Neural Network Feedback Control: Work at UTA’s Automation and Robotics Research Institute

This is an outline of research in neural networks for feedback control done since the mid 1990s at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI) of The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). It shows how the developments of Intelligent Control Systems based on neural networks have followed three main generations. This statement provides a short, broad-brush perspective on the development of intelligent neural feedback controllers.     

前馈和反馈相结合的控制策略在宝钢线材厂控冷轧线上的应用实践

在详细分析料坯在水箱内冷却热过程特点的基础上，提出了前馈和反馈相结合的水流量优化控制策略，并将该策略应用于宝钢线材厂控冷轧线上。实际运行结果表明：该策略能够合理地控制水箱水流量，从而保证了线材水箱出口处的温度满足工艺要求，大大提高了线材成品的质量。所做工作对国内同类企业有重要的意义。     

Feedback Specificity, Learning Opportunities, and Learning.

Although increasing feedback specificity is generally beneficial for immediate performance, it can undermine certain aspects of the learning needed for later, more independent performance. The results of the present transfer experiment demonstrate that the effects of increasing feedback specificity on learning depended on what was to be learned, and these effects were partially mediated through the opportunities to learn how to respond to different task conditions during practice. More specific feedback was beneficial for learning how to respond to good performance and detrimental for learning how to respond to poor performance. The former relationship was partially mediated by feedback specificity's effect on learning opportunities during practice. The results have implications for designing feedback interventions and training to maximize the learning of various aspects of a task. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On the dynamic nature of response criterion in recognition memory: Effects of base rate, awareness, and feedback.

The authors examined whether participants can shift their criterion for recognition decisions in response to the probability that an item was previously studied. Participants in 3 experiments were given recognition tests in which the probability that an item was studied was correlated with its location during the test. Results from all 3 experiments indicated that participants' response criteria were sensitive to the probability that an item was previously studied and that shifts in criterion were robust. In addition, awareness of the bases for criterion shifts and feedback on performance were key factors contributing to the observed shifts in decision criteria. These data suggest that decision processes can operate in a dynamic fashion, shifting from item to item. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Achievement of specificational information usage with true and false feedback in learning a visual relative-mass discrimination task.

Participants' usage of informational variables in learning visual relative-mass discrimination in collisions was tracked by means of PROBIT correlations. Four groups received feedback that was true or accorded with either of three nonspecificational cue variables. A majority in each group adopted the feedback, but several participants defied the false feedback. Unlike in previous research, the fit to data of the relative-mass invariant could not be bettered by post hoc linear combinations of the cues. Discriminability was lower in the use of the invariant. Analytic complexity was rejected as an explanation for discriminability differences. A "smart mechanism" for pickup of the relative-mass invariant was developed as an extension of G. Johansson's (1950/1994) vector model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Block noninteracting control with stability via static state feedback

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a static state feedback that achieves noninteraction and internal stability are obtained. This is accomplished by first characterizing the set of all controllability subspaces (distributions) that can arise as solutions to the noninteracting control problem. This characterization is then used to identify a fixed internal dynamics that is common to every noninteractive closed loop. The stability properties of this dynamics is shown to be the key factor in the problem of achieving noninteracting control with internal stability.     

中频变频器UFV故障探析

本文对中频变频器的UFV故障进行了系统试验和原因分析，并对UFV故障的关键因素进行了详细探析。     

关于M序列的自相关函数的一点注记

本文讨论了Ｍ序列的自相关性，并证明了：当０＜｜ｔ－２＾ｎ－１｜≤［ｎ－１／２］时，｜ＣＭ（ｔ）｜≤２＾ｎ－１。     

主动阻尼控制中的扩展加速度输出反馈法

正位置反馈(PPF)是一种能够显著提高结构模态阻尼的控制策略，但是这种策略在原理和应用中具有一定的局限性。本文在指出了传统的PPF控制器的优缺点基础上，提出一种扩展的加速度输出反馈控制方法AOEF，同时给出了最优AOEF控制器的设计计算方法。仿真计算和实验表明，在传感器／作动器同相的情况下，采用这种控制器的闭环系统具有无条件的稳定性，在非同相的情况下也能达到优良的控制性能。     

Organizational Behavior Research in Transition Time of China

The article is to introduce author's research results in recent years in the field of leadership behavior. The main researches conducted in this field include competency model of senior executives in communication industry and family firms; transformational leadership and its relationship with leadership effectiveness, the impact of supervisor's feedback on employees' behavior and the cross-culture study of supervisor's feedback. Theoretical and practical contributions of these researches are explained. Directions for future research are discussed.