Application of Chaotic Motion to Industrial Compactors

This paper proposes and implements a novel electrically chaotic compactor. A modified time-delay feedback control method is applied to chaoize a DC motor in the compactor. The Poincaré map, the bifurcation diagram and the maximum Lyapunov exponent are used to analyze the chaos in the electrically chaotic compactor. Simulation comparison not only proves that the electrically chaotic compactor offers better compacting performance than the constant speed compactor but also verifies that the electrically chaotic compactor offers the advantages of good controllability and high flexibility rather than the mechanically chaotic compactor.published_or_final_versio

A novel stator doubly fed doubly salient permanent magnet brushless machine

In this paper, a novel stator doubly fed doubly salient-permanent magnet (SDFDS-PM) brushless machine topology is proposed, which not only reduces both PM material and field winding MMF significantly, but also offers the distinct advantage of wide constant-power operation range (namely, 4 times the base speed) which is essential for electric vehicle application.published_or_final_versio

eXCloud: Transparent runtime support for scaling mobile applications in cloud

Cloud computing augments applications with ease-of-access to the enormous resources on the Internet. Combined with mobile computing technologies, mobile applications can exploit the Cloud everywhere by statically distributing code segments or dynamically migrating running processes onto cloud services. Existing migration techniques are however too coarse-grained for mobile devices, so the overheads often offset the benefits of migration. To build a truly elastic mobile cloud computing infrastructure, we introduce eXCloud (eXtensible Cloud) - a middleware system with multi-level mobility support, ranging from as coarse as a VM instance to as fine as a runtime stack frame, and allows resources to be integrated and used dynamically. In eXCloud, a stack-on-demand (SOD) approach is used to support computation mobility throughout the mobile cloud environment. The approach is fully adaptive, goal-driven and transparent. By downward task migration, applications running on the cloud nodes can exploit or take control of special resources in mobile devices such as GPS and cameras. With a restorable MPI layer, task migrations of MPI parallel programs can happen between cloud nodes or be initiated from a mobile device. Our evaluation shows that SOD outperforms several existing migration mechanisms in terms of migration overhead and latency. All our techniques result in better resource utilization through task migrations among cloud nodes and mobile nodes.published_or_final_versionThe 2011 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC), Hong Kong, China, 12-14 December 2011. In Proceedings of CSC, 2011, p. 103-11

Analysis and stabilization of chaos in electric-vehicle steering system

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Chaotic speed synchronization control of multiple induction motors using stator flux regulation

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Cache affinity optimization techniques for scaling software transactional memory systems on multi-CMP architectures

Software transactional memory (STM) enhances both ease-of-use and concurrency, and is considered one of the next-generation paradigms for parallel programming. Application programs may see hotspots where data conflicts are intensive and seriously degrade the performance. So advanced STM systems employ dynamic concurrency control techniques to curb the conflict rate through properly throttling the rate of spawning transactions. High-end computers may have two or more multicore processors so that data sharing among cores goes through a non-uniform cache memory hierarchy. This poses challenges to concurrency control designs as improper metadata placement and sharing will introduce scalability issues to the system. Poor thread-to-core mappings that induce excessive cache invalidation are also detrimental to the overall performance. In this paper, we share our experience in designing and implementing a new dynamic concurrency controller for Tiny STM, which helps keeping the system concurrency at a near-optimal level. By decoupling unfavourable metadata sharing, our controller design avoids costly inter-processor communications. It also features an affinity-aware thread migration technique that fine-tunes thread placements by observing inter-thread transactional conflicts. We evaluate our implementation using the STAMP benchmark suite and show that the controller can bring around 21% average speedup over the baseline execution. © 2015 IEEE.postprin

Adaptive sampling-based profiling techniques for optimizing the distributed JVM runtime

Extending the standard Java virtual machine (JVM) for cluster-awareness is a transparent approach to scaling out multithreaded Java applications. While this clustering solution is gaining momentum in recent years, efficient runtime support for fine-grained object sharing over the distributed JVM remains a challenge. The system efficiency is strongly connected to the global object sharing profile that determines the overall communication cost. Once the sharing or correlation between threads is known, access locality can be optimized by collocating highly correlated threads via dynamic thread migrations. Although correlation tracking techniques have been studied in some page-based sof Tware DSM systems, they would entail prohibitively high overheads and low accuracy when ported to fine-grained object-based systems. In this paper, we propose a lightweight sampling-based profiling technique for tracking inter-thread sharing. To preserve locality across migrations, we also propose a stack sampling mechanism for profiling the set of objects which are tightly coupled with a migrant thread. Sampling rates in both techniques can vary adaptively to strike a balance between preciseness and overhead. Such adaptive techniques are particularly useful for applications whose sharing patterns could change dynamically. The profiling results can be exploited for effective thread-to-core placement and dynamic load balancing in a distributed object sharing environment. We present the design and preliminary performance result of our distributed JVM with the profiling implemented. Experimental results show that the profiling is able to obtain over 95% accurate global sharing profiles at a cost of only a few percents of execution time increase for fine- to medium- grained applications. © 2010 IEEE.published_or_final_versionThe 24th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2010), Atlanta, GA., 19-23 April 2010. In Proceedings of the 24th IPDPS, 2010, p. 1-1

Adaptive thread scheduling techniques for improving scalability of software transactional memory

Software transactional memory (STM) enhances both ease-of-use and concurrency, and is considered state-of-the-art for parallel applications to scale on modern multi-core hardware. However, there are certain situations where STM performs even worse than traditional locks. Upon hotspots where most threads contend over a few pieces of shared data, going transactional will result in excessive conflicts and aborts that adversely degrade performance. We present a new design of adaptive thread scheduler that manages concurrency when the system is about entering and leaving hotspots. The scheduler controls the number of threads spawning new transactions according to the live commit throughput. We implemented two feedback-control policies called Throttle and Probe to realize this adaptive scheduling. Performance evaluation with the STAMP benchmarks shows that enabling Throttle and Probe obtain best-case speedups of 87.5% and 108.7% respectively.postprintThe 10th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2011), Innsbruck, Austria, 15-17 February 2011. In Proceedings of the 10th IASTED-PDCN, 2011, p. 91-9

A Novel Stator Doubly Fed Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Brushless Machine

A novel stator doubly fed doubly salient permanent magnet (PM) brushless machine is proposed. The novelty of this machine is to purposely add an extra flux path in shunt with each PM pole, hence amplifying the effect of flux weakening for constant power operation. Magnetic circuit analysis is adopted to illustrate the novelty. Machine flux paths and performance curves determined by a finite-element analysis are presented for various excitations. The corresponding results show that the proposed machine is promising for application to electric vehicles.published_or_final_versio

Modeling of a field-modulated permanent-magnet machine

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