Wind Resource Analysis For Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Finite Element Modeling for Thermal Conductivity of Cement-based Encapsulation Materials

With the trend of miniaturization and the increasing power density, the operating temperature of electronic devices keeps climbing, especially for wide band-gap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The high operating temperature up to 250℃ brings challenges to encapsulation materials since traditional encapsulation...

Fault Tolerant Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicles via Model Reference Reinforcement Learning

A novel fault tolerant control algorithm is proposed in this paper based on model reference reinforcement learning for autonomous surface vehicles subject to sensor faults and model uncertainties. The proposed control scheme is a combination of a model-based control approach and a data-driven method, so it can leverage the advantages of both...

R3L: Connecting Deep Reinforcement Learning To Recurrent Neural Networks For Image Denoising Via Residual Recovery

State-of-the-art image denoisers exploit various types of deep neural networks via deterministic training. Alternatively, very recent works utilize deep reinforcement learning for restoring images with diverse or unknown corruptions. Though deep reinforcement learning can generate effective policy networks for operator selection or architecture...

Risk analysis on cascade breaching of the Tangjiashan landslide dam and two smaller downstream landslide dams

The 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake triggered at least 257 landslide dams, most of which formed in series along rivers. The failure of an upstream dam could cause the failure of dams downstream one after another. The cascade dam breaching may result in sharp increase of flood and more serious damage downstream. This paper aims to analyze the...

Multi-level Indoor Path Planning Method

Indoor navigation is increasingly widespread in complex indoor environments, and indoor path planning is the most important part of indoor navigation. Path planning generally refers to finding the most suitable path connecting two locations, while avoiding collision with obstacles. However, it is a fundamental problem, especially for 3D complex...