Leaky‐wave antenna with high gain and wide beam‐scanning angle range based on novel SIW‐CRLH transmission line

A leaky‐wave antenna (LWA) with high gain and wide beam‐scanning angle is proposed in this article using a novel substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) composite left/right‐handed transmission line (CRLH TL). The novel SIW‐CRLH TL is analyzed and the equivalent circuit model is also provided. Considering the continuous phase constant of the balanced SIW‐CRLH TL from negative to positive values, the proposed LWA can obtain a continuous beam steering property from backward to broadside to forward. For verification, a periodic LWA, which is comprised of 10 unit cells of the balanced SIW‐CRLH TL, is fabricated and measured. The measured and simulated results agree well, showing that the proposed periodic LWA operates from has continuous beam‐scanning capabilities of about 90° from backward to forward (including the broadside) with gains of better than 10 dB within the operating band. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 26:36–41, 2016.     

Gait Generation and Stabilization for Nearly Passive Dynamic Walking Using Auto‐distributed Impulses

We propose a state feedback control design via linearization for flexible walking on flat ground. First, we generate nearly passive limit cycles, being stable or not, using impulsive toe‐off actuations. The term ‘nearly passive’ means that the dynamics is completely passive almost everywhere except at the toe‐off moment. A feature of our gait generation method is that walking gaits are characterized only by amounts of supplied energy, and we observe that other variables, including input torques, are auto‐balanced via our method. After gait generation, we design a feedback controller considering robustness and input saturation. As a result, each limit cycle can be matched with its respective controller classified only by energy levels. We have verified that walking speeds monotonically increase by adding more energy, and the ankle joint plays a significant role in compass‐gait walking. Finally, instead of applying impulsive torques, we discuss a practical issue regarding realistic control inputs that ensure stable gait transitions as energy levels are elevated.     

AT90CAN128的CAN多节点总线同步通信

针对CAN总线多节点的同步性应用,介绍了两种滤波方式,实现了基于AVR单片机ATg0CAN128的CAN总线多节点同步通信。利用CAN总线的点对点、点对多点和广播通信方式以及其特有的报文滤波和非破坏性总线仲裁技术,对多节点的同步性进行探讨,且接入方式简易。     

三峡水情遥测系统中心站的设计与应用

三峡水情遥测系统中心站在通信组网设计上采用甚高频（VHF）、公共交换电话网络（PSTN）、全球移动通信系统（GSM）、北斗卫星和海事卫星5种通信方式,在系统软件设计上采用了客户／服务器（C／S）的结构模式。实践证明,三峡水情遥测系统中心站既保证了三峡水情遥测系统非常高的畅通率和准确率,又降低了通信成本;既保证了三峡梯级水库调度、防洪、发电和航运的要求,同时还为系统运行维护工作提供了方便。     

Tensor Clustering for Rendering Many‐Light Animations

Rendering animations of scenes with deformable objects, camera motion, and complex illumination, including indirect lighting and arbitrary shading, is a long‐standing challenge. Prior work has shown that complex lighting can be accurately approximated by a large collection of point lights. In this formulation, rendering of animation sequences becomes the problem of efficiently shading many surface samples from many lights across several frames. This paper presents a tensor formulation of the animated many‐light problem, where each element of the tensor expresses the contribution of one light to one pixel in one frame. We sparsely sample rows and columns of the tensor, and introduce a clustering algorithm to select a small number of representative lights to efficiently approximate the animation. Our algorithm achieves efficiency by reusing representatives across frames, while minimizing temporal flicker. We demonstrate our algorithm in a variety of scenes that include deformable objects, complex illumination and arbitrary shading and show that a surprisingly small number of representative lights is sufficient for high quality rendering. We believe out algorithm will find practical use in applications that require fast previews of complex animation.     

Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Zone Application in Different OpenMP Approaches

We describe a performance study of a multi-zone application benchmark implemented in several OpenMP approaches that exploit multi-level parallelism and deal with unbalanced workload. The multi-zone application was derived from the well-known NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) suite that involves flow solvers on collections of loosely coupled discretization meshes. Parallel versions of this application have been developed using the Subteam concept and Workqueuing model as extensions to the current OpenMP. We examine the performance impact of these extensions to OpenMP and compare with hybrid and nested OpenMP approaches on several large parallel systems.     

Semantic segmentation of urban street scene images based on improved U-Net network

To balance the speed and accuracy in semantic segmentation of the urban street images for autonomous driving, we proposed an improved U-Net network. Firstly, to improve the model representation capability, our improved U-Net network structure was designed as three parts, shallow layer, intermediate layer and deep layer. Different attention mechanisms were used according to their feature extraction characteristics. Specifically, a spatial attention module was used in the shallow network, a dual attention module was used in the intermediate layer network and a channel attention module was used in the deep network. At the same time, the traditional convolution was replaced by depthwise separable convolution in above three parts, which can largely reduce the number of network parameters, and improve the network operation speed greatly. The experimental results on three datasets show that our improved U-Net semantic segmentation model for street images can get better results in both segmentation accuracy and speed. The average mean intersection over union (MIoU) is 68.8%, which is increased by 9.2% and the computation speed is about 38 ms/frame. We can process 27 frames images for segmentation per second, which meets the real-time process and accuracy requirements for semantic segmentation of urban street images.     

基于概率假设密度滤波和动力学方程约束的空间群目标数量和位置分辨

空间目标具有射程远、速度快等特点,为了有效解决密集性高、可分性差的高速空间目标群饱和攻击问题,实现非合作空间群目标数量和位置的尽早分辨,该文基于随机有限集(RFS)理论和动力学方程约束研究了空间“团状”目标数量和位置分辨问题,提出目标监测早期解决大量距离靠近、运动特征差异不明显的高速空间群目标数量和位置估计的相关算法,该算法利用概率假设密度(PHD)滤波器能够解决未知时变环境下目标个数与状态估计的特点,将高斯混合PHD (GM-PHD)滤波和空间目标动力学方程相结合,在解决不可分辨空间群目标数量和位置估计问题的同时,充分利用空间目标动力学方程对群内目标状态进行实时调整,提高空间目标位置状态估计精度,解决不可分辨空间目标群边跟踪边分辨问题,相关算法可为空间群目标数量和群内特殊价值个体目标位置尽快分辨、连续稳定跟踪和可靠动向预报等提供数据基础。     

Ti3AlC2 coated D-shaped fiber saturable absorber for Q-switched pulse generation

In this letter, a titanium aluminum carbide (Ti3AlC2) coated D-shaped fiber is proposed and demonstrated as a new saturable absorber (SA) for Q-switched laser pulse generation. In preparing the SA, the Ti3AlC2 powder is dispersed in liquid polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) before the solution is dropped and left to dry onto a polished surface of D-shape fiber. The SA is added to an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) cavity to modulate the cavity loss for Q-switching. The Q-switched laser is obtained at 1 561 nm. The pulse width of the pulses can be varied between 7.4 µs and 5.1 µs with a corresponding repetition rate range from 41.26 kHz to 54.35 kHz, when the pump power is increased from 42.2 mW to 71.5 mW. At 71.5 mW pump, the pulse energy is obtained at 70.3 nJ. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the fundamental frequency is recorded at 67 dB, which indicates the stability of the laser.     

Bandwidth-reduced Brillouin optical time-domain analysis based on a quarter of the frequency of modulation

Aiming at the problem of high requirement for the signal generator in the Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) system, a quarter of the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) of modulation is proposed to reduce the required bandwidth of the sensing system. A functional model for solving the intensity of each-order sideband of the output light of electro-optic modulator (EOM) is proposed and applied, so the spectrum with suppressed the carrier and the first-order sidebands while maximizing the second-order sidebands is obtained. Compared with the latest scheme, the intensity of the second-order sidebands is increased by 21.1% based on this functional model. In the experiment, the second-order upper sideband and the second-order lower sideband are used as continuous wave (CW) probe light and pump pulse light, respectively, which ultimately reduces the required bandwidth of radio frequency (RF) signal sources to a quarter of the BFS (reduced from ~11 GHz to ~2.75 GHz), and the frequency sweep range is also reduced to a quarter of the original.