An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of th...An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of the motion information over consecutive frames to extract object features and implements machine learning based on the bag of visual words approach. Instead of using a local feature descriptor only, the proposed system uses the co-occurring local features in order to increase feature discriminative power for both object model learning and inference stages. For different objects with different textures, a hybrid sampling strategy is considered. This hybrid approach minimizes the consumption of computation resources and helps achieving good performances demonstrated on a set of a dozen different daily objects.展开更多
A heavy-haul train-track coupled model is developed. Taking the emergency braking of the 2×104 t combined train as example, the train longitudinal impulse, the coupler dynamic behaviors and wheel-rail interaction...A heavy-haul train-track coupled model is developed. Taking the emergency braking of the 2×104 t combined train as example, the train longitudinal impulse, the coupler dynamic behaviors and wheel-rail interactions of vehicles distributing in the different positions are analyzed. The results indicate that under the coupler compressing forces, the couplers of middle locomotives may tilt to the free swing limits, which induces the unidirectional tilt of their connected wagon couplers. Consequently, the coupler longitudinal forces produce the lateral components, and then affect the wheel-rail dynamic interaction. The performance of the middle locomotive and their neighboring freight wagons deteriorate significantly, becoming the most dangerous parts in the combined train. The wagons disconnecting with the locomotives can basically keep their couplers to stabilize in the centering positions, even though the maximum coupler longitudinal force acts on it. And its corresponding running safety also has little changes.展开更多
Automatic line reclosing schemes used in an extra-high-voltage power system is an economical and effective means to maintain transient stability. A novel method is proposed in the paper to adaptively optimize the auto...Automatic line reclosing schemes used in an extra-high-voltage power system is an economical and effective means to maintain transient stability. A novel method is proposed in the paper to adaptively optimize the automatic line reclosing time after a transient fault for enhancement of interconnected power system transient stability. Both the study on the transient energy over network and the structure-preserving multi-machines power system model illustrate that the excessive convergence of potential energy on the lines with a certain cutset deteriorate power system stability, and therefore, an optimum line reclosing strategy can be established by minimizing the change in transient potential energy distribution across a cutset lines in the vicinity of the faulty line as an optimization target, and the optimal reclosure time is set to the time of minimum line phase angle difference. Without any pre-determined knowledge, the method is adaptive to various power system operation modes and fault conditions, and easy to implement because only a limited number of data measured at one location on a tie-line linking sub-networks are required. Simulations have been performed with the OMIB(One Machine and Infinite Bus System) and a real inter-connected power system to verify the applicability of the method proposed.展开更多
This paper describes the dynamic characteristics of pipelines laid through alluvial valleys. We assume that the alluvial valley has a semi-cylindrical cross-section. The ground motion of alluvial valley under harmonic...This paper describes the dynamic characteristics of pipelines laid through alluvial valleys. We assume that the alluvial valley has a semi-cylindrical cross-section. The ground motion of alluvial valley under harmonic seismic SH waves is carried out, and the pipeline-soil dynamic interaction is taken into account. Though simple, the model may qualitatively explain the earthquake damages of pipelines laid through an alluvial river valley.展开更多
Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flow...Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flows, is critical to ensure personnel and asset safety. In this study, a special global coordinate-based FEM rod model was adopted to identify and quantify the effects of internal flow and hydrostatic pressure on both flexible and deepwater steel catenary risers, with emphasis on the latter. By incorporating internal flow induced forces into the model, it was found that the internal flow contributes a new term to the effective tension expression. For flexible risers in shallow water, internal flow and hydrostatic pressure made virtually no change to effective tension by merely altering the riser wall tension. In deep water the internal pressure wielded a dominant role in governing the riser effective tension and furthering the static configuration, while the effect of inflow velocity was negligible. With respect to the riser seabed interaction, both the seabed support and friction effect were considered, with the former modeled by a nonlinear quadratic spring, allowing for a consistent derivation of the tangent stiffness matrix. The presented application examples show that the nonlinear quadratic spring is, when using the catenary solution as an initial static profile, an efficient way to model the quasi-Winkler-type elastic seabed foundation in this finite element scheme.展开更多
In order to investigate the forced transverse vibration of rolls under distributed draught pressure and moment of bending roll force, the forced transverse vibration model of rolls for four-high rolling mill was estab...In order to investigate the forced transverse vibration of rolls under distributed draught pressure and moment of bending roll force, the forced transverse vibration model of rolls for four-high rolling mill was established. The work roll and backup roll were considered as elastic continuous bodies that were joined by a Winkler elastic layer. According to Euler-Bemoulli beam theory, the forced transverse vibration of rolls was analyzed based on modal superposition method. The forced vibration equations were established when the draught pressure and moment of bending roll force were imposed on the rolls respectively. Numerical modeling was made on 2 030 mm cold tandem rolling mill of Baoshan Iron and Steel Company. Simulation results show that when the work roll is only subjected to different forms of draught pressures, the vibration curves of work roll and backup roll are quadratic curves with amplitudes of 0.3 mm and 45 μm, respectively. When only the moments of bending roll force are imposed on the work roll and backup roll, the vibration curves of work roll and backup roll are quadratic curves, and the amplitudes are 5.0 and 1.6 μm, respectively. The influence of moment of bending roll force on the vibration of work roll is related with the bending roll force.展开更多
Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Instit...Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE).Although WiMAX is already operating commercially in Taiwan,the system is limited to an independent new system that is incompatible with the current 3G system.Hence,the cost of implementing the WiMAX system is relatively high,this being an impediment to its rapid uptake and widespread use.On the other hand,LTE conforms to 3GPP that is supported by telecommunication manufacturers and operators and is,moreover,backward compatible with 3G/UMTS cellular systems.The LTE specifications define how user equipment(UE) connects and communicates with evolved Node B(eNB) base stations.The enhanced version,LTE-Advanced,adds a new entity called the relay node(RN) to widen service coverage,although this change has resulted in a more complex architecture.Mobility management and data forwarding are essential components in wireless mobile networking.This paper focuses on the efficient handover procedure in LTE-Advanced networks,and proposes a Smart Forwarding mechanism to improve the handover performance.Simulation studies show that the proposed Smart Forwarding scheme employs a better operational transmission path that effectively reduces handover latency and signal overhead.展开更多
In this paper we investigate the scalar field evolution in the dyadosphere spacetime by using the third-order WKB approximation. We find that the coupling term between the gravitation and the nonlinear electrodynamics...In this paper we investigate the scalar field evolution in the dyadosphere spacetime by using the third-order WKB approximation. We find that the coupling term between the gravitation and the nonlinear electrodynamics makes the scalar field decay more quickly and it also makes the scalar field oscillate more slowly. On the o'ther words, this coupling term takes effect on the scalar field evolution as a damping factor. At the same time these effects become more obvious for the scalar field with higher angle quantum number.展开更多
A major natural hazard associated with LGOM (Legnica-Glogow Copper Mining) mining is the dynamic phenomena occurrence, physically observed as seismic tremors. Some of them generate effects in the form of relaxations...A major natural hazard associated with LGOM (Legnica-Glogow Copper Mining) mining is the dynamic phenomena occurrence, physically observed as seismic tremors. Some of them generate effects in the form of relaxations or bumps. Long-term observations of the rock mass behaviour indicate that the degree of seismic hazard, and therefore also seismic activity in the LGOM area, is affected by the great depth of the copper deposit, high-strength rocks as well as the ability of rock mass to accumulate elastic energy. In this aspect, the effect of the characteristics of initial stress tensor and the orientation of considered mining panel in regards to its components must be emphasised. The primary objective of this study is to answer the question, which of the factors considered as "influencing" the dynamic phenomena occurrence in copper mines have a statistically significant effect on seismic activity and to what extent. Using the general linear model procedure, an attempt has been made to quantify the impact of different parameters, including the depth of deposit, the presence of goaf in the vicinity of operating mining panels and the direction of mining face advance, on seismic activity based on historical data from 2000 to 2010 concerned with the dynamic phenomena recorded in different mining panels in Rudna mine. The direction of mining face advance as well as the goaf situation in the vicinity of the mining panel are of the greatest interest in the case of the seismic activity in LGOM. It can be assumed that the appropriate manipulation of parameters of mining systems should ensure the safest variant of mining method under specific geological and mining conditions.展开更多
A new human action recognition approach was presented based on chaotic invariants and relevance vector machines(RVM).The trajectories of reference joints estimated by skeleton graph matching were adopted for represent...A new human action recognition approach was presented based on chaotic invariants and relevance vector machines(RVM).The trajectories of reference joints estimated by skeleton graph matching were adopted for representing the nonlinear dynamical system of human action.The C-C method was used for estimating delay time and embedding dimension of a phase space which was reconstructed by each trajectory.Then,some chaotic invariants representing action can be captured in the reconstructed phase space.Finally,RVM was used to recognize action.Experiments were performed on the KTH,Weizmann and Ballet human action datasets to test and evaluate the proposed method.The experiment results show that the average recognition accuracy is over91.2%,which validates its effectiveness.展开更多
Soliton theory plays an important role in nonlinear physics.The elastic interaction among solitons is oneof the most important properties for integrable systems.In this Letter, an elastic vortex interaction model is p...Soliton theory plays an important role in nonlinear physics.The elastic interaction among solitons is oneof the most important properties for integrable systems.In this Letter, an elastic vortex interaction model is proposed.It is found that the momenta, vortex momenta and the energies of every one vortex and the interaction energies of everytwo vortices are conserved.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60672094,60971098)
文摘An object learning and recognition system is implemented for humanoid robots to discover and memorize objects only by simple interactions with non-expert users. When the object is presented, the system makes use of the motion information over consecutive frames to extract object features and implements machine learning based on the bag of visual words approach. Instead of using a local feature descriptor only, the proposed system uses the co-occurring local features in order to increase feature discriminative power for both object model learning and inference stages. For different objects with different textures, a hybrid sampling strategy is considered. This hybrid approach minimizes the consumption of computation resources and helps achieving good performances demonstrated on a set of a dozen different daily objects.
基金Projects(51605315,51478399)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2013BAG20B00)supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of ChinaProject(TPL1707)supported by the Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power,China
文摘A heavy-haul train-track coupled model is developed. Taking the emergency braking of the 2×104 t combined train as example, the train longitudinal impulse, the coupler dynamic behaviors and wheel-rail interactions of vehicles distributing in the different positions are analyzed. The results indicate that under the coupler compressing forces, the couplers of middle locomotives may tilt to the free swing limits, which induces the unidirectional tilt of their connected wagon couplers. Consequently, the coupler longitudinal forces produce the lateral components, and then affect the wheel-rail dynamic interaction. The performance of the middle locomotive and their neighboring freight wagons deteriorate significantly, becoming the most dangerous parts in the combined train. The wagons disconnecting with the locomotives can basically keep their couplers to stabilize in the centering positions, even though the maximum coupler longitudinal force acts on it. And its corresponding running safety also has little changes.
文摘Automatic line reclosing schemes used in an extra-high-voltage power system is an economical and effective means to maintain transient stability. A novel method is proposed in the paper to adaptively optimize the automatic line reclosing time after a transient fault for enhancement of interconnected power system transient stability. Both the study on the transient energy over network and the structure-preserving multi-machines power system model illustrate that the excessive convergence of potential energy on the lines with a certain cutset deteriorate power system stability, and therefore, an optimum line reclosing strategy can be established by minimizing the change in transient potential energy distribution across a cutset lines in the vicinity of the faulty line as an optimization target, and the optimal reclosure time is set to the time of minimum line phase angle difference. Without any pre-determined knowledge, the method is adaptive to various power system operation modes and fault conditions, and easy to implement because only a limited number of data measured at one location on a tie-line linking sub-networks are required. Simulations have been performed with the OMIB(One Machine and Infinite Bus System) and a real inter-connected power system to verify the applicability of the method proposed.
文摘This paper describes the dynamic characteristics of pipelines laid through alluvial valleys. We assume that the alluvial valley has a semi-cylindrical cross-section. The ground motion of alluvial valley under harmonic seismic SH waves is carried out, and the pipeline-soil dynamic interaction is taken into account. Though simple, the model may qualitatively explain the earthquake damages of pipelines laid through an alluvial river valley.
基金Supported by the National High-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2010AA09Z303the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50739004)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11002135)
文摘Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flows, is critical to ensure personnel and asset safety. In this study, a special global coordinate-based FEM rod model was adopted to identify and quantify the effects of internal flow and hydrostatic pressure on both flexible and deepwater steel catenary risers, with emphasis on the latter. By incorporating internal flow induced forces into the model, it was found that the internal flow contributes a new term to the effective tension expression. For flexible risers in shallow water, internal flow and hydrostatic pressure made virtually no change to effective tension by merely altering the riser wall tension. In deep water the internal pressure wielded a dominant role in governing the riser effective tension and furthering the static configuration, while the effect of inflow velocity was negligible. With respect to the riser seabed interaction, both the seabed support and friction effect were considered, with the former modeled by a nonlinear quadratic spring, allowing for a consistent derivation of the tangent stiffness matrix. The presented application examples show that the nonlinear quadratic spring is, when using the catenary solution as an initial static profile, an efficient way to model the quasi-Winkler-type elastic seabed foundation in this finite element scheme.
基金Project(50875231) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(E2006001038) supported by Great Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China
文摘In order to investigate the forced transverse vibration of rolls under distributed draught pressure and moment of bending roll force, the forced transverse vibration model of rolls for four-high rolling mill was established. The work roll and backup roll were considered as elastic continuous bodies that were joined by a Winkler elastic layer. According to Euler-Bemoulli beam theory, the forced transverse vibration of rolls was analyzed based on modal superposition method. The forced vibration equations were established when the draught pressure and moment of bending roll force were imposed on the rolls respectively. Numerical modeling was made on 2 030 mm cold tandem rolling mill of Baoshan Iron and Steel Company. Simulation results show that when the work roll is only subjected to different forms of draught pressures, the vibration curves of work roll and backup roll are quadratic curves with amplitudes of 0.3 mm and 45 μm, respectively. When only the moments of bending roll force are imposed on the work roll and backup roll, the vibration curves of work roll and backup roll are quadratic curves, and the amplitudes are 5.0 and 1.6 μm, respectively. The influence of moment of bending roll force on the vibration of work roll is related with the bending roll force.
基金supported in part by the National Science Council,Taiwan,"R.O.C.",under grant no.NSC 101-2221-E-164-019 and NSC 101-2221-E-164-020
文摘Long Term Evolution(LTE) and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX are competing access network technologies adopted in 4G wireless networks in recent years.LTE complies with3 GPP standards whereas 802.16 WiMAX is regulated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE).Although WiMAX is already operating commercially in Taiwan,the system is limited to an independent new system that is incompatible with the current 3G system.Hence,the cost of implementing the WiMAX system is relatively high,this being an impediment to its rapid uptake and widespread use.On the other hand,LTE conforms to 3GPP that is supported by telecommunication manufacturers and operators and is,moreover,backward compatible with 3G/UMTS cellular systems.The LTE specifications define how user equipment(UE) connects and communicates with evolved Node B(eNB) base stations.The enhanced version,LTE-Advanced,adds a new entity called the relay node(RN) to widen service coverage,although this change has resulted in a more complex architecture.Mobility management and data forwarding are essential components in wireless mobile networking.This paper focuses on the efficient handover procedure in LTE-Advanced networks,and proposes a Smart Forwarding mechanism to improve the handover performance.Simulation studies show that the proposed Smart Forwarding scheme employs a better operational transmission path that effectively reduces handover latency and signal overhead.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10873004the Program for Excellent Talents in Hunan Normal University,the State Key Development Program for Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2010CB832803+1 种基金the Key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10935013Construct Program of the National Key Discipline and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University under Grant No.IRT0964
文摘In this paper we investigate the scalar field evolution in the dyadosphere spacetime by using the third-order WKB approximation. We find that the coupling term between the gravitation and the nonlinear electrodynamics makes the scalar field decay more quickly and it also makes the scalar field oscillate more slowly. On the o'ther words, this coupling term takes effect on the scalar field evolution as a damping factor. At the same time these effects become more obvious for the scalar field with higher angle quantum number.
文摘A major natural hazard associated with LGOM (Legnica-Glogow Copper Mining) mining is the dynamic phenomena occurrence, physically observed as seismic tremors. Some of them generate effects in the form of relaxations or bumps. Long-term observations of the rock mass behaviour indicate that the degree of seismic hazard, and therefore also seismic activity in the LGOM area, is affected by the great depth of the copper deposit, high-strength rocks as well as the ability of rock mass to accumulate elastic energy. In this aspect, the effect of the characteristics of initial stress tensor and the orientation of considered mining panel in regards to its components must be emphasised. The primary objective of this study is to answer the question, which of the factors considered as "influencing" the dynamic phenomena occurrence in copper mines have a statistically significant effect on seismic activity and to what extent. Using the general linear model procedure, an attempt has been made to quantify the impact of different parameters, including the depth of deposit, the presence of goaf in the vicinity of operating mining panels and the direction of mining face advance, on seismic activity based on historical data from 2000 to 2010 concerned with the dynamic phenomena recorded in different mining panels in Rudna mine. The direction of mining face advance as well as the goaf situation in the vicinity of the mining panel are of the greatest interest in the case of the seismic activity in LGOM. It can be assumed that the appropriate manipulation of parameters of mining systems should ensure the safest variant of mining method under specific geological and mining conditions.
基金Project(50808025) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(20090162110057) supported by the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education,China
文摘A new human action recognition approach was presented based on chaotic invariants and relevance vector machines(RVM).The trajectories of reference joints estimated by skeleton graph matching were adopted for representing the nonlinear dynamical system of human action.The C-C method was used for estimating delay time and embedding dimension of a phase space which was reconstructed by each trajectory.Then,some chaotic invariants representing action can be captured in the reconstructed phase space.Finally,RVM was used to recognize action.Experiments were performed on the KTH,Weizmann and Ballet human action datasets to test and evaluate the proposed method.The experiment results show that the average recognition accuracy is over91.2%,which validates its effectiveness.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10735030 the National Basic Research Programs of China (973 Programs) under Grant Nos.2007CB814800 and 2005CB422301the PCSIRT (IRT0734)
文摘Soliton theory plays an important role in nonlinear physics.The elastic interaction among solitons is oneof the most important properties for integrable systems.In this Letter, an elastic vortex interaction model is proposed.It is found that the momenta, vortex momenta and the energies of every one vortex and the interaction energies of everytwo vortices are conserved.