电火花加工与加工中心的集成

提出了一种新的复合型机床——在加工中心上进行电火花加工的机床，研究了电火花加工与加工中心集成所存在的主要技术要求，提出并设计了伺服控制系统，介绍了伺服控制系统的原理。为验证这个想法的合理性，在普通的铣床上进行了模拟集成试验并进行了分析与评价。     

用CAXA电子图板求解冲模压力中心

在模具设计中 ,冲裁模压力中心通常采用解析法或图解法求解。本文提出一种用CAXA绘图软件在设计制图时直接求解的方法 ,快速直接 ,简单方便 ,精度较高。     

CPLD/FPGA在工件取放设备中的应用

在分析PLC优缺点的基础上，提出一种利用在线可编程逻辑控制代替PLC的新技术。此外，给出了用在线可编程器件CPLD/FPGA组成的、VHDL语言实现的工件取放设备控制电路设计和程序。     

Development of new device for measuring thermal stresses

In recent years, numerous analytical and experimental researches have been performed on the prediction of thermal stresses in mass concrete structures. However, due to the difficulty of the problem, limitations still exist for both analytical and experimental methods of measuring thermal stresses in mass concrete. In this research, a new experimental device measuring thermal stresses directly in a laboratory setting is developed. The equipment is located in a temperature chamber that follows the temperature history, which has been previously obtained from temperature distribution analyses. Thermal forces are measured continuously by two load cells in the device. The results show that the thermal stresses estimated by the newly developed device agree well with general stress variations in actual structures.     

仿人智能橡胶制品的精密硫化控制

分析了橡胶制品硫化成型的对象特性，选择了硫化成型过程控制策略，研究了控制算法及其工程应用。研究结果表明，选择仿人智能控制作为硫化成型过程的控制策略时，可实现速度快、精度高的控制，且具有极强的鲁棒性。     

化工槽车自动化洗涤装置失效原因分析及对策

对化工槽车自动化洗涤装置失效及其原因进行了分析,指出洗槽机的冲洗和抽水不匹配、洗涤工艺不满足设计要求、硬件出现故障及化学品性质的影响是导致洗涤失效的主要原因,提出了完善现场流程、优化工艺操作、使用自动化控制技术、加强设备维护和保养等解决失效的措施。     

模拟培训器的应用

简要介绍模拟培训器的应用及其优越性，重点介绍渭河化肥厂模拟培训器的结构，功能，特点及应用情况，并且对培训器中存在问题进行了分析。     

A low-cost real time virtual system for postural stability assessment at home

Background and objective

The degeneration of the balance control system in the elderly and in many pathologies requires measuring the equilibrium conditions very often. In clinical practice, equilibrium control is commonly evaluated by using a force platform (stabilometric platform) in a clinical environment.In this paper, we demonstrate how a simple movement analysis system, based on a 3D video camera and a 3D real time model reconstruction of the human body, can be used to collect information usually recorded by a physical stabilometric platform.

Methods

The algorithm used to reconstruct the human body model as a set of spheres is described and discussed. Moreover, experimental measurements and comparisons with data collected by a physical stabilometric platform are also reported. The measurements were collected on a set of 6 healthy subjects to whom a change in equilibrium condition was stimulated by performing an equilibrium task.

Results

The experimental results showed that more than 95% of data collected by the proposed method were not significantly different from those collected by the classic platform, thus confirming the usefulness of the proposed system.

Conclusions

The proposed virtual balance assessment system can be implemented at low cost (about 500$) and, for this reason, can be considered a home use medical device. On the contrary, astabilometric platform has a cost of about 10,000$ and requires periodical calibration. The proposed system does not require periodical calibration, as is necessary for stabilometric force platforms, and it is easy to use. In future, the proposed system with little integration can be used, besides being an emulator of a stabilometric platform, also to recognize and track, in real time, head, legs, arms and trunk, that is to collect information actually obtained by sophisticated optoelectronic systems.     

Event-driven,pattern-based methodology for cost-effective development of standardized personal health devices

Experiences applying standards in personal health devices (PHDs) show an inherent trade-off between interoperability and costs (in terms of processing load and development time). Therefore, reducing hardware and software costs as well as time-to-market is crucial for standards adoption. The ISO/IEEE11073 PHD family of standards (also referred to as X73PHD) provides interoperable communication between PHDs and aggregators. Nevertheless, the responsibility of achieving inexpensive implementations of X73PHD in limited resource microcontrollers falls directly on the developer. Hence, the authors previously presented a methodology based on patterns to implement X73-compliant PHDs into devices with low-voltage low-power constraints. That version was based on multitasking, which required additional features and resources. This paper therefore presents an event-driven evolution of the patterns-based methodology for cost-effective development of standardized PHDs. The results of comparing between the two versions showed that the mean values of decrease in memory consumption and cycles of latency are 11.59% and 45.95%, respectively. In addition, several enhancements in terms of cost-effectiveness and development time can be derived from the new version of the methodology. Therefore, the new approach could help in producing cost-effective X73-compliant PHDs, which in turn could foster the adoption of standards.     

Hybrid shuffled frog leaping algorithm for energy-efficient dynamic consolidation of virtual machines in cloud data centers

Cloud computing aims to provide dynamic leasing of server capabilities as scalable virtualized services to end users. However, data centers hosting cloud applications consume vast amounts of electrical energy, thereby contributing to high operational costs and carbon footprints. Green cloud computing solutions that can not only minimize the operational costs but also reduce the environmental impact are necessary. This study focuses on the Infrastructure as a Service model, where custom virtual machines (VMs) are launched in appropriate servers available in a data center. A complete data center resource management scheme is presented in this paper. The scheme can not only ensure user quality of service (through service level agreements) but can also achieve maximum energy saving and green computing goals. Considering that the data center host is usually tens of thousands in size and that using an exact algorithm to solve the resource allocation problem is difficult, the modified shuffled frog leaping algorithm and improved extremal optimization are employed in this study to solve the dynamic allocation problem of VMs. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed resource management scheme exhibits excellent performance in green cloud computing.