Medical research uses laboratory mice for experimental studies. Currently, symptoms are manually observed and recorded, resulting in noisy data - requiring many animals to obtain statistically significant results. We ...
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Medical research uses laboratory mice for experimental studies. Currently, symptoms are manually observed and recorded, resulting in noisy data - requiring many animals to obtain statistically significant results. We propose the use of a camera sensor network attached to mice cages as a low-cost solution for continuously monitoring mouse behavior and providing remote access to the data for scientists. The benefits of this approach are discussed along with challenges encountered in the initial phases of deployment. The proposed hardware and software architecture is described and early experimentation results are presented.
Blob has been widely used in image matching, target identification, and target tracking, etc., which makes efficient Blob detection a fundamental research subject in computer vision applications. Inspired by Radon tra...
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Blob has been widely used in image matching, target identification, and target tracking, etc., which makes efficient Blob detection a fundamental research subject in computer vision applications. Inspired by Radon transform and taking the geometric characteristics of Blob into account, a Blob detection method is proposed in this paper. Firstly,a definition of the Blob response function is given, which is used to implement the statistics of intensity variations along the edges on both sides of the Blob. Then taking the calculated function value as the energy of the Blob center, the Blob is extracted by comparing the empirical threshold with the function value. Some experiments are carried out, and the results indicate that the proposed method can not only locate the position of Blobs with speed and accuracy, but also possess a good robustness to noises.
Sensor network localization (SNL) problems require determining the physical coordinates of all sensors in a network. This process relies on the global coordinates of anchors and the available measurements between non-...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783907144107
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331540920
Sensor network localization (SNL) problems require determining the physical coordinates of all sensors in a network. This process relies on the global coordinates of anchors and the available measurements between non-anchor and anchor nodes. Attributed to the intrinsic non-convexity, obtaining a globally optimal solution to SNL is challenging, as well as implementing corresponding algorithms. In this paper, we formulate a non-convex multi-player potential game for a generic SNL problem to investigate the identification condition of the global Nash equilibrium (NE) therein, where the global NE represents the global solution of SNL. We employ canonical duality theory to transform the non-convex game into a complementary dual problem. Then we develop a conjugation-based algorithm to compute the stationary points of the complementary dual problem. On this basis, we show an identification condition of the global NE: the stationary point of the proposed algorithm satisfies a duality relation. Finally, simulation results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
Reinforcement learning has been one of popular learning methods for many problems in many different domains. The important point for this method is how fast and efficient it is to learn a new problem. In this paper, w...
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Reinforcement learning has been one of popular learning methods for many problems in many different domains. The important point for this method is how fast and efficient it is to learn a new problem. In this paper, we present a new approach to increase the efficiency of the reinforcement learning method with the great help of a predictive model of the problem's environment called temporal-difference network along with observation. This TD network is nourished with the knowledge extracted from another problem with the same task using TD network. First a reinforcement-learning agent tries to learn its environment for the task of wall following. After that we train temporal-difference network (TDN) with intervening observation in the brain of the agent in order to gain a predictive model of the environment. Later the most promising sequences of action-observation of the given environment will be extracted as knowledge to strengthen the reinforcement learning problem in a new environment. Finally this knowledge helps the reinforcement procedure to produce more efficient results.
The steam temperature at the outlet of the reheater has always been lower than the designed value in a power plant.A reheat steam temperature adjustment test was conducted on the two subcritical,intermediate reheat an...
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(纸本)9781479933372
The steam temperature at the outlet of the reheater has always been lower than the designed value in a power plant.A reheat steam temperature adjustment test was conducted on the two subcritical,intermediate reheat and natural circulation boilers in the power *** analyzing the test data,reasons of the low reheat steam temperature have been ***’s more,three schemes about capacity-increasing transformation for reheaters have been proposed and compared,after which the most reasonable one is *** is studied in the paper provides helpful experiences in solving similar problems for boilers of the same type.
This paper deals with the development of an adaptive robust controller for an Unmanned Aircraft System with variable mass. The goal is to improve trajectory tracking and energy performance while the aircraft mass is g...
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This paper proposes an improved multi-objective robot path planning based on bare bones particle swarm optimization and crossover operation of Genetic algorithm. First, the path planning is mathematically formulated a...
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(纸本)9781538680988;9781538680971
This paper proposes an improved multi-objective robot path planning based on bare bones particle swarm optimization and crossover operation of Genetic algorithm. First, the path planning is mathematically formulated as a constrained multiobjective optimization problem with two indices, i.e. the path length and the safety degree of a path. Then, a multi-objective bare bones particle swarm optimization combined with crossover operation is developed to solve the above model. Aiming at the infeasible paths blocked by obstacles in evolution, three modified crossover operations, i.e. multi-point crossover, uniform crossover and arithmetic crossover, are designed to improve the feasibility of an infeasible path. Finally, simulation results confirm the effectiveness of our algorithm.
The paper deals with the setting where two viruses (say virus 1 and virus 2) coexist in a population, and they are not necessarily mutually exclusive, in the sense that infection due to one virus does not preclude the...
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Truck drivers are required to stop and rest with a certain regularity according to the driving and rest time regulations, also called Hours-of-Service (HoS) regulations. This paper studies the problem of optimally for...
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Oscillations usually propagate to other loops with the delivery of mass and energy, then cause plant-wide oscillation and affect the performance of whole control system in complex chemical process. DTF (Directed Trans...
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Oscillations usually propagate to other loops with the delivery of mass and energy, then cause plant-wide oscillation and affect the performance of whole control system in complex chemical process. DTF (Directed Transfer Function) method, which has been widely used to analyze information flow in the brain structures in biomedical area, is applied to the disturbance propagation analysis of complex chemical process in this paper. Based on MVAR (Multivariate Autoregressive) model, DTF can analyze the multivariate causality simultaneously and calculate the causality quantitatively. Based on the DTF value, one can draw the causality graph, get the disturbance propagation path and finally locate fault sources. The results of simulation on TEP (Tennessee Eastman Process) are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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