This paper explores the convergence of a class of optimally conditioned self scaling variable metric (OCSSVM) methods for unconstrained optimization. We show that this class of methods with Wolfe line search are glob...This paper explores the convergence of a class of optimally conditioned self scaling variable metric (OCSSVM) methods for unconstrained optimization. We show that this class of methods with Wolfe line search are globally convergent for general convex functions.展开更多
In order to evaluate the efficiency of the automated storage/retrieval system(AS/RS)accurately,and compare different layouts of the AS/RS using mean travel time,under randomized storage conditions,an exact,geometry-ba...In order to evaluate the efficiency of the automated storage/retrieval system(AS/RS)accurately,and compare different layouts of the AS/RS using mean travel time,under randomized storage conditions,an exact,geometry-based analytical model is presented.The model can be used to compute the expected single-command and dual-command travel time for a storage/retrieval(S/R)machine which can travel simultaneously horizontally and vertically as it moves along a storage aisle.The rack may be either square in time or non square in time.Additionally,the alternative layouts of the AS/RS and travel-time models are examined.Comparing with setting the I/O point at the left-lower corner of the rack,setting the I/O point at any point at the vertical edge can help enhance the efficiency of the AS/RS.展开更多
Dried ground leaves of Psidium guajava L. (guava) were extracted by water and aqueous ethyl alcohol 50% (1:10) ratio, and the total phenolic content in the extracts was determined spectrophotometrically according to ...Dried ground leaves of Psidium guajava L. (guava) were extracted by water and aqueous ethyl alcohol 50% (1:10) ratio, and the total phenolic content in the extracts was determined spectrophotometrically according to Folin- Ciocalteu’s phenol method and calculated as gallic acid equivalent (GAE). Remarkably high total phenolic content 575.3 ±15.5 and 511.6±6.2 mg of GAE/g of dried weight material (for ethanol guava leaf extracts and water guava leaf extracts, respectively) were obtained. The antioxidant activity of lyophilized extracts was determined at ambient temperature by means of a 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydryzyl (DPPH˙) colorimetry with detection scheme at 515 nm. The activity was evalu- ated by the decrease in absorbance as the result of DPPH˙ color change from purple to yellow. The higher the sample concentration used, the stronger was the free radical-scavenging effect. The results obtained showed that ascorbic acid was a substantially more powerful antioxidant than the extracts from guava leaf. On the other hand, the commercial guava leaf extracts and ethanol guava leaf extracts showed almost the same antioxidant power whereas water guava leaf extracts showed lower antioxidant activity. The parameter EC50 and the time needed to reach the steady state to EC50 concentration ( TEC50 ) affected the antiradical capacity of the sample. The antioxidant efficiency (AE) has been shown to be a more ade- quate parameter for selecting antioxidants than the widely used EC50. This study revealed that guava leaf extracts comprise effective potential source of natural antioxidants.展开更多
With its rapid development in the wireless markets, IEEE 802.11 WLAN is experiencing a huge popularity. However, due to the limitation of frequency bandwidth of WLANs, it is essential that the available radio resource...With its rapid development in the wireless markets, IEEE 802.11 WLAN is experiencing a huge popularity. However, due to the limitation of frequency bandwidth of WLANs, it is essential that the available radio resource should be fully utilized to offer different services to multiple users. In order to maximize system throughput while still guaranteeing the fairness among users, a proportional fairness based algorithm is proposed in this work. Since most of the previous resource allocation algorithms were simply based on the channel conditions without taking into account user's demand, in this paper, we introduce the theory of fuzzy synthetic evaluation(FSE) which also allows us to consider user's demand as an important factor. As such, the fairness among users can be improved based on different users' requirements for services. In addition, a channel state information based rate adaptation scheme is also proposed. Through simulation studies, the results clearly validate that our proposed scheme shows advantages on providing user fairness while still improving the system throughput.展开更多
In order to improve the effectiveness of traditional time domain identification methods in identifying damping ratios, a new damping ratio identification method based on pattern search is proposed by fluctuating the r...In order to improve the effectiveness of traditional time domain identification methods in identifying damping ratios, a new damping ratio identification method based on pattern search is proposed by fluctuating the reliable natural frequency obtained through traditional time domain identification methods by about 10% to build the boundary conditions, using all the initial identification results to establish the free decay response of the system, and using the pattern search method to correct the initial identification results with the residual sum of squares between the free decay response and the actually measured free-decay signal as the objective function. The proposed method deals with the actually measured free-decay signal with curve fitting and avoids enlarging the identified error caused by intermediate conversion, so it can effectively improve the identified accuracy of damping ratios. Simulations for a room-sized vibration isolation foundation show that the relative errors of analyzed three damping ratios are down to 1.05%, 1.51% and 3.7% by the proposed method from 8.42%, 5.85% and 8.5% by STD method when the noise level is 10%.展开更多
A novel compression method for mechanical vibrating signals,binding with sub-band vector quantization(SVQ) by wavelet packet transformation(WPT) and discrete cosine transformation(DCT) is proposed.Firstly,the vibratin...A novel compression method for mechanical vibrating signals,binding with sub-band vector quantization(SVQ) by wavelet packet transformation(WPT) and discrete cosine transformation(DCT) is proposed.Firstly,the vibrating signal is decomposed into sub-bands by WPT.Then DCT and adaptive bit allocation are done per sub-band and SVQ is performed in each sub-band.It is noted that,after DCT,we only need to code the first components whose numbers are determined by the bits allocated to that sub-band.Through an actual signal,our algorithm is proven to improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) of the reconstructed signal effectively,especially in the situation of lowrate transmission.展开更多
This paper proposed a modified artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for mobile robots in complex environments.The basic AP method tends to cause oscillations in the presence of obsta...This paper proposed a modified artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for mobile robots in complex environments.The basic AP method tends to cause oscillations in the presence of obstacles and in narrow passages,which can result in time consumption.To alleviate oscillation,we modified the AP method using the Levenbery-Marquardt(LM)algorithm.In the modified AP method,we altered the original directions of AP forces to the Newton direction,and adjust the parameter by the LM algorithm.A series of comparative experimental results show that the modified AP method can achieve smoother trajectories with less time consumption.This demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed approach.展开更多
Dynamic simulation is one of the most complex and important computations for power systems researches.Traditional solutions based on normal Newton iterations almost all depend on evaluations of Jacobian matrixes,which...Dynamic simulation is one of the most complex and important computations for power systems researches.Traditional solutions based on normal Newton iterations almost all depend on evaluations of Jacobian matrixes,which increases the programming complexity of and limits the parallelizability of the whole simulation.In this paper,a new adaptive preconditioned Jacobian-free Newton-GMRES(m)method is proposed to be applied to dynamic simulations of power systems.This new method has totally Jacobian-free characteristics,which saves calculations and storages of Jacobian matrixes and features strong parallelizability.Moreover,several speedup strategies are introduced to enhance efficiency and parallelizability of overall computations.Numerical tests are carried out on IEEE standard test systems and results show that in series computing environment,simulations based on the proposed method have comparable speed to those based on classical Newton-Raphson methods.展开更多
文摘This paper explores the convergence of a class of optimally conditioned self scaling variable metric (OCSSVM) methods for unconstrained optimization. We show that this class of methods with Wolfe line search are globally convergent for general convex functions.
基金The National Key Technology R&D Program of China during the 11th Five-Year Plan Period(No.2006BAH02A06)
文摘In order to evaluate the efficiency of the automated storage/retrieval system(AS/RS)accurately,and compare different layouts of the AS/RS using mean travel time,under randomized storage conditions,an exact,geometry-based analytical model is presented.The model can be used to compute the expected single-command and dual-command travel time for a storage/retrieval(S/R)machine which can travel simultaneously horizontally and vertically as it moves along a storage aisle.The rack may be either square in time or non square in time.Additionally,the alternative layouts of the AS/RS and travel-time models are examined.Comparing with setting the I/O point at the left-lower corner of the rack,setting the I/O point at any point at the vertical edge can help enhance the efficiency of the AS/RS.
文摘Dried ground leaves of Psidium guajava L. (guava) were extracted by water and aqueous ethyl alcohol 50% (1:10) ratio, and the total phenolic content in the extracts was determined spectrophotometrically according to Folin- Ciocalteu’s phenol method and calculated as gallic acid equivalent (GAE). Remarkably high total phenolic content 575.3 ±15.5 and 511.6±6.2 mg of GAE/g of dried weight material (for ethanol guava leaf extracts and water guava leaf extracts, respectively) were obtained. The antioxidant activity of lyophilized extracts was determined at ambient temperature by means of a 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydryzyl (DPPH˙) colorimetry with detection scheme at 515 nm. The activity was evalu- ated by the decrease in absorbance as the result of DPPH˙ color change from purple to yellow. The higher the sample concentration used, the stronger was the free radical-scavenging effect. The results obtained showed that ascorbic acid was a substantially more powerful antioxidant than the extracts from guava leaf. On the other hand, the commercial guava leaf extracts and ethanol guava leaf extracts showed almost the same antioxidant power whereas water guava leaf extracts showed lower antioxidant activity. The parameter EC50 and the time needed to reach the steady state to EC50 concentration ( TEC50 ) affected the antiradical capacity of the sample. The antioxidant efficiency (AE) has been shown to be a more ade- quate parameter for selecting antioxidants than the widely used EC50. This study revealed that guava leaf extracts comprise effective potential source of natural antioxidants.
基金partially supported by the Academy of Finland (Decision No. 284748, 288473)
文摘With its rapid development in the wireless markets, IEEE 802.11 WLAN is experiencing a huge popularity. However, due to the limitation of frequency bandwidth of WLANs, it is essential that the available radio resource should be fully utilized to offer different services to multiple users. In order to maximize system throughput while still guaranteeing the fairness among users, a proportional fairness based algorithm is proposed in this work. Since most of the previous resource allocation algorithms were simply based on the channel conditions without taking into account user's demand, in this paper, we introduce the theory of fuzzy synthetic evaluation(FSE) which also allows us to consider user's demand as an important factor. As such, the fairness among users can be improved based on different users' requirements for services. In addition, a channel state information based rate adaptation scheme is also proposed. Through simulation studies, the results clearly validate that our proposed scheme shows advantages on providing user fairness while still improving the system throughput.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.50675052)
文摘In order to improve the effectiveness of traditional time domain identification methods in identifying damping ratios, a new damping ratio identification method based on pattern search is proposed by fluctuating the reliable natural frequency obtained through traditional time domain identification methods by about 10% to build the boundary conditions, using all the initial identification results to establish the free decay response of the system, and using the pattern search method to correct the initial identification results with the residual sum of squares between the free decay response and the actually measured free-decay signal as the objective function. The proposed method deals with the actually measured free-decay signal with curve fitting and avoids enlarging the identified error caused by intermediate conversion, so it can effectively improve the identified accuracy of damping ratios. Simulations for a room-sized vibration isolation foundation show that the relative errors of analyzed three damping ratios are down to 1.05%, 1.51% and 3.7% by the proposed method from 8.42%, 5.85% and 8.5% by STD method when the noise level is 10%.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51135001)
文摘A novel compression method for mechanical vibrating signals,binding with sub-band vector quantization(SVQ) by wavelet packet transformation(WPT) and discrete cosine transformation(DCT) is proposed.Firstly,the vibrating signal is decomposed into sub-bands by WPT.Then DCT and adaptive bit allocation are done per sub-band and SVQ is performed in each sub-band.It is noted that,after DCT,we only need to code the first components whose numbers are determined by the bits allocated to that sub-band.Through an actual signal,our algorithm is proven to improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) of the reconstructed signal effectively,especially in the situation of lowrate transmission.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61273054 and 61333004)the National Key Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2014CB046401)+2 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China(Grant No.NCET-10-0021)the Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China,Graduate Innovation Foundation for Beihang University(Grant No.YCSJ-01-201206)Aeronautical Foundation of China(Grant No.20135851042)
文摘This paper proposed a modified artificial physics(AP)method to solve the autonomous navigation problem for mobile robots in complex environments.The basic AP method tends to cause oscillations in the presence of obstacles and in narrow passages,which can result in time consumption.To alleviate oscillation,we modified the AP method using the Levenbery-Marquardt(LM)algorithm.In the modified AP method,we altered the original directions of AP forces to the Newton direction,and adjust the parameter by the LM algorithm.A series of comparative experimental results show that the modified AP method can achieve smoother trajectories with less time consumption.This demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed approach.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51277104 and 51207076)the National High-Tech Research & Development Program of China ("863" Program) (Grant No.2012AA050217)+1 种基金the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No.2012M510441)Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (Grant No. 20121087926)
文摘Dynamic simulation is one of the most complex and important computations for power systems researches.Traditional solutions based on normal Newton iterations almost all depend on evaluations of Jacobian matrixes,which increases the programming complexity of and limits the parallelizability of the whole simulation.In this paper,a new adaptive preconditioned Jacobian-free Newton-GMRES(m)method is proposed to be applied to dynamic simulations of power systems.This new method has totally Jacobian-free characteristics,which saves calculations and storages of Jacobian matrixes and features strong parallelizability.Moreover,several speedup strategies are introduced to enhance efficiency and parallelizability of overall computations.Numerical tests are carried out on IEEE standard test systems and results show that in series computing environment,simulations based on the proposed method have comparable speed to those based on classical Newton-Raphson methods.