I-shou University

Chen-Sen Ouyang

Rong-Ching Wu

Ching-Tai Chiang

Jong-Ian Tsai

Rei-Cheng Yang

Li-Ju Huang

An evaluation device is adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) computing module, a capacity computing module, and an output module. The SNR computing module is operable to set an average SNR for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver, and to compute an expected value and variance of an effective SNR of the transceiver system according to the fading parameter and the average SNR. The capacity computing module is operable to compute an outage capacity of the transceiver system based upon the expected value and the variance of the effective SNR and a transmission outage parameter. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the outage capacity.

Evaluation device and method for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof

A method for extracting feature vectors from a palm image includes the steps of: determining a palm contour in the palm image, and labeling pixels on the palm contour as contour pixels in order along the palm contour; determining a rotation angle of the palm contour relative to a coordinate system; obtaining corrected contour pixels to offset the rotation angle; determining a plurality of feature points from the corrected contour pixels; obtaining a plurality of sub-images from the palm image with reference to the feature points, one of the sub-images corresponding to a palm center and another one of the sub-images corresponding to a corresponding palm finger; and determining the feature vectors with reference to the sub-images, each of the feature vectors corresponding to a corresponding one of the sub-images.

Method and computer program product for extracting feature vectors from a palm image

An evaluation device is configured to provide a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module operable to set an average signal-to-noise rate (SNR) for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver, a computing module operable to estimate a symbol error rate related to a signal received by the receiver from the transmitter based upon the fading parameter and the average SNR, and an output module operable to provide the average SNR and the symbol error rate as the performance information of the transceiver system.

A modeling method of neuro-fuzzy system including a rule-defining process and a network-building process is disclosed. The rule-defining process divides a plurality of training data into a plurality of groups to accordingly define a plurality of fuzzy rules, and the network-building process constructs a fuzzy neural network based on the fuzzy rules obtained by the rule-defining process. The provided modeling method of neuro-fuzzy system is capable of building a neuro-fuzzy system extremely similar to an original function that generates training data of the neuro-fuzzy system.

Modeling method of neuro-fuzzy system

An analysis method for turbine-generator torsional vibrations affected by power transmission system, which is processed by a computer system with a simulation software, is proposed. This analysis method comprises: building structures of a first system model and a second system model to respectively simulate a first system and a second system; building detailed models of the first and second system model; and analyzing the detailed models of the first and second system model in frequency- and time-domain.

Analysis method for turbine-generator torsional vibrations affected by power transmission system

A system for computing machine parameters of an induction machine includes a relation providing module and a circuit parameter computing module. The relation providing module is operable to provide a relationship between slip rates and primary side resistances of the induction machine and a relationship between the slip rates and primary side reactances of the induction machine. The circuit parameter computing module is operable to perform a parameter computing process according to the relationships obtained from the relation providing module. The parameter computing process includes the steps of: a) generating a set of initial values of equivalent circuit parameters of the induction machine; b) updating the initial values; c) calculating a cumulative resistance error and a cumulative reactance error; and d) repeating steps b) and c) until the cumulative resistance error and the cumulative reactance error are smaller than first and second error thresholds, respectively.

System for computing machine parameters of an induction machine

An electroencephalogram signal processing method includes a recording step, a retrieving step, a removing step and a synthesizing step. The recording step retrieves EEG signal components of a testee via a plurality of electrodes, wherein the EEG signal components serve as an input signal. The retrieving step filters the input signal to obtain a predetermined frequency band signal, and subtracts the predetermined frequency band signal from the input signal to obtain a difference signal. The removing step performs an independent component analysis operation between the difference signal and a separating matrix to obtain an analysis signal, generates a separating pseudo inverse and an independent analysis signal, and performs a matrix operation between the separating pseudo inverse and the independent analysis signal to obtain a corrected signal. The synthesizing step adds the corrected signal and the predetermined frequency band signal together to obtain an output signal.

Electroencephalogram signal processing method

An evaluation device provides a transceiver system with performance information. The transceiver system models channels between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module, a computing module and an output module. The computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, an average SNR of the channels, a number of transmit antennas and a number of receive antennas, to estimate an average output SNR, a bit error rate and an outage probability related to signals received by the receiver. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the estimated information as the performance information.

Evaluation device for providing a transceiver system with transceiving performance information thereof

An OFDM beamformer of a signal receiving system receives multiple frequency-domain sample signal vectors each transformed from arrival signals received by a corresponding antenna element of an antenna array, and includes: multiple signal splitters each splitting a corresponding frequency-domain sample signal vector into a data signal subvector and a pilot signal subvector based on predetermined position information; a weight generator generating an estimated auto-correlation matrix and an estimated cross-correlation vector based on the data signal subvectors, the pilot signal subvectors, and a reference pilot signal vector associated with a desired user, and generating an optimal weight vector based on the estimated auto-correlation matrix and the estimated cross-correlation vector; and a combining unit combining, based on the optimal weight vector, serial data signals converted from each data signal vector by a corresponding parallel-to-serial converter to generate an estimated data symbol output corresponding to the desired user.

OFDM beamformer, and a signal receiving system incorporating the same

An evaluation device is adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a threshold value computing module, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) setting module, a probability computing module, and an output module. The threshold value computing module is operable to compute a threshold value based upon a given capacity. The SNR setting module is operable to set an average SNR for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver of the transceiver system. The probability computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, the average SNR and the threshold value, to compute an outage probability of the transceiver system corresponding to the given capacity. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the outage probability.

An evaluation device is adapted for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system includes a transmitter and at least one receiver, and models a channel between the transmitter and the receiver using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) setting module, an error rate computing module, and an output module. The SNR setting module is operable to set an average SNR for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver of the transceiver system. The error rate computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, the average SNR and a number of the receiver, to compute a bit error rate over the channel between the transmitter and the receiver. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the bit error rate as the performance information of the transceiver system.

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Chen-Sen Ouyang