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Design And Implementation Of Uav Swarm Self-Organizing Search Model, Kan Li, Yunpeng Li, Jiangbo Zhao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The UAV swarm self-organizing search for moving target under the urban threat is an important implement of UAV swarm. Though Agent-based complex system modeling and simulation tools, the framework of UAV swarm search simulation model is constructed, and the self-organizing search model of UAV swarm is designed. Under the possible threats to the operational use of UAVs, the concept of self-organizing search for UAV swarm is preliminarily realized and demonstrated, and the solution of autonomous decision making for UAV swarm based on the probability-based finite state machine model is explored, which is analyzed and verified by a case. …

Servicing Method Of Lvc Experiment Resources Based On Object Metamodel, Nan Du, Yaxin Tan, Bin Feng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the process of live-virtual-constructive (LVC) experiment there are a large number of heterogeneous simulation resource objects. Aiming at the traditional object model not meeting the rapid response experiment requirements of equipment systems in informationized war, the object metamodel based on LVC experiment resource servitization method research is studied. The object metamodel based on resource description method is given, based on three basic resource servitization forms of object interaction, message passing, remote method invocation, virtualization infrastructure object(VIO), VIO-virtualization object model (VIO-VOM) components of publish/subscribe, VIO-VOM components of aggregation, composition, inheritance, callback mechanism, Localclass-VOM, Message-VOM components are proposed. The …

Development Of Vehicle Dynamics Virtual Simulation System Based On Carsim, Jianlei Liu, Xuejian Jiao, Huaiqian Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the "high cost, high consumption and high risk" of real vehicle test, a virtual simulation system of vehicle dynamics based on CarSim is developed. The real-time vehicle model is created by CarSim. A virtual scene is built in Unity3D, and an active stereoscopic display technology is used to realize the 3D visual effects. The driver's operation information is collected by simulating the steering wheel of Fanatec racing car and LabView, and the vehicle dynamics model is solved in NI-Pxie8840 controller to ensure the real-time operation. The calculated data is fed back to the driver through the six-degree-of-freedom …

Realization Of Domestic Ship Hydrodynamic Numerical Software On Industrial Cloud Platform, Yingyan Zhao, Qunsheng Cao, Zhengnan Cao, Jianchun Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Developing the user-friendly cloud platform for high-performance numerical software deployment has great engineering significance. Based on the high performance computing resource of Web industry cloud platform, the large-scale high performance test on the domestic ship hydrodynamics numerical software is carried out. Selecting a typical Knock Nevis KCS model with a bulbous bow, through the parallel solver of the software, the wave-making problem of a real ship is simulated, in which the wave shape near the actual ship hull is basically consistent with that of the real ship. The successful test of a typical application scenario of the domestic …

An Efficient Tracker Via Multi-Feature Adaptive Correlation Filter, Sixian Zhang, Yi Yang, Meng Zhang, Pengbo Mi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the low tracking effect of the correlation filters tracker based on manual features in challenging scenes of rapid deformation and background clutter, a new correlation filter tracker based on Staple tracker is proposed. An appearance model based on HOG features and color-naming features is built to enhance the robustness to the challenging scenes of rapid deformation and background clutter. A self-adjust evaluation function is designed to merge the two kinds of feature information and a more discriminative feature is obtained. The novel online update strategies to reduce the training over-fitting and model drift for different features are …

Day Ahead Thermal-Photovoltaic Economic Dispatch Considering Uncertainty Of Photovoltaic Power Generation, Xinghua Liu, Chen Geng, Shenghan Xie, Jiaqiang Tian, Hui Cao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the uncertainty and randomness of photovoltaic power generation affected by weather factors, a mathematical model of day ahead thermal-photovoltaic economic dispatch considering seasonal weather factors is established. The mathematical model takes the operation cost of thermal power units, the cost of photovoltaic power generation, the cost of spinning reserve and the forecast error cost of photovoltaic power generation affected by weather factors as the economic objective function, and the sulfur dioxide emission of thermal power units as the environmental objective function. In order to improve the accuracy of photovoltaic output prediction, the long short term memory neural …

Scheduling Optimization And Comparative Analysis Of Twin 40 Feet Yard Crane Based On Saga, Meng Yu, Zhenli Xu, Tianjiao Tan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the operating characteristics of twin 40 ft yard crane, the scheduling models of the single-container yard crane, twin 40 ft yard crane with single-lift structure and twin 40 ft yard crane with twin-lift structure in the mixed container area are established respectively to minimize the operating time. simulate anneal genetic algorithm(SAGA) hybrid algorithm is used in the yard crane scheduling model to optimize the yard crane equipment configuration and scheduling strategy, shorten the average loading and unloading time, and improve the operation efficiency of the automatic terminal. By comparing the operation efficiency of three kinds of cranes …

Identification Of Switching Operation Based On Lstm And Moe, Xiaoqing Zhang, Wanfang Xiao, Yingjie Guo, Bowen Liu, Xuesen Han, Jingwei Ma, Gao Gao, He Huang, Shihong Xia

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the individual differences of different personnel in the same operation and differences of the same person in the same operation at different times, a switching operation recognition model(MoE-LSTM) based on Mixture of experts model (MOE) and long short-term memory network(LSTM) is proposed. Based on MoE, LSTM is integrated to learn the feature distribution of different sources data. The acceleration data is collected to build the switching operation dataset and the action sequence is segmented and aligned based on sliding window. The action sequence is input to MoE-LSTM, and the temporal dependencies of different actions are independently learned …

Machine Learning And Scalable Informatics Methods To Predict Disease Status From Multimodal Biomedical Data, Hossein Mohammadian Foroushani

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Biological understanding of complex diseases such as stroke and obesity is critical for the advancement of medicine. Further knowledge discovery can provide effective biomarkers to improve disease diagnosis and prognosis, identify driver mutations, predict individual genetic susceptibility for early prevention and effective disease management, and facilitate development of personalized drugs. Stroke is the second leading cause of death and long-term disability in the world. Thus, stroke management is a time-sensitive emergency. The initial hours after stroke onset map the trajectory of subsequent neurologic complications. Cerebral edema develops hours to days after acute ischemic stroke and may result in midline shift …

Development Of The Assessment Of Clinical Prediction Model Transportability (Apt) Checklist, Sean Chonghwan Yu

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Clinical Prediction Models (CPM) have long been used for Clinical Decision Support (CDS) initially based on simple clinical scoring systems, and increasingly based on complex machine learning models relying on large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. External implementation – or the application of CPMs on sites where it was not originally developed – is valuable as it reduces the need for redundant de novo CPM development, enables CPM usage by low resource organizations, facilitates external validation studies, and encourages collaborative development of CPMs. Further, adoption of externally developed CPMs has been facilitated by ongoing interoperability efforts in standards, policy, and …

Data-Driven Research On Engineering Design Thinking And Behaviors In Computer-Aided Systems Design: Analysis, Modeling, And Prediction, Molla Hafizur Rahman

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Research on design thinking and design decision-making is vital for discovering and utilizing beneficial design patterns, strategies, and heuristics of human designers in solving engineering design problems. It is also essential for the development of new algorithms embedded with human intelligence and can facilitate human-computer interactions. However, modeling design thinking is challenging because it takes place in the designer’s mind, which is intricate, implicit, and tacit. For an in-depth understanding of design thinking, fine-grained design behavioral data are important because they are the critical link in studying the relationship between design thinking, design decisions, design actions, and design performance. Therefore, …

Evaluation Of Generative Models For Predicting Microstructure Geometries In Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing, Andy Ramlatchan

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

In-situ process monitoring for metals additive manufacturing is paramount to the successful build of an object for application in extreme or high stress environments. In selective laser melting additive manufacturing, the process by which a laser melts metal powder during the build will dictate the internal microstructure of that object once the metal cools and solidifies. The difficulty lies in that obtaining enough variety of data to quantify the internal microstructures for the evaluation of its physical properties is problematic, as the laser passes at high speeds over powder grains at a micrometer scale. Imaging the process in-situ is complex …

Emotion Detection Using An Ensemble Model Trained With Physiological Signals And Inferred Arousal-Valence States, Matthew Nathanael Gray

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Affective computing is an exciting and transformative field that is gaining in popularity among psychologists, statisticians, and computer scientists. The ability of a machine to infer human emotion and mood, i.e. affective states, has the potential to greatly improve human-machine interaction in our increasingly digital world. In this work, an ensemble model methodology for detecting human emotions across multiple subjects is outlined. The Continuously Annotated Signals of Emotion (CASE) dataset, which is a dataset of physiological signals labeled with discrete emotions from video stimuli as well as subject-reported continuous emotions, arousal and valence, from the circumplex model, is used for …

Scheduling, Complexity, And Solution Methods For Space Robot On-Orbit Servicing, Susan E. Sorenson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research proposes problems, models, and solutions for the scheduling of space robot on-orbit servicing. We present the Multi-Orbit Routing and Scheduling of Refuellable On-Orbit Servicing Space Robots problem which considers on-orbit servicing across multiple orbits with moving tasks and moving refuelling depots. We formulate a mixed integer linear program model to optimize the routing and scheduling of robot servicers to accomplish on-orbit servicing tasks. We develop and demonstrate flexible algorithms for the creation of the model parameters and associated data sets. Our first algorithm creates the network arcs using orbital mechanics. We have also created a novel way to …

Parallel Algorithms For Scalable Graph Mining: Applications On Big Data And Machine Learning, Naw Safrin Sattar

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Parallel computing plays a crucial role in processing large-scale graph data. Complex network analysis is an exciting area of research for many applications in different scientific domains e.g., sociology, biology, online media, recommendation systems and many more. Graph mining is an area of interest with diverse problems from different domains of our daily life. Due to the advancement of data and computing technologies, graph data is growing at an enormous rate, for example, the number of links in social networks is growing every millisecond. Machine/Deep learning plays a significant role for technological accomplishments to work with big data in modern …

Ocean Wave Prediction And Characterization For Intelligent Maritime Transportation, Pujan Pokhrel

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The national Earth System Prediction (ESPC) initiative aims to develop the predictions
for the next generation predictions of atmosphere, ocean, and sea-ice interactions in the scale of days to decades. This dissertation seeks to demonstrate the methods we can use to improve the ESPC models, especially the ocean prediction model. In the application side of the weather forecasts, this dissertation explores imitation learning with constraints to solve combinatorial optimization problems, focusing on the weather routing of surface vessels. Prediction of ocean waves is essential for various purposes, including vessel routing, ocean energy harvesting, agriculture, etc. Since the machine learning approaches …

Deep Learning Applications In Industrial And Systems Engineering, Winthrop Harvey

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Deep learning - the use of large neural networks to perform machine learning - has transformed the world. As the capabilities of deep models continue to grow, deep learning is becoming an increasingly valuable and practical tool for industrial engineering. With its wide applicability, deep learning can be turned to many industrial engineering tasks, including optimization, heuristic search, and functional approximation. In this dissertation, the major concepts and paradigms of deep learning are reviewed, and three industrial engineering projects applying these methods are described. The first applies a deep convolutional network to the task of absolute aerial geolocalization - the …

Distributed Learning With Automated Stepsizes, Benjamin Liggett

All Theses

Stepsizes for optimization problems play a crucial role in algorithm convergence, where the stepsize must undergo tedious manual tuning to obtain near-optimal convergence. Recently, an adaptive method for automating stepsizes was proposed for centralized optimization. However, this method is not directly applicable to decentralized optimization because it allows for heterogeneous agent stepsizes. Furthermore, directly using consensus between agent stepsizes to mitigate stepsize heterogeneity can decrease performance and even lead to divergence.

This thesis proposes an algorithm to remedy the tedious manual tuning of stepsizes in decentralized optimization. Our proposed algorithm automates the stepsize and uses dynamic consensus between agents’ stepsizes …

Computer Aided Diagnosis System For Breast Cancer Using Deep Learning., Asma Baccouche

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The recent rise of big data technology surrounding the electronic systems and developed toolkits gave birth to new promises for Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the continuous use of data-centric systems and machines in our lives, such as social media, surveys, emails, reports, etc., there is no doubt that data has gained the center of attention by scientists and motivated them to provide more decision-making and operational support systems across multiple domains. With the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, the use of machine learning and deep learning models have achieved remarkable advances in computer vision, ecommerce, cybersecurity, and healthcare. Particularly, numerous …

Reduced Fuel Emissions Through Connected Vehicles And Truck Platooning, Paul D. Brummitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication enable the sharing, in real time, of vehicular locations and speeds with other vehicles, traffic signals, and traffic control centers. This shared information can help traffic to better traverse intersections, road segments, and congested neighborhoods, thereby reducing travel times, increasing driver safety, generating data for traffic planning, and reducing vehicular pollution. This study, which focuses on vehicular pollution, used an analysis of data from NREL, BTS, and the EPA to determine that the widespread use of V2V-based truck platooning—the convoying of trucks in close proximity to one another so as to reduce air drag …

Hyperspectral Image Analysis Of Food For Nutritional Intake, Shirin Nasr Esfahani

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The primary object of this dissertation is to investigate the application of hyperspectral technology to accommodate for the growing demand in the automatic dietary assessment applications. Food intake is one of the main factors that contribute to human health. In other words, it is necessary to get information about the amount of nutrition and vitamins that a human body requires through a daily diet. Manual dietary assessments are time-consuming and are also not precise enough, especially when the information is used for the care and treatment of hospitalized patients. Moreover, the data must be analyzed by nutritional experts. Therefore, researchers …

Applied Deep Learning: Case Studies In Computer Vision And Natural Language Processing, Md Reshad Ul Hoque

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Deep learning has proved to be successful for many computer vision and natural language processing applications. In this dissertation, three studies have been conducted to show the efficacy of deep learning models for computer vision and natural language processing. In the first study, an efficient deep learning model was proposed for seagrass scar detection in multispectral images which produced robust, accurate scars mappings. In the second study, an arithmetic deep learning model was developed to fuse multi-spectral images collected at different times with different resolutions to generate high-resolution images for downstream tasks including change detection, object detection, and land cover …

Adaptive Risk Network Dependency Analysis Of Complex Hierarchical Systems, Katherine L. Smith

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Recently the number, variety, and complexity of interconnected systems have been increasing while the resources available to increase resilience of those systems have been decreasing. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to quantify the effects of risks and the resulting disruptions over time as they ripple through networks of systems. This dissertation presents a novel modeling and simulation methodology which quantifies resilience, as impact on performance over time, and risk, as the impact of probabilistic disruptions. This work includes four major contributions over the state-of-the-art which are: (1) cyclic dependencies are captured by separation of performance variables into layers which …

Joint Chance-Constrained Staffing Optimization In Multi-Skill Call Centers, Tien Thanh Dam, Thuy Anh Ta, Tien Mai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper concerns the staffing optimization problem in multi-skill call centers. The objective is to find a minimal cost staffing solution while meeting a target level for the quality of service (QoS) to customers. We consider a staffing problem in which joint chance constraints are imposed on the QoS of the day. Our joint chance-constrained formulation is more rational capturing the correlation between different call types, as compared to separate chance-constrained versions considered in previous studies. We show that, in general, the probability functions in the joint-chance constraints display S-shaped curves, and the optimal solutions should belong to the concave …

Computational Models To Detect Radiation In Urban Environments: An Application Of Signal Processing Techniques And Neural Networks To Radiation Data Analysis, Jose Nicolas Gachancipa

Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal

Radioactive sources, such as uranium-235, are nuclides that emit ionizing radiation, and which can be used to build nuclear weapons. In public areas, the presence of a radioactive nuclide can present a risk to the population, and therefore, it is imperative that threats are identified by radiological search and response teams in a timely and effective manner. In urban environments, such as densely populated cities, radioactive sources may be more difficult to detect, since background radiation produced by surrounding objects and structures (e.g., buildings, cars) can hinder the effective detection of unnatural radioactive material. This article presents a computational model …

A Modified Point Matching Method For Non-Rigid Image Registration, Jintai Shangguan, Yawen Dang, Wei Lian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the registration results tend to converge to local minima due to the complexity of the relative position changes between two point sets in the non-rigid body point matching process, a joint estimation method for non-rigid body point matching based on precenter alignment is proposed, a modified matching method for non-rigid image registration based on centre preregistration is proposed. To better achieve the point matching accuracy between two point sets, a centre preregistration step is applied before the iterative closest point matching algorithm, which converges to a solution more close to a global optimum and …

Transfer Method Of Operational Simulation Experiment Scope Using Compromised Case-Based Reasoning, Jun Ma, Jingyu Yang, Xi Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The scope of operational simulation experiment is usually determined by experts, which costs relatively high. In order to transfer the knowledge of experimental scope selection from historical data of operational simulation experiment to new operational experiment cases, the method of compromised case-based reasoning is proposed. According to the data characteristics of the case, the representation method of the operational simulation experiment case is proposed; according to the structure and attribute characteristics of the case, the hybrid similarity calculation method of subjective and objective comprehensive weighting is proposed; aiming at the problems of retrieval failure and less information content …

Optimal Dispatch Of Integrated Energy System Considering Ladder-Type Carbon Trading, Liying Wang, Jialin Lin, Houqi Dong, Ming Zeng, Yuqing Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: With the development of the electricity market and carbon market,the introduction of demand response and carbon trading mechanisms into the operation and dispatch of integrated energy systems will help guide users and system operators to optimize electricity consumption and dispatch plans.The comprehensive incentive measures such as time-of-use electricity prices and demand response incentive subsidies are used to guide users to participate in demand response.A two-layer stochastic optimal scheduling model for a comprehensive energy system considering the ladder-type carbon trading mechanism and demand response is constructed based on IGDT (information gap decision theory) theory.The two-layer model is converted …

Bi-Level Optimization Of Distribution Network For Hybrid Energy Storage System Of Storage Battery And Hydrogen Storage, Feibo Feng, Xingde Yan, Baoqiang Zheng, Xiaofeng Yin, Mengzhen Zhou, Xin Jiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Under the background of carbon neutralization and emission peaking goals and the utilization of clean hydrogen energy, aiming at the demand of distribution network configuring electrochemical energy storage and hydrogen energy storage system to form a hybrid energy storage system to improve power quality, a bi-level optimization model of the hybrid energy storage system is established. The upper level location and capacity model comprehensively considers the investment cost, network loss cost and voltage offset, while the lower level optimization operation model considers the operation cost of hybrid energy storage system, and the voltage stability index is introduced for evaluation. …

Modeling And Simulation Of Optimal Strategy For Electric Vehicles Participating In Power Grid Frequency Regulation, Li Yao, Junjie Hu, Wenshuai Ma, Zhile Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Electric vehicles (EVs) have similar characteristics of distributed energy storage, and making full use of the flexibility of EVs can provide ancillary services to the grid and gain benefits. Considering the influence of uncertain factors, a bidding model for electric vehicle aggregator (EVA) to participate in the day-ahead energy market and frequency regulation ancillary service market is constructed with the maximum revenue expectation of EVA as the target. A real-time energy distribution incentive strategy based on contract theory is proposed to realize the distribution of EVA's frequency regulation demand under the condition of maximizing social welfare. Through case studies, …