Perceptual decisions not only depend on the incoming information from sensory systems but constitute a combination of current sensory evidence and internally accumulated information from past encounters. Although recent evidence emphasizes the fundamental role of prior knowledge for perceptual decision making, only few studies have quantified the relevance of such priors on perceptual decisions...

Developing a model based digital human meridian system is one of the interesting ways of understanding and improving acupuncture treatment, safety analysis for acupuncture operation, doctor training, or treatment scheme evaluation. In accomplishing this task, how to construct a proper model to describe the behavior of human meridian systems is one of the very important issues. From experiments,...

For FeNi/FeMn bilayers, the angular dependence of exchange bias shows hysteresis between clockwise and counterclockwise rotations, as a new signature. The hysteresis decreases for thick antiferromagnet layers. Calculations have clearly shown that the orientation of antiferromagnet spins also exhibits hysteresis between clockwise and counterclockwise rotations. This furnishes an interpretation o...

Purposeful ligand design was used for the synthesis of eight new 1D iron(II) spin crossover coordination polymers aiming for cooperative spin transitions with hysteresis. The results from magnetic measurements and X-ray structure analysis show that the combination of rigid linkers and a hydrogen bond network between the 1D chains is a promising tool to reach this goal. Five of the eight new sam...

This research is to use fuzzy controller to eliminate hysteresis effect of a force actuator for a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). This improvement has been verified by MATLAB simulation and practical implementation to reduce the hysteresis effect of the force actuator. Comparisons with two previous designs with and without Linear Velocity Transducer (LVT) for inner-loop feedback compensation a...

This paper deals with adaptive control of nonlinear dynamic systems preceded by unknown backlash-like hysteresis nonlinearities, where the hysteresis is described by a dynamic equation. By utilizing this dynamic model and by combining a fuzzy universal function approximator with adaptive control techniques, a stable adaptive fuzzy control algorithm is developed without constructing a hysteresis...

Preliminary notes The Preisach hysteresis model is widely used in different engineering disciplines, for example: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and so on. The Preisach model is a unique tool to describe in a mathematical consistent way the hysteresis phenomenon with non-linearities and memories. The Preisach hysteresis model is discrete, however this paper presents a continuous...

This paper presents the fabrication of rough super-hydrophobic surfaces, dynamic measurements of sliding angles of water droplets, and a modeling approach to estimate bounds on contact angle hysteresis—the major dissipative mechanism in droplet based microfluidic systems. We investigate the dependence of hysteresis on texture parameters, evaluate the current model, propose a modification, and s...

Motion Control of Smart Material Based Actuators: Modeling, Controller Design and Experimental Evaluation Sining Liu, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2013 Smart material based actuators, such as piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, and shape memory alloy actuators, are known to exhibit hysteresis e ects. When the smart actuators are preceded with plants, such non-smooth nonlinearities usually lead to p...

We propose an integral tracking control method for a piezoelectric actuator system. The proposed method achieves the output tracking without requiring any hysteresis observer or schemes to compensate the hysteresis effect. With the proposed control law, the system is converted into the standard singularly perturbed model. Using Tikhonov’s theorem, we guarantee that the tracking error can be red...