Evolving an Inverted Extrusion Piston

Evolving neurocontrollers for balancing an inverted pendulum.

This paper introduces an evolutionary algorithm that is tailored to generate recurrent neural networks functioning as nonlinear controllers. Network size and architecture, as well as network parameters like weights and bias terms, are developed simultaneously. There is no quantization of inputs, outputs or internal parameters. Different kinds of evolved networks are presented that solve the pol...

Evolving Neuro ontrollers for Balan ing an Inverted Pendulum

Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston.

Dynamical aspects of an adiabatic piston are investigated, based on the mass ratio expansion of the master equation for the piston velocity distribution function. Simple theory for piston motion and relaxation of an ideal gas in a cylinder turns out to reproduce our numerical experiments quantitatively.

An Ironless Large Displacement Flat Piston Loudspeaker

This paper presents a small wide-band loudspeaker. Particular efforts have been made to reduce the nonlinearities of the loudspeaker as much as possible. The motor structure is completely ironless, the elastomer suspensions are replaced by ferrofluid seals and a monobloc carbon foam piston substitutes the traditional conic membrane. The circular radiating surface, which is flat, has a diameter ...

Metric inverted - an efficient inverted indexing method for metric spaces

The increasing amount of digital audio-visual content accessible today calls for scalable solutions for content based search. The state of the art solutions reveal linear scalability in respect to the collection size due to the large number of distance computations needed for comparing low level audio-visual features. As a result, search in large audio-visual collections is limited to associate...