The analysis of the carotid artery wall is of paramount importance in clinical practice. Especially, the intima-media thickness is a risk index for some of the most severe acute cerebrovascular pathologies, hence, an ...
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An Echo state Network (ESN) based predictive control method for aircraft system is proposed to increase the flight quality. Aerocraft is a nonlinear and time-varying system and its controllers are usually designed by ...
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The analytical algorithm of program quaternion is studied, aiming at the problem of the arbitrary spacecraft attitude-adjusting control. It also provides the analytical constructor method of the program quaternion for...
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Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an increasingly popular technique for data processing and analysis. For an incomplete data matrix, the weighted nonnegative matrix factorization (WNMF) is employed to decompos...
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Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is an increasingly popular technique for data processing and analysis. For an incomplete data matrix, the weighted nonnegative matrix factorization (WNMF) is employed to decompose it. But the searching step size in WNMF is not optimal along the given searching direction. This paper studies the incomplete nonnegative matrix factorization (INMF) and proposes an accelerated algorithm. First, INMF is transformed into solving alternatively two nonnegative least squares (NNLS) problems. For each NNLS problem, the exact step size is chosen along the searching direction. Then, the complexity of NNLS problems is analyzed. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms WNMF.
Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) has been applied to restore or maintain the muscle activity of paralyzed patients who suffer from spinal cord injuries and related neural impairments for several decades. In...
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A method based on multi-agents and ANN(Artificial Neural Network)was proposed to solve the pursuit-evasion task in continuous timevarying *** to this method,several autonomous agents with 8 circular sector sensors and...
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A method based on multi-agents and ANN(Artificial Neural Network)was proposed to solve the pursuit-evasion task in continuous timevarying *** to this method,several autonomous agents with 8 circular sector sensors and an ANN controller were used to form a coordinated behavior to capture the *** evolve the controller,NEAT(Neuro Evolution of Augmenting Topologies)and PSO(Particle Swarm Optimization)method were used to optimize the *** simulation experiments show that both methods can successfully evolve the controller to capture the evaders,while NEAT requires less swarm members and consume less time comparing to PSO method.
Transient faults are hard to be detected and located due to their unpredictable nature and short duration, and they are the dominant causations of system failures, which makes it necessary to consider transient fault-...
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This paper proposes a improved non-local means (NLM) filter for image denoising. Due to the drawback that the similarity is computed based on the noisy image, the traditional NLM method easily generates the artifacts ...
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This paper proposes a improved non-local means (NLM) filter for image denoising. Due to the drawback that the similarity is computed based on the noisy image, the traditional NLM method easily generates the artifacts in case of high-level noise. The proposed method first preprocesses the noisy image by Gaussian filter. Then, a moving window at each pixel of the noisy image is chosen as the search window, and meanwhile, a improved calculation method of spatial distance based on the preprocessed image is used for computing the similarity. Finally, combining the improved distance with search window based on the noisy image, the intensity of each pixel is restored as the traditional NLM method. The standard images are used to evaluate restoration performance of the proposed method. Additionally, the application on medical image denoising also demonstrates that our method is practical.
A low-cost device using acoustic method for measuring open-end tube length is developed. The proposed device is aimed to get the length of the tubes which are piled up together, and only one end of which is available ...
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A low-cost device using acoustic method for measuring open-end tube length is developed. The proposed device is aimed to get the length of the tubes which are piled up together, and only one end of which is available in the warehouse or dumping areas. The device contains the emitting and receiving probes to echo the sound pulse and receive the reflection sound wave, and has been developed with discrete component circuits whose key part is the logical control circuit based on ARM. Experiments are performed in the open tubes with the lengths between 0.85 m to 6 m. The measurement error is below 0.5 cm. For the tubes blocked by the cement or earth, the device can detect the location of obstruction automatically. Based on the acoustic method, experiments are also conducted in the blocked tubes based on Matlab software, and the analysis of the reflection wave is given.
Many real world problems involve the simultaneous optimization of various and often conflicting objectives. These optimization problems are known as multi-objective optimization problems. Evolutionary multi-objective ...
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Many real world problems involve the simultaneous optimization of various and often conflicting objectives. These optimization problems are known as multi-objective optimization problems. Evolutionary multi-objective optimization, whose main task is to deal with multi-objective optimization problems by evolutionary computation techniques, has become a hot topic in evolutionary computation community. The solution diversity of multi-objective optimization problems mainly focuses on two aspects, breadth and uniformity. After analyzing the traditional methods which were used to maintain the diversity of individual in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, a novel nondominated individual selection strategy based on adaptive partition is proposed. The new strategy partitions the current trade-off front adaptively according to the individual's similarity. Then one representative individual will be selected in each partitioned regions for pruning nondominated individuals. For maintaining the diversity of the solutions, the adaptive partition selection strategy can be incorporated in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms without the need of any parameter setting, and can be applied in either the parameter or objective domain depending on the nature of the problem involved. In order to evaluate the validity of the new strategy, we apply it into two state-of-the-art multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. The experimental results based on thirteen benchmark problems show that the new strategy improves the performance obviously in terms of breadth and uniformity of nondominated solutions.
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