Hierarchical multi-reservoir optimization modeling for real-world complexity with application to the Three Gorges system

High dimensionality in real-world multi-reservoir systems greatly hinders the application and popularity of evolutionary algorithms, especially for systems with heterogeneous units. An efficient hierarchical optimization framework is presented for search space reduction, determining the best water distributions, not only between cascade reservoirs, but also among different types of hydropower units. The framework is applied to the Three Gorges Project (TGP) system and the results demonstrate that the difficulties of multi-reservoir optimization caused by high dimensionality can be effectively solved by the proposed hierarchical method. For the day studied, power output could be increased by 6.79 GWh using an optimal decision with the same amount of water actually used; while the same amount of power could be generated with 2.59 × 10⁷ m³ less water compared to the historical policy. The methodology proposed is general in that it can be used for other reservoir systems and other types of heterogeneous unit generators.     

一种适用于高数据速率和高速移动环境的新型信道估计方法——双正交通道信道估计方法

本文给出了一种适用于高数据速率和高速移动环境下的新型有效的信道估计方法-双正交通道信道估计方法(CETOC,Channel Estimation by using Two Orthogonal Channels),这种信道估计方法通过采用两个独立通道的联合估计,可以有效的克服快衰落的影响,从而使得在快衰落信道下应用多维状态调制成为可能.     

基于杂波跟踪的CFAR检测研究

通过设立专门通道将图像处理技术应用于雷达检测域杂波功率数据处理,对特征杂波进行跟踪,为恒虚警处理提供背景信息.本文介绍了对抗杂波边缘的自适应CFAR检测器设计中的研究工作,设计了基于杂波跟踪的杂波属性CF(clutter feature)-CFAR检测器和结构元素SE(structuring element)-CFAR检测器,对其检测性能进行了分析.并通过蒙特卡罗(Monte Carlo)仿真方法对上述两种检测器的检测性能进行了仿真.     

Blast resistance of FRP composites and polymer strengthened concrete and masonry structures – A state-of-the-art review

Recent world events such as bombings in London, Madrid and Istanbul have highlighted the susceptibility of many civilian structures to terrorist attack. Explosives directed towards vulnerable structures may cause considerable damage and loss of life. As a result, there is now a desire to increase the blast resistance of many types of existing structures. This has led to experimental and finite element (FE) research in retrofitting concrete and masonry structures with fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for blast protection. This paper presents a review of the publicly available literature and highlights areas where research is lacking.     

Noble metal water gas shift catalysis: Kinetics study and reactor design

Based on the water gas shift (WGS) catalytic mechanism on precious metal catalyst, a Langmuir–Hinshelwood (LH) kinetics model was derived for the operating conditions of syngas from natural gas reforming at near-ambient pressure. A power law kinetics model was also presented for comparative purpose. These two kinetics models were integrated in a dynamic distributed reactor model for design of full-scale WGS reactors for a natural gas fuel processing system. Modeling results indicated that the LH kinetics model gives predictions of reactor performance closer to the experimental data. Using the LH kinetics model, optimization of operating conditions for the high-temperature shift (HTS) and low-temperature shift (LTS) reactors was also attempted.     

Improved migration for mobile computing in distributed networks

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a special type of wireless network in which a collection of mobile nodes with wireless network interfaces may form a temporary network, without the aids of any fixed infrastructure. Security has become a hot research topic in mobile ad hoc networks. In 1998, Volker and Mehrdad proposed a tree-based key management and access control scheme for the mobile agents to manage rights to access its own resources for the visited mobile nodes. Latter, Huang et al. showed that Volker and Mehrdad's scheme needs a large amount of storage and costs for managing and storing secret keys. Huang et al. further proposed a new and efficient scheme based on the elliptic curve cryptosystems to reduce costs and gain better efficiency. However, there is a security leak inherent in Huang et al.'s scheme that the malicious node can overstep his authority to access unauthorized information. This paper will propose a secure, robust, and efficient hierarchical key management scheme for MANETs. Some practical issues and solutions about dynamic key management are also considered and proposed. As compared with Huang et al.'s scheme, our proposed scheme can provide better security assurance, while requiring smaller key-size, lower computational complexities, and constant key management costs which is independent on the number of the confidential files and the visited nodes.     

PPREM: Privacy Preserving REvocation Mechanism for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

One of the critical security issues of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is the revocation of misbehaving vehicles. While essential, revocation checking can leak potentially sensitive information. Road Side Units (RSUs) receiving the certificate status queries could infer the identity of the vehicles posing the query. An important loss of privacy results from the RSUs ability to tie the checking vehicle with the query's target. We propose a Privacy Preserving Revocation mechanism (PPREM) based on a universal one-way accumulator. PPREM provides explicit, concise, authenticated and unforgeable information about the revocation status of each certificate while preserving the users' privacy.     

Online gait programming of humanoid walking via NMPC

In order to satisfy the requirement of realtime gait programming of humanoid walking with foot rotation,a kind of modified Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme was proposed. Based on setting suitable kinetic and kinematic virtual constraints of Single Support Phase (SSP) and three subphases of Double Support Phase (DSP) ,complex realtime gait programming problem was simplified to four online NMPC dynamic optimization problems. A numerical approach was proposed to transform the dynamical optimization problem to the finite dimensional static optimization problem which can be solved by Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) . It can be concluded from simulation that using this method on BIP model can realize online gait programming of dynamic walking with foot rotation and the biped stability can be satisfied such that there is no sliding during walking.     

Optimal non-fragile controller realization algorithm and application to control problems

To reduce the fragility encountered in controller implementation, which is a measure of extent to describe small perturbations in controller parameters caused by rounding-off errors or component tolerances, and keep the system stability and performance, approaches of weighted eigenvalue sensitivity and stability radii comparison were used for computation and reduction of controller fragility. An algorithm has been derived for the efficient reduction of controller fragility, which used eigenstructure decomposition to obtain the suboptimal solution. The algorithm was tested for different control problems through reducing their fragility by a large margin. Different canonical forms were analyzed for fragility, including controllable canonical form, observable canonical form, modal canonical form, balanced realization and optimal (non-fragile) form. Different realizations were implemented through C language Matlab EXecutable (CMEX) S-function discrete state space block. Double precision calculations were performed. Open and closed loop controller realizations were compared with simulink state space (optimal) block. Results of comparison indicate that the optimal non-fragile controller realization shows better results both in open loop and closed loop realization.     

PCNN模型在彩色图像分割中的应用

针对脉冲耦合神经网络(PCNN)模型主要应用于灰度图像处理的局限性,利用脉冲发生器将颜色信息引入模型作为输入,与灰度信息共同控制神经元的内部行为,控制等灰度值的不同颜色区域分期点火,实现彩色图像的精确分割.双输入PCNN模型实现了彩色图像的分割,同时保持了PCNN模型对噪声的鲁棒性,从简单的仿真图像和实际图像两方面验证了此分割方法的有效性.