Customizable hardware design of fuzzy controllers applied to autonomous car driving

Nowadays, final products often encompass a certain intelligence therein to deal with variation or lack of precision in the sensing input data. This intelligence is usually acquired via the utilization of existing soft techniques, such as artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy control, among others. Thus, it is profitable to have on-the-shelf shell scalable and adaptive hardware designs that implement these soft techniques. This availability allows for an immediate embedding of any of those designs onto final products. This usually entails a reduced time-to-market of the product. Process control is one of the many applications that took advantage of the fuzzy paradigm. In general, controllers are embedded into the controlled device. This paper presents a novel design of a reconfigurable efficient parallel architecture to implement fuzzy controllers on hardware with almost no design effort for final users. The proposed architecture is herein proven suitable for embedding. It is customizable, so it allows the setup and configuration of the controller parameters, and hence its use for any problem application. Two fuzzy controllers that model autonomous car driving are implemented and their cost and performance evaluated.     

一种新型指纹锁电路设计

市场上主流的电子锁是基于密码设计的。密码锁的最大的缺陷是密码容易被他人窃取、猜测及遗忘。随着生物技术的发展,越来越多的活体技术应用到识别系统中,如指纹、掌纹、人脸、虹膜等。相对于其它的活体识别技术,指纹识别系统以其可实现性强,成本相对低廉,同时又具备较高的安全性,被越来越多的应用到各种场合。文章给出了一种新型的指纹锁架构,并详细论述了系统的各个组成部分以及指纹识别算法的实现流程。文章对降低系统功耗和增加保密性都提出了独特的方法。     

气象传感器网络系统架构与体系结构研究

传感器网络将在气象观测领域发挥越来越重要的作用。针对地面气象观测的现实需求,提出了气象传感器网络的概念,构建了气象传感器网络的应用场景,完成了其需求分析与系统架构设计,深入分析了气象传感器网络可采用的通信手段。在陆上传感器网络体系结构的基础上,结合气象传感器网络的特点,设计了气象传感器网络的体系结构,将其结构划分为物理层、数据链路层和网络层。对该体系结构各层的功能进行了深入分析,最后对气象传感器网络的应用前景进行了展望。     

An exploratory study on ontology engineering for software architecture documentation

The usefulness of Software Architecture (SA) documentation depends on how well its Architectural Knowledge (AK) can be retrieved by the stakeholders in a software project. Recent findings show that the use of ontology-based SA documentation is promising. However, different roles in software development have different needs for AK, and building an ontology to suit these needs is challenging. In this paper we describe an approach to build an ontology for SA documentation. This approach involves the use of typical questions for eliciting and constructing an ontology. We outline eight contextual factors, which influence the successful construction of an ontology, especially in complex software projects with diverse AK users. We tested our ‘typical question’ approach in a case study and report how it can be used for acquiring and modeling AK needs.     

Using the cloud to develop applications supporting geo-collaborative Situated Learning

Situated Learning stresses the importance of the context in which learning takes place. It has been therefore frequently associated with informal learning or learning outside the classroom. Cloud technologies can play an important role supporting this type of learning, since it requires ubiquitous computing support, connectivity and access to data across various scenarios: on the field, in the classroom, at home, etc. In this paper we first present the situated learning theory and how we can take advantage of services offered by Cloud Computing to implement computer applications implementing learning activities based on this theory, providing pertinent geographical information and discussion boards. Next we propose a software architecture schema which can be used as a basis for integrating existing cloud services into new applications supporting learning activities. Then we present two examples developed with this approach with its viability and advantages. These are discussed in the concluding chapter.     

FPGA prototyping of emerging manycore architectures for parallel programming research using Formic boards

Performance evaluation of parallel software and architectural exploration of innovative hardware support face a common challenge with emerging manycore platforms: they are limited by the slow running time and the low accuracy of software simulators. Manycore FPGA prototypes are difficult to build, but they offer great rewards. Software running on such prototypes runs orders of magnitude faster than current simulators. Moreover, researchers gain significant architectural insight during the modeling process. We use the Formic FPGA prototyping board [1], which specifically targets scalable and cost-efficient multi-board prototyping, to build and test a 64-board model of a 512-core, MicroBlaze-based, non-coherent hardware prototype with a full network-on-chip in a 3D-mesh topology. We expand the hardware architecture to include the ARM Versatile Express platforms and build a 520-core heterogeneous prototype of 8 Cortex-A9 cores and 512 MicroBlaze cores. We then develop an MPI library for the prototype and evaluate it extensively using several bare-metal and MPI benchmarks. We find that our processor prototype is highly scalable, models faithfully single-chip multicore architectures, and is a very efficient platform for parallel programming research, being 50,000 times faster than software simulation.     

建筑电气设计中消防防火审核探讨

防火审核是建筑电气设计审核中的一个重要组成部分,要严格按照相关的防火规范设计和审核其设计,为建筑安全打下坚实的基础。分析、探讨了电气系统设计中防火审核的方法和相关技术,并提出了相关的设计对策和建议,以期能为相关人员提供参考。     

支持多种手机客户端的校园信息发布系统

针对数字化校园建设中存在的信息孤岛问题,设计开发了基于客户服务架构的能支持多种手机客户端的校园信息发布系统。分析了系统功能,描述了系统拓扑结构和软件架构,对数据交换接口、网页和手机客户端信息提醒等关键技术进行了探讨。试用结果表明系统运行良好,达到了设计目的。     

基于CUDA的并行粒子群优化算法研究及实现

应用图形处理器(GPU)来加速粒子群优化(PSO)算法并行计算时,为突出其加速性能,经常有文献以恶化CPU端PSO算法性能为代价。为了科学比较GPU-PSO算法和CPU-PSO算法的性能,提出用"有效加速比"作为算法的性能指标。文中给出的评价方法不需要CPU和GPU端粒子数相同,将GPU并行算法与最优CPU串行算法的性能作比较,以加速收敛到目标精度为准则,在统一计算设备架构(CUDA)下对多个基准测试函数进行了数值仿真实验。结果表明,在GPU上大幅增加粒子数能够加速PSO算法收敛到目标精度,与CPU-PSO相比,获得了10倍以上的"有效加速比"。