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Control Engineering Practice, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2011, Page IFC
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Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Volume 5, Issue 3, August 2011, Page IFC
| | | | 4. | Fire-rule-based direct adaptive type-2 fuzzy H∞ tracking control Original Research Article
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 July 2011
Yongping Pan, Meng Joo Er, Daoping Huang, Qinruo Wang
Highlights► We give a modified tracking error to eliminate the high control input gain. ► We remove the assumption that the control gain must be known. ► We give a practical average defuzzifier for the interval type-2 fuzzy logic system.
| | | | 5. | Active dust control and mitigation technology for lunar and Martian exploration Original Research Article
Acta Astronautica, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 1 July 2011
C.I. Calle, C.R. Buhler, M.R. Johansen, M.D. Hogue, S.J. Snyder
Highlights► The dusty lunar and Martian environment present challenges to exploration missions. ► We describe the development of an active dust mitigation technology as a solution. ► Experiments under simulated Martian and lunar conditions are presented. ► Several applications of the technology are described. ► Data on the performance of the technology is presented.
| | | | 6. | Multi-stage Image Denoising Based on Correlation Coefficient Matching and Sparse Dictionary Pruning Original Research Article
Signal Processing, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 July 2011
Yanmin He, Tao Gan, Wufan Chen, Houjun Wang
Highlights► Effective structure extraction with correlation coefficient matching. ► Dictionary pruning based on noise detection. ► Muti-stage sparse denoising with smooth thresholding. ► State-of-the-art denoising performance in terms of both objective and subjective quality.
| | | | 9. | Risk Evaluation in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis of Aircraft Turbine Rotor Blades Using Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory under Uncertainty Original Research Article
Engineering Failure Analysis, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 June 2011
Jianping Yang, Hong-Zhong Huang, Li-Ping He, Shun-Peng Zhu, Dunwei Wen
Highlights► In this paper, D-S evidence theory is adopted to aggregate the risk evaluation information of multiple experts, which may be inconsistent, imprecise and uncertain. The modified evidence theory is proposed for dealing with different opinions of multiple experts, multiple failure modes and three risk factors in RPN analysis of FEMA of compressor blades of aeroengines. In this method, the simplified discernment frames is provided according to practical engineering application. Meanwhile, the fused three risk factors are regarded as the discrete random variables. Consequently, the RPN is a function of the discrete random variable. The mean value of RPN is used to the risk priority ranking of failure modes. The proposed method is demonstrated by an application of risk priority ranking of failure modes in FEMA of compressor blades of the aeroengine. The different evaluation information of three experts about eight failure modes is aggregated. The mean value of risk priority number is attained. The risk ranking consequence of failure mode is consistent to the practical engineering background.
| | | | 10. | Experimental assessment of the effects of cross-traffic on Wi-Fi video streaming Original Research Article
Measurement, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 June 2011
Leopoldo Angrisani, Konstantinos G. Kyriakopoulos, Aniello Napolitano, David J. Parish, Michele Vadursi, William G. Whittow
Highlights► We exploit cross layer measurements and objective video quality metrics for Wi-Fi video streaming performance. ► We conduct experiments considering Quality-of-Service mechanisms for UDP video streaming. ► No evidence of dependence of the video streaming time on the cross traffic. ► Only with heavy PLR we have significant video quality degradation.
| | | | 13. | Improved Inverse Halftoning Using Vector and Texture– Lookup Table–Based Learning Approach Original Research Article
Expert Systems with Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 June 2011
Yong–Huai Huang, Kuo–Liang Chung, Bi–Ru Dai
Highlights► We build up t a LUT which maps an input halftone pattern to a subimage based on texture classification. ► We propose a Gaussian-based estimation to obtain a gray image by synthesizing the mapped subimages. ► Experimental results demonstrate the quality advantage of the proposed method.
| | | | 14. | Numerical Optimization Using Synergetic Swarms of Foraging Bacterial Populations Original Research Article
Expert Systems with Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 June 2011
Sotirios P. Chatzis, Spyros Koukas
Highlights► A novel variant of bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) is proposed. ► Our algorithm introduces the swarming dynamics of the particle swarm optimization algorithm in the context of BFO. ► This improves the convergence of the BFO bacteria foraging mechanism. ► Our algorithm mitigates the curse-of-dimensionality by utilizing multiple cooperative populations. ► We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on several benchmark optimization problems.
| | | | 16. | Microstructure and mechanical properties of in situ Mg2Si/AZ91D composites through incorporating fly ash cenospheres Original Research Article
Materials & Design, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 June 2011
Zhiqiu Huang, Sirong Yu, Jiaan Liu, Xianyong Zhu
Highlights► In situ Mg2Si phases were formed by adding fly ash cenospheres into AZ91D Mg alloy through direct reaction synthesis (DRS) with compocasting technique. The effect of the isothermal temperatures and time of the slurry on the microstructures and mechanical properties (room temperature and 150°C) of the as-cast samples were investigated.
| | | | 18. | Fiber Optic humidity Sensors for High-Energy Physics Applications at CERN Original Research Article
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 June 2011
M. Consales, A. Buosciolo, Cutolo, G. Breglio, A. Irace, S. Buontempo, P. Petagna, M. Giordano, A. Cusano
| | | | 21. | Energy Optimization of Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors by using Hardware Accelerators in Semicustom ICs Technology Original Research Article
Microprocessors and Microsystems, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 June 2011
Uwe Meyer-Baese, Guillermo Botella, Soumak Mookherjee, Encarnación Castillo, Antonio García
Highlights► We examine design issues of tight couple hardware accelerators in Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors. ► A true vector processor design is developed using the architecture description language LISA. ► Embedded microprocessor design flow to achieve minimum energy consumption is presented. ► FPGA synthesis options for low energy microprocessor designs are compared. ► Cell-based ASIC synthesis results with the goal of minimum energy consumption for DSP task are shown.
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