Intelligent products in the supply chain - 10 Years on

Ten years ago the intelligent product model was introduced as a means of motivating a supply chain in which product or orders were central as opposed to the organizations that stored or delivered them. This notion of a physical product influencing its own movement through the supply chain was enabled by the evolution of low cost RFID systems which promised low cost connection between physical goods and networked information environments. In 2002 the notion of product intelligence was regarded as a useful but rather esoteric construct. However, in the intervening ten years there have been a number of technological advances coupled with an increasingly challenged business environment which make the prospects for intelligent product deployment seem more likely. This paper reviews a number of these developments and assesses their impact on the intelligent product approach. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.

Self-configuring intelligent control for short reach 100Gb/s optical packet routing

An advanced control architecture is proposed which recognizes and configures new connections, automatically performs calibration and initiates the routing of 100Gb/s data packets. The scheme is proposed for high capacity, low overhead, short reach networking. © 2005 Optical Society of America.

Soft robotics: The next generation of intelligent machines

There has been an increasing interest in applying biological principles to the design and control of robots. Unlike industrial robots that are programmed to execute a rather limited number of tasks, the new generation of bio-inspired robots is expected to display a wide range of behaviours in unpredictable environments, as well as to interact safely and smoothly with human co-workers. In this article, we put forward some of the properties that will characterize these new robots: soft materials, flexible and stretchable sensors, modular and efficient actuators, self-organization and distributed control. We introduce a number of design principles; in particular, we try to comprehend the novel design space that now includes soft materials and requires a completely different way of thinking about control. We also introduce a recent case study of developing a complex humanoid robot, discuss the lessons learned and speculate about future challenges and perspectives.

New robotics: design principles for intelligent systems.

New robotics is an approach to robotics that, in contrast to traditional robotics, employs ideas and principles from biology. While in the traditional approach there are generally accepted methods (e. g., from control theory), designing agents in the new robotics approach is still largely considered an art. In recent years, we have been developing a set of heuristics, or design principles, that on the one hand capture theoretical insights about intelligent (adaptive) behavior, and on the other provide guidance in actually designing and building systems. In this article we provide an overview of all the principles but focus on the principles of ecological balance, which concerns the relation between environment, morphology, materials, and control, and sensory-motor coordination, which concerns self-generated sensory stimulation as the agent interacts with the environment and which is a key to the development of high-level intelligence. As we argue, artificial evolution together with morphogenesis is not only "nice to have" but is in fact a necessary tool for designing embodied agents.

LSIS-III VLSI CAD 系统集成的研究

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The design and verification of FPGA CAD toolset

This paper introduces a complete CAD toolset for the implementation of digital logic in a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform. Compared with existing academic toolsets, this toolset introduces formal verification in each step of the tool flow, especially the formal verification of the configuration bitstream. The FPGA CAD tool verification flow using Formality is presented in detail. Using plug-in technology, we have developed an integrated FPGA design kit to incorporate all tools together.

基于拓展LIMD算法的智能动态几何软件设计

几何约束求解技术是新一代智能化参数化CAD的核心技术之一,是CAD领域的一个前沿课题.其目的是提供工程图形的自动求解,其主要特点是:自由拖动元素、动态图形生成、动态测量、动态轨迹生成.UMD是约束求解中一个应用较广的算法,作者对该算法进行了拓宽和改进,提出了具体解决方法,并得到了较好结果.

基于知识重用的服装CAD系统

针对当前CAD软件对设计知识重用支持不足且大多基于WIMP交互方式等问题,设计并实现一个基于知识重用的服装工艺设计系统。该系统框架主要包括知识推荐和知识编辑2个模块。针对知识推荐和知识编辑,分别提出基于草图相似性的实时知识推荐算法和基于笔手势的知识编辑方法,给出系统的应用实例。该系统已应用于北京某羊绒企业的生产中,实践表明该系统能改善人机交互,提高设计效率。

风光互补发电系统的优化设计（I）CAD设计方法

给出了一整套利用CAD进行风光互补发电系统优化设计的方法。为了精确确定系统每小时的运行状态，采用了更精确地表征组件特性及评估实际获得的风光资源的数学模型。为了寻找出以最小设备投资成本满足用户用电要求的系统配置，首先在风力发电机容量固定不变的前提下，计算了与该容量风力发电机匹配的不同容量的PV方阵和蓄电池所组成的风／光／蓄组合的全年功率供给亏欠率LPSP，根据总的设备投资成本最小化的原则筛选出一组与该容量风力发电机对应的满足用户给定系统供电可靠性即LPSP值的风／光／蓄组合；然后通过改变风力发电机的容量，优选出多个与不同容量风力发电机对应的既能满足用户用电要求同时总的设备购置成本又是最低的风／光／蓄组合，比较它们的成本最终唯一确定出以最小投资成本满足用户用电要求的优化的系统配置。

Intelligent control of avalanched photodiode to get optimal state

To improve the sensitivity of our laser radar system, we provided a set of control method for APDs (Avalanched Photodiodes) based on single-chip computer together with the circuits dealing with noise and temperature. It adjusts the voltages intelligently and maintains the APD's optimal working status.