Auditory feedback in haptic collaborative interfaces

The combined effect of haptic and auditory feedback in shared interfaces on the cooperation between visually impaired and sighted persons is under-investigated. A central challenge for cooperating group members lies in obtaining a common understanding of the elements of the workspace and maintaining awareness of the other members' actions, as well as one's own, during the group work process. The aim of the experimental study presented here was to investigate if adding audio cues in a haptic and visual interface makes collaboration between a sighted and a blindfolded person more efficient. Results showed that task performance was significantly faster in the audio, haptic and visual feedback condition compared to the haptic and visual feedback condition. One special focus was also to study how participants utilize the auditory and haptic force feedback in order to obtain a common understanding of the workspace and to maintain an awareness of the group members' actions. Results from a qualitative analysis showed that the auditory and haptic feedback was used in a number of important ways to support the group members' action awareness and in the participants' grounding process.     

Morse set classification and hierarchical refinement using Conley index

Morse decomposition provides a numerically stable topological representation of vector fields that is crucial for their rigorous interpretation. However, Morse decomposition is not unique, and its granularity directly impacts its computational cost. In this paper, we propose an automatic refinement scheme to construct the Morse Connection Graph (MCG) of a given vector field in a hierarchical fashion. Our framework allows a Morse set to be refined through a local update of the flow combinatorialization graph, as well as the connection regions between Morse sets. The computation is fast because the most expensive computation is concentrated on a small portion of the domain. Furthermore, the present work allows the generation of a topologically consistent hierarchy of MCGs, which cannot be obtained using a global method. The classification of the extracted Morse sets is a crucial step for the construction of the MCG, for which the Poincare′ index is inadequate. We make use of an upper bound for the Conley index, provided by the Betti numbers of an index pair for a translation along the flow, to classify the Morse sets. This upper bound is sufficiently accurate for Morse set classification and provides supportive information for the automatic refinement process. An improved visualization technique for MCG is developed to incorporate the Conley indices. Finally, we apply the proposed techniques to a number of synthetic and realworld simulation data to demonstrate their utility.     

On delay adjustment for dynamic load balancing in distributed virtual environments

Distributed virtual environments (DVEs) are becoming very popular in recent years, due to the rapid growing of applications, such as massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs). As the number of concurrent users increases, scalability becomes one of the major challenges in designing an interactive DVE system. One solution to address this scalability problem is to adopt a multi-server architecture. While some methods focus on the quality of partitioning the load among the servers, others focus on the efficiency of the partitioning process itself. However, all these methods neglect the effect of network delay among the servers on the accuracy of the load balancing solutions. As we show in this paper, the change in the load of the servers due to network delay would affect the performance of the load balancing algorithm. In this work, we conduct a formal analysis of this problem and discuss two efficient delay adjustment schemes to address the problem. Our experimental results show that our proposed schemes can significantly improve the performance of the load balancing algorithm with neglectable computation overhead.     

汽车制动优化控制方法研究

研究汽车车轮制动时的刹车性能优化,缩短刹车距离。传统的汽车制动算法参数是固定的,不能改变,在路况不佳的情况下,遇到汽车轮胎抱死的状况时,制动器反应较慢、调节时间较长、刹车过程不稳定,导致刹车距离过长的问题。提出利用神经优化网络的汽车制动调节算法,通过控制汽车制动时,优化各种设备状态比例参数,使参数能够动态的改变,根据车况信息做出调整,得到最优控制参数,克服传统方法缺陷。实验表明:通过动态改变参数的控制可明显提高制动控制器的性能。大幅缩短在抱死情况下的刹车距离,取得了满意的效果。     

基于描述逻辑的OntoUML模型的形式化表示

将形式本体理论应用于UML语言的改进是UML的形式化研究的主要方法之一,其中On-toUML是一个概念上完整、语义上清晰和更具本体意义的UML版本。虽然OntoUML基于本体对UML进行了扩充,提供了更为丰富,更能表达现实世界语义的建模原语,但其表达方式不利于在信息系统的设计与开发中应用。本文基于描述逻辑对OntoUML中的关键建模原语及其关系给出了SHIQ形式化表示方法,并进行了实例研究。该方法表达精练、语义清晰,不仅能够表达逻辑清晰的模型,而且保证模型能够正确反映领域事实。这种形式化方法为信息系统概念建模方法提供了理论和应用支撑,在一定程度上推动了OntoUML更为广泛的应用。     

我国氧化铝工业现状及发展对策

在分析了国内外氧化铝工业的现状及差距的基础上，提出了发展我国氧化铝工业的六条战略措施及对策。     

稀土元素对钯室温电学性能的影响

研究了稀浓度(0.6at％以下)稀土元素(La、Ce、Pr、Nd、Sm、Eu、Gd、Tb、Dy、Er、Yb)对钯的室温电学性能的影响。所有稀土元素均提高钯的电阻率(p)、降低电阻温度系数(α),实验结果与理论分析证明(p·α)_((?)d-RE)d=(p·α)_(Pd)。Gd以前的稀土元素降低钯的对铜热电势(ε),其余重稀土元素增大钯的对铜热电势。按0.1at％RE归一化处理的实验数据表明,轻稀土元素对钯电阻率的影响稍大于重稀土,但Ce、Eu、Yb呈反常影响,化合价和尺寸因素是影响电学性能的主要因素。     

Al-Ti-B-RE细化剂对铝晶粒细化效果初探

对新型细化剂Al-Ti-B-RE的细化效果进行了探讨。结果表明：该中间合金是一种高效、长效的晶粒细化剂，当加入量为0．04％～0．10％，铝熔体在800℃静置30min的细化效果最显著，其效果优于进口Al-Ti-B细化剂。     

Structural stability of single-layered LaNi4.25Al0.75 film and its electrochemical hydrogen-storage properties

AB5-based hydrogen storage thin fdms （LaNi4.25Al0.75）, deposited on Cu substrate by dc magnetron sputtering were investigated in this study. X-ray diffraction （XRD） revealed that the microstructure of the layer was in crystal form. SEM and AFM analyses proved that the film appeared to be rather rough with numerous randomly sized pores of approximately 15-40 in nm diameter. Structural stability of the film was examined by the combined analyses of DSC, XRD, and SEM, which indicated that this film maintained its structural stability below 500 K or so, and a network structure was observed on the film after being heated at 700 K for 30 min. Electrochemical hydrogen-storage properties of the films were investigated by simulated battery tests. It was found that single-layered LaNi4.25A10.75 film exhibited electrochemical hydrogen-storage properties similar to typical AB5 alloys in bulk, and the maximum discharge capacity of the film was about 220 mAh/g. After 20 charge/discharge cycles, small needle-shaped aluminium oxide was formed on some fractions of the film surface.     

分布式PACS通信服务中间层构造方法研究

基于目前分布式PACS中存在的问题,提出一个通信服务中间层的构造方法,分别进行了基于设计模式通信框架的构造、DICOM图像互操作和分布式PACS可复用构件的研究.通信服务中间层的构造不仅提高了分布式PACS在网络异构环境中的可移植性、可扩展性以及相关QoS性能,还满足了PACS今后发展中提出的较高的互连互操作性的要求.