Flux creep and fishtail in melt-textured and single-crystalline YBa2Cu3O7

Time-dependent decay of the magnetic moment and magnetization measurements were used to study pinning and flux creep in two samples with and without aj(B) maximum in nonzero field (fishtail effect). From both measurements theE(j) relation was reconstructed forBc and the characteristic current exponent was obtained. At highj and lowB values are between 1 and 4; with increasingB passes a maximum and approaches negative values. At lowj is below 0.5 and not dependent onB orj. This behavior, which is qualitatively the same in both samples, is compared with proposed phase diagrams of the vortex lattice. Large values are correlated with the plateau of the normalized creep rateS 0.025; both observations indicate low relaxation and are found in that lowB region for whichj(B) has its minimum. This observation rejects a dominating influence of relaxation on the fishtail effect.     

Analyzing CAD competence with univariate and multivariate learning curve models

Understanding how learning occurs, and what improves or impedes the learning process is of importance to academicians and practitioners; however, empirical research on validating learning curves is sparse. This paper contributes to this line of research by collecting and analyzing CAD (computer-aided design) procedural and cognitive performance data for novice trainees during 16-weeks of training. The declarative performance is measured by time, and the procedural performance by the number of features used to construct a design part. These data were analyzed using declarative or procedural performance separately as predictors (univariate), or a combination of declarative or procedural predictors (multivariate). Furthermore, a method to separate the declarative and procedural components from learning curve data is suggested.     

Fast Object Segmentation by Growing Minimal Paths from a Single Point on 2D or 3D Images

In this paper, we present a new method for segmenting closed contours and surfaces. Our work builds on a variant of the minimal path approach. First, an initial point on the desired contour is chosen by the user. Next, new keypoints are detected automatically using a front propagation approach. We assume that the desired object has a closed boundary. This a-priori knowledge on the topology is used to devise a relevant criterion for stopping the keypoint detection and front propagation. The final domain visited by the front will yield a band surrounding the object of interest. Linking pairs of neighboring keypoints with minimal paths allows us to extract a closed contour from a 2D image. This approach can also be used for finding an open curve giving extra information as stopping criteria. Detection of a variety of objects on real images is demonstrated. Using a similar idea, we can extract networks of minimal paths from a 3D image called Geodesic Meshing. The proposed method is applied to 3D data with promising results.

固定翼无人机的自抗扰反步控制

针对固定翼无人机姿态和速度控制中系统存在模型不确定性和外界扰动的情况,本文设计了基于扩张状态观测器的反步控制器抑制系统扰动以提高无人机的控制性能.首先建立无人机速度误差模型和姿态误差模型,其中姿态误差模型采用四元数作为变量以避免欧拉角在描述姿态时存在的奇点问题和复杂三角运算;进而设计扩张状态观测器对系统中存在的扰动进行估计,并将扰动估计值与控制器设计相结合,分别设计出姿态控制器和速度控制器来抑制扰动的影响且使无人机姿态和速度收敛到期望值.最后基于李雅普诺夫理论证明系统的稳定性.仿真结果表明,本文所设计方法能够抑制系统中存在的扰动.     

高分辨率超声Lamb波频散曲线测量与板厚估计

超声Lamb波在工业无损检测与 评价中具有广阔的应用前景。但受制于超声导波多模式频散与混叠的影响,如何实现高分辨率超声导波的模式分离与频散曲线提取,进而定量分析材料的健康状况一直是研究的热点与难点。本文旨在将现代信号处理中广泛采用的谱估计技术应用于超声Lamb波阵列信号分析,并通过提取频散曲线定量测量板厚度。以经典参数谱估计法中的Yule-Walker法与Burg法为例,实验测量和分析了3 mm,4 mm和 5 mm厚铝板中的宽带多模式Lamb波信号,准确地提取了铝板中的宽带Lamb波频散曲线,并比较了两种经典谱估计方法与二维傅氏变换法的性能,最终实现了铝板厚度估计。     

Collision and intersection detection of two ruled surfaces using bracket method

Collision and intersection detection of surfaces is an important problem in computer graphics and robotic engineering. A key idea of our paper is to use the bracket method to derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the collision of two ruled surfaces. Then the numerical intersection curve can be characterized. The cases for two bounded ruled surfaces are also discussed.     

The model-based human body motion analysis system

In this paper, we propose a model-based method to analyze the human walking motion. This system consists of three phases: the preprocessing phase, the model construction phase, and the motion analysis phase. In the experimental results, we show that our system not only analyzes the motion characteristics of the human body, but also recognizes the motion type of the input image sequences. Finally, the synthesized motion sequences are illustrated for verification. The major contributions of this research are: (1) developing a skeleton-based method to analyze the human motion; (2) using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and posture patterns to describe the motion type.