This
work reports an electron beam irradiation (30 kGy and 90 kGy)
approach to narrow the band gap of the pristine CeO2 nanostructure
(p-CeO2) to enhance their visible light activity through
defect engineering. This was confirmed by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy,
photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy (XPS), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller, electrochemical
impedance spectroscopy, and linear scan voltammetry. XPS revealed
changes in the surface states, composition, Ce4+ to Ce3+ ratio, and other defects in the modified CeO2 nanostructures (m-CeO2). The m-CeO2 exhibits
excellent photocatalytic activities by degrading 4-nitrophenol and
methylene blue in the presence of visible light (λ > 400
nm)
compared to the p-CeO2. The optical, photocatalytic, and
photoelectrochemical studies and proposed mechanism further support
the enhanced visible light photocatalytic activities of the m-CeO2. This study confirmed that defect-induced band gap engineered
m-CeO2 could be used effectively as photocatalyst and photoelectrodes
owing to their enhanced visible light photocatalytic activities.
In order to enhance performance of robot systems in the manufacturing industry, it is essential to develop motion and task planning algorithms. Especially, it is important for the motion plan to be generated automatically in order to deal with various working environments. Although PRM (Probabilistic Roadmap) provides feasible paths when the starting and goal positions of a robot manipulator are given, the path might not be smooth enough, which can lead to inefficient performance of the robot system. This paper proposes a motion planning algorithm for robot manipulators using a twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) which is a reinforcement learning algorithm tailored to MDP with continuous action. Besides, hindsight experience replay (HER) is employed in the TD3 to enhance sample efficiency. Since path planning for a robot manipulator is an MDP (Markov Decision Process) with sparse reward and HER can deal with such a problem, this paper proposes a motion planning algorithm using TD3 with HER. The proposed algorithm is applied to 2-DOF and 3-DOF manipulators and it is shown that the designed paths are smoother and shorter than those designed by PRM.
In this paper, we analyze the mean packet delay of a dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) scheme in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). We propose the interleaved polling system with a gated service discipline and a two-stage queue in order to investigate the delay performance of DBA scheme in an EPON. We assume that input packets arrive at an optical network unit (ONU) according to a Poisson process from several types of users. We use a continuous time queueing model in order to find the mean packet delay and the mean cycle time of an arbitrary packet. We obtain the closed form solution for the mean packet delay of the proposed gated polling system with a two-stage queue. We obtain another result on the mean packet delay by solving a system of linear equations derived from the moments of the queue length distribution. We give some numerical results to investigate the delay performances for the symmetric polling system with statistically identical stations. In addition, we compare numerical results on the closed form solution with numerical results on a system of linear equations.
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