We study the exact and approximate controllabilities of the Langevin equation describing the Brownian motion of particles with a white noise. The Langevin equation is shown to describe also the bacterial run-and-tumble motion. Applying the Green’s function approach to the Green’s function representation of the Langevin equation, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for exact controllability in the form of a finite-dimensional problem of moments. For the approximate controllability, we obtain only sufficient conditions. The sets of resolving controls are characterized in both cases. The theoretical derivations are supported by a numerical analysis.
In the paper, the research results on the removal of aliphatic hydrocarbons (C7 to C30) on constructed
wetlands have been presented. The research has been realized on the semi-technical scale constructed wetlands.
planted with reed Phragmites australis. The experimental installation is located on the filling station in Balice and treats the fraction of stormwater from this utility. The concentrations of total aliphatic hydrocarbons
in analyzed stormwater were between 96.02 µg/dm3 and 6177.33 µg/dm3
, and from 47.55 µg/dm3 to 5011.14
µg/dm3
in effluent from the installation. The average total aliphatic hydrocarbons removal effectiveness was
48%, the values ranged from 19% to 81%. Hydrocarbons C14 to C18 were removed with the lowest effectiveness (26%–32%), the lighter hydrocarbons – with higher one (39%–68%), however the highest removal
effectiveness were observed for the hydrocarbons with the highest carbon atoms numbers (from 51% for C20
to 92%–93% for C26–C30).
The telemetry data are essential in evaluating the performance of aircraft and diagnosing its failures. This work combines the oversampling technology with the run-length encoding compression algorithm with an error factor to further enhance the compression performance of telemetry data in a multichannel acquisition system. Compression of telemetry data is carried out with the use of FPGAs. In the experiments there are used pulse signals and vibration signals. The proposed method is compared with two existing methods. The experimental results indicate that the compression ratio, precision, and distortion degree of the telemetry data are improved significantly compared with those obtained by the existing methods. The implementation and measurement of the proposed telemetry data compression method show its effectiveness when used in a high-precision high-capacity multichannel acquisition system.
The implementation of milk-run in Indonesia has been started since 2005. As a developing
country, there is a challenge to operate milk-run smoothly especially in urban area due to
severe traffic congestion and unfavourable road condition in some areas. This research aimed
to analyze the practice of milk-run operation in one of the biggest Japanese automotive
companies in Indonesia. Transportation Value Stream Mapping (TVSM) is applied in order
to perform just-in-time delivery in the supply chain before operating milk-run. It is discussed
that this company still need to continue in improving milk-run operation. The operation
system needs control and integration from manufacturer, supplier and logistics partner.
The advantage of milk-run operation is cost reduction and also support green logistics in
decreasing emission of carbondioxide (CO2) by reducing the number of trucks used.
The objective of the milk-run design problem considered in this paper is to minimize transportation
and inventory costs by manipulating fleet size and the capacity of vehicles and
storage areas. Just as in the case of an inventory routing problem, the goal is to find a periodic
distribution policy with a plan on whom to serve, and how much to deliver by what
fleet of tugger trains travelling regularly on which routes. This problem boils down to determining
the trade-off between fleet size and storage capacity, i.e. the size of replenishment
batches that can minimize fleet size and storage capacity. A solution obtained in the declarative
model of the milk-run system under discussion allows to determine the routes for each
tugger train and the associated delivery times. In this context, the main contribution of
the present study is the identification of the relationship between takt time and the size
of replenishment batches, which allows to determine the delivery time windows for milkrun
delivery and, ultimately, the positioning of trade-off points. The results show that this
relationship is non-linear.
The Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences (Bull.Pol. Ac.: Tech.) is published bimonthly by the Division IV Engineering Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since the beginning of the existence of the PAS in 1952. The journal is peer‐reviewed and is published both in printed and electronic form. It is established for the publication of original high quality papers from multidisciplinary Engineering sciences with the following topics preferred: Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Control, Informatics and Robotics, Electronics, Telecommunication and Optoelectronics, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Material Science and Nanotechnology, Power Systems and Power Electronics.
Journal Metrics: JCR Impact Factor 2018: 1.361, 5 Year Impact Factor: 1.323, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2017: 0.319, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2017: 1.005, CiteScore 2017: 1.27, The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education 2017: 25 points.
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In 2015 Supreme Audit Office published the report concerned the quality of doctoral studies in Poland. Result of the conducted audit is alarming: “there are serious doubts both about quality and effectiveness of mass doctoral education” (SAO 2015). The text presents an overview of university regulations concerned the evaluation of annual achievements of PhD students (in the area of social sciences) and indicates its potentially negative consequences for the quality of their academic activity. The article refers to two terms – “running for points” and “parametric game”– introduced by Emanuel Kulczycki to describe consequences of economization of research evaluation system, i.e. measuring academic activities and turning them into points-based rewards.
An important operational task for thermal turbines during run-up and run-down is to keep the stresses in the structural elements at a right level. This applies not only to their instantaneous values, but also to the impact of them on the engine lifetime. The turbine shaft is a particularly important element. The distribution of stresses depends on geometric characteristics of the shaft and its specific locations. This means a groove manufactured for fixing the rotor blades. The extreme stresses in this place occur during the start-up and the shaft heating to normal operating temperature. The process needs optimisation. Optimization tasks are multidisciplinary issues and can be carried out using different methods. In recent years, particular attention in optimisation has been paid to the use of artificial intelligence methods. Among them, a special role is assigned to genetic algorithms. The paper presents a genetic algorithm method to optimise the steam turbine shaft heating process during its start-up phase. The presented optimization task of this algorithm is to carry out the process of the shaft heating as soon as possible at the conditions of not exceeding the stresses at critical locations at any heating phase.