Modeling and Analysis of UAV-Assisted Mobile Network with Imperfect Beam Alignment

With the rapid development of emerging 5G and beyond (B5G), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly important to improve the performance of dense cellular networks. As a conventional metric, coverage probability has been widely studied in communication systems due to the increasing density of users and complexity of the heterogeneous environment. In recent years, stochastic geometry has attracted more attention as a mathematical tool for modeling mobile network systems. In this paper, an analytical approach to the coverage probability analysis of UAV-assisted cellular networks with imperfect beam alignment has been proposed. An assumption was considered that all users are distributed according to Poisson Cluster Process (PCP) around base stations, in particular, Thomas Cluster Process (TCP). Using this model, the impact of beam alignment errors on the coverage probability was investigated. Initially, the Probability Density Function (PDF) of directional antenna gain between the user and its serving base station was obtained. Then, association probability with each tier was achieved. A tractable expression was derived for coverage probability in both Line-of-Sight (LoS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) condition links. Numerical results demonstrated that at low UAVs altitude, beam alignment errors significantly degrade coverage performance. Moreover, for a small cluster size, alignment errors do not necessarily affect the coverage performance.     

Container-Based Internet of Vehicles Edge Application Migration Mechanism

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) applications integrating with edge computing will significantly drive the growth of IoV. However, the contradiction between the high-speed mobility of vehicles, the delay sensitivity of corresponding IoV applications and the limited coverage and resource capacity of distributed edge servers will pose challenges to the service continuity and stability of IoV applications. IoV application migration is a promising solution that can be supported by application containerization, a technology forseamless cross-edge-server application migration without user perception. Therefore, this paper proposes the container-based IoV edge application migration mechanism, consisting of three parts. The first is the migration trigger determination algorithm for cross-border migration and service degradation migration, respectively, based on trajectory prediction and traffic awareness to improve the determination accuracy. The second is the migration target decision calculation model for minimizing the average migration time and maximizing the average service time to reduce migration times and improve the stability and adaptability of migration decisions. The third is the migration decision algorithm based on the improved artificial bee colony algorithm to avoid local optimal migration decisions. Simulation results show that the proposed migration mechanism can reduce migration times, reduce average migration time, improve average service time and enhance the stability and adaptability of IoV application services.     

Stature and seat position as factors affecting fractionated response time in motor vehicle drivers

Motor vehicle accident fatalities are a cause for concern internationally; all drivers need to selectively attend to environmental changes, and to react swiftly and appropriately. The focus of the present paper was to investigate the effect of stature and seat positioning on fractionated response time. Eighty four young South African adults spanning a range of statures from 1.48 m to 2.00 m were tested in two extreme seat positions (near and far) using a European designed car-shell. Significant differences (p < 0.05) in knee flexion angle, but not in reaction or movement times were identified. Separation of tallest (X 1.93 m) and shortest (X 1.56 m) subjects (n = 20) revealed no significant stature-related differences in response times. However, the tall group showed significantly improved results when seated in the far position and the short group when seated in the near position. The results indicate that correct seat positioning will exert a significant effect on the overall response time of the driver, which in turn will affect the braking distance whilst driving.     

大型点焊机器人特种作业程序镜像修正技术研究

以不锈钢列车车体点焊机器人作业路径规划编程为研究对象,针对车体对称部件,如左右侧墙点焊的的问题,提出点焊路径规划编程镜像的方法,引入X,Y,Z主轴以及龙门架E1轴系统偏差的修正和A,B,C旋转轴镜像处理的方法来调整焊钳位姿同时对焊接路径点焊位置修正镜像,并依据镜像规则在Windows环境下使用VC++语言开发了镜像程序生成器.通过仿真结果表明,该软件生成的镜像程序可与作业基准点完美衔接,最后在车间复杂环境下的实际运行验证了该方法的有效性.     

超空泡水下航行器定深控制研究

极高的航速使得对超空泡水下航行器的控制变得异常复杂. 为了对其深度进行有效控制, 必须对其纵平面运动特性进行研究. 本文首先建立了超空泡水下航行器的纵平面运动模型, 分析了其纵平面运动特性; 然后进行了控制算法的综合; 最后, 仿真及试验结果均验证了所设计的航行器纵平面运动控制算法的有效性. 试验结果表明该控制系统具有较高的控制精度. 本文的研究成果为进一步研究水下超空泡航行器的运动控制提供了必要的理论基础.     

Robust anti-sliding control of autonomous vehicles in presence of lateral disturbances

Path following control problem of autonomous vehicles is investigated, concerning both unmeasurable sliding effects and lateral disturbances which lead to some difficulties in designing autonomous control under complex environment. To deal with the sliding effects, sideslip angles are modeled and reconstructed by estimating the tire cornering stiffness, which plays important role in analyzing the sliding effects. To this end, a Luenberger-type observer is designed, which is able to identify the tire cornering stiffness adaptively even in presence of time-varying lateral disturbances. Furthermore, to guarantee high-precision guidance, a sliding mode controller is designed based on chained system theory, and this controller is shown to be robust to both the lateral disturbances and the inaccuracy of the sliding reconstruction. Simulations illustrate that the proposed methods can reconstruct the sliding angles and provide high-accuracy anti-sliding control even in presence of the time-varying lateral disturbances.     

基于高斯背景模型的车辆检测改进算法

针对车辆检测中实时性、准确性以及自适应性很难兼顾的问题,提出了一种快速有效的车辆检测算法。该算法采用阈值判定背景区域和更新区域,根据背景变化的程度,利用动态权值更新学习率,使用基于单高斯背景模型方法,结合逻辑"或"运算检测出车辆。实验结果表明,该算法能够快速准确地检测出车辆,并且在背景更新过程中实现了自适应,并具有一定的鲁棒性。     

大型柴油车电子调速器设计

提出了一种数字式电子调速器设计方案.硬件方面进行了合理的器件选型,设计了转速信号处理、执行器驱动等电路.通过对执行器特性的分析,提出了分段自适应PID控制策略,确立了PID相关参数的分段规律,制定了详细的数值列表.为了更好地解决柴油机运动滞后问题,在PID调速控制中引入了史密斯预估校正.最后,为了验证设计方案可靠性与合...     

H-Infinity Static Output-feedback Control for Rotorcraft

The problem of stabilization of an autonomous rotorcraft platform in a hover configuration subject to external disturbances is addressed. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for static output-feedback control of linear time-invariant systems using the H-Infinity approach. Simplified conditions are given which only require the solution of two coupled matrix design equations. This paper also proposes a numerically efficient solution algorithm for the coupled design equations to determine the output-feedback gain. A major contribution is that an initial stabilizing gain is not needed. The efficacy of the control law and the disturbance accommodation properties are shown on a rotorcraft design example. The helicopter dynamics do not decouple as in the fixed-wing aircraft case, so that the design of helicopter flight controllers with a desirable intuitive structure is not straightforward. In this paper an output feedback approach is given that allows one to selectively close prescribed multivariable feedback loops using a reduced set of the states. Shaping filters are added that improve performance and yield guaranteed robustness and speed of response. This gives direct control over the design procedure and performance. Accurate identification of the System parameters is a challenging task for rotorcraft control, addition of loop shaping facilitates implementation engineers to counteract unmodeled high frequency dynamics. The net result yields control structures that have been historically accepted in the flight control community.     

An Adaptable Oscillator-Based Controller for Autonomous Robots

This paper proposes a unique oscillator-based robot controller with learning abilities to effectively guide a team of robots operating in uncertain environments. To verify this, we designed four separate controllers and compared their performance in a series of tests in several different environments. The experiments used a team of three robots to explore arenas with variable lighting and different obstacle patterns, with a goal of having the team as a whole absorb as much light as possible. The four controllers were: a reactive controller, an oscillator with fixed parameters, an oscillator whose parameters changed based on the pattern of sensor information received, and an oscillator-based controller that used reinforcement learning. Experiments confirmed that the proposed method outperforms the others in all environments tested. This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Office under grant/contract number DAAG55-98-1-0011.