This paper deals with the problem of designing a robust static output feedback controller for polytopic systems. The current research that tackled this problem is mainly based on LMI method, which is conservative by nature. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed, which considers the design space of the controller parameters and iteratively partitions the space to small simplexes. Then, by assessing the stability in each simplex, the solution space for design parameters is directly determined. It has been theoretically proved that, if there exists a feasible solution in the design space, the algorithm can find it. To validate the result of the proposed approach, comparative simulation examples are given to illustrate the performance of the design methodology as compared to those of previous approaches. 相似文献
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising technology for simultaneous wastewater treatment and energy harvesting. The properties of the anode material play a critical role in the performance of the MFC. In this study, graphene oxide was prepared by a modified hummer's method. A thin layer of graphene oxide was incorporated on the carbon brush using an electrophoretic technique. The deoxygenated graphene oxide formed on the surface of the carbon brush (RGO-CB) was investigated as a bio-anode in MFC operated with real wastewater. The performance of the MFC using the RGO-CB was compared with that using plain carbon brush anode (PCB). Results showed that electrophoretic deposition of graphene oxide on the surface of carbon brush significantly enhanced the performance of the MFC, where the power density increased more than 10 times (from 33 mWm?2 to 381 mWm?2). Although the COD removal was nearly similar for the two MFCs, i.e., with PCB and RGO-CB; the columbic efficiency significantly increased in the case of RGO-CB anode. The improved performance in the case of the modified electrode was related to the role of the graphene in improving the electron transfer from the microorganism to the anode surface, as confirmed from the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements. 相似文献
Multiple-access interference (MAI) and multipath fading are two of the most significant factors limiting the capacity and performance of direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems. In this paper, synchronous multiuser receivers that combine antenna diversity, RAKE reception, and a multipath decorrelator for MAI cancellation are analyzed in a Nakagami faded environment using a maximal ratio combiner or a selection combiner. A coherent binary phase-shift keying employing DS-CDMA is considered. Arbitrary branch correlation is also considered for any diversity order in the case of identical severity fading on the branches. 相似文献
The charged particle motion for certain configurations of oscillating magnetic fields can be simulated by a Volterra integro-differential equation of the second order with time-periodic coefficients. This paper investigates a simple and accurate scheme for computationally solving these types of integro-differential equations. To start the method, we first reduce the integro-differential equations to equivalent Volterra integral equations of the second kind. Subsequently, the solution of the mentioned Volterra integral equations is estimated by the collocation method based on the local multiquadrics formulated on scattered points. We also expand the proposed method to solve fractional integro-differential equations including non-integer order derivatives. Since the offered method does not need any mesh generations on the solution domain, it can be recognized as a meshless method. To demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of the new technique, several illustrative examples are given. Moreover, the numerical results confirm that the method developed in the current paper in comparison with the method based on the globally supported multiquadrics has much lesser volume computing.
Recently there has been a considerable increase in the number of different Key-Value stores, for supporting data storage and
applications on the cloud environment. While all these solutions try to offer highly available and scalable services on the
cloud, they are significantly different with each other in terms of the architecture and types of the applications, they try
to support. Considering three widely-used such systems: Cassandra, HBase and Voldemort; in this paper we compare them in terms
of their support for different types of query workloads. We are mainly focused on the range queries. Unlike HBase and Cassandra
that have built-in support for range queries, Voldemort does not support this type of queries via its available API. For this
matter, practical techniques are presented on top of Voldemort to support range queries. Our performance evaluation is based
on mixed query workloads, in the sense that they contain a combination of short and long range queries, beside other types
of typical queries on key-value stores such as lookup and update. We show that there are trade-offs in the performance of
the selected system and scheme, and the types of the query workloads that can be processed efficiently. 相似文献