The use of wireless sensor networks for bushfire monitoring can help to map and locate fires rapidly and accurately. A Management Centre could use such information in order to deploy fire-fighters, tankers and aircraft to the best locations to protect people and communities from bushfire hazards. This paper describes an application of the GPS/INS technology to support a mobile mapping system wh...

this paper undertakes the synthesis of a logic-based switching h2/h∞ state-feedback controller for continuous-time lti singular perturbation systems. our solution achieves a minimum bound on the h2 performance level, while also satisfying the h∞ performance requirements. the proposed hybrid control scheme is based on a fuzzy supervisor managing the combination of two controllers. a convex lmi-b...

Objective(s): Central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) is the most important region for morphine-induced reward, and GABAergic system plays an important role on morphine reinforcement. The influence of CeA administration of GABAB receptor agonist and antagonist on the expression and acquisition of morphine-induced incentive tolerance using conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm was investigated i...

Spatial encoding using non-bijective, curvilinear magnetic fields [1] has been introduced to overcome present limitations of gradient performance due to safety limitations from peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). These PatLoc(parallel acquisition technique using localized gradients) fields allow for higher ΔBmax/dt, and therefore faster imaging while staying below the limit of PNS. PatLoc field...

Long pulse or steady state operation of fusion experiments require data acquisition and processing systems that reduce the volume of data involved. The availability of self-adaptive sampling rate systems and the use of real-time lossless data compression techniques can help solve these problems. The former is important for continuous adaptation of sampling frequency for experimental requirement...