In the current industrial environment, which is shifting towards an event-based control prone paradigm, sampling strategies in use must be revisited. Both temporal and magnitude dependent sampling strategies have been...
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In this paper we present a method to quantify the cardiac blood irrigation through echographic images for heart disease diagnosis. This method relies on the registration of acquired images with a heart model in order ...
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One of the objectives of event-based control is the reduction of generated events to perform an appropriate process control. Among the event generation techniques used to this end, those quantifying the error signal c...
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In this paper are presented some new concepts of control applied in Power systems. Are given the architectures and methodologies based on the agents theory. The complexity of Power systems is included into a new parad...
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In this paper are presented some new concepts of control applied in Power systems. Are given the architectures and methodologies based on the agents theory. The complexity of Power systems is included into a new paradigm – Complex Adaptive systems – and the modelling and control of Power systems based on intelligent agents are considered. Some concepts on hierarchical and heterarchical architectures which include different intelligent techniques are also presented in this paper.
This paper describes a new technique in assisting indoor rowing exercise for paraplegics. It combines functional electrical stimulation with an energy storage element. A spring is introduced as an energy storage eleme...
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(纸本)9783902661555
This paper describes a new technique in assisting indoor rowing exercise for paraplegics. It combines functional electrical stimulation with an energy storage element. A spring is introduced as an energy storage element that stores energy during the driving phase and transfers energy during recovery phase of rowing stroke. The technique is implemented with a dynamic simulation model. Fuzzy logic control is used to control the knee and elbow trajectories for smooth rowing manoeuvre. The generated level of electrical stimulation for activation of quadriceps and hamstrings muscles are recorded and analysed. In view of good results obtained, it is concluded that the new technique of rowing exercise for paraplegics using spring orthosis with proper rowing manoeuvre significantly contributes to assisting paraplegic indoor rowing exercise.
Similitude design plays a vital role in the analysis of vibration and shock problems encountered in large engineering equipment. Similitude design, including dimensional analysis and governing equation method, is foun...
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Similitude design plays a vital role in the analysis of vibration and shock problems encountered in large engineering equipment. Similitude design, including dimensional analysis and governing equation method, is founded on the dynamic similitude theory. This study reviews the application of similitude design methods in engineering practice and summarizes the major achieve- ments of the dynamic similitude theory in structural vibration and shock problems in different fields, including marine structures, civil engineering structures, and large power equipment. This study also reviews the dynamic similitude design methods for thin-walled and composite material plates and shells, including the most recent work published by the authors. Structure sensitivity analysis is used to evaluate the scaling factors to attain accurate distorted scaling laws. Finally, this study discusses the existing problems and the potential of the dynamic similitude theory for the analysis of vibration and shock problems of structures.
Stimulation trains of different combination of frequency and pulse-width can be used to generate the muscle force required to perform a functional task during functional electrical stimulation (FES). However, with rep...
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This paper presents investigations into pendulum test to measure passive knee motion from a paraplegic subject. The test is used to evaluate changes in the knee angular displacement, passive stiffness and viscosity. T...
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(纸本)9783902661555
This paper presents investigations into pendulum test to measure passive knee motion from a paraplegic subject. The test is used to evaluate changes in the knee angular displacement, passive stiffness and viscosity. Then, genetic algorithm (GA) parameter optimization is used with Visual Nastran (Vn4D) to find passive stiffness and viscosity values for modelling the paraplegic leg. The best performance of the Vn4D leg model is achieved with the optimum values of the viscosity and the stiffness equal to 0.0031055 Nms/deg and 0.024244 Nm/deg respectively. The model was found to be the best Vn4D model with actual subject's leg properties to represent paraplegic leg model.
This paper presents the development of paraplegic hamstrings muscle model with Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference system (ANFIS). A series of experiments using Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) with different stimul...
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Objective. Common spatial patterns (CSP) is a prominent feature extraction algorithm in motor imagery (MI)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, CSP is computed using sample-based covariance-matrix estimati...
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