this study to a standard instruction set of the CNN Universal Machine, where each instruction is coded by at most 10 analog numbers. Through examples it is demonstrated, that such CNN based adaptive nonlinear filters have excellent performance in filtering both the impulsive and Gaussian noise while preserving the image structure.
In this paper, the architecture of a fuzzy processor intended for high-speed control applications is described. Its main advantage is the inference speed that does not depend on the number of used inputs and rules. Th...
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In this paper, the architecture of a fuzzy processor intended for high-speed control applications is described. Its main advantage is the inference speed that does not depend on the number of used inputs and rules. This is accomplished by the usage of content addressable memory as a rule set storage. The proposed architecture was simulated and the simulation results give the inference speed of about 200 KFLIPS.
A new technique for control system design based on the Optimal Constrained Covariance Control (OC 3 ) is presented. A design procedure of control system for dynamic ship positioning is proposed. In the papers publishe...
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A new technique for control system design based on the Optimal Constrained Covariance Control (OC 3 ) is presented. A design procedure of control system for dynamic ship positioning is proposed. In the papers published so far the controller gain matrices were detennined using the classical Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) optimal control technique, the pole-placement technique and characteristic locus design method. The main disadvantage of these techniques is their poor correspondence with the real performance requirements of control system. Using the proposed technique this disadvantage is avoided. The results of computer simulation using OC 3 control are presented.
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