矿用救生舱环境监控系统软件的研究

给出了矿用救生舱环境监控系统的组成,主要介绍了该系统软件的功能设计、总体架构及界面设计方案。该系统软件可实时显示各传感器的运行状态和检测数据、舱内气体余量、电源电量、照明灯状态、空气净化状态、自动控制状态、舱门状态等,人机交互界面友好,操作简便。该软件经长期连续运行实验,工作正常,达到了设计要求。     

面向IC装备功能仿真平台的多模式测试方法

为了实现全面对IC装备以及装备功能仿真平台进行功能测试,通过分析装备命令响应特点,提出了包含单指令测试、逻辑指令序列测试以及随机指令序列测试的多模式测试方法;单指令测试验证设备以及由相关设备组成的系统的单指令响应正确性;逻辑指令序列从控制系统角度验证设备或系统的连续动态运行性能;随机指令序列测试验证设备或系统的动态随机响应性能;实际应用表明,提出的测试方法可以满足IC装备功能仿真平台的测试需求。     

双目视觉系统在风洞伞摆角测量中的研究与应用

伞系统是飞行器的重要组成部分,其摆角参数是系统安全性的重要指标之一;针对目前风洞试验中伞摆角难以测量的问题,提出了一种基于双目视觉系统的试验方法,该系统主要由两部CCD相机、图像采集卡和控制计算机组成,通过立体视觉标定和数字图像处理技术解算出空间特征标记的三维坐标,根据坐标的空间几何关系计算出伞摆角参数;试验结果表明该方法应用成功,能够同时获取伞运动过程中投影在正交平面上的竖直和水平摆角,且具有系统组成简单、通用性强的优点,有较高的应用价值。     

浅析《计算机应用基础》课程教学设计方案

通过对《计算机应用基础》公共基础课的课程分析,从课程性质和任务、教学内容的安排、课程目标的设计、课程教学媒体的设置、教学过程及学习建议这五个方面阐述了《计算机应用基础》课程教学的设计思路。     

A neuron membrane mesh representation for visualization of electrophysiological simulations

We present a process to automatically generate three-dimensional mesh representations of the complex, arborized cell membrane surface of cortical neurons (the principal information processing cells of the brain) from nonuniform morphological measurements. Starting from manually sampled morphological points (3D points and diameters) from neurons in a brain slice preparation, we construct a polygonal mesh representation that realistically represents the continuous membrane surface, closely matching the original experimental data. A mapping between the original morphological points and the newly generated mesh enables simulations of electrophysiolgical activity to be visualized on this new membrane representation. We compare the new mesh representation with the state of the art and present a series of use cases and applications of this technique to visualize simulations of single neurons and networks of multiple neurons.     

Is implementation of continuous improvement possible? An evolutionary model of enablers and inhibitors

The purpose of this article is to present an evolutionary model of the enablers and inhibitors affecting the implementation and sustainability of continuous improvement. With this aim, a qualitative study using the grounded theory was carried out. Interviews were conducted with managers responsible for continuous improvement in first‐tier suppliers in the automotive sector. As a result, two existing lines of research in the continuous improvement literature are synthesized: on one hand, the literature concerning the enablers and barriers associated with continuous improvement sustainability; and on the other, the literature concerning the evolutionary model. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Evaluating the influence of multiplexing schemes and buffer implementation on perceived VoIP conversation quality

This work presents a study of RTP multiplexing schemes, which are compared with the normal use of RTP, in terms of experienced quality. Bandwidth saving, latency and packet loss for different options are studied, and some tests of Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic are carried out in order to compare the quality obtained using different implementations of the router buffer. Voice quality is calculated using ITU R-factor, which is a widely accepted quality estimator. The tests show the bandwidth savings of multiplexing, and also the importance of packet size for certain buffers, as latency and packet loss may be affected. The customer’s experience improvement is measured, showing that the use of multiplexing can be interesting in some scenarios, like an enterprise with different offices connected via the Internet. The system is also tested using different numbers of samples per packet, and the distribution of the flows into different tunnels is found to be an important factor in order to achieve an optimal perceived quality for each kind of buffer. Grouping all the flows into a single tunnel will not always be the best solution, as the increase of the number of flows does not improve bandwidth efficiency indefinitely. If the buffer penalizes big packets, it will be better to group the flows into a number of tunnels. The router processing capacity has to be taken into account too, as the limit of packets per second it can manage must not be exceeded. The obtained results show that multiplexing is a good way to improve customer’s experience of VoIP in scenarios where many RTP flows share the same path.     

Confidence voting method ensemble applied to off-line signature verification

In this paper, a new approximation to off-line signature verification is proposed based on two-class classifiers using an expert decisions ensemble. Different methods to extract sets of local and a global features from the target sample are detailed. Also a normalization by confidence voting method is used in order to decrease the final equal error rate (EER). Each set of features is processed by a single expert, and on the other approach proposed, the decisions of the individual classifiers are combined using weighted votes. Experimental results are given using a subcorpus of the large MCYT signature database for random and skilled forgeries. The results show that the weighted combination outperforms the individual classifiers significantly. The best EER obtained were 6.3 % in the case of skilled forgeries and 2.31 % in the case of random forgeries.     

Missing data imputation for fuzzy rule-based classification systems

Fuzzy rule-based classification systems (FRBCSs) are known due to their ability to treat with low quality data and obtain good results in these scenarios. However, their application in problems with missing data are uncommon while in real-life data, information is frequently incomplete in data mining, caused by the presence of missing values in attributes. Several schemes have been studied to overcome the drawbacks produced by missing values in data mining tasks; one of the most well known is based on preprocessing, formerly known as imputation. In this work, we focus on FRBCSs considering 14 different approaches to missing attribute values treatment that are presented and analyzed. The analysis involves three different methods, in which we distinguish between Mamdani and TSK models. From the obtained results, the convenience of using imputation methods for FRBCSs with missing values is stated. The analysis suggests that each type behaves differently while the use of determined missing values imputation methods could improve the accuracy obtained for these methods. Thus, the use of particular imputation methods conditioned to the type of FRBCSs is required.     

Towards practical anisotropic adaptive FEM on triangular meshes: a new refinement paradigm

Adaptive anisotropic refinement of finite element meshes allows one to reduce the computational effort required to achieve a specified accuracy of the solution of a PDE problem. We present a new approach to adaptive refinement and demonstrate that this allows one to construct algorithms which generate very flexible and efficient anisotropically refined meshes, even improving the convergence order compared to adaptive isotropic refinement if the problem permits.