Finapres tracking of systolic pressure and baroreflex sensitivity improved by waveform filtering

Objective. Arterial pressure waveforms distort between brachial and finger arteries, causing differences mainly in systolic pressure. Distortion, reportedly, can be removed by applying a waveform filter to the finger pressure. Design. We analysed the data from two studies that detected discrepancies in systolic tracking between Finapres and...

A single Chip Implementation for Fast Convolution of Long Sequences

Usually, long convolutions are computed by programmable DSP boards using long FFTs. Typical operational requirements such as minimum power dissipation, minimum volume and high dynamic range/accuracy, make this solution often inefficient and even unacceptable. In this paper we present a single chip floating point solution for large convolution...

Efficient adaptive fuzzy control scheme

The paper presents an adaptive nonlinear (state-) feedback control structure, where the nonlinearities are implemented as smooth fuzzy mappings defined as rule sets. The fine tuning and adaption of the controller is realized by an indirect adaptive scheme, which modifies the parameters of the fuzzy mapping. The performance index gradients are...

Optimal control of the dissolved oxygen concentration in an airlift-loop reactor

A model to describe the oxygen transfer in an airlift-loop reactor (ALR) is developed in order to build an optimal digital control algorithm for the dissolved oxygen concentration. Thereafter the model is discretized in place and time resulting in a set of linear difference equations. These equations are used to implement an optimal linear...

A unified control strategy for the active reduction of sound and vibration

The generalized minimum variance (GMV) control strategy is proposed as an effective strategy for active sound and vibration control systems. The GMV strategy is shown to unify well-known adaptive filtering approaches based on LMS-type algorithms and purely feedback strategies as used in other types of control systems. The shortcomings of the LMS...

Classification of Agricultural Crops in Radar Images

For the past few years an accurate X-band SLAR system with digital recording has been available in The Netherlands. The images of this system are corrected to indicate radar backscatter coefficients (gamma) instead of arbitrary greytones. In 1980 a radar measurement campaign was organized in the Flevopolder area. Ground-based measurements were...

A class of high-pass digital MTI filters with nonuniform PRF

A class of digital feed-forward filters is developed, satisfying the requirement of a maximally flat stopband characteristic at zero frequency if the pulse-repetition frequency is modulated. A simple algorithm is given to obtain the filter coefficients. Some properties are summarized