Accidents,often the result of an ‘uncontrolled business process’—a study in the (Dutch) chemical industry

Often companies in the (petro‐) chemical industry claim that all possible countermeasures against potential accidents have been taken and therefore accidents are unforeseeable. In this paper we question this statement by analysing the pre‐warning signals (precursors) preceding a number of industrial accidents. 17 accidents that occurred in the (petro‐) chemical industry have been investigated by exploring FACTS, an accident database containing information about industrial accidents worldwide. This paper will demonstrate that the existence of precursor information could have been used to foresee and even prevent these accidents if a proper control action had been initiated. The accidents are analysed further, according to a control model, which was adapted from that of C. Argyris. It demonstrates the ineffectiveness of several elements of business process control loops and that the so‐called ‘double‐loop learning’ cycle is more important than the ‘single‐loop learning’ cycle if one considers safety improvement. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MEMS技术对火控系统的影响

结合火控系统的发展趋势 ,说明了MEMS技术在火控系统中的应用 ,分析了MEMS技术在机械结构、系统性能以及体系结构等方面对火控系统的影响     

自动控制原理考试系统的设计与实现

对基于Visual Basic 6．0开发的自动控制原理考试系统的系统结构做了阐述，并简要介绍了该系统的设计思想、主要功能及实现方法。     

DCS在采暖锅炉房中的应用

介绍了Jx—300X DCS系统的组成、功能、特点以及热水锅炉主要控制方案及其在锅炉测控方面的应用。     

煤矿污染防治技术群及其评价

通过对枣庄矿区污染防治工作的调查研究，分析了煤矿开采对环境的影响，总结出当前煤矿污染防治的适用技术群，井对其相关问题进行评价。     

基于多信号流图的飞控系统实时故障诊断

针对飞控系统构造复杂、解析建模困难的特点，给出一种基于多信号流图模型进行实时故障诊断的方法。该方法首先建立系统的多信号流图模型，然后根据模型得出相关矩阵，在相关矩阵和各实时测试结果基础上按照实时故障诊断基本算法进行诊断推理，判定系统各模块所处的状态。对某型飞机飞控系统的建模以及模拟诊断结果表明，该方法能隔离多故障，同时降低虚警率，是一种十分有效的实时故障诊断方法。     

Investigation of Boundary Shear Stress and Pollutant Detachment from Impervious Surface during Simulated Urban Storm Runoff

Pollutant detachment rates have been determined for four chloride salts during simulated urban storm runoff. Under rainfall and/or overland flow conditions, chloride mass flux was measured and related to boundary shear stress of the test surface. Washoff coefficients, presumed to depend only on pollutant characteristics, were computed based on the slopes of dimensionless mass flux versus dimensionless time plots. Washoff coefficients were found to vary among and between the chloride compounds studied. In general, higher overland flow rates produced lower boundary shear and lower washoff coefficients. The combination of simulated rainfall and overland flow resulted in an increased boundary shear and an increased washoff coefficient. An empirical washoff coefficient based on a load characteristic curve derived from an exponential washoff relationship was also computed from the runoff data and compared with the previous washoff coefficient. A linear correlation between these two washoff coefficients was observed. The magnitude of the latter coefficient under simulated rainfall was consistent with reported values obtained from field data.     

Anthony D. Wagner: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.

Presents the citation for Anthony D. Wagner, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (cognition and human learning) "for outstanding and innovative research on the neural basis of memory and executive control." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Two-degree-of-freedom output feedback controllers for discrete-time nonlinear systems

A discrete-time, model-based output feedback control structure for nonlinear processes is developed in the present work. The structure makes use of a closed-loop observer, while at the same time it guarantees that the overall feedback controller possesses integral action. An algebraic transformation is applied on the observer states to insure that the input/output gain of the observer matches the model upon which the static state feedback control law is based. The resulting control algorithm is a two-degree-of-freedom control law, in the sense that the output and the set point are processed in different ways. The control structure is shown not only to have the same properties as the standard model-state feedback structure, but also that it emerges from a model algorithmic control framework. Finally, a simulation example using an exothermic CSTR operating at an open-loop unstable steady state is used to evaluate the closed-loop performance of the proposed method.     

一类非线性脉冲发展方程的最优反馈控制

本文考虑受控系统为Banach空间中一类G0紧半群的非线性脉冲积微分方程的最优反馈控制问题。首先证明容许控制对的存在性,进一步对Lagrange问题给出了一个新的存在性定理。