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Cascade safe formation control for a fleet of underactuated surface vessels using the DCOP approach
No full textThis paper considers the formation control of multiple underactuated surface vessel. A distributed cooperative control using the relative information among neighboring vehicles is proposed such that the flock of multiple vehicles forms a desired geometric formation pattern whose center moves along a desired trajectory. In order to guarantee safe flock navigation and interaction of vehicles with the environment, we propose to extend the designed formation tracking controller to more sophisticated algorithm that prevent the vehicles from colliding with environmental obstacles with unknown sizes and locations based on a Decentralized Constrained Optimizing Problem ”DCOP” strategy.Fil: Rozenfeld, Alejandro Fabian. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería Olavarría. Departamento de Electromecánica. Grupo INTELYMEC; Argentina. Universidad de Las Islas Baleares. Departamento de Fisica; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil; ArgentinaFil: Ghommam, Jawhar. No especifíca;Fil: Picos, Rodrigo. Universidad de Las Islas Baleares. Departamento de Fisica; EspañaFil: Acosta, Gerardo Gabriel. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería Olavarría. Departamento de Electromecánica. Grupo INTELYMEC; Argentina. Universidad de Las Islas Baleares. Departamento de Fisica; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil; Argentin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Design of an Organic TFT OTA by the gm/ID methodology
No full text[eng] Taking into account, the operational amplifiers are one of the most building blocks
for analog integrated circuits. Op amps became more popular in the 1960s with the
development of the bipolar analog integrated-circuit technology. For now, devices are
growing up so fast since they have been used in a vast of applications such as instrumental
amplifiers, filters, A/D and D/A converters. The design of the operational amplifiers
is a demanding and challenging task due to the matching of the specs with the
final application.
In this project we design an op amp with organic transistors technology. On the
whole, we discuss the performance and specs of the device. The aim of this project is
get to in contact with the microelectronic world, with what all it entails.
The report consists, as we explain before, in the analysis and study of the organic
operational amplifier. Structuring the document, it is organized in different parts.
First, an introduction in the gm/Id methodology that we explain in details later. A second
part, we refer to the theoretical analysis as an important aspect of the design. In
this context, we explain the transistors curves and design specifications, we use Mat-
Lab for the calculations. Once we set up all parameters we proceed to the simulation,
it is explained in the thirst part. In the simulation part we interact with a powerful design
tool, Cadence environment that we use to build schematic circuit and simulate
a whole of test-bench. To study its behavior different analysis are used such as DC
analysis or AC response. Finally we discuss and explain a conclusion of the project
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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