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Linear active disturbance rejection control of waste heat recovery systems with organic Rankine cycles
In this paper, a linear active disturbance rejection controller is proposed for a waste heat recovery system using an organic Rankine cycle process, whose model is obtained by applying the system identification technique. The disturbances imposed on the waste heat recovery system are estimated through an extended linear state observer and then compensated by a linear feedback control strategy. The proposed control strategy is applied to a 100 kW waste heat recovery system to handle the power demand variations of grid and process disturbances. The effectiveness of this controller is verified via a simulation study, and the results demonstrate that the proposed strategy can provide satisfactory tracking performance and disturbance rejection
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Spider III: A multi-agent-based distributed computing system
The project, Spider III, presents architecture and protocol of a multi-agent-based internet distributed computing system, which provides a convenient development and execution environment for transparent task distribution, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Spider is an on going distribution computing project in the Department of Computer Science, California State University San Bernardino. It was first proposed as an object-oriented distributed system by Han-Sheng Yuh in his master\u27s thesis in 1997. It has been further developed by Koping Wang in his master\u27s project, of where he made large contribution and implemented the Spider II System
Improving the weak feature extraction by adaptive stochastic resonance in cascaded piecewise-linear system and its application in bearing fault detection
In mechanical engineering field, early fault features are extremely weak and submerged in heavy noise, and the weak feature extraction is quite challenging. In this work, we apply the adaptive stochastic resonance in cascaded piecewise-linear system to extract the weak features. The adaptive stochastic resonance is realized by the quantum particle swarm algorithm. By optimizing system parameters, the efficiency of the feature extraction is improved greatly. As a result, the weak features can be easily extracted eventually. The effectiveness and the high-performance of the proposed method are verified by the numerical simulation and experimental data of rolling element bearings. The bearing fault under different motor loads is detected effectively, consequently confirming the robustness of the proposed method
Pseudogap and weak multifractality in disordered Mott charge-density-wave insulator
The competition, coexistence and cooperation of various orders in
low-dimensional materials like spin, charge, topological orders and
charge-density-wave has been one of the most intriguing issues in condensed
matter physics. In particular, layered transition metal dichalcogenides provide
an ideal platform for studying such an interplay with a notable case of
1-TaS featuring Mott-insulating ground state, charge-density-wave,
spin frustration and emerging superconductivity together. We investigated local
electronic states of Se-substituted 1-TaS by scanning tunneling
microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS), where superconductivity emerges from the
unique Mott-CDW state. Spatially resolved STS measurements reveal that an
apparent V-shape pseudogap forms at the Fermi Level (E), with the origin
of the electronic states splitting and transformation from the Mott states, and
the CDW gaps are largely preserved. The formation of the pseudogap has little
correlation to the variation of local Se concentration, but appears to be a
global characteristics. Furthermore, the correlation length of local density of
states (LDOS) diverges at the Fermi energy and decays rapidly at high energies.
The spatial correlation shows a power-law decay close to the Fermi energy. Our
statistics analysis of the LDOS indicates that our system exhibits weak
multifractal behavior of the wave functions. These findings strongly support a
correlated metallic state induced by disorder in our system, which provides an
new insight into the novel mechanism of emerging superconductivity in the
two-dimensional correlated electronic systems
Side by side tests of two SDHW systems with solar collectors with and without antireflection treatment
AbstractTwo low flow SDHW systems based on mantle tanks are tested side by side in a laboratory test facility for solar heating systems under the same weather and operation conditions. The systems are identical with the exception that one system is equipped with a solar collector with antireflection treated glass while the other system has a collector with a normal glass. Measurements of the thermal performance of the two systems have been carried out for a long measuring period. The thermal performances of the systems have also been calculated with a detailed simulation model. There is a good agreement between measured and calculated thermal performances for both systems. The extra thermal performance of the system with the solar collector with the anti reflection treated glass cover is a strong function of the solar fraction. In sunny periods with high solar fractions the percentage extra thermal performance gained by the antireflection treatment is low. In less sunny periods with low solar fractions the percentage extra thermal performance of the system with the antireflection treated cover glass is high, typically up to 8%
HiLM-D: Towards High-Resolution Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving systems generally employ separate models for different
tasks resulting in intricate designs. For the first time, we leverage singular
multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to consolidate multiple autonomous
driving tasks from videos, i.e., the Risk Object Localization and Intention and
Suggestion Prediction (ROLISP) task. ROLISP uses natural language to
simultaneously identify and interpret risk objects, understand ego-vehicle
intentions, and provide motion suggestions, eliminating the necessity for
task-specific architectures. However, lacking high-resolution (HR) information,
existing MLLMs often miss small objects (e.g., traffic cones) and overly focus
on salient ones (e.g., large trucks) when applied to ROLISP. We propose HiLM-D
(Towards High-Resolution Understanding in MLLMs for Autonomous Driving), an
efficient method to incorporate HR information into MLLMs for the ROLISP task.
Especially, HiLM-D integrates two branches: (i) the low-resolution reasoning
branch, can be any MLLMs, processes low-resolution videos to caption risk
objects and discern ego-vehicle intentions/suggestions; (ii) the
high-resolution perception branch (HR-PB), prominent to HiLM-D,, ingests HR
images to enhance detection by capturing vision-specific HR feature maps and
prioritizing all potential risks over merely salient objects. Our HR-PB serves
as a plug-and-play module, seamlessly fitting into current MLLMs. Experiments
on the ROLISP benchmark reveal HiLM-D's notable advantage over leading MLLMs,
with improvements of 4.8% in BLEU-4 for captioning and 17.2% in mIoU for
detection
An efficient certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol without bilinear pairings
Certificateless public key cryptography simplifies the complex certificate
management in the traditional public key cryptography and resolves the key
escrow problem in identity-based cryptography. Many certificateless
authenticated key agreement protocols using bilinear pairings have been
proposed. But the relative computation cost of the pairing is approximately
twenty times higher than that of the scalar multiplication over elliptic curve
group. Recently, several certificateless authenticated key agreement protocols
without pairings were proposed to improve the performance. In this paper, we
propose a new certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol without
pairing. The user in our just needs to compute five scale multiplication to
finish the key agreement. We also show the proposed protocol is secure in the
random oracle model
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