Characterizing navigation maps for web applications with the NMM approach

This paper presents the Navigation Maps Modeling approach (NMM), which provides platform independent models for characterizing navigation maps of web applications. The NMM approach is conceived to obtain a trade off between high and low-level design notations. As high-level design notations, NMM models permit architectural details that may hinder the overall understanding of the web application to be left out. As low-level design notations, NMM models can easily be transformed into detailed architectural designs, which are very valuable at coding and maintenance stages.     

Self-calibration based on invariant view recognition: Dynamic approach to navigation

We extend a dynamic approach of behavior generation to the representation of spatial information. Two levels of dynamics integrate dead-reckoning, dominant far from home bases, and piloting, dominant near home bases. When the view-based piloting system recognizes a home base, visual place information recalibrates the dead-reckoning system, inverting the hierarchical ordering of the two dynamic levels by time scale inversion. Reference views taken at discrete home bases are recognized invariantly under rotation of views. This process yields compass information. Continuous translational information is obtained as a neural place representation built from view correlations with a scattered set of local views. This self-calibrating cognitive map couples into a dynamics of heading direction integrating the behaviors of obstacle avoidance and target acquisition. Targets can be designated in terms of the cognitive map. We demonstrate the dynamical model in simulation.     

水平阻尼作为干扰的平台式惯导统一控制方程

研究惯导系统统一控制的优化设计。传统的统一控制采用一体化设计方案,通用性不强。为简捷高效地实现惯导计算机的程序编排,提出了将水平阻尼作为干扰项的平台式惯导统一控制。通过改变系统框图结构,将无阻尼惯导系统和阻尼网络人为分离,水平阻尼网络的输出可视为干扰项。系统控制方程始终采用无阻尼条件下的表达式,惯导系统控制和阻尼网络可以实现模块化设计,使控制的实现形式和推导过程大为简化。给出了惯导计算机的运算流程,并分别在静、动基座条件下,对无阻尼、内水平阻尼和外水平阻尼状态的惯导系统做了仿真。结果表明新的统一控制模型有效体现了惯导系统的参数变化,且设计简便,具有更好的实用性。     

星地时间同步任务规划综合评价技术研究

星地时间同步是导航定位系统的重要组成部分,准确评价星地时间同步任务规划的好坏,是卫星方案设计及优化提高卫星导航系统运行效率的基础。针对导航卫星星地时间同步任务规划评价问题,建立了基于任务、资源、性能的多层次评价指标体系,构造了通用的综合评价框架,最后通过仿真验证了方法的可行性,为导航系统的顶层设计与地面资源配置优化提供决策支持。     

多普勒声纳系统原理及应用

多普勒声纳已成功应用于多种水下载体的导航。首先分析了水下导航的特点,推导了四波束配置多普勒声纳速度矢量的最小二乘估计,给出了误差速度的计算方法和物理意义,最后介绍了多普勒声纳在水下导航中的应用。     

融合UWB与INS的消防员室内定位与NLOS检测算法

融合超宽带（UWB）和惯性导航系统（INS）能够实现消防员室内精确定位。为实现UWB的非视距（NLOS）误差检测,设计一种双级EKF框架。该框架以松耦合形式实现UWB/INS的数据融合,通过INS获取的初始位置估计坐标以检测UWB测量值的NLOS误差,根据检测结果计算残差矩阵来动态调整融合滤波器的测量噪声矩阵,以达到缓解NLOS误差的目的。实验结果表明,与三角不等式原理检测算法和无NLOS检测的UWB/INS简单融合算法相比,所提NLOS检测算法具备良好的检测能力、较强的稳定性及较高的定位精度。     

When adults without university education search the Internet for health information: The roles of Internet-specific epistemic beliefs and a source evaluation intervention

In the present research, N = 48 adults without university education were tasked to conduct two web searches on unfamiliar health-related issues. Three research objectives were examined: the predictive value of individuals’ Internet-specific epistemic beliefs for their navigation behavior and post-search decisions in Web Search Task 1; the effects of a short source evaluation intervention on individuals’ navigation behavior and post-search decisions in Web Search Task 2; and the effects of the source evaluation intervention on individuals’ Internet-specific epistemic beliefs. Results showed that beliefs concerning the justification by multiple sources were positively related to the time spent on reliable objective web pages and to the likelihood to make a post-search decision that was in accordance with the objective pages. Beliefs that the Internet is a reliable knowledge resource were also positively related to the time spent on objective pages as well as to greater certainty in the post-search decision. Second, in Web Search Task 2, the intervention group spent more time on objective web pages, was more likely to make a decision that was in accordance with these pages, and was more certain of their decision than the control group. Third, one week after the intervention, individuals possessed stronger beliefs concerning the justification by multiple sources than before. In conclusion, the present research indicates that both adaptive Internet-specific beliefs and a short source evaluation intervention have positive effects on non-university educated adults’ online health information seeking and that their Internet-specific epistemic beliefs can be fostered through such an intervention.     

The Information Navigation System

Abstract

Today's instruction and reference librarians face new challenges as the gatekeepers to information. The information explosion requires that we create strategies for our customers to navigate through a maze of material. This paper describes a reference tool developed at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to meet the information needs of our researchers and offers practical advice to other librarians interested in providing a similar service.     

广西郁江老口航运枢纽工程泄水闸坝门型设计方案选择

介绍了广西郁江老口航运枢纽工程对泄水闸坝闸门门型的选型设计.文中提出了平板闸门和弧形闸门的比较方案,通过对泄流能力、环境影响、施工条件及后期运行管理务件的分析,最终推荐采用了弧形闸门方案.     

An indoor localization system in a multiblock workspace

As service robots and other ubiquitous technology have evolved, an increasing need for the autonomous navigation of mobile objects has arisen. In a large number of localization schemes, the absolute-position estimation method, which relies on navigation beacons or landmarks, has been widely used as it has the advantages of being economical and accurate. However, only a few of these schemes have expanded their application to complicated workspaces, or those that have many rooms or blocks. As the navigation of mobile objects in complicated workspaces is vital for ubiquitous technology, multiblock navigation is necessary. This article presents methodologies and techniques for the multiblock navigation of the indoor localization system with active beacon sensors. This new indoor localization system design includes ultrasonic attenuation compensation, dilution-of-precision analysis, and a fault detection and isolation algorithm using redundant measurements. This work was presented in part at the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 31–February 2, 2008