A Robot vision system was designed using a silicon retina, which has been developed to mimick the parallel circuit structure of the vertebrate retina. The silicon retina used here is an analog CMOS very large-scale in...
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Introduction Polymers exhibit larger elongation and more significant rate- and time-dependent behavior at higher temperature [1]. To understand properties of polymer matrix composites and to correctly evaluate their p...
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Introduction Polymers exhibit larger elongation and more significant rate- and time-dependent behavior at higher temperature [1]. To understand properties of polymer matrix composites and to correctly evaluate their performance characteristics, therefore, it is one of the most important issues to elucidate the time- and rate-dependent nonlinear behavior of polymer matrix composites at elevated temperature. The objective of the present study is to elucidate characteristics of the short-term stress relaxation behavior of angle-ply CFRP laminates at high temperature. The stress relaxation curves for various angle-ply laminates are presented. By the normalization with respect to the maximum stress at the beginning of each relaxation test, we obtain a master relaxation curve that is characterized by the off-axis time-dependent response of constituent unidirectional plies.
U-Mart is an interdisciplinary research program of agent-based artificial market. U-Mart proposes an open-type test bed to study trading strategies of agents, behavior of the market and their relationship. An experime...
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Autism is a mental disorder characterized by deficits in socialization, communication, and imagination. Along with the deficits, autistic children may show savant skills ("islets of ability") of unknown orig...
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Autism is a mental disorder characterized by deficits in socialization, communication, and imagination. Along with the deficits, autistic children may show savant skills ("islets of ability") of unknown origin that puzzles their families and the psychologists. Comorbidity with epilepsy and mental retardation has brought the researchers' attention to neurobiological and cognitive theories of the syndrome. The present article proposes a neurobiological model for the autism based on the fundamental biological process of neuronal competition. A neural network capable of defining neural maps-synaptic projections preserving neighborhoods between two neural tissues-simulates the process of neurodevelopment. Experiments were performed reducing the level of neural growth factor released by the neurons, leading to ill-developed maps and suggesting the cause of the aberrant neurogenesis present in autism. The computer simulations hint that brain regions responsible for the formation of higher level representations are impaired in autistic patients. The lack of this integrated representation of the world would result in the peculiar cognitive deficits of socialization, communication, and imagination and could also explain some "islets of abilities", like excellent memory for raw data and stimuli discrimination. The neuronal model is based on plausible biological findings and on recently developed cognitive theories of autism. Close relations are established between the computational properties of the neural network model and the cognitive theory of autism denominated "weak central coherence", bringing some insight to the understanding of the disorder.
Over the past decade, several inductive logic programming (ILP) systems have been developed. However, the normal ILP system does not have enough power to induce logic programs in some domains. Therefore, various new I...
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We report an observation of essentially full spatial coherence in a high average power soft-x-ray laser. Rapid coherence buildup due to strong refractive antiguiding in a long plasma column is experimentally demonstra...
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We report an observation of essentially full spatial coherence in a high average power soft-x-ray laser. Rapid coherence buildup due to strong refractive antiguiding in a long plasma column is experimentally demonstrated. This allows the generation of fully coherent, milliwatt-level average power soft-x-ray radiation by a tabletop device. The peak brightness of this laser reaches 2×1025photonss−1mm−2mrad−2 within 0.01% spectral bandwidth, making it one of the brightest soft-x-ray sources available.
The problem of robust H/spl infin/ filtering for continuous-time uncertain linear systems with multiple time-varying delays in the state variables is investigated. The uncertain parameters are supposed to belong to a ...
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The problem of robust H/spl infin/ filtering for continuous-time uncertain linear systems with multiple time-varying delays in the state variables is investigated. The uncertain parameters are supposed to belong to a given convex bounded polyhedral domain. The aim is to design a stable linear filter assuring asymptotic stability and a prescribed H/spl infin/ performance level for the filtering error system, irrespective of the uncertainties and the time delays. Sufficient conditions for the existence of such a filter are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities, which can be efficiently solved by means of powerful convex programming tools with global convergence assured. An example illustrates the proposed methodology.
Recent development of logic programming languages based on linear logic suggests a successful direction to extend logic programming to be more expressive and more efficient. The treatment of formulasas- resources give...
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This work intends to present and to analyze a new penalty method that purposes to solve the general nonlinear programming problem subject to inequality constraints. The proposed method has the important feature of bei...
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This work intends to present and to analyze a new penalty method that purposes to solve the general nonlinear programming problem subject to inequality constraints. The proposed method has the important feature of being completely differentiable and combines features of both exterior and interior penalty methods. Numerical results for some problems are commented on. International Federation of Operational Research Societies 2001.
The speed, accuracy, and adaptability of human movement depends on the brain performing an inverse kinematics transformation-that is, a transformation from visual to joint angle coordinates-based on learning from expe...
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The speed, accuracy, and adaptability of human movement depends on the brain performing an inverse kinematics transformation-that is, a transformation from visual to joint angle coordinates-based on learning from experience. In human motion control, it is important to learn a feedback controller for the hand position error in the human inverse kinematics solver. This paper proposes a novel model that uses disturbance noise and the feedback error signal to learn coordinate transformations of the human visual feedback controller. The proposed model redresses drawbacks in current models because it does not rely on complex signal switching, which does not seem neurophysiologically plausible. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the model.
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