Computer-aided design and analysis of direct-driven wheel motordrive

This paper presents the computer-aided design (CAD) and performance analysis of a novel direct-driven wheel brushless DC motor drive for electric vehicles (EVs). The proposed motor is a permanent magnet square-wave motor, whose rotor with rare earth magnets forms the exterior of the motor, which can be fitted with a wheel tire to realize the direct drive for each wheel of an EV. The interior stator with its windings is rigidly mounted onto the suspension and frame structure of the vehicle. In order to achieve the direct drive without any mechanical transmission for EVs, the wheel motor has been designed as a low-speed high-torque motor. The design and optimization of the motor geometry was achieved with the aid of finite-element electromagnetic field analysis. Simulation studies on the transient performance of the motor drive were also carried out. This involved the creation of the motor transient model and formulation of a motor control strategy to ensure the wheel motor drive runs efficiently in the entire permitted speed and load range. The application of CAD techniques in the design of this very unconventional drive is described in this paper     

Generalized Tunstall codes for sources with memory

Tunstall codes are variable-to-fixed length codes that maximize the expected number of source letters per dictionary string for discrete, memoryless sources. We analyze a generalization of Tunstall coding to sources with memory and demonstrate that as the dictionary size increases, the number of code letters per source symbol comes arbitrarily close to the minimum among all variable-to-fixed length codes of the same size. We also find the asymptotic relationship between the dictionary size and the average length of a dictionary entry     

Cholescintigraphy in the diagnosis of Rotor syndrome

A 2-year-old boy with Rotor syndrome was studied with Tc-99m N-(di-isopropylphenyl carbamoylmethyl) iminodiacetic acid (DIPA). In this patient, the liver was not visualized, and there was persistent visualization of the cardiac blood pool and along with prominent kidney excretion. It is concluded that Tc-99m DIPA cholescintigraphy may be helpful in the diagnosis of Rotor syndrome.     

Scalar quantisation using a fast systolic array

A systolic array capable of outperforming a table look-up quantiser is proposed. The design has high throughput, can perform uniform or non-uniform quantisation and is suitable for VLSI or field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation. In the latter case, the array can be used dynamically to both reduce latency and switch between quantisers without the need to reset look-up tables     

Photoacoustic spectroscopy of condensed media with a phase transition

The gas-microphone method of recording a photoacoustic (PA) Rosencwaig—Herschow signal is extended theoretically for consideration of material evaporation of a sample. For an excitation source of constant intensity and exponential saturation of vapor concentration, relations are derived to describe the transient dynamics of the PA response. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 153–155, January–February, 1997.     

A time-frequency analysis method for radar scattering

A time-frequency analysis method to study electromagnetic scattering is presented and demonstrated using canonical objects. The time-frequency analysis method utilizes the Bargmann transform to formulate the signal representation in phase space. The use of the Bargmann transform leads to an attractive parametric signal representation in terms of complex polynomials, and elliptical filters can be constructed to crop or extract selected areas of the phase plane. The signal representation and filtering operations are demonstrated using scattering responses from spheres and thin wires, and the prominent scattering features are identified and extracted     

Causes of Decay of Fresh-cut Celery

A decay of fresh-cut celery (Apium graveolens) segments stored at < 5°C in sealed film bags began with a water soaking of the cut surfaces. Slimy moisture accumulated inside the bags. The segments water soaked completely, softened, discolored and sometimes disintegrated. Total aerobic bacterial populations isolated from decayed segments ranged from log₁₀ 7.0–7.7 CFU/g tissue weight. The predominant bacteria, identified by fatty acid analysis as Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. marginalis, caused water soaking, soft rot, and discoloration in freshly inoculated celery tissues stored at 5 or 25°C. Leuconostoc mesenteroides was also isolated and may have been responsible for slime production.     

Integrated imaging for neurosurgery

The authors address using the concept of multimodal bioimage integration at the local area network level, using 3D MRI and PET data of the human head. Here, integration is intended between structural and functional multidimensional images of the same body area of a patient. They analyze the role of present technology and standards (such as the X Window protocol) in providing the physician with a better understanding of the structure-to-function relationships of a given biological organ. They analyze the concept of integration intended as a tool to extract the significative information content from bioimages, i.e. to perform image analysis. The fusion of visual eidetic and linguistic knowledge, which plays an important role in medical diagnosis formation, is seen as a significant step towards obtaining quantitative evaluation of the relevant information content of bioimages