Visitors utilize the urban space based on their thermal perception and thermal environment. The thermal adaptation engages the user’s behavioural, physiological and psychological aspects. These aspects play critical ...
Visitors utilize the urban space based on their thermal perception and thermal environment. The thermal adaptation engages the user’s behavioural, physiological and psychological aspects. These aspects play critical roles in user’s ability to assess the thermal environments. Previous studies have rarely addressed the effects of identified factors such as gender, age and locality on outdoor thermal comfort, particularly in hot, dry climate. This study investigated the thermal comfort of visitors at two city squares in Iran based on their demographics as well as the role of thermal environment. Assessing the thermal comfort required taking physical measurement and questionnaire survey. In this study, a non-linear model known as the neural network autoregressive with exogenous input (NN-ARX) was employed. Five indices of physiological equivalent temperature (PET), predicted mean vote (PMV), standard effective temperature (SET), thermal sensation votes (TSVs) and mean radiant temperature (T
mrt) were trained and tested using the NN-ARX. Then, the results were compared to the artificial neural network (ANN) and the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The findings showed the superiority of the NN-ARX over the ANN and the ANFIS. For the NN-ARX model, the statistical indicators of the root mean square error (RMSE) and the mean absolute error (MAE) were 0.53 and 0.36 for the PET, 1.28 and 0.71 for the PMV, 2.59 and 1.99 for the SET, 0.29 and 0.08 for the TSV and finally 0.19 and 0.04 for the T
mrt.
End-to-end latency is critical to many distributed applications and services that are based on computer networks. There has been a dramatic push to adopt wireless networking technologies and protocols (such as WiFi, Z...
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End-to-end latency is critical to many distributed applications and services that are based on computer networks. There has been a dramatic push to adopt wireless networking technologies and protocols (such as WiFi, ZigBee, WirelessHART, Bluetooth, ISA100.11a, etc.) into time-critical applications. Examples of such applications include industrial automation, telecommunications, power utility, and financial services. While performance measurement of wired networks has been extensively studied, measuring and quantifying the performance of wireless networks face new challenges and demand different approaches and techniques. In this paper, we describe our work in progress of designing a measurement platform based on the technologies of software-defined radio (SDR) and IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for evaluating the performance of wireless networks.
Learning representations from massive unlabeled data is a hot topic for high-level tasks in many applications. The recent great improvements on benchmark data sets, which are achieved by increasingly complex unsupervi...
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(纸本)9781479919611
Learning representations from massive unlabeled data is a hot topic for high-level tasks in many applications. The recent great improvements on benchmark data sets, which are achieved by increasingly complex unsupervised learning methods and deep learning models with lots of parameters, usually require many tedious tricks and much expertise to tune. However, filters learned by these complex architectures are quite similar to standard hand-crafted features visually, and training the deep models costs quite long time to fine-tune their weights. In this paper, Extreme Learning Machine-Autoencoder (ELM-AE) is employed as the learning unit to learn local receptive fields at each layer, and the lower layer responses are transferred to the last layer (trans-layer) to form a more complete representation to retain more information. In addition, some beneficial methods in deep learning architectures such as local contrast normalization and whitening are added to the proposed hierarchical Extreme Learning Machine networks to further boost the performance. The obtained trans-layer representations are followed by block histograms with binary hashing to learn translation and rotation invariant representations, which are utilized to do high-level tasks such as recognition and detection. Compared to traditional deep learning methods, the proposed trans-layer representation method with ELM-AE based learning of local receptive filters has much faster learning speed and is validated in several typical experiments, such as digit recognition on MNIST and MNIST variations, object recognition on Caltech 101. State-of-the-art performances are achieved on both Caltech 101 15 samples per class task and 4 of 6 MNIST variations data sets, and highly impressive results are obtained on MNIST data set and other tasks.
In this paper we consider optimal parameter estimation with a constrained packet transmission rate. Due to the limited battery power and the traffic congestion over a large sensor network, each sensor is required to d...
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(纸本)9781479978878
In this paper we consider optimal parameter estimation with a constrained packet transmission rate. Due to the limited battery power and the traffic congestion over a large sensor network, each sensor is required to discard some packets and save transmission times. We propose a packet-driven sensor scheduling policy such that the sensor transmits only the important measurements to the estimator. Unlike the existing deterministic scheduler in [1], our stochastic packet scheduling is novelly designed to maintain the computational simplicity of the resulting maximum-likelihood estimator (MLE). This results in a nice feature that the MLE is still able to be recursively computed in a closed form, and the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) can be explicitly evaluated. Moreover, an optimization problem is formulated and solved to obtain the optimal parameters of the scheduling policy under which the estimation performance is comparable to the standard MLE (with full measurements) even with a moderate transmission rate. Numerical simulations are included to show the effectiveness.
Evolutionary inspired heuristics suffer from a premature convergence at local optima and, consequently, a population diversity loss. Thus, breaking out of a local optimum trap and crossing saddles between optima in mu...
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(纸本)9789897580529
Evolutionary inspired heuristics suffer from a premature convergence at local optima and, consequently, a population diversity loss. Thus, breaking out of a local optimum trap and crossing saddles between optima in multimodal and multidimensional search spaces is an important issue in an evolutionary optimization algorithm. In this paper, an impatience mechanism coupled with a phenotypic model of evolution is studied. This mechanism diversifies a population and facilitates escaping from a local optima trap. An impatient population polarizes itself and evolves as a dipole centered around an averaged individual. The operator was modified by supplying it with an extra knowledge about a currently found optimum. In the case, behavior of a population is quite different - a significant diversification is observed but the population is not polarized and evolves as a single cluster. Both mechanisms allow to cross saddle relatively fast for a wide range of parameters of a bimodal multidimensional fitness function.
In this paper, we propose the labeled multi-Bernoulli filter which explicitly estimates target tracks and provides a more accurate approximation of the multi-object Bayes update than the multi-Bernoulli filter. In par...
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This paper studies consensus control for multi-input/multi-output(MIMO)discrete-time multi-agent systems(MASs).It makes use of the novel idea of resource allocation in designing both the communication graph and feedba...
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This paper studies consensus control for multi-input/multi-output(MIMO)discrete-time multi-agent systems(MASs).It makes use of the novel idea of resource allocation in designing both the communication graph and feedback *** weakest consensusability condition is obtained for MASs over both directed and undirected graphs,which extends the existing results to MIMO discrete-time *** synthesis procedures are also *** work demonstrates the importance of the graph and controller co-design based on resource allocation for MIMO discrete-time MASs.
The purpose of this paper is to study positioning control performance of the one-DOF manipulator driven by pneumatic artificial muscles using active disturbance rejection controller. Owing to the pneumatic artificial ...
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The purpose of this paper is to study positioning control performance of the one-DOF manipulator driven by pneumatic artificial muscles using active disturbance rejection controller. Owing to the pneumatic artificial muscle's highly nonlinear and time-varying behavior, it is difficult to achieve good positioning performance. In this paper, the nonlinear and time-varying behavior of pneumatic artificial muscle is considered as disturbance to be estimated by extended state observer. Tracking differentiator is designed to get corresponding smooth signal and differential signal of reference input to avoid overshoot. A linear error feedback combining with estimated value compensation of disturbance is designed to ensure a good response of system. Moreover, stability analysis of the close-loop system is given by Lyapunov theory. Finally, simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
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