Temperature measurement and control

Several factors in temperature measurement that can affect the precision of melting points and phase-change phenomena are discussed. In many cases, critical errors may arise in the measurement and control of temperatures due to incorrect placement and/or interpretation of the output of temperature sensors in the various system types that are in current use. Advantages can be obtained by using one temperature sensor only for temperature measurement and temperature control in a low mass infrared gold image fumace for the analytical studies in both the constant rate and stepwise isothermal thermoanalytical heating and cooling modes. Illustrations of the use of this instrumentation for measurements in both modes are given.     

THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF DIFFERENT STANDARDS WHEN FIRMS VARY

Pollution standards in practice take many forms, such as measuring pollution per unit of output rather than just restricting pollution. This paper uses simulations to provide some evidence on the effects of these two forms of standards when firms vary. For the cases studied, it shows that a pollution standard can lead to higher profits, but a pollution-per-output standard leads to higher output and lower price; the overall efficiency effects are therefore ambiguous.     

Tensor-product monotonicity preservation

This paper studies systems of tensor-product functions for which the functions they span are monotonic in any direction when their control nets are monotonic in that direction. It is shown that Bernstein polynomials and B-splines have this property but that totally positive systems in general, such as certain trigonometric and rational bases, do not. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Coherent response of a semiconductor microcavity in the strong coupling regime

We have studied the coherent dynamics of a semiconductor microcavity by means of interferometric correlation measurements with subpicosecond time resolution in a backscattering geometry. Evidence is brought of the resolution of a homogeneous polariton line in an inhomogeneously broadened exciton system. Surprisingly, photon-like polaritons exhibit an inhomogeneous dephasing. Moreover, we observe an unexpected stationary coherence up to 8 ps for the lower polariton branch close to resonance. All these experimental results are well reproduced within the framework of a linear dispersion theory assuming a coherent superposition of the reflectivity and resonant Rayleigh scattering signals with a well-defined relative phase.     

中立型时滞系统的时滞相关鲁棒控制

研究了一类具有时变时滞中立型系统的时滞相关鲁棒控制问题.利用Lyapunov-K rasovsk ii泛函方法,借助于积分不等式,得到了系统经无记忆状态反馈控制后可镇定的时滞相关条件.最后给出数值例子验证了所得结果的有效性.     

Homoclinic Chaos in 2-DOF Robot Manipulators Driven by PD Controllers

The existence of Smale horseshoes in the dynamics of twodegrees of freedom (2-DOF) robot manipulators with viscous damping anddriven by classical proportional-derivative (PD) controllers is proved.The situation where an actuator failure occurs is also analyzed. Thecontrollers correspond to the classical PD and the PD with gravitycompensation. They are considered as non-Hamiltonian perturbations of anundriven 2-DOF robot; then a technique developed by Holmes and Marsden,which uses a combination of a reduction scheme and Melnikov's methodwith an energy balance argument, is applied.     

多联变频空调电子膨胀阀的模糊PID控制

空调制冷系统具有滞后大、非线性等特点,采用普通控制方式时效果不佳。采用模糊PID控制器对系统电子膨胀阀开度进行控制,并设计了模糊控制器,选取了PID控制参数。实践结果表明,该控制方法简单有效,很好地满足了用户的实际需要。     

Risk theory insight into a zone-adaptive control strategy

The main purpose of this paper is a risk theory insight into the problem of asset-liability and solvency adaptive management. In the multiperiodic insurance risk model composed of chained classical risk models, a zone-adaptive control strategy, essentially similar to that applied in Directives [Directive 2002/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 March 2002, Brussels, 5 March 2002], is introduced and its performance is examined analytically. That examination was initiated in [Malinovskii, V.K., 2006b. Adaptive control strategies and dependence of finite time ruin on the premium loading. Insurance: Math. Econ. (in press)] and is based on the application of the explicit expression for the finite-time ruin probability in the classical risk model. The result of independent interest in the paper is the representation of that finite-time ruin probability in terms of asymptotic series, as time increases.     

基于ZigBee的工业控制网络模型

将无线传感器网络技术成功应用于工业自动化,建立了基于ZigBee的工业控制网络模型,并成功应用于生产线的工业控制中.     

Variable structure control for a class of nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties

A scheme to stabilize nonlinear time-varying systems with both matched and mismatched uncertainties is proposed in this paper by switching between two control laws: a first-order sliding-mode control and a second-order sliding-mode control. Based on this idea, a variable structure control algorithm is designed for a class of second-order systems. The closed-loop system is globally or locally asymptotically stable. It has been proven that the stability region has relation with the order of the boundary function and the region can be obtained by solving an inequality. The uncertainty considered in this work is also more general than those in the existing works.