Improved Repeatability of Pulsed Field Magnetometry Measurements Through Peltier Effect Temperature Control of Measurement Coils

Pulsed Field Magnetometers (PFMs) offer a method for high speed full loop characterisation of hard magnetic materials. As there is no dependency on iron to close a circuit, the repeatability of the technique is good. By utilising Peltier effect techniques to control the temperature of the measurement coil systems employed in a Pulsed Field Magnetometer, the level of repeatability of measurements can be significantly improved.     

Performance of miniaturized direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) devices using micropump for fuel delivery

A fuel cell is a device that can convert chemical energy into electricity directly. Among various types of fuel cells, both polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) can work at low temperature (<80 °C). Therefore, they can be used to supply power for commercial portable electronics such as laptop computers, digital cameras, PDAs and cell phones. The focus of this paper is to investigate the performance of a miniaturized DMFC device using a micropump to deliver fuel. The core of this micropump is a piezoelectric ring-type bending actuator and the associated nozzle/diffuser for directing fuel flow. Based on the experimental measurements, it is found that the performance of the fuel cell can be significantly improved if enough fuel flow is induced by the micropump at anode. Three factors may contribute to the performance enhancement including replenishment of methanol, decrease of diffusion resistance and removal of carbon dioxide. In comparison with conventional mini pumps, the size of the piezoelectric micropump is much smaller and the energy consumption is much lower. Thus, it is very viable and effective to use a piezoelectric valveless micropump for fuel delivery in miniaturized DMFC power systems.     

基于RBF网络和IMM的机动目标跟踪方法

文中提出了一种应用RBF神经网络对标准IMM算法中的卡尔曼滤波结果进行校正的方法。网络输人为预测误差、卡尔曼增益以及测量值与估计值之差．网络输出反映了由于目标机动所带来的滤波误差．将网络输出结果和直接由卡尔曼滤波求解得到的结果相加．可以得到更为准确的滤波值。同时．在网络的学习算法中．在网络权值矩阵的修正公式中增加了反映滤波残差的调整项．若卡尔曼滤波的残差较大，网络调整权值的幅度也相应增大。仿真结果表明．在目标发生机动转弯处．校正后的IMM算法的跟踪误差要明显小于标准IMM算法的跟踪误差．跟踪精度较高。     

An efficient face segmentation algorithm based on binary partition tree

This paper presents an efficient face segmentation algorithm based on binary partition tree. Skin-like regions are first obtained by integrating the results of pixel classification and watershed segmentation. Facial features are extracted by the techniques of valley detection and entropic thresholding, and are used to refine the skin-like regions. In order to segment the facial regions from the skin-like regions, a novel region merging algorithm is proposed by considering the impact of the common border ratio between adjacent regions, and the binary partition tree is used to represent the whole region merging process. Then the facial likeness of each node in the binary partition tree is evaluated using a set of fuzzy membership functions devised for a number of facial primitives of geometrical, elliptical and facial features. Finally, an efficient algorithm of node selecting in the binary partition tree is proposed for the final face segmentation, which can exactly segment the faces without any underlying assumption. The performance of the proposed face segmentation algorithm is demonstrated by experimental results carried out on a variety of images in different scenarios.     

Admission and GoS control in a multiservice WCDMA system

We consider in this paper a WCDMA system with two types of calls: real time (RT) calls that have dedicated resources, and data non-real time (NRT) calls that are treated using a time-shared channel (such as the HDR or the HSDPA). We consider reservation of some resources for the NRT traffic and assume that this traffic is further assigned the resources left over from the RT traffic. The grade of service (GoS) of RT traffic is also controlled in order to allow for handling more RT calls during congestion periods, at the cost of degraded transmission rates. We consider both the downlink (with and without macrodiversity) as well as the uplink and study the blocking probabilities of RT traffic as well as the expected sojourn time of NRT traffic. We further study the conditional expected sojourn time of a data connection given its size and the state of the system. Finally, we extend our framework to handle handover calls.     

一种在秘密共享中骗子的检测方案

提出了一种能正确确定欺骗者的方案。此方案具有在验证时运算简单、快速的特点。对此方案的攻击如同大数分解一样困难。     

High mobility,low voltage polymer transistor

We introduce a polymer transistor that operates with low supply voltage and yet has a field-effect mobility higher than the mobilities reported for low voltage polymer transistors. A simple plasma oxidation of the gate metal to form a thin (3.74 nm) top metal oxide layer in the gate metal is involved in the fabrication that acts as the gate dielectric. With ultrathin gate dielectrics, the variation in the dielectric thickness and the surface roughness scattering can severely limit the mobility attainable. The plasma oxidation under certain conditions produces a very smooth oxide surface, leading to the high mobility.     

Radio resource management for a mobile network with TD-CDMA

In the paper, we proposed a resource allocation method employing maximal compatible cliques to make use of channel bandwidth as efficiently as possible in a TD-CDMA system. Furthermore, the strength of beacon signals was also measured to decide whether or not to reserve resources for hand-off users, in order to reduce their dropping probabilities. Finally, we conducted several experiments to validate that our method could make use of the finite resources efficiently, thereby revealing better blocking probabilities and dropping probabilities than other methods.     

基于交流比例积分控制器的单相逆变器

提出一种电感电流、输出电压瞬时值反馈控制和负载电流前馈控制相结合的复合控制策略。在此基础上,研制了一台800W的单相逆变器。实验结果表明,提出的控制策略改善了逆变器输出电压的波形,提高了系统的暂态特性。