一个高速开关阀控液压系统的模糊控制研究

本文设计了一个采用高速开关阀控制的液压缸位置控制系统，该系统便于和微机接口实现数字控制。本系统运用PWM技术和模糊控制技术，实现了系统的精确控制。仿真结果表明，该控制器具有快速响应性和好的稳定性。同时也表明了采用模糊控制方法可以有效的解决一类非线性系统的控制。     

江苏省南水北调受水区水资源配置

在对水资源系统进行模拟分析的基础上,结合江苏省南水北调受水区水文水资源、水利工程等特点,构建流域降雨径流模型、水动力学模型、水量调配模型以及水工程调度模型等子模型,对受水区水资源量、供需水量等进行研究。基于所建模型提出水利工程调度方案,对研究区水资源进行合理配置。分别模拟计算分析研究区内农业、工业、生活、生态和船闸用水户在现状与规划工情下不同水平年的供水、需水、缺水情况,制定水资源配置方案。通过现状与规划方案对比可知,南水北调一期工程建成后供水能力提高,缺水量显著降低。95%、75%和50%保证率下,缺水率分别降低10.3%、8.0%和5.2%。研究成果为南水北调东线水利工程调度提供科学依据,对跨流域调水工程的水资源配置与调度具有一定参考意义。     

Whole-body vibration exposure in sport: four relevant cases

This study investigates the whole-body vibration exposure in kite surfing, alpine skiing, snowboarding and cycling. The vibration exposure was experimentally evaluated following the ISO 2631 guidelines. Results evidenced that the most critical axis is the vertical one. The weighted vibration levels are always larger than 2.5 m/s² and the vibration dose values are larger than 25 m/s^1.75. The exposure limit values of the EU directive are reached after 8–37 min depending on the sport. The vibration magnitude is influenced by the athletes’ speed, by their skill level and sometimes by the equipment. The large vibration values suggest that the practice of sport activities may be a confounding factor in the aetiology of vibration-related diseases.     

Information diffusion in distributed OSN: The impact of trusted relationships

Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSN) are a valid alternative to OSN based on peer-to-peer communications. Without centralised data management, DOSN must provide the users with higher level of control over their personal information and privacy. Thus, users may wish to restrict their personal network to a limited set of peers, depending on the level of trust with them. This means that the effective social network (used for information exchange) may be a subset of the complete social network, and may present different structural patterns, which could limit information diffusion. In this paper, we estimate the capability of DOSN to diffuse content based on trust between social peers. To have a realistic representation of a OSN friendship graph, we consider a large-scale Facebook network, from which we estimate the trust level between friends. Then, we consider only social links above a certain threshold of trust, and we analyse the potential capability of the resulting graph to spread information through several structural indices. We test four possible thresholds, coinciding with the definition of personal social circles derived from sociology and anthropology. The results show that limiting the network to “active social contacts” leads to a graph with high network connectivity, where the nodes are still well-connected to each other, thus information can potentially cover a large number of nodes with respect to the original graph. On the other hand, the coverage drops for more restrictive assumptions. Nevertheless the re-insertion of a single excluded friend for each user is sufficient to obtain good coverage (i.e., always higher than 40 %) even in the most restricted graphs. We also analyse the potential capability of the network to spread information (i.e., network spreadability), studying the properties of the social paths between any pairs of users in the graph, which represent the effective channels traversed by information. The value of contact frequency between pairs of users determines a decay of trust along the path (the higher the contact frequency the lower the decay), and a consequent decay in the level of trustworthiness of information traversing the path. We show that selecting the link to re-insert in the network with probability proportional to its level of trust is the best re-insertion strategy, as it leads to the best connectivity/spreadability combination.     

Learning Temperature Dynamics on Agar-Based Phantom Tissue Surface During Single Point CO $$_2$$ 2 Laser Exposure

Neural Processing Letters - This paper presents an approach to determine a model of superficial tissue temperature dynamics during continuous wave CO $$_2$$ laser irradiation. The main contribution...