Heteroplanar active magnetic bearings have numerous applications, where one example is a high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. Rotor imbalance, however, may cause problems for critical parts of the system in the form ...
Heteroplanar active magnetic bearings have numerous applications, where one example is a high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. Rotor imbalance, however, may cause problems for critical parts of the system in the form of repetitive periodic vibrations. This is known problem and periodic component extraction is widely used in active magnetic bearing unbalance control laws. More recently, iterative learning control has been considered as an alternative and this paper gives new results on this approach. In particular, a new control law in the 2D systems setting is developed and the results of a simulation based study using the model of a test rig are given, where such a study is an essential step prior to experimental validation.
Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are a class of stochastic global search heuristics in which Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) - based approaches are combined usually with heuristic local searches. This hybridization is meant to ...
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Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are a class of stochastic global search heuristics in which Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) - based approaches are combined usually with heuristic local searches. This hybridization is meant to reach solutions that would otherwise be unreachable by evolution or a local method alone. In this work, we propose three Local Search (LS) algorithms for hybridization with an existing Evolutionary Algorithm with Pareto ranking in order to define biological intelligence using the concepts of useful and utility and therefore to zoom on the basin of attraction of promising realistic solutions. Our experimental results with these memetic algorithms in the game of Checkers show how we can learn the organization of behaviors into paths of behaviors of different lengths and frequencies and then reveal the true nature of these behaviors.
The massive student participation in computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) sessions from online classrooms requires intense tutor engagement to track and evaluate individual student participation. In this s...
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Accurately diagnosing sleep disorders is essential for clinical assessments and treatments. Polysomnography (PSG) has long been used for detection of various sleep disorders. In this research, electrocardiography (ECG...
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Microgrid control becomes more and more developed with the application of this concept on a larger scale. This paper defines the modern microgrid concept and evaluates the possible architectures and control hierarchy....
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The detection, localization and evaluation of small flooded areas can contribute to decrease the economical damages of such disasters. The cheapest and most accurate method is to segment the aerial images taken from U...
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The detection, localization and evaluation of small flooded areas can contribute to decrease the economical damages of such disasters. The cheapest and most accurate method is to segment the aerial images taken from UAV. In this paper, we propose a new method for detection of regions of interest, like flooding in rural areas, using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Graphics Processing Units (GPU). The classical GPU is used to create, by parallel calculation of textural features, extracted from the co-occurrence matrix, the supervised mask of flood segmentation in the images from the learning set. Based on these images and their associated real masks, the weights of the generator and discriminator are established. A set of 40 images were used for the learning phase and another set of 60 images were used for method validation. The results demonstrate that the proposed method provide a high accuracy and robustness, comparing with other papers for flooding evaluation. Even if it is a relative long time to learn the GAN, in the operational phase the time for image segmentation process is very short.
Today's industry is facing an increased need for implementing intelligent manufacturing solutions, capable of integrating existing machinery with new technologies. Current solutions do not provide support for anal...
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Today's industry is facing an increased need for implementing intelligent manufacturing solutions, capable of integrating existing machinery with new technologies. Current solutions do not provide support for analyzing vast amounts of data. Also, implementation of cloud architectures proved inappropriate for real-time or near real-time processing and control because of the network latency. Under these considerations, the new paradigm of fog computing provides promising characteristics enabling greater scalability, fast reaction time and increasing security through a local private processing cloud structure. This paper evaluates the integration capabilities between existing technologies with new devices for seamless integration of the fog computing paradigm and provides an architecture solution for this upgrade.
This paper presents a novel evaluation method of areas affected by natural disasters with the purpose of managing these crisis situations. Since it is necessary to have a real overview of a specific area in the shorte...
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This paper presents a novel evaluation method of areas affected by natural disasters with the purpose of managing these crisis situations. Since it is necessary to have a real overview of a specific area in the shortest time, our methodology proposes a neural network with backpropagation approach for flood detection from UAV images. For this, the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) texture operator is used for areas classification. The LBP operator labels each pixel of the analyzed image by comparing it with its neighbors, which ends with the computation of a binary number that it is converted to decimal format named LBP code. Thus, based on the generated LBP codes, a histogram type feature is computed and used in both training and testing phases of the proposed neural network. Over 50 images obtained with the aid of UAV technology were tested with the proposed neural network and good results in terms of accuracy for flood areas detection were obtained.
Feature design and selection is one of the first steps towards successful fault detection and diagnosis. Data from different sources can contain complimentary information about a monitored system. Hence methods which ...
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Feature design and selection is one of the first steps towards successful fault detection and diagnosis. Data from different sources can contain complimentary information about a monitored system. Hence methods which fuse features from multiple sources can often detect and diagnose a greater number of fault modes with higher confidence. However, solutions that require data from multiple sensors as inputs can be susceptible to failure if one or more of those sensors cease to function. Optimally a solution will fuse data from a sufficient number of sensors so that the advantages of sensor fusion are realized, while the robustness of the system is retained. In this paper the authors investigate how the best subset of features might differ for fault detection and fault severity diagnosis in a multiphase flow facility case study. ReliefF, which is a K-nearest neighbors-based feature selection filter, is used to rank the features for different problems. The dataset used for the analysis contains data from various operating conditions and induced faults with various severities. It was found that the optimal subset of features varied for different monitoring problems. It was also shown that including features that are ranked as being uninformative into a fault classifier can also impact the robustness of the classifier to sensor failures.
The combination of free-space optical (FSO)-based backhaul links and millimeter wave (mmWave)-based access links is considered as a key enabling technique to provide enhanced mobile broadband in ultra dense networks. ...
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(数字)9781728174402
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(纸本)9781728174419
The combination of free-space optical (FSO)-based backhaul links and millimeter wave (mmWave)-based access links is considered as a key enabling technique to provide enhanced mobile broadband in ultra dense networks. In this paper, the generalized end-to-end performance of a dual-hop mixed FSO/mmWave relaying system is evaluated. The FSO link is assumed to follow the Gamma-Gamma fading with pointing error impairments, while the mmWave link experiences the fluctuating two-ray fading. Both heterodyne detection and indirect modulation/direct detection are accounted for in the FSO link. Using both amplify-and-forward and decode-and-forward relaying schemes, novel closed-form expressions for the outage probability and average bit error probability (BER) are derived in terms of bivariate Fox's H-functions. Furthermore, an asymptotic analysis for the outage probability and the average BER is provided to show the diversity order and other important engineering insights. Finally, the accuracy of our derived results is validated through Monte-Carlo simulations.
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