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Frequency Domain Properties of EALQR with Indefinite Weighting Matrix

  • Seo, Young-Bong;Park, Jae-Weon
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.329-335
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    • 2003
  • EALQR (Linear Quadratic Regulate. design with Eigenstructure Assignment capability) has the capability of exact assignment of eigenstructure with the guaranteed margins of the LQR for MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) systems. However, EALQR undergoes a restriction on the state-weighting matrix Q in LQR to be indefinite with respect to the region of allowable closedloop eigenvalues. The definiteness of the weighting matrix is closely related to the robustness property of a given system. In this paper, we derive a relation between the indefinite weighting matrix Q and the robustness property for EALQR. The modified frequency domain inequality, that could be guaranteed by EQLQR with an indefinite weighting matrix, is presented.

Tests of Hypotheses in Multiple Samples based on Penalized Disparities

  • Park, Chanseok;Ayanendranath Basu;Ian R. Harris
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.347-366
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    • 2001
  • Robust analogues of the likelihood ratio test are considered for testing of hypotheses involving multiple discrete distributions. The test statistics are generalizations of the Hellinger deviance test of Simpson(1989) and disparity tests of Lindsay(1994), obtained by looking at a 'penalized' version of the distances; harris and Basu (1994) suggest that the penalty be based on reweighting the empty cells. The results show that often the tests based on the ordinary and penalized distances enjoy better robustness properties than the likelihood ratio test. Also, the tests based on the penalized distances are improvements over those based on the ordinary distances in that they are much closer to the likelihood ratio tests at the null and their convergence to the x$^2$ distribution appears to be dramatically faster; extensive simulation results show that the improvement in performance of the tests due to the penalty is often substantial in small samples.

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A Saliency-Based Focusing Region Selection Method for Robust Auto-Focusing

  • Jeon, Jaehwan;Cho, Changhun;Paik, Joonki
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.133-142
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a salient region detection algorithm for auto-focusing based on the characteristics of a human's visual attention. To describe the saliency at the local, regional, and global levels, this paper proposes a set of novel features including multi-scale local contrast, variance, center-surround entropy, and closeness to the center. Those features are then prioritized to produce a saliency map. The major advantage of the proposed approach is twofold; i) robustness to changes in focus and ii) low computational complexity. The experimental results showed that the proposed method outperforms the existing low-level feature-based methods in the sense of both robustness and accuracy for auto-focusing.

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Control of Nonlinear Uncertain System with Backlash by Disturbance Observer (백래쉬가 존재하는 비선형 불확실 시스템의 외란관측기를 이용한 제어)

  • Hong, Seong-Il;Yang, Jin-Mo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.125-135
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    • 2008
  • Backlash in the actuator is one of the most important nonlinearities that limit the performance of speed and position control of mechanical systems. In this paper, we propose disturbance observers in order to estimate the effect of nonlinearities and cancel them subsequently. As a result the disturbance observers make the nonlinear system behave linearly. And finally we show that the disturbance observers guarantee the system robustness and the performance to reject the effect of backlash in the face of parameter uncertainties.

A Model to Predict the Strength of Watermark in DWT-Based Image Watermarking

  • Moon, Ho-Seok;Park, Suk-Bong;Bae, Hyun-Wung
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.475-485
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    • 2008
  • One of main issues in watermarking is to resolve the strength of watermark for solving the problem of trade-off between fidelity and robustness of watermarking. In the previous research, the strength of watermark has been resolved fixed value generally without considering local image characteristics such as image brightness, contrast, and edge. This paper proposes a new model to predict the strength of watermark considering local image characteristics such as image brightness, contrast, and edge for digital wavelet transform(DWT)-based image watermarking. For the study, psychological experiment was fulfilled to measure the human image perception and regression analysis showed the proposed model was statistically significant at the level of ${\alpha}\;=\;0.01$. Also the model is practically validated on fidelity and robustness of watermarking.

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Seismic response control of elastic and inelastic structures by using passive and semi-active tuned mass dampers

  • Woo, Sung-Sik;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Chung, Lan
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.239-252
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the performances of a passive tuned mass damper (TMD) and a semi-active TMD (STMD) were evaluated in terms of seismic response control of elastic and inelastic structures under seismic loads. First, elastic displacement spectra were obtained for damped structures with a passive TMD and with a STMD proposed in this study. The displacement spectra confirmed that the STMD provided much better control performance than passive TMD and the STMD had less stroke requirement. Also, the robustness of the TMD was evaluated by off-tuning the frequency of the TMD to that of the structure. Finally, numerical analyses were conducted for an inelastic structure of hysteresis described by the Bouc-Wen model. The results indicated that the performance of the passive TMD whose design parameters were optimized for an elastic structure considerably deteriorated when the hysteretic portion of the structural responses increased, and that the STMD showed about 15-40% more response reduction than the TMD.

DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBUST MESHLESS METHOD FOR 2-D COMPRESSIBLE FLOW (2차원 압축성 유동 해석을 위한 강건한 무격자 해석기법 개발)

  • Huh, J.Y.;Rhee, J.S.;Kim, K.H.;Jung, S.Y.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a new Meshless Method to solve 2-D compressible flow problems numerically. This paper includes a revised Least Square method that improves robustness compared with its original version by removing excessive numerical oscillation which occurs when points are randomly distributed. Numerical analyses of hypersonic flow over a blunt body were carried out using the method, then robustness, accuracy and convergence of their results were compared with those obtained from the original method.