Sealing behaviour of glass-based composites for oxygen transport membranes

In this study, seven different filler materials in different proportions were added to a Ba-Ca-Si glass matrix “H” to investigate new sealant with higher thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) value and good sealing performance for application in oxygen transport membrane (OTM). SrTi_0.75Fe_0.25O_3-δ (STF25) was used as an OTM, and the sealing partners were ferritic steel Aluchrom and pre-oxidized Aluchrom. Compatibility tests were carried out to investigate the feasibility of the composites. Higher CTE values were found in dilatometer tests on composite samples by adding 40 wt% Ag (HAg40) and 30 wt% Ni-Cr (HNC30). Gas-tightness measurements of sandwiched samples produced appropriate helium leakage rates in the range of 10^?6 mbar·l·s^?1. Sealing behaviour of sealants HAg40 and HNC30 were investigated by joining STF25 and as-delivered/pre-oxidized Aluchrom together. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) on cross-sections of the joints revealed a homogeneous microstructure and good adherence of the glass sealants to support metals and STF25.     

On the problem of k-coverage in mission-oriented mobile wireless sensor networks

The problem of sensor deployment to achieve k-coverage of a field, where every point is covered by at least k sensors, is very critical in the design of energy-efficient wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It becomes more challenging in mission-oriented WSNs, where sensors have to move in order to k-cover a region of interest in the field. In this type of network, there are multiple missions (or monitoring tasks) to be accomplished, each of which has different requirements, particularly, in terms of coverage. In this paper, we consider the problem of k-coverage in mission-oriented mobile WSNs which we divide into two sub-problems, namely sensor placement and sensor selection. The sensor placement problem is to identify a subset of sensors and their locations in a region of interest so it is k-covered with a small number of sensors. The sensor selection problem is to determine which sensors should move to the above-computed locations in the region while minimizing the total energy consumption due to sensor mobility and communication. Specifically, we propose centralized and distributed approaches to solve the k-coverage problem in mission-oriented mobile WSNs. Our solution to the sensor placement problem is based on Helly’s Theorem and the geometric analysis of the Reuleaux triangle. First, we consider a deterministic (or disk) sensing model, where the sensing range is modeled as a disk. Then, based on the above analysis, we address the k-coverage problem using a more realistic sensing model, known as probabilistic sensing model. The latter reflects the stochastic nature of the characteristics of the sensors, namely sensing and communication ranges. Our centralized and distributed protocols enable the sensors to move toward a region of interest and k-cover it with a small number of sensors. Our experiments show a good match between simulation and analytical results. In particular, simulation results show that our solution to the k-coverage problem in mission-oriented mobile WSNs outperforms an existing one in terms of the number of sensors needed to k-cover a region of interest in the field and their total energy consumption due to communication, sensing, and mobility for the correct operation of the protocol.     

水下柔性臂动力学建模方法研究

将柔性臂应用到水下环境,探索一种新型的水下作业工具。在空间柔性臂动力学建模方法的基础上,考虑水动力做功以及水动力对柔性臂变形的影响,首先基于Hamilton原理建立中心刚体-水下柔性臂组成的刚柔耦合系统的动力学模型,然后采用假设模态法对动力学模型进行离散化,导出了考虑刚柔耦合作用的水下柔性臂有限维离散化动力学方程。最后给出仿真算例,验证了动力学模型对于研究水下柔性臂末端变形的有效性,能够准确反映水下柔性臂动力学特性,可用于水下柔性臂的主动控制研究。     

基于随机经济模型预测控制的电热综合能源系统运行优化

北方供暖地区存在大量热电联产机组,其"以热定电"的运行特性限制了机组调峰能力.同时,随着我国能源替代的提出以及风电的快速发展,建立包含风电的电热综合能源系统是降低电热耦合以及系统运行成本的重要手段.因此,建立电热综合能源系统模型,在满足用户电热负荷需求的基础上,综合考虑风电不确定性以及系统动态过程中的经济性,提出一种基于情景树结构的随机经济模型预测控制策略.为了降低风电功率随机性干扰和风电功率变化难以描述的问题,提出采用一种改进的非线性变换方法建立风电功率非高斯分布模型,在此基础上建立基于情景树结构的风电功率变化显式表达结构,在保证鲁棒性的同时降低了优化过程中风电随机性的干扰.最后,通过累计节约成本的复合单步增长率指标验证所提策略的有效性.     

Discriminative multi-task objects tracking with active feature selection and drift correction

In this paper, we propose a discriminative multi-task objects tracking method with active feature selection and drift correction. The developed method formulates object tracking in a particle filter framework as multi-Task discriminative tracking. As opposed to generative methods that handle particles separately, the proposed method learns the representation of all the particles jointly and the corresponding coefficients are similar. The tracking algorithm starts from the active feature selection scheme, which adaptively chooses suitable number of discriminative features from the tracked target and background in the dynamic environment. Based on the selected feature space, the discriminative dictionary is constructed and updated dynamically. Only a few of them are used to represent all the particles at each frame. In other words, all the particles share the same dictionary templates and their representations are obtained jointly by discriminative multi-task learning. The particle that has the highest similarity with the dictionary templates is selected as the next tracked target state. This jointly sparsity and discriminative learning can exploit the relationship between particles and improve tracking performance. To alleviate the visual drift problem encountered in object tracking, a two-stage particle filtering algorithm is proposed to complete drift correction and exploit both the ground truth information of the first frame and observations obtained online from the current frame. Experimental evaluations on challenging sequences demonstrate the effectiveness, accuracy and robustness of the proposed tracker in comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms.     

多相主动轮廓模型的眼底图像杯盘分割

目的 视盘及视杯的检测对于分析眼底图像和视网膜视神经疾病计算机辅助诊断来说十分重要,利用医学眼底图像中视盘和视杯呈现椭圆形状这一特征,提出了椭圆约束下的多相主动轮廓模型,实现视盘视杯的同时精确分割。方法 该算法根据视盘视杯在灰度图像中具有不同的区域亮度,建立多相主动轮廓模型,然后将椭圆形约束内嵌于该模型中。通过对该模型的能量泛函进行求解,得到椭圆参数的演化方程。分割时首先设定两条椭圆形初始曲线,根据演化方程,驱动曲线分别向视盘和视杯方向进行移动。当轮廓线到达视盘、视杯边缘时,曲线停止演化。结果 在不同医学眼底图像中对算法进行验证,对算法抗噪性、不同初始曲线选取等进行了实验,并与多种算法进行了对比。实验结果表明,本文模型能够同时分割出视盘及视杯,与其他模型的分割结果相比,本文算法的分割结果更加准确。结论 本文算法可以精确分割医学眼底图像中的视盘和视杯,该算法不需要预处理,具有较强的鲁棒性和抗噪性。     

基于多块信息提取的AUV资源勘查系统故障检测

针对"潜龙二号"AUV在实际航行过程中,资源勘查系统传感器数据具有多重变量相关性、故障类型多样、受运行状态和环境变化影响数值变化大以及噪声强等问题,提出一种新的基于多块信息提取的主元分析(PCA)故障检测方法.首先,针对变量之间的多重相关性,通过滑窗和相关系数的方法提取变量间相关性信息;然后,根据变化率在不同运行状态和环境下基本稳定的特点,对于不同类型故障,分别提取变化率信息和变化率信息的各阶统计量累积误差信息;最后,基于提取的特征信息建立3个子块,对每个子块分别建立PCA模型并进行检测,将检测的结果通过中值滤波去噪后,用贝叶斯推断进行融合.通过对"潜龙二号"实际运行数据进行检测,验证所提方法的有效性.     

多飞行机器人吊运系统研究进展及挑战

多飞行机器人吊运系统是指由多个旋翼飞行机器人、吊绳及单个悬挂负载共同构成的具有空中操作能力的一类新型机电系统,具有灵活性强、地域可达性好、运输便捷、载荷能力强等显著优点.多飞行机器人吊运系统应用广泛,但是其建模与控制还存在诸多挑战.旋翼飞行机器人自身是一种复杂的欠驱动非线性系统,随着吊绳和负载的引入,系统的耦合性、欠驱动特性和非线性也会随之增加.为了全面对多飞行机器人吊运系统的研究进行综述,首先介绍了多飞行机器人吊运系统的常见构型,并对比分析了其优缺点;其次,从动力学建模、协调控制、实验三个方面介绍了多飞行机器人吊运系统的研究现状与挑战;最后,凝练了现存的关键科学问题,对其潜在的应用领域和未来的研究工作进行了探讨与展望.     

基于虚拟力引导的人机协同目标抓取方法

针对力反馈遥操作中传统人工势场法无法适应于机械臂整体的避障以及在作业过程中操作者难以控制机械臂到达所需位姿的问题,提出了一种基于虚拟力引导的人机协同目标抓取方法。力反馈设备向操作者提供力觉交互。通过结合人工势场法和虚拟夹具,构建管道形虚拟力场,生成实时虚拟力引导,实现协助操作者完成从端机器人的整体避障任务并在完成避障后引导机器人返回预定义路径并趋近目标点。当进行抓取任务时,构建锥形虚拟力场,实现协助操作者操作机械臂到达目标位置和姿态。此外,提出了一种机器人运动限制方法以降低操作者的操作失误对抓取任务的影响。实验证明,该方法能有效提高目标抓取操作的成功率和操作效率。     

基于改进广义预测控制的PMSM速度控制

在机器人控制领域中,对永磁同步电机(PMSM)响应的快速性及稳定性要求较高,同时还需要其控制方法有较强的适应性。但传统的PID控制参数只适用于特定场合,应用受到限制。本文结合广义预测控制(GPC)理论与Luenberger观测器,形成一种新的控制方法来对PMSM进行速度闭环控制。该算法与传统GPC算法相比计算量更少,并通过负载转矩观测器对负载扰动进行测量反馈,提高了系统控制性能。仿真及试验结果表明,该算法与PID控制比超调量小,响应速度快,适用于要求较高的工程应用。