Wide passband/stopband bandpass filter based on transversal signal interference concepts and modified branch‐line structure

A high selectivity wide passband filter with a broader stopband based on transversal signal‐interaction concepts and modified branch line structure (MBLS) is developed in this article. Two transmission paths, that is, one half‐wavelength transmission line and one MBLS, are used to realize signal transmission from Port 1 to Port 2. Then, two transmission zeros are introduced at both lower and upper sides of the passband, which are used to improve the passband selectivity greatly. The filter bandwidth can be easily controlled by reasonable adjusting the coupling coefficient of the coupled lines. Furthermore, with four stubs connected at the input/output ports, the stopband attenuation level is improved greatly. Finally, one prototype filter having 69.1% of 3 dB fractional bandwidth is fabricated with advantages of sharp selectivity and high out‐of‐band rejection. The EM simulated and measured results are presented, and an excellent agreement can be obtained. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:330–336, 2015.     

GPU-OSDDA: a bit-vector GPU-based deadlock detection algorithm for single-unit resource systems

This article presents a GPU-based single-unit deadlock detection methodology and its algorithm, GPU-OSDDA. Our GPU-based design utilizes parallel hardware of GPU to perform computations and thus is able to overcome the major limitation of prior hardware-based approaches by having the capability of handling thousands of processes and resources, whilst achieving real-world run-times. By utilizing a bit-vector technique for storing algorithm matrices and designing novel, efficient algorithmic methods, we not only reduce memory usage dramatically but also achieve two orders of magnitude speedup over CPU equivalents. Additionally, GPU-OSDDA acts as an interactive service to the CPU, because all of the aforementioned computations and matrix management techniques take place on the GPU, requiring minimal interaction with the CPU. GPU-OSDDA is implemented on three GPU cards: Tesla C2050, Tesla K20c, and Titan X. Our design shows overall speedups of 6-595X over CPU equivalents.     

Design ethnography in information systems

Until recently, most ethnographic research in information systems has been based on the traditional anthropological model of ethnography. In this traditional model of ethnography, one of the most important data‐gathering techniques is participant observation. The ethnographer observes and participates but does not actively seek to change the situation. In recent years, however, a new type of ethnographic research has emerged – one that can be called design ethnography. Design ethnography is where the researcher goes beyond observation and actively engages with people in the field. Our view is that design ethnography has much potential for research in information systems. It is a new form of engaged scholarship that bridges the gap between ethnographic research and design science research.     

A New Method for Getting Rational Approximation for Fractional Order Differintegrals

In this paper a new algorithm is presented to calculate the poles and zeros to approximate a fractional order (FO) differintegral (s^±α,α∈(0,1)) by a rational function on a finite frequency band ω∈(ω_l,ω_h). The constant phase property of the FO differintegral is the basis for development of the algorithm. Interlacing of real poles and zeros is used to achieve the constant phase. The calculations are done using the asymptotic Bode phase plot. A brief investigation is made to get a good approximation for the Bode phase plot. Two design parameters are introduced to keep the average phase close to the desired phase angle and to keep the error within the allowed bounds. A study is done to empirically understand the relationship between the error and the design parameters. The results thus obtained help in the further calculations. The algorithm is computationally simple and inexpensive, and gives a fairly good approximation of fractance frequency response on the specified frequency band.     

基于拉普拉斯分值和超球支持向量机的轴承故障诊断方法设计

针对轴承振动信号中的故障信息往往很微弱,同时振动样本数据分布不平衡即故障样本占总样本数的比例低,从而导致故障诊断模型训练不精确而影响诊断精度的问题,提出了一种基于拉普拉斯分值和超球大间隔支持向量机的故障诊断方法;首先,采用有标签的训练样本数据和拉普拉斯分值法提取原始振动信号中的微弱故障信息,并降低其数据维数,从而得到用于故障诊断的特征向量,然后设计了一种改进的超球大间隔支持向量机的故障诊断模型,通过最小化超球体积和最大化超球边界和故障样本之间的间隔来实现故障诊断,以解决样本的不均衡问题,最终通过将测试样本数据代入决策方程并通过投票机制确定其故障类别;在Matlab环境下对轴承故障诊断进行实验,实验结果证明了文中方法能有效解决样本的不均衡情况下的故障诊断,且相对其它方法,具有诊断精度高和收敛速度快的优点.     

改善的支持向量机图像分割分类器构造

构造分类器是图像分割中重要的处理环节,论文将先验知识引入支持向量机,对支持向量机做了改善,在改善的支持向量机基础上构造实现了一个分类器,重点是将为了检验分类器的有效性,通过对UCI机器学习数据库的数据进行的实验,实验结果表明改善的支持向量机分类准确率比支传统持向量机的准确率高。     

面向能力培养的嵌入式系统课程群建设研究

能力型、创新型人才是社会发展的需求,也是高等教育的培养目标。为了培养具备能力和创新素质的嵌入式系统方面的人才,本文进行了嵌入式系统课程群的建设,研究了相应的教学方法,从理论和实践上培养学生的能力,培养创新素质。     

从处理器运行机制出发将IAP改造成ISP

在线编程技术是单片机应用系统的常用技术,其广泛应用为产品的设计、调试、生产、升级带来了极大的便利。本文通过"搬迁中断向量表"的方法为市面上众多支持IAP功能的单片机提供一种实现ISP功能的完美解决方案,在仅支持IAP功能的CPU上实现了ISP。     

Face Orientation Normalization Using Eye Positions

Despite the fact that progress in face recognition algorithms over the last decades has been made, changing lighting conditions and different face orientation still remain as a challenging problem. A standard face recognition system identifies the person by comparing the input picture against pictures of all faces in a database and finding the best match. Usually face matching is carried out in two steps： during the first step detection of a face is done by finding exact position of it in a complex background （various lightning condition）, and in the second step face identification is performed using gathered databases. In reality detected faces can appear in different position and they can be rotated, so these disturbances reduce quality of the recognition algorithms dramatically. In this paper to increase the identification accuracy we propose original geometric normalization of the face, based on extracted facial feature position such as eyes. For the eyes localization lbllowing methods has been used： color based method, mean eye template and SVM （Support Vector Machine） technique. Experimental investigation has shown that the best results for eye center detection can be achieved using SVM technique. The recognition rate increases statistically by 28% using face orientation normalization based on the eyes position.