DEVELOPMENT OF VIBRATION ISOLATOR USING MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ELASTOMER MATERIAL BASED

Many vibration isolators, for instance, passive vehicle mounting device, have fixed stiffness. This article presents the development of the adjustable stiffness engine mounting magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) based to reduce vibration. The development of MREs vibration isolator is to design of engine mounting first step, for next step is to simulate the electromagnetic circuit. The housing material selection and MREs thickness were considered to equip sufficient, uniform magnetic fields to change the stiffness. The innovative magnetic circuit design includes the type and size of the wire and the number of the coil turns to obtain the best magnetic fields to eliminate vibration. Finite Element Method Magnetics (FEMM) software was utilized to show the effectiveness of the electromagnetic circuit in generating magnetic fields through the MREs. Finally, various current input influence to the MREs vibration isolator is investigated. The higher current input is more useful to eliminate vibration using MREs isolator system.

Knowledge dialogue generation with multi-head attention mechanism

An increasing number of research efforts are focusing on knowledge dialogue generation. Less attention is focused on increasing knowledge diversity in generated responses. A model of knowledge selection guided by a multi-head attention mechanism is proposed. First, the current input discourse and knowledge content are input into the Bi-GRU module to obtain the coding vector, and then obtain multiple aspects of semantics from the user input discourse coding vector based on the multi-head attention mechanism, so as to select different knowledge. A punishment item method is proposed to force different attention to focus on different aspects, and finally, use the user input and selected knowledge for the decoding stage. Experiments with manual and automated evaluations have proven that the model is superior to the baseline model compared to previous work.

Magnetically-Induced Pressure Generation in Magnetorheological Fluids under the Influence of Magnetic Fields

This study aims to observe the magnitude of the Magnetorheological Fluids (MRFs) pressure due to the application of a magnetic field. This was accomplished by placing the MRFs in a U-shaped tube, then applying a magnetic field generated by a magnetic coil. A finite element simulation for the magnetic field was carried out to estimate the magnetic field strength generated by the coil variable to the current input given in the simulated apparatus. Changes in MRFs pressure were recorded using a data logger to better observe the fluid pressure phenomena occurring in the MRFs with respect to current input variations. The results showed that the magnetic field influences the MRFs fluid pressure proportionally. The slope is not constant as the magnetic field effect to the fluid pressure gets stronger when the current input is higher. However, there are also an adverse effect of heat generated in the coil in higher current, which results in coil performance degradation and reduces the magnetic field strength.

Electronically Tunable Third Order Feed Forward CM Band Pass Filter for Q = 10

A new electronically tunable current-mode third order filter is proposed in this paper. OP-AMP is used as an active building block. With current input the filter can realize band pass responses in current mode. The filter circuit realizes calculated transfer function. The other attractive features of the filter are a) Employment of minimum active and passive elements b) Responses are electronically tunable c) Low active and passive sensitivities d) Suitable for high frequency operation e) Ideal for integrated circuit implementation.

Detection and Avoidance of Barriers in Driverless Cars using Deep Learning Techniques

In the advance of the technology and implantation of Internet of Things (IoT), the realization of smart city seems to be very needed. One of the key parts of a cyber-physical system of urban life is transportation. Such mission-critical application has led to inquisitiveness in researchers to develop autonomous robots from academicians and industry. In the domain of autonomous robot, intelligent video analytics is very crucial. By the advent of deep learning many neural ¬¬¬networks-based learning approaches are considered. One of the advanced Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) method is exploited for real-time video/image analysis using an IOT device and vehicles/any barrier avoidance on road is done using image processing. The proposed work makes use of SSD algorithm which is responsible for object detection and image processing to control the car, based on its current input. Thus, this work aims to develop real-time barrier detection and barrier avoidance for autonomous robots using a camera and barrier avoidance sensor in an unstructured environment.

Fully 3D-printed soft robots with integrated fluidic circuitry

The emergence of soft robots has presented new challenges associated with controlling the underlying fluidics of such systems. Here, we introduce a strategy for additively manufacturing unified soft robots comprising fully integrated fluidic circuitry in a single print run via PolyJet three-dimensional (3D) printing. We explore the efficacy of this approach for soft robots designed to leverage novel 3D fluidic circuit elements—e.g., fluidic diodes, “normally closed” transistors, and “normally open” transistors with geometrically tunable pressure-gain functionalities—to operate in response to fluidic analogs of conventional electronic signals, including constant-flow [“direct current (DC)”], “alternating current (AC)”–inspired, and preprogrammed aperiodic (“variable current”) input conditions. By enabling fully integrated soft robotic entities (composed of soft actuators, fluidic circuitry, and body features) to be rapidly disseminated, modified on demand, and 3D-printed in a single run, the presented design and additive manufacturing strategy offers unique promise to catalyze new classes of soft robots.

Current Input Pixel-Level ADC with High SNR and Wide Dynamic Range for a Microbolometer

A readout circuit incorporating a pixel-level analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is studied for two-dimensional medium wavelength infrared microbolometer arrays. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and charge handling capacity of the unit cell circuit are improved by using the current input pixel-level ADC. The charge handling capacity of the integrator is appropriately extended to maximize the integration time regardless of the magnitude of the input current and low power supply voltage. The readout circuit was fabricated using a 0.35-μm 2-poly 4-metal CMOS process for a 640 × 512 array with a pixel size of 40 μm × 40 μm. The peak SNR and dynamic range are 77.1 and 80.1 dB, respectively, with a power consumption of 0.62 μW per pixel.

Same Stimulus, Same Temporal Context, Different Percept? Individual Differences in Hysteresis and Adaptation When Perceiving Multistable Dot Lattices

How we perceptually organize a visual stimulus depends not only on the stimulus itself, but also on the temporal and spatial context in which the stimulus is presented as well as on the individual processing the stimulus and context. Earlier research found both attractive and repulsive context effects in perception (Snyder, Schwiedrzik, Vitela, & Melloni, 2015): tendencies to organize visual input in a similar way as preceding or simultaneous context stimuli (i.e., hysteresis, attraction) co-exist with tendencies that repel or move away the current percept from the organization that is most dominant in these contextual stimuli (i.e., adaptation, repulsion). These processes have been studied mostly on a group level (e.g., Schwiedrzik et al., 2014). The present study will investigate whether consistent individual differences exist in these attractive and repulsive temporal context effects, using multistable dot lattices as stimuli. In addition, the relation of the strength of these effects with the strength of individual biases for absolute orientations will be investigated. In this way, the study will provide insight in how different individuals combine previous input and experience with current input in their perception, and more generally, whether different individuals can perceive identical stimuli differently even within a similar context.

Measurement of parameters of the superconducting non-insulated coils

The electrical characteristics of superconducting coils with non-insulated windings are studied. The procedures for measuring the parameters of uninsulated superconducting windings are described. In particular, the inductance is measured by voltage with a linear current input at a given rate. Attention is focused on the impossibility of correctly determining the inductance in a winding with an uninsulated superconductor in a normal state. It is noted that in a superconducting state at currents below the critical value, the inductance of the winding is comparable to the inductance with an insulated wire. The results of measurements of inductance, radial resistance, static current-voltage and magnetic characteristics of two tape coils with non-insulated superconducting windings, one of which had a soldered connection, are presented. Conditions for measuring the parameters of non-insulated superconducting windings are formulated when they are compared with insulated windings.

Design and experimental study of electrical and mechanical brake for mine hoist

To meet the requirement of the braking response of the coal mine hoist, a new electromechanical braking technology for mine hoists is proposed, the principle of electromechanical braking of mine hoists is demonstrated, and the detailed parameters and braking performance of electromechanical brakes are given. Index, an electromechanical brake test platform with large load and high response is developed. Experiments show that the maximum positive pressure of the designed electromechanical brake reaches 33 KN, which meets the requirement of positive pressure of mine hoist. The braking error is less than 10 %, and the braking gap elimination time is less than 0.1 s. There is a linear relationship between motor current input and brake positive pressure output, with a slope of 4.17 and an intercept of 0.62. The screw displacement output and the brake pressure output have a cubic relationship, and the zero error is small. Through research, a new idea is provided for the development of electromechanical brakes for coal mine hoist.