We present a new concept of industrial vertical greenhouse, called adaptive vertical farm, based on the possibility of adapting the distance between the shelves to the growth of the plants cultivated therein. this is ...
We present a new concept of industrial vertical greenhouse, called adaptive vertical farm, based on the possibility of adapting the distance between the shelves to the growth of the plants cultivated therein. this is possible through a set of sensors able to measure the crop height and a set of actuators to automatically move the shelves. A scheduling approach of seedings is proposed that requires the solution of a mixed-integer linear programming problem to fully utilize all the available vertical space and maximize the production yield. Simulation results obtained when cultivating various types of crops and for different greenhouse configurations in terms of total height and number of shelves are reported. the goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling approach and of the adaptive vertical farm concept in general, as compared to a vertical farm with fixed shelves.
this study deals withthe urban microgrid energy management that is dedicated to individual and collective self-consumption by providing flexibility to the distribution grid (DG). the proposed urban community microgri...
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this study deals withthe urban microgrid energy management that is dedicated to individual and collective self-consumption by providing flexibility to the distribution grid (DG). the proposed urban community microgrid is interconnected to a DG and it consists of an association of centralized storage units (called community energy storage system), community intermittent renewable generation, and intelligent energy management system (EMS). One of the main advantages of urban microgrid is that, in case of faults in the DG, it can cut existing interconnections and continue to supply the responsible community in the island mode. In this study, the developed urban microgrid EMS is based on the predictive control management through the day-ahead optimal power flow (DA-OPF) strategy. the main contributions of this work can be defined by two points. the first point is related to a development of the DA-OPF strategy for the urban microgrid based on the intelligent deep learning data forecasting and the mixed-integer nonlinear programming optimization methods. the second point concerns a development of an optimization function integrating the concept of ancillary services of DG flexibility. Experimental results and economical evaluation are presented in this article. By using the proposed strategies, it results in an important electricity price reduction for the considered urban microgrid, compared to a conventional distribution system and basic operation schemes.
Obesity, a condition influenced by genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors, poses significant health risks. this study leverages the GenObIA dataset, collected from January 2018 to June 2022, which includes ext...
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One of the biggest challenges hindering effective collaboration and therefore, pair programming, is micromanagement. In this paper, we investigated the capabilities of a pretrained transformer-based machine learning m...
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In this paper, we introduce a general methodology of reverse engineering for Xilinx FPGA devices using flash memory for programming. Based on the structural analysis of the flash memory used for the most recent 7-Seri...
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(纸本)9781665459723
In this paper, we introduce a general methodology of reverse engineering for Xilinx FPGA devices using flash memory for programming. Based on the structural analysis of the flash memory used for the most recent 7-Series FPGA, data extraction for reverse engineering is carried out targeting the flash memory withthe help of a logic analyzer. the accuracy of the extracted bitstream is finally verified using the in-house reverse engineering tool.
Nowadays, formal methods are used in various areas for the verification of programs or for code generation from models in order to increase the quality of software and to reduce costs. However, there are still fields ...
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(纸本)9781728143958
Nowadays, formal methods are used in various areas for the verification of programs or for code generation from models in order to increase the quality of software and to reduce costs. However, there are still fields in which formal methods haven't been widely adopted, despite the large set of possible benefits offered. this is the case for the area of programmable logic controllers (PLC). this article aims to evaluate the potential of formal methods in the context of PLC development. For this purpose, the general concepts of formal methods are first introduced and then transferred to the PLC area, resulting in an engineering-oriented description of the technology that is based on common concepts from PLC development. Based on this description, PLC professionals with varying degrees of experience were interviewed for their perspective on the topic and to identify possible use cases within the PLC domain. the survey results indicate the technology's high potential in the PLC area, either as a tool to directly support the developer or as a key element within a model-based systems engineering toolchain. the evaluation of the survey results is performed withthe aid of a demo application that communicates withthe Totally Integrated Automation Portal from Siemens and generates programs via Fastsynth, a model-based open source code generator. Benchmarks based on an industry-related PLC project show satisfactory synthesis times and a successful integration into the workflow of a PLC developer.
Soil compression modulus (Es) is an elemental parameter in geotechnical designs. During Es prediction, missing values in some parameters are inevitable. By analyzing the missing mechanism of the parameters, it is foun...
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(数字)9789819947522
ISBN:
(纸本)9789819947515;9789819947522
Soil compression modulus (Es) is an elemental parameter in geotechnical designs. During Es prediction, missing values in some parameters are inevitable. By analyzing the missing mechanism of the parameters, it is found that some missing values contain important domain knowledge information. A new method for predicting Es with missing values in the parameters is proposed. this method, called BETm, modifies the recursive partitioning scheme during the construction of genetic programming (GP) trees and Bayesian additive regression trees (BARTs) to incorporate missing data into partitioning rules. Compared to traditional interpolations or imputations, it can directly mine the domain information of missing values, avoiding the introduction of unnecessary errors and noise that can obscure this information. It can construct higher order feature variables to explore the interactions between parameters through GP and introduces beneficial uncertainty into an ensemble model through BART. To estimate Es, a database of 2955 geotechnical samples from 101 boreholes, including 5 missing input values, is constructed. A comparison is conducted withthe hybrid models of interpolation (e.g., imputation using average values, multivariate imputation) and ensemble learning (e.g., random forest, extreme gradient boosting). the result reveals that BETm achieves an R-2 value of 0.978, MAE of 0.045 MPa, and MAPE of 0.318 outperforming other hybrid models. the proposed model introduces variable importance analysis with Bayesian uncertainty.
Smart agriculture applications are a promising path to the future of modern farming. Building smart agriculture applications is a complex undertaking that requires considering different factors, such as the technology...
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(纸本)9783031347757;9783031347764
Smart agriculture applications are a promising path to the future of modern farming. Building smart agriculture applications is a complex undertaking that requires considering different factors, such as the technology that can be used to implement the applications. these factors require advanced skills in software construction, such as handling the distributed setting for smart agriculture applications. As such, implementing smart agriculture applications requires engaging experienced developers withthe skills to tackle the issues mentioned above. Low code development tools have risen that domain experts (e.g., agricultural extension workers that give advice to farmers) outside software engineering can use to construct software applications. the low code development tools provide visual programming environments that developers can use intuitively to construct applications. However, the existing low code development tools do not offer support for low infrastructure networking that sensors can use to communicate directly to mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets), computation at the edge, and offline accessibility capabilities at the edge that are crucial for smart agriculture applications. In this paper, we present DisCoPar-K, a low code development tool that supports the properties mentioned above for implementing smart agriculture applications. We show how DisCoPar-K can improve the development of smart agriculture applications by implementing smart agriculture use cases on it.
Power efficiency is crucial, especially in high-speed systems, where conventional approaches like clock gating cannot be employed readily. Special logic families, such as Positive Emitter-Coupled logic (PECL), push th...
Power efficiency is crucial, especially in high-speed systems, where conventional approaches like clock gating cannot be employed readily. Special logic families, such as Positive Emitter-Coupled logic (PECL), push the technological frontier, promising even more speed at the expense of an even more strained power budget. We propose a novel hybrid of PECL and Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) logic to introduce Function Shut-off (FSO), realizing a shut-off at the level of functional blocks and logic primitives inside complex logic cells. Using this approach, we realize a high-speed Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) in a SiGe technology, extending the State of the Art (SOTA) by adding reconfigurability, which is required for its use as sequence generator in Compressed Sensing (CS) applications. We present measurements showing successful fabrication and performance of the packaged die at 20.4 GHz. In this LFSR, employing FSO reduces the supply current by a factor of up to four (depending on the chosen configuration) and reduces active area by 17%.
Various approaches can be used to solve dynamic optimization problems. For example, on the one hand, optimization algorithms can be restarted every time the problem changes. As this results in a loss of optimization p...
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