This paper presents a principle to develop multi-function dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) that can concurrently accomplish linear actuation and sound generation through single electrical input. A centimeter-scale cone-shaped DEA is fabricated using silicone-based electrodes. Measurements of the vibro-acoustic response reveal pumping deformation contributes negligible extent in generation,...

Component failures can cause multi-agent system (MAS) performance degradation and even disasters, which provokes the demand of fault diagnosis method. A distributed sliding mode observer-based method for MAS is developed in presence actuator sensor faults. Firstly, faults are extended to state, transformed into a descriptor form. Then, mode-based unknown input observer proposed estimate state. ...

Supply chain management is taken into account as an inseparable component in satisfying customers' requirements. This paper deals with the distribution network design (DND) problem which is a critical issue in achieving supply chain accomplishments. A capable DND can guarantee the success of the entire network performance. However, there are many factors that can cause fluctuations in input dat...

The rapid growth of urban areas has deserved special attention from the technical and scientific community over the last decades. Traffic and transportation systems have been a subject of special concern as they play an important and indispensable role in today’s society. Heterogeneity and uncertainty have become even more evident, and researchers have been challenged by how to cope with modell...

We derive demand-bound functions for mixedcriticality sporadic tasks, and use these to determine EDFschedulability. Tasks have different demand-bound functions for each criticality mode. We show how to shift execution demand from highto low-criticality mode by tuning the relative deadlines. This allows us to shape the demand characteristics of each task. We propose an efficient algorithm for tu...

Demand-side management (DSM) plays an important role in demand response (DR) system which increases energy efficiency in smart grid. The traditional demand side management focus on slashing peak-load in peak hours, but it does not consider about user’s comfort. In this paper, authors propose an intelligent energy management system and implement with the Intel Quark-based Gateway. To consider ab...

One of the most challenging issues in multi-objective problems is finding Pareto optimal points. This paper describes an algorithm based on Benders Decomposition Algorithm (BDA) which tries to find Pareto solutions. For this aim, a multi-objective facility location allocation model is proposed. In this case, an integrated BDA and epsilon constraint method are proposed and it is shown that how P...