Automatic diagnosis and control of distributed solid state lighting systems

This paper describes a new design concept of automatically diagnosing and compensating LED degradations in distributed solid state lighting (SSL) systems. A failed LED may significantly reduce the overall illumination level, and destroy the uniform illumination distribution achieved by a nominal system. To our knowledge, an automatic scheme to...

Automatic diagnosis and control of distributed solid state lighting systems

This paper describes a new design concept of automatically diagnosing and compensating LED degradations in distributed solid state lighting (SSL) systems. A failed LED may significantly reduce the overall illumination level, and destroy the uniform illumination distribution achieved by a nominal system. To our knowledge, an automatic scheme to...

Hydraulic Fracture Containment in Sand

The mechanism of hydraulic fracturing in soft, high permeability material is considered fundamentally different from that in hard, low permeability rock, where a tensile fracture is created and conventional linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) applies. The fracturing and associated modeling work is then a relatively new area. Particularly,...

Data Driven Fault Tolerant Control: A Subspace Approach

The main stream research on fault detection and fault tolerant control has been focused on model based methods. As far as a model is concerned, changes therein due to faults have to be extracted from measured data. Generally speaking, existing approaches process measured inputs and outputs either by a filter designed based on a known model (e.g....

A short range, low data rate, 7.2 GHz-7.7 GHz FM-UWB receiver front-end

A 9 mW FM-UWB receiver front-end for low data rate (<50 kbps), short range (<10 m) applications operating in the ultra-wideband (UWB) band centered at 7.45 GHz is described in this paper. A single-ended-to-differential preamplifier with 30 dB voltage gain, a 1 GHz bandwidth FM demodulator, and a combined (preamp/demodulator) receiver front-end...

Finite element analysis of the composite effect of different wearing courses on the stresses in an orthotropic steel bridge deck

Stress analysis of an orthotropic steel bridge deck plate with asphalt surfacing at various temperatures

High-Tc superconducting thin films devices

Electric field effect in Sm/sub 1-x/Ca/sub x/Ba/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub y/ bicrystal junctions