Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) has been applied to restore or maintain the muscle activity of paralyzed patients who suffer from spinal cord injuries and related neural impairments for several decades. In...
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Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) has been applied to restore or maintain the muscle activity of paralyzed patients who suffer from spinal cord injuries and related neural impairments for several decades. In this paper, a portable and low-cost versatile stimulator for multichannel TES applications is described. The microcontroller-based programmable stimulator with four bipolar output channels send arbitrarily specified electrical pulses to the element in the electrode array for enabling the complex schemes of muscles. The amplitude and phase of each pulse in the stimulus sequence are independently variable, and the four channels are independently programmable, allowing a wide variety of stimulus patterns. We also designed an output circuit that can provide bi-phasic, voltage-regulated, charge-balanced outputs while avoiding the electrochemical erosion of electrode due to charge accumulation. The proposed stimulator has provided an opportunity for further study of a potential novel electrical stimulator with closed-loop stimulation paradigm suitable for a variety of FES applications, both for experimental and clinical studies.
The event-triggered H_(infinity) control design is investigated for networked control systems with uncertainties and transmission delays. A novel event-triggering scheme is proposed, which has some advantages over tra...
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(纸本)9781612848006
The event-triggered H_(infinity) control design is investigated for networked control systems with uncertainties and transmission delays. A novel event-triggering scheme is proposed, which has some advantages over traditional ones with a continuous detector. Considering the effect of the transmission delay, a delay system model for the analysis is firstly constructed. Then, based on the model and Lyapunov functional method, criteria for the stability with an H_(infinity) norm bound and criteria for the co-design of both the feedback gain and the trigger parameters are derived. In order to solve the feedback gain and the trigger parameters, the linear matrix inequality technique is employed. From the simulation example, it can be concluded that the proposed event-triggering scheme is superior to some other event-triggering schemes in some existing literature.
The degradation of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) has a close relationship with a model of traps in AlGaN barriers as a result of high electric field. We mainly discuss the impacts of strong el...
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The degradation of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) has a close relationship with a model of traps in AlGaN barriers as a result of high electric field. We mainly discuss the impacts of strong electrical field on the AlGaN barrier thickness of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. It is found that the device with a thin AlGaN barrier layer is more easily degraded. We study the degradation of four parameters, i.e. the gate series resistance RGate, channel resistance R channel, gate current IG,off at VGS=-5 and VDS=0.1 V, and drain current ID,max at VGS=2 and VDS=5 V. In addition, the degradation mechanisms of the device electrical parameters are also investigated in detail.
The performance of the classical clustering algorithm is not always satisfied with the high-dimensional datasets, which make clustering method limited in many application. To solve this problem, clustering method with...
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The performance of the classical clustering algorithm is not always satisfied with the high-dimensional datasets, which make clustering method limited in many application. To solve this problem, clustering method with Projection Pursuit dimension reduction based on Immune Clonal Selection Algorithm (ICSA-PP) is proposed in this paper. Projection pursuit strategy can maintain consistent Euclidean distances between points in the low-dimensional embeddings where the ICSA is used to search optimizing projection direction. The proposed algorithm can converge quickly with less iteration to reduce dimension of some high-dimensional datasets, and in which space, K-mean clustering algorithm is used to partition the reduced data. The experiment results on UCI data show that the presented method can search quicker to optimize projection direction than Genetic Algorithm (GA) and it has better clustering results compared with traditional linear dimension reduction method for Principle Component Analysis (PCA).
In the past few years, multiobjective clustering has been one of the most successful techniques in the field of computer vision and data clustering. This paper proposes a novel unsupervised approach for synthetic aper...
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Network Boosting (NB) is an ensemble learning method which combines weak learners together based on a network and can learn the target hypothesis asymptotically. NB has higher generalization ability compared to Baggin...
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Joint flexibility is an important factor to consider in the robot control design if high performance is expected for the robot manipulators. Research works on control of rigid-link flexible-joint (RLFJ) robot in liter...
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(纸本)9787894631046
Joint flexibility is an important factor to consider in the robot control design if high performance is expected for the robot manipulators. Research works on control of rigid-link flexible-joint (RLFJ) robot in literature have assumed that the kinematics of the robot is known exactly. There have been few results that can deal with the kinematics uncertainty in RLFJ robot. In this paper, we propose an adaptive tracking control method which can deal with the kinematics uncertainty and uncertainties in both link and actuator dynamics of the RLFJ robot system. Nonlinear observers are designed to avoid accelerations measurement due to the fourth-order overall system dynamics. Asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system is shown and sufficient conditions are presented to guarantee the stability.
Recent research has demonstrated that the ultra-scale computation by self-assembly DNA tiles can be implemented in the laboratory. One of the significant applications is the DNA-based cryptography systems. In this pap...
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We consider the problem of looking for small universal spiking neural P systems with exhaustive use of rules, which was formulated as an open problem by Andrei PǍun and Gheorghe PǍun in a survey paper. Here, spiking...
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In the "standard" way of simulating register machines by spiking neural P systems (in short, SN P systems), one neuron is associated with each instruction of the register machine that we want to simulate. In...
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