The two remarkable features of ternary values and a massive unit with thousands bits of parallel computation will make the ternary optical computer (TOC) with modified signed-digit (MSD) adder more powerful and efficient than ever before for numerical calculations. Based on the decrease-radix design presented previously, a TOC can satisfy either a user requiring huge capacity for data calculations or one with a moderate amount of data, if it is equipped with a prepared adder. Furthermore, with the application of pipelined operations and the proposed data editing technique, the efficiency of the prepared adder can be greatly improved, so that each calculated result can be obtained almost within one clock cycle. It is hopeful that by employing a MSD adder, users will be able to enter a new dimension with the creation of a new multiplier, new divider, as well as new matrix operator in a TOC in the near future.With the current rapid increase in the complexity of computer architectures, the power consumption of large scale systems has risen prohibitively. Much attention has been focused on reducing the power consumption in different ways. One of the ways of solving the problem is to use of an optical computer with its special non-electron characteristics of high speed, parallelism, multi-valued, and low power consumption. Considering these properties, researchers have been focusing mainly on improving the operating speed [1-3] and enlarging the number of parallel bits in these computers [4][5][6], but have often neglected the problem of reducing the power consumption.A TOC prototype recently developed in our laboratory at Shanghai University is a typical optical computer with a huge number of data bits [6,7]. Based on the decrease-radix design proposed in 2008 [8], we can configure any number of bits as specific groups of tri-valued logic units at any time in the TOC. However, as thousands of bits exist in an adder, the ripple-carry technique is infeasible in a TOC because of the terrible carry delay. In addition, the look-ahead carry technique does not suit the construction of optical elements due to the high complexity of its tree type architecture. For these reasons, we proposed a new technique called the direct parallel carry channel (DPCC) aiming at accelerating the carry operation [9]. Unfortunately, this scheme has failed to be put into practice for various reasons.
To obtain the material true constitutive relation of tensile specimens after necking, we proposed an experimental-numerical combined method (ENM) based on the simple tension test results and finite element analysis (FEA). An iterative scheme was used to minimize the errors between the simulated and experimental load-displacement curves by modifying the imported stress-strain data step by step, and the true stress was determined when the error was less than a given infinitesimal value. In addition, we developed a special program to implement this algorithm automatically and save operating time. As a verification, the true stress-strain curves obtained by the traditional analytical method (TAM) and ENM were compared and employed to analyze the large deformation behavior of both cylindrical and rectangular specimens. The results showed that ENM was applicable for both specimens and could achieve an adequate description of the mechanical response of the materials after necking formation more effectively.
White light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used in various lighting fields as a part of energy-efficient technology. However, some shortcomings of luminescent materials for white LEDs, such as complexity of synthesis, high cost, and harmful impact on the environment, limit their practical applications to a large extent. In this respect, the present work aims to study the ability of using Berberine (BBR) chloride extracted from Rhizoma coptidis and Phellodendron Chinese herbs as yellow phosphor for white LEDs. For this, white LEDs were successfully fabricated by applying 0.006 g of BBR chloride onto the blue LED chips (450 nm). The produced LEDs exhibited good luminescence properties at a voltage of 2.4 V along with eco-friendly characteristics and low cost. The Commission International de l’Eclairage chromaticity, the correlated color temperature, and the color rendering index were determined to be ( x = 0.32 , y = 0.33 ), 5934 K, and 74, respectively. Therefore, BBR chloride is a suitable environmentally friendly and easily accessible yellow phosphor for white LEDs.
SRS is a European research project for building robust personal assistant robots using ROS (Robotic Operating System) and Care-O-bot (COB) 3 as the initial demonstration platform. In this paper, experience gained while building the SRS system is presented. A main contribution of the paper is the SRS autonomous control framework. The framework is divided into two parts. First, it has an automatic task planner, which initialises actions on the symbolic level. The planner produces proactive robotic behaviours based on updated semantic knowledge. Second, it has an action executive for coordination actions at the level of sensing and actuation. The executive produces reactive behaviours in well-defined domains. The two parts are integrated by fuzzy logic based symbolic grounding. As a whole, they represent the framework for autonomous control. Based on the framework, several new components and user interfaces are integrated on top of COB's existing capabilities to enable robust fetch and carry in unstructured environments. The implementation strategy and results are discussed at the end of the paper
In anti-wrinkle finishing, the crosslinking degree of fabric is mainly determined by wrinkle recovery angle, stiffness, and viscosity, these indicators can only reflect the finishing effect from a macro perspective, which cannot reflect whether the crosslinking is sufficient, and it is difficult to quantify the crosslinking degree. In this paper, we combined the Kjeldahl method with the Arrhenius formula and proposed a method to analyze the crosslinking degree of dimethyloldihydroxyethyleneurea (two-dimensional (2D) resin) with cotton cellulose during delayed-cure finishing for the first time. The nitrogen content of completed fabrics during storage was measured by the Kjeldahl method, and the reaction rate equation of the 2D resin and cellulose under normal temperature conditions was calculated. The results show that the nitrogen content is more suitable to indicate the crosslinking degree, and the apparent activation energy was 28.271 kJ/mol and the pre-finger factor was 0.622, which indicated that the 2D resin was prone to cross-linking with cotton fabrics during storage. During long-term storage, the relative errors between the calculated and measured values of the nitrogen content were within ±5%, and the accuracy was higher than the traditional evaluation method. The stability of 2D resins during the storage of delayed-curing finishing was also analyzed through this method.
This paper proposes an effective fireworks algorithm (FWA), which is a new heuristic algorithm inspired by the phenomenon of a fireworks display, to solve the warehouse-scheduling problem. First, a real-world warehouse-scheduling problem is described in detail, and it is formulated as a constrained single-objective optimization problem. Then an effective FWA, FWA-LSCM, is developed by combining with a local search method and chaotic mutation, which are used to balance the exploration and exploitation of FWA. The experimental results show that FWA-LSCM is a competitive algorithm for a set of 2013 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) benchmark functions. Finally, the proposed FWA-LSCM is successfully applied to the warehouse-scheduling problem and outperforms other FWA algorithms studied in this paper.
This work aims to propose an innovative mechanism of human-robot collaboration (HRC) for mobile service robots in the application of elderly and disabled assistance. Previous studies on HRC mechanism usually focused on integrating decision-making intelligence of human beings by qualitative judgment and reasoning intelligence of robots by quantitative calculation. Instead, novelties of the proposed methodology include (1) constructing an HRC framework by taking reference from the Adaptive Control of Thought -Rational (ACT-R) human cognitive architecture;(2) establishing semantic webs of cognitive reasoning through human-robot interaction (HRI) and HRC to plan and implement complex tasks; and (3) realizing human-robot intelligence fusion by mutual encouragement, connect, and integration of modules of human, robot, perception, HRI, and HRC in the ACT-R architecture. Its technical feasibility is validated by some selected experiments within a "pouring" scenario. Further, although this study is oriented to mobile service robots, the modularized design of hardware and software makes its extensive use feasible in other types of service robots like smart rehabilitation beds, wheelchairs, and cleaning equipments.
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