Time reversal acoustic communication receivers: DSP implementation and fast channel estimation

A communication system is implemented on digital signal processors (DSPs) for the underwater acoustic environment. The implemented receiver uses time reversal multi-channel combining followed by a single-channel decision feedback equalizer. Periodic channel estimation is employed to track the channel fluctuations. These techniques are used to mitigate time-varying inter-symbol interference, which is the main challenge in the underwater acoustic channel at operating frequencies greater than 10 kHz. Various optimization tasks are performed to reduce the receiver computational complexity. A fast implementation of the matching pursuit algorithm is tested on the DSP platform. Its performance, in terms of accuracy and run-time, is compared with that of the basic matching pursuit algorithm. Experimental results of the transmission and demodulation of binary phase-shift keying signals at three different symbol rates were obtained in the local Delaware Bay. The low bit error rates demonstrate the effectiveness of our implementation.     

D-admissible hybrid control of a class of singular systems

This paper mainly studies the problem of designing a hybrid state feedback D-admissible controller for a class of linear and nonlinear singular systems. Based on the relationship between singular discrete systems and singular delta operator systems, several necessary and sufficient conditions for a linear singular delta operator system to be D-admissible (i.e. regular, causal and all finite poles lie in a prescribed circular region) with different representations are derived. Then, the existence conditions and explicit expressions of a desirable D-admissible controller are given by means of matrix inequalities and strict linear matrix inequalities, respectively. We further extend the obtained results to singular delta operator systems with Lipschitz nonlinear perturbations, and the design methods of hybrid controller are presented for the nonlinear case as well. Finally, numerical examples as well as simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical outcomes obtained in the paper.     

夜视战场环境视觉传感信息采集系统设计

夜视战场环境视觉传感信息的实时获取是跟踪夜视战场图像处理分析的前提,针对夜视战场环境的复杂特征,设计了夜视战场环境视觉传感信息采集系统,分析了系统的总体结构,系统硬件主要包括视觉传感器、传感器控制卡和扩展卡、图像采集与存储以及信号调理电路,给出了系统采集节点的程序设计流程以及传感信息采集的具体程序代码实现过程。实验结果说明,所设计系统可有效采集到夜间军事战场中的传感信息,并且具有较高的采集精度。     

山区智能视觉火情高空图像搜集系统的设计与实现

介绍了一种针对山区多样性突发火情事件中基于智能视觉的高空图像搜集系统,采用以ST意法半导体公司的STM32F107VCT6为处理核心的开发平台,地面控制平台通过高空无人机的高速照相机对目标区域火情图像数据进行搜集,并将图像数据带回到地面控制平台的PC处理器上进行综合分析。地面控制平台根据智能视觉信息采集模块采集的山区遥感图像的均值作为初始背景,并对背景图像进行实时更新,利用光谱特征与距离算法获取差分图像,并进行图像处理,从而获取山区发生火情区域的图像分析数据,以实现对山区森林突发火情事件的及时监测,在火情发生初始阶段就能扑灭。本文对山区智能视觉火情高空搜集系统的实现原理、核心硬件设计、系统软件设计等分别进行了研究,并通过系统实验进行了验证,测试结果表明,该系统在对山区的高空图像搜集实验中,对不同颜色物体的分别识别率为100%,对火灾与地形地貌的识别率为95.55%和81.12%,非常适用于各种山区环境下的智能视觉监控系统。     

Dynamic output feedback consensus of continuous‐time networked multiagent systems

This article addresses the dynamic output feedback consensus problem of continuous‐time networked multiagent systems. Both a fixed topology and Markovian switching topologies are considered. The consensus algorithms are on the base of the output information of each agent's itself and its neighbors. Some sufficient conditions for consensus of multiagent systems are obtained in forms of bilinear matrix inequalities. The algorithm based on the homotopy continuation method is given to compute the feasible controller gains. Numerical simulations are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed results. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 20: 35–42, 2015     

Uniform stabilization to equilibrium of a nonlinear fluid–structure interaction model

We consider uniform stability to a nontrivial equilibrium of a nonlinear fluid–structure interaction (FSI) defined on a two or three dimensional bounded domain. Stabilization is achieved via boundary and/or interior feedback controls implemented on both the fluid and the structure. The interior damping on the fluid combining with the viscosity effect stabilizes the dynamics of fluid. However, this dissipation propagated from the fluid alone is not sufficient to drive uniformly to equilibrium the entire coupled system. Therefore, additional interior damping on the wave component or boundary porous like damping on the interface is considered. A geometric condition on the interface is needed if only boundary damping on the wave is active. The main technical difficulty is the mismatch of regularity of hyperbolic and parabolic component of the coupled system. This is overcome by considering special multipliers constructed from Stokes solvers. The uniform stabilization result obtained in this article is global for the fully coupled FSI model.     

Generation of sub‐terahertz repetition rates from a monolithic self‐mode‐locked laser coupled with an external Fabry‐Perot cavity

A novel scheme to multiply the repetition rate of a monolithic self‐mode‐locked laser for generating sub‐terahertz pulse sources is successfully demonstrated. A coated Yb:KGW crystal is designed to achieve a self‐mode‐locked operation at a repetition rate of 24 GHz with an average output power exceeding 1.0 W at a pump power of 4.8 W. A partially reflective mirror is utilized to combine with the output surface of the gain medium to constitute an external Fabry‐Perot cavity. It is theoretically and experimentally verified that adjusting the external cavity length to satisfy the commensurate condition can lead to the frequency spacing to be various order harmonics of the mode spacing of the monolithic cavity. The maximum pulse repetition rate of the laser output can be up to 216 GHz and the pulse duration is as short as 330 fs. More importantly, the overall characteristics of the first‐order temporal autocorrelation traces obtained by sequentially scanning the external cavity.length display an intriguing phenomenon of temporally fractional revivals, similar to the feature of spatial Talbot revivals.

     

重视反馈的逆向教学设计:以质谱课程的教学为例*

基于逆向教学设计的特点及实践,分析了传统逆向教学设计的课堂实现中存在的关于预期评估与实际评估脱节的问题,阐述了教学反馈的重要性。从而提出了一种重视反馈的逆向教学设计方法。这种方法将评估预判和反馈策略充分结合到逆向教学设计中,在评估和反馈之间进行了有效关联,很好地解决了以上问题。结合笔者在质谱课程中的实践经验,对相应的教学设计的过程进行了举例说明。     

自适应环境的机器人视觉伺服控制方法

机器人和机器视觉的迅速发展,使得基于视觉的智能机器人得到更加广泛的应用。机器视觉提高了机器人控制系统对环境的适应程度,但其适应程度也受到周围环境对机器视觉算法的影响。针对这一情况,本文对机器人视觉伺服控制系统中的机器视觉算法进行了改进,提出了一种基于帧间差分法的自适应环境的机器人视觉伺服控制方法,从而提高了控制系统对环境的自适应程度,提高了对机器人控制的精确度,实验和理论分析证明,该方法具有较大的应用前景和实用价值。