scholarly journals Device for Contact Measurement of Turbine Blade Geometry in Robotic Grinding Process

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 7053
Author(s):  
Dariusz Szybicki ◽  
Andrzej Burghardt ◽  
Krzysztof Kurc ◽  
Piotr Gierlak

The article discusses the design, implementation, and testing of the accuracy of a measuring device used to measure the thickness of aircraft engine blades subjected to a robotic grinding process. The assumptions that the measuring device should meet were presented. The manufactured device was subjected to accuracy and repeatability tests using a standard workpiece. The analysis of research results proved that the measuring device exhibits an accuracy of one order of magnitude better than the accuracy required for blades. For control of the grinding process, the results should be perceived as appropriate. Then, the device was subjected to verification consisting in using it to measure the thickness of aircraft engine blades. The constructed device can be used, not only for inspection of final products, but also for control of the robotic grinding process because thanks to the output interface it can be used in the robotic station’s feedback loop.

1964 ◽  
Vol 179 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Vafiadakis ◽  
W. Johnson ◽  
I. S. Donaldson

Earlier work on a water-hammer technique for high-rate forming of sheet metal has been extended to include work on deep drawing using lead plugs. A study of the pressure-time history of a deforming blank during its initial movement is reported. An assessment of the overall efficiency of the process has been made and is found to be about 50 per cent; this is an order of magnitude better than that found with comparable electro-hydraulic and explosive methods.


2021 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Kirill Yu. Solomentsev ◽  
Vyacheslav I. Lachin ◽  
Aleksandr E. Pasenchuk

Several variants of half division two-dimensional method are proposed, which is the basis of a fundamentally new approach for constructing measuring instruments for sinusoidal or periodic electrical quantities. These measuring instruments are used in the diagnosis of electric power facilities. The most general variant, called midpoint method, is considered. The proposed midpoint method allows you to measure much smaller than using widespread methods, alternating currents or voltages, especially when changing the amplitude of the measured signal in very wide ranges, by 1–2 orders of magnitude. It is shown that using the midpoint method it is possible to suppress sinusoidal or periodic interference in the measuring path, in particular, to measure small alternating current when sinusoidal or periodic interference is 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than the useful signal. Based on the results of comparative tests, it was found that the current measuring device implementing the midpoint method is an order of magnitude more sensitive than the currently used high-precision measuring instruments.


2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1319-1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Morawiec

A method that improves the accuracy of misorientations determined from Kikuchi patterns is described. It is based on the fact that some parameters of a misorientation calculated from two orientations are more accurate than other parameters. A procedure which eliminates inaccurate elements is devised. It requires at least two foil inclinations. The quality of the approach relies on the possibility to set large sample-to-detector distances and the availability of good spatial resolution of transmission electron microscopy. Achievable accuracy is one order of magnitude better than the accuracy of the standard procedure.


2019 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Murukesan Loganathan ◽  
Thennarasan Sabapathy ◽  
Mohamed Elobaid Elshaikh ◽  
Mohamed Nasrun Osman ◽  
Rosemizi Abd Rahim ◽  
...  

Efficient collision arbitration protocol facilitates fast tag identification in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. EPCGlobal-Class1-Generation2 (EPC-C1G2) protocol is the current standard for collision arbitration in commercial RFID systems. However, the main drawback of this protocol is that it requires excessive message exchanges between tags and the reader for its operation. This wastes energy of the already resource-constrained RFID readers. Hence, in this work, reinforcement learning based anti-collision protocol (RL-DFSA) is proposed to address the energy efficient collision arbitration problem in the RFID system. The proposed algorithm continuously learns and adapts to the changes in the environment by devising an optimal policy. The proposed RL-DFSA was evaluated through extensive simulations and compared with the variants of EPC-C1G2 algorithms that are currently being used in the commercial readers. Based on the results, it is concluded that RL-DFSA performs equal or better than EPC-C1G2 protocol in delay, throughput and time system efficiency when simulated for sparse and dense environments while requiring one order of magnitude lesser control message exchanges between the reader and the tags.


2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitri B. Strukov ◽  
Konstantin K. Likharev

We have calculated the maximum useful bit density that may be achieved by the synergy of bad bit exclusion and advanced (BCH) error correcting codes in prospective crossbar nanoelectronic memories, as a function of defective memory cell fraction. While our calculations are based on a particular ("CMOL") memory topology, with naturally segmented nanowires and an area-distributed nano/CMOS interface, for realistic parameters our results are also applicable to "global" crossbar memories with peripheral interfaces. The results indicate that the crossbar memories with a nano/CMOS pitch ratio close to 1/3 (which is typical for the current, initial stage of the nanoelectronics development) may overcome purely semiconductor memories in useful bit density if the fraction of nanodevice defects (stuck-on-faults) is below ∼15%, even under rather tough, 30 ns upper bound on the total access time. Moreover, as the technology matures, and the pitch ratio approaches an order of magnitude, the crossbar memories may be far superior to the densest semiconductor memories by providing, e.g., a 1 Tbit/cm2 density even for a plausible defect fraction of 2%. These highly encouraging results are much better than those reported in literature earlier, including our own early work, mostly due to more advanced error correcting codes.


1995 ◽  
Vol 396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Allen ◽  
Loren L. Funk ◽  
Edward A. Ryan

AbstractDuring 1995, a state-of-the-art intermediate voltage electron microscope (IVEM) has been installed in the HVEM-Tandem Facility with in situ ion irradiation capabilities similar to those of the HVEM. A 300 kV Hitachi H-9000NAR has been interfaced to the two ion accelerators of the Facility, with a spatial resolution for imaging which is nearly an order of magnitude better than that for the 1.2 MV HVEM which dates from the early 1970s. The HVEM remains heavily utilized for electron- and ion irradiation-related materials studies, nevertheless, especially those for which less demanding microscopy is adequate. The capabilities and limitations of this IVEM and HVEM are compared. Both the HVEM and IVEM are part of the DOE funded User Facility and therefore are available to the scientific community for materials studies, free of charge for non-proprietary research.


1983 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 551-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Y. Mills

An understanding of the radio properties and evolution of Galactic supernova remnants has always been hampered by the difficulty of measuring distances. A conventional wisdom has developed around a set of ‘good’ calibrators but most workers involved have drawn attention to the uncertainties and the possibility of selection effects distorting results. This major difficulty is completely overcome by studying SNRs in the Magellanic Clouds. Although there is uncertainty in the absolute distance scale, relative distances can be determined to better than 10% and differences of this magnitude are not significant when intercomparing SNRs. There is, however, another set of problems associated with sensitivity and resolution. The Clouds are an order of magnitude more distant than the average distance of Galactic SNRs, thus many of the SNRs are close to or below the sensitivity limits of most of the southern radiotelescopes and, until recently, the resolution available has often been inadequate to separate non-thermal sources from thermal HII regions, so that both flux densities and spectra have been subject to error. Also there are ∼ 1000 extragalactic background sources which can mimic the flux density and spectra of SNRs in the Clouds, particularly when close to or behind HII regions; as a result numerous incorrect or doubtful SNR identifications have been suggested.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-193
Author(s):  
Janet Schmalfeldt

The theoretic model of the “unreliable narrative” in fiction took flight in the early 1960s; it has since become a key concept in narratology, and an indispensable one. Simply put, first-person unreliable narrators are ones about whom we as readers, in collusion with the author, learn more than they know about themselves. Romantic precursors of modernist experiments in fiction—incipient cases of narrative unreliability—arise in the works of, among others, Jean Paul Richter and Heinrich Heine, two of Robert Schumann's favorite writers. In his early solo piano cycle, Papillons, op. 2, Schumann draws inspiration from Jean Paul's novel Flegeljahre, surely capturing something of the author's unreliably quirky literary style, in part through the strategy of tonal pairing. Whereas Schumann ultimately played down the programmatic elements of Papillons that trace back to the unpredictable Jean Paul, a genuine instance of the unreliable narrator is Heine's troubled poet-persona in Schumann's Dichterliebe. Here the composer invites us to perceive a second persona through the voice of the piano—one that understands the poet better than he does, and whose music reveals from the outset that rejection in love lies ahead. The emergence of narrative unreliability in fiction may have served as an influence that drove experimentation not only for Schumann but also for some of his contemporaries and successors. Debates about musical narrativity might profit from considering the recent literary concept of a “feedback loop,” in which the author, the narrator (text), and the narratee (reader)—in our case, the composer, the performer, and the listener (including analysts, performers, and composers, who are also intensive listeners)—continually and recursively interact.


2002 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
Jean-François Desmurs ◽  
Valentín Bujarrabal ◽  
Francisco Colomer ◽  
Javier Alcolea

We have performed VLBA observations of the SiO v = 1 and v = 2 J = 1-0 masers in two AGB stars, TX Cam and IRC +10011. We confirm the ring-like spatial distribution, previously found in several AGB objects, as well as the tangential polarization pattern, already reported for TX Cam. Both properties, that seem to be systematic in this kind of objects, are characteristic of radiatively pumped SiO masers. On the contrary, we do not confirm the previous report on the spatial coincidence between the J = 1-0 v = 1 and 2 masers, a result that would have argued in favor of collisional pumping. We find that both lines sometimes arise from nearby spots, typically separated by 1-2 mas, but are rarely coincident. The discrepancy with previous results is explained by the very high spatial resolution of our observations, ∼ 0.5 mas, an order of magnitude better than in the relevant previously published experiment. Moreover, we have been able to measure a probable rotation of the inner shell of a few km/s. Rotation of circumstellar shells is assumed by the most convincing models explaining the drastic change of symmetry between the AGB envelopes (spherical symmetry) and Proto Planetary Nebulae (axial symmetry).


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