PD-Based Optimal ADRC with Improved Linear Extended State Observer

Taking dead-zone nonlinearlity and external disturbances into account, an active disturbance rejection optimal controller based on a proportional-derivative (PD) control law is proposed by connecting the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), with the purpose of providing an efficient and practical technology, and improving the dynamic and steady-state control performances. Firstly, in order to eliminate the negative effects of the dead-zone, a class of 2-order typical single-input single-out system model is established after compensating the dead-zone. Following that, PD control law is introduced to replace the state error feedback control law in ADRC to simplify the control design. By analyzing the characteristics of the traditional linear extended state observer, an improved linear extended state observer is designed, with the purpose of improving the estimation performance of disturbances. Moreover, employing PSO with a designed objective function to optimize parameters of controller to improve control performance. Finally, ten comparative experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed controller.     

添加共试剂改善聚酰胺复合反渗透膜的性能

将N,N′-二甲基乙酰胺(DMAc)作为共试剂添加在间苯二胺水溶液中参与界面聚合反应, 以改善聚酰胺复合反渗透膜(PA-RO-x, x代表添加DMAc的质量分数)的性能. X射线光电子能谱(XPS)和衰减全反射傅里叶红外光谱(ATR-FTIR)分析表明, 随着DMAc含量的增加, 复合膜结构中交联聚酰胺含量相对于线性羧基部分有所增加; 场发射扫描电子显微镜(FE-SEM)和原子力显微镜(AFM)表征结果显示, 随着DMAc含量的增加, 膜表面的粗糙程度逐渐增大; 静态水接触角测试结果表明, 添加DMAc后, 膜的亲水性增强. 结合上述测试结果发现, 添加DMAc可以有效降低水油两相的不相溶性, 提高水相中间苯二胺向正己烷中扩散的速率, 这有助于加快间苯二胺与均苯三甲酰氯反应; 同时, 聚酰胺结构中交联酰胺含量的增加可以提供更多的氢键位点, 有助于水分子快速渗透通过复合膜而不损失截盐率; 膜表面的粗糙程度变大, 有助于提高水通量. 在2 g/L的氯化钠溶液和1.6 MPa测试压力条件下, PA-RO-5.2(DMAc添加质量分数为5.2%)的渗透通量和截盐率分别为66.1 L/(m²·h)和98.7%, 与未添加DMAc的聚酰胺复合反渗透膜相比, 通量增加115%, 截盐率仅下降0.9%.     

Reduction of the interferences of biochemicals and hematocrit ratio on the determination of whole blood glucose using multiple screen-printed carbon electrode test strips

A practical approach to reduce the interferences of biochemicals and hematocrit ratio (Hct%) in the determination of whole blood glucose using multiple screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) test strips is described. SPCE test strips with and without glucose oxidase [i.e., GOD(+)-SPCEs and GOD(-)-SPCEs] were used and the chronoamperometric currents of test glucose solutions with various spiked uric acid concentrations and Hct% were measured. By establishing the interference relationships between glucose concentrations and uric acid concentrations as well as Hct% values and with appropriate corrections, the whole blood glucose determinations could be made to be more accurate and comparable to those determined by the reference YSI method. Specifically, the use of the ΔI value, i.e., the current difference between GOD(+)-SPCE and GOD(-)-SPCE measurements, would reduce most of the uric acid/biochemical interferences. An interpolation method was also established to correct for the glucose determinations with Hct% interferences. The Hct% corrections using the interpolation method are especially important and necessary for those blood samples with glucose concentrations higher than 110 mg dL^-1 and Hct% values lower than 35%. This approach should also be applicable to other biochemical determinations using similar electrochemical techniques. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Interference modelling, experimental design and pre-concentration steps in validation of the Fenton's reagent for pesticides determination

The determination of atrazine in real samples (commercial pesticide preparations and water matrices) shows how the Fenton's reagent can be used with analytical purposes when kinetic methodology and multivariate calibration methods are applied. Also, binary mixtures of atrazine-alachlor and atrazine-bentazone in pesticide preparations have been resolved. The work shows the way in which interferences and the matrix effect can be modelled. Experimental design has been used to optimize experimental conditions, including the effect of solvent (methanol) used for extraction of atrazine from the sample. The determination of pesticides in commercial preparations was accomplished without any pre-treatment of sample apart from evaporation of solvent; the calibration model was developed for concentration ranges between 0.46 and 11.6 × 10⁻⁵ mol L⁻¹ with mean relative errors under 4%. Solid-phase extraction is used for pre-concentration of atrazine in water samples through C₁₈ disks, and the concentration range for determination was established between 4 and 115 μg L⁻¹approximately. Satisfactory results for recuperation of atrazine were always obtained.     

Studies of ion-imprinted polymers for solid-phase extraction of ruthenium from environmental samples before its determination by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

The examination of the effect of interfering ions on the analytical signal of ruthenium measured by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry was initially performed in this work. The complexes of ruthenium(III) with thiosemicarbazide (TSd) and acetaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (AcTSn) were prepared and imprinted in polymeric network. The ion-imprinted polymers were synthesized by copolymerization of methacrylic acid, as functional monomer and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, as crosslinking agent in the presence of 2,2-azobisisobutyronitrile as initiator. The effects of sample volume, pH, and flow rate on the extraction of analyte were studied in dynamic mode. The optimum pH for quantitative retention of ruthenium on each of the studied sorbents was 7.5 ± 0.5. The elution of analyte was completed with 0.2 mol L⁻¹ thiourea in 0.2 mol L⁻¹ HCl. The effect of matrix ions on ruthenium(III) separation process was studied. The analytical performance of the Ru-TSd polymer in the presence of competing ions was better than Ru-AcTSn polymer, considering recovery of analyte, reproducibility of results, selectivity coefficients, and sorbent capacity. The detection limit of the proposed method (0.16 ng mL⁻¹ on Ru-TSd and 0.25 ng mL⁻¹ on Ru-AcTSn) is lower in comparison with the previously published methods. The developed separation method was successfully applied to the determination of trace amounts of ruthenium in spiked water samples, sludge, grass, and human hair.     

干涉成像光谱仪受卫星振动影响的仿真与分析

在干涉成像光谱仪扫描过程中,卫星姿态的不稳定性将严重影响光谱成像质量。针对该问题,在分析干涉成像光谱仪光谱成像退化机理的基础上提出了一种微分动态成像仿真方法,以此来模拟光谱成像退化过程。并提出了平均掺杂比的概念,通过它建立起卫星姿态俯仰、侧滚和偏航的运动参数与其对光谱成像影响之间的桥梁,详细推导了这两者之间的定量关系。以环境资源卫星提供的遥感数据为例进行了退化仿真,结果表明平台振动不仅影响光谱成像的空间分辨率,更会带来光谱失真,且相邻像元光谱差异较大的区域影响较大。通过仿真数据分析,对卫星姿态稳定精度提出了要求,给出了必须重视振动影响并需要采取相应补偿措施的姿态稳定度条件。     

Full field deformation measurement of centimeter sized objects using optical phase retrieval

Most papers in the field of optical phase retrieval either consider only the intensity (or amplitude) profile of the object under inspection (or scatterer location in the X-ray version), or a uniform tilt/rotation of the object beam. However, phase retrieval is able to recover the phase profile of the object (beam) as well, which theoretically makes the observable interference of phase retrieved object waves possible. In this paper we demonstrate this principle experimentally on centimeter sized deformable reflective objects (as large as 40 mm by 40 mm) and corresponding simulations are also presented. When the CCD camera is moved along the optical axis in the Fresnel region, the interference fringes of the displacement field have low contrast. On the other hand, when an imaging setup is built, and the camera moves near the image plane, high fringe contrast can be obtained. These fringes however suffer from some phase error. In our work the iterative modulus projection algorithm was used as a simply implementable phase retrieval method.     

Compact optical delay line for long-range scanning

We proposed and demonstrated an optical delay line composed of all reflective components for long-range scanning without walk-off problem. The optical delay line consists of a retro-reflector, an inclined reflection mirror and a scanning mirror. The size of the optical delay line is within 2 cm × 2 cm and the scanning range can reach 2.9 mm when the beam is incident at the pivot of the scanning mirror and the vibration angle of the scanning mirror is 9.6°. The scanning range can be further increased when the pivot of the scanning mirror is laterally deviated from the incident beam. The optical delay line possesses the advantages that it is compact, easy to fabricate and can perform rapid scanning in large scanning range without walk-off problem. The optical delay line was demonstrated with a low-coherence reflectometer where the scanning rate was 400 Hz. A higher scanning rate can be achieved when a scanning component with higher scanning rate is applied.     

What kind of phases does one measure in usual interference experiments?

It is pointed out that in usual optical interference experiments one does not measure phases of monochromatic light beams as is usually assumed. Rather that one measures a phase of an associated correlation function of a beam; and that, when the beam is spatially fully coherent, as is usually the case, the measured phase may be identified with the phase of an average wave function of the beam.     

An energy efficient scheme by exploiting multi-hop D2D communications for 5G networks

The multi-hop Device-to-Device (M-D2D) communication has a potential to serve as a promising technology for upcoming 5G networks. The prominent reason is that the M-D2D communication has the potential to improve coverage, enhanced spectrum efficiency, better link quality, and energy-efficient communication. One of the major challenges for M-D2D communication is the mitigation of interference between the cellular user (CUs) and M-D2D users. Considering this mutual interference constraint, this work investigates the problem of optimal matching of M-D2D links and CUs to form spectrum-sharing partners to maximize overall sum rates of the cell under QoS and energy efficiency (EE) constraints. In this paper, we investigate the interference management for multi-hop (more than one-hop) D2D communication scenarios where we propose a channel assignment scheme along with a power allocation scheme. The proposed channel assignment scheme is based on the Hungarian method in which the channel assignment for M-D2D pairs is done by minimum interference value. The power allocation scheme is based on Binary Particle swarm optimization (BPSO). This scheme calculates the specific power values for all the individual M-D2D links. We have done a comprehensive simulation and the result portrays that our proposed scheme performs better compared to the previous work mentioned in the literature. The results clearly indicate that the proposed scheme enhances the EE of up to 13% by producing the optimal assignment of channels and power for the CUs and M-D2D users.