To realize the data synchronization between the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the global positioning system (GPS), the synchronization technology in the IMU/GPS integrated measurement system of vehicle motio...To realize the data synchronization between the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the global positioning system (GPS), the synchronization technology in the IMU/GPS integrated measurement system of vehicle motion parameters is studied. According to the characteristics of the output signals of the IMU and the GPS, without the IMU synchronization signal, the synchronization circuit based on CPLD is designed and developed, which need not alter the configurations of the IMU and GPS. Experiments of measuring vehicle motion parameters, which rely on the synchronization circuit to realize IMU/GPS data synchronization, are made. The driving routes in experiments comprise a curve and a straight line. Experimental results show that the designed circuit can accurately measure the synchronization time difference and the IMU period, and can effectively solve the data synchronization in IMU/GPS integration. Furthermore, the IMU/GPS integrated measurement system based on the synchronization circuit can measure and calculate many vehicle motion parameters in high frequency mode.展开更多
The security-related problem during the data exchange is not considered in the SyncML protocol. To solve this problem, SyncML is enhanced with a secure data synchronization exchange service application program interfa...The security-related problem during the data exchange is not considered in the SyncML protocol. To solve this problem, SyncML is enhanced with a secure data synchronization exchange service application program interface (SDSXS-API) to ensure the reliability, the integrity, and the security in the data transmission and exchange. The design and the implementation of SDSXS-API are also given. The proposed APIs can be conveniently used as a uniform exchange interface for any related application programs. And their effectiveness is verified in the prototype mobile database system.展开更多
A 2.5Gb/s/ch data recovery (DR) circuit is designed for an SFI-5 interface. To make the parallel data bit-synchronization and reduce the bit error rate (BER) ,a delay locked loop (DLL) is used to place the cente...A 2.5Gb/s/ch data recovery (DR) circuit is designed for an SFI-5 interface. To make the parallel data bit-synchronization and reduce the bit error rate (BER) ,a delay locked loop (DLL) is used to place the center of the data eye exactly at the rising edge of the data-sampling clock. A single channel DR circuit was fabricated in TSMC's standard 0. 18μm CMOS process. The chip area is 0. 46mm^2. With a 2^32 - 1 pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) input,the RMS jitter of the recovered 2.5Gb/s data is 3.3ps. The sensitivity of the single channel DR is less than 20mV with 10-12 BER.展开更多
In order to reduce amount of data storage and improve processing capacity of the system, this paper proposes a new classification method of data source by combining phase synchronization model in network clusteri...In order to reduce amount of data storage and improve processing capacity of the system, this paper proposes a new classification method of data source by combining phase synchronization model in network clustering with cloud model. Firstly, taking data source as a complex network, after the topography of network is obtained, the cloud model of each node data is determined by fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Secondly, by calculating expectation, entropy and hyper entropy of the cloud model, comprehensive coupling strength is got and then it is regarded as the edge weight of topography. Finally, distribution curve is obtained by iterating the phase of each node by means of phase synchronization model. Thus classification of data source is completed. This method can not only provide convenience for storage, cleaning and compression of data, but also improve the efficiency of data analysis.展开更多
Considering the increasing use of information technology with established standards, such as TCP/IP and XML in modem industrial automation, we present a high cost performance solution with FPGA (field programmable ga...Considering the increasing use of information technology with established standards, such as TCP/IP and XML in modem industrial automation, we present a high cost performance solution with FPGA (field programmable gate array) implementation of a novel reliable real-time data transfer system based on EPA (Ethemet for plant automation) protocol and IEEE 1588 standard. This combination can provide more predictable and real-time communication between automation equipments and precise synchronization between devices. The designed EPA system has been verified on Xilinx Spartan3 XC3S1500 and it consumed 75% of the total slices. The experimental results show that the novel industrial control system achieves high synchronization precision and provides a 1.59-ps standard deviation between the master device and the slave ones. Such a real-time data transfer system is an excellent candidate for automation equipments which require precise synchronization based on Ethemet at a comparatively low price.展开更多
Based on the analysis of the development of GIS technology and application,this paper brought forward the concept of CoGIS, namely Cooperative GIS. CoGIS is GIS facinggroup-users and supporting human-human interaction...Based on the analysis of the development of GIS technology and application,this paper brought forward the concept of CoGIS, namely Cooperative GIS. CoGIS is GIS facinggroup-users and supporting human-human interaction, which makes it differ from the former GISs.Then, the characteristics of general Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW) applications and thecomplexity of Geographic Information Science were analyzed, and the conclusion that CoGIS was not asimple GIS layer on CSCW was reached. Further, this paper gave the hierarchical architecture ofCoGIS, and analyzed the cooperative platform in detail from the following: 1) basic elements; 2)collaboration patterns; 3) cooperation control mechanism; 4) synchronization mechanism; 5) securityand 6) group communication and so on. With those, the problems about GIS applications are discussed,such as 1) distributed multi-source GIS information and knowledge sharing platform; 2) the fusionand visualization of GIS information; 3) virtual reality cooperative modeling; 4) dynamicsimulation; 5) expert system and 6) decision-making. Finally, this paper analyzed CoGIS applicationmode in brief.展开更多
In this work,an old scanning electron microscope(SEM)is refurbished to enhance its image processing capability.How to digitally sample and process an analog image is also presented.An NI PCI-6259 multiple input/output...In this work,an old scanning electron microscope(SEM)is refurbished to enhance its image processing capability.How to digitally sample and process an analog image is also presented.An NI PCI-6259 multiple input/output data acquisition(DAQ)board is used to acquire signals originally being sent to an analog display,and then convert the signals into a digital image.Two output channels are used for raster scan of the horizontal and verticle axes of the image buffer,while one input channel is used to read the brightness signals at various coordinate points.Synchronous method is used to maximize the DAQ speed.Finally,the digitally buffered images are read out to display and saved in a hard drive.The hardware and software designs of this work are explained in great detail,which can serve as a very good example for fast synchronous DAQ,advanced virtual instrument design and structural driver programming with LabVIEW.展开更多
Radio frequency identification(RFID) is a new type of non-contact automatic identification technology.Due to its low energy consumption,low cost,and its adaptability to harsh environments,it has been applied to many f...Radio frequency identification(RFID) is a new type of non-contact automatic identification technology.Due to its low energy consumption,low cost,and its adaptability to harsh environments,it has been applied to many fields.In the RFID systems,data collision is inevitable when the reader sends a communication request and multiple tags respond with simultaneous data transmission.Data collision is prone to causing problems such as:identification delay,spectrum resource waste,a decreased system throughput rate,etc.Therefore,an efficient,stable anti-collision protocol is crucial for RFID systems.This research analysed the current research into RFID anticollision protocols and summarised means for its improvement through the mechanism of implementation of different types anticollision protocols.Finally,a new direction is proposed for the future development of RFID anti-collision protocol systems.展开更多
Structure and working theory of VOD system on teaching is discussed in this paper. The 50M data stream adapter is effective to debase the needs for video server and to enhance the ratio of performance to price.The flo...Structure and working theory of VOD system on teaching is discussed in this paper. The 50M data stream adapter is effective to debase the needs for video server and to enhance the ratio of performance to price.The flow chart for NVOD/TVOD is displayed and a 64-channel VOD system for teaching was construted.展开更多
According to the different equipment, different system and heterogeneous database have be information "isolated island" problem, and the data of equipments can be updated in real time on the business node. The paper...According to the different equipment, different system and heterogeneous database have be information "isolated island" problem, and the data of equipments can be updated in real time on the business node. The paper proposes a program of data synchronization platform based on J2EE (JMS) and XML, and detailed analysis and description of the workflow system, its frame structure and the key technology. Practice shows that this scheme has the advantages of convenient and real-time etc..展开更多
Aiming at solving the problems such as time consuming and application limiting presented in the existing synchronous cooperative spectrum sensing schemes,a triggered asynchronous scheme based on Dempster-Shafer(D-S) t...Aiming at solving the problems such as time consuming and application limiting presented in the existing synchronous cooperative spectrum sensing schemes,a triggered asynchronous scheme based on Dempster-Shafer(D-S) theory was proposed.Sensing asynchronously,each cognitive user calculated the confidence measure functions with double threshold spectrum sensing method.When the useful report was received by the fusion center,a fusion process would be triggered.Then the sensing results were fused together based on D-S theory.The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve the spectrum sensing efficiency and reduce the calculation amount of the fusion center compared with the existing schemes.展开更多
Data deduplication, as a compression method, has been widely used in most backup systems to improve bandwidth and space efficiency. As data exploded to be backed up, two main challenges in data deduplication are the C...Data deduplication, as a compression method, has been widely used in most backup systems to improve bandwidth and space efficiency. As data exploded to be backed up, two main challenges in data deduplication are the CPU-intensive chunking and hashing works and the I/0 intensive disk-index access latency. However, CPU-intensive works have been vastly parallelized and speeded up by multi-core and many-core processors; the I/0 latency is likely becoming the bottleneck in data deduplication. To alleviate the challenge of I/0 latency in multi-core systems, multi-threaded deduplication (Multi-Dedup) architecture was proposed. The main idea of Multi-Dedup was using parallel deduplication threads to hide the I/0 latency. A prefix based concurrent index was designed to maintain the internal consistency of the deduplication index with low synchronization overhead. On the other hand, a collisionless cache array was also designed to preserve locality and similarity within the parallel threads. In various real-world datasets experiments, Multi-Dedup achieves 3-5 times performance improvements incorporating with locality-based ChunkStash and local-similarity based SiLo methods. In addition, Multi-Dedup has dramatically decreased the synchronization overhead and achieves 1.5-2 times performance improvements comparing to traditional lock-based synchronization methods.展开更多
Based on a generalized chaos synchronization system and a discrete Sinai map, a non-symmetric true color (RGB) digital image secure communication scheme is proposed. The scheme first changes an ordinary RGB digital ...Based on a generalized chaos synchronization system and a discrete Sinai map, a non-symmetric true color (RGB) digital image secure communication scheme is proposed. The scheme first changes an ordinary RGB digital image with 8 bits into unrecognizable disorder codes and then transforms the disorder codes into an RGB digital image with 16 bits for transmitting. A receiver uses a non-symmetric key to verify the authentication of the received data origin, and decrypts the ciphertext. The scheme can encrypt and decz:Fpt most formatted digital RGB images recognized by computers, and recover the plaintext almost without any errors. The scheme is suitable to be applied in network image communications. The analysis of the key space, sensitivity of key parameters, and correlation of encrypted images imply that this scheme has sound security.展开更多
This study investigated the factors affecting the English language learning of students in SL (synchronous) and ASL (asynchronous) e-learning. The subjects were 102 undergraduate students at Bang Khen and Kamphaen...This study investigated the factors affecting the English language learning of students in SL (synchronous) and ASL (asynchronous) e-learning. The subjects were 102 undergraduate students at Bang Khen and Kamphaengsaen Campus, Kasetsart University. Before the experiment, the subjects answered an online questionnaire adopted from Reid (1998) to measure their perceptual learning style preferences. Then, they were grouped according to their English grades and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups. Each group was given learning tasks requiring different cognitive strategies. The two groups received two treatments with SL and ASL simultaneously. After each treatment, both groups were tested. They were given a questionnaire at the end of the treatments to retrieve their opinions, Data from both tests were analyzed using 2 ~ 2 factorial ANOVA repeated measures. The results showed no significant difference between the two tasks and no interaction effect among types of tasks and SL and ASL. However, a significant difference was found between SL and ASL. The results of the survey showed that the subjects preferred ASL which was in contrast to the results from statistical analyses. The learning style preferences of the two experiment groups were not different; therefore, they were not the factors in the analysis展开更多
In recent years the variety and complexity of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, the nodes and the functions they are expected to perform have increased immensely. This poses the question of reducing the ti...In recent years the variety and complexity of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, the nodes and the functions they are expected to perform have increased immensely. This poses the question of reducing the time from initial design of WSN applications to their implementation as a major research topic. RF communication programs for WSN nodes are generally written on microcontroller units (MCUs) for universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) data communication, however nowadays radio frequency (RF) designs based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) have emerged as a very powerful alternative, due to their parallel data processing ability and software reconfigurability. In this paper, the authors present a prototype of a flexible multi-node transceiver and monitoring system. The prototype is designed for time-critical applications and can be also reconfigured for other applications like event tracking. The processing power of FPGA is combined with a simple communication protocol. The system consists of three major parts: wireless nodes, the FPGA and display used for visualization of data processing. The transmission protocol is based on preamble and synchronous data transmission, where the receiver adjusts the receiving baud rate in the range from min. 300 to max. 2400 bps. The most important contribution of this work is using the virtual PicoBlaze Soft-Core Processor for controlling the data transmission through the RF modules. The proposed system has been evaluated based on logic utilization, in terms of the number of slice flip flops, the number of 4 input LUTs (Look-Up Tables) and the number of bonded lOBs (Input Output Blocks). The results for capacity usage are very promising as compared to other similar research.展开更多
This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures"...This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures". Due to difficulties in pixel-by-pixel observations of trigger factors, as one of the measures, the authors had proposed an inverse analysis algorithm on trigger factors based on SEM (structural equation modeling). Through a measurement equation, the trigger factor is inversely estimated, and a TFI (trigger factor influence) map can be also produced. As a subsequence subject, a purification procedure of training data set should be constructed to improve the accuracy of TFI map which depends on the representativeness of given training data sets of different types of slope failures. The proposed procedure resamples the matched pixels between original groups of past slope failures (i.e., surface slope failures, deep-seated slope failures, landslides) and classified three groups by K-means clustering for all pixels corresponding to those slope failures. For all cases of three types of slope failures, the improvement of success rates with respect to resampled training data sets was confirmed. As a final outcome, the differences between TFI maps produced by using original and resampled training data sets, respectively, are delineated on a DIF map (difference map) which is useful for analyzing trigger factor influence in terms of "risky- and safe-side assessment" sub-areas with respect to "different types of simultaneous slope failures".展开更多
文摘To realize the data synchronization between the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the global positioning system (GPS), the synchronization technology in the IMU/GPS integrated measurement system of vehicle motion parameters is studied. According to the characteristics of the output signals of the IMU and the GPS, without the IMU synchronization signal, the synchronization circuit based on CPLD is designed and developed, which need not alter the configurations of the IMU and GPS. Experiments of measuring vehicle motion parameters, which rely on the synchronization circuit to realize IMU/GPS data synchronization, are made. The driving routes in experiments comprise a curve and a straight line. Experimental results show that the designed circuit can accurately measure the synchronization time difference and the IMU period, and can effectively solve the data synchronization in IMU/GPS integration. Furthermore, the IMU/GPS integrated measurement system based on the synchronization circuit can measure and calculate many vehicle motion parameters in high frequency mode.
文摘The security-related problem during the data exchange is not considered in the SyncML protocol. To solve this problem, SyncML is enhanced with a secure data synchronization exchange service application program interface (SDSXS-API) to ensure the reliability, the integrity, and the security in the data transmission and exchange. The design and the implementation of SDSXS-API are also given. The proposed APIs can be conveniently used as a uniform exchange interface for any related application programs. And their effectiveness is verified in the prototype mobile database system.
文摘A 2.5Gb/s/ch data recovery (DR) circuit is designed for an SFI-5 interface. To make the parallel data bit-synchronization and reduce the bit error rate (BER) ,a delay locked loop (DLL) is used to place the center of the data eye exactly at the rising edge of the data-sampling clock. A single channel DR circuit was fabricated in TSMC's standard 0. 18μm CMOS process. The chip area is 0. 46mm^2. With a 2^32 - 1 pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) input,the RMS jitter of the recovered 2.5Gb/s data is 3.3ps. The sensitivity of the single channel DR is less than 20mV with 10-12 BER.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61171057,No.61503345)Science Foundation for North University of China(No.110246)+1 种基金Specialized Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20121420110004)International Office of Shanxi Province Education Department of China,and Basic Research Project in Shanxi Province(Young Foundation)
文摘In order to reduce amount of data storage and improve processing capacity of the system, this paper proposes a new classification method of data source by combining phase synchronization model in network clustering with cloud model. Firstly, taking data source as a complex network, after the topography of network is obtained, the cloud model of each node data is determined by fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Secondly, by calculating expectation, entropy and hyper entropy of the cloud model, comprehensive coupling strength is got and then it is regarded as the edge weight of topography. Finally, distribution curve is obtained by iterating the phase of each node by means of phase synchronization model. Thus classification of data source is completed. This method can not only provide convenience for storage, cleaning and compression of data, but also improve the efficiency of data analysis.
文摘Considering the increasing use of information technology with established standards, such as TCP/IP and XML in modem industrial automation, we present a high cost performance solution with FPGA (field programmable gate array) implementation of a novel reliable real-time data transfer system based on EPA (Ethemet for plant automation) protocol and IEEE 1588 standard. This combination can provide more predictable and real-time communication between automation equipments and precise synchronization between devices. The designed EPA system has been verified on Xilinx Spartan3 XC3S1500 and it consumed 75% of the total slices. The experimental results show that the novel industrial control system achieves high synchronization precision and provides a 1.59-ps standard deviation between the master device and the slave ones. Such a real-time data transfer system is an excellent candidate for automation equipments which require precise synchronization based on Ethemet at a comparatively low price.
基金Under the auspices of National High Technology 863 Project of China(No.2001AA136060).
文摘Based on the analysis of the development of GIS technology and application,this paper brought forward the concept of CoGIS, namely Cooperative GIS. CoGIS is GIS facinggroup-users and supporting human-human interaction, which makes it differ from the former GISs.Then, the characteristics of general Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW) applications and thecomplexity of Geographic Information Science were analyzed, and the conclusion that CoGIS was not asimple GIS layer on CSCW was reached. Further, this paper gave the hierarchical architecture ofCoGIS, and analyzed the cooperative platform in detail from the following: 1) basic elements; 2)collaboration patterns; 3) cooperation control mechanism; 4) synchronization mechanism; 5) securityand 6) group communication and so on. With those, the problems about GIS applications are discussed,such as 1) distributed multi-source GIS information and knowledge sharing platform; 2) the fusionand visualization of GIS information; 3) virtual reality cooperative modeling; 4) dynamicsimulation; 5) expert system and 6) decision-making. Finally, this paper analyzed CoGIS applicationmode in brief.
文摘In this work,an old scanning electron microscope(SEM)is refurbished to enhance its image processing capability.How to digitally sample and process an analog image is also presented.An NI PCI-6259 multiple input/output data acquisition(DAQ)board is used to acquire signals originally being sent to an analog display,and then convert the signals into a digital image.Two output channels are used for raster scan of the horizontal and verticle axes of the image buffer,while one input channel is used to read the brightness signals at various coordinate points.Synchronous method is used to maximize the DAQ speed.Finally,the digitally buffered images are read out to display and saved in a hard drive.The hardware and software designs of this work are explained in great detail,which can serve as a very good example for fast synchronous DAQ,advanced virtual instrument design and structural driver programming with LabVIEW.
基金The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their detailed reviews and constructive comments, which have helped improve the quality of this paper. This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Founda- tion of China (No. 61371092), the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (No.20130061120062), and the China Postdoc- toral Science Foundation (No. 2014M551184).
文摘Radio frequency identification(RFID) is a new type of non-contact automatic identification technology.Due to its low energy consumption,low cost,and its adaptability to harsh environments,it has been applied to many fields.In the RFID systems,data collision is inevitable when the reader sends a communication request and multiple tags respond with simultaneous data transmission.Data collision is prone to causing problems such as:identification delay,spectrum resource waste,a decreased system throughput rate,etc.Therefore,an efficient,stable anti-collision protocol is crucial for RFID systems.This research analysed the current research into RFID anticollision protocols and summarised means for its improvement through the mechanism of implementation of different types anticollision protocols.Finally,a new direction is proposed for the future development of RFID anti-collision protocol systems.
文摘Structure and working theory of VOD system on teaching is discussed in this paper. The 50M data stream adapter is effective to debase the needs for video server and to enhance the ratio of performance to price.The flow chart for NVOD/TVOD is displayed and a 64-channel VOD system for teaching was construted.
文摘According to the different equipment, different system and heterogeneous database have be information "isolated island" problem, and the data of equipments can be updated in real time on the business node. The paper proposes a program of data synchronization platform based on J2EE (JMS) and XML, and detailed analysis and description of the workflow system, its frame structure and the key technology. Practice shows that this scheme has the advantages of convenient and real-time etc..
基金Science and Technology Projects of Xuzhou City,China(No.XX10A001)Jiangsu Provincial National Natural Science Foundation of China(No:BK20130199)
文摘Aiming at solving the problems such as time consuming and application limiting presented in the existing synchronous cooperative spectrum sensing schemes,a triggered asynchronous scheme based on Dempster-Shafer(D-S) theory was proposed.Sensing asynchronously,each cognitive user calculated the confidence measure functions with double threshold spectrum sensing method.When the useful report was received by the fusion center,a fusion process would be triggered.Then the sensing results were fused together based on D-S theory.The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve the spectrum sensing efficiency and reduce the calculation amount of the fusion center compared with the existing schemes.
基金Project(IRT0725)supported by the Changjiang Innovative Group of Ministry of Education,China
文摘Data deduplication, as a compression method, has been widely used in most backup systems to improve bandwidth and space efficiency. As data exploded to be backed up, two main challenges in data deduplication are the CPU-intensive chunking and hashing works and the I/0 intensive disk-index access latency. However, CPU-intensive works have been vastly parallelized and speeded up by multi-core and many-core processors; the I/0 latency is likely becoming the bottleneck in data deduplication. To alleviate the challenge of I/0 latency in multi-core systems, multi-threaded deduplication (Multi-Dedup) architecture was proposed. The main idea of Multi-Dedup was using parallel deduplication threads to hide the I/0 latency. A prefix based concurrent index was designed to maintain the internal consistency of the deduplication index with low synchronization overhead. On the other hand, a collisionless cache array was also designed to preserve locality and similarity within the parallel threads. In various real-world datasets experiments, Multi-Dedup achieves 3-5 times performance improvements incorporating with locality-based ChunkStash and local-similarity based SiLo methods. In addition, Multi-Dedup has dramatically decreased the synchronization overhead and achieves 1.5-2 times performance improvements comparing to traditional lock-based synchronization methods.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under,the Foundation for University Key Teachers,高等学校博士学科点专项科研项目,教育部科学技术研究项目
文摘Based on a generalized chaos synchronization system and a discrete Sinai map, a non-symmetric true color (RGB) digital image secure communication scheme is proposed. The scheme first changes an ordinary RGB digital image with 8 bits into unrecognizable disorder codes and then transforms the disorder codes into an RGB digital image with 16 bits for transmitting. A receiver uses a non-symmetric key to verify the authentication of the received data origin, and decrypts the ciphertext. The scheme can encrypt and decz:Fpt most formatted digital RGB images recognized by computers, and recover the plaintext almost without any errors. The scheme is suitable to be applied in network image communications. The analysis of the key space, sensitivity of key parameters, and correlation of encrypted images imply that this scheme has sound security.
文摘This study investigated the factors affecting the English language learning of students in SL (synchronous) and ASL (asynchronous) e-learning. The subjects were 102 undergraduate students at Bang Khen and Kamphaengsaen Campus, Kasetsart University. Before the experiment, the subjects answered an online questionnaire adopted from Reid (1998) to measure their perceptual learning style preferences. Then, they were grouped according to their English grades and were randomly assigned to two experimental groups. Each group was given learning tasks requiring different cognitive strategies. The two groups received two treatments with SL and ASL simultaneously. After each treatment, both groups were tested. They were given a questionnaire at the end of the treatments to retrieve their opinions, Data from both tests were analyzed using 2 ~ 2 factorial ANOVA repeated measures. The results showed no significant difference between the two tasks and no interaction effect among types of tasks and SL and ASL. However, a significant difference was found between SL and ASL. The results of the survey showed that the subjects preferred ASL which was in contrast to the results from statistical analyses. The learning style preferences of the two experiment groups were not different; therefore, they were not the factors in the analysis
文摘In recent years the variety and complexity of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, the nodes and the functions they are expected to perform have increased immensely. This poses the question of reducing the time from initial design of WSN applications to their implementation as a major research topic. RF communication programs for WSN nodes are generally written on microcontroller units (MCUs) for universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) data communication, however nowadays radio frequency (RF) designs based on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) have emerged as a very powerful alternative, due to their parallel data processing ability and software reconfigurability. In this paper, the authors present a prototype of a flexible multi-node transceiver and monitoring system. The prototype is designed for time-critical applications and can be also reconfigured for other applications like event tracking. The processing power of FPGA is combined with a simple communication protocol. The system consists of three major parts: wireless nodes, the FPGA and display used for visualization of data processing. The transmission protocol is based on preamble and synchronous data transmission, where the receiver adjusts the receiving baud rate in the range from min. 300 to max. 2400 bps. The most important contribution of this work is using the virtual PicoBlaze Soft-Core Processor for controlling the data transmission through the RF modules. The proposed system has been evaluated based on logic utilization, in terms of the number of slice flip flops, the number of 4 input LUTs (Look-Up Tables) and the number of bonded lOBs (Input Output Blocks). The results for capacity usage are very promising as compared to other similar research.
文摘This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures". Due to difficulties in pixel-by-pixel observations of trigger factors, as one of the measures, the authors had proposed an inverse analysis algorithm on trigger factors based on SEM (structural equation modeling). Through a measurement equation, the trigger factor is inversely estimated, and a TFI (trigger factor influence) map can be also produced. As a subsequence subject, a purification procedure of training data set should be constructed to improve the accuracy of TFI map which depends on the representativeness of given training data sets of different types of slope failures. The proposed procedure resamples the matched pixels between original groups of past slope failures (i.e., surface slope failures, deep-seated slope failures, landslides) and classified three groups by K-means clustering for all pixels corresponding to those slope failures. For all cases of three types of slope failures, the improvement of success rates with respect to resampled training data sets was confirmed. As a final outcome, the differences between TFI maps produced by using original and resampled training data sets, respectively, are delineated on a DIF map (difference map) which is useful for analyzing trigger factor influence in terms of "risky- and safe-side assessment" sub-areas with respect to "different types of simultaneous slope failures".