Hierarchically Clustered Adaptive Quantization CMAC and Its Learning Convergence

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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of mixed conductors under a chemical potential gradient: a case study of Pt|SDC|BSCF

The AC impedance response of mixed ionic and electronic conductors (MIECs) exposed to a chemical potential gradient is derived from first principles. In such a system, the chemical potential gradient induces a gradient in the carrier concentration. For the particular system considered, 15% samarium doped ceria (SDC15) with Ba_(0.5)Sr_(0.5)Co_(0.8)Fe_(0.2O3-) (BSCF) and Pt electrodes, the oxygen vacancy concentration is a constant under the experimental conditions and it is the electron concentration that varies. The resulting equations are mapped to an equivalent circuit that bears some resemblance to recently discussed equivalent circuit models for MIECs under uniform chemical potential conditions, but differs in that active elements, specifically, voltage-controlled current sources, occur. It is shown that from a combination of open circuit voltage measurements and AC impedance spectroscopy, it is possible to use this model to determine the oxygen partial pressure drop that occurs between the gas phase in the electrode chambers and the electrode|electrolyte interface, as well as the interfacial polarization resistance. As discussed in detail, this resistance corresponds to the slope of the interfacial polarization curve. Measurements were carried out at temperatures between 550 and 650 °C and oxygen partial pressure at the Pt anode ranging from 10^(-29) to 10^(-24) atm (attained using H_2/H_2O/Ar mixtures), while the cathode was exposed to either synthetic air or neat oxygen. The oxygen partial pressure drop at the anode was typically about five orders of magnitude, whereas that at the cathode was about 0.1 atm for measurements using air. Accordingly, the poor activity of the anode is responsible for a loss in open circuit voltage of about 0.22 V, whereas the cathode is responsible for only about 0.01 V, reflecting the high activity of BSCF for oxygen electro-reduction. The interfacial polarization resistance at the anode displayed dependences on oxygen partial pressure and on temperature that mimic those of the electronic resistivity of SDC15. This behavior is consistent with hydrogen electro-oxidation occurring directly on the ceria surface and electron migration being the rate-limiting step. However, the equivalent resistance implied by the oxygen partial pressure drop across the anode displayed slightly different behavior, possibly indicative of a more complex reaction pathway

Effects of demographic noise on the synchronization of a metapopulation in a fluctuating environment

We use the theory of noise-induced phase synchronization to analyze the effects of demographic noise on the synchronization of a metapopulation of predator-prey systems within a fluctuating environment (Moran effect). Treating each local predator–prey population as a stochastic urn model, we derive a Langevin equation for the stochastic dynamics of the metapopulation. Assuming each local population acts as a limit cycle oscillator in the deterministic limit, we use phase reduction and averaging methods to derive the steady state probability density for pairwise phase differences between oscillators, which is then used to determine the degree of synchronization of\ud the metapopulation

Disentangling the entangled: Observations and analysis of the triple non-coeval protostellar system VLA1623

Commonplace at every evolutionary stage, Multiple Protostellar Systems (MPSs) are thought to be formed through fragmentation, but it is unclear when and how. The youngest MPSs, which have not yet undergone much evolution, provide important constraints to this question. It is then of interest to disentangle early stage MPSs. In this letter we present the results of our work on VLA1623 using our observations and archival data from the Submillimeter Array (SMA). Our continuum and line observations trace VLA1623's components, outflow and envelope, revealing unexpected characteristics. We construct the SED for each component using the results of our work and data from literature, as well as derive physical parameters from continuum and perform a simple kinematical analysis of the circumstellar material. Our results show VLA1623 to be a triple non-coeval system composed of VLA1623A, B & W, with each source driving its own outflow and unevenly distributed circumstellar material. From the SED, physical parameters and IR emission we conclude that VLA1623A & W are Class 0 and I protostars, respectively, and together drive the bulk of the observed outflow. Furthermore, we find two surprising results, first the presence of a rotating disk-like structure about VLA1623A with indications of pure Keplerian rotation, which, if real, would make it one of the first evidence of Keplerian disk structures around Class 0 protostars. Second, we find VLA1623B to be a bonafide extremely young protostellar object between the starless core and Class 0 stages.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, 1 Table, Accepted to Ap

Design and Implementation of an RNS-based 2D DWT Processor

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Dispersal and noise: Various modes of synchrony in\ud ecological oscillators

We use the theory of noise-induced phase synchronization to analyze the effects of dispersal on the synchronization of a pair of predator-prey systems within a fluctuating environment (Moran effect). Assuming that each isolated local population acts as a limit cycle oscillator in the deterministic limit, we use phase reduction and averaging methods to derive a Fokker–Planck equation describing the evolution of the probability density for pairwise phase differences between the oscillators. In the case of common environmental noise, the oscillators ultimately synchronize. However the approach to synchrony depends on whether or not dispersal in the absence of noise supports any stable asynchronous states. We also show how the combination of correlated (shared) and uncorrelated (unshared) noise with dispersal can lead to a multistable\ud steady-state probability density

Combating False Reports for Secure Networked Control in Smart Grid via Trustiness Evaluation

Smart grid, equipped with modern communication infrastructures, is subject to possible cyber attacks. Particularly, false report attacks which replace the sensor reports with fraud ones may cause the instability of the whole power grid or even result in a large area blackout. In this paper, a trustiness system is introduced to the controller, who computes the trustiness of different sensors by comparing its prediction, obtained from Kalman filtering, on the system state with the reports from sensor. The trustiness mechanism is discussed and analyzed for the Linear Quadratic Regulation (LQR) controller. Numerical simulations show that the trustiness system can effectively combat the cyber attacks to smart grid.Comment: It has been submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC

On the Implementation of Efficient Channel Filters for Wideband Receivers by Optimizing Common Subexpression Elimination Methods

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Minimum Restraint Functions for unbounded dynamics: general and control-polynomial systems

We consider an exit-time minimum problem with a running cost, $l\geq 0$ and unbounded controls. The occurrence of points where $l=0$ can be regarded as a transversality loss. Furthermore, since controls range over unbounded sets, the family of admissible trajectories may lack important compactness properties. In the first part of the paper we show that the existence of a $p_0$-minimum restraint function provides not only global asymptotic controllability (despite non-transversality) but also a state-dependent upper bound for the value function (provided $p_0>0$). This extends to unbounded dynamics a former result which heavily relied on the compactness of the control set. In the second part of the paper we apply the general result to the case when the system is polynomial in the control variable. Some elementary, algebraic, properties of the convex hull of vector-valued polynomials' ranges allow some simplifications of the main result, in terms of either near-affine-control systems or reduction to weak subsystems for the original dynamics.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.0344