An SVD-based image watermarking in wavelet domain using SVR and PSO

The paper presents a novel blind watermarking scheme for image copyright protection, which is developed in the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) and the support vector regression (SVR). Its embedding algorithm hides a watermark bit in the low–low (LL) subband of a target non-overlap block of the host image by modifying a coefficient of U component on SVD version of the block. A blind watermark-extraction is designed using a trained SVR to estimate original coefficients. Subsequently, the watermark bit can be computed using the watermarked coefficient and its corresponding estimate coefficient. Additionally, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) is further utilized to optimize the proposed scheme. Experimental results show the proposed scheme possesses significant improvements in both transparency and robustness, and is superior to existing methods under consideration here.     

基于LabVIEW的航空火警控制盒测试设备

航空火警控制盒测试设备是一套主要用于火警控制盒、火警探测器、主告警控制盒、告警控制盒等的校验、故障诊断的设备。介绍了一种基于LabVIEW的航空火警控制盒测试设备的方法,利用PC机中的LabVIEW图形化编程软件采用随机数读取并且显示,再对信号进行分析,对超限信号起到报警功能。     

相关函数脉冲响应法系统实时辨识

结合了相关函数法和脉冲响应法两种经典系统辨识方法原理,在随机信号干扰的情况下,设计对系统实现实时辨识的仿真软件,获得系统的非参数模型。该仿真设计中,以M序列作为输入信号,白噪声信号作为干扰信号,进行了Matlab仿真实验,讨论了M序列的幅值,采样时间和周期长度对系统辨识效果的影响,以及分析M序列的选取方法来减少系统辨识误差。     

Experimental investigations and thermodynamic modelling of KCl–LiCl–UCl3 system

Experimental investigations and Gibbs energy modelling of KCl–LiCl–UCl₃ system employing CALPHAD method are reported. Gibbs energy modelling of the subsystems KCl–UCl₃ and LiCl–UCl₃ was carried out primarily using phase diagram data from the literature. For the Gibbs energy modelling of the KCl–LiCl subsystem, new phase boundary data corresponding to four terminal compositions $(x_{\mathrm{LiCl}}=0.03$, 0.05, 0.95 and 0.97) obtained through differential thermal analysis data along with thermochemical and phase diagram data from the literature were used. Thermal analysis was also carried out for KCl–LiCl eutectic mixture containing small amounts of UCl₃ $(x_{{\mathrm{UCl}}_3}=9.03\times {10}^{-3}$ and $1.79\times {10}^{-2}$). The liquidus temperatures for these compositions were found to be 637 K and 674 K. Electromotive force data for dilute solutions of UCl₃ in the KCl–LiCl eutectic melt, measured in the temperature range 708–833 K in the present work, were found to be in good agreement with the literature data. These data were also used as input for the Gibbs energy modelling of the KCl–LiCl–UCl₃ system. In order to improve the quality of the resulting Gibbs energy functions of the quasibinaries and the quasiternary, enthalpies of mixing of the corresponding melts estimated using an empirical correlation based on surrounded-ion model were also used as input. Finally, the generated Gibbs energy functions were used to compute phase equilibria.     

Security-aware intermediate data placement strategy in scientific cloud workflows

Massive computation power and storage capacity of cloud computing systems allow scientists to deploy data-intensive applications without the infrastructure investment, where large application datasets can be stored in the cloud. Based on the pay-as-you-go model, data placement strategies have been developed to cost-effectively store large volumes of generated datasets in the scientific cloud workflows. As promising as it is, this paradigm also introduces many new challenges for data security when the users outsource sensitive data for sharing on the cloud servers, which are not within the same trusted domain as the data owners. This challenge is further complicated by the security constraints on the potential sensitive data for the scientific workflows in the cloud. To effectively address this problem, we propose a security-aware intermediate data placement strategy. First, we build a security overhead model to reasonably measure the security overheads incurred by the sensitive data. Second, we develop a data placement strategy to dynamically place the intermediate data for the scientific workflows. Finally, our experimental results show that our strategy can effectively improve the intermediate data security while ensuring the data transfer time during the execution of scientific workflows.     

NiCr薄膜微加热器在低温环境下的电学特性研究

设计了一种适用于深低温环境的微型加热器。使用AC磁控溅射技术将NiCr(80/20 at.%)合金沉积到SiO2/Si基底上,并采用微加工工艺实现薄膜图形化,作为加热器的加热元件。研究了NiCr薄膜的电学性能和晶体结构与退火条件之间的关系。实验表明:在450℃氮气环境下退火30min,可以获得深低温性能优良的NiCr加热器。该加热器在20K时的电阻温度系数(TCR)为80.80×10-6/K。X射线衍射(XRD)分析显示NiCr薄膜在450℃氮气环境下退火后,薄膜的结晶度增大,因此,退火条件对薄膜的电阻率和电阻温度系数有较大的影响。     

Observer-based optimal fault-tolerant control for offshore platforms

This paper is concerned with an observer-based optimal fault-tolerant control for an offshore steel jacket platform. The dynamic characteristics of the actuator faults under consideration are formulated by an exogenous system. Based on a dynamic fault observer designed, a feedforward and feedback optimal fault-tolerant controller is developed to improve the reliability of the offshore platform. The controller can be obtained by solving an algebraic Riccati equation and Sylvester equations, respectively. It is shown through simulation results that the proposed control scheme is effective to guarantee the reliability of the offshore platform with the actuator faults. The vibration amplitudes of the displacement, the velocity of the offshore platform and the required control force under the proposed fault-tolerant controller can be reduced significantly.