Lowpass and bandpass transadmittance filter using operational amplifier pole

A new topology simultaneously implementing lowpass (LP) and bandpass (BP) transadmittance filtering signals using a single operational amplifier (OA), one capacitor, and two resistors is presented. The input impedance is very high which is essential for cascading without employment of buffers. The circuit uses absolute minimum number of active and passive components. The filter employs pole-model of OA and as such has acquired suitability for extended frequency operation. The circuit permits separate adjustment of natural frequency (ω₀) and quality factor (Q) in an orthogonal manner. The circuit has low sensitivity figures unlike the reported single amplifier biquads. The PSPICE simulation results are included.     

钽酸锂晶体宽带滤波器

本文简要介绍钽酸锂晶体及器件的一些特性,对用该材料制作的21.4MHz宽带滤波器的设计、制作和测试结果作了较详细的介绍,滤波器的带宽达225kHz,矩形系数(BW_(?0dB)/BW_(3dB)为2.66,带外衰减在50dB以上。该材料在做宽带滤波器和压控振荡器方面具有优越性。     

热轧厂35kV右母线滤波装置优化

热轧厂在轧制难度大的产品时，引进的３５ｋＶ右母线滤波装置经常过流跳闸，并影响主变压器跳闸。通过现场测试，对过流跳闸原因进行综合分析，确定了设备优化改造对策。经１年多时间的实践考核证明改造是成功的。     

Automated synthesis of multiple analog circuits using evolutionary computation for redundancy-based fault-tolerance

Analog circuits are one of the most important parts of modern electronic systems and the failure of electronic hardware presents a critical threat to the completion of modern aircraft, spacecraft, and robot missions. Compared to digital circuits, designing fault-tolerant analog circuits is a difficult and knowledge-intensive task. A simple but powerful method for robustness is a redundancy approach to use multiple circuits instead of single one. For example, if component failures occur, other redundant components can replace the functions of broken parts and the system can still work. However, there are several research issues to make the redundant system automatically. In this paper, we used evolutionary computation to generate multiple analog circuits automatically and then we combined the solutions to generate robust outputs. Evolutionary computation is a natural way to produce multiple redundant solutions because it is a population-based search. Experimental results on the evolution of the low-pass, high-pass and band-stop filters show that the combination of multiple evolved analog circuits produces results that are more robust than those of the best single circuit.     

Filters of residuated lattices and triangle algebras

An important concept in the theory of residuated lattices and other algebraic structures used for formal fuzzy logic, is that of a filter. Filters can be used, amongst others, to define congruence relations. Specific kinds of filters include Boolean filters and prime filters.In this paper, we define several different filters of residuated lattices and triangle algebras and examine their mutual dependencies and connections. Triangle algebras characterize interval-valued residuated lattices.     

Accurate video text detection through classification of low and high contrast images

Detection of both scene text and graphic text in video images is gaining popularity in the area of information retrieval for efficient indexing and understanding the video. In this paper, we explore a new idea of classifying low contrast and high contrast video images in order to detect accurate boundary of the text lines in video images. In this work, high contrast refers to sharpness while low contrast refers to dim intensity values in the video images. The method introduces heuristic rules based on combination of filters and edge analysis for the classification purpose. The heuristic rules are derived based on the fact that the number of Sobel edge components is more than the number of Canny edge components in the case of high contrast video images, and vice versa for low contrast video images. In order to demonstrate the use of this classification on video text detection, we implement a method based on Sobel edges and texture features for detecting text in video images. Experiments are conducted using video images containing both graphic text and scene text with different fonts, sizes, languages, backgrounds. The results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods in terms of detection rate, false alarm rate, misdetection rate and inaccurate boundary rate.     

NEMS diaphragm sensors integrated with triple-nano-ring resonator

Two types of circular diaphragm, made by Si and Si/SiO₂, integrated with hexagonal photonic crystal (PhC) lattice with triple-nano-ring (TNR) resonator created at the centre are proposed as nano-scale force and pressure sensor. The optimized channel drop effect of the TNR resonator brings a strong forward drop resonant peak in both the cases and with Q-factor of 1602 and 1737, respectively. The resonant wavelength peak experience red shifts upon the applied load on the circular diaphragm along the normal direction, in terms of a 2nd-order polynomial relationship. The devices can detect a wide range of applied load. Si diaphragm based micro force sensor gives minimum detectable force of 0.847 μN in the region of applied force from 10 to 20 μN. Si/SiO₂ diaphragm based pressure sensor gives minimum detectable pressure of 4.17 MPa in the region of applied pressure from 20 to 40 MPa. From the derived wavelength shift versus a given centre displacement of the diaphragm, Si diaphragm based sensor shows higher sensitivity than Si/SiO₂ diaphragm sensor.     

Crack and flaw identification in elastodynamics using Kalman filter techniques

Filter-driven optimization based on the extended Kalman filter concept is used here for the numerical solution of crack and flaw identification problems in elastodynamics. The mechanical modeling of the studied two-dimensional problem, which includes the effect of unilateral contact along the sides of the crack, is done with the help of the boundary element method. The effect of various dynamical test loads and the applicability of this method for crack and defect identification in disks are investigated. The work has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Partial support has been provided by a Greek-German Research Cooperation Grant (IKYDA2001). This support is greatfully acknowledged.     

基于PMF-FFT的伪码捕获算法分析

建立了PMF-FFT算法的数学模型,分析了相关器个数、相关积累长度和FFT点数对积累损失、扇贝损失和频率分辨率的影响。在此基础上,结合算法的效率和运算量,给出了PMF-FFT算法参数选择的原则和依据。