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Python-based MEMS inertial sensors design, simulation and optimization
With the rapid growth in microsensor technology, a never-ending range of possible
applications emerged. The developments in fabrication techniques gave room to
the creation of numerous new products that significantly improve human life.
However, the evolution in the design, simulation, and optimization process of
these devices did not observe a similar rapid growth. Thus, the microsensor
technology would benefit from significant improvements in this domain.
This work presents a novel methodology for electro-mechanical co optimization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensors. The developed
software tool comprises geometry design, finite element method (FEM) analysis, damping calculation, electronic domain simulation, and a genetic algorithm
(GA) optimization process. It allows for a facilitated system-level MEMS design
flow, in which electrical and mechanical domains communicate with each other
to achieve an optimized system performance. To demonstrate the efficacy of the
co-optimization methodology, an open-loop capacitive MEMS accelerometer and
an open-loop Coriolis vibratory MEMS gyroscope were simulated and optimized -
these devices saw a sensitivity improvement of 193.77% and 420.9%, respectively,
in comparison to its original state
Computational characterization and prediction of metal-organic framework properties
In this introductory review, we give an overview of the computational
chemistry methods commonly used in the field of metal-organic frameworks
(MOFs), to describe or predict the structures themselves and characterize their
various properties, either at the quantum chemical level or through classical
molecular simulation. We discuss the methods for the prediction of crystal
structures, geometrical properties and large-scale screening of hypothetical
MOFs, as well as their thermal and mechanical properties. A separate section
deals with the simulation of adsorption of fluids and fluid mixtures in MOFs
Quality constraint and rate-distortion optimization for predictive image coders
International audienceNext generations of image and video coding methods should of course be efficient in terms of compression, but also propose advanced functionalities. Among these functionalities such as scalability, lossy and lossless coding, data protection, Rate Distortion Optimization (RDO) and Rate Control (RC) are key issues. RDO aims at optimizing compression performances, while RC mechanism enables to exactly compress at a given rate. A less common functionality than RC, but certainly more helpful, is Quality Control (QC): the constraint is here given by the quality. In this paper, we introduce a joint solution for RDO and QC applied to a still image codec called Locally Adaptive Resolution (LAR), providing scalability both in resolution and SNR and based on a multi-resolution structure. The technique does not require any additional encoding pass. It relies on a modeling and estimation of the prediction errors obtained in an early work. First, quality constraint is applied and propagated through the whole resolution levels called pyramid. Then, the quantization parameters are deduced considering inter and intra pyramid level relationships. Results show that performances of the proposed method are very close to an exhaustive search solution
Objective and subjective evaluation of High Dynamic Range video compression
A number of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video compression algorithms proposed to date have either been developed in isolation or only-partially compared with each other. Previous evaluations were conducted using quality assessment error metrics, which for the most part were developed for qualitative assessment of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) videos. This paper presents a comprehensive objective and subjective evaluation conducted with six published HDR video compression algorithms. The objective evaluation was undertaken on a large set of 39 HDR video sequences using seven numerical error metrics namely: PSNR, logPSNR, puPSNR, puSSIM, Weber MSE, HDR-VDP and HDR-VQM. The subjective evaluation involved six short-listed sequences and two ranking-based subjective experiments with hidden reference at two different output bitrates with 32 participants each, who were tasked to rank distorted HDR video footage compared to an uncompressed version of the same footage. Results suggest a strong correlation between the objective and subjective evaluation. Also, non-backward compatible compression algorithms appear to perform better at lower output bit rates than backward compatible algorithms across the settings used in this evaluation
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