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A Quality Metric For K-Means Clustering Based On Centroid Locations, Manoj Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

K-Means clustering algorithm does not offer a clear methodology to determine the appropriate number of clusters; it does not have a built-in mechanism for K selection. In this paper, we present a new metric for clustering quality and describe its use for K selection. The proposed metric, based on the locations of the centroids, as well as the desired properties of the clusters, is developed in two stages. In the initial stage, we take into account the full covariance matrix of the clustering variables, thereby making it mathematically similar to a reduced chi2. We then extend it to account for …

Skin Lesion Segmentation By Using Object Detection Networks, Deeplab3+, And Active Contours, Fatemeh Bagheri, Mohammad Jafar Tarokh, Majid Ziaratban

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Developing an automatic system for detection, segmentation, and classification of skin lesions is very useful to aid well-timed diagnosis of skin diseases. Lesion segmentation is a crucial task for automated diagnosis of skin cancers, as it affects significantly the accuracy of the subsequent steps. Varieties in sizes and locations of lesions, and the lesions with low-contrast boundaries make this task very challenging. In this paper, a three-stage CNN-based method is presented for accurate segmentation of lesions from dermoscopic images. At the first step, normalization, approximate locations and sizes of lesions are estimated. Due to the importance of the normalization stage, …

Utilizing Motion And Spatial Features For Sign Language Gesture Recognition Using Cascaded Cnn And Lstm Models, Hamzah Luqman, Elsayed Elalfy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Sign language is a language produced by body parts gestures and facial expressions. The aim of an automatic sign language recognition system is to assign meaning to each sign gesture. Recently, several computer vision systems have been proposed for sign language recognition using a variety of recognition techniques, sign languages, and gesture modalities. However, one of the challenging problems involves image preprocessing, segmentation, extraction and tracking of relevant static and dynamic features related to manual and nonmanual gestures from different images in sequence. In this paper, we studied the efficiency, scalability, and computation time of three cascaded architectures of convolutional …

Compact Dual-Band Rectangular T E10 Mode To Circular Tm01 Mode Converter For Telemetry/Telecommand Applications In Satellite Communication: Design, Equivalent Circuit Modeling, Mode Level Measurement Technique And 3d Printed Manufacturing, Esra Alkin, Ceyhan Türkmen, Mustafa Seçmen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, the design of a dual-band mode converter, which provides transition from rectangular waveguide T E10 mode to circular waveguide TM01 mode and operates simultaneously in telemetry/telecommand (TT&C) frequencies, is presented along with its equivalent circuit and a mode level measurement technique. This dual-band converter is designed to uniformly excite TT&C slot antennas used in satellite communication with symmetric circular TM01 mode. The structure can work as a transceiver due to having one common rectangular waveguide feed. As a Ku-band application, a converter giving high purity TM01 mode at circular waveguide at 11.75 GHz/TX …

Computationally Efficient Predictive Torque Control Strategies Without Weighting Factors, Emrah Zerdali̇, Mert Altintaş, Ali̇ Bakbak, Erkan Meşe

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Predictive torque control (PTC) is a promising control method for electric machines due to its simplicity, fast dynamics, ability to handle nonlinearities, and easy inclusion of additional control objectives. The main challenge in conventional PTC design is to determine the weighting factors in the cost function. These weighting factors are generally chosen by the trial-and-error method or metaheuristic optimization algorithms, but these methods may not apply the optimum voltage vectors according to changing operating conditions. There are also several studies on the elimination of the weighting factors. This paper proposes two weighting factorless PTC strategies with lower computational complexities than …

Mocmin: Convex Inferring Of Modular Low-Rank Contact Networks Over Covid Diffusion Data, Emre Sefer

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

SEIR (which consists of susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered states) is a common diffusion model which could model different disease propagation dynamics across various domains such as influenza and COVID diffusion. As a motivation, across these domains, observing the node states is relatively easier than observing the network edges over which the diffusion is taking place, or it may not even be possible to observe the underlying network. This paper focuses on the problem of predicting modular low-rank human contact network edges only if a SEIR diffusion dynamics spreading among the human on their contact network can be observed. Such …

A Rule-Based/Bpso Approach To Produce Low-Dimensional Semantic Basis Vectors Set, Atefe Pakzad, Morteza Analoui

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The present study aims to generate low-dimensional explicit distributional semantic vectors. In explicit semantic vectors, each dimension corresponds to a word, which makes word vectors interpretable. In this study, a new approach is proposed to obtain low-dimensional explicit semantic vectors. Firstly, the suggested approach considers three criteria, namely, word similarity, number of zeros, and word frequency as features for words in a corpus. Next, some rules are extracted to obtain the initial basis words using a decision tree which is drawn based on the three features. Secondly, a binary weighting method is proposed based on the binary particle swarm optimization …

Identification Of Initial Events Of Cascading Failures Using Graph Theory Methods, Mojtaba Fekri, Javad Nikoukar, Gevork Babamalek Gharehpetian

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In power systems, the unintentional outage of a grid element can lead to overload and outage of other equipment and, through a domino effect, all or a large part of a power system may collapse. The resulting events are called cascading, consecutive, or sequential failures. So far, various methods have been proposed to identify the initial events of cascading failures with different levels of accuracy and computational load. In this paper, an effective approach is employed which, by calculating the maximum flow of independent paths between generators and loads in the network graph, identifies the critical lines and transformers of …

Monte-Carlo Method Based Simulations For Photothermal Mucosa Coagulation With Accurate Depth Limits, Merve Türker Burhan, Serhat Tozburun

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The mucosa layer, the innermost layer of the gastrointestinal (GI) system, is of great importance in carcinogenesis since most cancerous tissues occur as superficial lesions. Although various treatment strategies exist, the main difficulty in eradicating lesions is unintentional damage to healthy tissues with the uncontrolled depth of treatment. This study proposes a computer modeling approach for simulating depth-resolved photothermal (laser) mucosal coagulation therapy. Computer modeling mimics the thermal dynamics of mucosal tissue to characterize the total heat energy required for successful superficial coagulation, which can be controlled by the scan rate, scan time, output power, and beam diameter of the …

Load2load: Day-Ahead Load Forecasting At Aggregated Level, Mustafa Berkay Yilmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A reliable and accurate short-term load forecasting (STLF) helps utilities and energy providers deal with the challenges posed by supply and demand balance, higher penetration of renewable energies and the development of electricity markets with increasingly complex pricing strategies in future smart grids. Recent advances in deep learning have been successively utilized to STLF. However, there is no certain study that evaluates the performances of different STLF methods at an aggregated level on different datasets with different numbers of daily measurements.In this study, a deep learning STLF architecture called Load2Load is proposed for day-ahead forecasting. Different forecasting methods have been …

Modeling And Validation Of The Thermoelectric Generator With Considering The Change Of The Seebeck Effect And Internal Resistance, Mehmet Ali̇ Üstüner, Hayati̇ Mamur, Sezai̇ Taşkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) produce power in direct proportion to the temperature difference between their surfaces. The Seebeck coefficient and internal resistance of the thermoelements (TEs) that make up the TEGs change depending on the temperature change. In simulation studies, it is seen that these two values are kept constant. However, this situation prevents approaching the data of TEG in real applications. In this study, a TEG Simulink/MATLAB ® model has been developed to capture real TEG module data, which considers changing of both the Seebeck coefficient and the internal resistance depending on the temperature difference change. To achieve this aim, …

Affective States Classification Performance Of Audio-Visual Stimuli From Eeg Signals With Multiple-Instance Learning, Yaşar Daşdemi̇r, Rüstem Özakar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Throughout various disciplines, emotion recognition continues to be an essential subject of study. With the advancement of machine learning methods, accurate emotion recognition from different data modalities (facial images, brain EEG signals) has become possible. Success of EEG-based emotion recognition systems depends on efficient feature extraction and pre/postprocessing of signals. Main objective of this study is to analyze the efficacy of multiple-instance learning (MIL) on postprocessing features of EEG signals using three different domains (time, frequency, time-frequency) for human emotion classification. Methods and results are presented for single-trial classification of valence (V), arousal (A), and dominance (D) ratings from EEG …

Mechatronics Bachelor Curriculum Development In Light Of Industry 4.0 Technology Needs: Contrasting Us And German University Curricula, Paniz Hazaveh, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Nathir Rawashdeh

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

This study compares Mechatronics bachelor curricula at universities in the United States of America and German universities. Mechatronics education is relatively new in the United States, but has been common in Germany for over a decade. With the multidisciplinary nature of technologies required by the 4’th industrial revolution, a.k.a. Industry 4.0, composing an appropriate Mechatronics curriculum becomes a challenge and an opportunity. This paper studies how Mechatronics education can address the future needs of industry, while building on a specific university’s strengths and industry links. We have also analyzed the new undergraduate Mechatronics program at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and …

A Smart Parallel Gripper Industrial Automation System For Measurement Of Gripped Work Piece Thickness, Erik Kocher, Chukwuemeka George Ochieze, Ahmat Oumar, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, Nathir Rawashdeh

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

As part of the advanced programmable logic controllers (PLC) course at Michigan Tech, this class project is performed on a mechatronics system gifted by Donald Engineering, a Michigan-based supplier of industrial automation systems and components. This paper explores the functionality and ladder programming of the smart parallel gripper system to measure the width of components grasped with the gripper. In addition, details of the system’s components, operation, more advanced uses are discussed. On the automation line, this smart gripper can be used to measure the thickness of work pieces while handling them and classifying these as either acceptable, too large …

Gesture Controlled Collaborative Robot Arm And Lab Kit, Abel A. Reyes, Skylar Reinhardt, Tony Wise, Nathir Rawashdeh, Sidike Paheding

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

In this paper, a mechatronics system was designed and implemented to include the subjects of artificial intelligence, control algorithms, robot servo motor control, and human-machine interface (HMI). The goal was to create an inexpensive, multi-functional robotics lab kit to promote students’ interest in STEM fields including computing and mechtronics. Industrial robotic systems have become vastly popular in manufacturing and other industries, and the demand for individuals with related skills is rapidly increasing. Robots can complete jobs that are dangerous, dull, or dirty for humans to perform. Recently, more and more collaborative robotic systems have been developed and implemented in the …

An Industrial Pneumatic And Servo Four-Axis Robotic Gripper System: Description And Unitronics Ladder Logic Programming, Zongguang Liu, Chrispin Johnston, Aleksi Leino, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, Nathir Rawashdeh

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

As part of the advanced programmable logic controllers (PLC) course at Michigan Tech, this class project is performed on a mechatronics system gifted by Donald Engineering, a Michigan-based supplier of industrial automation systems and components. This paper explores the functionality and ladder programming of a four-axis robot enclosed in a cage with one side guarded by an optical fence. The robot has pneumatically actuated X-Y linear motion and a pneumatic gripper. Furthermore, the Z-axis motion and gripper wrist rotation are controlled by servo motors. A human machine interface (HMI) is also present, and it allows for easy manipulation and programming …

Operation Of A Controllable Force-Sensing Industrial Pneumatic Parallel Gripper System, Brian Piechocki, Chelsey Spitzner, Namratha Karanam, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, Nathir Rawashdeh

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

As part of the advanced programmable logic controllers (PLC) course at Michigan Tech, this class project was performed on a mechatronics system gifted by Donald Engineering, a Michigan-based supplier of industrial automation systems and components. This paper explores the functionality and application of a force-programmable and sensing pneumatic parallel gripper system. Force sensing is a critical part of many systems in modern automation systems. Applications such as prosthetics, robotic surgery, or basic manufacturing systems may rely on the ability to properly read and control forces applied to an object. This work evaluates the basic operation of the pneumatic force-sensing gripper …

Preventing Variadic Function Attacks Through Argument Width Counting, Brennan Ward

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Format String attacks, first noted in June 2000 [1], are a type of attack in which anadversary has control of the string argument (the format string) passed to a string format function (such as printf). Such control allows the attacker to read and write arbitrary program memory. To prevent these attacks, various methodologies have been proposed, each with their own costs and benefits. I present a novel solution to this problem through argument width counting, ensuring that such format functions cannot access stack memory beyond the space where arguments were placed. Additionally, I show how this approach can be expanded …

An Evaluation Framework For Digital Image Forensics Tools, Zainab Khalid, Sana Qadir

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The boom of digital cameras, photography, and social media has drastically changed how humans live their day-to-day, but this normalization is accompanied by malicious agents finding new ways to forge and tamper with images for unlawful monetary (or other) gains. Disinformation in the photographic media realm is an urgent threat. The availability of a myriad of image editing tools renders it almost impossible to differentiate between photo-realistic and original images. The tools available for image forensics require a standard framework against which they can be evaluated. Such a standard framework can aid in evaluating the suitability of an image forensics …

Adaptive Multi-Scale Place Cell Representations And Replay For Spatial Navigation And Learning In Autonomous Robots, Pablo Scleidorovich

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Place cells are one of the most widely studied neurons thought to play a vital role in spatial cognition. Extensive studies show that their activity in the rodent hippocampus is highly correlated with the animal’s spatial location, forming “place fields” of smaller sizes near the dorsal pole and larger sizes near the ventral pole. Despite advances, it is yet unclear how this multi-scale representation enables navigation in complex environments.

In this dissertation, we analyze the place cell representation from a computational point of view, evaluating how multi-scale place fields impact navigation in large and cluttered environments. The objectives are to …

Review On Ecological Construction Of Domestic High-Performance Parallel Application Software In Post Moore Era, Chunye Gong, Jie Liu, Weimin Bao, Dongmei Pan, Xinbiao Gan, Shengguo Li, Xuguang Chen, Tiaojie Xiao, Bo Yang, Ruibo Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Domestic high performance computing (HPC) system is world-leading and the system chip architectures are in varied forms. The system operation relied on National Supercomputing Center has a good development trend. Several technical key points of domestic high-performance parallel application software are word-leading and the application supporting environment is developing fast. But industrial software and team building are facing huge challenges. In post Moore era, based on the progress of human civilization, it is necessary to promote the ecological development of parallel application software, and from the viewpoint of software products the industrial software must be aim foreign commercial software …

Research On Improved Feature Pyramid Algorithm Integrating Border Supervision Strategy, Hong Sun, Yuelan Ling, Yuxiang Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the inaccurate boundary division in semantic segmentation and the existence of multi-scale targets, an improved feature pyramid algorithm fused with boundary supervision strategies is proposed. By fusing the boundary supervision strategy and the improved feature pyramid algorithm, the problems of inaccurate boundary division and the existence of multi-scale targets are sloved respectively, and an attention mechanism is added in the upsampling process to further improve the segmentation effect. The experimental results show that the algorithm can reach 58.69% and 78.59% MIOU (mean intersection over union) indicators on the Camvid and PASCAL VOC2012 data sets respectively, and has …

Real-Time Scheduling Method For Railway Passenger Station Operations Based On Digital Twin, Bisheng He, Peng Chen, Hongxiang Zhang, Gongyuan Lu, Chunhui Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To improve the operation scheduling of railway passenger stations and reduce the train delays, digital twin technology is used to establish a railway passenger station operation model. Through real-time data acquisition, based on the operation time prediction of random forest method, operation simulation and decision-making, a real-time scheduling method of railway passenger station operations based on digital twin is proposed, and applied in a real railway passenger station. The experimental results show that the method can effectively forecast and simulate the actual operation. Three kinds of digital twin scheduling rules have been used, which can reduce the delay time …

A Quantum Krill Herd Fusion Algorithm And Its Application, Zengxi Feng, Jintong Zhao, Shiyan Li, Yalong Yang, Haiyue Chen, Cong Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the defects of krill herd algorithm and quantum evolutionary algorithm, a quantum krill herd fusion algorithm (QKH) is proposed. The algorithm uses double-chain real numbers to encode the krill position, which can speed up the convergence speed, and avoids the randomness and complexity of quantum observations. The dynamically adjusted quantum krill herd rotation phase update strategy improves the convergence accuracy, and the efficiency of determining the quantum rotation phase. The introduction of an improved quantum full interference crossover strategy can prevent the fusion algorithm from falling into a local optimum, and can improve the optimization efficienal. The …

Control Of Quadruped Robot Based On Impedance And Virtual Model, Chikun Gong, Xunwei Wu, Lipeng Yuan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the motion stability of quadruped robot, a control method based on impedance and virtual model is proposed. The force-based impedance control method is used to control the leg swing phase to realize the more accurate trajectory tracking and leg compliance control. The virtual model control method is used to control the support phase to realize the attitude control of the robot body and the stable walking of the quadruped robot. Combined with the lateral stride strategy and the yaw angle control strategy based on virtual model, a robot anti-lateral impact control method is proposed, which …

Adaptive Crowd Evacuation Simulation Model Based On Bounded Rationality Constraints, Liqiang Zhao, Mengqian Guo, Shuixiong Tang, Jinjin Tang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To effectively improve the accuracy of evacuation simulation of a crowded environment, an adaptive crowd evacuation simulation model based on social force model and bounded rationality constraints is proposed. The desired direction and desired speed of the self-driving force that affects the pedestrian movement in the traditional social force model is improved. The adaptive calculation is used in the optimization of direction and speed of pedestrian in an obstacle avoidance situation. The rational route decision mechanism is proposed to describe the route selection behavior of pedestrians in a congested state more accurately. The results show that the proposed model …

Research On Modeling And Simulation Of Optimization Deployment For Cooperative Localization By Multiple Detection Sensors In Complex Environment, Gongguo Xu, Libing Cai, Peibing Du, Yu Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the difficulty of accurate cooperative localization by multi-sensor network in complex environment, an optimization deployment method is proposed. The GDOP evaluation index of target positioning accuracy is constructed based on PCRLB. The influence of undulating terrain, clutter jamming and illumination on sensor detection and positioning ability in complex environment is analyzed. An optimization deployment model of multi-sensor cooperative location is built and the intelligent optimization algorithm is used to quickly solve the model. Simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the cooperative localization ability of multi-sensor network and can guide the multi-sensor cooperative …

Tactical Maneuver Strategy Learning From Land Wargame Replay Based On Convolutional Neural Network, Jiale Xu, Haidong Zhang, Donghai Zhao, Wancheng Ni

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at collecting the high valuable knowledge of action decisions in "man-in-the-loop" wargame's replay data, a method of using convolutional neural network to learn the tactical maneuver strategy model from the replay data of wargame is proposed. In this method, the tactical maneuver strategy is modeled as a classification problem of making a good choice from the target candidate locations under the influence of current situation. The key factors affecting commander's decision-making are summarized, and the basic situation features are defined, which are composed of seven attributes such as "maneuverability range and observation range". The feature dataset with positive …

Weighted Local Complexity Invariance For Time Series Classification, Yitong Li, Xiaotao Liu, Jing Liu, Kai Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the misclassification of existing algorithms for long or unevenly distributed time series, the local complexity information is extracted and weighted local complexity-invariant distance (WLCID) is proposed, which includes the local complexity representation model and the weighted global complexity integration model. Sliding window is used to split up time series, and combined with the complexity-invariant distance, the local complexity information can be extracted. As to the class representation model, the integration weights are quantified with the normalized cumulative between-class distance, with the perspective that the subsequence contributes more greatly with larger between-class distance. Compared with other …

A K-Modes Clustering Method Based On Maximal Information Coefficient Data Preprocessing, Mingmei Li, Chenglin Wen, Shaolin Hu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The existing k-modes clustering method ignores the weak correlation of variable attributes, which often results in poor clustering performance in practical applications. A new k-modes clustering method that includes the weak correlation of attributes is proposed. Maximum information coefficient (MIC) is introduced to measure the correlation of variable attributes in the data set. The obtained MIC value is merged with the original distance to establish a new measurement method containing weak attribute correlation information to enhance the completeness of related information of variable attributes, and a more refined k-modes clustering method is established. Three different data sets are used …