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Angular position and velocity sensing apparatus Patent
Describing angular position and velocity sensing apparatu
Analysis of magnetically-controlled processes in pulse-modulation systems
Investigation established analytic expressions for the design of pulse modulators with modulating signal control of the reset level of flux in a nonlinear magnetic core. Expressions derived are applicable to both pulse-width and pulse-rate modulator designs
Magnetic bearings with combined radial and axial control
Bearings reduce friction by allowing air of vacuum gaps between rotating members through properly-applied magnetic fields. Advantages: There is no physical contact between rotor and support structure; bearings operate directly in vacuum environment without lubrication; and there is unlimited operating lifetime, independent of speed
Engagement Amid Austerity: A Bipartisan Approach to Reorienting the International Affairs Budget
Examines trends that influence U.S. foreign aid and proposes reforms to better target economic and security assistance, transition ownership of PEPFAR to host countries, overhaul food aid, and establish an international affairs realignment commission
Momentum wheel with magnetic bearings
An engineering model of a momentum wheel is described that is suspended by magnetic bearings. It consists of a mechanical assembly on the right, and associated electronics on the left. The momentum wheel is mounted at the center of the rotor shaft and the magnetic bearings are on each end. The rotor is magnetically suspended so there is no physical contact between the rotor and the support structure. The system, therefore, can operate directly in the vacuum environment without lubrication; and it has virtually unlimited operating lifetime, independent of speed
Properties and numerical evaluation of the Rosenblatt distribution
This paper studies various distributional properties of the Rosenblatt
distribution. We begin by describing a technique for computing the cumulants.
We then study the expansion of the Rosenblatt distribution in terms of shifted
chi-squared distributions. We derive the coefficients of this expansion and use
these to obtain the L\'{e}vy-Khintchine formula and derive asymptotic
properties of the L\'{e}vy measure. This allows us to compute the cumulants,
moments, coefficients in the chi-square expansion and the density and
cumulative distribution functions of the Rosenblatt distribution with a high
degree of precision. Tables are provided and software written to implement the
methods described here is freely available by request from the authors.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ421 the Bernoulli
(http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm
Distribution functions of Poisson random integrals: Analysis and computation
We want to compute the cumulative distribution function of a one-dimensional
Poisson stochastic integral I(\krnl) = \displaystyle \int_0^T \krnl(s) N(ds),
where is a Poisson random measure with control measure and \krnl is a
suitable kernel function. We do so by combining a Kolmogorov-Feller equation
with a finite-difference scheme. We provide the rate of convergence of our
numerical scheme and illustrate our method on a number of examples. The
software used to implement the procedure is available on demand and we
demonstrate its use in the paper.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
A modified approach to controller partitioning
The idea of computing a decentralized control law for the integrated flight/propulsion control of an aircraft by partitioning a given centralized controller is investigated. An existing controller partitioning methodology is described, and a modified approach is proposed with the objective of simplifying the associated controller approximation problem. Under the existing approach, the decentralized control structure is a variable in the partitioning process; by contrast, the modified approach assumes that the structure is fixed a priori. Hence, the centralized controller design may take the decentralized control structure into account. Specifically, the centralized controller may be designed to include all the same inputs and outputs as the decentralized controller; then, the two controllers may be compared directly, simplifying the partitioning process considerably. Following the modified approach, a centralized controller is designed for an example aircraft mode. The design includes all the inputs and outputs to be used in a specified decentralized control structure. However, it is shown that the resulting centralized controller is not well suited for approximation by a decentralized controller of the given structure. The results indicate that it is not practical in general to cast the controller partitioning problem as a direct controller approximation problem
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