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Lygeros, John
Install an Automatic Blowdown Control System
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This revised ITP steam tip sheet on installing automatic blowdown controls provide how-to advice for improving industrial steam systems using low-cost, proven practices and technologies.
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Automatic Control of Freeboard and Turbine Operation
Automatic Control of Freeboard and Turbine Operation Wave Dragon, Nissum Bredning Project: Sea of Freeboard and Turbine Operation Wave Dragon, Nissum Bredning by Jens Peter Kofoed & Peter Frigaard, Aalborg.........................................................................................................................10 TURBINE PERFORMANCE DATA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTOMATIC DAYLIGHTING CONTROL ACCEPTANCE DOCUMENT CEC-LTG-3A (Revised 07/10) CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION CERTIFICATE OF ACCEPTANCE LTG-3A Automatic Daylighting Control Acceptance fraction of rated light output. #12;STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTOMATIC DAYLIGHTING CONTROL ACCEPTANCE DOCUMENT
Experience with automatic reactor control at EBR-II
Satisfactory operation of the ACRDS has extended the capabilities of EBR-II to a transient test facility, achieving automatic transient control. Test assemblies can now be irradiated in transient conditions overlapping the slower transient capability of the TREAT reactor.
Lehto, W.K.; Larson, H.A.; Christensen, L.J.
Automatic Parallelization of Hand Written Automotive Engine Control
Automatic Parallelization of Hand Written Automotive Engine Control Codes Using OSCAR Compiler Dan approach to realize the next- generation automobiles integrated control system. However, automotive-core processors for a long time. This paper proposes to parallelize an automotive engine crankshaft control
Kasahara, Hironori
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Generalized Automatic and Augmented Manual Flight Control
Control System (TECS) · Total Heading Control System (THCS) · Condor Application · Fly By Wire Augmented #12;Typical Transport Airplane Flight Guidance & Control System as many as 8 LRUs Triple FMS · Mission Planning · Navigation · Performance Autothrottle Yaw Damper Dual Single Dual · Thrust Rating · Thrust
Berlin,Technische Universität
Automatic reactor power control for a pressurized water reactor
An automatic reactor power control system is presented for a pressurized water reactor (PWR). The associated reactor control strategy is called mode K.' The new system implements a heavy-worth bank dedicated to axial shape control, independent of the existing regulating banks. The heavy bank provides a monotonic relationship between its motion and the axial shape change, which allows automatic control of the axial power distribution. Thus, the mode K enables precise regulation of both the reactivity and the power distribution, by using double closed-loop control of the reactor coolant temperature and the axial power difference. Automatic reactor power control permits the nuclear power plant to accommodate the load-follow operations, including frequency control, to respond to the grid requirements. The mode K reactor control concepts were tested using simulation responses of a Korean standardized 1,000-MW (electric) PWR. The simulation results illustrate that the mode K would be a practical reactor power control strategy for the increased automation of nuclear plants.
Jungin Choi (Kyungwon Univ. (Korea, Republic of)); Yungjoon Hah (Korea Atomic Energy Research Inst., Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)); Unchul Lee (Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of))
Simulation of the TREAT-Upgrade Automatic Reactor Control System
This paper describes the design of the Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) for the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) Upgrade. A simulation was used to facilitate the ARCS design and to completely test and verify its operation before installation at the TREAT facility.
Lipinski, W.C.; Kirsch, L.W.; Valente, A.D.
Optimal Demand Response Capacity of Automatic Lighting Control
. To remedy this problem, different demand side management programs have been proposed to shape the energy prior studies have extensively studied the capacity of offering demand response in buildings and office buildings. Keywords: Demand response, automatic lighting control, commercial and office buildings
Mohsenian-Rad, Hamed
Automatic load follow control system for PWR plants
In Japan, load follow operation (daily load follow, automatic frequency control (AFC) operation, and governor free (GF) operation) of nuclear plants will be required in the near future to control grid frequency, as the ratio of nuclear plant electrical production to total grid production will increase. The AFC operation regulated power by demand from the central load dispatcher to control mainly the fringe component of the grid frequency fluctuation, and GF operation regulates power by turbine revolution or grid frequency to control mainly the cyclic component of grid frequency fluctuation. This paper deals with the automatic power distribution control system, which is important to load follow operation and possibly will be applied to pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear plants. The reactor control systems noted below are conventional design with some improvements for AFC/GF operation, so that the reactor operates the turbine as before: (1) rod control system (reactor power control); (2) pressurizer pressure control system; (3) pressurizer level control system; and (4) steam generator level control system.
Nakakura, H.; Ishiguro, A.
Automatic storm protection control for wind energy system
A wind energy plant is protected against damage from high winds by permitting the propeller assembly thereof to fold with respect to the tail assembly of the plant when the wind velocity with respect to the plant exceeds a predetermined value. Return of the propeller assembly to a wind facing orientation is controlled to prevent oscillating or whipping in gusty or turbulent winds. A safety system is included to control plant shutdown, and automatically shuts down the plant if the plant is being subjected to excessive vibration.
Jacobs, M.L.; Jacobs, P.R.
Control System Design for Automatic Cavity Tuning Machines
A series of four automatic tuning machines for 9-cell TESLA-type cavities are being developed and fabricated in a collaborative effort among DESY, FNAL, and KEK. These machines are intended to support high-throughput cavity fabrication for construction of large SRF-based accelerator projects. Two of these machines will be delivered to cavity vendors for the tuning of XFEL cavities. The control system for these machines must support a high level of automation adequate for industrial use by non-experts operators. This paper describes the control system hardware and software design for these machines.
Carcagno, R.; Khabiboulline, T.; Kotelnikov, S.; Makulski, A.; Nehring, R.; Nogiec, J.; Ross, M.; Schappert, W.; /Fermilab; Goessel, A.; Iversen, J.; Klinke, D.; /DESY
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Automatic Mobile Robot Control and Indication Method Using Augmented Reality Technology
Automatic Mobile Robot Control and Indication Method Using Augmented Reality Technology Koji Ohmori and remote indication using the augmented reality technology. Keywords: mobile robot, automatic control, Kobe 658-8501, Japan firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract. A mobile robot is an automatic machine
Paris-Sud XI, Universit� de
Automatic On-line Controller for Coordinated Slow Voltage Control
are operated in an "aligned" operation. In modern power systems, as the system gets loaded more and more, reactor banks and LTC transformers. The project pursues a model-based approach for selecting the discrete switching cost. A robust control strategy is proposed to make the control feasible and optimal for a set
Venkatasubramanian, Mani V.
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Simulation of the treat-upgrade automatic reactor control system
This paper describes the design of the Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) for the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) Upgrade. A simulation was used to facilitate the ARCS design, and to completely test and verify its operation before installation at the TREAT facility. The ARCS is a microprocessor network based closed loop control system that provides a position demand control signal to the transient rod hydraulic drive system. There are four identical servo-hydraulic rod drives and each operates as a position control system. The ARCS updates its position demand control signal every 1 msec and its function is to control the transient rods so that the reactor follows a prescribed power-time profile (planned transient). The Main Control Algorithm (MCA) for the ARCS is an optimal reactivity demand algorithm. At each time step, the MCA generates a set of reference reactor functions, e.g., power, period, energy, and delayed neutron power. These functions are compared to plant measurements and estimated values at each time step and are operated on by appropriate algorithms to generate the reactivity demand function. The data necessary to calculate the reference functions is supplied from a Transient Prescription Control Data Set (TPCDS). The TPCDS specifies the planned transient as a fixed number of simply connected independent power profile segments. The developed simulation code models the TREAT reactor kinetics, the hydraulic rod drive system, the plant measurement system, and the ARCS control processor MCA. All of the models operate as continuous systems with the exception of the MCA which operates as a discrete time system at fixed multiples of 1 msec. The study indicates that the ARCS will meet or exceed all of its design specifications.
Closed loop computer control for an automatic transmission
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In an automotive vehicle having an automatic transmission that driveably connects a power source to the driving wheels, a method to control the application of hydraulic pressure to a clutch, whose engagement produces an upshift and whose disengagement produces a downshift, the speed of the power source, and the output torque of the transmission. The transmission output shaft torque and the power source speed are the controlled variables. The commanded power source torque and commanded hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch are the control variables. A mathematical model is formulated that describes the kinematics and dynamics of the powertrain before, during and after a gear shift. The model represents the operating characteristics of each component and the structural arrangement of the components within the transmission being controlled. Next, a close loop feedback control is developed to determine the proper control law or compensation strategy to achieve an acceptably smooth gear ratio change, one in which the output torque disturbance is kept to a minimum and the duration of the shift is minimized. Then a computer algorithm simulating the shift dynamics employing the mathematical model is used to study the effects of changes in the values of the parameters established from a closed loop control of the clutch hydraulic and the power source torque on the shift quality. This computer simulation is used also to establish possible shift control strategies. The shift strategies determined from the prior step are reduced to an algorithm executed by a computer to control the operation of the power source and the transmission.
Patil, Prabhakar B. (Detroit, MI)
System for computer controlled shifting of an automatic transmission
In an automotive vehicle having an automatic transmission that driveably connects a power source to the driving wheels, a method to control the application of hydraulic pressure to a clutch, whose engagement produces an upshift and whose disengagement produces a downshift, the speed of the power source, and the output torque of the transmission. The transmission output shaft torque and the power source speed are the controlled variables. The commanded power source torque and commanded hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch are the control variables. A mathematical model is formulated that describes the kinematics and dynamics of the powertrain before, during and after a gear shift. The model represents the operating characteristics of each component and the structural arrangement of the components within the transmission being controlled. Next, a close loop feedback control is developed to determine the proper control law or compensation strategy to achieve an acceptably smooth gear ratio change, one in which the output torque disturbance is kept to a minimum and the duration of the shift is minimized. Then a computer algorithm simulating the shift dynamics employing the mathematical model is used to study the effects of changes in the values of the parameters established from a closed loop control of the clutch hydraulic and the power source torque on the shift quality. This computer simulation is used also to establish possible shift control strategies. The shift strategies determine from the prior step are reduced to an algorithm executed by a computer to control the operation of the power source and the transmission.
Application of the ''reactivity constraint approach'' to automatic reactor control
The ''reactivity constraint approach'' is described and demonstrated to be an effective and reliable means for the automatic control of power in nuclear reactors. This approach functions by restricting the effect of the delayed neutron populations to that which can be balanced by an induced change in the prompt population. This is done by limiting the net reactivity to the amount that can be offset by reversing the direction of motion of the automated control mechanism. The necessary reactivity constraints are obtained from the dynamic period equation, which gives the instantaneous reactor period as a function of the reactivity and the rate of change of reactivity. The derivation of this equation is described with emphasis on the recently obtained ''alternate'' formulation. Following a discussion of the behavior of each term of this alternate equation as a function of reactivity, its use in the design and operation of a nonlinear, closed-loop, digital controller for reactor power is in the design and operation of a nonlinear, closed-loop, digital controller for reactor power is described. Details of the initial experimental trials of the resulting controller are given.
Bernard, J.A.; Henry, A.F.; Lanning, D.D.
Computer controlled synchronous shifting of an automatic transmission
A multiple forward speed automatic transmission produces its lowest forward speed ratio when a hydraulic clutch and hydraulic brake are disengaged and a one-way clutch connects a ring gear to the transmission casing. Second forward speed ratio results when the hydraulic clutch is engaged to connect the ring gear to the planetary carrier of a second gear set. Reverse drive and regenerative operation result when an hydraulic brake fixes the planetary and the direction of power flow is reversed. Various sensors produce signals representing the torque at the output of the transmission or drive wheels, the speed of the power source, and the hydraulic pressure applied to a clutch and brake. A control algorithm produces input data representing a commanded upshift, a commanded downshift, a commanded transmission output torque, and commanded power source speed. A microprocessor processes the inputs and produces a response to them in accordance with the execution of a control algorithm. Output or response signals cause selective engagement and disengagement of the clutch and brake at a rate that satisfies the requirements for a short gear ratio change and smooth torque transfer between the friction elements.
Davis, Roy I. (9214 Abbey La., Ypsilanti, MI 48198); Patil, Prabhakar B. (10294 W. Outer Dr., Detroit, MI 48223)
Computer controllable synchronous shifting of an automatic transmission
A multiple forward speed automatic transmission produces its lowest forward speed ratio when a hydraulic clutch and hydraulic brake are disengaged and a one-way clutch connects a ring gear to the transmission casing. Second forward speed ratio results when the hydraulic clutch is engaged to connect the ring gear to the planetary carrier of a second gear set. Reverse drive and regenerative operation result when an hydraulic brake fixes the planetary and the direction of power flow is reversed. Various sensors produce signals representing the torque at the output of the transmission or drive wheels, the speed of the power source, and the hydraulic pressure applied to a clutch and brake. A control algorithm produces input data representing a commanded upshift, a commanded downshift, a commanded transmission output torque, and commanded power source speed. A microprocessor processes the inputs and produces a response to them in accordance with the execution of a control algorithm. Output or response signals cause selective engagement and disengagement of the clutch and brake at a rate that satisfies the requirements for a short gear ratio change and smooth torque transfer between the friction elements. 6 figs.
Davis, R.I.; Patil, P.B.
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An Aircraft Electric Power Testbed for Validating Automatically Synthesized Reactive Control Protocols
An Aircraft Electric Power Testbed for Validating Automatically Synthesized Reactive Control reactive synthesis; testbed; aircraft electric power system 1. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION Aircraft of Pennsylvania email@example.com ABSTRACT Modern aircraft increasingly rely on electric power for sub
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Application of multi-variable control for automatic frequency controller of HVDC transmission system
In an HVDC transmission system that links two ac power systems, the automatic frequency controller (AFC) calculates power to be interchanged between the two ac systems according to their frequencies thereby improving the frequency characteristics of the two power systems. This paper introduces a newly developed dc AFC system, which applies a multi-variable control to the dc system-based frequency control. It is capable of controlling the frequencies of the two ac systems optimally while maintaining their stability. This system was developed for one of Japan's HVDC transmission facilities and produced good results in a combined test using a power system simulator. The field installation will be completed in March 1993, when the AFC system will enter service.
Sanpei, Masatoshi (Electric Power Development Co., Tokyo (Japan)); Kakehi, Atsuyuki; Takeda, Hideo (Toshiba Corp., Tokyo (Japan))
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 59, NO. 5, MAY 2014 1147 Stochastic Sensor Scheduling for
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 59, NO. 5, MAY 2014 1147 Stochastic Sensor Scheduling--Optimal sensor scheduling with applications to net- worked estimation and control systems is considered. We model approach to optimal control of Markov chains, we extract an optimal scheduling policy to fairly allocate
Johansson, Karl Henrik
Automatically controlled wind propeller and tower shadow eliminator
A propeller hub carries pivotally-mounted blades that are linked to a spring-loaded collar on the propeller shaft for automatic coning and feathering under predetermined high velocity movement along the propeller shaft to change the blade pitch angle during low wind velocity conditions. An airfoil support mounts a propeller shaft and turns therewith to reduce tower shadow effects. This is called a ''down-wind system'' meaning the propeller is behind the tower and causes the assembly to rotate into the wind without a tail vane.
Randolph, A.J.
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Automatic Grid Control in Adaptive BVP Solvers Gernot Pulverer Gustaf Sderlind Ewa Weinmller
Automatic Grid Control in Adaptive BVP Solvers Gernot Pulverer Gustaf S�derlind Ewa Weinm�ller 8. April 2009 Abstract Grid adaptation in two-point boundary value problems is usually based on mapping a uniform auxiliary grid to the desired nonuniform grid. Here we combine this approach with a new control
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TREAT Upgrade Manual Reactor Control System and its interface with the Automatic Reactor Control System and the Plant Protection System
The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) at Argonne National Laboratory is being upgraded to simulate extreme conditions in a reactor. This facility will be used to subject test assemblies of fuel bundles to very rapid and intense power transients. This paper will describe in detail the manual reactor control system and its interfaces with the plant protection system the automatic reactor control system.
McDowell, W.P.
Optimization of neural network feedback control systems using automatic differentiation
Optimal control problems can be challenging to solve, whether using analytic or numerical methods. This thesis examines the application of an adjoint method for optimal feedback control, which combines various algorithmic ...
Rollins, Elizabeth, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International Conference on Machine Control & Guidance 2008 1 Automatic Guidance of Track Laying Machines with
1st International Conference on Machine Control & Guidance 2008 1 Automatic Guidance of Track Laying Machines with Respect to Coordinate Systems Th. ENGEL*, JJ. STUBY, Ch. GLAUSER, P. G�?LDENAPFEL machine guidance, this text focuses on presenting and solving three challenges without which coordinate
Experimental Verification of the Control of Automatic Drilling Module in Surgery
5 3 Experimental Verification of the Control of Automatic Drilling Module in Surgery Tony Boiadjiev drilling (in part or of all) of the corresponding bones. The main problems when the hand drilling takes place can be described as follows: bone overheating caused by inappropriate drilling velocity
Borissova, Daniela
Security Games and Risk Minimization for Automatic Generation Control in Smart Grid
Security Games and Risk Minimization for Automatic Generation Control in Smart Grid Yee Wei Law be protected against potential threats. Advanced monitoring technologies at the center of smart grid evolution injection. This paper develops a game-theoretic approach to smart grid security by combining quantitative
Alpcan, Tansu
Experimental Automatic Lateral Control System For An Automobile
Control System for an Automobile Huei Peng, Wei-Bin Zhang,system for a full scaled automobile. Previous PATH programsystem for steering on an automobile. Due to their mutual
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Automatic coolant flow control device for a nuclear reactor assembly
A device which controls coolant flow through a nuclear reactor assembly comprises a baffle means at the exit end of said assembly having a plurality of orifices, and a bimetallic member in operative relation to the baffle means such that at increased temperatures said bimetallic member deforms to unblock some of said orifices and allow increased coolant flow therethrough.
Hutter, Ernest (Wilmette, IL)
Dynamical formulations and control of an automatic retargeting system
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Sovinsky, Michael Charles
Hutter, E.
Automatic coke oven heating control system at Burns Harbor for normal and repair operation
An automatic heating control system for coke oven batteries was developed in 1985 for the Burns Harbor No. 1 battery and reported in the 1989 Ironmaking Conference Proceedings. The original system was designed to maintain a target coke temperature at a given production level under normal operating conditions. Since 1989, enhancements have been made to this control system so that it can also control the battery heating when the battery is under repair. The new control system has improved heating control capability because it adjusts the heat input to the battery in response to anticipated changes in the production schedule. During a recent repair of this 82 oven battery, the pushing schedule changed from 102 ovens/day to 88 ovens/day, then back to 102 ovens/day, then to 107 ovens/day. During this repair, the control system was able to maintain the coke temperature average standard deviation at 44 F, with a maximum 75 F.
Battle, E.T.; Chen, K.L. [Bethlehem Steel Corp., Burns Harbor, IN (United States); [Bethlehem Steel Corp., PA (United States)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 58, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2013 2995 An Optimal Approximate Dynamic Programming
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 58, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2013 2995 An Optimal Approximate rates and the stock market (the low-dimensional exogenous state). · Each week a state has to make
Powell, Warren B.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. AC-20, NO. 6, DECEMBER 1975 127 Acoustics, Stability, and Compensation in Boiling
of turbine bypass valves duringstart-up as well asduringand following rapid closure of the turbine admissionIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. AC-20, NO. 6, DECEMBER 1975 127 Acoustics, Stability of steam pipe acoustics on the control of steam pressore in boiling waterreactors. A madel is developed
Kwatny, Harry G.
The TREAT upgrade manual reactor control system and its interface with the automatic reactor control system and the plant protection system
The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) at Argonne National Laboratory is being upgraded to simulate extreme conditions in a reactor. This facility will be used to subject test assemblies of fuel bundles to very rapid and intense power transients. This paper describes in detail the manual reactor control system and its interfaces with the plant protection system the automatic reactor control system.
Automatic Gain Control in Mass Spectrometry using a Jet Disrupter Electrode in an Electrodynamic Ion Funnel
We report on the use of a jet disrupter electrode in an electrodynamic ion funnel as an electronic valve to regulate the intensity of the ion beam transmitted through the interface of a mass spectrometer in order to perform automatic gain control (AGC). The ion flux is determined by either directly detecting the ion current on the conductance limiting orifice of the ion funnel or using a short mass spectrometry acquisition. Based upon the ion flux intensity, the voltage of the jet disrupter is adjusted to alter the transmission efficiency of the ion funnel to provide a desired ion population to the mass analyzer. Ion beam regulation by an ion funnel is shown to provide an unbiased control to within a few percent of a targeted ion intensity or abundance. The utility of ion funnel AGC was evaluated using a protein tryptic digest analyzed with liquid chromatography Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (LC-FTICR) mass spectrometry. The ion population in the ICR cell was accurately controlled to a variety of different levels, which improved data quality and provided better mass measurement accuracy.
Page, Jason S.; Bogdanov, Bogdan; Vilkov, Andrey N.; Prior, David C.; Buschbach, Michael A.; Tang, Keqi; Smith, Richard D.
Design and analysis of a laser oriented, automatic dimensional inspection system for high-speed process control
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Ward, Steven Morris
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, YOLo AC-31, NO.9, SEPTEMBER1986 803 JOHN N. TSITSIKLIS, MEMBER,IEEE,DIMITRI P. BERTSEKAS, FELLOW,IEEE,ANDMICHAEL ATHANS, FELLOW,IEEE
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 49, NO. 5, MAY 2004 757 [3] R. Kelly, "Comments on adaptive PD controller for robot manipulators,"
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Automatic Control Strategy Development for the Supercritical CO{sub 2} Brayton Cycle for LFR Autonomous Load Following
The supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO{sub 2}) Brayton cycle is a promising advanced alternative to the Rankine saturated steam cycle and ideal gas Brayton cycle for the energy converters of specific reactor concepts belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative. A new plant dynamics analysis computer code has been developed for simulation of the S-CO{sub 2} Brayton cycle coupled to an autonomous Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR). The plant dynamics code was used to develop an automatic control strategy for the whole plant in response to changes in the demand from the electrical grid. The specific features of the S-CO{sub 2} Brayton cycle that result in limitations on the control range and speed of specific control mechanisms are discussed. Calculations of whole-plant responses to plant operational transients involving step and continuous changes in grid demand are demonstrated. (authors)
Moisseytsev, Anton; Sienicki, James J. [Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL, 60439 (United States)
The integration of Automatic Speech Recognition into the Air Traffic Control system
Today, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system relies primarily on verbal communication between the air traffic controllers and the pilots of the aircraft in the controlled airspace. Although a computer system exists that ...
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2003: Energy performance of daylight-linked automatic lighting control systems in large atrium spaces: report on two field-monitored case studies
This paper presents the field-measured energy performance of two common types of daylight-linked lighting control systems, continuous dimming and automatic on/off installed in two existing large atrium spaces located in Canada. The daylighting performance was evaluated based on the daylight contribution to the indoor illuminance and the amount of electrical lighting displaced by daylighting via the daylight-linked lighting control systems. Measured daylighting contribution to the space indicates that significant lighting energy savings can be achieved in atrium spaces if the daylight-linked lighting control system is appropriately selected, installed and commissioned throughout its existence. Results extrapolated from measurements collected during summer and winter indicate that as installed, the continuous dimming lighting control system provides 46% annual savings in electrical lighting consumption, while the automatic on/off saves between 11-17% in lighting energy. These savings account for 68% of the lighting energy consumed during main occupancy for the continuous dimming system, and 31.5% for the automatic on/off. Operation irregularities such as a reduced dimming linearity and an incorrect adjustment of the phases of the dimming control system, as well as the inadequate location of the photocell controlling the automatic on/off lighting system, the improper maintenance of the skylight during winter and the oversizing of the lighting system reduced the energy efficiency of the lighting control systems by 30-65%.
M. R. Galasiu; Morad R. Atif; Anca D. Galasiu
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zu Lbeck Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences 64 CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING ENERGY IN A BUILDING Julien Eynard, Benjamin Paris, Stphane Grieu,...
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 52, NO. 5, MAY 2007 863 Technical Notes and Correspondence
Terms--Algebraic graph theory, cooperative control, multiagent systems, nonsmooth systems. I synchronization and regulation of relative distances within a group of agents, and derive decentralized to cooperative control de- sign and analysis. Under the assumption of connected (but arbitrarily switching
Guo, Yi
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 43, NO. 4, APRIL 1998 457 Guest Editorial
control the furnace, air conditioner, blower, etc. There are several reasons for using hybrid models hybrid control system is the heating and cooling system of a typical home. The furnace and air conditioner, along with the heat flow characteristics of the home, form a continuous-time system which
Antsaklis, Panos
918 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 54, NO. 4, APRIL 2009 PI-Funnel Control for Two Mass Systems
disturbances are rejected. Finally, the controllers are implemented on a real plant, an electrical drive. Index Terms--Adaptive control, electric drives, tracking, two mass sys- tems. I. INTRODUCTION We control. Schuster is with the Institute of Electrical Drive Systems, Technical Uni- versity Munich, Munich 80333
An Integrated Scheme for Anomaly Identification and Automatic Control of Nuclear Power Plants Xin Jin, Robert M. Edwards and Asok Ray
An Integrated Scheme for Anomaly Identification and Automatic Control of Nuclear Power Plants Xin.edu INTRODUCTION Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) are complex systems with many variables that require adjustment Jin, Robert M. Edwards and Asok Ray Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania
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On The Impact of Communication Delays on Power System Automatic Generation Control Performance
of the smart grid vision. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, as computer network [2]. In this regard, reliable, secure, and low-latency communication network infrastructures in SCADA systems; the specifics of DNP3 for SCADA systems in electric power networks can be found in [3
Liberzon, Daniel
1076 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 53, NO. 4, MAY 2008 is given as
. 2007. [3] M. Mossberg, "Identification of continuous-time ARX models using sam- ple cross, and T. S�oderstr�om, "Estimation of continuous-time stochastic system parameters," in Continuous�om, Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006, (Republication of the edition published
Cao, Xiren
On the Failure of Power System Automatic Generation Control due to Measurement Noise
of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system that resides in a centralized location (typically of service attacks, and resort to other malicious actions [2]. Various false data detection techniques based PMU measurements by spoofing the clocks that they use for synchronization [7]. Apart from malicious
Automatic control of air to fuel ratio in a fluidized bed gasifier
as fuel. Gasification is a thermal chemical process where a controlled combustion of solid or liquid material is used to produce a combustible gas (Groves and Anthony, 1979). Groves (1978), from his experiment with a 50 mm diameter fluidized bed... heating value, 5. 9 mJ/m , of the LCV gas for a 61 cm diameter fluidized bed 3 gasifier operation. If too little fuel or too much air is supplied to the system, gasification will shift into combustion, causing slagging and fouling (LePori et al. , 1983...
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470 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 46, NO. 3, MARCH 2001 Robust and Adaptive Boundary Control of a
manufacturing and process automation. Robust and adaptive control is designed to damp out trans- verse of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci- ence, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 USA (e continuous time flexible systems. For example, strings have been used for modeling telephone wires, cables
Qu, Zhihua
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 52, NO. 8, AUGUST 2007 1495 Theorem 5: W.p.1, the IPA derivatives of the lost-sales time average
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 52, NO. 8, AUGUST 2007 1495 Theorem 5: W.p.1, the IPA, the sided IPA derivatives satisfy d d+ L(T;) st d d0L(T;); T > 0; 2 2: (4.8) Stochastic equality holds.7) and the definition of V + m ()and V 0n () by standard arguments. Theorem 6: Under Assumptions 1 and 4, the IPA
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Prevention of ice formation in light-aircraft-engine induction systems by using an automatic control to operate the carburetor-air heater
LIBRARY A A III COLLEGE OF TEXAS PREVENTION OF ICE FORMATION IN LIGHT-AIRCRAFT-EIEIINE INDUCTION SYSTEMS BY USING AN AUTOMATIC CONTROL TO OPERATE THE CARBURETOB AIR HEATER A Thesis GARLAND BISHOP MHISENHUNT & JR SuIm&itted to the Graduate... School of the Agricultural and Mechanioal College of Texas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE August 1955 MAJOR SUBJECT ' MECHANICAL ENGINEERING& PREVENTION OF ICE FORMATION IN LIGHT...
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Automatic safety rod for reactors
An automatic safety rod for a nuclear reactor containing neutron absorbing material and designed to be inserted into a reactor core after a loss-of-core flow. Actuation is based upon either a sudden decrease in core pressure drop or the pressure drop decreases below a predetermined minimum value. The automatic control rod includes a pressure regulating device whereby a controlled decrease in operating pressure due to reduced coolant flow does not cause the rod to drop into the core.
Germer, John H. (San Jose, CA)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 42, NO. 4, APRIL 1997 473 Robust Feedback Stabilization of Chemical Reactors
of the controllers. Index Terms--Chemical reactors, robust feedback stabilization, robust observer, temperature control. I. INTRODUCTION THE DESIGN of stabilizing feedback control laws for unstable chemical reactors.g., [2]). The feedback control of chemical reactors is a problem which is made difficult by the inherent
Bastin, Georges
1962 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 58, NO. 8, AUGUST 2013 Design of State-Based Schedulers for
-Based Schedulers for a Network of Control Loops Chithrupa Ramesh, Student Member, IEEE, Henrik Sandberg, Member past controls from the scheduling criterion, we find that certainty equivalence holds. This condition-based scheduler with a certainty equivalent controller. However, this controller is not an equivalent design
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 43, NO. 12, DECEMBER 1998 1745 "hysteresis," caused by the subcritical bifurcation. The bifurcation
by the subcritical bifurcation. The bifurcation diagrams for the backstepping controller (57) are shown in Fig. 4 for c0 = 6 and #12;2 k = 0:5. This controller "softens" the bifurcation from subcritical
Amir, Yair
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Clothes Dryer Automatic Termination Evaluation
Volume 2: Improved Sensor and Control Designs Many residential clothes dryers on the market today provide automatic cycles that are intended to stop when the clothes are dry, as determined by the final remaining moisture content (RMC). However, testing of automatic termination cycles has shown that many dryers are susceptible to over-drying of loads, leading to excess energy consumption. In particular, tests performed using the DOE Test Procedure in Appendix D2 of 10 CFR 430 subpart B have shown that as much as 62% of the energy used in a cycle may be from over-drying. Volume 1 of this report shows an average of 20% excess energy from over-drying when running automatic cycles with various load compositions and dryer settings. Consequently, improving automatic termination sensors and algorithms has the potential for substantial energy savings in the U.S.
TeGrotenhuis, Ward E.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 53, NO. 9, OCTOBER 2008 2033 Mixed Deterministic/Randomized Methods
order controllers for single-input single-output plants. The controller parameters are classified its superiority (from the computational point of view) to existing algorithms based on linear extensions of these methods for stabilization of interval plants. In particular, we derive a simple one
Tempo, Roberto
Automatic vehicle following for emergency lane change maneuvers
A lane change maneuver is one of the many appropriate responses to an emergency situation. This thesis proposes to design a combined controller for automatic vehicles for an emergency lane change (ELC) maneuver on an Automatic Highway System (AHS...
Yoon, Seok Min
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 59, NO. 6, JUNE 2014 1 Optimal placement of Marine Protected Areas: a
--Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are regions in the ocean or along coastlines where fishing is controlled to avoid the reduction or elimination of fish populations. A central question is where exactly to establish an MPA. We cast this as an optimal problem along a one-dimensional coast-line, where fish are assumed to move
De Leenheer, Patrick
SUBMITTED TO IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL AS A TECHNICAL NOTE 1 Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks
Terms Multi-agent systems, cooperative control, nonsmooth systems, algebraic graph theory. I synchronization and regulation of relative distances within a group of agents, and derive de- centralized and George Pappas are with the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Tanner, Herbert G.
968 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 53, NO. 4, MAY 2008 Formation Reorganization by Primitive Operations
controlled or unmanned vehicle that can move by itself and has a local intelligence or computing capacity such as ground robots, air vehicles, or underwater vehicles. Manuscript received March 15, 2007; revised July 17 by a group of unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) using either angle of arrival data
Nesterov, Yurii
Design of an Automatic Landing System for the Meridian UAV using Fuzzy Logic
antennas attached below the wings. Fuzzy logic is determined the ideal application for an automatic landing controller based on its ability to control uncertain and nonlinear systems. Using fuzzy logic, a longitudinal automatic landing controller...
Royer, David Andrew
Automatic rapid attachable warhead section
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for automatically selecting warheads or reentry vehicles from a storage area containing a plurality of types of warheads or reentry vehicles, automatically selecting weapon carriers from a storage area containing at least one type of weapon carrier, manipulating and aligning the selected warheads or reentry vehicles and weapon carriers, and automatically coupling the warheads or reentry vehicles with the weapon carriers such that coupling of improperly selected warheads or reentry vehicles with weapon carriers is inhibited. Such inhibition enhances safety of operations and is achieved by a number of means including computer control of the process of selection and coupling and use of connectorless interfaces capable of assuring that improperly selected items will be rejected or rendered inoperable prior to coupling. Also disclosed are a method and apparatus wherein the stated principles pertaining to selection, coupling and inhibition are extended to apply to any item-to-be-carried and any carrying assembly. 10 figures.
Trennel, A.J.
Automatic safety rod for reactors. [LMFBR
An automatic safety rod for a nuclear reactor containing neutron absorbing material and designed to be inserted into a reactor core after a loss-of-flow. Actuation is based upon either a sudden decrease in core pressure drop or the pressure drop decreases below a predetermined minimum value. The automatic control rod includes a pressure regulating device whereby a controlled decrease in operating pressure due to reduced coolant flow does not cause the rod to drop into the core.
Germer, J.H.
John Lygeros Automatic Control Laboratory
Project (STREP), FP7-ICT-611538, start date October 1, 2013. Principal Investigator, Demand Response Department November 1996 - October 1997: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Research
Optimal Filtering, Methods AUTOMATIC CONTROL
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AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING OF IMPROVED PID TUNING RULES Matthew J. Streeter1 University Abstract: Astrom and Hagglund developed tuning rules in 1995 for PID controllers that outperform genetic programming to automatically discover tuning rules for PID controllers that outperform the Astrom
Fernandez, Thomas
Dream controller
A method and apparatus for intelligently controlling continuous process variables. A Dream Controller comprises an Intelligent Engine mechanism and a number of Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) controllers, each of which is suitable to control a process with specific behaviors. The Intelligent Engine can automatically select the appropriate MFA controller and its parameters so that the Dream Controller can be easily used by people with limited control experience and those who do not have the time to commission, tune, and maintain automatic controllers.
Cheng, George Shu-Xing; Mulkey, Steven L; Wang, Qiang; Chow, Andrew J
Automatic insulation resistance testing apparatus
An apparatus and method for automatic measurement of insulation resistances of a multi-conductor cable. In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus comprises a power supply source, an input measuring means, an output measuring means, a plurality of input relay controlled contacts, a plurality of output relay controlled contacts, a relay controller and a computer. In another embodiment of the invention the apparatus comprises a power supply source, an input measuring means, an output measuring means, an input switching unit, an output switching unit and a control unit/data logger. Embodiments of the apparatus of the invention may also incorporate cable fire testing means. The apparatus and methods of the present invention use either voltage or current for input and output measured variables.
Wyant, Francis J.; Nowlen, Steven P.; Luker, Spencer M.
Automatic input rectification
We present a novel technique, automatic input rectification, and a prototype implementation, SOAP. SOAP learns a set of constraints characterizing typical inputs that an application is highly likely to process correctly. ...
Long, Fan
Automatic Input Rectification
We present a novel technique, automatic input rectification, and a prototype implementation called SOAP. SOAP learns a set of constraints characterizing typical inputs that an application is highly likely to process ...
Automatically Restructuring Programs for the Web
Automatically Restructuring Programs for the Web Paul Graunke Northeastern University ptg serverside Web appli cations differs substantially from the construction of tradi tional interactive programs. In contrast, existing Web pro gramming paradigms force programmers to save and re store control
Automatically Restructuring Programs for the Web Paul Graunke Northeastern University ptg server-side Web appli- cations differs substantially from the construction of tradi- tional interactive programs. In contrast, existing Web pro- gramming paradigms force programmers to save and re- store control
Automatic UAV Landing with Ground Target Maintained in the Field of View
Automatic UAV Landing with Ground Target Maintained in the Field of View Laurent Burlion and Henry de Plinval Abstract In this paper, a key feature for UAV visual servoing in automatic land- ing. First, a control law for UAV automatic landing is proposed. Then, the output con- straint method
Automatic toilet seat lowering apparatus
A toilet seat lowering apparatus includes a housing defining an internal cavity for receiving water from the water supply line to the toilet holding tank. A descent delay assembly of the apparatus can include a stationary dam member and a rotating dam member for dividing the internal cavity into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber and controlling the intake and evacuation of water in a delayed fashion. A descent initiator is activated when the internal cavity is filled with pressurized water and automatically begins the lowering of the toilet seat from its upright position, which lowering is also controlled by the descent delay assembly. In an alternative embodiment, the descent initiator and the descent delay assembly can be combined in a piston linked to the rotating dam member and provided with a water channel for creating a resisting pressure to the advancing piston and thereby slowing the associated descent of the toilet seat. A toilet seat lowering apparatus includes a housing defining an internal cavity for receiving water from the water supply line to the toilet holding tank. A descent delay assembly of the apparatus can include a stationary dam member and a rotating dam member for dividing the internal cavity into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber and controlling the intake and evacuation of water in a delayed fashion. A descent initiator is activated when the internal cavity is filled with pressurized water and automatically begins the lowering of the toilet seat from its upright position, which lowering is also controlled by the descent delay assembly. In an alternative embodiment, the descent initiator and the descent delay assembly can be combined in a piston linked to the rotating dam member and provided with a water channel for creating a resisting pressure to the advancing piston and thereby slowing the associated descent of the toilet seat.
Guerty, Harold G. (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
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Turner, D.B.
202 IEEE TRANS.4CTIONS Oh'AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. AC-18,NO. 3, J U K E 1973 Design and Analysis of Boiler-Turbine-Generator
of Boiler-Turbine-Generator Controls Using Optimal Linear Regulator Theory JOHN P. McDOKALD AND HARRY G of a nonlinear mathematical model of a drum-type, twin furnace, reheat boiler-turbine-generator (RBTG) system- tiveoperatingandcontrolstrategies for boiler-t.urbine- generator systems to meet different, system operating ob- jectives. Among
Automatic readout micrometer
A measuring system is disclosed for surveying and very accurately positioning objects with respect to a reference line. A principal use of this surveying system is for accurately aligning the electromagnets which direct a particle beam emitted from a particle accelerator. Prior art surveying systems require highly skilled surveyors. Prior art systems include, for example, optical surveying systems which are susceptible to operator reading errors, and celestial navigation-type surveying systems, with their inherent complexities. The present invention provides an automatic readout micrometer which can very accurately measure distances. The invention has a simplicity of operation which practically eliminates the possibilities of operator optical reading error, owning to the elimination of traditional optical alignments for making measurements. The invention has an extendable arm which carries a laser surveying target. The extendable arm can be continuously positioned over its entire length of travel by either a coarse or fine adjustment without having the fine adjustment outrun the coarse adjustment until a reference laser beam is centered on the target as indicated by a digital readout. The length of the micrometer can then be accurately and automatically read by a computer and compared with a standardized set of alignment measurements. Due to its construction, the micrometer eliminates any errors due to temperature changes when the system is operated within a standard operating temperature range.
Lauritzen, Ted (Lafayette, CA)
Method for automatically scramming a nuclear reactor
An automatically scramming nuclear reactor system. One embodiment comprises a core having a coolant inlet end and a coolant outlet end. A cooling system operatively associated with the core provides coolant to the coolant inlet end and removes heated coolant from the coolant outlet end, thus maintaining a pressure differential therebetween during a normal operating condition of the nuclear reactor system. A guide tube is positioned within the core with a first end of the guide tube in fluid communication with the coolant inlet end of the core, and a second end of the guide tube in fluid communication with the coolant outlet end of the core. A control element is positioned within the guide tube and is movable therein between upper and lower positions, and automatically falls under the action of gravity to the lower position when the pressure differential drops below a safe pressure differential.
Ougouag, Abderrafi M.; Schultz, Richard R.; Terry, William K.
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A Step Towards Automatic Documentation
This paper describes a system which automatically generates program documentation. Starting with a plan generated by analyzing the program, the system computes several kinds of summary information about the program. The ...
Frank, Claude
Shiva automatic pinhole alignment
This paper describes a computer controlled closed loop alignment subsystem for Shiva, which represents the first use of video sensors for large laser alignment at LLNL. The techniques used on this now operational subsystem are serving as the basis for all closed loop alignment on Nova, the 200 terawatt successor to Shiva.
Suski, G.J.
Automatic facial expression analysis
where the attentiveness of the opera- tor is crucial. Examples of such systems are air traffic control, nuclear power plant surveillance, and operating a motor vehicle. An automated tracking tool could make these systems more secure and efficient, be... ; assistive tech- 15 1. Introduction nologies for diagnosing conditions such as depression; and systems that monitor drivers or pilots for boredom. Reliable automated recognition of human emotions is crucial before the development of affect sensitive systems...
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Automatic caption generation for news images�
This thesis is concerned with the task of automatically generating captions for images, which is important for many image-related applications. Automatic description generation for video frames would help security ...
Feng, Yansong
Automatic Eyeglasses Removal from Face Images
Automatic Eyeglasses Removal from Face Images Chenyu Wu, Ce Liu, Heung-Yueng Shum, Member, IEEE an intelligent image editing and face synthesis system that automatically removes eyeglasses from an input frontal face image. Although conventional image editing tools can be used to remove eyeglasses by pixel
Narasayya, Vivek
Automatic Mechetronic Wheel Light Device
A wheel lighting device for illuminating a wheel of a vehicle to increase safety and enhance aesthetics. The device produces the appearance of a "ring of light" on a vehicle's wheels as the vehicle moves. The "ring of light" can automatically change in color and/or brightness according to a vehicle's speed, acceleration, jerk, selection of transmission gears, and/or engine speed. The device provides auxiliary indicator lights by producing light in conjunction with a vehicle's turn signals, hazard lights, alarm systems, and etc. The device comprises a combination of mechanical and electronic components and can be placed on the outer or inner surface of a wheel or made integral to a wheel or wheel cover. The device can be configured for all vehicle types, and is electrically powered by a vehicle's electrical system and/or battery.
Khan, Mohammed John Fitzgerald (Silver Spring, MD)
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: decentralized control, discrete event systems, manufacturing automation, observability, supervisory control , . SCP . 3 , 2 AGV(Automatic Guided-Vehicle), NC(Nu- merical Controlled) , CIM
Industrial Applications of Networked Control Karl H. Johansson
of turbine + heater Automatic control of ventilation fans � Mining consists of drilling, blasting, ore control of turbine + heater Controller Turbine- Ventilation Fan Tubes- Primary system Secondary system network rooms Pressure WSN Mobile WSN Automatic control of ventilation fans � Mobility and reconfiguration
H2-optimal Anti-Windup Performance in SISO Control Systems Stefan RonnbackA and Mikael SternadS
D thesis, Division of Automatic Control, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, 1993. 2] M. Sternad and S
Automatic tuning of continuous-time filters
Integrated high-Q continuous-time filters require adaptive tuning circuits that will correct the filter parameters such as center frequency and quality factor (Q). Three different automatic tuning techniques are introduced. In all of the proposed...
Sumesaglam, Taner
Mobi : automatic customization of the mobile Web
Mobi is a system that automatically rewrites web pages into formats optimized for web browsing on mobile devices. The system estimates heuristically which parts of a web page's content users are most likely interested in, ...
Chan, Richard W., M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Automatic program timing profiles with FTN4
Design of a scheme for producing execution timing profiles of FORTRAN programs automatically is proposed with a recommendation to implement it as an option to the compiler. An experimental implementation on the LBL 7600 is also described. 1 figure.
Friedman, R.
Automatic 5-axis NC toolpath generation
Despite over a decade of research, automatic toolpath generation has remained an elusive goal for 5-axis NC machining. This thesis describes the theoretical and practical issues associated with generating collision free ...
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Pronunciation learning for automatic speech recognition
In many ways, the lexicon remains the Achilles heel of modern automatic speech recognizers (ASRs). Unlike stochastic acoustic and language models that learn the values of their parameters from training data, the baseform ...
Badr, Ibrahim
Automatic system for regulating the frequency and power of the 500 MW coal-dust power generating units at the Reftinskaya GRES
The monitoring and control systems at the 500 MW coal-dust power generating units No. 7, 8, and 9 at the Reftinskaya GRES have been modernized using information-regulator systems. Layouts for instrumental construction of these systems and expanded algorithmic schemes for the automatic frequency and power control system and for the boiler supply and fuelling are discussed. Results from tests and normal operation of the automatic frequency and power control system are presented.
Bilenko, V. A.; Gal'perina, A. I.; Mikushevich, E. E.; Nikol'skii, D. Yu. [JSC 'Interavtomatka' (Russian Federation); Zhugrin, A. G.; Bebenin, P. A.; Syrchin, M. V. [JSC 'Reftinskaya GRES' (Russian Federation)
Tri-Met's Experience With Automatic Passenger Counter and Automatic Vehicle Location Systems
on an earlier draft. #12;Introduction The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriTri-Met's Experience With Automatic Passenger Counter and Automatic Vehicle Location Systems James State University Portland, OR 97207 This report is benefited from interviews of Tri-Met staff involved
Bertini, Robert L.
Mdp Optimal Control under Temporal Logic Constraints
In this paper, we develop a method to automatically generate a control policy for a dynamical system modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The control specification is given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula ...
Ding, Xu Chu
The automatic reconfiguration of electric shipboard power systems is an important step toward improved
are envisioned by redes- igning the electric power system and its controls. This research focuses on a new schemeABSTRACT The automatic reconfiguration of electric shipboard power systems is an important step answer for a decentralized energy management system of the electric shipboard power system is addressed
Lai, Hong-jian
A computer test bench for checking and adjusting the automatic regulators of generator excitation systems
A computer test bench for testing and debugging natural samples of the automatic excitation regulation systems of generators, the protection units and the power part of the excitation system is described. The bench includes a personal computer with specialized input-output circuit boards for analog and digital signals, and enables the time and cost involved in developing and checking control systems to be reduced considerably. The program employed operates in real time and enables the automatic excitation regulators of synchronous generators and generators with longitudinal-transverse excitation in a specific power system to be adjusted.
Dovganyuk, I. Ya.; Labunets, I. A.; Plotnikova, T. V.; Sokur, P. V. [Affiliate of the 'NTTs Elektroenergetiki' Company - Scientific Research Institute of Electric Power (VNIIE) (Russian Federation)
Automatically processed alpha-track radon monitor
An automatically processed alpha-track radon monitor is provided which includes a housing having an aperture allowing radon entry, and a filter that excludes the entry of radon daughters into the housing. A flexible track registration material is located within the housing that records alpha-particle emissions from the decay of radon and radon daughters inside the housing. The flexible track registration material is capable of being spliced such that the registration material from a plurality of monitors can be spliced into a single strip to facilitate automatic processing of the registration material from the plurality of monitors. A process for the automatic counting of radon registered by a radon monitor is also provided.
Langner, G.H. Jr.
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Development of an automatic marine corer
of the Texas A&M Automatic Marine Corer was continued in June, 1971. The ob]ectives of. this development phase of the corer were (a) to evaluate components within the unit with special consideration given to strength, longevity and ease of production.... The present work will be referred to as Phase III. The ob)ectives of Phase III were the further development of the Texas A&M Automatic Marine Corer. In particular, these ob]ectives were (a) to evaluate components within the unit with special con...
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Automatic Fish Classification for Underwater Species Behavior Understanding
Automatic Fish Classification for Underwater Species Behavior Understanding Concetto Spampinato an automatic fish classi- fication system that operates in the natural underwater en- vironment to assist marine biologists in understanding fish behavior. Fish classification is performed by combining two types
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Automatically Generating Plans for Manufacturing* Billy Harris
Automatically Generating Plans for Manufacturing* Billy Harris Diane J. Cook Frank Lewis§ January of action. ORGANIZATION LEVEL COORDINATION LEVEL EXECUTION LEVEL A B S T R A C T I O N P R E C I S I O N
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Architecture of an Automatic Tuned Linear Algebra
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Automatic Red Eye Removal for Digital Photography
Chapter 1 Automatic Red Eye Removal for Digital Photography FRANCESCA GASPARINI DISCo, Dipartimento The red eye effect is a well known problem in photography. It is often seen in amateur shots taken with a built-in flash, but the problem is also well known to professional photographers. Red eye is the red
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Adaptive Web Sites: Automatically Synthesizing Web Pages
Adaptive Web Sites: Automatically Synthesizing Web Pages Mike Perkowitz Oren Etzioni Department interfaces Abstract The creation of a complex web site is a thorny problem in user interface design. In IJCAI '97, we challenged the AI community to address this problem by creating adaptive web sites: sites
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Automatic TLI recognition system, general description
This report is a general description of an automatic target recognition system developed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for the Department of Energy. A user`s manual is a separate volume, Automatic TLI Recognition System, User`s Guide, and a programmer`s manual is Automatic TLI Recognition System, Programmer`s Guide. This system was designed as an automatic target recognition system for fast screening of large amounts of multi-sensor image data, based on low-cost parallel processors. This system naturally incorporates image data fusion, and it gives uncertainty estimates. It is relatively low cost, compact, and transportable. The software is easily enhanced to expand the system`s capabilities, and the hardware is easily expandable to increase the system`s speed. In addition to its primary function as a trainable target recognition system, this is also a versatile, general-purpose tool for image manipulation and analysis, which can be either keyboard-driven or script-driven. This report includes descriptions of three variants of the computer hardware, a description of the mathematical basis if the training process, and a description with examples of the system capabilities.
Lassahn, G.D.
Automatic Video Shot Detection from MPEG Stream
Automatic Video Shot Detection from MPEG Stream Jianping Fan Department of Computer Science;Why we need video shots? a. Text Retrieval: Keyword Extraction Indexing Document Storage Reverse File Indexing #12;Why we need video shots? b. Database Query: Entity Extraction sid name login age gpa 53666
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Automatic TLI recognition system, user`s guide
This report describes how to use an automatic target recognition system (version 14). In separate volumes are a general description of the ATR system, Automatic TLI Recognition System, General Description, and a programmer`s manual, Automatic TLI Recognition System, Programmer`s Guide.
Automatic Feed-processing Control with Electronic Weighing.
111 starting or stopping a motor, a time interval lr quired for mixing or a pause of one auger tint11 another auger catches up. Satisfactory circuit5 fol the mentioned cases and for many others have lo~iq been in existence. Thus, standard relays... from the weigh tank. Each of the storage bins hat1 an auger running from their ho~)per bottom to a point just above the weigh tank. One of the storage tanks was arbitrarily labeled A ant1 the other R. Grain from A and R was augerecl into the weigh...
McGinty, Ralph J.; Hobgood, Price
Automatic diagnosis of multiple alarms for reactor-control rooms
A system has been developed at the Savannah River Plant to help reactor operators respond to multiple alarms in a developing incident situation. The need for such systems has become evident in recent years, particularly after the three Mile Island incident.
Gimmy, K.L.; Nomm, E.
An automatic cutting height control system for a sugarcane harvester
). . . . . 53 22. 23. Effect of the soil-stalk weight factor on the ground average, and the stalk average A comparison of Avg and Avs calculated from laboratory data with both real numbers, and integer numbers. . . . . . . 57 24 . A graph of a portion... factor, W. By calculating the difference between Avg and Avs, as equation (5) shows, the height of the sugarcane stubble remaining after cutting, 0, was to be determined. D = Avg - Avs (5) where: D - the height of the sugarcane stubble remaining...
Hale, Scott Andrew
Automatic Control System of Car-Bottom Reheating Furnace
At present China has large quantities of two-regenerator gas reheating furnaces which are old in fashion and low in calorific efficiency. Therefore, the question how to increase the calorific efficiency is very much concerned on condition...
Xueqiao, M.; Weilian, X.; Hongchen, Z.
An automatic control system for a laboratory precipitation process
) 200 mg/1 (from CaC12) 2000 mg/1 (from Na2504) 150 mg/1 (from Na25105~9H20) 5000 mg/1 (additional TDS from NaC1) 50 mg/1 as CaCOS (from NaHCOS) 1025 mg/1 25 at the top for the pH probe and the lime feed tubing. The time interval of the flow...
Burnett, Mary Alice
to appear AAAI '96 Declarative Camera Control for Automatic Cinematography
by audiences; nonetheless, they are every bit as essential as they are invisible. Most interactive 3D computer of the heuristics found in a #12;lm textbook. We also present a Camera Planning System (cps), which accepts animation traces as input and returns complete camera speci#12;cations. The cps contains a domain
Washington at Seattle, University of
VI International SAUM Conference on Systems, Automatic Control and Measurements
, aircrafts, robots, electrical cir cuits, power systems, nuclear reactors, chemical reactors, dc thousand journal papers and more than twenty books were published by engineering and mathematics
Gajic, Zoran
Automatic transformations in the inference process
A technique for incorporating automatic transformations into processes such as the application of inference rules, subsumption, and demodulation provides a mechanism for improving search strategies for theorem proving problems arising from the field of program verification. The incorporation of automatic transformations into the inference process can alter the search space for a given problem, and is particularly useful for problems having broad rather than deep proofs. The technique can also be used to permit the generation of inferences that might otherwise be blocked and to build some commutativity or associativity into the unification process. Appropriate choice of transformations, and new literal clashing and unification algorithms for applying them, showed significant improvement on several real problems according to several distinct criteria. 22 references, 1 figure.
Veroff, R. L.
Automatic CX Tool for Electrical Building
under Matlab [MATLAB, 2005]. This environment was selected for its capacity to use complex matrixes. Its goal is to help the designers and Cx providers to test and evaluate energy performance of an electrical building. The objective of the tool... period, the hourly programming of the lighting and the hourly programming of the heating. Results of automatic FTPs are presented in graphs or tables. Electricity tariff structure As first example, the graph on Figure 8 shows the electric load...
Couillaud, N.; Jandon, M.; Viaud, B.; Clemoncon, B.
Automatic detection of sweep-meshable volumes
A method of and software for automatically determining whether a mesh can be generated by sweeping for a representation of a geometric solid comprising: classifying surface mesh schemes for surfaces of the representation locally using surface vertex types; grouping mappable and submappable surfaces of the representation into chains; computing volume edge types for the representation; recursively traversing surfaces of the representation and grouping the surfaces into source, target, and linking surface lists; and checking traversal direction when traversing onto linking surfaces.
Tautges; Timothy J. (Madison, WI), White; David R. (Pittsburgh, PA)
Neural daylight control system
The paper describes the design, the implementation of a neural controller used in an automatic daylight control system. The automatic lighting control system (ALCS) attempt to maintain constant the illuminance at the desired level on working plane even if the daylight contribution is variable. Therefore, the daylight will represent the perturbation signal for the ALCS. The mathematical model of process is unknown. The applied structure of control need the inverse model of process. For this purpose it was used other artificial neural network (ANN) which identify the inverse model of process in an on-line manner. In fact, this ANN identify the inverse model of process + the perturbation signal. In this way the learning signal for neural controller has a better accuracy for the present application.
Grif, Horatiu Stefan
Recent advances in automatic alignment system for the National Iginition Facility
The automatic alignment system for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a large-scale parallel system that directs all 192 laser beams along the 300-m optical path to a 50-micron focus at target chamber in less than 50 minutes. The system automatically commands 9,000 stepping motors to adjust mirrors and other optics based upon images acquired from high-resolution digital cameras viewing beams at various locations. Forty-five control loops per beamline request image processing services running on a LINUX cluster to analyze these images of the beams and references, and automaticallys teer the beams toward the target. This paper discusses the upgrades to the NIF automatic alignment system to handle new alignment needs and evolving requirements as related to various types of experiments performed. As NIF becomes a continuously-operated system and more experiments are performed, performance monitoring is increasingly important for maintenance and commissioning work. Data, collected during operations, is analyzed for tuning of the laser and targeting maintenance work. handling evolving alignment and maintenance needs is expected for the planned 30-year operational life of NIF.
Wilhelmsen, K; Awwal, A; Kalantar, D; Leach, R; Lowe-Webb, R; McGuigan, D; Kamm, V
Control design of Santo Tome back-to-back HVDC link
This paper describes the control design of the Santo tome' back-to-back HVDC link. The Santo Tome' HVDC converter will be the second dc link asynchronously connecting the Argentina and Brazil power systems. This paper focuses on the design of the reactive power control, automatic power control, load frequency control, power modulation control, automatic frequency control, and automatic synchronizing control functions of the 50 MW dc link. Time simulation and frequency domain results are included to illustrate the system response and verify the adequacy of the controllers performance in achieving stable operating conditions.
Rostamkolai, N.; Wegner, C.A.; Piwko, R.J.; Elahi, H.; Eitzmann, M.A. (GE Industrial and Power Systems, Schenectady, NY (United States)); Garzi, G.; Tietz, P. (Ansaldo Industria, Genova (Italy))
Power and Frequency Control as it Relates to Wind-Powered Generation
Undrill. 1975. "Automatic Generation Control", IEEE Tutorialfraction of generation providing response grid. The adjustment of generation, minute-by- minute, in
Lacommare, Kristina S H
Automatic generation of executable communication specifications from parallel applications
Portable parallel benchmarks are widely used and highly effective for (a) the evaluation, analysis and procurement of high-performance computing (HPC) systems and (b) quantifying the potential benefits of porting applications for new hardware platforms. Yet, past techniques to synthetically parameterized hand-coded HPC benchmarks prove insufficient for today's rapidly-evolving scientific codes particularly when subject to multi-scale science modeling or when utilizing domain-specific libraries. To address these problems, this work contributes novel methods to automatically generate highly portable and customizable communication benchmarks from HPC applications. We utilize ScalaTrace, a lossless, yet scalable, parallel application tracing framework to collect selected aspects of the run-time behavior of HPC applications, including communication operations and execution time, while abstracting away the details of the computation proper. We subsequently generate benchmarks with identical run-time behavior from the collected traces. A unique feature of our approach is that we generate benchmarks in CONCEPTUAL, a domain-specific language that enables the expression of sophisticated communication patterns using a rich and easily understandable grammar yet compiles to ordinary C + MPI. Experimental results demonstrate that the generated benchmarks are able to preserve the run-time behavior - including both the communication pattern and the execution time - of the original applications. Such automated benchmark generation is particularly valuable for proprietary, export-controlled, or classified application codes: when supplied to a third party. Our auto-generated benchmarks ensure performance fidelity but without the risks associated with releasing the original code. This ability to automatically generate performance-accurate benchmarks from parallel applications is novel and without any precedence, to our knowledge.
Pakin, Scott [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Wu, Xing [NCSU; Mueller, Frank [NCSU
IMAGE-BASED VISUAL SERVOING FOR VANISHING FEATURES AND GROUND LINES TRACKING: APPLICATION TO A UAV the feasibility of a vision-based guidance for a UAV model during survey missions and for automatic landing aerial vehicle (UAV), auto-landing, dynamic modeling, robust control Corresponding author. Email: Patrick
Paris-Sud XI, Université de
Automatic Tube Cleaning Systems for Condensers and Heat Exchangers
AUTOMATIC TUBE CLEANING SYSTEMS FOR CONDENSERS AND HEAT EXCHANGERS Kaveh Someah/V.P. Sales & Mktg. WSA Engineered Systems, Milwaukee, WI (414) 354-6470 ABSTRACT The on-line Automatic Tube Cleaning Systems (ATCS) for condensers and heat... exchangers provide a positive means for automatic cleaning on a continuous basis, while the exchanger or condenser remains "on stream" and at its full operating potential. Condenser tube fouling contributes up to 50% of the total condenser tube heat...
Someah, K.
Janus: Automatic Ontology Builder from XSD Files
The construction of a reference ontology for a large domain still remains an hard human task. The process is sometimes assisted by software tools that facilitate the information extraction from a textual corpus. Despite of the great use of XML Schema files on the internet and especially in the B2B domain, tools that offer a complete semantic analysis of XML schemas are really rare. In this paper we introduce Janus, a tool for automatically building a reference knowledge base starting from XML Schema files. Janus also provides different useful views to simplify B2B application integration.
Bedini, Ivan; Gardarin, Georges
Self-assessing target with automatic feedback
A self assessing target with four quadrants and a method of use thereof. Each quadrant containing possible causes for why shots are going into that particular quadrant rather than the center mass of the target. Each possible cause is followed by a solution intended to help the marksman correct the problem causing the marksman to shoot in that particular area. In addition, the self assessing target contains possible causes for general shooting errors and solutions to the causes of the general shooting error. The automatic feedback with instant suggestions and corrections enables the shooter to improve their marksmanship.
Larkin, Stephen W.; Kramer, Robert L.
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Direct Digital Control- A Tool for Energy Management of HVAC Systems
Direct digital control (DDC) applied to heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems corrects many of the deficiencies of conventional automatic temperature control systems. By applying new control sequences, DDC optimizes HVAC energy...
Swanson, K.
Development of tools for automatic generation of PLC code
This Master thesis was performed at CERN and more specifically in the EN-ICE-PLC section. The Thesis describes the integration of two PLC platforms, that are based on CODESYS development tool, to the CERN defined industrial framework, UNICOS. CODESYS is a development tool for PLC programming, based on IEC 61131-3 standard, and is adopted by many PLC manufacturers. The two PLC development environments are, the SoMachine from Schneider and the TwinCAT from Beckhoff. The two CODESYS compatible PLCs, should be controlled by the SCADA system of Siemens, WinCC OA. The framework includes a library of Function Blocks (objects) for the PLC programs and a software for automatic generation of the PLC code based on this library, called UAB. The integration aimed to give a solution that is shared by both PLC platforms and was based on the PLCOpen XML scheme. The developed tools were demonstrated by creating a control application for both PLC environments and testing of the behavior of the code of the library.
Koutli, Maria; Rochez, Jacques
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Friedman, Richard.
Fully-automatic laser welding and micro-sculpting with universal in situ inline coherent imaging
Though new affordable high power laser technologies make possible many processing applications in science and industry, depth control remains a serious technical challenge. Here we show that inline coherent imaging, with line rates up to 312 kHz and microsecond-duration capture times, is capable of directly measuring laser penetration depth in a process as violent as kW-class keyhole welding. We exploit ICI's high speed, high dynamic range and robustness to interference from other optical sources to achieve fully automatic, adaptive control of laser welding as well as ablation, achieving micron-scale sculpting in vastly different heterogeneous biological materials.
Webster, Paul J L; Ji, Yang; Galbraith, Christopher M; Kinross, Alison W; Van Vlack, Cole; Fraser, James M
Modular Verification of Timed Circuits Using Automatic Abstraction
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Zheng, Hao
Semi-Automatic Image Annotation Using Event and Torso Identification
Semi-Automatic Image Annotation Using Event and Torso Identification Bongwon Suh, Benjamin B. Bulk annotation, where multiple images are annotated at once, is a desired feature for image management for automatically creating meaningful image clusters for efficient bulk annotation. These techniques are not perfect
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Automatic Generation of Implementations For Object-Oriented Abstractions
-purpose code transformation system, the POET system, for the purpose of automatic code genera- tion from high then use the POET system to au- tomatically translate the behavior specifications to type-safe OO implementations in Java or C++. Finally, we use the POET system to automatically translate the behavior speci
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TR-IIS-07-002 Automatic Derivation of
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Towards Fully Automatic Placement of Security Sanitizers and Declassifiers
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Character String Predicate Based Automatic Software Test Data Generation
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Automatic feed system for ultrasonic machining
Method and apparatus for ultrasonic machining in which feeding of a tool assembly holding a machining tool toward a workpiece is accomplished automatically. In ultrasonic machining, a tool located just above a workpiece and vibrating in a vertical direction imparts vertical movement to particles of abrasive material which then remove material from the workpiece. The tool does not contact the workpiece. Apparatus for moving the tool assembly vertically is provided such that it operates with a relatively small amount of friction. Adjustable counterbalance means is provided which allows the tool to be immobilized in its vertical travel. A downward force, termed overbalance force, is applied to the tool assembly. The overbalance force causes the tool to move toward the workpiece as material is removed from the workpiece.
Calkins, Noel C. (Los Alamos, NM)
Automatic identification of abstract online groups
Online abstract groups, in which members aren't explicitly connected, can be automatically identified by computer-implemented methods. The methods involve harvesting records from social media and extracting content-based and structure-based features from each record. Each record includes a social-media posting and is associated with one or more entities. Each feature is stored on a data storage device and includes a computer-readable representation of an attribute of one or more records. The methods further involve grouping records into record groups according to the features of each record. Further still the methods involve calculating an n-dimensional surface representing each record group and defining an outlier as a record having feature-based distances measured from every n-dimensional surface that exceed a threshold value. Each of the n-dimensional surfaces is described by a footprint that characterizes the respective record group as an online abstract group.
Engel, David W; Gregory, Michelle L; Bell, Eric B; Cowell, Andrew J; Piatt, Andrew W
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Automatic target recognition apparatus and method
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Baumgart, Chris W. (Santa Fe, NM); Ciarcia, Christopher A. (Los Alamos, NM)
Automatic Analysis of Plot for Story Rewriting Harry Halpin
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Chang, Hung-An, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Security Requirements for Classified Automatic Data Processing Systems
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To establish and describe the computer security program for classified automatic data processing (ADP) systems at the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters. This directive does not cancel another directive. Canceled by DOE N 251.9.
The Effects of Automatic Emotion Regulation on the Desirability Bias
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University of Kentucky Automatic Bank Draft Donation Agreement
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Automatic calibration of modulated fractional-N frequency synthesizers
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McMahill, Dan
Algorithms for the Automatic Identification of MARFEs and UFOs in JET Database of Visible Camera Videos
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A Power Control System for a Paper Mill
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Nova laser alignment control system
Alignment of the Nova laser requires control of hundreds of optical components in the ten beam paths. Extensive application of computer technology makes daily alignment practical. The control system is designed in a manner which provides both centralized and local manual operator controls integrated with automatic closed loop alignment. Menudriven operator consoles using high resolution color graphics displays overlaid with transport touch panels allow laser personnel to interact efficiently with the computer system. Automatic alignment is accomplished by using image analysis techniques to determine beam references points from video images acquired along the laser chain. A major goal of the design is to contribute substantially to rapid experimental turnaround and consistent alignment results. This paper describes the computer-based control structure and the software methods developed for aligning this large laser system.
Van Arsdall, P.J.; Holloway, F.W.; McGuigan, D.L.; Shelton, R.T.
SUBMITTED TO IEEE TRANSACTION ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL 1 Statistical Control for Performance Shaping
the mean at a pre- specified level. Generalizing this idea, a finite linear combination of the cost the cost distribution. The cost function is related to the performance of the system such as energy, fuel using Cost Cumulants Bei Kang, Member, IEEE, Chukwuemeka Aduba, Member, IEEE, and Chang-Hee Won, Member
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Fault tolerant control of automatically controlled vehicles in response to brake system failures
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Hsien, Li-Wei
Control of household refrigerators. Part 1: Modeling temperature control performance
Commercial household refrigerators use simple, cost-effective, temperature controllers to obtain acceptable control. A manually adjusted airflow damper regulates the freezer compartment temperature while a thermostat controls operation of the compressor and evaporator fan to regulate refrigerator compartment temperature. Dual compartment temperature control can be achieved with automatic airflow dampers that function independently of the compressor and evaporator fan thermostat, resulting in improved temperature control quality and energy consumption. Under dual control, freezer temperature is controlled by the thermostat while the damper controls refrigerator temperature by regulating airflow circulation. A simulation model is presented that analyzes a household refrigerator configured with a conventional thermostat and both manual and automatic dampers. The model provides a new paradigm for investigating refrigerator systems and temperature control performance relative to the extensive verification testing that is typically done by manufacturers. The effects of each type of control and damper configuration are compared with respect to energy usage, control quality, and ambient temperature shift criteria. The results indicate that the appropriate control configuration can have significant effects and can improve plant performance.
Graviss, K.J.; Collins, R.L.
Numerical control user experience
AUTOCON is an acronym for Automatic Contouring, a program which generates a contour toolpath for the external profile of printed writing boards (PWB) using ICEM DDN. AUTOCON originates from the Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) Procedure developed by Electrical Manufacturing at Allied Bendix. The CAPP program uses electronically transmitted graphics files received from a design agency to generate automatic panel layouts and travellers for Process Engineers. The objective of AUTOCON is to utilize the information from the CAPP program to generate Numerical Control tapes. If the CAPP program can be utilized to its full potential, it is estimated that a good portion of the 60 to 90 PWB tapes shipped each month from our Numerical Control Department could be eliminated from conventional N/C Programming. The purpose of AUTOCON is to automatically generate a toolpath around the external profile of a PWB with no user intervention. The Process Engineer can generate a profile contour N/C tape after he has completed the panel layout and traveller through CAPPS for a part. After the layout and traveller illustrations have been completed, the same geometry can then be utilized again for the N/C tape. An N/C Analysist then reviews the listing for a final checkout of the job. 13 figs.
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Automatic sample Dewar for MX beam-line
It is very common for crystals of large biological macromolecules to show considerable variation in quality of their diffraction. In order to increase the number of samples that are tested for diffraction quality before any full data collections at the ESRF*, an automatic sample Dewar has been implemented. Conception and performances of the Dewar are reported in this paper. The automatic sample Dewar has 240 samples capability with automatic loading/unloading ports. The storing Dewar is capable to work with robots and it can be integrated in a full automatic MX** beam-line. The samples are positioned in the front of the loading/unloading ports with and automatic rotating plate. A view port has been implemented for data matrix camera reading on each sample loaded in the Dewar. At last, the Dewar is insulated with polyurethane foam that keeps the liquid nitrogen consumption below 1.6 L/h. At last, the static insulation also makes vacuum equipment and maintenance unnecessary. This Dewar will be useful for increasing the number of samples tested in synchrotrons.
Charignon, T.; Tanchon, J.; Trollier, T.; Ravex, A. [Absolut-System, Meylan, 38240 (France); Theveneau, P. [European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, 38000 (France)
2011 Status of the Automatic Alignment System for the National Ignition Facility
Automated alignment for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is accomplished using a large-scale parallel control system that directs 192 laser beams along the 300-m optical path. The beams are then focused down to a 50-micron spot in the middle of the target chamber. The entire process is completed in less than 50 minutes. The alignment system commands 9,000 stepping motors for highly accurate adjustment of mirrors and other optics. 41 control loops per beamline perform parallel processing services running on a LINUX cluster to analyze high-resolution images of the beams and their references. This paper describes the status the NIF automatic alignment system and the challenges encountered as NIF development has transitioned from building the laser, to becoming a research project supporting a 24 hour, 7 day laser facility. NIF is now a continuously operated system where performance monitoring is increasingly more critical for operation, maintenance, and commissioning tasks. Equipment wear and the effects of high energy neutrons from fusion experiments are issues which alter alignment efficiency and accuracy. New sensors needing automatic alignment assistance are common. System modifications to improve efficiency and accuracy are prevalent. Handling these evolving alignment and maintenance needs while minimizing the impact on NIF experiment schedule is expected to be an on-going challenge for the planned 30 year operational life of NIF.
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A QUALITY CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR BUS SCHEDULE RELIABILITY JIE LIN*, University of Illinois Institute A QUALITY CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR BUS SCHEDULE RELIABILITY Abstract This paper develops and demonstrates a quality control framework for bus schedule reliability. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) devices
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A Real-Time Control Approach for Mine Climate
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Boyer, Edmond
Acoustic emission feedback control for control of boiling in a microwave oven
An acoustic emission based feedback system for controlling the boiling level of a liquid medium in a microwave oven is provided. The acoustic emissions from the medium correlated with surface boiling is used to generate a feedback control signal proportional to the level of boiling of the medium. This signal is applied to a power controller to automatically and continuoulsly vary the power applied to the oven to control the boiling at a selected level.
White, Terry L. (Oak Ridge, TN)
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Automatic 3D modeling of palatal plaster casts Marco Andreetto
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Automatic selection of tuning parameters in wind power prediction
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Exploring Reliability for Automatic Identity Verification with Statistical Shape Models
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Invited Editorial Manually structured digital abstracts: A scaffold for automatic
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Early expensive in automatic operation of the Sandia 17-m vertical axis research wind turbine (VAWT) has demonstrated the need for a systematic study of control algorithms. To this end, a computer model has been developed that uses actual wind time series and turbine performance data to calculate the power produced by the Sandia 17-m VAWT operating in automatic control. The model has been used to investigate the influence of starting algorithms on annual energy production. The results indicate that, depending on turbine and local wind characteristics, a bad choice of a control algorithm can significantly reduce overall energy production. The model can be used to select control algorithms and threshold parameters that maximize long-term energy production. An attempt has been made to generalize these results from local site and turbine characteristics to obtain general guidelines for control algorithm design.
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Human-system Interfaces for Automatic Systems
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Saving lighting energy with a ''wireless'' controller
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Automated manual transmission controller
A powertrain system for a hybrid vehicle. The hybrid vehicle includes a heat engine, such as a diesel engine, and an electric machine, which operates as both an electric motor and an alternator, to power the vehicle. The hybrid vehicle also includes a manual-style transmission configured to operate as an automatic transmission from the perspective of the driver. The engine and the electric machine drive an input shaft which in turn drives an output shaft of the transmission. In addition to driving the transmission, the electric machine regulates the speed of the input shaft in order to synchronize the input shaft during either an upshift or downshift of the transmission by either decreasing or increasing the speed of the input shaft. When decreasing the speed of the input shaft, the electric motor functions as an alternator to produce electrical energy which may be stored by a storage device. Operation of the transmission is controlled by a transmission controller which receives input signals and generates output signals to control shift and clutch motors to effect smooth launch, upshift shifts, and downshifts of the transmission, so that the transmission functions substantially as an automatic transmission from the perspective of the driver, while internally substantially functioning as a manual transmission.
Lawrie, Robert E. (Whitmore Lake, MI); Reed, Jr., Richard G. (Royal Oak, MI); Bernier, David R. (Rochester Hills, MI)
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Schaich, P.C.; Sengupta, S.K.; Ziock, K.P. [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)] [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); Clark, G.A. [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)] [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); [Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing
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Hadri, Bilel [ORNL; Fahey, Mark R [ORNL
An integrated system for real-time Model Predictive Control of humanoid robots
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Remote Automatic Material On-Line Sensor
Low cost NMR sensor for measuring moisture content of forest products. The Department of Energy (DOE) Industries of the Future (IOF) program seeks development and implementation of technologies that make industry more efficient--in particular, more energy-efficient. Quantum Magnetics, Inc. (QM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of GE Security, received an award under the program to investigate roles for low-cost Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology in furtherance of these goals. Most NMR systems are designed for high-resolution spectroscopy applications. These systems use intense magnetic fields produced by superconducting magnets that drive price and operating cost to levels beyond industry tolerance. At low magnetic fields, achievable at low cost, one loses the ability to obtain spectroscopic information. However, measuring the time constants associated with the NMR signal, called NMR relaxometry, gives indications of chemical and physical states of interest to process control and optimization. It was the purpose of this effort to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of using such low-field, low-cost NMR to monitor parameters enabling greater process efficiencies. The primary target industry identified in the Cooperative Development Agreement was the wood industry, where the moisture content of wood is a key process parameter from the time the cut tree enters a mill until the time it is delivered as pieces of lumber. Extracting the moisture is energy consuming, and improvements in drying efficiency stand to reduce costs and emissions substantially. QM designed and developed a new, low-cost NMR instrument suitable for inspecting lumber up to 3 inches by 12 inches in cross section, and other materials of similar size. Low cost is achieved via an inexpensive, permanent magnet and low-cost NMR spectrometer electronics. Laboratory testing demonstrated that the NMR system is capable of accurate ({+-} 0.5%) measurements of the moisture content of wood for moisture ranging from 2% to over 140% (referenced to the wood's dry weight). Accuracy exceeded that offered by existing instrumentation when the moisture content was in excess of the fiber saturation point ({approx}20%). Accuracy was independent of the wood form: solid wood, wood chips or sawdust. The prototype NMR system was designed and built for incorporation and use in a beta test site. Beta testing is under way at the pilot plant operated by the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PAPRICAN) in Vancouver, B.C. Other industries were also investigated. For example, laboratory testing demonstrated that low-field NMR is capable of measuring the hydrogen content of calcium oxide (quicklime). Hydrogen content measurement can be done both rapidly (on the order of 1 second) and nondestructively. Measurement of moisture in quicklime affects energy consumption in the steel industry. Further advances in system electronics, ongoing under DOD support, will enable yet more substantial system cost reductions over the prototype system, opening up a wider range of utility.
Magnuson, Erik
2014-06-09 Issuance: Energy Conservation Standards for Automatic Commercial Ice Makers; Notice of Public Meeting
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TREAT Reactor Control and Protection System
The main control algorithm of the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) Automatic Reactor Control System (ARCS) resides in Read Only Memory (ROM) and only experiment specific parameters are input via keyboard entry. Prior to executing an experiment, the software and hardware of the control computer is tested by a closed loop real-time simulation. Two computers with parallel processing are used for the reactor simulation and another computer is used for simulation of the control rod system. A monitor computer, used as a redundant diverse reactor protection channel, uses more conservative setpoints and reduces challenges to the Reactor Trip System (RTS). The RTS consists of triplicated hardwired channels with one out of three logic. The RTS is automatically tested by a digital Dedicated Microprocessor Tester (DMT) prior to the execution of an experiment. 6 refs., 5 figs., 1 tab.
Lipinski, W.C.; Brookshier, W.K.; Burrows, D.R.; Lenkszus, F.R.; McDowell, W.P.
Robust adaptive control of HVDC systems
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Reeve, J.; Sultan, M. (Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada))
Control optimization of the cryoplant warm compressor station for EAST
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Zhuang, M.; Hu, L. B.; Zhou, Z. W.; Xia, G. H. [Cryogenic Engineering Division, Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 1126,Shushanhu Road 350, Hefei, Anhui 230031 (China)
Rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis
Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an individual document by delimiters, stop words, or both in order to identify candidate keywords. Word scores for each word within the candidate keywords are then calculated based on a function of co-occurrence degree, co-occurrence frequency, or both. Based on a function of the word scores for words within the candidate keyword, a keyword score is calculated for each of the candidate keywords. A portion of the candidate keywords are then extracted as keywords based, at least in part, on the candidate keywords having the highest keyword scores.
Rose, Stuart J (Richland, WA); Cowley,; Wendy E (Richland, WA); Crow, Vernon L (Richland, WA); Cramer, Nicholas O (Richland, WA)
Automatic Testing Tool for OSCAR Using System-level Virtualization
To ensure quality, software development has to include testing mechanisms. OSCAR today supports several Linux distributions and several architectures. In such a context, the release cycle suffers of a important overhead created by the testing and stabilization phase. To address this issue, an approach is to implement a tool for automatic testing. This paper presents such a tool which is based on the OSCAR command line interface. This tool, based on system-level virtualization techniques, creates a virtual cluster to perform the test. This approach has the benefit of not corrupting the system of the physical machine and guarantee that the environment used for testing has not been corrupted before testing.
Vallee, Geoffroy R [ORNL; Naughton, III, Thomas J [ORNL; Bland, Wesley B [ORNL; Scott, Stephen L [ORNL
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Intelligent Daylight Panel Control System based on Fuzzy Control for Green Buildings
Abstract�This paper proposes an intelligent daylight panel control system based on fuzzy control theory for green buildings. The goal of this research is to automatically modulate sunlight efficiently and to enhance the quality of interior illuminations, thus reducing the need for artificial lighting and conserving energy. Daylight panels are typically installed on the outside of windows. By applying the proposed fuzzy controller, the reflection angle of daylight panels could be adjusted and optimized so that interior illuminative quality is improved and energy-saving is achieved at the same time. Index Terms�daylight panel, intelligent control, fuzzy control. I.
T. C. Kuo; J. S. Lin; Y. Takeuchi; Y. J. Huang
Automatic energy calibration algorithm for an RBS setup
This work describes a computer algorithm for automatic extraction of the energy calibration parameters from a Rutherford Back-Scattering Spectroscopy (RBS) spectrum. Parameters like the electronic gain, electronic offset and detection resolution (FWHM) of a RBS setup are usually determined using a standard sample. In our case, the standard sample comprises of a multi-elemental thin film made of a mixture of Ti-Al-Ta that is analyzed at the beginning of each run at defined beam energy. A computer program has been developed to extract automatically the calibration parameters from the spectrum of the standard sample. The code evaluates the first derivative of the energy spectrum, locates the trailing edges of the Al, Ti and Ta peaks and fits a first order polynomial for the energy-channel relation. The detection resolution is determined fitting the convolution of a pre-calculated theoretical spectrum. To test the code, data of two years have been analyzed and the results compared with the manual calculations done previously, obtaining good agreement.
Silva, Tiago F.; Moro, Marcos V.; Added, Nemitala; Rizzutto, Marcia A.; Tabacniks, Manfredo H. [Instituto de Fisica da Universidade de Sao Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970 Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil)
Reactor protection system with automatic self-testing and diagnostic
A reactor protection system is disclosed having four divisions, with quad redundant sensors for each scram parameter providing input to four independent microprocessor-based electronic chassis. Each electronic chassis acquires the scram parameter data from its own sensor, digitizes the information, and then transmits the sensor reading to the other three electronic chassis via optical fibers. To increase system availability and reduce false scrams, the reactor protection system employs two levels of voting on a need for reactor scram. The electronic chassis perform software divisional data processing, vote 2/3 with spare based upon information from all four sensors, and send the divisional scram signals to the hardware logic panel, which performs a 2/4 division vote on whether or not to initiate a reactor scram. Each chassis makes a divisional scram decision based on data from all sensors. Automatic detection and discrimination against failed sensors allows the reactor protection system to automatically enter a known state when sensor failures occur. Cross communication of sensor readings allows comparison of four theoretically ``identical`` values. This permits identification of sensor errors such as drift or malfunction. A diagnostic request for service is issued for errant sensor data. Automated self test and diagnostic monitoring, sensor input through output relay logic, virtually eliminate the need for manual surveillance testing. This provides an ability for each division to cross-check all divisions and to sense failures of the hardware logic. 16 figs.
Gaubatz, D.C.
Automatic Thread-Level Parallelization in the Chombo AMR Library
The increasing on-chip parallelism has some substantial implications for HPC applications. Currently, hybrid programming models (typically MPI+OpenMP) are employed for mapping software to the hardware in order to leverage the hardware?s architectural features. In this paper, we present an approach that automatically introduces thread level parallelism into Chombo, a parallel adaptive mesh refinement framework for finite difference type PDE solvers. In Chombo, core algorithms are specified in the ChomboFortran, a macro language extension to F77 that is part of the Chombo framework. This domain-specific language forms an already used target language for an automatic migration of the large number of existing algorithms into a hybrid MPI+OpenMP implementation. It also provides access to the auto-tuning methodology that enables tuning certain aspects of an algorithm to hardware characteristics. Performance measurements are presented for a few of the most relevant kernels with respect to a specific application benchmark using this technique as well as benchmark results for the entire application. The kernel benchmarks show that, using auto-tuning, up to a factor of 11 in performance was gained with 4 threads with respect to the serial reference implementation.
Christen, Matthias; Keen, Noel; Ligocki, Terry; Oliker, Leonid; Shalf, John; Van Straalen, Brian; Williams, Samuel
Sharing Control Between Human and Automation Using Haptic Interface: Primary and
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A quality control framework for bus schedule reliability Jie Lin a,*, Peng Wang b
A quality control framework for bus schedule reliability Jie Lin a,*, Peng Wang b , Darold T and demonstrates a quality control framework for bus schedule reliability. Automatic vehicle loca- tion (AVL demonstrating that it can provide quick and accurate quality control. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords
Fuzzy control of neuromuscular block during general anesthesia system design, development and implementation
. This paper describes an application of fuzzy logic in medicine. We present a system of automatic control1 Fuzzy control of neuromuscular block during general anesthesia system design, development, Olomouc, Czech Republic Abstract We present a system for fuzzy control of neuromuscular block during
Belohlavek, Radim
Modeling and Feedback Control for Air Flow Regulation in Deep Pits
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Automatic Testing of Reactive Systems \\Lambda Pascal Raymond, Xavier Nicollin, Nicolas Halbwachs y
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Automatic Scan Prescription for Brain MRI T. Ernst, L. Itti, L. Chang
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Itti, Laurent
life-cycle costs, is not fully supported. This work documents the development of an automatic design1 DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL SILENCERS Lee Ming Wong and optimization system for industrial silencers. The developed system greatly reduces the production costs
Wang, Gaofeng Gary
Some considerations about the automatic optimisation of parallel linear algebra routines ?
factorisation, which his one of the basic routines used in the study of the behaviour of dense lineal algebraSome considerations about the automatic optimisation of parallel linear algebra routines ? Javier of the automatic optimisation of parallel linear algebra software, working mainly with two routines: the LU
Automatic parallel parking and platooning to redistribute electric vehicles in a car-sharing application
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LogOS: an Automatic Logging Framework for Service-Oriented Architectures
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An Integrated Automatic Test Data Generation System A. Jefferson Offutt \\Lambda
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An Integrated Automatic Test Data Generation System A. Je erson O utt
An Integrated Automatic Test Data Generation System A. Je erson O utt Department of Computer Science Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 January 21, 1996 Abstract The Godzilla automatic test data generator is an integrated collection of tools that implements a relatively new test data generation method
An Automatic Load Sharing Approach for a DFIG Based Wind Generator in a Microgrid
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Automatic Reformulation of Children's Search Queries Maarten van Kalsbeek, Joost de Wit, Dolf Trieschnigg,
Terms Algorithms, Human Factors, Design Keywords Automatic Query Expansion, Search Behavior, 1 children may make. Most of the search engines offer only the possibility to enter a Boolean queryAutomatic Reformulation of Children's Search Queries Maarten van Kalsbeek, Joost de Wit, Dolf
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Automatic Solar Flare Detection Using MLP, RBF and SVM , Frank Y. Shih1
in light curves. In the mean time, solar flares also emit high velocity charged particles that take one1 Automatic Solar Flare Detection Using MLP, RBF and SVM Ming Qu1 , Frank Y. Shih1 , Ju Jing2. The focus of the automatic solar flare detection is on the development of efficient feature
AUTOMATIC HOT SPOT DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION IN WHOLE BODY FDG-PET IMAGES Haiying Guan1
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Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Datacenters Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath
Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Datacenters Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin. It automates and unifies the manage- ment of data and computation within a datacenter. In Nectar, data with their programs, are automatically man- aged by a datacenter wide caching service. Any derived dataset can
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Automatic Layout Optimization of a Double Sided Power Module Regarding Thermal and EMC constraints
Automatic Layout Optimization of a Double Sided Power Module Regarding Thermal and EMC constraints. The chip position and power layout is automatically generated according to the best EMC/Thermal trade off. Optimization techniques use simple but fairly accurate EMC and Thermal models, presented in this paper
A Language for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies Jean Yang Kuat Yessenov Armando Solar-Lezama
A Language for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies Jean Yang Kuat Yessenov Armando Solar for applications to protect sensitive data. With current techniques, the programmer bears the burden of ensuring views are allowed based on the output context. The system is respon- sible for automatically ensuring
Automatic generation of CSP || B skeletons from xUML models
Automatic generation of CSP || B skeletons from xUML models Edward Turner, Helen Treharne, Steve. CSP B is a formal approach to specification that combines CSP and B. In this paper we present our tool that automatically trans- lates a subset of executable UML (xUML) models into CSP B, for the purpose of verification
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Infuse: A Tool for Automatically Managing and Coordinating Source Changes in Large Systems
Infuse: A Tool for Automatically Managing and Coordinating Source Changes in Large Systems Dewayne changes occur outside the tool. In contrast, Infuse concentrates on the actual change process and provides facilities for both managing and coordinating source changes. Infuse provides facilities for automatically
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Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Spring 2012 Automatic Plant Watering System
PENNSTATE Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Spring 2012 Automatic Plant Watering System Overview The goal of this project was to design an automatic plant watering system for commercial in the soil of household plants and delivery water to those plants on a need-only basis. The overall design
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Automatic Microaneurysm Detection and Characterization Through Digital Color Fundus Images
Ocular fundus images can provide information about retinal, ophthalmic, and even systemic diseases such as diabetes. Microaneurysms (MAs) are the earliest sign of Diabetic Retinopathy, a frequently observed complication in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Robust detection of MAs in digital color fundus images is critical in the development of automated screening systems for this kind of disease. Automatic grading of these images is being considered by health boards so that the human grading task is reduced. In this paper we describe segmentation and the feature extraction methods for candidate MAs detection.We show that the candidate MAs detected with the methodology have been successfully classified by a MLP neural network (correct classification of 84percent).
Martins, Charles; Veras, Rodrigo; Ramalho, Geraldo; Medeiros, Fatima; Ushizima, Daniela
Automatic Labeling for Entity Extraction in Cyber Security
Timely analysis of cyber-security information necessitates automated information extraction from unstructured text. While state-of-the-art extraction methods produce extremely accurate results, they require ample training data, which is generally unavailable for specialized applications, such as detecting security related entities; moreover, manual annotation of corpora is very costly and often not a viable solution. In response, we develop a very precise method to automatically label text from several data sources by leveraging related, domain-specific, structured data and provide public access to a corpus annotated with cyber-security entities. Next, we implement a Maximum Entropy Model trained with the average perceptron on a portion of our corpus (~750,000 words) and achieve near perfect precision, recall, and accuracy, with training times under 17 seconds.
Bridges, Robert A [ORNL] [ORNL; Jones, Corinne L [ORNL] [ORNL; Iannacone, Michael D [ORNL] [ORNL; Testa, Kelly M [ORNL] [ORNL; Goodall, John R [ORNL] [ORNL
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1382 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 42, NO. 10, OCTOBER 1997 Perturbation Realization, Potentials, and
a uniform framework of perturbation realization for infinitesimal perturbation analysis (IPA) and non-IPA that the simple PA algorithms developed earlier (called infinitesimal perturbation analysis (IPA), hereafter research directions: to establish IPA theory, including the proof of convergence of IPA algorithms
Signal and System Theory II, FS 2014 Prof. J. Lygeros Automatic Control Laboratory
in other words f(0) = Cx0 = 0 f (0) = CAx0 = 0 ... fn-1 (0) = CAn-1 x0 = 0 fn (0) = CAn x0 = 0 ... (3) From, . . .. Therefore, if Cx0 = CAx0 = . . . = CAn-1 x0 = 0, because of linearity, we also have CAn+k x0 = 0 for all k reduced system f(0) = Cx0 = 0 f (0) = CAx0 = 0 ... fn-1 (0) = CAn-1 x0 = 0, (4) which, in turn
Automatic Take Off, Hovering and Landing Control for Miniature Helicopters with
of the pattern, the system is able to calculate the distance (z) and yaw angle () directly from geometric microcontroller and the system does not require stationary sensors. The only requirements are a stationary pattern, but often depends on base stations [6], [7], [8]. The accuracy achieved by tracking systems are comparable
Zell, Andreas
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 51, NO. 7, JULY 2006 1 Book Reviews
also produce waste in the form of heat. They usually dump this heat into the environment, often causing unpleasant side effects for fauna and flora. The inability to transform also this waste heat into electrical Thermodynamics, the science of heat and work and hot and cold, puts forward a number of principles that have far
Evolution of double-dwell serial search acquisition with automatic threshold control
of duration rr to be tested until acquisition. This term can be obtained directly from the generating function by evaluating appropriate partial derivatives as follows, dG(Zr, Zs) )1& = t~ Ixl=Z2=1, o'er (3A0) 26 dG(Z?Z2) P2 = dZ' Izr=z2=2 2 (3. 41... . . 35 26 27 28 Baseband Filters Frequency Response Limits Frequency Response Simulation . Gold Code Sequence Generator Configuration 38 FIGURE Page 29 Illustration of Gold Code Generation with [10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 1j and [10, 5, 3, 2] Generators 42...
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into a single, computational simple expression, enabling the practical construction of NFs on the Cartesian product of several manifolds. I. INTRODUCTION The gradient vector field of a properly designed artificial potential function can steer a robot to a goal, while avoiding obstacles along the way. Adding a damping
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 44, NO. 6, JUNE 1999 1157 Subspace Identification of Bilinear
, the practical relevance of the method is illustrated by making a direct comparison between linear and bilinear of industrial processes that can be well described by bilinear systems are CST-reactors [2] and distillation
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 48, NO. 8, AUGUST 2003 1371 Fundamental Performance Limitations
. He is now with the School of Quantitative Methods and Mathemat- ical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Sydney, NSW 2747, Australia. L. Qiu is with the Department of Electrical and Electronic. The transient error is measured by its energy (2) The tracking problem has a well-known solution, with well
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2244 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 56, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2011 Guest Editorial
's energy use which determines its usable lifetime. As WSN nodes are powered by small batteries, energy attention to spawn annual workshops and conferences, such as the Inter- Digital Object Identifier 10) and the remaining 51 were sent to reviewers. All manuscripts underwent a very rigorous peer review process. We
To appear in IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control Competitive routing in networks
Electrical Engineering Department M�??erida, Venezuela, and INRIA Technion, Haifa 32000 B.P. 93, 06902 Sophia attractive for traffic regulation and link pricing in telecommunication networks. We finally discuss are to be established by noncooperating agents, to whom we refer to as players or users. In the context
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A proposed system to automatically control audio sound-to-noise levels
the human ear is stimulated by vibrating particles of a1r, sound is sensed. If this sound is undesired, it isp by definition, noise. Any sound that is irx'egular, impulsive, non-repetitive, or simply irri, tating to the listenez' may be classified..., applause, or laughter in theaters; motor or wind noise in moving vehicles] or the noise of people dancing. The level or the souroe ef noise was unimportant sinoe the oontrol system would hold the sound-to-noise level approximately constant. Fox' design...
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]. In Canada and the United States of America, there are about 11,000 new SCIs per year and approximately 240 spinal cord injury (SCI) who participated in functional electrical stimulation (FES) therapy males, age 24 and 31) had a sustained a cervical SCI (C6 and C4-5, respectively) at least 8 years prior
Popovic, Milos R.
1380 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 55, NO. 6, JUNE 2010 Chattering Analysis
infinite feedback derivatives at the operational point. In reality sampling noises, unaccounted-for fast
Levant, Arie
Hybrid Control of a Two-Wheeled Automatic-Balancing Robot with Backlash Feature
Department of Energy Technology Aalborg University, Esbjerg Campus Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark Email: email@example.com Zhenyu Yang Department of Energy Technology Aalborg University, Esbjerg
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Automatic Derivation of Memoryless Policies and Finite-State Controllers Using Classical Planners
Blai Bonet Universidad Sim´on Bol´ivar Caracas, Venezuela firstname.lastname@example.com H´ector Palacios Universidad Sim´on Bol´ivar Caracas, Venezuela email@example.com H´ector Geffner ICREA & Univ. Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
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Automatic Derivation of Finite-State Machines for Behavior Control Universidad Simon Bolivar
´on Bol´ivar Caracas, Venezuela email@example.com H´ector Palacios Universidad Sim´on Bol´ivar Caracas, Venezuela email@example.com H´ector Geffner ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, SPAIN hector
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Progress on Statistical Learning Systems as Data Mining Tools for the Creation of Automatic Databases in Fusion Environments
Progress on Statistical Learning Systems as Data Mining Tools for the Creation of Automatic Databases in Fusion Environments
Automated manual transmission clutch controller
Lawrie, Robert E. (9375 Kearney Rd., Whitmore Lake, MI 48189); Reed, Jr., Richard G. (3003 Bembridge, Royal Oak, MI 48073); Rausen, David J. (519 S. Gaylord St., Denver, CO 80209)
Priority coding for control room alarms
Indicating the priority of a spatially fixed, activated alarm tile on an alarm tile array by a shape coding at the tile, and preferably using the same shape coding wherever the same alarm condition is indicated elsewhere in the control room. The status of an alarm tile can change automatically or by operator acknowledgement, but tones and/or flashing cues continue to provide status information to the operator.
Scarola, Kenneth (Windsor, CT); Jamison, David S. (Windsor, CT); Manazir, Richard M. (North Canton, CT); Rescorl, Robert L. (Vernon, CT); Harmon, Daryl L. (Enfield, CT)
Visual Servoing Schemes for Automatic Nanopositioning Under Scanning Electron Microscope
the total pixel intensities of an image as visual measurements for designing the control law images. In this case, the control law is designed to minimize the error i.e. the 2D motion between sensors to control the behavior of robotic devices during the process. With its ability of producing
Self-Programmable PID Compensator for Digitally Controlled SMPS
Self-Programmable PID Compensator for Digitally Controlled SMPS Zhenyu Zhao and Aleksandar Prodi) that automatically adjusts parameters of PID compensator based on pre-specified bandwidth requirements. The PID at the corner frequency of the power stage. Then, the gain of the PID compensator is found from the oscillations
Prodiæ, Aleksandar
2922 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 58, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2013 Robust Sampled Data Control of Switched Affine Systems
stabilization solutions exist in the literature based on the existence of stable convex combinations [2], [5 the state exponentially towards the equilibrium point, but only towards a limit cycle or to some attractive is with the University Lille Nord de France, LAGIS, UMR CNRS 8219, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Cite Scientifique, BP 48
Fridman, Emilia
Factors for conversion between human and automatic read-outs of CDMAM images
Purpose: According to the European protocol for the quality control of the physical and technical aspects of mammography screening (EPQCM) image quality of digital mammography devices has to be assessed using human evaluation of the CDMAM contrast-detail phantom. This is accomplished by the determination of threshold thicknesses of gold disks with different diameters (0.08-2 mm) and revealed to be very time consuming. Therefore a software solution based on a nonprewhitening matched filter (NPW) model was developed at University of Nijmegen. Factors for the conversion from automatic to human readouts have been determined by Young et al.[Proc. SPIE 614206, 1-13 (2006) and Proc. SPIE 6913, 69131C1 (2008)] using a huge amount of data of both human and automatic readouts. These factors depend on the observer groups and are purely phenomenological. The authors present an alternative approach to determine the factors by using the Rose observer model. Methods: Their method uses the Rose theory which gives a relationship between threshold contrast, diameter of the object and number of incident photons. To estimate the conversion factors for the five diameters from 0.2 to 0.5 mm they exposed with five different current-time products which resulted in 25 equations with five unknowns. Results: The theoretical conversion factors (in dependence of the diameters) amounted to be 1.61 {+-} 0.02 (0.2 mm diameter), 1.67 {+-} 0.02 (0.25 mm), 1.85 {+-} 0.02 (0.31 mm), 2.09 {+-} 0.02 (0.4 mm), and 2.28 {+-} 0.02 (0.5 mm). The corresponding phenomenological factors found in literature are 1.74 (0.2 mm), 1.78 (0.25 mm), 1.83 (0.31 mm), 1.88 (0.4 mm), and 1.93 (0.5 mm). Conclusions: They transferred the problem of determining the factors to a well known observer model which has been examined for many years and is also well established. This method reveals to be reproduceable and produces factors comparable to the phenomenological ones.
Figl, Michael; Hoffmann, Rainer; Kaar, Marcus; Semturs, Friedrich; Brasik, Natasa; Birkfellner, Wolfgang; Homolka, Peter; Hummel, Johann [Center for medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria A-1090 (Austria); Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria A-1090 (Austria); Center for medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria A-1090 (Austria); Center for medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria A-1090 and Department of Radio-oncology, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria A-1160 (Austria)
Assessment of heliostat control system methods
Automatic control and communication between the major components in solar thermal central receiver systems is critically needed for the optimal and safe operation of these systems. This report assesses novel and cost-effective approaches to the control of the solar collector field and the communication with the central plant computer/control system. The authors state that radio frequency and carrier-current communication approaches have the greatest potential to improve cost-effectiveness relative to the current dedicated control wiring approaches. In addition, based on their analysis, the authors recommend distributed control, which is becoming an industry-wide control standard, for the individual concentrators within the collector field rather than the current central computer approach. The vastly improved cost and performance ofmicroprocessors and other solid-state electronics, which has continually and rapidly proceeded for more than five years, is the major reason for these conclusions.
Pearson, J; Chen, B
Automatic ball bar for a coordinate measuring machine
An automatic ball bar for a coordinate measuring machine determines the accuracy of a coordinate measuring machine having at least one servo drive. The apparatus comprises a first and second gauge ball connected by a telescoping rigid member. The rigid member includes a switch such that inward radial movement of the second gauge ball relative to the first gauge ball causes activation of the switch. The first gauge ball is secured in a first magnetic socket assembly in order to maintain the first gauge ball at a fixed location with respect to the coordinate measuring machine. A second magnetic socket assembly secures the second gauge ball to the arm or probe holder of the coordinate measuring machine. The second gauge ball is then directed by the coordinate measuring machine to move radially inward from a point just beyond the length of the ball bar until the switch is activated. Upon switch activation, the position of the coordinate measuring machine is determined and compared to known ball bar length such that the accuracy of the coordinate measuring machine can be determined. 5 figs.
Jostlein, H.
An automatic ball bar for a coordinate measuring machine determines the accuracy of a coordinate measuring machine having at least one servo drive. The apparatus comprises a first and second gauge ball connected by a telescoping rigid member. The rigid member includes a switch such that inward radial movement of the second gauge ball relative to the first gauge ball causes activation of the switch. The first gauge ball is secured in a first magnetic socket assembly in order to maintain the first gauge ball at a fixed location with respect to the coordinate measuring machine. A second magnetic socket assembly secures the second gauge ball to the arm or probe holder of the coordinate measuring machine. The second gauge ball is then directed by the coordinate measuring machine to move radially inward from a point just beyond the length of the ball bar until the switch is activated. Upon switch activation, the position of the coordinate measuring machine is determined and compared to known ball bar length such that the accuracy of the coordinate measuring machine can be determined.
Jostlein, Hans (Naperville, IL)
Automatic Beam Path Analysis of Laser Wakefield Particle Acceleration Data
Numerical simulations of laser wakefield particle accelerators play a key role in the understanding of the complex acceleration process and in the design of expensive experimental facilities. As the size and complexity of simulation output grows, an increasingly acute challenge is the practical need for computational techniques that aid in scientific knowledge discovery. To that end, we present a set of data-understanding algorithms that work in concert in a pipeline fashion to automatically locate and analyze high energy particle bunches undergoing acceleration in very large simulation datasets. These techniques work cooperatively by first identifying features of interest in individual timesteps, then integrating features across timesteps, and based on the information derived perform analysis of temporally dynamic features. This combination of techniques supports accurate detection of particle beams enabling a deeper level of scientific understanding of physical phenomena than hasbeen possible before. By combining efficient data analysis algorithms and state-of-the-art data management we enable high-performance analysis of extremely large particle datasets in 3D. We demonstrate the usefulness of our methods for a variety of 2D and 3D datasets and discuss the performance of our analysis pipeline.
Rubel, Oliver; Geddes, Cameron G.R.; Cormier-Michel, Estelle; Wu, Kesheng; Prabhat,; Weber, Gunther H.; Ushizima, Daniela M.; Messmer, Peter; Hagen, Hans; Hamann, Bernd; Bethel, E. Wes
Automatic thermocouple positioner for use in vacuum furnaces
The invention is a simple and reliable mechanical arrangement for automatically positioning a thermocouple-carrying rod in a vacuum-furnace assembly of the kind including a casing, a furnace mounted in the casing, and a charge-containing crucible mounted in the furnace for vertical movement between a lower (loading) position and a raised (charge-melting) position. In a preferred embodiment, a welded-diaphragm metal bellows is mounted above the furnace, the upper end of the bellows being fixed against movement and the lower end of the bellows being affixed to support means for a thermocouple-carrying rod which is vertically oriented and extends freely through the furnace lid toward the mouth of the crucible. The support means and rod are mounted for relative vertical movement. Before pumpdown of the furnace, the differential pressure acting on the bellows causes it to contract and lift the thermocouple rod to a position where it will not be contacted by the crucible charge when the crucible is elevated to its raised position. During pumpdown, the bellows expands downward, lowering the thermocouple rod and its support. The bellows expands downward beyond a point where downward movement of the thermocouple rod is arrested by contact with the crucible charge and to a point where the upper end of the thermocouple extends well above the thermocouple support. During subsequent melting of the charge, the thermocouple sinks into the melt to provide an accurate measurement of melt temperatures.
Mee, D.K.; Stephens, A.E.
Automatic Trading Agent. RMT based Portfolio Theory and Portfolio Selection
Portfolio theory is a very powerful tool in the modern investment theory. It is helpful in estimating risk of an investor's portfolio, which arises from our lack of information, uncertainty and incomplete knowledge of reality, which forbids a perfect prediction of future price changes. Despite of many advantages this tool is not known and is not widely used among investors on Warsaw Stock Exchange. The main reason for abandoning this method is a high level of complexity and immense calculations. The aim of this paper is to introduce an automatic decision - making system, which allows a single investor to use such complex methods of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The key tool in MPT is an analysis of an empirical covariance matrix. This matrix, obtained from historical data is biased by such a high amount of statistical uncertainty, that it can be seen as random. By bringing into practice the ideas of Random Matrix Theory (RMT), the noise is removed or significantly reduced, so the future risk and return are b...
Snarska, M; Snarska, Malgorzata; Krzych, Jakub
Toward a Better Understanding of Ducted Rotor Antitorque and Directional Control in Forward Flight
of the Core Automatic Flight Control System (CAFCS) mode. Figure 1 shows a sustained, large-amplitude 1-Hz yaw ABSTRACT Despite decades of very successful yaw-control and anti-torque applications, the aerodynamics dramatic. From a handling-qualities perspective, the ducted rotor provides the loads capacity required
A multilevel coordinated control strategy for energy conservation in wastewater treatment plants
A multilevel coordinated control strategy for energy conservation in wastewater treatment plants and energy conservation. To achieve these goals automatic control must be applied. This paper describes on the basis of energy conservation, provided that the effluent quality meets the environmental standards
Method of automatically welding with a non-consumable electrode
A method for maintaining a constant arc gap between the electrode and the weld puddle by controlling the addition of filler wire based on the arc voltage.
Kiefer, Joseph H. (Tampa, FL)
Automatic Modeling of Virtual Humans and Body Clothing Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Hyewon Seo, Frederic Cordier
Automatic Modeling of Virtual Humans and Body Clothing Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Hyewon Seo-mail: {thalmann, seo, email@example.com Abstract Highly realistic virtual human models are rapidly
Cordier, Frederic
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of T1 brain MRI segmentation techniques M S. Atkins*a Summary: , is an automatic brain segmentation algorithm for MRI head scans. In the algorithm, a lower intensity...
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based hp... on the main ideas of the fully automatic (energy- norm based) hp-adaptive algorithm presented in 12, 14... used for energy-norm hp-adaptivity 14. Fig. 10 shows an...
Wrapster : semi-automatic wrapper generation for semi-structured websites
Many information sources on the Web are semi-structured; hence there is an opportunity for automatic tools to process and extract their information for easy access through a uniform interface language. Wrapper generation ...
Zaccak, Gabriel (Gabriel Gabra)
E-Print Network 3.0 - automatic fault tree Sample Search Results
Search Sample search results for: automatic fault tree Page: << < 1 2 3 4 5 > >> 1 Computer diagnosis systems grounded on hand-crafted fault trees are wide-spread in industrial...
An investigation into the effectiveness of sub-syllable acoustics in automatic intonation analysis.�
This paper presents a series of experiments which test the use of sub-syllable acoustic data in the automatic detection of Tilt [Tayng] intonation events. A set of speaker-dependent HMMs is used to detect accents, ...
Dusterhoff, Kurt E
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Agent-Based Simulation of an Automatic Mitigation Procedure Robert Entriken and Steve Wan
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Tesfatsion, Leigh
Webinar: Energy Conservation Standards for Automatic Commercial Ice Makers; Notice of Public Meeting
DOE is conducting a public meeting and webinar for the notice of public meeting regarding energy conservation standards for automatic commercial ice makers. For more information, please visit the...
Methods for Automatically Evaluating Answers to Complex Questions Jimmy Lin1,2,3
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<< < 1 2 3 4 5 > >> 41 A DISTRIBUTED VISION SYSTEM FOR BOAT TRAFFIC MONITORING IN THE VENICE GRAND CANAL Summary: and automat- ically activating the nearest PTZ camera to track...
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for: automatic synthesis bist Page: << < 1 2 3 4 5 > >> 1 A Deterministic Scan-BIST Architecture with Application to Field Testing of High-Availability Systems Summary: experiments...
Development of an Automatic Method for Americium and Plutonium Separation and
Development of an Automatic Method for Americium and Plutonium Separation and Preconcentration and separation in a short time using large sample volumes. Americium is eluted from the column with 4 mol L-1
Sánchez, David
Using automatically-triggered cameras to monitor and estimate bobcat abundance
-recapture calculations. The ability to identify individuals in automatic photographs was influenced by the position in which the bobcat was photographed. Bobcats were most often photographed perpendicular to and facing toward the camera, which enhanced the observer...
Heilbrun, Richard David
Analysis of the AirTouch automatic vehicle location system's ability to locate moving vehicles
Automatic vehicle location systems are becoming more prevalent in diverse transportation applications. Their ability to locate vehicles can assist in locating emergency and public transit vehicles for better real-time dispatching as well...
Henry, Tracy Lynn
Automatic design of the gravity-reducing propulsion system of the TALARIS Hopper Testbed
This thesis describes a Systems Engineering tool for automatic design, presents the results of its application to the problem of designing Earth-based reduced-gravity simulators, and compares the performance of the found ...
Ca�izales D�az, Jorge (Jorge Luis)
Applications of Automatic Vehicle Location systems towards improving service reliability and operations planning in London
Technological advances in the transit industry, such as the introduction of Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) systems, have provided agencies with robust data collection and measurement systems and enabled the development ...
Ehrlich, Joseph Emanuel
Assessing the Potential of Using Traffic Simulation Model Results for Evaluating Automatic Incident Detection Algorithms
Assessing the Potential of Using Traffic Simulation Model Results for Evaluating Automatic Incident of such a test-bed would be the ability to incorporate synthetic data produced by a simulation model since
Hellinga, Bruce
Application of automatic data-editing techniques to United States Department of Agriculture Enumerative Survey
APPLICATION OF AUTOMATIC DATA-EDITING TECHNIQUES TO UN1ZED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ECTIVE SURVEY A Thesis by JUDITH ROWENA SKIPPER HUTTON Submitted. to the Qzaduate College of' the Texas ARM Izniver sity in partial fulfillment of...' the requirements for the degree of' MASIiR i & SC rz'NC. January 1968 Major Subject: Statistics APPLICATION OF AUTOMATIC DATA-EDITING TECHNIQUES TO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ENUMERATIVE SURVEY A Thesis by JUDITH ROWENA SKIPPER HUTTON Approved...
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2014-09-05 Issuance: Energy Conservation Standards for Automatic Commercial Ice Makers; Notice of Data Availability and Request for Comment
This document is a pre-publication Federal Register notice of data availability and request for comment regarding energy conservation standards for automatic commercial ice makers, as issued by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency on September 5, 2014. Though it is not intended or expected, should any discrepancy occur between the document posted here and the document published in the Federal Register, the Federal Register publication controls. This document is being made available through the Internet solely as a means to facilitate the public's access to this document.
ATCOM: Automatically Tuned Collective Communication System for SMP Clusters
Conventional implementations of collective communications are based on point-to-point communications, and their optimizations have been focused on efficiency of those communication algorithms. However, point-to-point communications are not the optimal choice for modern computing clusters of SMPs due to their two-level communication structure. In recent years, a few research efforts have investigated efficient collective communications for SMP clusters. This dissertation is focused on platform-independent algorithms and implementations in this area. There are two main approaches to implementing efficient collective communications for clusters of SMPs: using shared memory operations for intra-node communications, and overlapping inter-node/intra-node communications. The former fully utilizes the hardware based shared memory of an SMP, and the latter takes advantage of the inherent hierarchy of the communications within a cluster of SMPs. Previous studies focused on clusters of SMP from certain vendors. However, the previously proposed methods are not portable to other systems. Because the performance optimization issue is very complicated and the developing process is very time consuming, it is highly desired to have self-tuning, platform-independent implementations. As proven in this dissertation, such an implementation can significantly out-perform the other point-to-point based portable implementations and some platform-specific implementations. The dissertation describes in detail the architecture of the platform-independent implementation. There are four system components: shared memory-based collective communications, overlapping mechanisms for inter-node and intra-node communications, a prediction-based tuning module and a micro-benchmark based tuning module. Each component is carefully designed with the goal of automatic tuning in mind.
Meng-Shiou Wu
Toward automated beam optics control
We have begun a program aiming toward automatic control of charged-particle beam optics using artificial intelligence programming techniques. In developing our prototype, we are working with LISP machines and the KEE expert system shell. Our first goal was to develop a ''mouseable'' representation of a typical beam line. This responds actively to changes entered from the mouse or keyboard, giving an updated display of the beam line itself, its optical properties, and the instrumentation and control devices as seen by the operater. We have incorporated TRANSPORT, written in Fortran but running as a callable procedure in the LISP environment, for simulation of the beam-line optics. This paper describes the experience gained in meeting our first goal and discusses plans to extend the work so that it is usable, in realtime, on an operating beam line. 11 refs.
Silbar, R.R.; Schultz, D.E.
Spatial xenon oscillation control with expert systems
Spatial power oscillations were attributed to the xenon transients in a reactor core in 1958 by Randall and St. John. These transients are usually initiated by a local reactivity insertion and lead to divergent axial flux oscillations in the core at constant power. Several heuristic manual control strategies and automatic control methods were developed to damp the xenon oscillations at constant power operations. However, after the load-follow operation of the reactors became a necessity of life, a need for better control strategies arose. Even though various advanced control strategies were applied to solve the xenon oscillation control problem for the load-follow operation, the complexity of the system created difficulties in modeling. The strong nonlinearity of the problem requires highly sophisticated analytical approaches that are quite inept for numerical solutions. On the other hand, the complexity of a system and heuristic nature of the solutions are the basic reasons for using artificial intelligence techniques such as expert systems.
Alten, S. (Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara (Turkey)); Danofsky, R.A. (Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States))
Simulation of vehicle traffic on an automatic highway system.
A traffic simulator has been developed at Argonne National Laboratory to study highway traffic under various degrees of automation. The key components of this simulator include a global and a local Expert Driver Model, a human factor study, and a graphical user interface. Furthermore, an Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control, which is based on a neural network controller, is described and results for two typical driving scenarios are given.
Hanebutte, U.; Doss, E.; Ewing, T.; Tentner, A.; Technology Development
Advanced mobile networking, sensing, and controls.
This report describes an integrated approach for designing communication, sensing, and control systems for mobile distributed systems. Graph theoretic methods are used to analyze the input/output reachability and structural controllability and observability of a decentralized system. Embedded in each network node, this analysis will automatically reconfigure an ad hoc communication network for the sensing and control task at hand. The graph analysis can also be used to create the optimal communication flow control based upon the spatial distribution of the network nodes. Edge coloring algorithms tell us that the minimum number of time slots in a planar network is equal to either the maximum number of adjacent nodes (or degree) of the undirected graph plus some small number. Therefore, the more spread out that the nodes are, the fewer number of time slots are needed for communication, and the smaller the latency between nodes. In a coupled system, this results in a more responsive sensor network and control system. Network protocols are developed to propagate this information, and distributed algorithms are developed to automatically adjust the number of time slots available for communication. These protocols and algorithms must be extremely efficient and only updated as network nodes move. In addition, queuing theory is used to analyze the delay characteristics of Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) networks. This report documents the analysis, simulation, and implementation of these algorithms performed under this Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) effort.
Feddema, John Todd; Kilman, Dominique Marie; Byrne, Raymond Harry; Young, Joseph G.; Lewis, Christopher L.; Van Leeuwen, Brian P.; Robinett, Rush D. III; Harrington, John J.
Coherent-feedback quantum control with a dynamic compensator
I present an experimental realization of a coherent-feedback control system that was recently proposed for testing basic principles of linear quantum stochastic control theory [M. R. James, H. I. Nurdin and I. R. Petersen, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2008), arXiv:quant-ph/0703150v2]. For a dynamical plant consisting of an optical ring-resonator, I demonstrate ~ 7 dB broadband disturbance rejection of injected laser signals via all-optical feedback with a tailored dynamic compensator. Comparison of the results with a transfer function model pinpoints critical parameters that determine the coherent-feedback control system's performance.
Hideo Mabuchi
Lecture 13: Control System Cyber Security
Today, the industralized world lives in symbiosis with control systems: it depends on power distribution, oil production, public transport, automatic production lines. While the convenience is at hand, still too many control systems are designed without any security in mind, lack basic security protections, and are not even robust enough to withstand basic attacks. The Stuxnet worm attacking Siemens PLCs in 2010 was another close call. Attackers currently enjoy hacking control systems, and aim to switch lights off. This presentation shall recap the current situation and outline why the presenter is still waiting for a change in paradigm. Stefan L�ders, PhD, graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and joined CERN in 2002. Being initially developer of a common safety system used in all four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, he gathered expertise in cyber-security issues of control systems. Consequently in 2004, he took over responsibilities in securing CERN's accelerator and...
CERN. Geneva
A Distributed Computer Automation and Control System for IBM's GTD Process Plant at Austin Texas
-04-50 Proceedings from the Fourth Industrial Energy Technology Conference Houston, TX, April 4-7, 1982 WCF i ! ! REDUNDANT DATA HIGHWAy-l '------0-00-----------------------------] ! ..!_ ...__...__. .. :.... +- ..1i -, I PLC ' I... is indicated in Figure 3. Some hardwired field devices provide primitive level control, such as boiler fuel/air ratio. The PLC's provide most of the automatic control but receive mode selection and initiation commands from the Process Control Stations...
Getter, L. C.
On automatic differentiation of codes with COMPLEX arithmetic with respect to real variables
We explore what it means to apply automatic differentiation with respect to a set of real variables to codes containing complex arithmetic. That is, both dependent and independent variables with respect to differentiation are real variables, but in order to exploit features of complex mathematics, part of the code is expressed by employing complex arithmetic. We investigate how one can apply automatic differentiation to complex variables if one exploits the homomorphism of the complex numbers C onto R{sup 2}. It turns out that, by and large, the usual rules of differentiation apply, but subtle differences in special cases arise for sqrt (), abs (), and the power operator.
Pusch, G.D.; Bischof, C. [Argonne National Lab., IL (United States); Carle, A. [Rice Univ., St. Houston, TX (United States)
Design refinements and support systems for Texas A&M Automatic Marine Corer
DESIGN REFINEMENTS AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE TEXAS AQf AUTOMATIC MARINE CORER A Thesis by HERMAN GLEN HENDERSON, JR. Submitted to the Graduate College of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree... of MASTER OP SCIENCE May 1971 Major Sub]ect: Mechanical Engineering DESIGN REFINEMENTS AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE TEXAS AAM AUTOMATIC MARINE CORER R m 8 CC m a m A Thesis by HERMAN OLEN HENDERSON, JR. Approved as to style and content by...
Henderson, Herman Olen
Automatic alpha-track counting with image analysis systems
to establish an explanation of why an increased calibration factor, for a track counting system, is observed with increasing photometer readings. Second, TSD measurements were made for films irradiated with a depleted uranium source in order to determine... the usefulness of uranium as a fast exposure facility for quality control (QC) films for the etch process. The results of this work concluded that uranium was not a good QC source for the current etching process for the exposure methods used. Finally, total...
Shymanski, Michael Joseph
A 3D INTENSITY MODEL BASED ON SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR AUTOMATIC 3D SEGMENTATION OF HETEROCHROMATIN DKFZ Heidelberg and BIOQUANT, Research Group Genome Organization & Function ABSTRACT We introduce a 3D model-based approach for automatic segmentation of 3D fluorescent heterochromatin foci from microscopy
Rippe, Karsten
Fast, Optimized Sun RPC Using Automatic Program Specialization Gilles Muller, Renaud Marlet, Calton Pu and Ashvin Goel
Fast, Optimized Sun RPC Using Automatic Program Specialization Gilles Muller, Renaud Marlet, Calton automatic optimization of an existing, commercial RPC implementation, namely the Sun RPC. The optimized Sun the original Sun RPC. Close examination of the specialized code does not reveal further optimization
Goel, Ashvin
Integrating preconcentrator heat controller
A method and apparatus for controlling the electric resistance heating of a metallic chemical preconcentrator screen, for example, used in portable trace explosives detectors. The length of the heating time-period is automatically adjusted to compensate for any changes in the voltage driving the heating current across the screen, for example, due to gradual discharge or aging of a battery. The total deposited energy in the screen is proportional to the integral over time of the square of the voltage drop across the screen. Since the net temperature rise, .DELTA.T.sub.s, of the screen, from beginning to end of the heating pulse, is proportional to the total amount of heat energy deposited in the screen during the heating pulse, then this integral can be calculated in real-time and used to terminate the heating current when a pre-set target value has been reached; thereby providing a consistent and reliable screen temperature rise, .DELTA.T.sub.s, from pulse-to-pulse.
Bouchier, Francis A. (Albuquerque, NM); Arakaki, Lester H. (Edgewood, NM); Varley, Eric S. (Albuquerque, NM)
The SNS Cryogenic Control System: Experiences in Collaboration
The cryogenic system for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is designed by Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) personnel and is based on the existing JLab facility. Our task is to use the JLab control system design [2] as much as practical while remaining consistent with SNS control system standards. Some aspects of the systems are very similar, including equipment to be controlled, the need for PID loops and automatic sequences,and the use of EPICS. There are differences in device naming, system hardware, and software tools. The cryogenic system is the first SNS system to be developed using SNS standards. This paper reports on our experiences in integrating the new and the old.
W.H. Strong; P.A. Gurd; J.D. Creel; B.S. Bevins
Startup control of the TOPAZ-II space nuclear reactor. Master`s thesis
The Russian designed and manufactured TOPAZ-II Thermionic Nuclear Space Reactor has been supplied to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization for study as part of the TOPAZ International Program. A Preliminary Nuclear Safety Assessment investigated the readiness to use the TOPAZ-II in support of a Nuclear Electric Propulsion Space Test Mission (NEPSTP). Among the anticipated system modifications required for launching the TOPAZ-II system within safety goals is for a U.S. designed Automatic Control System. The requirements and desired features of such a control system are developed based upon U.S. safety standards. System theory and design are presented in order to establish the basis for development of a hybrid control model from available simulations. The model is verified and then used in exploration of various control schemes and casualty analysis providing groundwork for future Automatic Control System design.
Astrin, C.D.
Automatic flush valve performance (gallons per flush) measured from fixtures in a mixed-use classroom/office building at Texas A&M University
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Lertbannaphong, Salilla
A graphical environment to express the semantics of control systems
We present the concept of a unified graphical environment for expressing the semantics of control systems. The graphical control system design environment in Simulink already allows engineers to insert a variety of assertions aimed the verification and validation of the control software. We propose extensions to a Simulink-like environment's annotation capabilities to include formal control system stability, performance properties and their proofs. We provide a conceptual description of a tool, that takes in a Simulink-like diagram of the control system as the input, and generates a graphically annotated control system diagram as the output. The annotations can either be inserted by the user or generated automatically by a third party control analysis software such as IQC$\\beta$ or $\\mu$-tool. We finally describe how the graphical representation of the system and its properties can be translated to annotated programs in a programming language used in verification and validation such as Lustre or C.
Wang, Timothy; Feron, E
Servo control booster system for minimizing following error
A closed-loop feedback-controlled servo system is disclosed which reduces command-to-response error to the system's position feedback resolution least increment, .DELTA.S.sub.R, on a continuous real-time basis for all operating speeds. The servo system employs a second position feedback control loop on a by exception basis, when the command-to-response error .gtoreq..DELTA.S.sub.R, to produce precise position correction signals. When the command-to-response error is less than .DELTA.S.sub.R, control automatically reverts to conventional control means as the second position feedback control loop is disconnected, becoming transparent to conventional servo control means. By operating the second unique position feedback control loop used herein at the appropriate clocking rate, command-to-response error may be reduced to the position feedback resolution least increment. The present system may be utilized in combination with a tachometer loop for increased stability.
Wise, William L. (Mountain View, CA)
DETERMINATION OF THE UAV POSITION BY AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF THERMAL IMAGES Wilfried Hartmann.hartmann, sebastian.tilch, henri.eisenbeiss, konrad.schindler)@geod.baug.ethz.ch KEY WORDS: Thermal, UAV, Camera, Calibration, Bundle, Photogrammetry, GPS/INS ABSTRACT: If images acquired from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs
Schindler, Konrad
AUTOMATIC MAPPING FROM ULTRA-LIGHT UAV IMAGERY Christoph Strecha a,b
AUTOMATIC MAPPING FROM ULTRA-LIGHT UAV IMAGERY Christoph Strecha a,b , Olivier Küng a,b and firstname.lastname@example.com) KEY WORDS: UAV, mapping, ortho-image, DSM, Structure and Motion ABSTRACT: This paper presents an affordable, fully automated and accurate mapping solutions based on ultra-light UAV imagery
Fua, Pascal
TEA: Automatically proving termination of programs in a nonstrict higherorder functional
TEA: Automatically proving termination of programs in a nonstrict higherorder functional language termination of functions written in a nonstrict highlevel functional programming language like Haskell kinds of termination: nftermination and lazy termination. Intuitively, nftermination of f means
Schmidt-Schauss, Manfred
This tutorial describes stroke-based render-ing (SBR), an automatic approach to cre-
This tutorial describes stroke-based render- ing (SBR), an automatic approach to cre- ating nonphotorealistic imagery by placing discrete elements such as paint strokes or stipples. Researchers have proposed strokes are placed in a manner that match- estheoriginalphotograph,andthen rendered to have the appearance
Toronto, University of
Neighborhood Watch: Security and Privacy Analysis of Automatic Meter Reading Systems
Neighborhood Watch: Security and Privacy Analysis of Automatic Meter Reading Systems Ishtiaq Rouf firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT Research on smart meters has shown that fine-grained en- ergy usage data poses privacy risks since it allows inferences about activities inside the home. While smart meter
Xu, Wenyuan
AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF THE OPTIC DISC BOUNDARY FOR DETECTING RETINAL DISEASES Muhammad Salman shape model for the extraction of Optic Disc boundary. The determination of Optic Disc boundary used as a reference point to lo- cate other retinal structures, and any structural change in Optic Disc
Li, Baihua
Dynamic monitoring of spectral components for automatic detection of failures in wind farms
Dynamic monitoring of spectral components for automatic detection of failures in wind farms Master The energy produced by wind farm is becoming more and more important worldwide. Its impact on the electrical) characterize the presence of failures. Subject In wind turbines, signals are regularly acquired
Dobigeon, Nicolas
Automatic Parameter Identification in FlexRay based Automotive Communication Networks
Automatic Parameter Identification in FlexRay based Automotive Communication Networks Eric-Triggered Architectures are being introduced in safety-critical automotive systems ("X-by-wire") to cope with the growing and explore its limitations. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays most automotive innovations stem from elec- tronic
© 2005 Ying Sun ALL RIGHTS RESERVED #12;AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF NON-TOPICAL PROPERTIES OF TEXT BY MACHINE LEARNING METHODS by YING SUN A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School New Brunswick-TOPICAL PROPERTIES OF TEXT BY MACHINE LEARNING METHODS by YING SUN Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul B. Kantor
Automatic Solar Flare Tracking Using Image Processing Qu Ming and Shih Frank (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Automatic Solar Flare Tracking Using Image Processing Techniques Qu Ming and Shih Frank (shih Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102 Big Bear Solar Abstract. Measurement of the evolution properties of solar flares through their complete cyclic development
Automatic Modeling and Validation of Pipeline Specifications driven by an Architecture Description Language
) design process. Many existing approaches employ a bottom-up approach to pipeline validation, where about the behavior of the pipelined ar- chitecture through ADL constructs, which allows a powerful topAutomatic Modeling and Validation of Pipeline Specifications driven by an Architecture Description
Mishra, Prabhat
An Automatic Image Reduction Pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys
are constructed similar to those used in STScI OPUS pipeline. Reading and manipulation of FITS images and tables and catalogs) for archiving purposes. Although Apsis was designed primarily as an automated pipeline, it canAn Automatic Image Reduction Pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys John P. Blakeslee
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Physics and Astonomy, Advanced Camera for Surveys Team
Automatic isochoric apparatus for PVT and phase equilibrium studies of natural gas mixtures
We have developed a new automatic apparatus for the measurement of the phase equilibrium and pVT properties of natural gas mixtures in our laboratory. Based on the isochoric method, the apparatus can operate at temperature from 200 K to 500 K...
Zhou, Jingjun
#12;FIELD TEST OF A HIGH-EFFICIENCY, AUTOMATIC- DEFROST REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER By Richard F. Topping and manufacture pre-production units for home usage tests. The purpose of the field test and the associated market been promising. The first five months of field test data have shown an average 57% decrease in energy
A SEMI-AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR CASE ACQUISITION IN CBR A STUDY IN OIL WELL DRILLING Samad Valipour, Norway firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT Oil well drilling operation is a complex process, in which there are always new lessons learned during drilling operation
Aamodt, Agnar
Automatic Identification of Proteins with a MALDI-Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
the sample with relatively high energy- density laser pulsessthe practical result is that is often, automatic identification of proteins. A mass spectrometry-based method can satisfy this need if it (1) produces high-quality MS and MS/MS data; (2) has femtomole sensitivity; (3) is fast, i.e., collects spectra
Chait, Brian T.
Automatic fruit recognition and counting from multiple images1 , C.A. Glasbey a,
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Lawrie, Robert E. (Whitmore Lake, MI); Reed, Richard G. (Royal Oak, MI); Rausen, David J. (Denver, CO)
Automated manual transmission mode selection controller
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Sukkarieh, Jana Z. [Educational Testing Service, Rosedale Road, Princeton NJ 08541 (United States)
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Automatic Evaluation of Brain MR Segmentation Techniques by Level of Sylvain Bouix1,2
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. Control An integrated flea control program includes good sanitation and treatment of the pet and environment. You can eliminate fleas from your home with proper treatment, but it may take time, especially if the infes- tation is heavy. Sanitation. Change... of an integrated flea control program for your home. Don?t wait until fleas get out of hand. Begin your flea control program early for best results. Start a fre- quent and thorough sanitation program, regularly inspect your pet for fleas, carefully follow...
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Frumin, Michael S
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Matsunaga, Masao; Uematsu, Hiroshi; Nakagawa, Yoji; Ishiharaguchi, Yuji
Transaction-Based Building Controls Framework, Volume 1: Reference Guide
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Somasundaram, Sriram; Pratt, Robert G.; Akyol, Bora A.; Fernandez, Nicholas; Foster, Nikolas AF; Katipamula, Srinivas; Mayhorn, Ebony T.; Somani, Abhishek; Steckley, Andrew C.; Taylor, Zachary T.
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Rossini, B.F.
A mathematical method for boiling water reactor control rod programming
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Tokumasu, S.; Hiranuma, H.; Ozawa, M.; Yokomi, M.
The bridge-type fault current controller--a new facts controller
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Boenig, Heinrich J.; Mielke, C. H. (Charles H.); Burley, B. L. (Burt L.); Chen, Hong; Waynert, J. A. (Joseph A.); Willis, J. O. (Jeffrey O.)
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Riesco, T
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Tasks such as the localization of chemical sources, demining, perimeter control, surveillance and search and rescue missions are usually performed by teams of people. At least conceptually, large groups of relatively cheap mobile vehicles outfitted with sensors should be able to automatically accomplish some of these tasks. Sandia National Labs is currently developing a swarm of semi-autonomous all terrain vehicles for remote cooperative sensing applications. This paper will describe the capabilities of this system and outline some of its possible applications. Cooperative control and sensing strategies will also be described. Eight Roving All Terrain Lunar Explorer Rovers (RATLERs) have been built at Sandia as a test platform for cooperative control and sensing applications. This paper will first describe the hardware capabilities of the RATLER system. Then it will describe the basic control algorithm for GPS based navigation and obstacle avoidance. A higher level cooperative control task will then be described.
Lewis, C.; Feddema, J.; Klarer, P.
Autonomous Reactor Control Using Model Based Predictive Control for Space Propulsion Applications
Reliable reactor control is important to reactor safety, both in terrestrial and space systems. For a space system, where the time for communication to Earth is significant, autonomous control is imperative. Based on feedback from reactor diagnostics, a controller must be able to automatically adjust to changes in reactor temperature and power level to maintain nominal operation without user intervention. Model-based predictive control (MBPC) (Clarke 1994; Morari 1994) is investigated as a potential control methodology for reactor start-up and transient operation in the presence of an external source. Bragg-Sitton and Holloway (2004) assessed the applicability of MBPC to reactor start-up from a cold, zero-power condition in the presence of a time-varying external radiation source, where large fluctuations in the external radiation source can significantly impact a reactor during start-up operations. The MBPC algorithm applied the point kinetics model to describe the reactor dynamics, using a single group of delayed neutrons; initial application considered a fast neutron lifetime (10-3 sec) to simplify calculations during initial controller analysis. The present study will more accurately specify the dynamics of a fast reactor, using a more appropriate fast neutron lifetime (10-7 sec) than in the previous work. Controller stability will also be assessed by carefully considering the dependencies of each component in the defined cost (objective) function and its subsequent effect on the selected 'optimal' control maneuvers.
Bragg-Sitton, Shannon M.; Holloway, James Paul [University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
2156 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 55, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2010 Stabilization of a Class of Sandwich
of a Class of Sandwich Systems Via State Feedback Xu Wang, Anton A. Stoorvogel, Ali Saberi, H�vard Fj�r Grip Editor F. Wu. X. Wang, A. Saberi, and S. Roy are with the School of Electrical Engi- neering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2752 USA (e-mail: email@example.com; saberi
70 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 37, NO.1, JANUARY 1992 Exact Computationof the Infimum in
the Infimum in Hoo-Optimization Via Output Feedback Ben M. Chen, Student Member, IEEE, Ali Saberi, Member, 1991. Paper recommended by Associate Editor, D. S. Bernstein. The work of B. M. Chen and A. Saberi.-L. Ly was supported in part by NASA under Grants NAG-2-629 and NAG-1-121O. B. M. Chen and A. Saberi
Benmei, Chen
2 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 48, NO. 1, JANUARY 2003 Dynamical Properties of Hybrid Automata
's Foundation, by NASA under Grant NAG-2-1039, by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under Grant EPRI
Simiæ, Slobodan N.
IEEE TRANSAC~ONSON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. AC-28.NO. 11, NOVEMBER 1983 1017 Hierarchical Aggregationof Linear
are with the Laboratory for Information bridge. MA 02139. and DecisionsSystems, MassachusettsInstituteof Technology, Cam
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810 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. 55, NO. 3, MARCH 2010 Accuracy of Homogeneous Sliding Modes
sensitive it is to the presence of unaccounted-for fast stable actuators. With being an infinitesimal is to show the robustness of homogeneous HOSMs with respect to the presence of unaccounted-for fast stable
11s EEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, VOL. AC-30, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 1985 An Equilibrium Theory for Multiperson
on teams which use a common probability space. Consider a static team decision problem, formulated develops an equilibrium theory for two-person two-criteriastocbastic decisionproblems with static process, the objective functionalsare quadratic, and the decision spaces are general inner-product spaces
Ba?ar, Tamer
Abstract--In the control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles in future military operations, it will be critical to provide goal-
of unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles, which included the automatic target recognition acknowledgement1 Abstract-- In the control of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles in future military operations heterogeneous unmanned vehicles (UVs). The DCDT was applied to several decision making processes involving a mix
Cummings, Mary "Missy"
Embedded Controllers Control. Connectivity. Security.
Application Summary MCF5282 HVAC and Security Control Panel Application Summary MCF5307 Music Media Player controllers to help get their products to market quickly and cost-effectively. Aggressive price of continuous innovative technology--provides customers with the opportunity to build market share
Grantner, Janos L.
Feedback-Controlled LED Photobioreactor for Photophysiological Studies of Cyanobacteria
A custom photobioreactor (PBR) was designed to enable automatic light adjustments using computerized feedback control. A black anodized aluminum enclosure, constructed to surround the borosilicate reactor vessel, prevents the transmission of ambient light and serves as a mount for arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The high-output LEDs provide narrow-band light of either 630 or 680 nm for preferential excitation of the cyanobacterial light-harvesting pigments, phycobilin or chlorophyll a, respectively. Custom developed software BioLume provides automatic control of optical properties and a computer feedback loop can automatically adjust the incident irradiance as necessary to maintain a fixed transmitted light through the culture, based on user-determined set points. This feedback control serves to compensate for culture dynamics which have optical effects, (e.g., changing cell density, pigment adaptations) and thus can determine the appropriate light conditions for physiological comparisons or to cultivate light-sensitive strains, without prior analyses. The LED PBR may also be controlled as a turbidostat, using a feedback loop to continuously adjust the rate of media-dilution based on the transmitted light measurements, with a fast and precise response. This cultivation system gains further merit as a high-performance analytical device, using non-invasive tools (e.g., dissolved gas sensors, online mass spectrometry) to automate real-time measurements, thus permitting unsupervised experiments to search for optimal growth conditions, to monitor physiological responses to perturbations, as well as to quantitate photophysiological parameters using an in situ light-saturation response routine.
Melnicki, Matthew R.; Pinchuk, Grigoriy E.; Hill, Eric A.; Kucek, Leo A.; Stolyar, Sergey; Fredrickson, Jim K.; Konopka, Allan; Beliaev, Alex S.
We have written an automatic image processing pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program. The pipeline, known as Apsis, supports the different cameras available on the ACS instrument and is written in Python with a flexible object-oriented design that simplifies the incorporation of new pipeline modules. The processing steps include empirical determination of image offsets and rotation, cosmic ray rejection, image combination using the drizzle routine called via the STScI Pyraf package, object detection and photometry using SExtractor, and photometric redshift estimation in the event of multiple bandpasses. The products are encapsulated in XML markup for automated ingestion into the ACS Team archive.
Blakeslee, J P; Meurer, G R; Ben�tez, N; Magee, D
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