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Battery Charge Applications Based on Wide Output Voltage Range
In this study, high efficiency design procedure of a phase shifted full bridge (PSFB) converter is presented for on-board electrical vehicle (EV) battery charger. Presented design methodology used lithium-ion battery cells because of their high voltage and current rates compared to a lead-acid battery cells. In this case, PSFB converter can be regulated wide range output voltage with while its soft switching operation is maintained. The basic operation principles of PSFB converter is defined and its soft switching operation requirements are given. To evaluate the performance of the converter over wide output voltage range, zero voltage switching (ZVS) operation of converter is discussed based on dead time requirement. To improve efficiency, the snubber inductance effects on soft switching over wide output voltage range are evaluated. Finally, operation of the PSFB converter is validated experimentally with a prototype which has 42-54 V/15 A output range at 200 kHz switching frequency
With four Standard Model families, the LHC could discover the Higgs boson with a few fb^-1
The existence of a 4th SM family would produce a large enhancement of the
gluon fusion channel of Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. In this
case, the SM Higgs boson could be seen at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
via the golden mode (H->4l) with an integral luminosity of only a few fb^-1.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, references updated in v
Cumulant based identification approaches for nonminimum phase FIR systems
Cataloged from PDF version of article.In this paper, recursive and least squares methods
for identification of nonminimum phase linear time-invariant
(NMP-LTI) FIR systems are developed. The methods utilize the
second- and third-order cumulants of the output of the FIR
system whose input is an independent, identically distributed
(i.i.d.) non-Gaussian process. Since knowledge of the system
order is of utmost importance to many system identification algorithms,
new procedures for determining the order of an FIR
system using only the output cumulants are also presented. To
illustrate the effectiveness of our methods, various simulation
examples are presented
Block wavelet transforms for image coding
Cataloged from PDF version of article.In this paper, a new class of block transforms is presented.
These transforms are constructed from subband decomposition filter
banks corresponding to regular wavelets. New transforms are compared
to the discrete cosine transform (DCT). Image coding schemes that
employ the block wavelet transform (BWT) are developed. BWT's can be
implemented by fast (O(N log N)) algorithms
Test beam studies of the TRD prototype filled with different gas mixtures based on Xe, Kr, and Ar
Towards the end of LHC Run1, gas leaks were observed in some parts of the
Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) of ATLAS. Due to these leaks, primary Xenon
based gas mixture was replaced with Argon based mixture in various parts.
Test-beam studies with a dedicated Transition Radiation Detector (TRD)
prototype were carried out in 2015 in order to understand transition radiation
performance with mixtures based on Argon and Krypton. We present and discuss
the results of these test-beam studies with different active gas compositions.Comment: 5 pages,12 figures, The 2nd International Conference on Particle
Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA-2016); Acknowledgments section correcte
Salient point region covariance descriptor for target tracking
Cataloged from PDF version of article.Features extracted at salient points are used to construct a
region covariance descriptor (RCD) for target tracking. In the classical
approach, the RCD is computed by using the features at each pixel
location, which increases the computational cost in many cases. This
approach is redundant because image statistics do not change significantly
between neighboring image pixels. Furthermore, this redundancy
may decrease tracking accuracy while tracking large targets because statistics
of flat regions dominate region covariance matrix. In the proposed
approach, salient points are extracted via the Shi and Tomasi’s minimum
eigenvalue method over a Hessian matrix, and the RCD features extracted
only at these salient points are used in target tracking. Experimental
results indicate that the salient point RCD scheme provides comparable
and even better tracking results compared to a classical RCD-based
approach, scale-invariant feature transform, and speeded-up robust
features-based trackers while providing a computationally more efficient
structure. © 2013 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) [DOI: 10
.1117/1.OE.52.2.027207
Architecting in global software engineering
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This paper summarizes the results of the First Workshop on Architecting
in Global Software Engineering (GSE), which was organized
in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on
Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2011). The workshop
aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners for defining
and advancing the state-of-the-art and state-of-the practice in
architecture design of global software development systems
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