An integrated emotional and physiological assessment for VR-based active shooter incident experiments

Unfortunately, active shooter incidents are on the rise in the United States. With the recent technological advancements, virtual reality (VR) experiments could serve as an effective method to prepare civilians and law enforcement personnel for such scenarios. However, for VR experiments to be effective for active shooter training and research, such experiments must be able to evoke emotional and physiological responses as live active shooter drills and events do. The objective of this study is thus to test the effectiveness of an active shooter VR experiment on emotional and physiological responses. Additionally, we consider different locomotion techniques (i.e., walk-in-place and controller) and explore their impact on users’ sense of presence. The results suggest that the VR active shooter experiment in this study can induce emotional arousal and increase heart rate of the participants immersed in the virtual environment. Furthermore, compared to the controller, the walk-in-place technique resulted in a higher emotional arousal in terms of negative emotions and a stronger sense of presence. The study presents a foundation for future active shooter experiments as it supports the ecological validity using VR for active shooter incident related work for the purposes of training or research.     

Caking property and active components of coal based on group component separation

The content and the caking index of the heavy,the dense medium and the loose medium components of coal,obtained by extraction and stripping with CS_2/N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone mixed solvent(1:1 by volume),were studied and correlated with the caking property of raw coals.Images of the three group components after heat treatment were analyzed.The results show that both caking index(G) and maximum thickness of plastic layer(Y) of coals have a good linear relationship with the content of the medium component;the dense medium and the loose medium components are the two key factors to determine the caking property of raw coals-they are the source materials of fluidity and swelling of coal,respectively;the heavy component without the swelling and fluidity was cohered by the other components;two new indexes,which can extend current understanding of the caking properties,were introduced.     

主动式二维码考勤系统研究

提出了一种新型主动式考勤方式,并给出了一种结合二维码的应用方式.该方法大大节省了硬件支出成本,同时加快了考勤速度.综述了现阶段其他研究成果,并研究了主动式二维码考勤和被动式二维码考勤的区别.     

基于ARID控制系统的固定式海洋风机纵摇控制

针对固定式海洋风机在随机风浪载荷及其联合作用下产生的具有倒立摆运动特征的纵摇,研究采用主动转动惯量驱动系统(Active Rotary Inertia Driver, ARID)对海洋风机纵摇进行控制的问题。ARID控制系统通过伺服电机驱动转动惯性质量产生控制结构摆动的最优力矩,从而减小海洋风机的纵摇运动。基于拉格朗日原理建立海洋风机-ARID控制系统的理论分析模型;采用Simulink对海洋风机-ARID控制系统的有效性进行验证,并分析系统参数(控制算法参数、转动惯量比等)对控制效果的影响规律;设计海洋风机-ARID控制系统的振动台试验,设置多种载荷激励形式,验证控制系统的稳定性与广谱有效性。数值模拟和试验结果均验证了所建立的分析模型的正确性,表明ARID控制系统对风机的纵摇运动具有显著的控制作用,为ARID控制系统在具有倒立摆运动规律的工程结构中的应用奠定理论基础。     

活性元素Ti在CBN与钎料结合界面的特征

通过扫描电镜、能谱仪、X射线衍射仪研究了Ag-Cu-Ti钎料中的活性元素Ti在钎料与立方氮化硼（CBN）磨粒高温钎焊结合界面的扩散现象，并运用动力学分析对界面反应层的生长过程及反应激活能进行了探讨。结果表明：钎焊过程中，钎料中的活性元素Ti明显向磨粒侧扩散偏聚并发生化学反应，实现了磨粒与基体材料的牢固结合；钎焊CBN磨粒表面生成的TiB2和TiN化合物形貌接近平衡状态下生长的理想形貌；界面反应层在钎焊温度1153K～1193K，保温时间5min～20min之间依据抛物线生长法则所得扩散激活能值表明其生长过程主要受新生TiN影响。     

Development of the active balancing device for high-speed spindle system using influence coefficients

A high-speed spindle can be very sensitive to rotating mass unbalance which has harmful effect on many types of rotating machinery. Therefore, the balancing procedure is certainly needed to reduce vibration in all high-speed rotating systems. In this study, an active balancing program using influence coefficient method and an active balancing device of an electro-magnetic type with both simple and reliable structures were applied to the developed high-speed spindle system. A gain scheduling control using influence coefficients of the reference model was proved to be effective in balancing the spindle system although its characteristics were changed. The stability of reference influence coefficients was verified by experiments with frequency response functions. The active balancing experiment of the manufactured spindle system using an active balancing program and device was also performed efficiently during the operation. As a result, controlled unbalance responses after balancing work were below the vibration limit at all rotating speed ranges including critical speeds.     

液压流体脉动主动控制研究现状与展望

液压流体脉动对液压系统的性能与可靠性影响很大。为了减小甚至消除液压流体脉动,各国学者在这方面做了大量工作,提出了各种主动及被动消振策略,取得了很好的消振效果。本文介绍液压流体脉动产生机理及危害、主动消振策略、目前的研究现状以及主要控制算法,提出了可能的研究方向,并对应用前景进行展望。     

MPC-based dual control with online experiment design

We present two dual control approaches to the model maintenance problem based on adaptive model predictive control (mpc). The controllers employ systematic self-excitation and design experiments that are performed under normal operation, resulting in improved control performance with smaller output variance and less control effort. Our control formulations offer a novel approach to the question of how to excite the plant input to generate informative data within the context of mpc and adaptive control. One controller actively tries to reduce the parameter-estimate error covariances; the other controller maximizes the information in the signals for enhanced learning. Our approach differs from existing ones in that we let our controllers converge to standard certainty equivalence (ce) mpc when the parameter uncertainty decreases or more information is generated, and as a result we avoid plant excitation when the uncertainty is low or enough information has been generated. We demonstrate that the controllers work well with a large number of tuning configurations and also address the issue of models that are not admissible for control design.     

基于移动应用层组播终端主动反馈的自适应负载均衡机制研究

在移动应用层组播通信中,热点地区可能会因用户过多而导致用户流服务满意度降低,非热点地区却可能会出现资源浪费现象,引起整个系统性能下降.提出了一种基于移动终端主动反馈的自适应负载均衡机制(Adaptive Load Balancing Mechanism based Mobile Terminal Active Feedback,ALBM-MTAF).ALBM-MTAF利用网络相关性能指标模拟移动终端(用户)所获得的流媒体服务满意度(Streaming Media Service Satisfaction,SMSS),通过终端用户主动反馈SMSS不断进行自适应的调整,将SMSS较差地域的子节点切换到SMSS较好的父节点上,从而实现整个系统的负载均衡.模拟实验表明,该机制具有良好的负载均衡效果,并能保证通信的质量.     

The frequency partitioned block modified filtered-x NLMS with orthogonal correction factors for multichannel Active Noise Control

The Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) algorithm with a filtered-x structure (FxNLMS) is a widely used adaptive algorithm for Active Noise Control (ANC) due to its simplicity and ease of implementation. One of the major drawbacks is its slow convergence. A modified filtered-x structure (MFxNLMS) can be used to moderately improve the speed of convergence, but it does not offer a huge improvement. A greater increase in the speed of convergence can be obtained by using the MFxNLMS algorithm with orthogonal correction factors (M-OCF), but the usage of orthogonal correction factors also increases the computational complexity and limits the usage of the M-OCF in massive real-time applications. However, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are well known for their potential for highly parallel data processing. Therefore, GPUs seem to be a suitable platform to ameliorate this computational drawback. In this paper, we propose to derive the M-OCF algorithm to a partitioned block-based version in the frequency domain (FPM-OCF) for multichannel ANC systems in order to better exploit the parallel capabilities of the GPUs. The results show improvements in the convergence rate of the FPM-OCF algorithm in comparison to other NLMS-type algorithms and the usefulness of GPU devices for developing versatile, scalable, and low-cost multichannel ANC systems.