A New Nonlinear Controller for Trajectory Tracking of the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Small Scale Helicopter

A nonlinear control scheme is proposed for the trajectory tracking problem of a small scale helicopter’s longitudinal dynamics. The control scheme is based on a control design procedure that constructs static feedback regulators for nonlinear systems which are linearizable by dynamic feedback. Besides, the flatness characteristics of the helicopter’s longitudinal dynamics are used to design the desired trajectory. The controller proposed is based on the longitudinal model of the small scale helicopter including the main rotor and stabilizer bar dynamics. Sufficient conditions are given to guarantee asymptotic convergence to zero of the tracking error and to keep the main rotor thrust always negative assuming that all the helicopter’s parameters are known and that all helicopter’s states are measured. Numerical simulations are given to show the performance of the controller in the presence of the main rotor and stabilizer bar dynamics.     

HColonies: a new hybrid metaheuristic for medical data classification

Medical data feature a number of characteristics that make their classification a complex task. Yet, the societal significance of the subject and the computational challenge it presents has caused the classification of medical datasets to be a popular research area. A new hybrid metaheuristic is presented for the classification task of medical datasets. The hybrid ant–bee colonies (HColonies) consists of two phases: an ant colony optimization (ACO) phase and an artificial bee colony (ABC) phase. The food sources of ABC are initialized into decision lists, constructed during the ACO phase using different subsets of the training data. The task of the ABC is to optimize the obtained decision lists. New variants of the ABC operators are proposed to suit the classification task. Results on a number of benchmark, real-world medical datasets show the usefulness of the proposed approach. Classification models obtained feature good predictive accuracy and relatively small model size.     

并行企业运作--基于并行工程的过程企业管理

针对过程企业,基于并行工程的思想,提出了过程企业运作管理的新思想--并行企业运作,并采用IDEFO(ICAM Defintion)功能建模方法,建立了集成并行的业务过程模型,在每个业务过程内部采用"监控-决策-执行"的实时信息反馈系统,以实现企业各业务过程之间的信息交互与资源共享.     

聚乙二醇-400催化合成橙花醚的研究

研究了利用多种相转移催化剂在不同条件下合成橙花醚。结果表明：采用聚乙二醇 ４００（ＰＥＧ ４００）为催化剂，当β 萘酚：溴乙烷：催化剂＝１：１２：００７（摩尔比）、温度为７６℃、反应７ｈ时，产率可高达９８１％。     

Rheological behaviour of polysaccharide aqueous solutions

Several data relative to the viscosity of water-soluble polysaccharide solutions were collected from the literature and processed by different rheological models. Some relationships between the viscosity of these polymer solutions, their molecular weight and their solution concentrations, were established and their validity checked. Thus, an accurate equation correlating the viscosity and both the shear rate and the solution concentration of different water soluble polysaccharides (xanthan, hyaluronan, carboxymethylcellulose) was deduced on the basis of Cross' model which suggests two domains in which the viscosity is constant, i.e. very low and very high shear rate ranges. Then, an expression relating the zero-shear viscosity (A) and the concentration of their solutions was proposed. Finally, an alternative equation to that of Mark–Houwink correlating the molecular weight and the intrinsic viscosity of the water-soluble polysaccharides studied in this paper was found.     

Proposed Phenomenological PTCR Model and Accompanying Phenomenological PTCR Chart

The positive temperature coefficient of resistivity (PTCR) behavior of semiconductive BaTiO₃ is well explained by the Heywang model, which predicts the resistivity behavior above the Curie point based on the acceptor state density at the grain boundaries, the charge carrier density, and the energy gap, E _s, between the conduction band and the acceptor levels. However, the relationship between these parameters and the production parameters (sintering time, composition, and cooling rate) is not well understood. Recently, the present authors have found that E _s can be increased by thorough oxidation. This increase is attributed to a change in the oxidation state of the acceptor. Based on this finding and results from the literature, a phenomenological PTCR model and an accompanying PTCR chart for acceptor–donor-codoped BaTiO₃ are proposed to clarify this relationship. The PTCR chart clarifies that acceptor dopant concentrations, oxidation time, and oxygen partial pressure during oxidation or cooling can be optimized simultaneously to obtain optical PTCR properties.     

Arylidene polymers. XVIII. Synthesis and thermal behavior of organometallic arylidene polyesters containing ferrocene derivatives in the main chain

A new interesting category of organometallic polyesters based on diarylidenecycloalkanones containing ferrocene derivatives in the polymer main chain has been prepared by interfacial polycondensation of 1,1′-dichlorocarbonyl ferrocene or 1,1′-dichlorocarbonyl-4,4′-diiodoferrocene with 2,5-bis(p-hydroxybenzylidene)cyclopentanone, 2,5-divanillylidenecyclopentanone, 2,6-bis(p-hydroxybenzylidene)cyclohexanone, 2,6-divanillylidenecyclohexanone, and 2,7-bis(p-hydroxybenzylidene) cycloheptanone. The resulting polyesters were characterized by elemental analyses, infrared spectroscopy, solubility, and viscometry measurements. The thermal behavior of the synthesized polymers was evaluated by thermal gravimetric analysis and correlated with their structures. The crystallinity of all polymers were examined by x-ray diffraction analysis. Moreover, the electrical conductivity of a selected example of polymer was investigated above the temperature range (300–500 K) and showed that it followed an Arrhenius-type equation with activation energy 2.09 eV. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

八碳烯分离工艺的研究

从能量综合集成的角度提出了八碳烯精馏分离工艺 ,对所提流程进行了优化模拟计算及分析 ,为八碳烯分离工艺的施工设计提供了充分的依据。投产情况表明 ,该研究改变了八碳烯的生产现状 ,使得八碳烯生产的经济效益显著提高     

Studies on the pulping of egyptian cotton linters by the nitric acid process

Egyptian cotton linters were pulped by the nitric acid process. In order to reduce the high ash and silica contents of the resulting pulps it was found necessary to apply hot refining with sodium hydroxide solution. Different conditions of concentration, temperature, and pressure in the refining step were investigated. Refining before and during bleaching were compared.