带有“反馈”信号的病房呼叫器

病房呼叫器是用于中小型医院的一种常用电子设备。目前各类医院中所使用的呼叫器往往只具有单向呼叫功能。当病员按下呼叫按钮后,不知道值班室是否收到了呼叫讯号,也不知道护士是否响应了这次呼叫请求。针对以上电路的不足,笔者设计的呼叫器具有如下特点:当病人按下呼叫器按钮后,能从指示灯的亮灭,知道值班室护士是否收到呼叫信号。该电路经过数家医院多年使用,证明电路性能稳定,电路简单,造价低廉。 工作原理(见图1)当1号床病人需要呼叫护士时,按一下轻触开关K1后,可控硅SCR1控制极G得电触发导通。在病房床头控制盒上的LED1指示灯点亮,同时在护士值班室的集中控制屏上,对应床位号的LED1’指示灯也点亮。由于可控硅SCR1导通,A点由高电位变为低电位,复合管Q1导通,蜂鸣器Y呜叫。值班护士听到鸣叫后,由控制屏上哪一个ELD’亮即可知需要帮助的病员床位。当值班护士点按常闭轻触开关K1’

CLOSE-LOOP DESIGN OF PULSE POWER SUPPLY FOR ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING

The dynamic performance and the stability are essential for a system. A new circuit topology used for electrical discharge machining (EDM) power and made up of complex-pulse (voltage-pulse and current-pulse) is presented. The large-signal model of it is also derived. Based on the comprehensive analysis of the system model, the compensator is designed to make the system match better and to improve its dynamic performance and the stability under perturbations. Finally, the design methods and the analysis are verified by simulation and experimental results.

Dynamics of Meandering Spiral Waves Driven by Two-Point Feedback

We numerically study the dynamics of meandering spiral waves in the excitable system subjected to a feedback signal coming from two measuring points located on a straight line together with the initial spiral core. The core location and size radius of the final attractors are computed, and they change with the position of the moving measuring point in a unique way. By the Fourier Spectral analysis, we find the frequency-locked behaviors different from the driving scheme of the external periodic force. It when the moving measuring point approaches closely is also found that the meandering spiral wave can be eliminated the boundary and its feedback gain is large enough. This offers an effective and convenient method for eliminating meandering spiral waves.

Design and analysis of singal conditioning circuit for vibration sensor

A piezoelectric sensor charge/voltage conversion circuit is designed based on the principle that piezoelectric sensor can convert the vibration or shock acceleration into the charge proportionally.Effect of temperature characteristic of feedback capacitor on the switching circuit output is analyzed based on the acquisition and measurement system in this paper.The characteristics of different filters are analyzed,and the corresponding filter circuit is configured according to the actual sensor bandwidth.Experiments show that the circuit can effectively filter out noises among the vibration signal and obtain vibration signal accurately.

LOW-POWER LVDS I/O INTERFACE FOR ABOVE 2GB/S-PER-PIN OPERATION

Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) has become a popular choice for high-speed serial links to conquer the bandwidth bottleneck of intra-chip data transmission. This paper presents the design and the implementation of LVDS Input/Output (I/O) interface circuits in a standard 0.18 μm CMOS technology using thick gate oxide devices (3.3 V), fully compatible with LVDS standard. In the proposed transmitter, a novel Common-Mode FeedBack (CMFB)circuit is utilized to keep the common-mode output voltage stable over Process, supply Voltage and Temperature (PVT) variations. Because there are no area greedy resistors in the CMFB circuitry, the disadvantage of large die area in existing transmitter structures is avoided. To obtain sufficient gain, the receiver consists of three am- plifying stages: a voltage amplifying stage, a transconductance amplifying stage, and a transimpedance amplifying stage. And to exclude inner nodes with high RC time constant, shunt-shunt negative feedback is introduced in the receiver. A novel active inductor shunt peaking structure is used in the receiver to fulfill the stringent requirements of high speed and wide Common-Mode Input Region (CMIR) without voltage gain, power dissipation and silicon area penalty. Simulation results show that data rates of 2 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps are achieved for the transmitter and receiver with power con- sumption of 13.2 mW and 8.3 mW respectively.

Direct Adaptive Fuzzy Based Backstepping Control of Semi Strict Feedback Nonlinear Systems

In this paper, a direct adaptive fuzzy tracking control is proposed for a class of uncertain single-input single-output nonlinear semi-strict feedback systems. Based on Takagi-Sugeno type fuzzy systems, a direct adaptive fuzzy tracking controller is developed by using the backstepping approach. The main advantage of the developed method is that for an n-th order system, only one parameter is needed to be adjusted online. It is proven that, under the appropriate assumptions, the developed scheme can achieve that the output system converges to a small neighborhood of the reference signal and all the signals in the closed-loop system remain bounded. The efficacy of the proposed algorithm is investigated by an illustrative simulation example of one link robot.

HOW EFFECTIVE IS ERROR FEEDBACK ON SELF-CORRECTION IN L2 WRITING?——A CASE STUDY IN GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY

The contemporary emphasis on learner-centeredness and autonomy suggests that in some contexts, learners' self-correction of mistakes might be more beneficial for language learning than teacher's direction correction. A case study was constructed to discover how effective the target students could self-correct their writing mistakes against the teachers' feedback. The findings may give some insights into the role of self- correction in teaching L2 writing.

Controlling traffic jams on a two-lane road using delayed-feedback signals

This paper focuses mainly on the stability analysis of two-lane traffic flow with lateral friction,which may be caused by irregular driving behavior or poorly visible road markings,and also attempts to reveal the formation mechanism of traffic jams.Firstly,a two-lane optimal velocity(OV) model without control signals is proposed and its stability condition is obtained from the viewpoint of control theory.Then delayed-feedback control signals composed of distance headway information from both lanes are added to each vehicle and a vehicular control system is designed to suppress the traffic jams.Lane change behaviors are also incorporated into the two-lane OV model and the corresponding information about distance headway and feedback signals is revised.Finally,the results of numerical experiments are shown to verify that when the stability condition is not met,the position disturbances and resulting lane change behaviors do indeed deteriorate traffic performance and cause serious traffic jams.However,once the proper delayed-feedback control signals are implemented,the traffic jams can be suppressed efficiently.

Adaptive output feedback formation tracking for a class of multiagent systems with quantized input signals

A novel adaptive output feedback control approach is presented for formation tracking of a multiagent system with uncertainties and quantized input signals. The agents are described by nonlinear dynamics models with unknown parameters and immeasurable states. A high-gain dynamic state observer is established to estimate the immeasurable states. With a proper design parameter choice, an adaptive output feedback control method is developed employing a hysteretic quantizer and the designed dynamic state observer. Stability analysis shows that the control strategy can guarantee that the agents can maintain the formation shape while tracking the reference trajectory. In addition, all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded. The effectiveness of the control strategy is validated by simulation.

Optical Humidity Sensor Based on Air Guided Photonic Crystal Fiber

We proposed a novel relative humidity （RH） sensor based on the air guided photonic crystal fiber （AGPCF） using the direct absorption spectroscopic method in this paper. The wavelength scanning around the water vapor absorption peak around 1368.59nm was realized by injecting the saw-tooth modulated current to a distributed-feedback laser diode. A reference signal was used as a zero absorption baseline and to help reduce the interference from the distributed-feedback laser source and probed region. The humidity level was determined by the normalized voltage difference between the reference signal and sensor signal at the peak of water vapor absorption. We demonstrated that a length of 5-cm AGPCF with a fixed small air gap between the single mode fiber （SMF） and hollow core fiber as an opening achieved a humidity detection resolution of around 0.2%RH over the range 0 to 90%RH which did not require the use of any hygroscopic coating material.

SENP1 regulates IFN-γ-STAT1 signaling throug STAT3-SOCS3 negative feedback loop

Interferon-γ （IFN-γ） triggers macrophage for inflammation response by activating the intracellular JAK-STAT1 signaling. Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 （SOCS1） and protein tyrosine phosphatases can negatively modulate IFN-γ signaling. Here, we identify a novel negative feedback loop mediated by STAT3-SOCS3, which is tightly controlled by SENP1 via de-SUMOylation of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B （PTPIB）, in IFN-y signaling. SENP1-deficient macrophages show defects in IFN-γ signaling and M1 macrophage activation. PTP1B in SENP1-deficient macrophages is highly SUMOylated, which reduces PTP1B-induced de-phosphorylation of STAT3. Activated STAT3 then suppresses STAT1 activation via SOCS3 induction in SENP1-deficient macro- phages. Accordingly, SENP1-deficient macrophages show reduced ability to resist Listerio rnonocytogenes infection. These results reveal a crucial role of SENP1-controlled STAT1 and STAT3 balance in rnacrophage polarization.

Synergy and Redundancy in a Signaling Cascade with Different Feedback Mechanisms

Feedback plays an important role in various biological signal transmission systems. In this paper, a signaling cascade system(including three layers: input(S), intermediate(V), output(X) components) is employed to study the fluctuations and net synergy in information transmission, in which the V component is regulated by itself or the X component, and each feedback on V is either positive or negative. The Fano factor, the net synergy, and the signalto-noise ratio(SNR) of signaling cascade with the four possible feedback types are theoretically derived by using linear noise approximation of the master equation, and the ability of information transmission through the signaling cascade is characterized by using the partial information decomposition of information theory. It is found that the signaling cascade exhibits different responses to the four feedback mechanisms, which depend on the relationships between degradation rates of components. Our results not only clarify the dependence of the Fano factor, net synergy, and SNR on the feedback regulations with the varying of degradation rates of components, but also imply that living cells could utilize different feedback mechanisms to adapt to the external fluctuating environments.

A coupled optoelectronic oscillator with three resonant cavities

A new single-mode optoelectronic oscillator(OEO) with three coupled cavities is proposed and demonstrated. A Fabry-Perot(F-P) cavity fiber laser and an optical-electrical feedback branch are coupled together to construct an optoelectronic oscillator, where the F-P cavity fiber laser serves as a light source, and a modulator is placed in the laser cavity to implement reciprocating modulation, which simultaneously splits the laser cavity into two parts and forms a dual-loop configuration. To complete an optoelectronic oscillator, part of optical signal is output from the F-P cavity to implement the feedback modulation, which constructs the third cavity. Since only the oscillation signal satisfies the requirements of all the three cavities, a single-mode oscillation can be finally achieved. Three resonant cavities are successfully designed without adding more optoelectronic devices, and the side-modes can be well suppressed with low cost. The oscillation condition is theoretically analyzed. In the experimental demonstration, a 20 GHz single longitudinal mode microwave signal is successfully obtained.

H_2/H_∞ CONTROL PROBLEMS OF BACKWARD STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS

This paper is concerned with the mixed H_2/H_∞ control problem for a new class of stochastic systems with exogenous disturbance signal.The most distinguishing feature,compared with the existing literatures,is that the systems are described by linear backward stochastic differential equations(BSDEs).The solution to this problem is obtained completely and explicitly by using an approach which is based primarily on the completion-of-squares technique.Two equivalent expressions for the H_2/H_∞ control are presented.Contrary to forward deterministic and stochastic cases,the solution to the backward stochastic H_2/H_∞ control is no longer feedback of the current state;rather,it is feedback of the entire history of the state.

THE EFFECT OF COUPLED FEEDBACK ON NOISE FILTERING IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION NETWORKS

Many interacting biomolecular components in cells form different positive or negative feedback loops. When biological signals transduce through cascades consisting of various loops they will be affected or even distorted. Especially, how to process various signals buried in various intrinsic and extrinsic noises is an important issue. This paper analyzes how the response time influences noise filtering ability and how to enhance the ability by coupling different feedback loops. A parameter to measure the response time of the signal transduction, i.e., τ0.9, and its relationship between the response time and noise filtering will be discussed. The authors show clearly that the longer the response time is, the better the ability to filter noises will be. Therefore, to enhance the ability to filter noises, the authors can prolong the response time by coupling different positive or negative feedback loops. The results provide a possible approach to enhance the ability to filter noises in larger biomolecular networks.