A method for checking the positivity and finding the solution to the positive fractional descriptor continuous-time linear systems with singular pencils is proposed. The method is based on elementary row and column operations of the fractional descriptor systems to equivalent standard systems with some algebraic constraints on state variables and inputs. Necessary and sufficient conditions for ...

The analysis of industrial processes, modelled as descriptor systems, is often computationally hard due to the presence of both algebraic couplings and difference equations of high order. In this paper, we introduce a control refinement notion for these descriptor systems that enables analysis and control design over related reduced-order systems. Utilising the behavioural framework, we extend ...

This paper is concerned with synthesis of gain-scheduled controllers by representing LPV systems in the descriptor form. Based on a recent algebraic criterion characterizing dissipativity of descriptor systems, an improved synthesis method is proposed with removing limitations of descriptor representation in existing results. Specifications of exponential decay are also considered. A numerical ...

A new polynomial approach is proposed to analysis of the standard and positive descriptor electrical circuits composed of resistors, coils, capacitors and voltage (current) sources. It is shown that for given descriptor fractional electrical circuit the equivalent standard fractional electrical circuit can be found by premultiplication of the equation of the descriptor electrical circuit by sui...

BACKGROUND While a large body of work exists on comparing and benchmarking descriptors of molecular structures, a similar comparison of protein descriptor sets is lacking. Hence, in the current work a total of 13 amino acid descriptor sets have been benchmarked with respect to their ability of establishing bioactivity models. The descriptor sets included in the study are Z-scales (3 variants), ...

PURPOSE To investigate patients' perception of glaucomatous VF loss and its association with glaucoma severity using the Amsler grid test. METHODS In this prospective cross-sectional study, glaucoma patients with abnormal 10-2 Humphrey Swedish Interactive Threshold Algorithm-standard VF tests were enrolled consecutively. All patients underwent a black-on-white Amsler grid test for each eligib...

This paper presents a new approach to 3D shape comparison and retrieval based on the computation of Gaussian transforms of the surface model on a set of points regularly distributed inside the model’s bounding box. A study of the properties of the Gaussian term leads us to an efficient computation of the description. This method is evaluated on the Princeton Shape Benchmark database.

Histograms are the most prevalently used representation for the color content of images and video. An elaborate representation of the histograms requires specifying the color centers of the histogram bins and the count of the number of image pixels with that color. Such an elaborate representation, though expressive, may not be necessary for some tasks in image search, filtering and retrieval. ...

This paper presents a novel 3D feature descriptor for object recognition and to identify poses when there are six-degrees-of-freedom for mobile manipulation and grasping applications. Firstly, a Microsoft Kinect sensor is used to capture 3D point cloud data. A viewpoint feature histogram (VFH) descriptor for the 3D point cloud data then encodes the geometry and viewpoint, so an object can be si...

This paper presents an effective texture descriptor invariant to translation, scaling, and rotation for texture-based image retrieval applications. In order to find the minimal matching distance between two descriptors, existing frequency-layout descriptors require a lot of distance calculations with every possible combination of scaling and rotation values because they are not invariant to geo...