Heterometallic sulfide cluster [Ag6Sn6S20]10 −: Solvothermal syntheses and characterizations of silver thiostannates with lanthanide complex counter cations

Novel organic hybrid silver thiostannates [Hen]₄[Ln(en)₄]₂[Ag₆Sn₆S₂₀]·3en (Ln = Er, 1; Tm, 2; Yb, 3) were prepared by the reactions of Ln₂O₃, Ag, Sn and S in ethylenediamine (en) under solvothermal conditions. Six SnS₄ tetrahedra and six AgS₃ triangles are connected into the heterometallic sulfide cluster [Ag₆Sn₆S₂₀]^10 − via edge-sharing. In the [Ag₆Sn₆S₂₀]^10 − cluster, a hexanuclear Ag₆S₆ core is enclosed by two Sn₃S₁₀ fragments. The Ag₆S₆ core is the first As–S cluster stabilized by inorganic SnS₄ ligands. In 1–3, all Ln^3 + ions are in 8-fold coordination environments that involved four bidentate en ligands, forming bicapped trigonal prisms. Compounds 1–3 show well-defined absorption edges with band gaps in the range of 2.18–2.47 eV.     

基于压电陶瓷动态信息的结构裂纹识别方法

利用压电陶瓷的动态特性和压电系统的动态信息,对铝梁的裂纹损伤进行了分析研究。随着梁裂纹尺寸的增加,压电陶瓷片的导钠幅值下降,且系统固有频率减小。利用导钠幅值的变化和系统的动态信息,可以对裂纹的位置和尺寸大小进行识别。实验证明该方法的有效性。     

板坯连铸涡流检测钢水液位系统的应用

介绍了新一代RAM型涡流传感钢水液位控制仪在莱钢板坯连铸机上的应用及其效果。     

Visualising a knowledge mapping of information systems investment evaluation

Information systems (IS) facilitate organisations to increase responsiveness and reduce the costs of their supply chain. This paper seeks to make a contribution through exploring and visualising knowledge mapping from the perspective of IS investment evaluation. The evaluation of IS is regarded as a challenging and complex process, which becomes even more difficult with the increased complexity of IS. The intricacy of IS evaluation, however, is due to numerous interrelated factors (e.g. costs, benefits and risks) that have human or organisational dimensions. With this in mind, there appears to be an increasing need to assess investment decision-making processes, to better understand the often far-reaching implications associated with technology adoption and interrelated knowledge components (KC). Through the identification and extrapolation of key learning issues from the literature and empirical findings, organisations can better improve their business processes and thereby their effectiveness and efficiency, while preventing others from making costly oversights that may not necessarily be only financial. In seeking to enlighten the often obscure evaluation of IS investments, this paper attempts to inductively emphasise the dissemination of knowledge and learning through the application of a fuzzy Expert System (ES) based knowledge mapping technique (i.e. Fuzzy Cognitive Map [FCM]). The rationale for exploring knowledge and IS investment evaluation is that a knowledge map will materialise for others to exploit during their specific technology evaluation. This is realised through conceptualising the explicit and tacit investment drivers. Among the several findings drawn from this research, the key resulting knowledge mapping through FCM demonstrated the complex, multifaceted and emergent behaviour of causal relationships within the knowledge area. The principal relationships and knowledge within IS investment evaluation are illustrated as being determined by a blend of managerial and user perspectives.     

Dynamics modeling and analysis of a flexible-base space robot for capturing large flexible spacecraft

Space robots are in huge demand due to the rapid growth of their service targets, i.e., spacecraft. There are generally large flexible components on spacecraft, such as antenna reflectors and solar paddles. Due to the vibratility of their structure, it is challenging for a space robot with flexible appendages (the base is then called flexible-base) to capture and repair the large flexible spacecraft. After capturing, the two spacecraft with flexible appendages are connected by a space manipulator, and a compounded system is formed. In this paper, we developed a dynamic model and a closed-loop simulation system, to provide a means to verify path planning and control algorithms. Initially, the dynamic characteristics of different capturing stages (preimpact and post-impact) were analyzed. The topologies of a flexible-base space robot and the compounded system were described based on incidence and channel matrices. Secondly, the recursive dynamics was formulated and resolved by an effective numerical method. The modeling was verified by Adams’ model. Thirdly, we implemented a dynamics calculation block in Matlab/Simulink environment using the S-function package for the C program, and developed a closed-loop simulation system, which was composed of the Planning and Controller, the Multibody Dynamic, and the 3D Display modules. Finally, based on the simulation system, two typical missions—target berthing and on-orbital manipulation of the target along a circle, were simulated and evaluated. Dynamics analysis results presented some useful rules for the path planning and control to suppress the vibration of the flexible structure.     

基于免疫优化多输出最小二乘支持向量机及其应用*

传统的支持向量机是一种两类问题的判别方法, 不能直接应用于多类分类问题。为了解决这个问题,提出了一种免疫优化多输出最小二乘支持向量机方法。该方法利用免疫算法来优化最小二乘支持向量机的参数。将该方法应用于污水生化处理过程建模及语音情感识别,仿真结果表明,该方法具有更高的精度。     

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.     

基于EEMD和自相关函数特性的自适应降噪方法

在机械设备早期故障中,反映故障特征的冲击信号非常微弱,容易被噪声淹没,使得故障诊断有一定难度。集合经验模式分解方法将含噪信号分解为多个固有模式分量,其中包括噪声分量和有用信号分量。根据两者自相关函数特性的不同,提出了利用能量集中比找到噪声分量分界点的自适应降噪方法,并利用改进的软阈值方法拾取噪声分量中的高频有用信号。对不同频率的含噪信号进行降噪处理,结果表明,该方法对中低频信号的降噪具有很好的效果。故障轴承振动信号的降噪效果表明该方法的实用性。     

Editorial

Nowadays control systems can find applications in many areas, like aerospace, motion tracking, chemical engineering, physics, biology, economics. To improve control performance is a perpetual goal. With recent progresses of computing technologies, better control performance can be achieved by more judicious control strategies based on more precise and more complicated, such as time-varying, nonlinear, models. Another trend to improve control performance is built upon the divide-and-conquer philosophy, i.e., a complicated control task is cooperatively accomplished by multiple controllers/agents, instead of a single super-powerful controller. This trend is made possible due to great advances in communication, which enable the information exchange among agents and may unite the less powerful agents. The cost for such control performance improvement is higher spatial complexity of control systems. Although high model complexity and spatial complexity can be physically handled by current powerful controllers/agents, the lack of efficient analysis and synthesis methods prevents the performance improvement of control systems with high model or/and spatial complexity. As we know, conventional control methods are mainly developed under the assumptions of linear, time-invariant and centralized models. In order to resolve the issues due to the aforementioned two types of complexities, new methods are expected, which is exactly the major aim of the present special issue.