... Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, pp 1184–1189 England (1991) Campion, G., d’Andrea-Novel, B., Bastin, G.: Controllability and state feedback stabilization of nonholo-nomic ... Stability analysis of the inter-nal dynamics of a wheeled mobile robot J Robot Syst.14, 697–709 (1997) 14 Yun, X., Sarkar, N.: Unified formulation of robotic systems with holonomic and nonholonomic ... technique for tracking control of dynamic nonholonomic systems in chained form IEEE Trans Automat Contr.34(32), 265– 279 (1999) 18 Dixon, W.E., Dawson, D.M.: Tracking and regulation control of a mobile...
... dimensions of the structural members; • Location, size, and cause of cracks and spalls; • Location and extent of corrosion of reinforcing steel; • Quantity and location of existing reinforcing steel; ... moment of the areas of the transformed section The transformed area of the FRP may DESIGNAND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTERNALLY BONDED FRP SYSTEMS 440.2R-25 Fig 10.1—Typical wrapping schemes for shear ... assumptions and parameters used to design the FRP strengthening and should prepare design drawings and project specifications The drawings and specifications should show, at a minimum, the following information...
... windings) High High High High Low Low bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, linear linear linear linear non-linear non-linear Fixed by 0-Vutil transformers variable ... supported by C1 and C3 (Fig 1.25), and charges C1 and discharges C3, and thereby reducing VLC until the voltage at the node of S1 and S3 reaches zero At this time D3 becomes forward biased and clamps ... structure of the system, is often sufficient for off-line simulation of highly complex non-linear systems ANFIS uses a combination of neural networks and fuzzy logic to generate models for complex...
... toward science and engineering I am extremely grateful and obliged to my co-supervisor Prof Jian-Xin Xu for his intellectual innovative and highly investigative guidance to me for my project ... appreciation for many warm-hearted, and wonderful friends inside and outside of the NUS campus Thanks to my old flatmates, Shen Yan, Hadja and my present flatmate Li Jie for their encouragement and help ... Performance and input ofdual mode control (a) performance of amplitude and frequency control (b) input of amplitude and frequency control 220 List of Figures xxvi F.11...
... 3.5 The domain ofdesign variables in the rotor structure 75 3.6 Central composite designfor the design example of interior PMSM 76 3.7 Comparison of results with AM, FEM and RSM ... characteristics for the optimized design by FEM and RSM 101 4.15 Comparison of optimal design with other design cases 103 5.1 Hardware schematic of the interior ... develop a systematic methodology for analysis, designand control of PMSMs In this thesis, a designand control method for PMSMs is developed based on the analysis of PMSMs with different rotor structures...
... been studied and a set of modified design equations has been given [20] Designand Development of a CMOS Power Amplifier for Digital Applications 38 CHAPTER 4: Power Amplifier: Design Implementation ... Designand Development of a CMOS Power Amplifier for Digital Applications KHOO EE SZE (B.Eng (Hons), NTU) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ... detail description of the design implementation of the power amplifier will be given The design setup discussed later will include simulation setup and models needed for the design In Chapter Five,...
... is necessary for the development of the mobile platform and the means of control for users A Powered-Castor wheel (PCW) designfor the mobile platform is selected for the merits of Omnidirectional ... and robot behavioral layer 2.2 Review of mobile Robots The prevalence of automation and mobile robotic platform has seen a rise of demand for high mobility platforms While high mobility platforms ... will cater for pose-based and velocitybased control 3.1 Mechanical design The mechanical designof the castor structure is to design the driving mechanisms of the castors for rotation and translational...
... The Jsc and Voc dependence of the light intensity for the device The lines are linearly and logically fitting for Jsc and Voc, respectively 96 Figure 3.7 EIS of DSSCs based on PTZ1 and PTZ2-CDCA ... continuous bands of filled, and empty, states (Figure 1.2) The energy gap between the top level of the filled (i.e HOMO) band and the bottom level of the empty (i.e LUMO) band is the band gap energy ... responsible for the electronic and optical properties of the conjugated systems Figure 1.1 Hybridization of the atomic orbitals (b) and formation of bonds (a) for two sp2-hybridized carbon atoms Figure...
... areas of cost and capacity rather than performance There are two components of disk performance: transfer bandwidth and access time Although both of these factors are improving, the rate of improvement ... policies In designing a log-structured file system we decided to focus on the efficiency of small-file accesses, and leave it to hardware designers to improve bandwidth for large-file accesses Fortunately, ... minutes of work in each crash; for applications that require better crash recovery, non-volatile RAM may be used for the write buffer Designfor file systems of the 1990’s 2.2 Workloads File system design...
... reformer, a SOFC stack, an afterburner, a fuel heat exchanger and an air heat exchanger As with any SOFC system, the performance of the INER SOFC system is dependent not only on the designand ... parameters for the SOFC stack, afterburner, reformer and other BOP components Section presents the detailed designs of the various BOP components in the INER SOFC system Section presents and discusses ... electrically-heated reformer is around 12% higher than that in the afterburner-heated reformer The superior performance of the electrically-heated reformer is due to the high (780oC) and uniform temperature...
... compromise and accept a more gradual cutoff between passband and stopband, as well as specify a transition band between the passband and stopband The design is based on magnitude response specifications ... exchange for a faster roll-off of gain in the transition band The stopband is chosen by the design specifications Generally, the smaller dp and ds are, and the narrower the transition band, the ... Magnitude response of bandpass filter with narrow bandwidth 188 DESIGNAND IMPLEMENTATION OF FIR FILTERS where !a and !b are the lower and upper cut-off frequencies, respectively The bandwidth is the...
... inverter Figure 5.4 – PWM VSI schematic and waveforms Figure 5.5 – The complete FO controller design in a block representation Figure 6.1 – The Look-up Table Figure 6.2 – The complete SIMULINK design ... increased Figure 6.11 – The speed response of the system with a proportional gain of 90 Figure 6.12 – cos(rho) and sin(rho) signals Figure 6.13 – The ids and iqs signal curves over time Figure 6.14 ... your design over a specified period of time This way, you can analyze the time response of your control system 6.2 MATLAB simulation design A MATLAB control design ultimately allows the designer...
... consisting of buffers and preamplifiers enables isolation of the sensing nodes, preamplification of the signal and provides design flexibility for the later stages In the demodulator and preamplifier design, ... substrate and coupling from other signals like modulation signals and drive signals Schematics of these two designs are shown in Figure 2.9 The symmetric topology (Figure 2.9(a)) has the advantages of ... exitation of ~4g amplitude peak of the offset signal peak of driving force (equivalent to 4g@100Hz) Figure 5.8: Spectrum of amplitude-modulated signal modulation frequency (100kHz) is the offset signal...
... stopband is Ws < F < 1, and Wp < Ws For highpass filters, the normalized frequency range of stopband is < F < Ws, the passband is Wp < F < 1, and Wp > Ws For bandpass and bandstop filters, Wp and ... Sampler d(n) H(z) h(n) Figure 6.9 The concept of impulse-invariant design 257 DESIGNOF IIR FILTERS The impulse-invariant design is usually not performed directly in the form of (6.3.5) In practice, ... critical frequencies 258 DESIGNAND IMPLEMENTATION OF IIR FILTERS such as cutoff and bandwidth frequencies specified for the digital filter can be used directly in the designof the analog filter...
... their production and use’.85 As informatics shifts from the study of information systems to the study ofdesignof services, 86 and networks of information and communication, design itself becomes ... and technology designand use’ and to develop a methodology for ‘ethnographically-based designof digital technologies’ 78Three interrelated lines of inquiry were applied: critical analysis of ... between members of the public and representatives of official bodies, and on how discourses and local practitioners influence and recreate participation in anddesignof services and new technology...
... consisting of buffers and preamplifiers enables isolation of the sensing nodes, preamplification of the signal and provides design flexibility for the later stages In the demodulator and preamplifier design, ... substrate and coupling from other signals like modulation signals and drive signals Schematics of these two designs are shown in Figure 2.9 The symmetric topology (Figure 2.9(a)) has the advantages of ... exitation of ~4g amplitude peak of the offset signal peak of driving force (equivalent to 4g@100Hz) Figure 5.8: Spectrum of amplitude-modulated signal modulation frequency (100kHz) is the offset signal...
... Synthesis steps anddesign models for codesign, Computer, pp 44-52, Feb 1995 [13] Gajski, D and Vahid, F., Specification anddesignof embedded hardware-software systems, IEEE Design & Test of Computers, ... architectural design stage • They allow for true HW/SW codesign by simulating the behavior of software on performance models of processor hardware The model of software can take many forms, one ... 78.9.1 Design Example: I/O Processor for Handling MPEG Data Stream In this example, we present the designof an I/O processor for the movement of MPEG-1 encoder data from its origin at the output of...
... 10 Fairness and Friendliness 50 TCP flows and UDT flows between SARA and StarLight Realtime snapshot of the throughput The UDT flows have similar performance and leave enough space for TCP flows ... between Chicago and Amsterdam TCP Throughput (Mbps) 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 Number of UDT flows 10 Stability • Stability index of UDT and TCP – Stability: average standard deviation of throughout ... asynchronously stable • But, inefficient and not scalable – In grid networks (with high bandwidth-delay product) • RTT bias Efficiency of TCP Gb/s link, 200ms RTT, between Tokyo and Chicago 28 minutes On 10...