providing an efficient mathematical model of the skeletal muscles which takes both computational efficiency and accuracy into account is a crucial factor in the simulations of multiple-muscle problems. Previous studie...
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(纸本)9781479974184
providing an efficient mathematical model of the skeletal muscles which takes both computational efficiency and accuracy into account is a crucial factor in the simulations of multiple-muscle problems. Previous studies stated that ignoring the elastic characteristics of the tendon can reduce the time cost of simulations at the expense of introducing some minor errors if the ratio of tendon slack length to muscle optimum length is less than or equal to unity. The purpose of this paper was to test the precision, efficiency and numerical stability of this criterion for the muscles of the human body in their usual length excursions. In this regard two muscles of the upper extremity (Brachioradialis (BRD) long head of biceps (BICL)) and one from the lower extremity (soleus (SOL)) of the human body have been chosen. Two variations of a general Hill-based musculotendon model have been considered in this study. In the first one, using a nonlinear spring the elastic properties of the tendon has been incorporated into the model and in the second one, ignoring this properties, a constant length for the tendon has been assumed. The mean absolute error between the force profiles of the two models for BRD, BICL and SOL were 4.2, 12 and 13.1 respectively. Also rigid-tendon model was 7.3 to 9.5 times faster than compliant-tendon model using the implicit integrator. For BRD the outcomes of the two models, have similar trends and the discrepancies between the force profiles are negligible. However, the results obtained from the compliant-tendon model illustrate some numerical stability problems. In the second muscle, i.e. BICL, likewise BRD the trends of the force profiles are the same;however, the disparity among the outcomes of the two models have escalated. Likewise BRD, the rigid-tendon model required less computational time. Inspecting the results obtained for SOL, one can easily spot the significant differences between the outcomes of the two models. Considering the tendon slac
Several years ago, NRL first demonstrated a computationally efficient framework for optimizing a set of intrinsic manifold coordinates for high-dimensional data such as hyperspectral imagery (HIS). Since that time, NR...
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(纸本)9781424495665
Several years ago, NRL first demonstrated a computationally efficient framework for optimizing a set of intrinsic manifold coordinates for high-dimensional data such as hyperspectral imagery (HIS). Since that time, NRL has continued to improve the fidelity of the representation to describe the details of the nonlinear structure in even greater detail. In addition, working closely with CelesTech, several improvements have been made that increase the computational efficiency, accelerating processing speeds from hours to minutes.
Tissue P system is inspired by cell inter-communication in tissues. Tissue P system with cell division contains two types of rules, communication rule and division rule. Both of them in traditional tissue P system wit...
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It is well known that the cell loss probability suffered by different connections offered to the same ATM network link is, in general, different. Therefore, most of the connection admission control (CAC) schemes propo...
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(纸本)0780325109
It is well known that the cell loss probability suffered by different connections offered to the same ATM network link is, in general, different. Therefore, most of the connection admission control (CAC) schemes proposed for ATM networks have a computational complexity depending on the number of connections offered to a link. We propose to reduce this complexity by adopting a sorting rule among connections. In particular, we compare the expected cell loss probability of a pair of different traffic sources, when they are offered to a bufferless network node along with an arbitrary background traffic. We find a necessary and sufficient condition on the source parameters which, when satisfied, guarantees that the cell loss suffered by one source always bounds the one suffered by the other, for any distribution of the background traffic. This condition defines a partial sorting on the set of traffic sources offered to a node, according to which a small set of 'bounding' connections can be defined. The CAC scheme may be then implemented to monitor only the connections belonging to this set. We show that, assuming random traffic parameters, the resulting computational complexity of the CAC scheme depends only on the logarithm of the number of connections offered to each network link.
In order to maintain robotic manipulators at a high level of performance, their controllers should be able to address nonlinearities in the closed-loop system, such as input nonlinearities. Meanwhile, computational ef...
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In order to maintain robotic manipulators at a high level of performance, their controllers should be able to address nonlinearities in the closed-loop system, such as input nonlinearities. Meanwhile, computational efficiency is also required for real-time implementation. In this paper, an unknown input Bouc-Wen hysteresis control problem is investigated for robotic manipulators using adaptive control and a dynamical gain-based approach. The dynamics of hysteresis are modeled as an additional control unit in the closed-loop system and are integrated with the robotic manipulators. Two adaptive parameters are developed for improving the computational efficiency of the proposed control scheme, based on which the outputs of robotic manipulators are driven to track desired trajectories. Lyapunov theory is adopted to prove the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, the tracking error is improved from ultimately bounded to asymptotic tracking compared to most of the existing results. This is of important significance to improve the control quality of robotic manipulators with unknown input Bouc-Wen hysteresis. Numerical examples including fixed-point and trajectory controls are provided to show the validity of our method.
The current state-of-the-art in video classification is based on Bag-of-Words using local visual descriptors. Most commonly these are histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), histogram of optical flow (HOF) and motion b...
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The current state-of-the-art in video classification is based on Bag-of-Words using local visual descriptors. Most commonly these are histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), histogram of optical flow (HOF) and motion boundary histograms (MBH) descriptors. While such approach is very powerful for classification, it is also computationally expensive. This paper addresses the problem of computational efficiency. Specifically: (1) We propose several speedups for densely sampled HOG, HOF and MBH descriptors and release Matlab code;(2) We investigate the trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency of descriptors in terms of frame sampling rate and type of Optical Flow method;(3) We investigate the trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency for computing the feature vocabulary, using and comparing most of the commonly adopted vector quantization techniques: k-means, hierarchical k-means, Random Forests, Fisher Vectors and VLAD.
In order to improve computational efficiency of meshless methods based on Galerkin weak form, in the paper a simple technique is proposed, that is, the nodal influence domain of meshless methods is extended to arbitra...
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In order to improve computational efficiency of meshless methods based on Galerkin weak form, in the paper a simple technique is proposed, that is, the nodal influence domain of meshless methods is extended to arbitrary shape. Specifically, circle and rectangle nodal influence domains which are primarily used in meshless methods are generalized to arbitrary convex polygon. When the dimensionless size of the nodal influence domain approaches to 1, the Gauss quadrature point only contributes to these nodes in whose background cell the Gauss quadrature point is located. Thus, the band width of stiff matrix decreases obviously. Meanwhile, the node search process is not needed. The results obtained using the current technique have been compared with those obtained using the finite element method and meshless method with rectangle nodal influence domain, and they present that the provided technique not only has high calculation accuracy, but also enhances computational efficiency of meshless methods greatly. In addition, the technique simplifies imposition of essential boundary conditions as that of the finite element method. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Kunming University of Science and Technology
In temporal action localization, given an input video, the goal is to predict which actions it contains, where they begin, and where they end. Training and testing current state-of-the-art deep learning models require...
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(纸本)9798350307443
In temporal action localization, given an input video, the goal is to predict which actions it contains, where they begin, and where they end. Training and testing current state-of-the-art deep learning models requires access to large amounts of data and computational power. However, gathering such data is challenging and computational resources might be limited. This work explores and measures how current deep temporal action localization models perform in settings constrained by the amount of data or computational power. We measure data efficiency by training each model on a subset of the training set. We find that TemporalMaxer outperforms other models in data-limited settings. Furthermore, we recommend TriDet when training time is limited. To test the efficiency of the models during inference, we pass videos of different lengths through each model. We find that TemporalMaxer requires the least computational resources, likely due to its simple architecture.
The field of prognostics and health management provides quantitative methods for monitoring and predicting the health of physical systems. Prognostic algorithms are useful in that they can be employed to assess the cu...
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(数字)9781665437608
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665437608
The field of prognostics and health management provides quantitative methods for monitoring and predicting the health of physical systems. Prognostic algorithms are useful in that they can be employed to assess the current state of a system, propagate the system state throughout time, and predict potential anomalies or failures that may occur. However, effective prognosis can be challenging to achieve in resource-constrained settings due to computational limitations and high computational latency, leading to obsolete predictions. Thus, computationally efficient and accurate algorithms are necessary for some prognostics applications. In this work, we implement three new algorithmic approaches to prediction (sampling methods, variable prediction time step, variable prediction sample size) with the goal of improving computational efficiency while minimizing decrease in model accuracy. To quantitatively analyze our results, we examine a use-case of degradation of a Lithium-ion battery. Notably, through this work it was found that none of the sampling approaches had a significant impact on computational efficiency or model accuracy in predicting EOD of the battery. However, our results show that prediction accuracy is highly dependent on the time step used, and that an appropriate time step can optimize both model accuracy and simulation efficiency. Finally, implementing a variable sample size also affected prediction, and our results show that tuning both the magnitude and timing of the sample size adjustment in an application-specific manner may prove useful in some applications. Taken together, our findings highlight the challenge of performing prognostics in resource-constrained settings, and illustrate the potential of developing new prediction algorithms to improve computational efficiency of prognosis.
It is well-known that neural networks are computationally hard to train. On the other hand, in practice, modern day neural networks are trained efficiently using SGD and a variety of tricks that include different acti...
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It is well-known that neural networks are computationally hard to train. On the other hand, in practice, modern day neural networks are trained efficiently using SGD and a variety of tricks that include different activation functions (e.g. ReLU), over-specification (i.e., train networks which are larger than needed), and regularization. In this paper we revisit the computational complexity of training neural networks from a modern perspective. We provide both positive and negative results, some of them yield new provably efficient and practical algorithms for training certain types of neural networks.
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