Suppose some or all of p predictor variables X 1 , X 2 ; : : :; X p may be measured and their values used to predict a response Y. When measurement costs are considered, it may be advantageous to measure predictors serially, deciding adaptively which variable to measure next with an option to stop taking measurements and predict Y at any point during the measurement process. In this article we ...

This paper addresses a constrained optimization problem in the context of Topological Optimum Design (TOD): the aim is to find the optimal shape of a structure (i.e a repartition of material in a given design domain) such that the mechanical behavior of that structure meets some requirement (e.g. a bound on the maximal displacement under a prescribed loading). We restrict to stochastic optimiza...

This paper gives a comprehensive study for the losses in DC-DC Multilevel Boost Converter “MLBC”. A closed formula for the currents in different branches and the efficiency of the system are calculated. Different switching frequencies will be considered. The equations given to calculate the power loss in each branch is used to give an indication of the individual power loss that facilitates com...

The main objective of structural engineers through out design history has been to obtain the optimum structure under the prescribed design conditions which can not only withstand external loads safely but also achieve an economic solution. The paper focuses on the use of the fuzzy set theory to optimum design of plane truss structures. The approach is illustrated on planar truss optimization pr...

A method is developed for analytically determining the holographic optical element phase function that is optimum for transforming a set of input wave fronts into a corresponding set of output wave fronts. These sets are allowed to be infinite in the sense that the wave-front phases can be given as functions of continuous parameters. The method can be tolerant of specified wave-front aberration...

The distance transform has found many applications in image analysis. Chamfer distance transforms are a class of discrete algorithms that offer a good approximation to the desired Euclidean distance transform at a lower computational cost. They can also give integer-valued distances that are more suitable for several digital image processing tasks. The local distances used to compute a chamfer ...

Abstract This report proposes a design method of a digital filter to detect running water region in video signal. As a result of applying this filter, the water level of a river is automatically detected as a boundary between the land region and the water region. Conventional approaches have used the edge detector "vertically" to extract a horizontal line as running water surface. The frame "su...

1. Introduction While aerodynamic prediction methods based CFD are now well established , and quite accurate and robust, the ultimate need in the design process is to find the optimum shape which maximizes the aerodynamic performance. One way to approach this objective is to view it as a control problem, in which the wing is treated as a device which controls the flow to produce lift with minim...