数控实训室建设中的几个要点

论述了数控实训室建设中应重点考虑的几个问题,并就数控机床的类型及数量配置、数控系统的选用、刀具与附件的配置、CAD／CAM软件的选用、仿真系统的采用等应遵循的基本原则进行了阐述。     

Performance analysis of Doppler shift effects on OFDM‐based and MC‐CDMA‐based cognitive radios

The present development of high data rate wireless applications has led to extra bandwidth demands. However, finding a new spectrum bandwidth to accommodate these applications and services is a challenging task because of the scarcity of spectrum resources. In fact, the spectrum is utilized inefficiently for conventional spectrum allocation, so Federal Communications Commission has proposed dynamic spectrum access mechanism in cognitive radio, where unlicensed users can opportunistically borrow unused licensed spectrum, which is a challenge to obtain contiguous frequency spectrum block. This also has a significant impact on multicarrier transmission systems such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC‐CDMA). As a solution, this paper develops non‐contiguous OFDM (NC‐OFDM) and non‐contiguous MC‐CDMA (NC‐MC‐CDMA) cognitive system. The implementation of NC‐OFDM and NC‐MC‐CDMA systems provides high data rate via a large number of non‐contiguous subcarriers without interfering with the existing transmissions. The system performance evaluates NC‐OFDM and NC‐MC‐CDMA for mobile scenario where each propagation path will experience Doppler frequency shift because of the relative motion between the transmitter and receiver. The simulation results of this paper proved that NC‐OFDM system is a superior candidate than NC‐MC‐CDMA system considering the mobility for cognitive users. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nanocellulose Aerogels for Supporting Iron Catalysts and In Situ Formation of Polyethylene Nanocomposites

Aerogels of nanocellulose (NC) prepared by freeze‐drying of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) hydrogels and followed by impregnation with methylaluminoxane serve as nanoporous organic supports for immobilizing single site iron catalysts such as bisiminopyridine iron(II) complexes. The resulting catalyst systems, exploiting renewable biomaterials as organic supports, are highly active in low pressure ethylene polymerization. They afford simultaneous control of high density polyethylene (HDPE) particle morphology and facile NC dispersion within the HDPE matrix. In the early stage of ethylene polymerization, mesoscopic shape replication and NC‐mediated templating yield platelets containing an NC core and a HDPE shell, as confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of virgin polyethylene powders. Opposite to conventionally dried CNF hydrogels, forming large agglomerates, this facile NC aerogel‐mediated in situ NC/HDPE nanocomposite formation is vastly superior to melt compounding of HDPE with NC, failing to produce such fine NC dispersions. On increasing NC content to 3.0 wt%, both Young's modulus (+50%) and tensile strength (+40%) increase at the expense of elongation at break (?80%). According to the SEM analysis of NC/HDPE morphology, the dispersion of NC nanosheets together with the in situ formation of “shish‐kebab” polyethylene fiber‐like structures accounted for HDPE matrix reinforcement.     

Applications of network coding to improve TCP performance over wireless mesh networks: a survey

There is growing interest in the use of wireless mesh network (WMN) as a last‐mile option for Internet access. Despite the many benefits of WMNs, the performance of Internet access may not be ideal. One of the main issues is the interaction of transmission control protocol (TCP) with the underlying network. The poor performance of TCP over multi‐hop networks is well‐documented, and extensive research exists, which addresses TCPs foible and enhance TCP performance for multi‐hop environments. This paper provides a thorough survey of TCP performance issues over WMNs and the available solutions to address these issues. Among the existing methods, we focused on network coding (NC) and the ways that TCP interacts with network coded systems. NC is a technique that encodes the received packets in each node before forwarding them towards the destination. The use of NC in the transport layer to address performance issues raised by wireless access is a recent research topic. This paper presents a detailed study of TCP interaction with NC. Some open research areas in this field are suggested. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Efficient network coding techniques for time constrained multicast narrowband power line communications

Nowadays, power line communication (PLC) technology is receiving a renewed attention in many application fields. In particular, PLC is quite attractive for what concerns novel paradigms as smart microgrid systems and smart buildings. This paper deals with a proposal of a PLC scheme that efficiently allows multicast services based on the use of an efficient network coding (NC) scheme. Furthermore, an analytical approach is outlined to pursue the performance optimization of the proposed solution. Finally, the good behavior of the proposed NC approach is highlighted by presenting performance comparisons with the classical NC alternative.     

A Necessary Condition on the Location of Pilot Tones for Maximizing the Correction Capacity in OFDM Systems

This paper presents a new view of the Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquengem (BCH) code through the addition of some flexibility to the syndromes distribution in the transmitted sequence. In order to get this flexibility, we derive a necessary condition (NC) on the syndromes distribution for decoding BCH codes, which includes the already known Hartmann-Tzeng proposition. This NC is essentially deduced from the decoding process of BCH code, and is related to the locator polynomial and the requested constraints to guarantee a maximal error-correction capacity. The obtained results have the advantage to be applicable for any considered field (finite or not). Furthermore, we prove that when the correction capacity is equal to 2 or 3, the obtained NC becomes also sufficient. This result is very useful in some practical transmission systems such as orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems. Once the pilot tones considered in such systems verify the necessary and sufficient condition, it becomes possible to both reduce the peak-to-average-power rate and correct the impulse noise, present in such multicarrier systems. The usefulness of the presented analysis and the exploitation of the derived condition on the pilot tones distribution is illustrated by simulation results in the case of the Hiperlan2 system     

Dynamic Nulling-and-Canceling for Efficient Near-ML Decoding of MIMO Systems

It is known that conventional nulling-and-canceling (NC) detection for multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) systems cannot exploit all of the available diversity, and, thus, its performance is significantly inferior to that of maximum likelihood (ML) detection. Conventional NC employs the layerwise postequalization signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) as reliability measures for layer sorting. These SNRs are average quantities that do not depend on the received vector. In this paper, we propose the novel dynamic nulling-and-canceling (DNC) technique that uses approximate a posteriori probabilities as measures of layer reliability. The DNC technique is a minimum mean-square error (MMSE) nulling scheme combined with an improved "dynamic" layer sorting rule that exploits the information contained in the current received vector. We calculate the error probability of DNC for a simple special case and show that it is upper bounded by the error probability of conventional NC. Simulation results are presented for spatial multiplexing systems and for systems using linear dispersion codes. It is demonstrated that the DNC technique can yield near-ML performance for a wide range of system sizes and channel SNRs at a fraction of the computational complexity of the sphere-decoding algorithm for ML detection     

中继蜂窝网络下行协作网络编码中继方法

In this paper, we first overview some traditional relaying technologies, and then pre-sent a Network Coding-Aware Cooperative Relaying (NC2R) scheme to improve the performance of downlink transmission for relay- aided cellular networks. Moreover, sys-tematic performance analysis and extensive simulations are performed for the proposed NC2R and traditional relaying and non-relaying schemes. The results show that NC2R outperforms conventional relaying and non-relaying schemes in terms of blocking probability and spectral efficiency, especially for cell-edge users. Additionally, the location selections for relays with NC2R are also dis-cussed. These results will provide some insights for incorporating network coding into next-generation broadband cellular relay mo-bile systems.     

The development of a controller for mechatronics equipment

This paper describes the developmental history of mechatronics equipment controllers especially within Yaskawa Electric. First, the philosophy and definition of the word “mechatronics” are introduced. Then a discussion is presented about mechatronics equipment controllers in which they mean a numerical control (NC) system for machine tools and industrial robots. The NC system covers three fields of technology: controller hardware, software, and an actuator control system (servosystem). Second, the 20-year progress of each item is discussed. Finally, the necessary performance and functions for future NC systems are outlined     

Neutral Zn-Air Battery Assembled with Single-Atom Iridium Catalysts for Sensitive Self-Powered Sensing System

Self-powered sensing systems (SPSSs) are critical components in smart portable electronic devices. Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) as promising energy devices provide a great opportunity to develop novel SPSS for sensing applications owing to the merit of high open-circuit potential. Herein, hierarchically porous single-atom iridium embedded nitrogen-doped carbon (SA-Ir/NC) is reported as an efficient catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in the neutral ZABs, enabling the SPSSs towards glucose detection with a high sensitivity and stable output signal. The resultant SA-Ir/NC shows superior ORR activity and stability to commercial Pt/C in neutral electrolytes. According to the theoretical calculations, IrN₅ active sites in SA-Ir/NC exhibit moderate adsorption free energy to reaction intermediates, giving SA-Ir/NC excellent four-electron ORR activity and well-enhanced H₂O₂ tolerance. When SA-Ir/NC is applied as an air cathode, the as-prepared ZABs display a large open-circuit voltage of 1.42 V, a remarkable power density of 90.4 mW cm⁻², and excellent long-term stability. After being integrated with glucose oxidase, the SPSSs are successfully established for sensitive detection of glucose based on a competitive model, holding great promise in biosensing applications.     

Capacitance–voltage characteristics of P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells with ohmic contacts and the impact of single walled carbon nanotubes on them

Capacitance–voltage (C–V) characteristics of P3HT:PCBM devices of two different thicknesses are correlated with current density–voltage (J–V) characteristics. The rising portion of the C–V characteristics coincides with the exponential current density below the built-in voltage. The negative capacitance (NC) of these devices is a low frequency phenomenon and it occurs in trap-free space charge limited current (SCLC) regime. The onset frequencies of NC for devices with and without SWNTs also do not follow direct relation with effective mobility. The NC in thin devices has non-monotonic change with voltage for thin devices showing that interface state kinetics can be the reason for its occurrence. The NC of thick devices, on the other hand, increases monotonically with voltage showing that bulk properties dominate in these. Addition of SWNTs to these devices for efficiency improvement does not modify their built-in voltage. Also, the SWNTs do not affect the forward NC behaviour. However, the devices containing SWNTs show NC in reverse bias also which has different frequency dependence with voltage. The reverse bias NC is attributed to the large non-linear reverse current by charge injection into the additional energy levels introduced by SWNTs.     

The Use of MMS for Remote CNC Control

Traditionally, plant floor communication systems in metal removal operations have been used for two purposes: downloading NC programs to machine tools, and data and status reporting and gathering. However, in a fully automated factory, the communication system will have to support many more functions. As a first step in such a development, we have designed a remote operator's interface to a NC milling machine, using the Manufacturing Message System. (MMS) soon to become EIA standard RS.511. MMS is planned to be part of MAP specification 3.0, providing an application layer service for plant floor communications. The functions supported are those which an operator would do normally at the console of the NC machine including requesting program load, setting the machine into single step or automatic operation, reading status information, starting and stopping program operation.     

A Biodegradable Antigen Nanocapsule Promotes Anti-Tumor Immunity via the cGAS-STING Pathway

Materials-based antigen delivery systems can augment the immune response by improving antigen uptake in antigen-presenting cells, targeting lymph nodes, prolonging antigen exposure, enhancing cross-presentation, etc. Recent research revealed that some antigen carriers activate the innate immune pathways without additional adjuvant. Here, a vaccine delivery platform (antigen nanocapsules) constructed by a one-step in situ polymerization is reported, weaving a biodegradable polymer network around the antigen surface. This simple technology allowed us to study the immunomodulatory effect of various antigen carriers. An antigen nanocapsule (NC7) capable of inducing dendritic cell activation and cross-presentation is identified. Further mechanistic studies revealed that NC7 activated the cGAS-STING pathway in a cGAS-dependent manner. Moreover, the subcutaneously injected NC7 accumulated in the lymph nodes and elicited strong cytotoxic T cell immunity and T cell memory against established cancer. Collectively, the often-neglected immunomodulatory effect of various cationic antigen carriers, enabling potential application in cancer vaccines, is uncovered.     

Network coded multicast for multi-hop D2D communication systems

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we consider the wireless communication systems where multi-hop Device-to-Device (D2D) networks can coexist with the conventional cellular networks by sharing the downlink resource of cellular users (CUs). A multicast data flow is distributed over the multi-hop D2D networks where network coding (NC) can be employed at the intermediate nodes. To maximize the utility of the multicast flow, we formulate a joint optimization problem for the systems while guaranteeing the quality-of-service (QoS) for regular CUs. We propose a subgradient algorithm to solve the optimization problem by decomposing it into three sub-problems: multicast rate control, NC subgraph selection, and downlink resource reusing. In particular, we develop a greedy algorithm to deal with the downlink resource reusing sub-problem for it is NP hard. Numerical and simulation results prove the superior performance of the proposed techniques compared with the conventional routing scheme.     

Solid freeform fabrication

Researchers at Austin have been working on technologies termed solid freeform fabrication (SFF) or, as reported in the popular press, desktop manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and layered manufacturing. Such processes have the potential to produce accurate, structurally sound 3-D renditions of objects designed with computers and manufactured directly from a CAD database, without part-specific tooling or human intervention, and to make them available to the user in minutes or hours. The benefits include greatly reduced prototyping cost and design time and reliability to achieve, in one operation, shapes that would otherwise require multiple operations or in some cases be impossible to produce with standard techniques. Automated manufacturing technologies in general are well suited to large production numbers, but ill suited to low-volume runs. In the latter case, the components are too few to adequately amortize the cost of part-specific tooling; instead, they are typically made by hand at much greater unit cost and longer completion times. Nor is it a completely desirable low-volume option to interface CAD systems with numerically controlled (NC) machining centers-in essence, computer controlled material removal systems-because so much human intervention is involved in producing NC programs and setting up and supervising NC systems. In fact, the low-volume production arena is exactly where SFF slashes cost and time to completion     

A non-parameter bayesian classifier for face recognition

A non-parameter Bayesian classifier based on Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is presented for face recognition, which can be regarded as a weighted Nearest Neighbor (NN) classifier in formation. The class conditional density is estimated by KDE and the bandwidth of the kernel function is estimated by Expectation Maximum (EM) algorithm. Two subspace analysis methods-linear Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Kernel-based PCA (KPCA) are respectively used to extract features, and the proposed method is compared with Probabilistic Reasoning Models (PRM), Nearest Center (NC) and NN classifiers which are widely used in face recognition systems. The experiments are performed on two benchmarks an.el the experimental results show that the KDE outperforms PRM, NC and NN classifiers.     

Modeling throughput gain of network coding in multi-channel multi-radio wireless ad hoc networks

In this paper, we model the network throughput gains of two types of wireless network coding (NC) schemes, including the conventional NC and the analog NC schemes, over the traditional non-NC transmission scheduling schemes in multihop, multi-channel, and multi-radio wireless ad hoc networks. In particular, we first show that the network throughput gains of the conventional NC and analog NC are (2n)/(2n-1) and n/(n-1), respectively, for the n-way relay networks where n ges 2. Second, we propose an analytical framework for deriving the network throughput gain of the wireless NC schemes over general wireless network topologies. By solving the problem of maximizing the network throughput subject to the fairness requirements under our proposed framework, we quantitatively analyze the network throughput gains of these two types of wireless NC schemes for a variety of wireless ad hoc network topologies with different routing strategies. Finally, we develop a heuristic joint link scheduling, channel assignment, and routing algorithm that aims at approaching the optimal solution to the optimization problem under our proposed framework.     

Effect of Network Coding and Multi-packet Reception on Point-to-Multi-point Broadcast Networks

This paper addresses throughput and delay gains resulting from network coding (NC) used to complement multi-packet reception (MPR) in a single-relay multi-user wireless network in saturated and non-saturated traffic conditions. The cross-layer analytical framework is presented in analyzing the performance of the encode-and-forward (EF) relaying wireless networks, where employed at the physical layer under the conditions of unsaturated traffic and finite-length queue at the data link layer. Considering the characteristics of EF relaying protocol at the physical layer, first a model of a two-hop EF relaying wireless channel is proposed as an equivalent extended multi-dimensional Markovian state transition model in queuing analysis. We show that the initial transmissions and the back-filling process can be greatly sped up through a combination of NC and MPR. We provided closed-form expressions for two-hop unbalanced bidirectional traffic cases both with and without NC even if the buffers on nodes are unsaturated. The analytical results are mainly derived by solving queuing systems for the buffer behavior at the relay node. The model has been evaluated through simulations and in comparison with the existing analytical model. Simulation results show good agreement with the analytical results.     

基于USB20C模块的单片机系统与PC机的通信

为了解决单片机系统与PC机间通过RS-232C接口传输数据速度慢的问题,提出了采用专用USB模块-USB20C来设计USB接口电路的方法。通过USB20C与高性能单片机C8051F020的硬件连接。实现了数控切割系统中C8051F020与PC机的高速数据通信,并给出了C8051F020端软件的具体实现。该方法避免了开发USB接口驱动程序,传输速率快,可靠性高,很好地满足了数控系统的实时性要求。对采用USB接口传输数据的应用系统设计有一定的参考价值。     

Combining network coding and compressed sensing for error correction in wireless sensor networks

As the spatial and temporal correlations of sensor readings are common in wireless sensor networks, motivated by these features and the drawbacks of network coding (NC), we introduce compressed sensing (CS) into NC scheme and construct a cooperating coding mechanism, which performs over different data fields with a compatible transformation measure for the combination of NC and CS. This cooperating coding scheme can reduce the amount of redundant information transmission significantly, because the temporal and spatial correlations are explored fully. Meanwhile, the erasures and errors are considered simultaneously in relay transmission process; a NC decoding for error control is proposed to correct the erasures and errors. Although the decoding error of NC is existent, this error can be further reduced by the reconstruction process of CS; as a result, the relative recovery error is small enough in the sink. Finally, the reliability and performance analyses confirm that the proposed cooperating coding scheme obtains considerable compression gain as compared with conventional coding scheme of NC and transmits information reliably with high recovery precision. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.