With the simulations tools available today, simulation can be utilised as a platform for more advanced software testing. By introducing simulations to software testing of robot controllers, the motion performance testing phase can begin at an earlier stage of development. This would benefit all parties involved with the robot controller. Testers at ABB would be able to include more motion performance tests to the regression tests. Also, ABB could save money by adapting to simulated robot tests and customers would be provided with more reliable software updates. In this thesis, a method is developed utilising simulations to create a test set for detecting motion anomalies in new robot controller versions. With auto-generated test cases and a similarity analysis that calculates the Hausdorff distance for a test case executed on controller versions with an induced artificial bug. A test set has been created with the ability to detect anomalies in a robot controller with a bug.

Submitted by Verena Pereira (verenagoncalves@uefs.br) on 2018-07-20T22:29:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Robevaldo.pdf: 2121176 bytes, checksum: 98bf6ed19ea1c2a81242cec6e79c221a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-20T22:29:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o Robevaldo.pdf: 2121176 bytes, checksum: 98bf6ed19ea1c2a81242cec6e79c221a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-19 / Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of labovian sociolinguistics and the multidimensional geolinguistics, this research aims to investigate the variable realization of the post-vocalic lateral / l / in the position of syllabic coda in Bahia communities of the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project (ALiB Project). For this purpose, we analyze a corpus with 24 interviews with natural informants from the following locations, members of the ALiB Project network: Euclides da Cunha, Barra, Jacobina, Seabra, Santo Amaro and Santa Cruz Cabr?lia. According to the methodology of the ALiB Project, the informants are stratified by both sexes, with four informants in each city, divided into two age groups (range 1 ? 18 to 30 years old and range 2 ? 50 to 65 years old), graduated, at most, until High School. To carry out the research, the following hypotheses were raised: the / l / in the final position of the syllable is variable in the speech of the investigated communities, with the vocalized variant [w] already widely disseminated in the speech from Bahia cities, but not in a categorical way; the interaction between linguistic and social factors in the variation of / l / is the vector of this phenomenon; the variation of / l / points to a change in progress. The results point to a tendency to change, in which the erasing of the dependent variable has been abandoned by the younger informants in favor of the vocalized variant, so that the implementation of the vocalization presents different stages in each of the selected localities / Pautada nos pressupostos te?rico-metodol?gicos da sociolingu?stica laboviana e da geolingu?stica pluridimensional, esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a realiza??o vari?vel da lateral p?s-voc?lica /l/ em posi??o de coda sil?bica em comunidades baianas do Projeto Atlas Lingu?stico do Brasil (Projeto ALiB). Para tanto, foram utilizadas na composi??o do corpus analisado 24 entrevistas com informantes naturais das seguintes localidades, integrantes da rede de pontos do Projeto ALiB: Euclides da Cunha, Barra, Jacobina, Seabra, Santo Amaro e Santa Cruz Cabr?lia. Em conformidade com a metodologia do Projeto ALiB, os informantes s?o estratificados pelos dois sexos, sendo quatro informantes em cada munic?pio, distribu?dos por duas faixas et?rias (faixa 1 ? 18 a 30 anos e faixa 2 ? 50 a 65 anos), com escolaridade, no m?ximo, at? o Ensino M?dio. Para proceder ? pesquisa, foram levantadas as seguintes hip?teses: o /l/ em posi??o final de s?laba ? vari?vel na fala das comunidades investigadas, com a variante vocalizada [w] j? bastante disseminada na fala do interior baiano, mas n?o de maneira categ?rica; a intera??o entre fatores lingu?sticos e sociais na varia??o de /l/ ? o vetor desse fen?meno; a varia??o de /l/ aponta para uma mudan?a em progresso. Os resultados apontam uma tend?ncia ? mudan?a, em que o apagamento da vari?vel dependente tem sido abandonado pelos informantes mais jovens em favor da variante vocalizada, de modo que a implementa??o da vocaliza??o apresenta est?gios diferentes em cada uma das localidades selecionadas

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 436949.pdf: 1130060 bytes, checksum: 271ba4fb2e36cb9535f95282340f9814 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-27 / In order to promote the reading of silence as a face literary narrative, this paper analyzes the work A parede no escuro, of Altair Martins, proposing, then, a chance reading of literary discourse in silence inserted narrative. The subject is treated from the analysis of the assumptions postulated mainly by the following theory: Erni Orlandi, Discourse Analysis, Lawrence Chacon, of Enunciation, John Cage, Music, Maurice Blanchot and Roland Barthes, Literary Theory / Visando promover a leitura do sil?ncio como uma face narrativa liter?ria, esta disserta??o analisa a obra A parede no escuro, de Altair Martins, propondo, ent?o, uma possibilidade de leitura do discurso liter?rio inserido no sil?ncio narrativo. O tema ? tratado a partir da an?lise dos pressupostos postulados, principalmente, pelos seguintes te?ricos: Erni Orlandi, da An?lise do Discurso; Louren?o Chacon, da Enuncia??o; John Cage, da M?sica; Maurice Blanchot e Roland Barthes, da Teoria Liter?ria

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:38:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 448698.pdf: 964616 bytes, checksum: e93979ab6dff1bb9bb13f562eaa8627e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-26 / This study presents a discussion about the creative process in the context of poetry, a field in which we must consider not only the poem, the act of writing, but what happens, and especially what precedes it. We believe there is an element that is essential in this process: the silence. There is silence before the poem, its primordial to the existence of the poem. And there is silence after the poem is written and after it is read. Several important theorists position themselves in relation to the creation of poetry, many of them citing just silence, and lend their theories to strengthen our arguments. Among them are Blanchot, Bachelard, Trevisan, Pavese, Orlandi, Pound, Paz, Lezama Lima, Borges, Barthes, Val?ry, Zambrano, among others. Joins them no more a poet who also makes theory, but a poet, ?lvio Vargas, who brings the poetry itself the possibility to identify traits that may say that there is something beyond the poem, and that this is something beyond the raw material for the poetic word. This, in turn, arises in the intervals between one and another silence. / Este estudo apresenta uma discuss?o acerca do processo criativo no ?mbito da poesia, campo em que h? que se considerar n?o apenas o poema, o ato da escrita, mas o que o sucede e, principalmente, o que o antecede. Acredito que existe um elemento que ? essencial nesse processo: o sil?ncio. Existe sil?ncio antes do poema, primordial a sua exist?ncia. E existe sil?ncio ap?s o poema, seja ap?s sua escrita ou ap?s sua leitura. V?rios importantes te?ricos posicionam-se com rela??o ? cria??o da poesia, muitos deles mencionando justamente o sil?ncio, e emprestam suas teorias para refor?ar nossos argumentos. Entre eles est?o Blanchot, Bachelard, Trevisan, Pavese, Orlandi, Pound, Paz, Lezama Lima, Borges, Barthes, Val?ry, Zambrano, entre outros. Une-se a eles n?o mais um poeta que tamb?m faz teoria, mas um poeta, ?lvio Vargas, que traz na pr?pria poesia a possibilidade para identificarmos tra?os que permitem dizer que existe algo al?m do poema, e que ? esse algo al?m a mat?ria-prima para a palavra po?tica. Esta, por sua vez, nasce nos intervalos entre um e outro sil?ncio.

Práce charakterizuje činnost konkrétní firmy působící na domácím trhu v oblasti dovozu a distribuce potravin. Měnící se podmínky trhu vyžadují přizpůsobení se těmto změnám, kdy prvním krokem k úspěchu je pečlivá analýza současného stavu. Rozbor vnějšího okolí firmy, zejména prostřednictvím PEST analýzy, Porterova modelu konkurenčních sil a BCG matice, a vnitřního prostředí pomocí stručné marketingové analýzy a finanční analýzy, je základním prvkem pro tvorbu SWOT analýzy, jako výstupu analýz vnitřního a vnějšího prostředí. Návrh optimální strategie firmy na základě výsledků SWOT analýzy s cílem přizpůsobení se daným podmínkám trhu.

This dissertation work examines the role of strategic management in the non-profit sector on the example of the Berg Orchestra, which is a chamber orchestra specializing in contemporary classical music. A theoretical analysis of several strategic planning models is presented, and the most appropriate is selected based on the general requirements of a non-profit organization. Applied specifically to the Berg Orchestra, the proposed strategy takes into account the various roles and activities of the orchestra.

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-10-13T20:23:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014 - Arnaldo Cesar Almeida Oliveira.pdf: 1706735 bytes, checksum: e15df5900be5e8087531ffa6a80e066e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-13T20:23:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014 - Arnaldo Cesar Almeida Oliveira.pdf: 1706735 bytes, checksum: e15df5900be5e8087531ffa6a80e066e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-31 / CAPES / Understanding the structural properties of dislocations is essential since these defects govern the processes plastic deformation of materials. Particularly in semiconductors, these studies are important given the relevance of these materials for microelectronics. In this work, our focus will be the 90o partial dislocations in silicon. For the theoretical study of atomic-scale crystal dislocations, we use simulations based on semi-empirical quantum-mechanical methods closely linked to the tight-binding treatment, since it considers in its formulation that crystalline electronic states can be described in terms of atomic orbitals: Density Matrix Method Tight-Binding Order-N (DMTB). This method has a low computational cost which allows us to work with very large systems atoms in structures representation -including thousands of sites. In short, we describe how to produce and represent the 90o partial dislocations in Si, we consider three models for its core structure: a unreconstructed where the atoms have an almost fivefold coordination; a model reconstructed with period equal to the perfect lattice; and a model with twice period comparing with the perfect lattice. Finally, we calculate the range in energy of the system with the distance between the dislocations and the free surface of Si. / Compreender as propriedades estruturais de discord?ncias cristalinas ? fundamental uma vez que estes defeitos governam os processos de deforma??o pl?stica em materiais. Particularmente em semicondutores, esses estudos s?o importantes dada a relev?ncia desses materiais para a microeletr?nica. Neste trabalho nosso foco ser?o as discord?ncias cristalinas parciais a 90o em sil?cio. Para o estudo te?rico em escala at?mica das discord?ncias cristalinas, usamos simula??es baseadas em metodologias quanto-mec?nicas semi-emp?ricas atrav?s de um m?todo intimamente ligado ao tratamento tight-binding, uma vez que considera em sua formula??o que os estados eletr?nicos cristalinos podem ser descritos em termos de orbitais at?micos: M?todo da Matriz Densidade Tight-Binding de Ordem-N (DMTB). Este m?todo tem um custo computacional baixo o que permite que trabalhemos com sistemas muito grandes de ?tomos na representa??o das estruturas ? com milhares de s?tios inclusive. Em suma, descrevemos como produzir e representar as discord?ncias parciais a 90o em Si consideramos tr?s modelos para sua estrutura de caro?o: um n?o reconstru?do onde os ?tomos possuem uma coordena??o quase qu?ntupla; um modelo reconstru?do com per?odo igual ao per?odo da rede perfeita; e um modelo com per?odo dobrado em rela??o ao da rede perfeita. Por fim, calculamos a varia??o da energia do sistema com a dist?ncia entre as discord?ncias e a superf?cie livre do Si.

This thesis focuses on developing a business plan to establish a subsidiary dealing with traffic engineering signs. The introductory part deals with the theoretical work, concepts and methods which will be directly applied in the following sections. Analytical part is focused on the individual analysis of the external and internal environment, a description of the parent company, especially after the financial costs incurred and contains a summary analysis describing the position in the marketplace. The final section contains a selection of the legal form of the founding companies, business and financial plan, risk management, schedule and evaluation of the business plan.

En esta tesis se hacen contribuciones a la simulación interactiva de motores de reluctancia autoconmutados desde la perspectiva de la ingeniería concurrente.En primer lugar, después de una breve introducción histórica, se sitúa el motor de reluctancia autoconmutado (SRM) en el marco de los accionamientos eléctricos y se introducen los principios básicos de la ingeniería concurrente utilizando el prototipado rápido de accionamientos eléctricos.En segundo lugar se presenta la constitución del accionamiento con SRM y sus principios de funcionamiento. Se especifican los antecedentes en el modelado de los SRM y se presenta un tratamiento original de las curvas de magnetización.Seguidamente se trata la simulación de los accionamientos eléctricos desde la perspectiva de la ingeniería concurrente. Tras estudiar la evolución de la simulación (analógica, numérica, analógica digital, multidisciplinar, física, etc.), se muestran los procedimientos de la ingeniería concurrente que parten del modelado del accionamiento con SRM usando las técnicas SIL (Software In the Loop) que permiten escoger y ajustar los controles más adecuados usando un prototipo virtual del accionamiento y que integra los procedimientos utilizados en las técnicas HIL (hardware in the loop), concretándose todo ello en una plataforma digital para el desarrollo de los accionamientos con SRM.A continuación se procede, después de hacer una descripción general del accionamiento programado, a detallar los programas utilizados en la simulación interactiva de los diferentes componentes (convertidor estático, detectores de posición, sensores de corriente, cargas, etc) del accionamiento completo con SRM, considerando diferentes estrategias de control (pulso único, control de corriente mediante histéresis y PWM) y condiciones de funcionamiento (régimen permanente, transitorios y faltas).Posteriormente, se diseña una plataforma para el desarrollo de accionamientos con SRM en tiempo real mediante un entorno de prototipado rápido. Esta plataforma es flexible modular y robusta permitiendo; configurar distintas topologías del convertidor, implementar distintas estrategias de control en tiempo real tanto para el convertidor como para el accionamiento, evitando los problemas habituales de prueba y ajuste, que tanto tiempo hacen perder en el diseño convencional de accionamientos, para centrar la atención y los esfuerzos en los conceptos y aspectos clave de los accionamientos con SRM.Una vez construida la plataforma de desarrollo, esta se utiliza para contrastar y validar los resultados obtenidos mediante la simulación SIL, constatándose además la capacidad de la plataforma para el desarrollo de accionamientos de SRM, así como sus ventajas para la enseñanza e investigación en este tipo de accionamientos. Finalmente, se enumeran las aportaciones realizadas, se presentan las conclusiones finales y se describen futuras líneas de investigación. / In this thesis, contributions are made to the interactive simulation of switched reluctance motors (SRMs) from the perspective of concurrent engineering.Firstly, after a brief introduction to the history of switched reluctance motors (SRMs), they are placed in the context of electric drives. The basic principles of concurrent engineering are then described by means of the rapid prototyping of electric drives.Secondly, the design of drives using SRMs and the principles behind their operation are presented. An overview of SRM modeling is given and an original treatment of magnetization curves is presented.Subsequently, the simulation of electric drives from the perspective of concurrent engineering is carried out. After a study of how simulation (analogical, numerical, analogical-digital, multidisciplinary and physical) has evolved, the procedures of concurrent engineering are demonstrated. The procedures start out by modeling drives with SRMs using SIL (software-in-the-loop) techniques. This makes it possible to choose and to fit the most suitable controls by using a virtual prototype of the drive and integrating the procedures used in HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) techniques. The final outcome is a digital platform for the development of drives using SRMs.After a general description of the drive, the programs used in the interactive simulation of the components (static converters, position detectors, current sensors, loads, etc.) of the complete drive with an SRM are described. Various strategies ranging from control (single pulse, control of current by means of hysteresis and PWM) to conditions of operation (permanent, transitory and faulty schemes) are also considered.A platform for the development of drives using SRMs in real time by means of rapid prototyping is designed. This platform is flexible, modular and robust, which makes it possible to configure different topologies for the converter and to implement different control strategies in real time for the converter and the drive. This avoids the habitual problems of testing and adjusting, which take up a great deal of time in conventional drive design, thus making it possible to focus on the drive's conceptual features.Once the development platform has been built, it is used to validate the results obtained by means of SIL simulation. The platform's capacity to contribute to the development of SRM drives and its advantages for teaching and research in this particular field are demonstrated.Finally, all the original contributions are put forward, the conclusions are presented and future lines of research are described.

L'introduction de systèmes instrumentés dédiés aux applications de sécurité impose l'évaluation de leur sûreté de fonctionnement. On utilise généralement pour cela les bases de données de fiabilité génériques. Cependant, le retour d'expérience pour ces systèmes qui présentent en général des défaillances rares est insuffisant pour valider les résultats obtenus. En outre, la collecte de données de fiabilité et leur extrapolation à d'autres composants introduisent des incertitudes.<br />Les travaux de cette thèse portent sur la problématique de la prise en compte des incertitudes relatives aux données de fiabilité des composants pour l'évaluation de la sûreté de fonctionnement des systèmes par le formalisme des sous ensembles flous. La méthodologie proposée est appliquée à l'évaluation des probabilités de défaillance des Systèmes Instrumentés de Sécurité (SIS) en présence de données de fiabilité imprécises. Nous introduisons deux nouveaux facteurs d'importance pour aider le concepteur. En outre, nous proposons une méthodologie d'aide à la conception des SIS basée sur la modélisation par réseaux de fiabilité et l'optimisation par des algorithmes génétiques de la structure des SIS pour le respect des niveaux d'intégrité de sécurité (SIL) exigés.