To address the issue of resonance frequency shifts, output amplitude reduction, and vibration instability in piezoelectric transducers (PT) during the cutting process of ultrasonic surgical instruments due to temperat...
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To address the issue of resonance frequency shifts, output amplitude reduction, and vibration instability in piezoelectric transducers (PT) during the cutting process of ultrasonic surgical instruments due to temperature changes and load fluctuations, resulting in decreased cutting quality and efficiency, severely impacting surgical outcomes, this paper proposes an amplitude-phase control a*algorithm based on fuzzy PI against vibration fluctuations of ultrasonic surgical instruments. This a*algorithm adopts a dual-loop control design: the frequency control loop locks the impedance phase of the transducer to zero through the phase control method, achieving rapid resonance frequency tracking;the amplitude control loop maintains a constant input current through the amplitude control method, ensuring stable amplitude output. In complex surgical environments, this dual-loop control design is more reliable and practical compared to a single control method. To enhance the control a*algorithm's adaptability and robustness to load and temperature changes, a fuzzy PI controller is used instead of a traditional PI controller. Simulation results show that when the load is large, merely using a resonance frequency tracking a*algorithm cannot ensure stable vibration amplitude of the piezoelectric transducer. Compared with the classic PI control, the a*algorithm based on fuzzy PI control can quickly and stably track the resonance frequency and maintain constant amplitude under different loads, exhibiting stronger robustness and adaptability. Experiments validate the effectiveness of this a*algorithm in practical applications, demonstrating that within a reasonable working pressure range (not exceeding 5 N), the control a*algorithm is robust, maintaining good cutting ability and vibration stability of the ultrasonic surgical instrument. The method proposed in this paper is of significant importance for ensuring the vibration stability of ultrasonic surgical instruments, improving surgical outcom
Indoor localization systems (ILS) have become essential tools to address the challenge of locating and tracking items and individuals, such as children, the elderly, and patients with Alzheimer's or dementia. In t...
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Indoor localization systems (ILS) have become essential tools to address the challenge of locating and tracking items and individuals, such as children, the elderly, and patients with Alzheimer's or dementia. In this study, our aim is to develop an auto-adjusting a*algorithm to select coefficients based on the current automatically Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) class. The method adopted by the Internet of Things (IoT) model integrated with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to achieve this objective. The system is designed to track lost items and individuals using a wearable central unit (mini-Raspberry Pi) as a controller and BLE nodes as peripheral devices. The developed system includes Bluetooth beacons, data aggregation, storage, and a web interface for real-time tracking and visualization. The RSSI foot printing method is adopted to detect a specific zone within indoor environments. A web-based application has also been developed to enable monitoring and management of the designed system. The study was evaluated in a real-time experimental environment (with fixed and auto-adjust coefficients) to explore the challenges of accurately determining indoor locations in five rooms. The proposed method initially succeeded in reducing the error caused by fixed coefficients and RSSI by 28.03%. The results demonstrated that the auto-tuning a*algorithm with dynamic coefficients was able to improve the accuracy of positioning by dynamically adjusting RSSI coefficients;this study successfully reduced the average absolute percentage error of indoor localization by 8% and decreased the maximum localization error to 2.01 meters.
An optimal fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller (OFASMC) is introduced in the present paper for stabilizing a quadrotor drone with chaotic and nonlinear dynamics. At first, control efforts related to the motor torqu...
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An optimal fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller (OFASMC) is introduced in the present paper for stabilizing a quadrotor drone with chaotic and nonlinear dynamics. At first, control efforts related to the motor torques of the regarded quadrotor drone are determined by the sliding mode procedure as the main stabilizer. Next, using the gradient descent formulation as well as the chain derivative rule, the control gains are adapted through the system states. Then, human knowledge-based fuzzy systems are appropriately designed to set the control parameters for achieving more accurate results. The output errors and control efforts are minimized through the optimum values found for the effective coefficients of the controller by applying the Arithmetic Optimization a*algorithm (AOA). Simulation results clearly illustrate the effectiveness of the introduced strategy to stabilize the quadrotor drone system with and without external disturbances. Block diagram of theproposed optimal fuzzy adaptive sliding mode control for the quadrotor drone. image
In motion planning of biped robots, the place where the swing foot lands on the ground is crucial. Stability, energy consumption, smoothness of movement as well as naturalness of motion can be depending on the selecte...
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In motion planning of biped robots, the place where the swing foot lands on the ground is crucial. Stability, energy consumption, smoothness of movement as well as naturalness of motion can be depending on the selected foot placement. In this paper, a novel method based on the A* a*algorithm and kinematic manipulability for foot placement planning is presented. In this method, by calculating the magnitude and direction of the maximum manipulability for the candidate foot placements, one is selected that leads to the most dexterous and agile walking while maintaining stability. The advantage of this approach is avoiding singularities and being ready to create a higher potential for foot velocities. Therefore, the possibility of performing maneuvers to maintain walking stability would be enhanced. The mentioned a*algorithm has been successfully implemented on a simulated three-dimensional biped robot.
In this paper, an adaptive critic-based approximate optimal control scheme is constructed for the attitude coordinated tracking problem with prescribed performance requirements and input saturation constraint. Since t...
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In this paper, an adaptive critic-based approximate optimal control scheme is constructed for the attitude coordinated tracking problem with prescribed performance requirements and input saturation constraint. Since the virtual leader's information is not available for some followers, a predetermined-time distributed observer is deployed for each follower to reconstruct the leader's information. Subsequently, an error transformation procedure is imported to reformulate the prescribed-time attitude coordination issue with prescribed performance constraint as the stabilization one of an unconstraint error system. To confront the input saturation constraint, a nonquadratic function is included in the cost function and in this case the described issue is formulated as a series of nonlinear optimal control problems. The critic architecture is built to approximately solve the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, i.e., only critic neural network (NN) is utilized to reconstruct the value function and control policy for each follower. The effectiveness and advantage is validated through numerical examples.
Load balancing is essential in cloud computing (CC) to manage the increasing load on servers efficiently. This article proposes a load balancing strategy utilizing constraint measures to distribute the load evenly amo...
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Load balancing is essential in cloud computing (CC) to manage the increasing load on servers efficiently. This article proposes a load balancing strategy utilizing constraint measures to distribute the load evenly amongst the servers while minimizing power consumption. Firstly, the capacity and load of every Virtual Machine (VM) is evaluated, and tasks are assigned using the African Vultures a*algorithm (AVA) when the load exceeds a predefined threshold. This approach aim is to minimize energy consumption, makespan, and data center usage. Additionally, a load balancing method computes critical features for each VM and assesses their load, followed by calculating selection factors for tasks. Tasks with superior selection factors are assigned to VMs. The proposed Efficient Load Balancing in Cloud Computing under African Vultures a*algorithm (ELB-CC-AVA) demonstrates better performance in cloud environments, achieving lower makespan by 32.82%, 30.47%, and 25.32%, along with higher resource utilization rates of 38.22%, 40.21%, and 25.46% compared to the existing methods.
Timely prediction of Ship Traffic Flow (STF) is essential for managing maritime traffic and preventing congestion. However, existing deep neural network-based STF models often face challenges with hyperparameter selec...
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Timely prediction of Ship Traffic Flow (STF) is essential for managing maritime traffic and preventing congestion. However, existing deep neural network-based STF models often face challenges with hyperparameter selection and limited accuracy improvements. This study introduces a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) model optimized by an Adaptive Genetic a*algorithm (AGA) to address these issues. The methodology begins with comprehensive data preprocessing, using gate-line-based rules to analyze ship traffic entering and leaving ports, leveraging Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. The AGA-TCN model then employs causally dilated convolutions to capture long-term dependencies and extract frequency domain features, with the AGA dynamically optimizing TCN hyperparameters for specific prediction tasks, resulting in an end-to-end STF prediction framework. AIS data from San Francisco waters, covering the period from June 1, 2022, to December 14, 2022, was used to evaluate the model. The performance of the AGA-TCN model was compared against Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)-TCN, standard TCN, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) models. These models were chosen for comparison due to their widespread use in time-series prediction tasks, representing a variety of approaches in deep learning and optimization. The experiments demonstrate that the AGA-TCN model outperformed all these models, with improvements in RMSE, MSE, and MAPE of 54.37%, 79.18%, and 27.43%, respectively, over the standard TCN. These results underscore the robustness and high accuracy of the AGA-TCN model in STF prediction, establishing it as a superior approach for this application.
The peak strength is a significant parameter in rock engineering, the traditional empirical strength criteria for rocks show good agreement with test results under specific conditions. However, it is not completely ac...
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The peak strength is a significant parameter in rock engineering, the traditional empirical strength criteria for rocks show good agreement with test results under specific conditions. However, it is not completely accurate for a wide range of loading stress domains and uncorrelated rock types. In this research, porosity, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) and confining pressure are selected as input variables, and the artificial bee colony (ABC) a*algorithm is used to optimize the support vector machine (SVM) model. Finally, we validate and comparatively analyze the applicability of the models based on the testing set and the comprehensive evaluation indexes (namely correlation coefficient (R2), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)). Meanwhile, the cosine amplitude method is applied to analyze the correlation between the peak strength and the input variables. The results indicate that both SVM model and ABC-SVM model are suitable for the prediction of peak strength under triaxial compression. Additionally, the ABC-SVM model obviously has better prediction performance by comparison.
Path-planning is the key for marine rescue using unmanned surface vessel. Planning an efficient and safe path can significantly improve the efficiency of marine rescue, and existing path-planning a*algorithms are prone ...
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Path-planning is the key for marine rescue using unmanned surface vessel. Planning an efficient and safe path can significantly improve the efficiency of marine rescue, and existing path-planning a*algorithms are prone to collision and grounding with islands and shallows. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method for improving A* a*algorithm. First, global key nodes were extracted based on maritime map information using image processing techniques. Then, the global key nodes that can be directly reached in a straight line and meet safety threshold were screened as child nodes of current node to participate in the search. Finally, the path was planned by introducing the path danger value into the cost function of A* a*algorithm to consider the path cost and safety. Simulation results showed that the path planned by improved A* a*algorithm is safer and smoother than other paths, and the search time and path cost are optimized.
The direct position determination (DPD) a*algorithm, which combines the parameter estimation and position calculation procedures together, has attracted significant attention due to its good performance in low signal-to...
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The direct position determination (DPD) a*algorithm, which combines the parameter estimation and position calculation procedures together, has attracted significant attention due to its good performance in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) situations. However, the high computing consumption and being only suitable for noncoherent signals make its application limited in real situations. To address these problems, we first propose to use the Kronecker theory to decompose the original signal into signal and noise subspaces, based on which a cost function is constructed, and thus, the localization is transformed into a nonconvex optimization problem. Compared with traditional decomposition a*algorithms, this processing can improve the freedom degree of linear arrays and address the challenge to identify the direct transmitting path in the case of coherent signals. Then, to solve the nonconvex optimization problem, an adaptive reverse particle swarm optimization (ARPSO) a*algorithm is proposed, in which the adaptive elite mutation (AEM) strategy is introduced into the traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO) a*algorithms to avoid obtaining the local optimal solution caused by local convergence. Moreover, we adopt a noninertial velocity (NIV) update scheme to guide the particle flight trajectories. This scheme accelerates the process of convergence, saving the computing overhead a lot. The experimental results show that our proposed decomposition a*algorithm performs well for coherent and incoherent signals, and the improved optimization a*algorithm outperforms existing a*algorithms in both precision and computing consumption.
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