242 research outputs found

    Direct sampling method to inverse wave-number-dependent source problems (part I): determination of the support of a stationary source

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    This paper is concerned with a direct sampling method for imaging the support of a frequency-dependent source term embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic medium. The source term is given by the Fourier transform of a time-dependent source whose radiating period in the time domain is known. The time-dependent source is supposed to be stationary in the sense that its compact support does not vary along the time variable. Via a multi-frequency direct sampling method, we show that the smallest strip containing the source support and perpendicular to the observation direction can be recovered from far-field patterns at a fixed observation angle. With multiple but sparse observation directions, the shape of the convex hull of the source support can be recovered. The frequency-domain analysis performed here can be used to handle inverse time-dependent source problems. Our algorithm has low computational overhead and is robust against noise. Numerical experiments in both two and three dimensions have proved our theoretical findings

    Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate

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    Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially available acousto-optic modulators are based on bulk materials and consume Watts of radio frequency power. Here, we demonstrate an integrated 3-GHz acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate, featuring a carrier suppression over 30 dB. Further, we demonstrate a gigahertz-spaced optical frequency comb featuring more than 200 lines over a 0.6-THz optical bandwidth by recirculating the light in an active frequency shifting loop. Our integrated acousto-optic platform leads to the development of on-chip optical routing, isolation, and microwave signal processing

    UV R-CNN: Stable and Efficient Dense Human Pose Estimation

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    Dense pose estimation is a dense 3D prediction task for instance-level human analysis, aiming to map human pixels from an RGB image to a 3D surface of the human body. Due to a large amount of surface point regression, the training process appears to be easy to collapse compared to other region-based human instance analyzing tasks. By analyzing the loss formulation of the existing dense pose estimation model, we introduce a novel point regression loss function, named Dense Points} loss to stable the training progress, and a new balanced loss weighting strategy to handle the multi-task losses. With the above novelties, we propose a brand new architecture, named UV R-CNN. Without auxiliary supervision and external knowledge from other tasks, UV R-CNN can handle many complicated issues in dense pose model training progress, achieving 65.0% APgpsAP_{gps} and 66.1% APgpsmAP_{gpsm} on the DensePose-COCO validation subset with ResNet-50-FPN feature extractor, competitive among the state-of-the-art dense human pose estimation methods.Comment: 9pages, 4 figure

    MITIGATING THE GLASS-WEAVE EFFECT INSIDE A BGA

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    For a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes many high-speed differential pairs may be routed the signal integrity (SI) performance of the pairs is to be carefully considered. One factor that may lead to a poorer SI performance, on the PCB itself and within a ball grid array (BGA) that is mounted on the PCB, is the glass-weave effect. To mitigate the impact of the glass-weave effect inside of a BGA, techniques are presented herein that support rotating the BGA by a free angle. With such a BGA rotation, a pair\u27s traces will be rotated by the same angle and, consequently, the glass-weave effect on those traces can be mitigated

    Investigation of skewing effects on the vibration reduction of three-phase switched reluctance motors

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    Switched reluctance motors (SRMs) are gaining in popularity because of their robustness, low cost, and excellent high-speed characteristics. However, they are known to cause vibration and noise primarily due to the radial pulsating force resulting from their double-saliency structure. This paper investigates the effect of skewing the stator and/or rotor on the vibration reduction of the three-phase SRMs by developing four 12/8-pole SRMs, including a conventional SRM, a skewed rotor-SRM (SR-SRM), a skewed stator-SRM (SS-SRM), and a skewed stator and rotor-SRM (SSR-SRM). The radial force distributed on the stator yoke under different skewing angles is extensively studied by the finite-element method and experimental tests on the four prototypes. The inductance and torque characteristics of the four motors are also compared, and a control strategy by modulating the turn-ON and turn-OFF angles for the SR-SRM and the SS-SRM are also presented. Furthermore, experimental results validate the numerical models and the effectiveness of the skewing in reducing the motor vibration. Test results also suggest that skewing the stator is more effective than skewing the rotor in the SRMs

    Investigation of Short Permanent Magnet and Stator Flux Bridge Effects on Cogging Torque Mitigation in FSPM Machines

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    Flux-switching permanent magnet (FSPM) machines are gaining in popularity due to their robustness, wide speed range, high torque, and high power density. However, their strong cogging torque can lead to vibration and noise due to the double-saliency structure. This paper investigates the effects of the short permanent magnet (PM) and stator flux bridge (FB) on the cogging torque reduction of three-phase 12/10-pole FSPM machines. Four different FSPM machines, including an inner-inner topology, an inner-outer topology, an outer-inner topology, and an outer-outer topology, are developed and analyzed with both short PM and stator FB. The configurations are obtained by placing the FB at inner/outer stator lamination and reducing the PM towards inner/outer directions. The cogging torque, average output torque, and PM utilization ratio of different topologies are extensively studied and compared by the finite element method (FEM). Finally, prototype machines are manufactured and tested. The experimental results have validated the numerical models and the effectiveness of the developed machine in reducing the cogging torque. The results also suggest that the outer-inner topology is more effective to reduce the cogging torque, which not only reduces the utilization of the PM materials, but also mitigates the cogging torque at only slight cost of torque performance

    Design Of Power Transformer Online Monitoring System Based On GPRS

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    Abstract: This paper uses the design scheme which is based on of the microcontroller of C8051F580 and threephase electric energy metering chip, finished collection, processing and transmitting for the signal of the power of the transformer and the state of the switch. This system takes Server SQL 2008 as the background database, and achieves visiting by the ADO.NET data access technology. The management software of the monitoring master station is responsible for receiving, analyzing and processing, to form the graphics, reports and other types. The database access mode in this paper is based on B/S and C/S. The test results showed that the system worked stably, and realized the functions, which realizes the real-time monitoring of the transformer on operation data, remote data transmission, timely alarming and so on

    Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Real-World Optimization Problems

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