The following article from Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, “Developing an Integrated Display of Health Data for Aging in Place,” by Yang Gong and Arpita Chandra, published online on October 20, 2011 in Wiley Online Library ( www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editors‐in‐Chief, Waldemar Karwowski and Gavriel Salvendy, and Publisher Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The retraction has been agreed as these articles were mistakenly published after being rejected. 相似文献
Interactive genetic algorithms are effective methods of solving optimization problems with implicit (qualitative) criteria by incorporating a user's intelligent evaluation into traditional evolution mechanisms. The heavy evaluation burden of the user, however, is crucial and limits their applications in complex optimization problems. We focus on reducing the evaluation burden by presenting a semi-supervised learning assisted interactive genetic algorithm with large population. In this algorithm, a population with many individuals is adopted to efficiently explore the search space. A surrogate model built with an improved semi-supervised learning method is employed to evaluate a part of individuals instead of the user to alleviate his/her burden in evaluation. Incorporated with the principles of the improved semi-supervised learning, the opportunities of applying and updating the surrogate model are determined by its confidence degree in estimation, and the informative individuals reevaluated by the user are selected according to the concept of learning from mistakes. We quantitatively analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm and apply it to the design of sunglasses lenses, a representative optimization problem with one qualitative criterion. The empirical results demonstrate the strength of our algorithm in searching for satisfactory solutions and easing the evaluation burden of the user. 相似文献
Two generations of novel linear-dendritic carboxylate surfactants C18-G1-(COONa)2 and C18-G2-(COONa)4 have been synthesized by the divergent method and their structures are characterized by 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Infrared analysis. The electrical conductivity measurement is used to measure the Krafft temperatures of C18-G1-(COONa)2 and C18-G2-(COONa)4, which are much smaller than those of the corresponding conventional surfactant sodium stearate. The markedly enhanced solubility of two linear-dendritic surfactants is ascribed to the high hydrophilicity of surfactant headgroups induced by the carboxylate and ester groups. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) values obtained from both the electrical conductivity and surface tension measurements indicate that the micellizations of linear-dendritic surfactants become favorable with the increase in the number of the surfactant headgroup. However, the surface activity parameters including the surface tension at the CMC, maximum surface excess, and minimum surface area reveal that C18-G1-(COONa)2 exhibits greater efficiency in absorbing at the air/water interface compared to C18-G2-(COONa)4, owing to their different steric repulsions of the surfactant headgroups. In addition, C18-G1-(COONa)2 and C18-G2-(COONa)4 have higher emulsifying ability than the conventional surfactants sodium stearate and sodium octadecyl sulfate. 相似文献
The accurate estimation of the end-effector’s pose in large operating spaces is the key for the mobile manipulator to realize efficient manufacturing of large and complex components. We propose a novel pose tracking method in large-range using visual fiducial markers, and further propose the layout optimization method for the encoded fiducial markers. A metric named orientational dilution of precision (ODOP) is proposed to evaluate the magnification of the pose estimation error compared with the measurement error of the coded fiducial markers. The distribution pattern of the coded markers is analyzed based on ODOP, and the square-shaped layout is determined to be a satisfactory distribution pattern for the minimum positioning unit of markers, and the side length of the square-shaped layout is further selected. The simulations and experiments prove the effectiveness of the ODOP index. Finally, the square-shaped layout and the designed distribution density for positioning coded markers are adopted to realize the high-precision measurement of large components by the mobile manipulator.
In order to meet the requirements of polymer dielectric materials for high thermal stability and excellent dielectric properties in the application of high-temperature film capacitors, a series of polyimide (PI) films are fabricated by introducing a self-synthesized aniline trimer (ACAT) with a conjugated structure in this work. Since the conjugated ACAT in the main chains of PI improves the electron polarization and carrier mobility of the PI molecular chains, the dielectric constant of the ACAT-PI films is greatly enhanced (4.4–7.4). Meanwhile, the dissipation factor does not increase apparently (0.002–0.013). The dielectric properties are stable even when the temperature is up to 200 °C, the thermal degradation temperature is as high as 450 °C, and the mechanical properties are also excellent (70–105 MPa). Among all the films, the PI film with 5 mol% ACAT exhibits the maximal energy density of 3.6 J cm−3 under the field of 426 kV mm−1, the high tensile strength (90 MPa) and the excellent thermal stability (Td5 = 515 °C). The work paves the way to prepare high-temperature polymer dielectric film materials with high energy storage density. 相似文献