Round-Eye: A system for tracking nearest surrounders in moving object environments

This paper presents “Round-Eye”, a system for tracking nearest surrounding objects (or nearest surrounders) in moving object environments. This system provides a platform for surveillance applications. The core part of this system is continuous nearest surrounder (NS) query that maintains views of the nearest objects at distinct angles from query points. This query differs from conventional spatial queries such as range queries and nearest neighbor queries as NS query considers both distance and angular aspects of objects with respect to a query point at the same time. In our system framework, a centralized server is dedicated (1) to collect location updates of both objects and queries, (2) to determine which NS queries are invalidated in presence of object/query location changes and corresponding result changes if any, and (3) to refresh the affected query answers. To enhance the system performance in terms of processing time and network bandwidth consumption, we propose various techniques, namely, safe region, partial query reevaluation, and incremental query result update. Through simulations, we evaluate our system with the proposed techniques over a wide range of settings.     

A power‐area‐efficient, 3‐band, 2‐RX MIMO,TD‐LTE receiver with direct‐coupled ADC

In this work, a power‐area‐efficient, 3‐band, 2‐RX MIMO, and TD‐LTE (backward compatible with the HSPA+, HSUPA, HSDPA, and TD‐SCDMA) CMOS receiver is presented and implemented in 0.13‐μm CMOS technology. The continuous‐time delta‐sigma A/D converters (CT ?Σ ADCs) are directly coupled to the outputs of the transimpedance amplifiers, eliminating the need of analog anti‐aliasing filters between RX front‐end and ADCs in conventional structures. The strong adjacent channel interference without low‐pass filter attenuation is handled by proper gain control. A low‐power small‐area solution for excess loop delay compensation is implemented in the CT ?Σ ADC. At 20 MHz bandwidth, the CT ?Σ ADC achieves 66 dB dynamic range and 3.5 dB RX chip noise figure is measured. A maximum of 2.4 dB signal‐to‐noise ratio degradation is measured in all the adjacent channel selectivity (ACS) and blocking tests, demonstrating the effectiveness of the strategy against the low‐pass filter removal from the conventional architecture. The receiver dissipates a maximum of 171 mW at 2‐RX MIMO mode. To our best knowledge, it is the first research paper on the design of fully integrated commercial TD‐LTE receiver. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

预张力值对郑州会展中心斜拉结构的稳定性能影响分析

郑州国际会展中心钢屋盖采用空间斜拉式张弦桁架结构,预张力的施加成为影响结构稳定性能的主要因素之一。以其钢屋盖的一个矩形单元为算例,借助ANSYS分析软件,模拟结构的初始状态进行分析。在自重和预张力作用下,对下悬张拉索分别施加不同大小的预张力,从0 kN到1 500 kN共计18种,研究预张力值变化与结构稳定安全系数以及屈曲模态变化所呈现出的关系。结果表明,预张力值对结构稳定性能的影响趋于复杂化和无规律化。建议在预张力施加过程中,对于稳定性能的影响评判要兼顾多方面的考虑。为斜拉张弦桁架体系在初始状态下的预张力取值提供了设计依据。     

粗糙平面的激光散射特性研究

为了检测目标的边缘信息,采用激光扫描目标表面、通过回波信号变化来得到目标的边缘信息的方法,利用随机面元模型,分析了刚性随机粗糙平面的激光散射特点,建立了实用化的随机粗糙平面激光散射理论模型,并给出了正入射时几种情况下的激光散射图像,分析了平面目标的激光散射能量计算方法,仿真了光束在平面目标表面做正弦摆动时,光斑在不同位置的反射能量,利用激光信号的强度变化,采用峰(谷)检出法或者过零检出法就可以得到物体的边缘信息。结果表明,通过回波信号的变化,可以得到目标的边缘轮廓。     

基于整体退火遗传算法的低功耗极性转换

针对n变量逻辑函数在不同极性下所对应REED-MULLER(RM)电路功耗和面积不问的特点,对信号几率传递算法、多输入XOR/AND(异或/与)门的低功耗分解算法和多成份极性转换算法进行了深入研究,成功地将整体退火遗传算法(whole annealing genetic algorithm,WAGA)应用于RM电路最佳极件的搜索.通过对8个MCNC Benchmark测试表明,算法搜索到的最佳极性,其所对应RM电路的SYNOPSYS综合结果,与极性0时相比,功耗、面积和最大延时的平均节省分别达到了77.2%,62.4%和9.2%.     

Balancing the corrosion resistance and through-plane electrical conductivity of Cr coating via oxygen plasma treatment

Developing an electrically conductive and corrosion-resistant coating is essential for metal bipolar plates of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs). Although enhanced corrosion resistance was seen for Cr coated stainless steel(Cr/SS) bipolar plates, they experience a quick decrease of through-plane electrical conductivity due to the formation of a porous and low-conductive corrosion product layer at the plate surface, thus leading to an increase in interfacial contact resistance(ICR). To tackle this issue, the multilayer Cr coatings were deposited using the magnetron sputtering with a remote inductively coupled oxygen plasma(O-ICP) in the present study. After the O-ICP treatment, a Cr oxide layer(Cr O*) is formed on the specimen surface. The Cr O*/Cr/SS has a remarkably lower stable corrosion rate(iss) than that of the native Cr oxides(Cr On/Cr/SS). Compared with Cr On/Cr/SS, the excellent performance of Cr O*/Cr/SS is attributed to a denser and thicker surface layer of Cr O* with Cr being oxidized to its highest valence state,Cr(VI). More importantly, the through-plane electrical conductivity of the specimens treated by the optimized O-ICP decreases much slowly than Cr On/Cr/SS and thus, the increament of ICR of Cr O*/Cr/SS after the potentiostatic polarization test is considerably smaller than that of Cr On/Cr/SS, which is benefited from the reduced issthat mitigates the deposition of corrosion products and hinders further oxidation of Cr coating. Therefore, Cr O*/Cr/SS proves to be a well balanced trade-off between corrosion resistance and through-plane electrical conductivity. The results of this study demonstrate that O-ICP treatment on a conductive metal coating is an effective strategy to improve the corrosion resistance and suppress the increase of ICR over the long-term polarization. The technique reported herein exhibits its promising potential application in preparing corrosion resistant and electrically conductive coatings on metal bipolar plates to be used in PEMFCs.     

Robustness of linearly solvable Markov games employing inaccurate dynamics model

As a model-based reinforcement learning technique, linearly solvable Markov decision process (LMDP) gives an efficient way to find an optimal policy by making the Bellman equation linear under some assumptions. Since LMDP is regarded as model-based reinforcement learning, the performance of LMDP is sensitive to the accuracy of the environmental model. To overcome the problem of the sensitivity, linearly solvable Markov game (LMG) has been proposed, which is an extension of LMDP based on the game theory. This paper investigates the robustness of LMDP- and LMG-based controllers against modeling errors in both discrete and continuous state-action problems. When there is a discrepancy between the model used for building the control policy and dynamics of the tested environment, the LMG-based control policy maintained good performance while that of the LMDP-based control policy deteriorated drastically. Experimental results support the usefulness of LMG framework when acquiring an accurate model of the environment is difficult.     

DECODING A VCR CONTROLLER CODE

The VCR Plus+ is a remote control for programming video cassette recorders. It uses an encrypted 1 to 8 digit number that encodes the channel, start time, length, and day of the month of the television show to be recorded. This paper describes a procedure for decoding the 1 to 6 digit codes.     

Gourdron theory: revealing synthetically the masses for biological molecular particles of DNA and proteins and abiological particles of quarks and leptons

In the present report, we examine whether or not there are similar and different characteristics between biological molecular particles and non-living ones such as quark and leptons. While the Newton, Schrodinger, and Boltzmann equations and elementary particle theories describe only a narrow range of scales, the present statistic-fluid dynamic theory having only one arbitrary constant synthetically reveals masses as well as frequencies of various particles of quarks, leptons, W–Z bosons, Higgs boson, plank mass, hadrons, atoms, biological molecules, liquid droplets, living cells, biological organs, and stars. This is possible because each flexible particle is commonly generated by a mode in which a larger particle breaks up into two smaller ones through a gourd shape (gourdron) with two lumps rather than strings. These masses and frequencies dominated by the super-magic numbers, including the asymmetrically golden and symmetrically yamato ratios, can be derived by a quasi-stability principle weaker than neutral stability. The primordial mechanism underlying various types of symmetry breaking and the natural four forces including gravity is also revealed by this theory.