Level and attitude control of the active suspension system with integral and derivative action

A 7-DOF full-car model with optimal active control suspension is utilized to evaluate the vehicle dynamic performances which are achieved through proposed controllers. The optimal controller, which includes the integral action for the suspension deflection, considerably improves the attitude control of a vehicle because the rolling and pitching motion in cornering and braking maneuvers are reduced, respectively. In the viewpoint of level control, the integral control acting on the suspension deflection results in the zero steady-state deflection in response to static body forces and ramp road input. The dynamic characteristics of the suspension control system are evaluated in terms of time domain and frequency domain. The simulations in the time domain demonstrate the advantages of the active suspension system obtained by penalizing the integral and derivative of suspension deflections and the derivative of roll and pitch angles in the performance index. The frequency characteristic curves obtained by simulations regarding integral action or derivative action show the increase of both ride comfort and road-holding performances by maximizing the use of suspension deflections. The potential of derivative control is shown by the performances of the car traveling over a bump and braking.     

基于VDM与APSO优化极限学习机的船舶运动姿态预报

为提高船舶在海上运动的耐波性与适航性,并为解决具有非线性、随机性和非平稳性特点的船舶运动姿态难以准确预测的问题,提出运用一种基于变分模态分解和自适应粒子群算法优化极限学习机的组合预测模型。该算法首先利用变分模态分解将船舶运动姿态序列分解为一系列限带内本征模态函数,并且变分模态分解可以避免经验模态分解技术所产生的模态混叠和端点效应,可以降低序列的非平稳性对预测精度的影响;然后对各模态分量分别建立极限学习机预测模型,并用改进的粒子群算法对极限学习机的初始权值和阈值进行优化;最后将各模态分量预测结果进行叠加,得到最终的船舶运动姿态预测值。通过模拟试验测试并与其他传统的预测方法进行比较,结果表明所建立的组合预测模型具有更高的预测精度。     

浅谈图书馆员信息素养及其自我提升之积极态度

文章简要回顾了国内外关于信息素养的有关论述,并据此归纳了图书馆员应该具备的信息素养,论述了图书馆员信息素养自我提升的积极态度。     

The influence of attitude towards individuals’ choice for a remotely piloted commercial flight: A latent class logit approach

The Remotely Piloted Commercial Passenger Aircraft Attitude Scale (RPCPAAS) was created to measure positive and negative attitudes towards a new and plausible form of air travel. This information was then used, in combination with a latent class logit model built on data generated from a stated choice experiment to gain insight into the choice behaviour between conventionally piloted aircraft (CPA) with a pilot on-board and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) with a pilot on the ground. The results revealed that individuals, on-average, if presented a choice between a CPA and a RPA of equivalent attributes, would elect for the CPA option. However, there is variability in the passengers’ sensitivity to various flight attributes, and these sensitivities were influenced by individuals’ attitude towards the new technology (i.e., RPA). From an operational perspective, and assuming that one day passengers of commercial airlines are offered the choice between CPA and RPA, the strategies employed by airlines to encourage the use of the new technology need to be different, based on individuals’ attitude towards RPA.     

The factors influencing bicycling in the Bangalore city

Bicycling, in an urban context, have many benefits, compared with motorized transports, like reduced carbon footprint, and lower maintenance, health, social and infrastructural costs. The present paper analyses the various factors contributing to a low percentage of bicycling in the Bangalore city and elicits certain policy aspects to improve the attractiveness of bicycling. The study focuses mainly on the behavioral aspects of commuters pertaining to their childhood and current scenario, and uses a face-to-face questionnaire survey for data collection. These behavioral aspects indicated a commuter’s perception about social expectation, convenience and bicycling infrastructure using a 5-point Likert scale measurement. Information is also collected about factors that might motivate bicycling, and about demographic variables like age, gender, income, etc. The study used a statistical z-test to identify the most influential attitudinal factors and to check whether the various factors are significantly different. The results gave a clear picture about the most dominant attitudinal factors that resulted in the stoppage of bicycling during a commuter’s childhood, and that acted as a deterrent to their bicycle usage in a current scenario. The study determined a need for changing the attitude of people towards cycling by programs that would create a positive image for cycling. There was also a need for segregated cycle lanes and signals at intersections so that people could feel safe while travelling on cycles.     

Changes to commute mode: The role of life events,spatial context and environmental attitude

It has been suggested that commuting behaviours become habitual and that changes to commute mode are more likely at the time of major life events. However, evidence to support this has so far been limited to analyses of small-scale samples. To address this evidence gap, we use two waves of panel data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009/10 and 2010/11) to identify and explain the prevalence of individual change in commute mode from year to year amongst a representative sample of the English working population (n = 15,200). One third of those that cycle or get the bus to work, and one quarter of those that walk to work, are shown to change commuting mode by the following year. Car commuting is more stable, with only one in ten car commuters changing mode by the following year. Commute mode changes are found to be primarily driven by alterations to the distance to work which occur in association with changing job or moving home. Switching to non-car commuting becomes much more likely (9.2 times) as the distance to work drops below three miles. High quality public transport links to employment centres are shown to encourage switches away from car commuting and mixed land uses are shown to encourage switches to active commuting (walking and cycling). Switches away from car commuting are found to be more likely (1.3 times) for those with a pro-environmental attitude. The attitude orientation is shown to precede the behaviour change, demonstrating evidence of ‘cause and effect’. Overall, the study shows that changes in commuting behaviour are strongly influenced by life events, spatial context and environmental attitude.     

Open PFLOW: Creation and evaluation of an open dataset for typical people mass movement in urban areas

Understanding people flow at a citywide level is critical for urban planning and commercial development. Thanks to the ubiquity of human location tracking devices, many studies on people mass movement with mobility logs have been conducted. However, high cost and severe privacy policy constraints still complicate utilization of these data in practice. There is no dataset that anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel dataset creation approach (called Open PFLOW) that continuously reports the spatiotemporal positions of all individual’s in urban areas based on open data. With fully consideration of the privacy protection, each entity in our dataset does not match the actual movement of any real person, so that the dataset can be totally open to public as part of data infrastructure. Because the result is shown at a disaggregate level, users can freely modify, process, and visualize the dataset for any purpose. We evaluate the accuracy of the dataset by comparing it with commercial datasets and traffic census indicates that it has a high correlation with mesh population and link-based traffic volume.     

基于四元素的扩展卡尔曼滤波航姿参考系统算法设计

为了优化飞行姿态信息,设计一种适用于捷联式航姿参考系统的九态扩展卡尔曼滤波算法,得到最优估计。为了验证此EKF算法的可行性和滤波效果,采用AHRS300惯性测量单元的数据进行MATLAB滤波算法仿真,把感器采集数据平滑计算后,建立精确的MATLAB算法模型作为参考。把两种结果作差比较,计算姿态角误差。从仿真结果可以看出,所设计的算法能够获得较好的姿态角精度,证明此扩展卡尔曼滤波性能良好。     

90后一代对英汉语码混合的语言态度调查

本文以90后一代作为特定的调查对象,着重调查其对英汉语码混合的语言态度。研究结果发现,绝大多数90后一代对英汉语码混合的语言变体的现象持肯定态度,但也承认汉语的权威、正式及文雅的地位。同时影响英汉语码混合的背景因素有年龄、性别及职业,没有影响的背景因素是区域差异和英语水平。     

基于捷联式电子罗盘的舰船姿态及姿态速率估计

捷联式电子罗盘正被大量应用，根据其自身观测能力，提出了一种新的姿态及姿态速率估计方法，该优化估计方法采用加权统计线性回归技术，与经典的对非线性系统方程的线性化的方法相比具有更高的精度和稳定性。仿真结果表明，该方法可以明显提高捷联式电子罗盘的姿态测量精度，并能同步完成对姿态速率的估计，直接扩展捷联式电子罗盘的功能。