S06 桂花幻想之月夜——梦天

作为厦门园博会风景园林师园之一,本园以"梦天"为主题,结合东端开阔的水面条件,以月、桂、石为材,以天气的变化、月亮的位置、植物的变化、庭园本身的变化为主轴进行设计,使其成为一座可持续的庭园.     

Evaluation Results of the Signal Decomposition Technique for OFDM Transmission which Achieves the Power‐Added Efficiency Improvement and the SNR Enhancement Using the Noise Elimination

The authors have proposed the signal decomposition technique as one of the powerful solution to mitigate the large peak‐to‐average power ratio (PAPR) to be addressed in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmitters especially on mobile terminals. In order to enhance the receiver SNR, the simple noise elimination techniques working together with the signal decomposition technique have also been proposed that eliminates the noise added on the decomposed constant amplitude on‐off‐signals taking advantage of the knowledge of their constant amplitude at the receiver. In this paper, we discuss the parameter design issue of the proposed techniques and their optimization. Then, demonstrate the PAPR, the power‐added efficiency (PAE), and also the BER performances operating on the optimized parameters. It is confirmed that the proposed signal decomposition technique improves the PAPR by 4 dB and doubles the PAE at the complementary cumulative distribution function of 1%. It is also confirmed that the proposed noise elimination technique improves the receiver SNR by 3 dB at the BER of 10 to 3, which is nearly equal to that of conventional OFDM, under the conditions that the decomposed signals are transmitted over the independent additive white Gaussian noise channels. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the proposed techniques work properly when the decomposed signals are transmitted over 2 × 2 multi‐input multi‐output.     

Diagnosis Criterion of Abnormality of Transformer Winding by Frequency Response Analysis (FRA)

Frequency response analysis (FRA) is a powerful technique to detect internal abnormalities within power transformers. However, diagnosis criteria of power transformers by FRA have not been fully established yet. In this paper, a new evaluation method of degree of identification between two transfer functions is proposed. In the proposed method, a frequency window is employed and cross‐correlation factor is calculated with moving the window. Furthermore, the proposed method is applied to transfer functions of real transformers with or without some abnormalities. Based on this discussion, objective criteria for diagnosis of abnormalities of transformer windings by FRA are proposed. The proposed criteria are based on a few data of transformers with some abnormalities. Therefore, the proposed criteria are tentative and they would be improved by accumulation of further data.     

Stable identification scheme for linear discrete-time systems

This paper is concerned with the problem of identifying parameters in stochastic systems described by single-input single-output linear discrete-time equations. A stable estimation error system is developed by using the extended Kalman filter technique and the concept of strictly positive real transfer function. The identifier corresponding to the estimation error system is constructed, and the convergence of parameter estimates to the exact values is proved under some bounded conditions. It is shown that the recursive maximum likelihood identifier and the recursive extended least squares identifier are obtained by neglecting the correction terms in the proposed identifier. Numerical examples for a fourth-order system are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Consideration of Stretchable Dry Electrodes for Smart Shirts Aimed for Biological Signal Monitoring

Dry electrodes of a smart shirt for measuring biological signals were prepared by the additive printing method using a stretchable conductive paste with Ag fillers loading. Interfacial impedance between the electrode and skin depended on the contact pressure of electrode and the moisture of stratum corneum. When moisture of stratum corneum was more than 30%, ECG could be measured using the stretchable electrodes printed on a compression shirt. However, noise signal in the ECG signal increased when the moisture of stratum corneum was less than 30%. To solve this problem, we propose to use additional electrodes made of an electrically conductive kneaded rubber.     

Electrical Breakdown Strength of Alumina at High Temperatures

The dc electrical strength of sapphire and poly crystalline alumina was studied up to 1400°C. The electrical strength was essentially identical for both materials. It was > 10⁶ V/cm at room temperature and decreased gradually with temperature up to 900°C (2.6×10⁵ V/ cm), then dropped rapidly to 2×10⁴ V/cm at 1400°C for a sample thickness of ∼ 100 μm. The electrical strength decreased with the sample thickness. It was inversely proportional to the thickness for samples thicker than ∼ 600 μm at 1200°C. The breakdown behavior was explained on the basis of a thermal breakdown model.     

Fuzzy control of a manipulator using an actuator and multibrakes

This paper is concerned with the control of a manipulator with n-degrees of freedom by one actuator and n ? 1 brakes using fuzzy inference. All the links of the manipulator are excited by a motor placed on the base link, and the excitation torque is successively transmitted through each link from the base link until the final link. The brakes on the joints act at identical frequency with different phases, and the phases of timing on the brakes are controlled by fuzzy inference such that all the joint angles of links are followed to the desired trajectories. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by a simple example.     

Active control for the suspension of large-sized buses using fuzzy logic

An active suspension of large-sized buses by using fuzzy logic is considered. The active control for the suspension is determined by minimizing the mean squares of vertical and rotary accelerations of vehicle body subject to the constraints of suspension and tyre deflections. The vehicle model is assumed to be a linear system with six degrees of freedom excited by road profiles. The tuning of fuzzy control rules and associated parameters that characterize the active control is carried out where two kinds of road profiles are considered. In the simulation results, the proposed active suspension shows improved performance over passive suspension     

Angular correction of sea surface temperature observed by thermal infrared radiometer

Abstract

A thermal infrared radiometer indicates a lower sea surface temperature at a large observation angle than the directly measured one. In order to explain this decrease in the apparent temperature, the intensity of the radiation reaching the radiometer is formulated as a function of observation angles of the radiometer. In the equation, we assume that a reflection loss occurs at the sea surface for the radiation from below the surface. The temperature predicted from this formula at the large observation angles fits well to the observed one, indicating that temperatures observed at large observation angles can be corrected     

A LRT Control Method Using Sensor Information in Distribution Systems with a Large Amount of PVs and EVs

It is of prime importance to maintain voltage profile within the proper range in distribution systems with a large amount of photovoltaics and electric vehicles (EVs). In particular, there is a possibility that line drop compensation (LDC) logic, which is utilized for the control of load ratio tap transformer (LRT) does not work properly when reverse power flow is included partially. Hence, in this paper, we have developed a new LRT control method based on the sensor information supposing that some section switchgears with sensors are introduced in the future distribution systems. Specifically, the extreme value of voltage profile is estimated by convergence calculation in the section between the section switchgear with sensor and LRT. Moreover, the voltage at the end node can be estimated by LDC method using sensor information of section switchgear. The proposed method was tested using a distribution system model and its effectiveness was shown.