Looking ahead: Joint small group detection and tracking in crowd scenes

Small group detection and tracking in crowd scenes are basis for high level crowd analysis tasks. However, it suffers from the ambiguities in generating proper groups and in handling dynamic changes of group configurations. In this paper, we propose a novel delay decision-making based method for addressing the above problems, motivated by the idea that these ambiguities can be solved using rich temporal context. Specifically, given individual detections, small group hypotheses are generated. Then candidate group hypotheses across consecutive frames and their potential associations are built in a tree. By seeking for the best non-conflicting subset from the hypothesis tree, small groups are determined and simultaneously their trajectories are got. So this framework is called joint detection and tracking. This joint framework reduces the ambiguities in small group decision and tracking by looking ahead for several frames. However, it results in the unmanageable solution space because the number of track hypotheses grows exponentially over time. To solve this problem, effective pruning strategies are developed, which can keep the solution space manageable and also improve the credibility of small groups. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The method achieves the state-of-the-art performance even in noisy crowd scenes.     

某火工装置延时失效原因分析与改进研究

为查找某火工装置延时失效的原因,进行了故障排查及失效机理分析。结果表明延时失效的根本原因为该火工装置结构设计不合理,导致在爆炸冲击波作用下装药密封受损,引起瞬发。对原装置进行了改进设计,并对改进后的火工装置进行了试验验证和可靠性评估,结果表明新装置延时正常,其综合可靠性达到了技术指标要求。     

基于改进型延时观测器的电热炉温度复合控制方法

电热炉温控系统自身具有大时滞和大惯性的特点,常规控制方法难以实现炉温预期的控制效果。针对此问题,提出一种基于改进型延时观测器的电热炉温度复合控制方法,将扰动观测器与延时观测器相结合,在消除系统集总扰动的同时,估计出时滞前的状态变量,简化滑模控制器的设计,提高系统的抗干扰能力,消除时滞危害。将所提控制方法与GPC控制、基于Smith预估器的模糊自适应PID控制进行仿真对比,结果表明：所提控制方案的响应速度更快,超调量几乎为零,抗干扰能力更强,鲁棒性更好。     

An online method to remove chattering and repeating alarms based on alarm durations and intervals

Chattering and repeating alarms, which repeatedly make transitions between alarm and non-alarm states without operators’ response, are the most common form of nuisance alarms encountered in industrial plants. The paper formulates two novel rules to detect chattering alarms caused by random noise and repeating alarms by regular patterns such as oscillation, and proposes an online method to effectively remove chattering and repeating alarms via the m-sample delay timer. Industrial examples are provided to support the formulated rules and to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Small-gain stability conditions for linear systems with time-varying delays

In this paper we show that a variety of stability conditions, both existing and new, can be derived for linear systems subject to time-varying delays in a unified manner in the form of scaled small-gain conditions. From a robust control perspective, our development seeks to cast the stability problem as one of robust stability analysis, and the resulting stability conditions are also reminiscent of robust stability bounds typically found in robust control theory. The development is built on the well-known conventional robust stability analysis, requiring essentially no more than a straightforward application of the small gain theorem. The derived conditions have conceptual appeal, and they can be checked using standard robust control toolboxes.     

车联网环境下基于节点认知交互的路由算法

针对车联网（IoV）环境下消息传输效率低下、网络资源开销较大等诸多问题，提出一种适用于城市交通场景下基于车辆节点认知交互的路由算法。首先，依据信任理论提出节点认知交互度的概念，并在此基础上对车联网中的车辆节点进行分类，赋予它们不同的认知交互度初值；同时还引入车辆节点交互时间、交互频率、车辆节点物理间隔距离、间隔跳数以及消息生存时间等影响因子，进而构建了车辆节点认知交互评估模型。基于该模型计算并更新节点的认知交互度，并通过比较对应车辆节点间的认知交互度值来选取认知交互度相对较高的邻居节点作为中继节点进行消息转发。仿真实验结果表明，与Epidemic和Prophet路由算法相比，所提路由算法有效提高了消息投递率并降低了消息投递时延，同时显著降低了网络资源的开销，有助于提升车联网环境的消息传输质量。     

Stabilization in probability and mean square of controlled stochastic dynamical system with state delay

Although stochastic dynamical systems have received a great deal of attention in terms of stabilization studies, so far there are few works on controlled stochastic dynamical systems with state delay. In this paper, a controlled stochastic dynamical system represented by a stochastic differential equation with state delay is considered. Condition under which the system is exponentially stable in mean square and in probability is examined.     

Model-based temperature control of a diesel oxidation catalyst

The problem studied in this article is the control of a DOC (diesel oxidation catalyst) as used in aftertreatment systems of diesel vehicles. This system is inherently a distributed parameter system due to its elongated geometry where a gas stream is in contact with a spatially distributed catalyst. A first contribution is a model for the DOC system. It is obtained by successive simplifications justified either experimentally (from observations, estimates of orders of magnitude) or by an analysis of governing equations (through asymptotic developments and changes of variables). This model can reproduce the complex temperature response of DOC output to changes in input variables. In particular, the effects of gas velocity variations, inlet temperature and inlet hydrocarbons are well represented. A second contribution is a combination of algorithms (feedback, feedforward, and synchronization) designed to control the thermal phenomena in the DOC. Both contributions have been tested and validated experimentally. In conclusion, the outcomes are evaluated: using the approach presented in this article, it is possible to control, in conditions representative of vehicle driving conditions, the outlet temperature of the DOC within ±15 °C.     

Interplay of plasma etch, strip and wet clean in patterning La2O3/HfO2-containing high-κ/metal gate stacks

The removal process of the La₂O₃/HfO₂ dielectric and of the residues after metal gate etch are discussed. The challenges are presented and related to the specific physico-chemical properties of La-containing compounds. Solutions based on optimization of plasma etch, strip and wet clean are demonstrated for both an integrated and delayed etch-clean process. Both processes meet the stringent requirements of complete removal of the high-κ layers and metal-containing sidewall residues without inducing silicon recess or undercut.     

非线性延时模型及逻辑门优化设计

为了解决信号斜率对逻辑门延时的影响,提出一种基于逻辑努力的非线性逻辑门延时模型.模型引入非线性修正因子,该修正因子通过对仿真数据的模拟,由优化算法求得.针对不同的连线负载,提出模型得到的延时与仿真得到的延时误差小于3％.仿真结果表明,在不同的连线负载下,采用该模型优化设计的译码器延时最小,验证了模型的有效性.