Predictive Functional Controller with a Similar Proportional Integral Optimal Regulator Structure:Comparison with Traditional Predic-tive Functional Controller and Application to Heavy Oil Coking Equipment

By extending the system's state variables,a novel predictive functional controller has been developed.The structure of this controller is similar to that of classical proportional integral(PI)optimal controller and in-cludes a control block that can perform a feed-forward control of future P-step set points.It considers both the state variables and the output errors in its cost function,which results in enhanced control performance compared with traditional state space predictive functional control(TSSPFC)methods that consider only the predictive output er-rors.The predictive functional controller(PFC)has been compared with TSSPFC in terms of tracking ability,dis-turbance rejection,and also based on its application to heavy oil coking equipment.The results obtained show the effectiveness of the controller.

Interference and Spectral Efficiency Analysis in Two-hop Cellular Network with Fixed Relays in FDD Mode

This paper presented a scheme of two-hop cellular network with fixed relay nodes (FRN). Based on this scheme, co-channel interference and signal interference ratio(SIR) received by base station(BS) and FRN were analyzed. Both the theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the SIR can be improved significantly when relays are employed in the network. The higher spectral efficiency can be obtained due to the improved two-hop link quality through the use of adaptive modulation and coding (AMC). The antenna height of FRN and the cell radius of BS and that of FRN influence SIR received by BS and FRN and the system spectral efficiency greatly. The proper antenna height of FRN and cell radius of BS and that of FRN were also given to get the highest spectral efficiency.

The Energy Balance of the Electro-Hydraulic Linear Actuation System

The variable gas exchange valve actuation systems have been developed in order to improve the efficiency of the combustion process. The electro-hydraulic valve actuation （EHVA） systems have good power to weight ratio, high maximum force and good controllability. The disadvantages are limited frequency bandwidth and energy recovery. Each component of the EHVA system has certain energy consumption, which is characteristic to the component. In this study the power consumptions of the components are investigated by means of the simulation. The investigated components are a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic accumulator, a control valve, and hydraulic lines connecting the components. The pressure losses caused by the oil flow are most significant in the control valves, 50-60% of the total energy consumption. If the stored kinetic energy of the actuator and moving oil masses could be reused, the energy consumption could be up to 25% better.

Colored 3D surface reconstruction using Kinect sensor

A colored 3D surface reconstruction method which effectively fuses the information of both depth and color image using Microsoft Kinect is proposed and demonstrated by experiment.Kinect depth images are processed with the improved joint-bilateral filter based on region segmentation which efficiently combines the depth and color data to improve its quality.The registered depth data are integrated to achieve a surface reconstruction through the colored truncated signed distance fields presented in this paper.Finally,the improved ray casting for rendering full colored surface is implemented to estimate color texture of the reconstruction object.Capturing the depth and color images of a toy car,the improved joint-bilateral filter based on region segmentation is used to improve the quality of depth images and the peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)is approximately 4.57 d B,which is better than 1.16 d B of the joint-bilateral filter.The colored construction results of toy car demonstrate the suitability and ability of the proposed method.

Over 15.5% efficiency organic solar cells with triple sidechain engineered ITIC

Bulk-heterojunction(BHJ)organic solar cells(OSCs)showcase great advantages in device fabrication via low-cost and convenient solution-processing techniques for diverse applications(e.g.,flexible and semitransparent devices)[1,2].