Dielectric microstructures have been reported to have negative influences on perm-selective ion transportation because ions do not migrate in areas where the structures are located. However, the structure can promote ...
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Automotive spark-ignition engines are great platforms for studying a variety of sensors, actuators, and control algorithms, but the size, expense, and maintenance required for an automotive engine coupled with a dynam...
Automotive spark-ignition engines are great platforms for studying a variety of sensors, actuators, and control algorithms, but the size, expense, and maintenance required for an automotive engine coupled with a dynamometer test cell are impractical for many engineering and engineering technology programs. This paper proposes a portable engine-dynamometer test cell using a one-cylinder all-terrain vehicle (ATV) engine driving a set of high-current alternators. Engine loading is to be accomplished with a set of electric resistance heaters and a power switching array. Although associated with a large university, this project is being undertaken by a satellite campus with limited space and financial resources. The plan is to implement the Engine-Dyno Project in phases over a period of years using primarily undergraduate students working on directed projects. The planned phases at this time are as follows: 1. Build a sturdy but portable cart to hold the engine, load cell, accessories, and controls. (This phase is complete.) 2. Install the engine and get it running with no load (complete). 3. Construct a thermoelectric loading system and test the engine using manual switching of the electrical load. 4. Implement and test an electronic control system to dynamically adjust loading. 5. Implement and test a dynamometer control and data acquisition system to perform automated test runs while recording data. 6. Convert the engine to electronic ignition and fuel injection and run baseline tests. 7. Design and implement an engine control system with user-programmable ignition and fuel system parameters, and appropriate test points for monitoring sensor data and controlling actuators. 8. Develop labs for the following courses: Introduction to Automotive Electronics, ECET 38501 (lecture) and ECET 38502 (lab), Heat and Power, MET 22000, and Applied Thermodynamics, MET 32000. The paper begins with background information about how the Engine-Dyno project came about along with a high-
Ensuring safety in trajectory planning of multirotor systems is an essential element for risk-free operation. Even if the generated trajectory is known to be safe in the planning phase, unknown disturbance during an a...
Ensuring safety in trajectory planning of multirotor systems is an essential element for risk-free operation. Even if the generated trajectory is known to be safe in the planning phase, unknown disturbance during an actual operation can lead to a dangerous situation. This paper proposes safety-guaranteed receding horizon planning against unknown, but bounded, disturbances. We first characterize forward reachable set (FRS) of the system, the set of states after a certain duration considering all possible disturbances, using Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis. To compute the FRSs in real-time, we conservatively approximate the true FRS and perform ellipsoidal parameterization on the FRSs. Using the FRSs, we can plan a robust trajectory that avoids risky regions and rapidly re-plan the trajectory when the system encounters sudden disturbance. The proposed method is validated through an experiment of avoiding obstacles in a wind.
Cardiac interventions have to deal with several difficulties, where heart motion is a major one. This paper addresses the heart motion compensation problem under contact, relying on robot force control techniques. A d...
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Deep learning based image denoising methods have been extensively investigated. In this paper, attention mechanism enhanced kernel prediction networks (AME-KPNs) are proposed for burst image denoising, in which, nearl...
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In this paper, we address output synchronization for a network of heterogeneous agents with linear time invariant single-input-single-output dynamics in the presence of communication delays. To this end, we present a ...
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In this paper, we address output synchronization for a network of heterogeneous agents with linear time invariant single-input-single-output dynamics in the presence of communication delays. To this end, we present a three-stage modularized design procedure: (i) a parallel feedforward compensator is designed to convert the dynamics to a minimum-phase system with relative degree one, (ii) the resulting system is then transformed into a feedback equivalent to a passive system, and (iii) the agents are interconnected based on a passivity-based output synchronization law. The benefit of the present control scheme is that not only implementation but also the design stage of the controller is distributed, namely the agents do not need to know the entire network structure. The present solution is then shown to achieve output synchronization. We finally demonstrate the present controller through simulation.
This paper introduces a robust algorithm for real-time lane detection using the lane markers in urban streets or highway roads. It is based on applying Region of Interest (ROI) on the input image of the road from a ca...
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Object depth estimation is the cornerstone of many visual analytics systems. In recent years there is a considerable progress has been made in this area, while robust, efficient, and precise depth estimation in the re...
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With the increasing scale of antenna arrays in wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, the physical propagation delays of electromagnetic waves traveling across the whole array will become large and comparab...
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of xanthan gum (XG) on physicochemical, rheological and textural properties of gluten-free batter and bread. Batches of gluten-free bread used a base formulation ...
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