This paper presents a high speed and low energy transceiver for 10mm long minimum width on-chip global interconnects. To improve the link bandwidth, the transmitter employs a capacitive-resistive pre-emphasis technique and the receiver employs the AC-coupled Resistive Feedback Inverter (RFI) de-emphasis technique. Exploiting two emphasis techniques, the proposed interconnect achieves 1.26GHz ba...

Overhead cranes are under-actuated systems. They have three outputs that need to be controlled, consisting of cargo swing angle, trolley displacement, and suspended cable length, but only two actuators: cargo lifting and trolley driving forces. The main objective of this study is to design a robust controller for an overhead crane that transfers cargo from point to point as fast as possible and...

Children with cerebral palsy often walk with diminished knee extension during the terminal-swing phase, resulting in a troublesome "crouched" posture at initial contact and a shortened stride. Treatment of this gait abnormality is challenging because the factors that extend the knee during normal walking are not well understood, and because the potential of individual muscles to limit terminal-...

Software pipelining is a technique that improves the scheduling of instructions in loops by overlapping instructions from different iterations. Modulo scheduling is an approach for constructing software pipelines that focuses on minimizing the cycle count of the loops and thereby optimize performance. In this paper we describe our implementation of Swing Modulo Scheduling in GCC, which is a Mod...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mental imagery involves rehearsing or practicing a task in the mind with no physical movement. The technique is commonly used, but the actual physical foundation of imagery has not been evaluated for the fast, complex, automatic motor movement of the golf swing. This study evaluated motor imagery of the golf swing, of golfers of various handicaps, by using functional MR i...

_ Inverted pendulum control is one of the fundamental and interesting problems in the field of control theory. This paper describes the steps to design various controllers for a rotary motion inverted pendulum which is operated by a rotary servo plant, SRV 02 Series. Nonlinear model of the rotary inverted pendulum and linear model (Upright) in the neighborhood of an equilibrium state are descri...

Animal models of stroke have been investigated for many years to understand the behaviour and function following the human condition. The aim of this study was to utilize an established motion analysis technique and the Cardiff Classification tool based around Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) to quantify temporal gait and postural gait parameter of a rat model of stroke. Marker based motion analysi...

A new development of a swing-tracking control algorithm for nonlinear inverted pendulum system presents in this paper. Sliding mode control technique is used and guided by Lyapunov stability criterion and tuned by Bees-slice genetic algorithm (BSGA). The main purposes of the proposed nonlinear swing-tracking controller is to find the best force control action for the real inverted pendulum mode...

Interval judgments are a way of handling preferential and informational imprecision in multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). In this article, we study the use of intervals in the simple multiattribute rating technique (SMART) and SWING weighting methods. We generalize the methods by allowing the reference attribute to be any attribute, not just the most or the least important one, and by allo...