Investigating Causal Pathways Linking Site-Level Characteristics,Compliance, and Ecological Performance in Caribbean MPAs

A rapidly growing body of empirical evidence has linked improved ecological performance of social–ecological systems (SES) with better compliance with rules governing human activities. Researchers have proposed several key factors that motivate an individual to comply with resource use rules, including deterrence, social pressures, moral inclinations, and perceived legitimacy of rules and responsible authorities. Much of the research on compliance proposes causal mechanisms at the individual human level, but few studies test causal paths with empirical data particularly at the site level. This study tested a proposed pathway for explaining overall compliance rates and ecological performance in SES using data from structured surveys of community members, key informant interviews, policy documents, and coral reef surveys at marine protected areas (MPAs) and their associated human communities in the wider Caribbean. Findings indicate that compliance and other active MPA management interventions positively affect ecological performance, and site-level contextual factors (level of community development and being part of a political network) positively influence significant predictors of overall compliance rates, which include active MPA management and enforced punishments.     

Plate scanning tools to obtain travel times in traffic networks

The management of vehicle travel times has been shown to be fundamental to traffic network analysis. To collect travel time measurement, some methods focus solely on isolated links or highway segments, and where two measurement points, at the beginning and at the end of a section, are deemed sufficient to evaluate users' travel time. However, in many cases, transport studies involve networks in which the problem is more complex. This article takes advantage of the plate scanning technique to propose an algorithm that minimizes the required number of registering devices and their location in order to identify vehicles candidates to compute the travel times of a given set of routes (or subroutes). The merits of the proposed method are explained using simple examples and are illustrated by its application to the real network of Ciudad Real.     

Singular perturbation composite control of a free-floating flexible dual-arm space robot

The Free-floating Flexible Dual-arm Space Robot is a highly nonlinear and coupled dynamics system. In this paper, the dynamic model is derived of a Free-floating Flexible Dual-arm Space Robot holding a rigid payload. Furthermore, according to the singular perturbation method, the system is separated into a slow subsystem representing rigid body motion of the robot and a fast subsystem representing the flexible link dynamics. For the slow subsystem, based on the second method of Lyapunov, using simple quantitative bounds on the model uncertainties, a robust tracking controller design is used during the trajectory tracking phase. The optimal control method is designed in the fast subsystem to guarantee the exponential stability. With the combination of the two above, the system can track the expected trajectory accurately, even though with uncertainty in model parameters, and its flexible vibration gets suppressed, too. Finally, some simulation tests have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

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基于视频的交通流检测在智能交通系统中具有重要意义。本文针对广泛采用的低位摄像机,提出了一种交通流特性参数的检测分析方法。首先基于三级虚拟检测线和自适应更新率局部背景建模来快速提取车辆特征点并消除活动阴影对提取精度的影响;然后基于Adaboost（Adaptive Boosting,自适应增强）分类器实现特征点按车分组,并在跟踪过程中根据运动特征相关度消除分组误差,获取高精度的车辆轨迹;进而自动生成多车道轨迹时空图并提取各车道交通流的多种特性参数。实验结果验证了算法的高效性;同时,自动生成的多车道轨迹时空图也为更多的交通信息获取和更深入的交通流特性分析提供了有力支持。     

考虑多人相互影响的舰船通道最短路径规划

将时间维引入既定舰船通道网络,把考虑多人相互影响的动态最优路径规划问题转化为时间依赖网络中的最优路径搜索问题。首先,论文的算法为所有人员随机生成走行路径,为了预测网络中的弧(路段)的走行时间,按人员速度从慢到快的顺序依次计算并记录人员到达路径中的各路段首节点的时刻,先记录到的人员将成为后记录到的人员的动态障碍。然后,将遗传算法与网络中弧的走行时间预测方法相结合,借助遗传算法的个体多样性天然地解决了人员走行任意性问题,因而获得了全局动态最优路径算法,并仿真计算了两人以及三人的最短时间路径;经与不考虑人员间相互影响时获得的最优路径相比较,论文的算法获得了人员遇到障碍时(或跟行或绕行)的最优走行路径。最后,借助时间依赖网络中的最优路径充要条件定理,说明了算法的有效性。     

船用光伏发电系统最大功率跟踪及自动跟踪控制研究

太阳能是一种新型的可再生清洁能源,资源丰富,对环境无任何污染,被越来越多的用在船舶上。搭载光伏发电系统的船舶具有经济性好、噪音低、振动小、安全性好及无污染等优点,已经得到了初步应用。为研究光伏发电系统在船舶上的应用,针对如何提高光伏发电系统输出功率,提高光伏发电系统的发电效率展开研究,重点对最大功率跟踪控制及自动跟踪控制技术的实现进行研究与分析。     

基于无线传感器网络的运动目标检测动态聚类图

有效的目标跟踪需要积极的传感器节点对运动目标群实行跟踪。与单目标跟踪相比,聚类在效能上有显著提高。本文提出准确的相干和非相干运动模式下目标的聚类,采用隐式动态时间框架来评估在创建连接组件加权图的目标关系史。该算法采用目标跟踪中定位算法的关键特征,即估计当前和预测的位置来确定移动目标的方向和距离的关系。模拟结果显示,通过动态调整历史窗口大小和预测目标之间的关系,可以显著提高聚类的准确性并减少运算时间。     

一种改进的快速压缩跟踪算法

为研究目标跟踪问题,构造多种不同尺度的滤波器对目标进行滤波,生成目标高维特征;利用符合有限等距性质要求的稀疏矩阵对高维特征进行采样,获得目标低维特征.采用朴素贝叶斯分类器输出与Bhattacharyya系数乘积的形式作为目标与候选目标之间的相似性度量,并选择最大值所对应的候选目标作为下一帧中的目标.文中提出了一种改进的快速压缩跟踪算法.实验表明,该改进的算法能够对目标进行有效跟踪.     

采油工艺管柱自动导向器

设计了一种新型采油工艺管柱导向器,通过应用该导向器,在作业中实现管柱铰接,可有效解决由套管套变引起的封隔器损坏、失效现象,起到保护封隔器胶筒的作用.并可解决大斜度井、定向井工艺管柱偏磨与导向问题,减少对管柱接箍的损坏及对套管的刮磨破坏,提高其使用寿命.可广泛应用于油水井增产增注工艺管柱上.     

140 km/h大吨位集装箱平车的制动系统

介绍了最高运行速度可达140 km/h的"快速"大吨位集装箱平车制动试验的过程和结果,提出了改进这种远景平车制动系统的建议.