Fast and accurate rutting distress detection is essential for driving safety and advancing pavement maintenance automation. However, existing Rut Depth (RD) measurement methods are often inefficient or costly due to c...
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Fast and accurate rutting distress detection is essential for driving safety and advancing pavement maintenance automation. However, existing Rut Depth (RD) measurement methods are often inefficient or costly due to complex pavement conditions and expensive equipment. This paper introduces a method to identify and measure RD using smartphone photography and neuralnetworks. Accelerated Pavement Tests (APTs) were conducted to capture rutting evolution, combining measured and photographed data. Grayscale images were analyzed via Fourier transform, identifying the rut-related frequency range (0-0.02 Hz). Grayscale rut curves corresponding to actual rut cross-sections were extracted, and seven feature points were used to calculate grayscale RD. A backpropagation neural network model was trained and validated, demonstrating RD detection within 5-45 mm, with an average absolute error of 1.29 mm. This method provides an alternative for efficient RD measurement in APT and field pavement condition evaluations, offering potentials for improving pavement maintenance practices.
The parametric study and optimization of a two-body wave energy converter (WEC) for the wave and current conditions in the region of Zhaitang Island (China) is presented. Nine parameters are considered, and their infl...
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The parametric study and optimization of a two-body wave energy converter (WEC) for the wave and current conditions in the region of Zhaitang Island (China) is presented. Nine parameters are considered, and their influence on the power captured by the two-body WEC is investigated following both single-parameter and multi-parameter approaches. A backpropagation neural network model is developed and applied to predict the captured power for any given values of the nine parameters and the wave frequency. Then the robust design method, also known as the Taguchi method, is implemented to study the comprehensive effects of the parameters on the power output of the device. Moreover, scale model experiments are conducted to verify and confirm the influence of the principal parameters on the power output. Combining numerical simulations, a neuralnetworkmodel and experimental work, this study provides an optimization programme for the main parameters of the device in the target sea region and, at a more general level, references for two-body WEC designs based on specific sea states.
Due to the nonlinear, non-stationery, complex and stochastic characteristics of short-term traffic flow time series, traditional prediction methods do not work well. This paper presents a short-term traffic flow forec...
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(纸本)9781479960798
Due to the nonlinear, non-stationery, complex and stochastic characteristics of short-term traffic flow time series, traditional prediction methods do not work well. This paper presents a short-term traffic flow forecasting model based on the least square support vector regression (LSSVR) algorithm, which is optimized by a glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm. The GSO algorithm is used to determine two core parameters in the learning process, which significantly influence the predicting performance in the model. An actual example of traffic flow data on one section of highway in Chengdu, China is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed LSS VR-GSO model. The experimental results show that the proposed LSSVR-GSO model has more accurate predicting results than the LSSVR model optimized by the genetic algorithm and the back-propagation neuralnetworkmodel.
Open-Loop Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) is widely used,which is easily affected by the temperature around *** temperature model has a very complicated nonlinear characteristic.A BP neuralnetworkmodel with advantage o...
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(纸本)9781479946983
Open-Loop Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) is widely used,which is easily affected by the temperature around *** temperature model has a very complicated nonlinear characteristic.A BP neuralnetworkmodel with advantage of approximating the nonlinear function was developed to simulate outputs of an open-loop FOG and then compensate the FOG's temperature error in full temperature range??–50??~ +70????.With experimental data,the networks with one-hidden-layer structure adopted the temperature and the temperature change rate as network inputs,and the outputs of FOG as network *** results showed that the number of hidden-layer neurons plays an important role in simulation performance,and the network with 11 hidden-layer neurons offered better precision and ***,the comparison of 4 different training algorithms demonstrated that the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm resulted in a better convergence during training *** the chosen structure and training algorithm,the BP neuralnetworkmodel was used to compensate the temperature error of the *** was found that the compensated outputs of the FOG became more accurate and more *** addition,the neuralnetworkmodel further proved its superiority of precision and robustness by comparison with a multiple linear regression model and a quadratic curve fitting model.
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