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Properties Of Terahertz Wave Propagation In Inhomogeneous Plasma Sheath, Jiang Jin, Changxing Chen, Wang Cheng, Ting Chen, Tianxiang Zhou, Yunfei Ling

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The communication blackout usually happens when the hypersonic vehicles voyage in the near space. According to the data provided by radio attenuation measurement C (RAM C) voyage experiment, two models of inhomogeneous plasma sheath were established after dividing the near space into two spatial layers to build two mathematical models. The principle of interaction between plasma and terahertz wave was analyzed through numerical calculation, getting the properties of terahertz wave propagation in plasma sheath. The simulation shows that the terahertz wave frequency band selected as communication frequency band used in near space can solve the problem of communication blackout. …

A Novel Path Loss Forecast Model To Support Digital Twins For High Frequency Communications Networks, James Marvin Taylor Jr.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The need for long-distance High Frequency (HF) communications in the 3-30 MHz frequency range seemed to diminish at the end of the 20th century with the advent of space-based communications and the spread of fiber optic-connected digital networks. Renewed interest in HF has emerged as an enabler for operations in austere locations and for its ability to serve as a redundant link when space-based and terrestrial communication channels fail. Communications system designers can create a “digital twin” system to explore the operational advantages and constraints of the new capability. Existing wireless channel models can adequately simulate communication channel conditions with …

Machine Learning Approaches For Fracture Risk Assessment: A Comparative Analysis Of Genomic And Phenotypic Data In 5130 Older Men, Qing Wu, Fatma Nasoz, Jongyun Jung, Bibek Bhattarai, Mira V. Han

School of Public Health Faculty Research

The study aims were to develop fracture prediction models by using machine learning approaches and genomic data, as well as to identify the best modeling approach for fracture prediction. The genomic data of Osteoporotic Fractures in Men, cohort Study (n = 5130), were analyzed. After a comprehensive genotype imputation, genetic risk score (GRS) was calculated from 1103 associated Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for each participant. Data were normalized and split into a training set (80%) and a validation set (20%) for analysis. Random forest, gradient boosting, neural network, and logistic regression were used to develop prediction models for major osteoporotic fractures …

Synthesizing Expressive Behaviors For Humanoid Robots, Mathias Irwan Sunardi

Dissertations and Theses

Humanoid robots are expected to be able to communicate with expressive gestures at the same level of proficiency as humans. However, creating expressive gestures for humanoid robots is difficult and time consuming due to the high number of degrees of freedom (DOF) and the iterations needed to get the desired expressiveness.

Current robot motion editing software has varying levels of sophistication of motion editing tools ranging from basic ones that are text-only, to ones that provide graphical user interfaces (GUIs) which incorporate advanced features, such as curve editors and inverse kinematics. These tools enable users to create simple motions; but …

Research Review On Mixed-Criticality Scheduling, Hattan Althebeiti

Recent Advances in Real-Time Systems

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Secure Networked Control For Decentralized Systems Via Software Rejuvenation, Paul Griffioen, Raffaele Romagnoli, Bruce H. Krogh, Bruno Sinopoli

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Decentralized control systems exist in many scenarios where agents have the ability to fully communicate with one another but do not do so for multiple reasons, including cost and the possibility of an adversary infiltrating the system through the communication network. In this paper, we present a procedure that determines when agents should communicate with one another after having been disconnected from the network for a period of time. This procedure does not depend on the type of decentralized control system being used. When agents do communicate with one another, we guarantee the safety and resilience of the system against …

Artificial Intelligence And Game Theory Controlled Autonomous Uav Swarms, Janusz Kusyk, M. Umit Uyar, Kelvin Ma, Eltan Samoylov, Ricardo Valdez, Joseph Plishka, Sagor E. Hoque, Giorgio Bertoli, Jefrey Boksiner

Publications and Research

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as a swarm can be deployed in austere environments, where cyber electromagnetic activities often require speedy and dynamic adjustments to swarm operations. Use of central controllers, UAV synchronization mechanisms or pre-planned set of actions to control a swarm in such deployments would hinder its ability to deliver expected services. We introduce artificial intelligence and game theory based flight control algorithms to be run by each autonomous UAV to determine its actions in near real-time, while relying only on local spatial, temporal and electromagnetic (EM) information. Each UAV using our flight control algorithms positions itself …

Two Techniques For Automated Logging Statement Evolution, Allan R. Spektor

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents and explores two techniques for automated logging statement evolution. The first technique reinvigorates logging statement levels to reduce information overload using degree of interest obtained via software repository mining. The second technique converts legacy method calls to deferred execution to achieve performance gains, eliminating unnecessary evaluation overhead.

Auditing Database Systems Through Forensic Analysis, James Wagner

College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations

The majority of sensitive and personal data is stored in a number of different Database Management Systems (DBMS). For example, Oracle is frequently used to store corporate data, MySQL serves as the back-end storage for many webstores, and SQLite stores personal data such as SMS messages or browser bookmarks. Consequently, the pervasive use of DBMSes has led to an increase in the rate at which they are exploited in cybercrimes. After a cybercrime occurs, investigators need forensic tools and methods to recreate a timeline of events and determine the extent of the security breach. When a breach involves a compromised …

Is It Safe For My Child’S Asthma?, Utkarshani Jaimini, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Maninder Kalra, Marco Valtorta

Publications

kHealth-Asthma, a personalised digital healthcare framework is developed to address the above shortcomings by continuous monitoring of the child’s digital phenotype, indoor, and outdoor environmental data. The kHealth-Asthma study has recruited 140 children (ongoing) with an aim to complete recruitment of 150 children. The study period is either 1 month or 3 month depending on the choice of the study participant. kHealth-Asthma collects 29 multi-modal parameters leading to 1852 data points per patient per day (i.e. deployment: 1 month:1852*30=55,560 data points per patient and 3 month:1852*90=166,680 data points per patient). The digital phenotype collected using the kHealth-Asthma generates a Digital …

Modeling And Simulation On Influence Of Complex Network Nodes Based On Data Field In, Chenxi Shao, Xiaoqi Chen, Xingfu Wang, Fuyou Miao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Research on the influence of complex network nodes is an important part of data mining. Mining the influential nodes in complex networks not only has important academic significance, but also helps to suppress the outbreak of epidemics, control the spread of rumors, and promote e-commercial products and so on. By selecting the Mixed Degree Decomposition (MDD) value of each node as its mass, the complex network is abstracted into a data field, the influential nodes are identified by combining the data field model, and some well-known centralities are compares with. The classical Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model is …

Foot Measurement Based On Deep Alignment Network, Shi Min, Hanqin Yao, Chunpeng Li, Liangchen Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Foot measurement plays an important role in many areas. Limited by equipment and algorithms, three-dimensional foot measurement cannot make a convenient and quick foot measurement. A method is proposed by combining the image measurement with the deep neural network. Based on the physiological structure analysis of foot, key points are extracted and the measurement parameters are defined. During the key point detection of foot, the activation function and loss function of DAN (Deep Alignment Network) model is optimized, and a data acquisition method is defined based on the handheld camera. Foot key points are detected, and main parameters are …

Mobile-Phone-Oriented Stereoscopic Display And Interaction Framework For Cloud-Based Virtual Reality 3d Scenes, Jiazhe Liu, Chunyi Chen, Xiaojuan Hu, Weidong Liang, Qiwei Xing, Huamin Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A VR application framework based on cloud computing is proposed to overcome the difficulty of interactively generating high quality 3D scene images on mobile phones. We combine the cloud-based rendering and the VR technology. Our framework uses a mobile browser as a client, transmits the image data by the video block stream, processes the interactive data by the anti-jitter algorithm, and has accomplished the web-based lightweight rendering. The framework reduces the cost of data visualization on mobile phone and avoids the need of installing a plug-in package. The experimental results show that our display rate could be improved to …

Maintenance Operation Control Of Virtual Human In Collaborative Virtual Maintenance, Liang Feng, Zhili Zhang, Xiangyang Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the operators being not able to move freely in the limited capture area of optical motion capture devices, the maintenance operation control of virtual human in Collaborative Virtual Maintenance is studied. The lower limb action of operators is captured by the optical motion capture devices, and the wide range motion of the virtual human is controlled according to the real-time recognition results. In order to control the hand motion process of the virtual human in the maintenance operation, the hand interaction of the virtual human is analyzed and an intelligent assistant method for the maintenance operations based …

Simulation Research On Cooperative Control Of Multi Intelligent Ground Platform Based On Agent Theory, Yunrong Zhang, Zhili Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Hongguang Wang, Wenpeng Mi, Xiangtong Kong, Pengpeng Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the cooperative control ability of the multi Intelligent ground platform and to adapt to the trend of intelligent war in the new situation, a multi intelligent ground platform cooperative Control simulation system based on jade and world wind Java is constructed. Based on multi-agent theory, the simulation model of intelligent ground platform is build. Based on JADE, the cooperative Control simulation platform is constructed. The task allocation mechanism is optimized by the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The simulation results show that the cooperative Control simulation platform has good robustness and flexibility. The optimized task allocation …

A Survey On Visual Slam Based On Deep Learning, Ruijun Liu, Xiangshang Wang, Zhang Chen, Bohua Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Following the development of computer vision and robotics, visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping becomes a research focus in the field of unmanned systems. The powerful advantages of deep learning in the image processing offer a huge opportunity to the wide combination of the two fields. The outstanding research achievements of deep learning combined with visual odometry, loop closure detection and semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping are summarized. A comparison between the traditional algorithm and method based on deep learning is carried out. The development direction of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping based on deep learning is …

Visual Tracking And Localization Based On Confidence Evaluation Of Adjacent Targets, Youquan Liu, Pei Xue, Li Wan, Zhengxiong Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In visual target tracking and localization, the target could not be located due to the lack of features or the severe occlusion. Aiming at this, an algorithm based on confidence evaluation of neighboring targets is designed. In the tracking process, by detecting and extracting the marker features of neighboring targets, and combining the Hamming distance of each feature marker and the normalized result with respect to other markers as well as the probability of occurrence of each marker, the final confidence of each marker is obtained. The marker with the maximum confidence is to used determine the target …

Simulation Of Dongba Art Style Painting, Wenhua Qian, Xu Dan, Xu Jin, He Lei, Zhang Bo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An interactive technique that can generate the Dongba art paintings from 2D images is proposed. A Dongba painting line drawing system is designed and developed which adopts the interactive selection method to obtain the smooth and continuous line drawings. To produce the foreground image of the Dongba styles, a multi-frequency noise integral convolution algorithm is utilized to simulate the block texture color of the Dongba paintings. Texture synthesis algorithm is used to generate the image of large sizes from samples to simulate the background image. Based on the layer-mapping technique and local color transmission methods, the final artistic style …

Mrmark: A Machine Performance Evaluation Method For Three-Dimensional Video Fusion, Yifei Sun, Liangliang Cai, Zhou Yi, Zhou Zhong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The three-dimensional video fusion system needs the calculation of video and graphics, and requires high machine performance. The existing commercial evaluation tools lack the corresponding considerations, which may cause the inconsistency of a machine's performance from the score. A machine performance evaluation method for three-dimensional video fusion is proposed and an evaluation tool MRMark is implemented. Several sets of standard 3D test scenes are designed according to the characteristics of the video fusion system, the statistics on the frame rate, the number of video channels played and the other parameters during the test are collected to calculate the …

Research On Highway Bim Perception And Engineering Evaluation Based On Virtual Reality, Zhaohui Wu, Zhiqiang Fu, Wang Liang, Dou Fei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Virtual reality technology is a new way for the highway BIM to upgrade from 2D to 3D. Based on the analysis of the characteristics of highway engineering and the travel needs of traffic participants, five methods are proposed to perceive highway BIM and evaluate the engineering design results of different road users, including virtual driving, virtual flight, virtual riding, virtual walking and augmented reality. These methods provide technical and tool support for the people-oriented road BIM perception, engineering evaluation, collaborative work, and design optimization. The experiment tests show that virtual reality connects the BIM models with human perception, …

Icp Optimized B-Spline Non-Rigid Registration For 4d-Ct Images, Wenjie Tang, Ruotong Li, Xuesong Deng, Weixin Si, Wang Qiong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the accuracy and speed of registration between two groups of 4D-CT images under different physiological activities, based on FFD model of multi-resolution B-spline, a registration algorithm using ICP to optimize the model is proposed. The ICP algorithm is added before the traditional b-spline to realize the point cloud registration between two groups of 4D-CT images: the appropriate model is generated from the two segmented groups of 4D-CT images, then the two groups of point clouds in the model are registered with ICP. The improvement rates of similarity measurement at level 1, level 2 and …

Simulation Reach On Multi-Generation Digital Product Diffusion Based On Agent, Qiao Jian, Jingwen Xia, Wang Pan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Digital products have the characteristics of multi-generation coexistence and diffusion, and the multi-generation product diffusion model is an important tool to study it. The existing models ignores some factors of the product, consumer and environment that significantly affect the diffusion process. A multi-generation digital product diffusion model is proposed by using the ABMS, fuzzy inference, complex network and utility theories. The experiment results show that the model can playback the diffusion process of iPhones, which indicates that the model has a good simulation/prediction capability when the historical data is sufficient, and can be a marketing analysis and decision-making …

Learning Expression Recognition Based On Image Sequence, Suqin Wang, Zhang Feng, Yudou Gao, Shi Min

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: By recognizing the facial expressions, the emotional state of learner can be judged and their learning effect can be analyzed. Due to the persistence and timing of facial expressions, the sequence of facial images is adopted as the object of facial expression recognition. The Long Short Term Memory Network (LSTM) and VGGNet are combined into a VGGNET-LSTM model. On this basis, facial expression recognition is carried out, which significantly improves the accuracy of recognition. Based on the transfer learning method, VGGNet is transferred to the learning expression data set after being pre-trained through the basic expression data set CK+ …

An Adaptable Vr Software Framework For Collaborative Multi-Modal Haptic And Immersive Visual Display, Guo Yuan, Qianqian Tong, Yukai Zheng, Ziqi Wang, Yuru Zhang, Dangxiao Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The spatiotemporal consistency of multi-modal haptic and immersive visual feedback, as well as the integration of hardware devices in the existing VR software framework, restricts the rapid development of visuo-haptic fusion scenarios in different industries such as medical, business, and entertainment. In order to tackle this problem, an adaptable VR software framework combining multi-modal haptic and immersive visual display is proposed. To meet the different requirements of visual rendering, haptic rendering and hardware control, the double-layer and three-layer architectures are devised according to the different precision requirements of visuo-haptic fusion feedback. Experimental results show that the framework has the …

Review On Finite Element Model For Anti-Riot Kinetic Projectile Thorax Blunt Impact, Wang Song, Renjun Zhan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to promote the construction and verification of the finite element models of human thorax and non-lethal projectiles in the field of blunt ballistic impact, the detailed anatomical and analogous structures of the thorax finite element models are combed and five typical of them are compared and verified. The construction and verification methods of the typical non-lethal projectile models are refined and the impact injury assessment methods are summarized. The next research recommendations are given. In order to improve the accuracy and biological fidelity of the thorax model, it is necessary to establish the physical and finite …

Real-Time Leaf Recognition Method Based On Cnn Network And Multi-Task Loss Function, Xingquan Cai, Yuxin Tu, Yakun Ge, Zhe Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problems that the traditional leaf recognition is susceptible to the environmental interference and is difficult to realize the multi-leaf real-time recognition in complex background, a real-time leaf recognition method based on CNN network and multi-task loss function is proposed. The CNN network is used to the extract image feature maps and input them into RPN network to generate regional proposals. On the basis of the feature maps and region proposals, the feature map is proposaled, the leaf classification and bounding box regression are performed respectively, and the leaf classification and position of the leaf prediction box …

Hyperspectral Image Anomaly Detection Based On Background Reconstruction, Xiaorui Song, Zou Ling, Lingda Wu, Wanpeng Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the anomaly detection of hyperspectral images (HSIs), aiming at the difficulty of distinguishing the abnormal target from the background and the low accuracy of background prediction, a new HSI anomaly detection algorithm based on background sparse reconstruction is proposed. An online dictionary learning method is used to estimate the background spectral dictionary. The estimated background image is sparse reconstructed by the learning dictionary. The estimated background image is subtracted from the origin image to get the residual image. The anomaly detection is achieved by using the local RX detector to traverse the residual image. The effectiveness of the …

Human Depth Maps Restoration Based On Guided Gan, Jingfang Yin, Dengming Zhu, Shi Min, Zhaoqi Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The depth maps captured by a small depth camera on mobile devices suffer from the problem of severe holes. The Guided Generative Adversarial Network (Guided GAN) based on deep learning is proposed to restore human depth maps with above problems. The high-precision human segmentation features and depth class features are extracted from the monocular RGB image by the guider based on the stacked hourglass network. The holes in the human depth maps are filled by the special generator under the guidance of the extracted human features. In order to get the more realistic results, the discriminator is introduced …

Modeling And Visualization On Scalar Fields Of Meteorological Data, Shuoben Bi, Yucheng Gong, Mingyue Lu, Zhou Hao, Yuanxiang Mao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: There are still many deficiencies in efficiency, interactivity, and accuracy in the visualization of meteorological scalar fields. Aiming at these problems, a display method based on multi-level volume rendering technology is proposed, which processes the spatial field data to form a three-dimensional space grid. Through the dynamic mapping between the scalar values and the color values and transparency, the three-dimensional dynamic visualization effect of the meteorological scalar data is realized. Aiming at the interpolation method for the traditional MC (Marching Cubes) algorithm being not applicable to the meteorological data, and the connection method having ambiguity problem, the improvement method …

A Survey On Graph Representation And Visualization Techniques, Chen Yi, Menglu Zhang, Yuchai Wan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A graph consists of nodes and edges, and represents the relationship between two or more entities. Graph-based analysis can help understand the structure and nature of the entity relationships and reveal the implicit relationships in graphs. The representation and visualization methods of graphs play an important role in the graph analysis. In graph visualization research, the accuracy of knowledge transfer and people's mental map, etc. should be considered first, then the graphs beauty, the time requirement, and the computer performance. The graph representation methods, graph layout algorithms, visualization methods based on node-link-graphs, adjacency matrices, and graph embedding are reviewed, …