Several methods are now available for single-shot measurement of the complex field (amplitude and phase profiles) of optical waveforms with resolutions down to the sub-picosecond range. As a main critical limitation, all these techniques exhibit measurement update rates typically slower than a few Hz. It would be very challenging to directly upgrade the update rate of any of these available met...

in this paper, we consider convex quadratic semidefinite optimization problems and provide a primal-dual interior point method (ipm) based on a new kernel function with a trigonometric barrier term. iteration complexity of the algorithm is analyzed using some easy to check and mild conditions. although our proposed kernel function is neither a self-regular (sr) function nor logarithmic barrier ...

A technique for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for large scale scenarios is presented. This solution is based on the use of independent submaps of a limited size to map large areas. In addition, a global stochastic map, containing the links between adjacent submaps, is built. The information in both levels is corrected every time a loop is closed: local maps are updated with the i...

In the course of the last decade gas turbines have emerged as a core component of modern power plants. Key for this development has been the structural change of important power markets along with the rapid progress in technology, i.e. the fields of aerodynamics, cooling, combustion and materials. In a combination with improved thermodynamic cycles, standardisation and optimised production proc...