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Hey Google: Does Environmental Beliefs And Perceived Privacy Risk Influence Potential User’S Intention To Use A Smart Home System In Indonesia?, Adrian Adhe Elian, Imam Salehudin

Smart City

Automation technology has grown in a rapid pace recently. One of the technology that is growing rapidly right now is the Internet of Things or IoT. IoT consist of many devices, and one of the IoT device that are popular right now is called the smart home device. This smart home device can be use to make the house of the user be smart and can be use to save energy for efficiency for the daily life of the user, such as electricity and water that kan provide a negative impact on the environment if used extensively. This smart home …

Towards Public Vaccination Data Resilience During Natural Disaster Using Blockchain-Based Decentralized Application, Riri Fitri Sari, Mokhammad Rizqi Herdiawan, Muhammad Hamzah, Muhammad Aljundi, Jauzak Hussaini Windiatmaja

Smart City

This paper presents a platform development plan for a public vaccination decentralized data base based on Blockchain technology. Vaccination is a medical practice that allows a human body to produce a specific antibody as a means of developing a preventive measure and reducing the risk of contracting a particular disease. Systematic vaccination data recording is an utmost important system that is required particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. The recording mechanism should utilize the state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT). For faster vaccination data recording, it is common to use digital technology, making the health care process faster thus decreasing time …

Research On The Development Of Port Digitalization And Swot Analysis For Digital Ports, Ling Dong

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Using Design Science Research To Create A Virtual Environment For Nursing Students, Benjamin Botha, Lizette De Wet

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

This paper aims to provide insight into the design science research approach followed during a transdisciplinary research study between computer scientists and professional nurses. The researchers used a design science research approach to create a virtual environment where nursing students could practice managing a patient with a foreign object in the right lung. The virtual environment underwent multiple changes as it progressed through the different cycles of design science research. Within these cycles, namely the relevance, design, and rigor cycle, various iterations of each of the cycles took place. Presented in this paper the design science approach followed will be …

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation Using Reinforcement Learning: A Systematic Review, Fadi Almahamid, Katarina Grolinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones, in different applications such as packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue operations, and military combat engagements. In all of these applications, the UAV is used to navigate the environment autonomously --- without human interaction, perform specific tasks and avoid obstacles. Autonomous UAV navigation is commonly accomplished using Reinforcement Learning (RL), where agents act as experts in a domain to navigate the environment while avoiding obstacles. Understanding the navigation environment and algorithmic limitations plays an essential role in choosing the appropriate RL algorithm to solve the …

Nonlinear Strong Coupling By Second-Harmonic Generation Enhancement In Plasmonic Nanopatch Antennas, Bryson Krause, Dhananjay Mishra, Jiyang Chen, Christos Argyropoulos, Thang Hoang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Enhanced electromagnetic fields within plasmonic nanocavity mode volumes enable multiple significant effects that lead to applications in both the linear and nonlinear optical regimes. In this work, we demonstrate enhanced second harmonic generation from individual plasmonic nanopatch antennas which are formed by separating silver nanocubes from a smooth gold film using a sub-10 nm zinc oxide spacer layer. When the nanopatch antennas are excited at their fundamental plasmon frequency, a 10⁴-fold increase in the intensity of the second harmonic generation wave is observed. Moreover, by integrating quantum emitters that have an absorption energy at the fundamental frequency, a …

Myosin Ii Adjusts Motility Properties And Regulates Force Production Based On Motor Environment, Omayma Y. Al Azzam, Janie C. Watts, Justin E. Reynolds, Juliana E. Davis, Dana N. Reinemann

Faculty and Student Publications

Introduction—Myosin II has been investigated with optical trapping, but single motor-filament assay arrangements are not reflective of the complex cellular environment. To understand how myosin interactions propagate up in scale to accomplish system force generation, we devised a novel actomyosin ensemble optical trapping assay that reflects the hierarchy and compliancy of a physiological environment and is modular for interrogating force effectors.

Methods—Hierarchical actomyosin bundles were formed in vitro. Fluorescent template and cargo actin filaments (AF) were assembled in a flow cell and bundled by myosin. Beads were added in the presence of ATP to bind the cargo AF …

Image Dehazing Network Based On Densely Connected Residual Block And Channel Pixel Attention, Weidong Jin, Shuli Zhang, Peng Tang, Man Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Abstruct: A lot of research achievements have been made in image dehazing based on neural network,but there aiming at the fog residue, even the color distortion and texture loss, in complex outdoor image dehazing, an image dehazing network based on densely connected residual block and channel pixel attention is proposed. Densely connected residual blocks are used to extract and fuse the features of foggy images,and the repair module with channel pixel attention mechanism is used to repair the color and texture of the feature maps. The experimental results show that, compared with the existing methods, the proposed method and …

Research On Motion Recognition And Tracking For Space Survey And Launch Tasks, Bin Ren, Xiaoyu Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Space survey and launch task has high precision and long cycle, and needs to be exposed to direct sunlight for a long time, so that the non-contact action calibration and comparison in a virtual working environment is an efficient way to improve the mission completion success rate. Aiming at the real-time motion tracking of aerospace personnel, a keyframe optimization algorithm for the action recognition is proposed. According to the bone data in the depth image, the bone features are extracted, and the keyframes are extracted by the feature threshold. The characteristic data of the keyframe is input into bi-directional …

Sensorless Control Of Pmsm Based On An Anfis Optimized Flux Sliding Mode Observer, Huilin Zhang, Yujie Jin, Haima Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the low estimation accuracy of rotor speed and position and the system chattering in sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is proposed to optimize the flux sliding mode observer(FSMO). Compared with the traditional sliding mode observer, the FSMO improves the estimation accuracy of the rotor flux. The FSMO optimized by ANFIS realizes the on-line adjustment of the observer gain and reduces the system chattering. The improved PLL improves the estimation accuracy of the rotor speed and position. A simulation platform is established to verify the results which show …

Simulation Of Unmanned Tank Clusters Cooperative Combat Based On Military Rules, Chunyan Wang, Hao Ren, Minchi Kuang, Danfeng Wu, Xiangshu Cao, Heng Shi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Modern warfare is developing towards the unmanned, informatized, and intelligent form. Being the important combat equipment in the future land warfare, unmanned tanks have greater advantages of mobility, safety, and economy. Single unmanned tank can not fulfill the complex tasks of large-scale battles as the cooperation of unmanned tank clusters can do. Focuses on the collaborative applications of unmanned tank clusters, the single unmanned tank system model is established, including dynamic control, decision-making, and weapon armor. A collaborative perception model of unmanned tank clusters is designed considering the unmanned tank's own state and the fusion situation. Based on the …

Modeling Of Traffic Flow Velocity Control Strategy For Human-Machine Mixed Driving At Signalized Intersections, Jianxu Zhang, Shuai Hu, Hongyi Jin

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to analyze the influence of speed control strategy of autonomous vehicle on the operation characteristics of traffic flow, a deterministic decision-making model for intersections with artificially driven vehicles considering the driver's influence on the acquisition of driving information is constructed. An automatic driving speed control strategy considering the influence of the speed of preceding vehicle is proposed, and the continuous Cellular Automata update rules for signalized intersections are constructed respectively. By introducing the different penetration rates of automatic driving, road saturation and control area length parameters, the influence of CAV speed control strategy on the traffic …

Research On Passenger Ship Evacuation Simulation Based On Social Force Model, Qimiao Xie, Shuaishuai Guo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the influence of group behavior and different evacuation methods on the passenger ship evacuation process. Three evacuation methods of passengers arriving at the assembly stations with and without group behavior are provided, and the passenger assembly time, congestion area, congestion timing and duration are analyzed. The simulation results show that the group behavior has a significant effect on the passenger assembly time and increases the variation range of the passenger assembly time, and the congestion area with and without group behavior remains the same. The influences of group behavior on the congestion timing and duration are complicated, …

Layout Planning Of Metro-Based Underground Logistics System Network Considering Fuzzy Uncertainties, Wanjie Hu, Jianjun Dong, Rui Ren, Zhilong Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aming at the network design and optimization of metro-based urban underground logistics under uncertainties, the facility components of two-tier metro-based underground logistics system (M-ULS) are proposed. Focus on the comprehensive costs and system utilization rate, a M-ULS network flow assignment model is established based on the expectation of environmental benefits of underground freight transport. a M-ULS network location-allocation-routing fuzzy random programming model is established, and a crisp linearization method is presented. A solution portfolio combining discrete binary chaos particle swarm optimization-genetic algorithm and exact algorithms is designed for combinatorial optimization. Effectiveness of the presented models and algorithms is verified …

Variable Pitch Control Of Wind Power Generation System Based On Wiener Model, Yue Xu, Li Jia, Xuanyi Fu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Strong nonlinearity and large fluctuation are the characteristics of wind power generation system. Quickly controlling the output power of wind turbines within the rated range under wind speed random changes is the major problem of wind power system control. Aiming at the pitch control of 5 MW wind turbines, a pitch control scheme for wind power generation systems based on the Wiener model is proposed. On the basis of the special structure in which the linear and nonlinear links of the Wiener model can be separated, the controlled object of a generalized wind power system with linear properties …

Parallel Live Performance Simulation Based On A Multidimensional Hierarchy And Application, Jingsi Yang, Tianyu Huang, Gangyi Ding, Lijie Li, Peng Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A parallel simulation method is proposed for modern live performance. By decomposing the live performance process from the top down, this method assists creators in delivering stage design and control with time and space constraints, which is unattainable for traditional live performances. A multi-layer constraint hierarchy is constructed to apply parallel simulation to art performances. The live performance procedure is continuously optimized by leveraging the circulation of data between virtual and physical stages. The parallel simulation method for stage space has been applied to a digital TV stage for ten years. The experiments show that parallel live performance simulation …

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Control Of Three-Order Multi-Robot Cooperative Formation, Yuchao Zhang, Yuan Jiang, Jiyang Dai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the obstacle avoidance and consensus control of underwater vehicles formation in a 3D complex environment, a cooperative formation dynamic obstacle avoidance control algorithm is proposed. An adaptive repulsion gain term based on the speed of dynamic obstacles is established and it is introduced into the repulsion potential field function to enable the robot to safely avoid static and dynamic obstacles. The potential field function based on the gain term of the potential field and the communication weight between the AUVs are defined to solve the robots of easy self collision and leaving the formation. The total acceleration …

Research On Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem With Multiple Time Windows, Nan Li, Rong Hu, Bin Qian, Huaiping Jin, Naikang Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with multiple time windows (TD_VRPMTW) that considers urban traffic congestion, a hybrid discrete gray wolf optimizer (HDGWO) is proposed. In the HDGWO, a new grey wolf individual updating formula is designed, and the integer coding method based on customer permutation is adopted, so that the algorithm can directly perform the global search based on GWO individual updating mechanism in the discrete problem solution space.A population initialization strategy based on the nature of the problem is designed to generate the initial population with high quality and diversity.The information exchange formula of …

Rigid-Liquid Coupling Simulation Of Liquid-Filled Spacecraft Based On Openfoam, Zhijun Song, Zongyu Chen, Lü Jing, Tianshu Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the design of the spacecraft attitude control system, a simulation software for the rigid-liquid coupling calculation of the liquid-filled spacecraft is built on the basis of the open source CFD software OpenFOAM. In the moving boundary problem, the N-S equation in the non-inertial frame is derived to improve the calculation efficiency, which avoids a large number of grid conversion calculations of the moving grid method in the traditional CFD software. PIMPLE algorithm is used to build the sloshing dynamics solution module, and the variable step length Runge-Kutta method is used to build the attitude …

Effectiveness Evaluation Method Of Space-Based Information Systems Based On Sem, Chi Han, Wei Xiong, Wenwen Liu, Xiaolan Yu, Ping Jian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the nonlinear emergence of effectiveness of the coupling and interaction of space-based information system (SIS), an operational effectiveness evaluation (OEE) model based on structural equation modeling (SEM) is proposed. Through the analysis of capacity requirements and system composition, the internal connections of sub-systems are obtained, and the effectiveness evaluation index system is constructed. By considering the synergistic interaction within SIS, the linear and nonlinear SEMs are constructed respectively to evaluate the effectiveness, and the analytical model of OEE is established on the basis of the corresponding parameter equations. With the background of integrated joint operations under …

Bioinformation Heuristic Genetic Algorithm For Solving Tsp, Jia Xu, Fengqing Han, Qixin Liu, Xiaoxia Xue

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Genetic algorithm (GA) is one of the universal path optimization algorithms for traveling salesman problem (TSP). Aiming at the slow convergence and unstable solution of the traditional GA, a bioinformation heuristic genetic algorithm (BHGA) is proposed. By optimizing the fitness function and initial population, the gene sequence comparison technique in bioinformatics is introduced to carry out the cross recombination sorting. The gene reversal operation is used to implement mutation, to accelerate the convergence speed and get a better path solution. The numerical examples in TSPLIB database are solved by BHGA and the experimental simulation results show that the …

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 …

Model-Based Deep Learning For Computational Imaging, Xiaojian Xu

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation addresses model-based deep learning for computational imaging. The motivation of our work is driven by the increasing interests in the combination of imaging model, which provides data-consistency guarantees to the observed measurements, and deep learning, which provides advanced prior modeling driven by data. Following this idea, we develop multiple algorithms by integrating the classical model-based optimization and modern deep learning to enable efficient and reliable imaging. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithms by validating their performance on various imaging applications and providing rigorous theoretical analysis.

The dissertation evaluates and extends three general frameworks, plug-and-play priors (PnP), regularized …