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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
New configurations of control moment gyro clusters for the control of agile satellites
No full textDans cette thèse, le problème du contrôle d’attitude de satellites agiles à l’aide de grappes d’actionneurs gyroscopiques (AGs) est considéré et plus particulièrement son application au contrôle de micro/nanosatellites (10-100 kg). Des outils d’analyse topologique sont tout d'abord développés. La comparaison de différentes configurations de grappes justifie le choix d'une géométrie pyramidale à six actionneurs gyroscopiques. Des analyses plus approfondies de cette grappe, avec et sans cas de panne, permettent de déduire des contraintes que la loi de pilotage doit vérifier pour être adaptée à ce système. Pour y répondre, après analyse de la littérature, une nouvelle structure de loi de pilotage ainsi qu’une formulation différente des équations cinématiques sont développées. Cette structure est basée sur l’algorithme du filtre de Kalman étendu. Elle a pour avantages de répondre aux exigences en termes de calcul temps réel au bord des satellites, de flexibilité sur la gestion des contraintes et de facilité d’adaptation en cas de pannes. En outre, une procédure de génération de boucle de commande, englobant la loi de pilotage et un contrôleur robuste du système, est proposée. La généralisation de cette boucle de commande est illustrée sur des bras manipulateurs à base fixe et spatiaux.En parallèle, l’étude du passage des singularités internes intraversables mène à une nouvelle stratégie d’évitement de ces singularités. Des simulations sur des modèles de satellites représentatifs illustrent les résultats. La grappe d’actionneurs et la boucle de commande développées seront testées dans le cadre d’une expérimentation en microgravité.In this thesis, the attitude control problem for agile satellites with control moment gyro (CMG) clusters is studied. In particular, the problem applies to micro/nanosatellites (10-100kg). First, numerical tools are developed to analyse the compatibility of various cluster configurations with the nanosatellite constraints. The pyramidal six-CMG cluster is then selected. This cluster topology is analysed in depth, with and without actuator failures. Constraints on the development of a steering law adapted to our system are deduced. Among them, the singularity avoidance issue is emphasised. To meet the requirements, an analysis of the literature is carried out. Then, a new steering law structure and a different formulation of the kinematic equations are developed. This structure is based on the extended Kalman filter algorithm. It meets the requirements because it can be calculated in real-time onboard satellites, constraints imposed on the system are handled with flexibility and it is easily adaptable in case of actuator failures. In addition, a procedure to generate the control loop is proposed, containing a robust controller. The generalisation of this control loop is shown on space and fixed-base manipulator arms. Furthermore, the study of the internal elliptic singularities in CMG clusters leads to a new singularity avoidance strategy. Software simulations on highly representative simulators show the results of the steering law in various actuator failure cases. The CMG cluster and the control loop will be tested in a parabolic flight campaign, and the development of this experiment is detailed in this thesis
Modeling, design and control of flexible robot manipulators - Applied to UAV launch and recovery from a moving ship
No full textLes robots manipulateurs sont généralement des machines rigides, conçues pour que leurflexibilité ne perturbe pas leurs mouvements. En effet, des flexibilités mécaniques importantesdans la structure d’un système introduisent des degrés de liberté supplémentaires dont le comportementest complexe et difficile à maîtriser. Cependant, la réduction de la masse d’un systèmeest bénéfique du point de vue des coûts, de la performance énergétique, de la sécurité et des performancesdynamiques. Afin de faciliter l’accès aux nombreux avantages d’une structure légèremalgré la présence de fortes flexibilités, cette thèse porte sur la modélisation, la conception et lacommande de robots manipulateurs flexibles. Elle est motivée par le projet YAKA, dont l’applicationest le lancement et la récupération de drones à voilure fixe depuis un navire faisant route.Cette application nécessite une importante dynamique sur un vaste espace de travail, bien au-delàdes spécifications des robots rigides classiques. Les outils de modélisation, de conception et decommande proposés prennent en compte la flexibilité des segments et des articulations, pour unnombre quelconque de degrés de liberté et de segments flexibles. Le modèle dynamique flexibleest obtenu par le formalisme de Lagrange, les poutres flexibles sont représentées par le modèled’Euler-Bernoulli. Le schéma de commande proposé se décompose en une inversion de modèledynamique rigide et un bloc de précommande par Input Shaping adapté aux robots manipulateursflexibles. Les outils de conception proposés permettent de baser le processus de conceptionsur des performances prédites du système complet muni de ses actionneurs et de son contrôleuravec une simulation réaliste. Les validations expérimentales effectuées sur le robot YAKA permettentde valider la pertinence de la démarche suivie. Les résultats du projet YAKA confirment lafaisabilité de la mise en oeuvre d’un robot flexible de grande envergure et à forte dynamique dansun contexte industriel, en particulier pour le lancement et la récupération d’un drone à voilurefixe depuis un navire faisant route.Robot manipulators are generally stiff machines, designed in a way that flexibility does not affecttheir movements. Indeed, significant flexibility introduces additional degrees of freedom witha complex behavior. However, reducing the mass of a system allows for costs, performance, andsafety improvements. In order to allow those benefits despite important flexibility, this thesis focuseson modeling, design and control of flexible robot manipulators. It is motivated by the YAKAproject, which aims at developing a robot to launch and recover fixed wing UAVs from a movingship. It implies reaching very high dynamics on a large workspace, way beyond the specificationsof common rigid robots. The proposed tools for modeling, design and control allow for taking intoaccount both joint and link flexibility, for any number of degrees of freedom and flexible links.The elastodynamic model is obtained with Lagrange principle, each flexible link being representedwith one ormany Euler-Bernouilli beams. The proposed control scheme uses a nonlinear rigiddynamic inversion and extends classical Input Shaping techniques to flexible robot manipulators.The proposed design tools allow for performance prediction of the system including its actuatorsand controllers thanks to a realistic simulation. Experiments conducted with the YAKA robot validatedthe proposed approach. The results of the YAKA project confirmed the feasibility of usinga large scale, highly dynamic flexible robot in an industrial context, in particular for UAVs launchand recovery operations from amoving ship
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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