OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate the effects of laser beam size, power, and pulse duration of 1 to 100 milliseconds on the characteristics of ophthalmoscopically visible retinal coagulation lesions. METHODS A 532-nm Nd:YAG laser was used to irradiate 36 retinas in Dutch Belt rabbits with retinal beam sizes of 66, 132, and 330 mum. Lesions were clinically graded 1 minute after placement, t...

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This article describes the synthesis of a sliding mode controller SMCr based on a second order linear model using an integral-differential surface of the tracking-error. Different from similar strategies, the tuning parameters keep a close relationship with the system dynamics in terms of conventional specifications of transient response. The proposed controller only needs the output feedback o...

The objective of this research is to develop the small-size and light weight window cleaning robot. The prototype of window cleaning robot has been developed. The dimensions of prototyped robot are approximately 300mm x 300mm x 100mm and its weight is approximately 3 kg. The prototyped robot consists of two independently driven wheels and an active suction cup. The control system which includes...

We propose a new regression-based filter for multivariate time series that separates signals from noise and outliers in real time. The new method merges the advantageous properties of two existent filtering procedures for online-monitoring time series. Our multivariate and robust procedure yields signal estimations at the right end point of a moving time window whose width is adapted to the cur...

The Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) is used for three phase bridge Inverter to produce AC output voltage of desired magnitude and frequency. The purpose of controller is to produce regulated output voltage with low distortion under varying load conditions. A triangular carrier based space vector pulse width modulation is developed in MATLAB using Xilinx block set and executed in Fie...

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Chirp-rate, as a second derivative of signal phase, is an important feature of nonstationary signals in numerous applications such as radar, sonar, and communications. In this paper, an adaptive algorithm for the chirp-rate estimation is proposed. It is based on the confidence intervals rule and the cubic-phase function. The window width is adaptively selected to achieve good tradeoff between b...

The sinusoidal speech model represents a speech signal as a linear combination of sinusoids with time-varying parameters {amplitudes, frequencies, and phases}. However, one drawback of this model is that the analysis window width is generally fixed in analyzing the signal. Since each sinusoidal parameter has different frequencies, an analysis window with fixed width can’t guarantee an optimum s...