This paper presents fault tolerant control systems FTC in a hybrid system framework. Due to the discrete nature of fault occurrence and reconfiguration, FTC systems are considered hybrid in nature. Thus, in this work, actuator fault recoverability is studied by utilizing a controllability concept of hybrid systems. The hybrid formalism allows the recoverability’s analysis based on the controlla...

With the aim of dramatically improving the reliability of urban earthquake response analyses, we developed an unstructured 3-D finite-element-based MPI-OpenMP hybrid seismic wave amplification simulation code, GAMERA. On the K computer, GAMERA was able to achieve a size-up efficiency of 87.1% up to the full K computer. Next, we applied GAMERA to a physics-based urban earthquake response analysi...

Keywords: Disaster response Adhoc networks Sensor networks Delay tolerant networks Cloud services a b s t r a c t Large scale disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) cripple the local infrastructure. Proprietary systems and protocols used today for disaster response still lack data at the high spatial and temporal resolution needed to quickly save lives and to support disaster...

Enhanced recovery in joint replacement has been shown to reduce length of inpatient stay, reduce re-admission rates, and can improve early functional recovery. Postoperative analgesia is an important component of the group of interventions required to form a holistic enhanced recovery protocol. The introduction of electronic prescribing provides the opportunity to introduce some standardisation...