A variety of alternate training strategies for implementing the dual heuristic programming (DHP) method of approximate dynamic programming in the neurocontrol context are explored. The DHP method of controller trainin...
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A variety of alternate training strategies for implementing the dual heuristic programming (DHP) method of approximate dynamic programming in the neurocontrol context are explored. The DHP method of controller training has been successfully demonstrated by a number of authors on a variety of control problems in recent years, but no unified view of the implementation details of the method has yet emerged. A number of options are described for sequencing the training of the controller and critic networks in DHP implementations. Results are given about their relative efficiency and the quality of the resulting controllers for two benchmark control problems.
engineering Criteria 2000 require open and clear exchange between ABET evaluators and the administrators and program facility seeking evaluation. The Criteria encourage innovations in both programs and leadership by p...
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engineering Criteria 2000 require open and clear exchange between ABET evaluators and the administrators and program facility seeking evaluation. The Criteria encourage innovations in both programs and leadership by providing the opportunity and responsibility for defining unique program objectives. Under engineering Criteria 2000, evaluators are charged to accept these program-specific objectives and to determine whether programs meet their stated goals, a process quite different from the application of pre-determined criteria. This new accreditation process necessitates enhanced communication between program representatives and evaluators. This paper provides a view of the evaluation process from several perspectives. A new Electromechanical engineeringprogram, evaluated in the fall of 1998, is the focus of several points of view; the chairperson of the program, program faculty, program students, and an EAC evaluator. The effect of Criteria 2000 on program processes, the steps required for visit preparation and for the visit itself; and the post-visit effects of constructive feedback from ABET evaluators are detailed. The ways in which novel programs are fostered and encouraged by Criteria 2000 receives particular emphasis. program administrator evaluator faculty and student perspectives of the accreditation process experience are illustrated. While new program evaluations are especially challenging for all concerned, evaluator and program participants alike can find Criteria 2000 evaluations opportunities for discovering ways to improve engineering education.
We apply the modal distribution, a high-resolution time-frequency distribution, to the study of sung musical passages. Evidence is presented comparing the modal distribution with the spectrogram for a set of synthetic...
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An integrated multichannel wavelength monitoring circuit using specially designed phased-array waveguide grating and detector arrays, which monitors all wavelength-division multiplexing channels in real-time (sixteen ...
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An integrated multichannel wavelength monitoring circuit using specially designed phased-array waveguide grating and detector arrays, which monitors all wavelength-division multiplexing channels in real-time (sixteen channels at 200-GHz spacing), has been demonstrated with /spl sim/0.02 nm accuracy.
Turbo Trellis-Coded Modulation (T-TCM) is one of several techniques for combining turbo codes with multilevel modulation in order to save the bandwidth of the transmission systems. T-TCM was shown to perform very well...
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The problem of full order guaranteed cost H/sub /spl infin// filtering design for discrete-time systems with polytope type uncertainty is investigated. The main purpose is to obtain a stable linear filter such that th...
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The problem of full order guaranteed cost H/sub /spl infin// filtering design for discrete-time systems with polytope type uncertainty is investigated. The main purpose is to obtain a stable linear filter such that the filtering error system remains quadratically stable within a prespecified H/sub /spl infin// attenuation level. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such robust filter are provided in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which can be efficiently solved by means of high performance convex optimization procedures with global convergence assured. Moreover, as an improvement, the filter dynamics can be constrained to some specific regions inside the unit open disk.
The National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) is co-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC). Members of the NTONC include Norte...
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The National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) is co-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC). Members of the NTONC include Nortel Networks, GST Telecommunications, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL), Sprint Communications and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). NTON provides a 10+ Gb/s open research platform for Next Generation Internet (NGI) trials. NTON is a 2000 km 10-20 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network deployed using in-place commercial fiber. NTON links reach government, university and private sector labs and provide the ability to interface with most of the broadband research networks in the US. Planned interchange networks are: ATDnet, HSCC, DREN, NREN, ESnet, vBNS, SVTT, Abilene, Canarie, CalREN, and others. NTON will simultaneously support device design R&D, network R&D and testing of high bandwidth enabled applications. NTON provides direct access to nearly all of the major universities on the West Coast at data rates up to, and potentially beyond, 2.5 Gb/s. NTON will also connect major West Coast supercomputer sites, digital libraries, high energy physics labs and medical research institutions.
Turbo trellis-coded modulation (T-TCM) is one of several techniques for combining turbo codes with multilevel modulation in order to save the bandwidth of the transmission systems. T-TCM was shown to perform very well...
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Turbo trellis-coded modulation (T-TCM) is one of several techniques for combining turbo codes with multilevel modulation in order to save the bandwidth of the transmission systems. T-TCM was shown to perform very well on AWGN channels, but its performance over frequency-selective fading channels is unknown. In this paper, a system model to investigate the performance of T-TCM schemes over frequency-selective fading channels is proposed. Simulation results show that when an appropriate receiver is available, T-TCM also performs well on frequency-selective fading channels. T-TCM performance is much better than any other coded-modulation scheme for this type of channel.
The problem of robust energy-to-peak filtering for linear systems with convex bounded uncertainties is investigated in this paper. The main purpose is to design a full order stable linear filter that minimizes the wor...
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The problem of robust energy-to-peak filtering for linear systems with convex bounded uncertainties is investigated in this paper. The main purpose is to design a full order stable linear filter that minimizes the worst-case peak value of the filtering error output signal with respect to all bounded energy inputs, in such way that the filtering error system remains quadratically stable Necessary and sufficient conditions arc formulated in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities - LMIs, for both continuous- and discrete-time cases.
We developed an alternate method for density-based load estimation and applied it to estimate hip joint load distributions for two femora. Two-dimensional finite element models were constructed from single energy quan...
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