一类不确定延迟系统的鲁棒自适应控制

针对一类不确定的延迟系统，提出一种鲁棒的模型参考自适应控制设计方案．它不同于以往将所有延迟部分转化为系统的未建模动态的方案，该方案只是把延迟偏离标称值的扰动转化为系统的未建模动态，而将能够获得的延迟标称值信息加入系统的建模部分，从而使系统的建模更为精确．同时，研究了这种其建模部分含有延迟的系统的稳定性和鲁棒性．仿真结果验证了该方案的有效性．     

一种用于小目标检测的可配置二维自适应预测器设计

分析了用于图像中小目标检测的自适应预测器的支撑区域与其检测性能之间的关系 ,认为支撑区域应按照被处理图像统计特性进行设置 ,以正确区分图像中的目标与背景成分 .在此基础上 ,提出了一种基于 TDNL MS(Two Di-m ensional Normalized L east Mean Square)算法的支撑区域可配置的自适应预测器结构 ,通过设置适当的支撑区域 ,该预测器不仅可用于处理具有不同统计特性的图像 ,而且可以在一定程度上保持对成像面积逐渐变化的小目标的检测能力 .本文提出的预测器结构 ,只需要在每个抽头内部增加简单的控制逻辑 ,就可以实现支撑区域的任意配置 ,是一种较为理想的设计方案     

应用进化策略的城域交叉路口分级模糊控制

提出一种面向城域单交叉路口的自适应分级模糊控制系统，采用进化策略对分级模糊控制器的模糊隶属度函数进行离线优化调整．该控制系统不仅具有分级模糊控制的优点，同时能使模糊隶属度函数根据不同的交通情况自适应地变化，从而改善控制效果．对一个具有直行和左转车流运动的四向交叉路口进行的仿真表明了该方法能比定时控制和隶属度函数固定的分级模糊控制取得更好的控制效果．     

自适应数字带阻滤波器的设计及应用

本文采用自适应跟踪数字带阻滤波器自动跟踪被测信号中干扰信号的频率，并利用该频率设计相应的数字带阻滤波器去除被测信号中的干扰信号。试验表明，该方法具有设计简单、应用方便、实时性强等特点。     

Causal fault detection and isolation based on a set-membership approach

This paper presents a diagnostic methodology relying on a set-membership approach for fault detection and on a causal model for fault isolation. Set-membership methods are a promising approach to fault detection because they take into account a priori knowledge of model uncertainties and measurement errors. Every uncertain model parameter and/or measurement is represented by a bounded variable. In this paper, detection consists of verifying the membership of measurements to an interval. First order discrete time models are used and their output is explicitly computed with interval arithmetic. Fault isolation relies on a causal analysis and the exoneration principle, which allows focusing the consistency tests on simple local models. The isolation strategy consists of two steps: performing minimal tests found with the causal graph and determining on line additional relevant tests that reduce the final diagnosis. An application for a nuclear process is used in order to illustrate the method's efficiency.     

Hierarchical Partitioning Techniques for Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications

This paper presents the design and preliminary evaluation of hierarchical partitioning and load-balancing techniques for distributed structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) applications. The overall goal of these techniques is to enable the load distribution to reflect the state of the adaptive grid hierarchy and exploit it to reduce synchronization requirements, improve load-balance, and enable concurrent communications and incremental redistribution. The hierarchical partitioning algorithm (HPA) partitions the computational domain into subdomains and assigns them to hierarchical processor groups. Two variants of HPA are presented in this paper. The static hierarchical partitioning algorithm (SHPA) assigns portions of overall load to processor groups. In SHPA, the group size and the number of processors in each group is setup during initialization and remains unchanged during application execution. It is experimentally shown that SHPA reduces communication costs as compared to the Non-HPA scheme, and reduces overall application execution time by up to 59%. The adaptive hierarchical partitioning algorithm (AHPA) dynamically partitions the processor pool into hierarchical groups that match the structure of the adaptive grid hierarchy. Initial evaluations of AHPA show that it can reduce communication costs by up to 70%.     

Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Abstract Boolean systems still constitute most of the installed base of online public access catalogues (OPACs) in the French universities even if many studies have shown that Boolean operators are not frequently used by ‘non‐librarian’ users (by contrast with professional librarians). The first study examined the use of Boolean operators by French university students; In the second study, elaborated to evaluate the impact of information search expertise on this use, Boolean operators are explicitly presented and participants were explicitly invited to use them. We assumed that university students would not frequently use the operators in searching, and that even if they were explicitly invited to make use of them. Results obtained with the first study based on transaction logs analyses confirmed that French university students did not frequently use Boolean operators. The impact of information search expertise, analysed in the second study, compared three levels of expertise: Novice (university students), intermediate (future professional librarians), and expert (professional librarians). Results showed that, even if the three groups were invited to use Boolean operators, this use increased significantly with the level of information search expertise. University students, if they manage procedural functions of connectives in natural language, do not always manage the whole set of procedural functions carried by such connectives when used in the documentary language. So, the relevance of presenting explicit Boolean operators in the OPACs when users are ‘non‐librarians’ is questioned.     

A contribution to the development of strategic control and planning instruments: An acquisition case study

The present paper is part of the efforts made by the authors in recent years to develop strategic control and planning instruments in corporations using OR‐techniques like system dynamics, control theory, and group multicriteria decision aid. A more general framework called ‘adaptive control methodology’ (ACM) combines all these techniques. It has been presented in several papers. The objective of the present analysis is to calibrate this instrument and to tune it to the corporate needs by analysing real‐world applications. More specifically, several case studies have been investigated in large multinational organisations in the food sector. An acquisition case has been used for the calibration purpose. It is analysed in the paper from the ACM perspective to provide additional material for revisiting and improving the methodology.     

A composite approach to automating direct and indirect schema mappings

Automating schema mapping is challenging. Previous approaches to automating schema mapping focus mainly on computing direct matches between two schemas. Schemas, however, rarely match directly. Thus, to complete the task of schema mapping, we must also compute indirect matches. In this paper, we present a composite approach for generating a source-to-target mapping that contains both direct and many indirect matches between a source schema and a target schema. Recognizing expected-data values associated with schema elements and applying schema-structure heuristics are the key ideas needed to compute indirect matches. Experiments we have conducted over several real-world application domains show encouraging results, yielding about 90% precision and recall measures for both direct and indirect matches.     

基于RLS自适应滤波算法的电力有源滤波器直流端电压控制方法

RLS自适应滤波器用于有源滤波器直流端电容电压的控制,克服了用LMS自适应滤波器收敛速度慢和稳态误差较大的缺点,同时对直流端电容电压的控制完全摒弃了传统的PI积分控制,解决了控制参数难以调节及对电路中其他参数的变化非常敏感的问题.稳态和暂态特性的仿真研究比较了两种自适应滤波算法对直流端电容电压的控制及对补偿后的主电流的影响,其中RLS自适应滤波器效果要好得多.