Exploring approaches to improve the performance of autonomous monitoring with imperfect data in location-aware wireless sensor networks

In recent years, information and sensing technologies have been applied to the construction industry to collect and provide rich information to facilitate decision making processes. One of the applications is using location data to support autonomous crane safety monitoring (e.g., collision avoidance and dangerous areas control). Several location-aware wireless technologies such as GPS (Global Positioning System), RFID (Radio-frequency identification), and Ultra-Wide Band sensors, have been proposed to provide location information for autonomous safety monitoring. However, previous studies indicated that imperfections (errors, uncertainty, and inconsistency) exist in the data collected from those sensors and the data imperfections have great impacts on autonomous safety monitoring system performance. This paper explores five computationally light-weight approaches to deal with the data imperfections, aiming to improve the system performance. The authors built a scaled autonomous crane safety monitoring testbed with a mounted localization system to collect location data and developed five representative test cases based on a live construction jobsite. Seven hundred and sixty location readings were collected at thirty-eight test points from the sensors. Those location data was fed into the reasoning mechanisms with five approaches to generate the safety decisions at those thirty-eight test points and evaluate system performance in terms of precision, recall and accuracy. The results indicate that system performance can be improved if at least ten position readings from sensors can be collected at small intervals at any location along the moving path. However, by including additional data such as velocity and acceleration that may be read from devices mounted on workers, localization error may be significantly reduced. These findings represent a path forward to improve localization accuracy by mixing imperfect data from the sensed environment with supplemental input.     

Ozone Cooling Tower Treatment With and Without Mineral Removal

This paper builds on a prior paper by this author, McGrane (1991). In that paper, ozone is used as the sole means of cooling tower water treatment. The paper discusses water conservation by increased cycles of concentration, greatly increased efficiency through extremely low biological populations, and corrosion data which is compared to ozonated and chemically treated towers.

New in this paper are the results from the combination of a low pressure reverse osmosis system with ozone treatment for cooling tower water. Scale formation has continued to plague cooling towers with high concentrations of calcium in the make-up water. The use of a mineral removal system in cases of extremely hard water has made ozone an attractive alternative to traditional chemicals in many areas.     

供应链环境下安全的RFID认证方案

供应链环境下RFID安全认证方案不仅要保证各节点的隐私安全,还应该满足供应链管理需求。针对现有方案存在不能同时兼顾两者的不足,提出一种基于"双重签名"的认证方案。标签的认证信息先后采用访问密钥和认证密钥进行双重签名生成,只有同时具备这两个密钥才能识别标签身份。该方案既可以实现标签在供应链内的安全传递,又能方便供应链的管理。分析表明,该方案较现有方案优势明显。     

基于ENVI软件的遥感影像内插方法偏差改正

ENVI是由遥感领域的科学家采用交互式数据语言IDL(Interactive Data Language)开发的一套功能强大的遥感图像处理软件,其能够快速、便捷、准确地从遥感影像中提取所需的信息。为了对影像进行更好的分析和处理,ENVI提供了一套基础的影像内插方法用于对影像进行插值处理。然而,由于理论上的缺陷,其采用的插值方法存在一定的偏差,从而导致后续的影像处理工作中引入了人为的误差影响。因此基于ENVI软件所用的影像内插方法,从理论入手指出其不足之处并对其模型进行改正。通过实验证明,改正后的内插方法能够获得更为准确的插值影像,从而为下一步的处理提供更为准确的数据结果。     

基于Elman超声信号时间融合的塔机防碰撞技术

针对塔机防碰撞以缺乏灵活性和时实性的被动防御为主的现状,为实现智能化主动防碰撞的目的,通过分析障碍物轮廓与超声测距时间序列间的映射关系,以时间融合的思想引入Elman网络,并通过变形输入输出实现了单超声传感器由测距序列快速识别障碍物高精度位置信息的功能,并经试验验证可以达到预期低成本、快速度、高精度的塔机工作使用要求,也为低精度传感器获取高精度融合结果提出借鉴思路。     

防止氟化铝母液脱硅工艺中铝、氟消耗方法研究

在氟化铝母液中添加氯化铝等可溶性铝盐,可有效地阻止钠,氟,铝间冰晶石固体物质的形成,从而达到防止氟化铝脱硅工艺中铝,氟的损耗,确保氟硅酸钠的产品质量,同时提高母液利用的经济效益。     

ELECTROKINETIC EFFECTS: CARBONIC ANHYDRASE AND CO2 ELECTRODE DYNAMICS

It is well known that the dynamic response rate of the Severinghaus-type CO₂ electrode is improved significantly in some cases by addition of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase to the electrode assembly. Hysteresis in the response rate also is reduced. Experimental data and modelling results indicate that catalysis of the CO₂ hydration reaction in the bulk of the bicarbonate layer (the Nernst film) is not responsible for the improved response behavior, Evidence is presented to show that catalysis in the electrostatic double layer region at the glass electrode surface is a possible explanation. This proposed phenomenon may have widespread implications for the optimal design of analytical devices, commercial processes involving electrochemical phenomena, and may also provide insight into electrobiologi-cal processes.     

Catalytic combustion of trichloroethene over Ru/Al2O3: Reaction mechanism and kinetic study

The performance of 0.5% Ru/Al₂O₃ for the deep oxidation of trichloroethene (1000–2500 ppmV, WHSV = 55 h⁻¹) in air was studied in this work. Experiments were carried out both at dry and wet (20,000 ppmV of H₂O) conditions. Catalytic performance was studied in terms of activity and selectivity for the different reaction products (CO₂, HCl, Cl₂, C₂Cl₄, CCl₄ and CHCl₃). Both the activity and the selectivity for total combustion are higher than other catalysts suggested in the literature for this process (especially Pd and Pt).The main organic by-products are CCl₄ and CHCl₃, whereas in all the other catalysts tested in the literature, tetrachloroethene is the main organic by-product. This fact suggests that the mechanism of the combustion reaction, involving a double-bond scission, is essentially specific for this catalyst.Kinetic data was fit to a pseudo-first order kinetic expression, providing fairly good fit.     

路灯控制电路设计

该路灯控制系统主要由时钟发生电路、路灯控制电路、LCD显示电路、声光报警电路、键盘控制电路和单片机控制电路等部分组成。在时钟发生电路中,采用低功耗实时时钟电路芯片DS1302,它可以对年、月、日、周日、时、分、秒进行计时,计时后,经过单片机的控制处理后从显示屏上将计时的数据显示出来。而路灯控制部分通过对外部环境进行检测,实现不同环境的不同操作,从而实现各个不同功能。由于采用了较高级的时钟控制元件、精度较高的红外检测装置和外界光检测装置,实现了对外部环境的控制功能,而且有效地提高了精度。     

高职院校高频电子线路教学改革思考与实践

高频电子线路是电子信息工程、通信工程等相关专业的一门重要专业基础课。本文结合高频电子线路重点课程建设实践,从教学内容、教学方法与手段及实验实训等方面,对如何提高教学效果,简要总结了本院高频电子线路课程教学改革的一些思考和课程组在实际教学中的探索性实践。