This paper presents a framework to support the development of three-dimensional virtual scenarios for an operator training simulator for electrical systems. Given the need to represent a variety of scenarios of intere...
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This paper presents a framework to support the development of three-dimensional virtual scenarios for an operator training simulator for electrical systems. Given the need to represent a variety of scenarios of interest, this can be an effort and time consuming task. The proposed framework promotes a systematic approach when building scenarios and is supported by tools from the ontology-based domain. An editing tool is also under construction. As it will be discussed in the paper, this approach resulted in the simplification of the scenario building process which is achieved by interchanging descriptions at different levels of abstraction. The descriptions concern the situation to be represented; plant objects' representation, both visual and behavioural, the latter represented as Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) models.
Structured fluids are known to be dependable of their structural *** of such fluids may be found in different industries as chemical,biomedical,manufacturing,food and *** mathematical models to describe structured flu...
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Structured fluids are known to be dependable of their structural *** of such fluids may be found in different industries as chemical,biomedical,manufacturing,food and *** mathematical models to describe structured fluids are normally composed by a coupled system:one constitutive equation(based on viscoelastic models) and one kinetics equation(an equation which describes the structural level evolution in time of the material).The works found in the literature use linear viscoelastic constitutive equations which do not account the dependence of the elastic modulus with the microstructural level in their fundamental *** this sense,the present work aims to evaluate,through numerical simulation,the effect of a new constitutive equation in rheological tests and compare its results to those of the model developed by Souza Mendes and Thompson(2013),in which those considerations are not made.
This paper presents the evaluation of seven techniques of feature extraction (PSD, F-Test, EMD, MCE, CCA, LASSO and MSI) for gaze-target detections in a SSVEP-based BCI. Two type of technologies for visual stimulation...
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This paper presents the evaluation of seven techniques of feature extraction (PSD, F-Test, EMD, MCE, CCA, LASSO and MSI) for gaze-target detections in a SSVEP-based BCI. Two type of technologies for visual stimulation were used (LCD and LEDs). Five differents windows lengths (1, 2, 4, 5 and 10 s) were used and seven volunteers participated in this study. The highest accuracy obtained in all cases was 93.57% using LEDs and the highest ITR was 36.90 bits/min for LCD. The technique based on MSI shows the highest success rate in both cases (LCD or LED) and is even more noticeable when the window size is increased.
This paper presents the comparation of three different feature extraction techniques based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) for a SSVEP-BCI. This approach based on the characterization of the signal by EMD, i...
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(纸本)9781479924004
This paper presents the comparation of three different feature extraction techniques based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) for a SSVEP-BCI. This approach based on the characterization of the signal by EMD, is proposed as a novel alternative to other techniques and it was demonstrated that it exceeds both in accuracy rate and Information Transfer Rate (ITR). The experiments were performed in an offline way, and seven volunteers participated of the study. The stimulis were generated both by LCD and LEDs. The frequencies used were 8, 11, 13 and 15 Hz. The results here reported such represent the average of the seven participants, achieving a success rate of 81% and ITR of 23.32 bits/min of the total set of cases analyzed. It is further confirmed that the highest success rates and ITRs were obtained for stimulation by LEDs.
This paper presents a comparison among three methods for Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) detection. These techniques are based on Power Spectral Density Analysis (PSDA) and Canonical Correlation Analys...
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This paper presents a comparison among three methods for Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) detection. These techniques are based on Power Spectral Density Analysis (PSDA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). The first method estimates the signal-to-noise ratio of the power spectrum in each stimulus frequency using PSDA, which is called Traditional-PSDA. The second analysis estimates the relation between the difference of the stimulus frequency and its neighbor frequencies, using the power spectrum in these neighbor frequencies, and seeks the neighbor frequency which presents the lowest relation value. This technique is referred to Ratio-PSDA. The third and final techniques called Hybrid-PSDA-CCA. The performances of the methods were evaluated using a database of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. The EEG signals were recorded from 19 volunteers, from which six people present disabilities. They were stimulated with visual stimuli flickering at 5.6, 6.4, 6.9 and 8.0 Hz. The system performance was evaluated considering the accuracy, the Information Transfer Rate (ITR) and the computational cost for several windows length of each stimulus frequency. The results showed that the Hybrid-PSDA-CCA method achieved the best result with an average accuracy of 91.14%.
In this paper the characteristics radiation of overhead power lines glass insulators is investigated. Two feeding possibilities are used to analyze the radiation effects. The first feeding point is placed on the cap o...
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In this paper the characteristics radiation of overhead power lines glass insulators is investigated. Two feeding possibilities are used to analyze the radiation effects. The first feeding point is placed on the cap of the insulator and the second one is connected to the pin. The reflection coefficient (S 11 ) for two insulators covering the band of 30 MHz to 1 GHz was measured. The measurements were performed on insulators with different conservation states: one has a metal frame in good condition and the other one has both cap and pin parts rusted. The measured results show bands with good impedance matching (30 MHz to 200 MHz). The cleaned insulator reached S 11 = -18.7 dB at 127 MHz while -10.87 dB at 121.2 MHz was obtained for the rusty insulator. These spectral bands can be used in the analysis of insulator's conservation state and its interference characteristics.
This paper presents two energy conversion systems with two-phase permanent magnet (PM) machine and a rectifier with reduced number of controlled switches. The topologies are conceived with the purpose of converting wi...
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(纸本)9781479957774
This paper presents two energy conversion systems with two-phase permanent magnet (PM) machine and a rectifier with reduced number of controlled switches. The topologies are conceived with the purpose of converting wind energy into electrical energy (i.e., a wind energy conversion system (WECS)) for low power applications. Compared with some three-phase generation systems with reduced number of controlled switches, the proposed topologies permit obtaining sinusoidal controlled machine currents, reducing dc-link voltage and dq currents low harmonic distortion.
The theory of constraints thinking process, created by Israeli physicist Eliyahu M. Goldratt, has emerged as a tool for achieving competitive advantage. Many researches also focused on the application of lean thinking...
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The theory of constraints thinking process, created by Israeli physicist Eliyahu M. Goldratt, has emerged as a tool for achieving competitive advantage. Many researches also focused on the application of lean thinking developed by Toyota and proposed by Ohno. This philosophy has been proven to be effective in several production processes. This paper aims to propose a method of problem solving through the integration of theory of constraints thinking process and the principles of lean production. As a tool for problem identification, the method defends the use of current reality tree and, to solve problems, the lean thinking tools, proposed by Picchi. The developed method was implemented in a contractor. The research methodology was research-action. Among the results, there was a realistic diagnosis about the core problems in company. According to this, the core problem of the contractor is “the lack of commitment of manpower” that results in the main problem “the financial loss”. The principle of perfection was verbalized as a proposal to solve the problems and the tools to be implemented for solving problems were “commitment of senior management to employees” and “simplicity in communication”.
The interest of many research groups regarding manufacture of composite materials by using natural fibers is increasing world-wide. The main objectives involve the improvement of mechanical properties, mainly those re...
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The interest of many research groups regarding manufacture of composite materials by using natural fibers is increasing world-wide. The main objectives involve the improvement of mechanical properties, mainly those related to resistance and elasticity. In the present study in a first stage, polymer concrete specimens were elaborated by using an unsaturated polyester resin, silica sand and luffa fibers; after, they were gamma irradiated at different doses and their mechanical properties were evaluated. Two different silica particle sizes (0.15 mm and 0.6 mm), and four different luffa fiber concentrations (0.3, 0.6, 0.9 and 1.2 wt%) were used, as well as 50 and 100 kGy of radiation dose. The results show a gradually diminution of compressive strength and modulus of elasticity when adding luffa fiber concentration. Nevertheless, such mechanical features are increasing when polymer concrete is gamma irradiated.
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