Abstract:
The system can be used for the automatic analysis of images (I), comprising a matrix of spots, such as images of DNA microarrays after hybridisation. The system can be associated - and preferably integrated in a single monolithic component implementing VLSI CMOS technology - to a sensor (10) for acquiring said images (I). The system comprises a circuit (20) for processing the signals corresponding to the images (I), configured according to a cellular neural network (CNN) architecture for the parallel analogue processing of signals.
Abstract:
A system for detecting distances, usable, for instance, in the vehicle sector or in robotics applications, comprises at least one transducer (16), such as a piezoelectric transducer, for generating a transmission signal to be sent in the direction of an obstacle (O) and for obtaining a receiving signal corresponding to an echo produced by the reflection of said transmission signal off the obstacle (O). The transducer (16) is driven by a chaos generator (10), such as a Chua's circuit (10). The system preferably comprises a correlator (18) for correlating the transmission signal (TX) and the receiving signal (RX) so that the distance between the obstacle and the transducer (16) is identified by the instant at which the aforesaid correlation assumes the maximum value. Preferably, the transmission signal (TX) is a square-wave signal selectively generated with one first frequency and one second frequency, the jumps between said two frequencies being determined by the instants of emission of the pulses (CPPM) generated by a pulse generator of an analog type (12) driven by the chaos generator (10).
Abstract:
A circuit implementing a non-integer order dynamic system includes a neural network (1 to 5) adapted to receive at least one input signal (IS) and to generate therefrom at least one output signal (OS). The input and output signals (IS, OS) are related to each by a non-integer order integro-differential relationship through the coefficients of the neural network (1 to 5). A plurality (I, II) of such circuits, implementing respective non-integer order (PI λ D µ ) controllers can be interconnected in an arrangement wherein any of the integral (200) or differential (202) blocks included in one of those circuits generates a signal which is fed to any of the integral (200) or differential (204) blocks of another circuit in the system.
Abstract:
A control device for a focus system of a compact disk (CD) driver (1), using fuzzy logic, of the type which is incorporated to an audio data processing system (2) of the CD driver and adapted to detect and segregate a light beam reflected by the surface of the compact disk (CD) from an incident light beam to the surface. The control device comprises, according to this invention, a controller (CF) operated on fuzzy logic for determining a focus error signal [Focus Error] and driving a focus servo-system (3) of the CD driver to adjust the distance of the focal plane from the light beam detecting means.
Abstract:
A cryptation system for information transmitted through packet switching networks including masking the digital information data by combining them at the transmitting station with digital data of a certain code of cryptation before transmitting the so encrypted data through the network and performing an inverse decrypting processing at the receiving station using the same code of encrypting, comprises generating at a transmitting station and at a receiving station, starting from a given pair of password codes or user key, a certain discrete chaotic model or map of said pair of codes or key, producing dynamically updated pairs of values of codes or keys every certain number of processing steps of said chaotic map, masking the data to be transmitted by way of a logic combination with said current dynamically updated keys at the transmitting station, demasking the data at the receiving station by way of a logic decomposition of said digital data from said current dynamically updated key returning the digital data to a clear condition.