We suggest that the cerebellum generates sensory or 'state' estimates based on outgoing motor commands and sensory feedback. Thus, it is not a motor pattern generator (Houk et al.) but a predictive system which is intimately involved in motor behaviour. This theory may explain the sensitivity of the climbing fibres to both unexpected external events and motor errors (Simpson et al.), and we spe...

The market of small or micro electric energy generation units, often combined with local heat production, is becoming increasingly important. For these applications the classical asynchronous machine with cage rotor is an interesting generator. The grid-connected induction generator has some advantages over the synchronous generators: e.g. it is cheap, robust and maintenance-free. Since the ind...

The vast majority of wind turbines that are currently being installed use one of the three main types of electromechanical conversion system. The first type is known as the Danish concept. The second type uses a doubly fed induction generator instead of a squirrel cage induction generator. The third type is called the ‘direct-drive wind turbine’ because it does not need a gearbox. In this paper...

The dissertation thesis is aimed at test generation for asynchronous sequential digital circuits, contributes to their timeand cost-effective testing, and indirectly supports their wider application, which improves the performance, the power consumption and the electromagnetic emission of future digital circuits. The main scientific contribution is design of the new test generator (optimized fo...

The authors propose a two-timescale version of the one-simulation smoothed functional (SF) algorithm with extra averaging. They also propose the use of a chaotic simple deterministic iterative sequence for generating random samples for averaging. This sequence is used for generating the N independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.), Gaussian random variables in the SF algorithm. The conver...

Animal tracking has been addressed by different initiatives over the last two decades. Most of them rely on satellite connectivity on every single node and lack of energy-saving strategies. This paper presents several new contributions on the tracking of dynamic heterogeneous asynchronous networks (primary nodes with GPS and secondary nodes with a kinetic generator) motivated by the animal trac...

We study the suitability of the additive lagged-Fibonacci pseudorandom number generator for parallel computation. This generator has a relatively short period with respect to the size of its seed. However, the short period is more than made up for with the huge number of full-period cycles it contains. We call these diierent full-period cycles equivalence classes. We show how to enumerate the e...