Inspired by the concept of preconditioning, we propose a novel method to increase adaptation speed for gradient-based meta-learning methods without incurring extra parameters. We demonstrate that recasting the optimis...
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This research proposes a system that leverages stereo vision and monocular depth estimation to form a depth map from which a 3D point cloud scene is extracted. The emergence of competitive neural networks for depth ma...
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Marine litter is harmful to coastal and ocean environments for many reasons. Many devices have been developed in the last few years to recover as much litter as possible in ports and coastal areas. However, they usual...
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(数字)9798350379006
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(纸本)9798350379013
Marine litter is harmful to coastal and ocean environments for many reasons. Many devices have been developed in the last few years to recover as much litter as possible in ports and coastal areas. However, they usually employ a brute-force approach, leading to high energy and resource consumption. This is not negligible, considering their ecological goal. In this scenario, the deployment of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) to inspect the area of interest could complement the use of cleaning devices, adding relevant knowledge and intelligence to the context. Cleaning devices could be deployed or activated only where and when needed, leading to a more resource-aware approach. The contribution of this work is the development and deployment of an object detection neural network onto the H20mni-X USV, aiming to real-time detection of floating marine litter through an optical camera.
Motion systems are a vital part of many industrial processes. However, meeting the increasingly stringent demands of these systems, especially concerning precision and throughput, requires novel control design methods...
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(数字)9798350316339
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(纸本)9798350316346
Motion systems are a vital part of many industrial processes. However, meeting the increasingly stringent demands of these systems, especially concerning precision and throughput, requires novel control design methods that can go beyond the capabilities of traditional solutions. Traditional control methods often struggle with the complexity and position-dependent effects inherent in modern motion systems, leading to compromises in performance and a laborious task of controller design. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a novel structured feedback control auto-tuning approach for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) motion systems. By leveraging frequency response function (FRF) estimates and the linear-parameter-varying (LPV) control framework, the proposed approach automates the controller design, while providing local stability and performance guarantees. Key innovations include norm-based magnitude optimization of the sensitivity functions, an automated stability check through a novel extended factorized Nyquist criterion, a modular structured MIMO LPV controller parameterization, and a controller discretization approach which preserves the continuous-time (CT) controller parameterization. The proposed approach is validated through experiments using a state-of-the-art moving-magnet planar actuator prototype.
The new era of technology is being greatly influenced by the field of artificial intelligence. computer vision and deep learning have become increasingly important due to their ability to process vast amounts of data ...
The new era of technology is being greatly influenced by the field of artificial intelligence. computer vision and deep learning have become increasingly important due to their ability to process vast amounts of data and provide insights and solutions in a variety of fields. computer vision, deep learning and signal analysis have been used in a growing number of applications and services including smart devices, image, and speech recognition, healthcare, etc., one such device is an infant monitoring system. It monitors the daily activities of the infant such as their sleeping patterns, sounds, and movements. In this paper, deep learning and computer vision libraries were used to develop algorithms to detect whether the infant was in any uncomfortable situation such as sleeping on its back, face being covered and whether the infant was awake. The smart infant monitoring system detects the infant's unsafe resting situation in real time and sent immediate alerts to the caretaker's device. This paper presents the design flow of a smart infant monitoring system consisting of a night vision camera, a Jetson Nano, and a Wi-Fi internet connection. The pose estimation and awake detection algorithms were developed and tested successfully for different infant resting/sleeping situations. The smart infant monitoring system provides significant benefits for safety and an improved understanding of infants' sleep patterns and behavior.
In view of the complexity of the flux density harmonic components of bilateral-excitation flux modulation (BFM) machines, it is not easy to analyze the role of air-gap flux density harmonics on the electromagnetic tor...
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(数字)9798350362213
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(纸本)9798350362220
In view of the complexity of the flux density harmonic components of bilateral-excitation flux modulation (BFM) machines, it is not easy to analyze the role of air-gap flux density harmonics on the electromagnetic torque of BFM machines. In this digest, Taking the novel asymmetric stator tooth (AST) BFM machine as the research object, the flux modulation phenomena of the PM magneto motive-force (MMF) and armature winding MMF are analyzed in detail. Meanwhile, based on the air-gap field modulation theory and Maxwell stress tensor equation, the contribution of air-gap flux density harmonics to the electromagnetic torque of the BFM machine is obtained.
As distributed learning applications like Federated Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge computing expand, addressing their limitations becomes crucial. We approach decentralized learning across a network ...
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(数字)9798331541033
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(纸本)9798331541040
As distributed learning applications like Federated Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Edge computing expand, addressing their limitations becomes crucial. We approach decentralized learning across a network of communicating clients or nodes, focusing on two primary challenges: data heterogeneity and adversarial robustness. To address these, we introduce a decentralized minimax optimization method incorporating two key components: local updates and gradient tracking. Minimax optimization serves as a fundamental tool for adversarial training, ensuring robustness. Local updates are vital in Federated Learning (FL) to alleviate the communication bottleneck, while gradient tracking is necessary to demonstrate convergence amid data heterogeneity. Our analysis of the proposed algorithm, Dec-Fed Track, in nonconvex-strongly-concave minimax optimization demonstrates its convergence to a stationary point. Additionally, numerical experiments support our theoretical results.
Large volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are integrated into the power distribution system due to increased awareness of climate change. These DERs introduce variabl...
Large volumes of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar photovoltaic (PV) plants are integrated into the power distribution system due to increased awareness of climate change. These DERs introduce variable and uncertain generation sources due to changing weather conditions. This makes operations and controls challenging and complex. To better understand and manage the dynamic nature of solar PV power plants, digital twins (DTs) will be needed. DTs based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods can be applied to replicate the dynamics of PV plants. This study utilizes a popular paradigm of AI - neural networks to create a variety of data-driven DT (DD-DT) prediction models for a 1 MW solar PV plant located at Clemson University in South Carolina, USA. State-of-the-art internet of things (IoT) based real-time measurements are used to develop the DD-DTs. Typical results for short-term PV power prediction for DTs implemented using multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLPNNs) and Elman recurrent neural networks (ERNNs) are presented in this paper.
Automatic scene generation is an essential area of research with applications in robotics, recreation, visual representation, training and simulation, education, and more. This survey provides a comprehensive review o...
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HPC systems encompass more components with each new generation. As a result, the process of interacting with stable storage systems like parallel file systems (PFS) becomes increasingly difficult. Larger systems often...
HPC systems encompass more components with each new generation. As a result, the process of interacting with stable storage systems like parallel file systems (PFS) becomes increasingly difficult. Larger systems often result in more frequent failures, increasing the need and frequency to incorporate fault-tolerant mechanisms. One example is checkpoint-restart (C/R), where applications or systems save their data to non-volatile storage devices, such as a PFS. On failure, the system or application is restored to a saved state and computation continues. Today, asynchronous C/R is gaining traction for its ability to checkpoint data to permanent storage concurrently with the application. However, asynchronous C/R brings about many new challenges. For starters, asynchronous C/R introduces complex resource contention between the application and the C/R implementation. Additionally, some implementations adopt file-per-process writing strategies, which overwhelm PFS’ at high core counts. In this work, we explore how multi-threaded POSIX I/O impacts aggregated throughput. To this extent we characterize the influence of different I/O parameters, such as the number of writer threads and how they access storage devices, has on aggregated I/O. We use the information gathered in this study to identify best practices when performing aggregated I/O as a first step in designing an efficient I/O aggregation scheme for asynchronous C/R.
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