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Reinforcement-Learning-Based Adaptive Tracking Control For A Space Continuum Robot Based On Reinforcement Learning, Da Jiang, Zhiqin Cai, Zhongzhen Liu, Haijun Peng, Zhigang Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the tracking control for three-arm space continuum robot in space active debris removal manipulation, an adaptive sliding mode control algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed. Through BP network, a data-driven dynamic model is developed as the predictive model to guide the reinforcement learning to adjust the sliding mode controller's parameters online, and finally realize a real-time tracking control. Simulation results show that the proposed data-driven predictive model can accurately predict the robot's dynamic characteristics with the relative error within ±1% to random trajectories. Compared with the fixed-parameter sliding mode controller, the proposed adaptive controller …

Simulation Research On Aerodynamic Characteristics Of A Miniature Munition, Haisen Wang, Junfang Fan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the existing constraints of layout design of miniature munition, a new layout optimization scheme is proposed. Based on the normal layout structure, a three-dimensional aerodynamic model of munition is established, and the aerodynamic hydrodynamics simulation of miniature munition is carried out, and the influence of wing size on static stability of munition is studied. To verify the feasibility of the design scheme, the aerodynamic simulation calculation is carried out, and the lift, drag and pitching moment parameters of miniature munition are obtained through simulated aerodynamic calculation under different flight conditions, and the lift-drag ratio …

Fatigue Detection Method Based On Facial Features And Head Posture, Rongxiu Lu, Bihao Zhang, Zhenlong Mo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the of the single fatigue characteristics, low robustness and inability to customize fatigue thresholds for different drivers of fatigue detection methods, a method based on facial features and head posture is proposed. In face detection and face key point positioning HOG feature operator and regression tree algorithm are used. In head posture estimation, head posture Euler angle is estimated by combining the face key points with the coordinate system transformation. In fatigue feature extraction, a deep residual neural network model is established to extract the eye fatigue features, which the eye, mouth aspect ratio and head posture …

Task Allocation Method For Multi-Uav Cooperative Reconnaissance In Complex Environment, Fuzhen Zhang, Yaoqin Zhu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The existing cooperative planning methods of multiple UAVs often carry out path planning and task allocation separatly, which causes the cooperative scheme not being the best in a complex environment. The cost matrix of multi-UAV cooperative reconnaissance on heterogeneous targets is established. Aiming at the various obstacle constraints and the characteristics of UAV motion and track in complex environment, an improved PSO-AFSA is used to solve the single UAV track planning model. Hungarian algorithm is used to complete the cooperative allocation of reconnaissance tasks of UAVs. The simulation results show that the algorithm can make the flying range of …

Simulation Of Emergency Medical Materials Collaborative Distribution Considering Supplier Clustering, Zhe Wang, Hongyuan Shao, Zihao Cong, Wenwen Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the insufficient local government medical material reserves and low distribution efficiency to public health emergencies, consider supplier clustering a two-stage emergency medical supplies public-private collaborative location and alloation model is designed. In for disaster preparedness, fuzzy clustering algorithm to realize supplier clustering, and a cooperation mechanism with the government is establish realize the joint storage of emergency medical supplies; In the early stage of rescue, relying on the government and various suppliers' material storage and transportation capabilities, a location allocation simulation model to minimize the weighted sum of total logistics cost and demand unsatisfied rate is …

Research On High-Performance Emulation Technology Of Starlink Constellation Based On Cloud Platform, Yuan Liu, Xinyi Xue, Xiaofeng Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Network emulation on Starlink constellation is an important verification and evaluation tool for the design and construction of low earth orbit constellations in the future. Aiming at the characteristics of large-scale and complex structure of the Starlink network, a high-performance satellite network emulation system is designed. Based on the distributed network emulation architecture of cloud platform, through the development of STK Engine underlying interface, satellite model library storage optimization and asynchronous message transmission technology, the rapid deployment of Starlink constellation is carried out, and has good scalability. The experimental results show that the proposed method can carry out …

Analysis And Research On End-To-End Optical Image Quality Of Large Aperture Off-Axis Space Telescope, Zhang Ban, Xiaobo Li, Xun Yang, Yuxi Jiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to evaluate the image quality of space on orbit telescope under the comprehensive constraints, the chain calculation analysis method is adopted. The main error factors of the optical image quality degradation are divided into six static errors and two dynamic errors. After calculation, the optical system wavefront aberration under the static loading error is reduced to 0.057λ on average. Under the influence of the static and dynamic errors, the 80% energy concentration of point spread function increases gradually. The method can be used to analyze and evaluate the influence of image stabilization control and precise temperature …

Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering With Dynamic Time Warping For Household Load Curve Clustering, Fadi Almahamid, Katarina Grolinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

Energy companies often implement various demand response (DR) programs to better match electricity demand and supply by offering the consumers incentives to reduce their demand during critical periods. Classifying clients according to their consumption patterns enables targeting specific groups of consumers for DR. Traditional clustering algorithms use standard distance measurement to find the distance between two points. The results produced by clustering algorithms such as K-means, K-medoids, and Gaussian Mixture Models depend on the clustering parameters or initial clusters. In contrast, our methodology uses a shape-based approach that combines Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to classify …

Virtual Sensor Middleware: Managing Iot Data For The Fog-Cloud Platform, Fadi Almahamid, Hanan Lutfiyya, Katarina Grolinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

This paper introduces the Virtual Sensor Middleware (VSM), which facilitates distributed sensor data processing on multiple fog nodes. VSM uses a Virtual Sensor as the core component of the middleware. The virtual sensor concept is redesigned to support functionality beyond sensor/device virtualization, such as deploying a set of virtual sensors to represent an IoT application and distributed sensor data processing across multiple fog nodes. Furthermore, the virtual sensor deals with the heterogeneous nature of IoT devices and the various communication protocols using different adapters to communicate with the IoT devices and the underlying protocol. VSM uses the publish-subscribe design pattern …

Tutorial: Neuro-Symbolic Ai For Mental Healthcare, Kaushik Roy, Usha Lokala, Manas Gaur, Amit Sheth

Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for mental healthcare (MHCare) have been ever-growing after realizing the importance of early interventions for patients with chronic mental health (MH) conditions. Social media (SocMedia) emerged as the go-to platform for supporting patients seeking MHCare. The creation of peer-support groups without social stigma has resulted in patients transitioning from clinical settings to SocMedia supported interactions for quick help. Researchers started exploring SocMedia content in search of cues that showcase correlation or causation between different MH conditions to design better interventional strategies. User-level Classification-based AI systems were designed to leverage diverse SocMedia data from various MH conditions, …

Software Protection And Secure Authentication For Autonomous Vehicular Cloud Computing, Muhammad Hataba

Dissertations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing every technology we deal with. Autonomy has been a sought-after goal in vehicles, and now more than ever we are very close to that goal. Vehicles before were dumb mechanical devices, now they are becoming smart, computerized, and connected coined as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Moreover, researchers found a way to make more use of these enormous capabilities and introduced Autonomous Vehicles Cloud Computing (AVCC). In these platforms, vehicles can lend their unused resources and sensory data to join AVCC.

In this dissertation, we investigate security and privacy issues in AVCC. As background, we built our …

Towards Qos-Based Embedded Machine Learning, Tom Springer, Erik Linstead, Peiyi Zhao, Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Due to various breakthroughs and advancements in machine learning and computer architectures, machine learning models are beginning to proliferate through embedded platforms. Some of these machine learning models cover a range of applications including computer vision, speech recognition, healthcare efficiency, industrial IoT, robotics and many more. However, there is a critical limitation in implementing ML algorithms efficiently on embedded platforms: the computational and memory expense of many machine learning models can make them unsuitable in resource-constrained environments. Therefore, to efficiently implement these memory-intensive and computationally expensive algorithms in an embedded computing environment, innovative resource management techniques are required at the …

The Rock 2022, School Of Engineering And Computer Science

The Rock

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Rewards And Challenges In Adopting Agility In An Academic Department, Massood Towhidnejad, Omar Ochoa, James J. Pembridge, Radu Babiceanu, Carlos Castro

Posters

Introducing agility into department processes may be challenging especially when interfacing with a non-agile environment. While frequent meetings can add more time constraints, the team environment emphasizes more communication, transparency, and accountability in completing the products leading to a higher sense of ownership of the completed work.

Machine Learning To Predict Warhead Fragmentation In-Flight Behavior From Static Data, Katharine Larsen

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Accurate characterization of fragment fly-out properties from high-speed warhead detonations is essential for estimation of collateral damage and lethality for a given weapon. Real warhead dynamic detonation tests are rare, costly, and often unrealizable with current technology, leaving fragmentation experiments limited to static arena tests and numerical simulations. Stereoscopic imaging techniques can now provide static arena tests with time-dependent tracks of individual fragments, each with characteristics such as fragment IDs and their respective position vector. Simulation methods can account for the dynamic case but can exclude relevant dynamics experienced in real-life warhead detonations. This research leverages machine learning methodologies to …

Learning To Automate Follow-Up Question Generation Using Process Knowledge For Depression Triage On Reddit Posts, Shrey Gupta, Anmol Agarwal, Manas Gaur, Kaushik Roy, Vignesh Narayanan, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Amit Sheth

Publications

Conversational Agents (CAs) powered with deep language models (DLMs) have shown tremendous promise in the domain of mental health. Prominently, the CAs have been used to provide informational or therapeutic services (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy) to patients. However, the utility of CAs to assist in mental health triaging has not been explored in the existing work as it requires a controlled generation of follow-up questions (FQs), which are often initiated and guided by the mental health professionals (MHPs) in clinical settings. In the context of `depression', our experiments show that DLMs coupled with process knowledge in a mental health questionnaire …

Pruning The Communication Bandwidth Between Reinforcement Learning Agents Through Causal Inference: An Innovative Approach To Designing A Smart Grid Power System, Xianjie Zhang, Yu Liu, Wenjun Li, Chen Gong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Electricity demands are increasing significantly and the traditional power grid system is facing huge challenges. As the desired next-generation power grid system, smart grid can provide secure and reliable power generation, and consumption, and can also realize the system’s coordinated and intelligent power distribution. Coordinating grid power distribution usually requires mutual communication between power distributors to accomplish coordination. However, the power network is complex, the network nodes are far apart, and the communication bandwidth is often expensive. Therefore, how to reduce the communication bandwidth in the cooperative power distribution process task is crucially important. One way to tackle this problem …

Pruning The Communication Bandwidth Between Reinforcement Learning Agents Through Causal Inference: An Innovative Approach To Designing A Smart Grid Power System, Xianjie Zhang, Yu Liu, Wenjun Li, Chen Gong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Electricity demands are increasing significantly and the traditional power grid system isfacing huge challenges. As the desired next-generation power grid system, smart grid can providesecure and reliable power generation, and consumption, and can also realize the system’s coordinatedand intelligent power distribution. Coordinating grid power distribution usually requiresmutual communication between power distributors to accomplish coordination. However, the powernetwork is complex, the network nodes are far apart, and the communication bandwidth is oftenexpensive. Therefore, how to reduce the communication bandwidth in the cooperative power distributionprocess task is crucially important. One way to tackle this problem is to build mechanismsto selectively send out …

Cnn-Based Dendrite Core Detection From Microscopic Images Of Directionally Solidified Ni-Base Alloys, Xiaoguang Li

Theses and Dissertations

Dendrite core is the center point of the dendrite. The information of dendrite core is very helpful for material scientists to analyze the properties of materials. Therefore, detecting the dendrite core is a very important task in the material science field. Meanwhile, because of some special properties of the dendrites, this task is also very challenging. Different from the typical detection problems in the computer vision field, detecting the dendrite core aims to detect a single point location instead of the bounding-box. As a result, the existing regressing bounding-box based detection methods can not work well on this task because …

Supporting The Discovery, Reuse, And Validation Of Cybersecurity Requirements At The Early Stages Of The Software Development Lifecycle, Jessica Antonia Steinmann

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

The focus of this research is to develop an approach that enhances the elicitation and specification of reusable cybersecurity requirements. Cybersecurity has become a global concern as cyber-attacks are projected to cost damages totaling more than $10.5 trillion dollars by 2025. Cybersecurity requirements are more challenging to elicit than other requirements because they are nonfunctional requirements that requires cybersecurity expertise and knowledge of the proposed system. The goal of this research is to generate cybersecurity requirements based on knowledge acquired from requirements elicitation and analysis activities, to provide cybersecurity specifications without requiring the specialized knowledge of a cybersecurity expert, and …

Empirical Studies On Automated Software Testing Practices, Alireza Salahirad

Theses and Dissertations

Software testing is notoriously difficult and expensive, and improper testing carries economic, legal, and even environmental or medical risks. Research in software testing is critical to enabling the development of the robust software that our society relies upon. This dissertation aims to lower the cost of software testing without decreasing the quality by focusing on the use of automation. The dissertation consists of three empirical studies on aspects of software testing. Specifically, these three projects focus on (1) mapping the connections between research topics and the evolution of research topics in the field of software testing, (2) an assessment of …

Multi-Bsm: An Anomaly Detection And Position Falsification Attack Mitigation Approach In Connected Vehicles, Zouheir Trabelsi, Syed Sarmad Shah, Kadhim Hayawi

All Works

With the dawn of the emerging technologies in the field of vehicular environment, connected vehicles are advancing at a rapid speed. The advancement of such technologies helps people daily, whether it is to reach from one place to another, avoid traffic, or prevent any hazardous incident from occurring. Safety is one of the main concerns regarding the vehicular environment when it comes to developing applications for connected vehicles. Connected vehicles depend on messages known as basic safety messages (BSMs) that are repeatedly broadcast in their communication range in order to obtain information regarding their surroundings. Different kinds of attacks can …

Softskip: Empowering Multi-Modal Dynamic Pruning For Single-Stage Referring Comprehension, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Tuan Tran, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Supporting real-time referring expression comprehension (REC) on pervasive devices is an important capability for human-AI collaborative tasks. Model pruning techniques, applied to DNN models, can enable real-time execution even on resource-constrained devices. However, existing pruning strategies are designed principally for uni-modal applications, and suffer a significant loss of accuracy when applied to REC tasks that require fusion of textual and visual inputs. We thus present a multi-modal pruning model, LGMDP, which uses language as a pivot to dynamically and judiciously select the relevant computational blocks that need to be executed. LGMDP also introduces a new SoftSkip mechanism, whereby 'skipped' visual …

Toward Mental Effort Measurement Using Electrodermal Activity Features, William Romine, Noah Schroeder, Tanvi Banerjee, Josephine Graft

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

The ability to monitor mental effort during a task using a wearable sensor may improve productivity for both work and study. The use of the electrodermal activity (EDA) signal for tracking mental effort is an emerging area of research. Through analysis of over 92 h of data collected with the Empatica E4 on a single participant across 91 different activities, we report on the efficacy of using EDA features getting at signal intensity, signal dispersion, and peak intensity for prediction of the participant's self-reported mental effort. We implemented the logistic regression algorithm as an interpretable machine learning approach and found …

Parallel Simulation System Of Equipment Precision Maintenance Based On Cloud-Edge-End Architecture, Yanqiang Di, Ting Li, Shaochong Feng, Qiongyao Liu, Jianhong Lü, Zhijia Chen, Yang Zhang, Pengfei Cao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the demands of equipment precision maintenance, based on the previous research results of equipment parallel simulation, the algorithm of equipment remaining useful life (RUL)prediction is optimized and a parallel simulation system for equipment precision maintenance with cloud-edge-end architecture is designed. At the equipment end, the system collects equipment status data and preprocesses it with edge devices. At the cloud end, based on simulation model, in parallel with the equipment entity, the system dynamically predicts the RUL of equipment. The prediction results are applied to the formulation and deduction of equipment maintenance plans to support the equipment …

Unmanned Air Vehicles Launching Aircraft Combat System And Key Technologies For Penetrating Counterair, Minghao Li, Wenhao Bi, An Zhang, Wenxuan Sun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Penetrating counterair is an important countermeasure to the anti-access/area denial environment. Under this operational requirement, the unmanned air vehicles launching aircraft (UAVLA)has received much attention due to the advantages of load quantity and variety, operational range and duration, and development time and cost. Based on the review of the concept development and supporting research related to the UAVLA, the top-level concepts of operations such as the component systems,operational process, operational events tracking, and information interaction of the UAVLA combat system (UAVLACS) are designed. The key technologies of the system are prospected from four aspects:intelligent cognition of battlefield situation under …

Opnet Based Simulation Of Hybrid Tdma Protocol For Helicopters Datalink, Yanfang Fu, Nan Zhang, Jianing Wei, Shaochun Qu, Ying Lu, Chang Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For the current time slot allocation problem of the data link, an improved hybrid time slot allocation protocol based on grey relational analysis is proposed and implemented. Through the aggregation of throughput, delay and load of current message buffer by grey relational analysis, the comprehensive evaluation index is obtained, and the time slot is allocated dynamically. The fixed time slot allocation is also adopted to ensure that at least one time slot is available for nodes in the network.Simulation results show that compared with the fixed TDMA(time division multiple access) protocol and the P-TDMA(priority-TDMA) protocol, the proposed protocol …

Research On Opponent Modeling Framework For Multi-Agent Game Confrontation, Junren Luo, Wanpeng Zhang, Weilin Yuan, Zhenzhen Hu, Shaofei Chen, Jing Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: As the key technology of multi-agent game confrontation, opponent modeling is a typical cognitive modeling method of agent's behavior. Several typical models of multi-agent game confrontation,non-stationary problems, and meta-game theory are introduced; opponent modeling methods that concludes the frontier theory of opponent modeling are summarized, and the applications and challenges are analyzed. Based on the theory of meta-game, a general opponent modeling framework is constructed with three modules: opponent policy recognition and generation, opponent policy space reconstruction,and opponent exploitation. It is expected to provide theoretical and methodological reference for opponent modeling in multi-agent game confrontation.

Siamese Object Tracking Algorithm Combined With The Intersection Over Union Loss, Wei Zhou, Yuxiang Liu, Guangping Liao, Xin Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To improve the accuracy of the object bounding box regression prediction of the SiamRPN,solve the problem of low discrimination of positive samples in classification prediction and the lack of correlation between regression prediction and classification prediction, an improved object tracking algorithm of SiamRPN which combined with IoU(intersection over union) loss is proposed. A joint optimization module of IoU-smooth L1 is designed to optimize the IoU loss of the best positive sample and the smooth L1 loss of other positive samples jointly. According to the regression prediction results, the weighted classification prediction is performed on the positive samples with the …

Relative-Residual-Based Dynamic Schedule For Decoding Of Ldpc Codes, Fatang Chen, Hebin Li, Zhihao Zhang, Zhiqiang Mei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problems of the oscillation phenomenon and greedy characteristics in the dynamic scheduling decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, the relative-residual-based dynamic schedule (RRB-BP) algorithm is proposed based on variable-to-check residual belief propagation (VC-RBP) algorithm. The variable nodes are grouped, then the relative residual value of the message passed by the variable nodes to the check node is taken as a reference, and the node with the largest relative residual value is updated in priority to accelerate the decoding convergence speed. For variable nodes oscillating in the decoding process, the posterior LLR (log likelihood …