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Detection Method For Laboratory Ppe Compliance Wearing Based On Human Key Points, Lijun Peng, Tingqi Su, Peijin Liu, Lin He, Xiewu Zhou, Minxin Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

To address the problems of high missed detection rate and inaccurate judgment of wearing compliance when multi-scale and multi-category targets of laboratory personnel's safety protective equipment are detected in a complex laboratory environment, this paper proposes a laboratory personnel's standard personal protective equipment (PPE) wearing detection method (multi-scale multi- target joint key point detection method, MSMT-JKDM) that integrates multi-scale features and human keypoints. The multi-scale adaptive down sampling (MSA-Down) module and the cascaded group attention transformer (CGA Former) are introduced to enhance the feature representation ability of PPE (especially small targets such as goggles and gloves) in laboratory detection scenarios, …

Power Flow Calculation Based On Block-Encoded Adiabatic Quantum Newton-Raphson Method, Shengchao Jiang, Yunqing Pei, Hongying Zhai, Guojian Wu, Fang Gao

Journal of System Simulation

To overcome the efficiency bottleneck of the traditional Newton-Raphson (NR)method in high- dimensional power flow calculations for modern power systems and the constraints of variational quantum algorithm frameworks, this paper proposed a power flow calculation framework integrating block encoding technology and adiabatic quantum computing principles. Based on block encoding technology, adiabatic quantum theory, and the NR method, a block-encoded adiabatic quantum power flow calculation framework (BQ-NR) was constructed. The NR correction equations were mapped to a quantum system, and the quantum state encoding of the correction equations was realized by constructing an extended Hermitian matrix and a projection operator; a …

Automatic Speed Guidance Method And Simulation Evaluation For Trams At Intersections, Jing Teng, Wencong Tong, Zhongjie Zhang, Xing Yao, Junxian Li

Journal of System Simulation

To address the lack of speed regulation mechanism and the high dispersion of operational time in the current manual driving mode, this paper proposes an automatic speed guidance method for trams at intersections. Considering the speed disturbances caused by potential traffic conflicts at intersections, an initial decision point for safe passage speed at an intersection is established, dividing the operational curve into deterministic segments and disturbance-response segments.To verify the effectiveness of the method, a case study of Songjiang Tram Line 1 is conducted.Driving simulation experiments are performed to obtain manual driving trajectories, and a dynamic trajectory simulation model …

Robot Trajectory Planning And Adjustment Method For Abnormal Pose Of Actuator, Lang Qin, Jiacheng Xie, Xiaojun Qiao, Xuewen Wang, Zhijie Xiao

Journal of System Simulation

To address the influence of the abnormal pose of the robot actuator on the robot trajectory, an adaptive planning and adjustment method of trajectory based on virtual-real fusion was proposed. AR technology was introduced to couple with the robot kinematics model, and the hardware dependence on multiple sensors was replaced by synchronous comparison of three-dimensional virtual and real poses; AR gestures and voice interaction were combined to simplify the operation process; based on the actual pose of the actuator, the trajectory of the robot terminal axis was dynamically adjusted. The experimental results show that this method breaks through the technical …

Research On Calculation Model Of Excavation Resistance Under Heterogeneous Soil Conditions, Xin Zhang, Ping Zhang, Chen Zhang, Wei Liu, Boyang Han

Journal of System Simulation

To address the problem of insufficient prediction accuracy of excavation resistance in heterogeneous cohesive soil, a spatial calculation model of excavation resistance at each excavation stage under heterogeneous soil conditions was proposedbased on the cutting wedge model, comprehensively considering multi-dimensional factors such as bucket geometry, side plate effect, lateral force, and inertia. By taking a small crawler hydraulic excavator as the research object, a coupled simulation model of boom multi-body dynamics and soil-rock particle discrete element was established, and the theoretical model was validated through the co-simulation of excavation operations. The simulation results indicate that under the working …

Ultra-Short-Term Photovoltaic Power Prediction Based On Improved Patchtst Considering Data Drift, Huawei Mei, Penghui Yang, Yang Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Existing PV power prediction methods often suffer from limited accuracy and robustness due to three key shortcomings: relying on single-point mapping that cannot fully extract local temporal patterns; inadequate exploration of the global temporal dependencies in PV output, and failure to account for prevalent data drift phenomena. To overcome these limitations,an improved patch time series transformer (PatchTST) based approach is proposed for ultra-short-term PV power prediction. The methodology applies rough set theory for feature dimensionality reduction, effectively preserving critical decision information by analyzing both feature-label relationships and inter-feature correlations. An enhanced PatchTST model with a modified channel-independent mechanism extracts …

Detection Method For 3d Lanes Based On Graph Relationship Optimization Integrating Point And Lane Features, Yanji Jiang, Xingyi Xiao, Hao Dong, Miao Yu, Jinshan Huang, Daqian Liu, Bowen Fei

Journal of System Simulation

Under complex road conditions, the thin and elongated structure and small proportion of lanes lead to blurred visual features and insufficient positioning accuracy, which in turn threatens the road safety of autonomous driving. To address these issues, a 3D lane detection method or graph-based point and lane optimization network (GPLNet), based on graph relationship optimization integrating point and lane features, was proposed. Preliminary feature extraction was completed by the backbone network. 3D spatial positional coding with geometric constraints was obtained through a joint query embedding generation module. A graph relationship optimization network was utilized to perform graph relationship calculation and …

Robust Identification Of Black-Box Nonlinear Ssm Using Expectation-Maximization, Xiaonan Li, Tao Chao, Ping Ma, Ming Yang, Yuxuan Wang

Journal of System Simulation

To address the robust identification problem of nonlinear state space models (SSM) with outliers, missing observations, and unknown state equations, this paper proposes a modeling method based on eigenfunction expansion, Gaussian-process state-space models (GP-SSM), and Student-t distribution. The proposed approach consists of: modeling the state transition function using eigenfunctions and pre-encoding the priors of basis function coefficients via GP-SSM to enhance flexibility; modeling observations as a Student-t distribution with unknown parameters to enhance robustness against outliers; proposing the enhanced particle Gibbs with ancestor sampling (EPGAS) algorithm to adapt to state estimation in scenarios with missing observations; and deriving unknown model …

Topology Identification Of Complex Dynamical Networks Under Dynamical Saturation Inputs, Haoyu Wang, Yayong Wu, Guoping Jiang, Ying Zheng, Xuanxin Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

In view of the problem that the controller inputs in actual engineering systems are vulnerable to the constraints of dynamical saturation and delayed dynamical saturation, which makes it difficult for the topology identification of complex dynamical networks to adapt to real physical scenarios, a topology identification method based on the drive-response mechanism was proposed. A response network with the same dynamical characteristics and node scale as the original network was constructed, and the dynamical equation of synchronization error between the drive-response networks was established. A controller with dynamical saturation and delayed dynamical saturation and a topology identifier were designed, and …

Modeling Of Penicillin Fermentation Process Based On A Multi-Stage Lhs-Eprcc Method, Quan Li, Peng Su, Haiying Wan, Chengxi Zhang, Zhijian He, Yiyang Ni

Journal of System Simulation

This paper focused on the modeling of microbial fermentation processes under varying production environments and proposed a novel approach. Considering that the dynamic characteristics of microorganism s differ across growth stages, we introduced the concept of multi-stage sensitivity analysis, in which each stage was investigated separately. The fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm was employed to cluster process data under nominal conditions, thereby dividing the penicillin fermentation process into distinct growth stages. Based on this division, the Latin hypercube sampling with partial rank correlation coefficient (LHS-EPRCC) method was applied to conduct sensitivity analysis for each stage, identifying an importance parameter set (IPS) …

Sos Effectiveness Evaluation Method Based On Fuzzy Functional Dependency Network Analysis, Hongjia Su, Cheng Zhang, Fei Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Functional dependency network analysis (FDNA) enables modeling functional dependencies among equipment in a system of systems (SoS) and then computing the whole SoS effectiveness based on the effectiveness of each equipment, thus overcoming the deficiency of traditional SoS effectiveness evaluation based on tree-like index systems. However, critical parameters such as strength/criticality of dependency in this methodology currently rely on subjective empirical assignments, where the deviations resulting from subjectivity may compromise the accuracy of effectiveness evaluation. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a fuzzy FDNA (FFDNA)-based SoS effectiveness evaluation method. This method constructs a functional dependency network (FDN) model …

Research On Completion Method For Trajectory Based On Image Representation And Collaborative Feature Perception, Ye Tao, Jinhui Tang, Chen Zhou, Chong Wang

Journal of System Simulation

To address the constraints imposed by missing trajectory data in surveillance systems on the efficacy of civil aviation safety monitoring, as well as the limitations on the development and application of advanced technologies within trajectory-based operational frameworks, a completion method for trajectory based on image representation and collaborative feature perception was proposed. A conversion strategy for trajectory image representation was designed to reformulate the trajectory completion task as a deterministic image completion problem, effectively circumventing the cumulative error problem of traditional time-series data caused by the limitation of recurrent neural network inference mechanisms.A regression model fusing a multi-kernel hybrid …

Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection Algorithm Based On Window Reconstruction And Collaborative Representation, Shuanghao Fan, Fang He, Jianwei Zhao, Haojie Hu, Fengchao Zhu, Xiangyang Li

Journal of System Simulation

Hyperspectral anomaly detection refers to identifying ground objects that deviate from normal background distributions and have low probability and small scales from scenes involving mixed multi- class ground objects, spectral feature overlaps, and noise interference. This technology has received extensive attention in recent years. Although collaborative representation-based anomaly detection algorithms demonstrate excellent performance in hyperspectral image anomaly detection, their time costs are too high to enable widespread application.To address this issue, this paper proposes a hyperspectral image anomaly detection algorithm based on window reconstruction and collaborative representation, which consists of two stages. Window reconstruction is performed on hyperspectral background …

Capacity Market Trading Strategies Of Generators Based On Per-Maddpg Algorithm, Yanbin Li, Zhaolun Pan, Xinyue Ma, Minghao Song, Yujie Hu, Xiaoda Xue

Journal of System Simulation

Considering the issue of how power generators trade off their quantity and price bidding strategies to maximize profits in different capacity market environments, a capacity market bidding equilibrium model is constructed. Recognizing the limitations of traditional solution methods, which rely on the assumption of complete information and have low utilization of historical trading strategy information, a capacity market trading simulation method based on prioritized experience replay multi- agent deep deterministic policy gradient (PER-MADDPG) is proposed. The action space is constructed using quantity bidding strategy and price bidding strategy, and the state space is constructed using historical transaction strategies and winning …

Multi-Agent Cbs Path Planning Algorithm Based On Minimum Planning Margin First, Longxiao Liang, Jianlin Mao, Niya Wang, Chengyuan Fang, Wenna Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

To address the problems of chain effect and insufficient solving efficiency in the conflict tree (CT) expansion of the traditional conflict-based search (CBS) framework, a minimum-margin-first CBS algorithm based on planning margin was proposed. The calculation of planning margin was introduced into the underlying A* search, and the robots with the minimum margin were prioritized in the high-level conflict resolution, to suppress the chain expansion of the CT while ensuring path optimality.Simulation experiments show that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the amount of CT node expansion and the number of root node conflicts and effectively improves the solving efficiency, …

An Automated Generation Method For Combat Simulation Scenarios Based On Large Language Models, Zhiming Dong, Zhongqi Hu, Haoran Dai, Jiancheng Gao

Journal of System Simulation

To address the issue of low efficiency in generating traditional army tactical combat simulation scenarios, an automated generation method based on large language models is proposed. The large language model invokes a semantic segmentation algorithm to parse and restructure the combat scenario, forming semantic modules. Utilizing a multi-agent collaborative framework based on the model contextual protocol, the large language model drives each agent to extract simulation elements from the corresponding semantic modules, constructing a knowledge graph of scenario elements. Using this knowledge graph as a retrieval medium, the method employs a dense retrieval algorithm to achieve precise matching between simulation …

Multi-Level Digital Model Of Dynamic Earned Value Management For Complex Engineering Projects And Its Applications, Wei Wang, Dong Liu, Xinhao Cui, Bo Li, Yiyong Xiao, Yi Ren

Journal of System Simulation

The economic management of existing engineering projects is usually based on organizational structure, which presents problems such as complex processes and difficulty in clarifying main responsibilities when applied to complex engineering projects. In response to this limitation, a multi-level digital model of dynamic earned value management is proposed for complex engineering projects, which extends the traditional cost performance indicators to engineering resource utility indicators, thereby decomposing the earned value of costs into segmented earned values of different engineering resources. This enables managers to dynamically supervise projects based on traditional "schedule-cost" performance indicators and carry out more refined cost control …

Dynamic Task Planning For Wargaming Based On Large Language Models, Yingang Liu, Ming Ma, Ronghua Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

To address the problems of great difficulty in intelligent decision-making and insufficient dynamism in task planning caused by the complex adversarial environment and strong uncertainty in wargaming tasks, this paper proposed a hierarchical Agent collaborative decision-making framework based on large and small model synergy.Through a multi-level structure, the hierarchical decoupling and dynamic coordination of battlefield tasks were achieved. A memory management module was constructed, and a query optimization mechanism driven by large language models was introduced to dynamically perceive the decision-making process and query intent, completing the semantic reconstruction and context completion of raw queries. A time-driven two-stage task …

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Method For Wargame Simulation Based On Suboptimal Demonstration Guidance, Zicong Zhou, Junjie Zeng, Yue Hu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Quanjun Yin

Journal of System Simulation

To address issues such as fixed behavior patterns and insufficient adaptability in complex adversarial environments exhibited by traditional wargame agent decision-making models, this paper proposes a multi-agent reinforcement learning method based on suboptimal demonstrations (MARLSD). The proposed method integrates reward relabeling with a self-imitation learning mechanism, effectively improving the training efficiency of multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms in environments with large state-action spaces and sparse rewards, even when only a small number of suboptimal demonstrations are available, while encouraging agents to explore better strategies. Experimental results show that, compared with baselines such as QMIX and MAGAIL, MARLSD significantly improves performance and …

Annotation-Free 6-Dof Grasp Detection Method Integrating Physical And Geometric Priors, Min Shi, Shisheng Guo, Suqin Wang, Zhaoxin Li, Dengming Zhu

Journal of System Simulation

To improve the stability and cross-category generalization capability of grasp pose estimation in complex stacked scenes, an annotation-free 6-DoF grasp detection method integrating physical rules and geometric structure priors was proposed. In the offline stage, a template library of feasible grasp poses was constructed based on multi-physical constraints, without relying on manual grasp annotations. In the network design, the modeling of structural symmetry of objects and spatial overlap relationships was introduced; a geometric guidance mechanism with occlusion perception and exposure modeling capabilities was designed, and robust pose alignment of target objects was achieved by combining keypoint regression. A multi-type stacked …

Robust Two-Stage Mimo-Ofdm Channel Estimation Method Against Sensing Errors, Yi Peng, Jun Wang, Qingqing Yang, Jianming Wang, Hui Li

Journal of System Simulation

To address the challenges of performance degradation, high pilot overhead, and high computational complexity in traditi onal channel estimation methods for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) assisted MIMO-OFDM systems when radar sensing information contains errors, this paper proposes a robust two-stage sparse channel estimation framework designed to be tolerant of sensing errors. In the first stage, a residual energy weighted simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (REW-SOMP) algorithm is designed. Leveraging locally adaptive dictionary expansion and a residual- weighted path selection mechanism, it accurately captures communication-associated paths even under sensing errors. The second stage introduces an adaptive penalty factor alternating direction method …

The Impact Of Optimization Approximation Algorithms On The Performance Of The Bht-Qaoa, Ali Al-Bayaty, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article investigates the performance impact of five classical optimization approximation algorithms on our previously introduced quantum search algorithm, termed the Boolean–Hamiltonians Transform for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (BHT-QAOA), to effectively search for all best-approximated solutions for Boolean-based problems. These optimization approximation algorithms are BFGS, L-BFGS-B, SLSQP, COBYLA, and COBYQA. Their performance impact is evaluated and compared using two proposed performance metrics—(i) the final number of function evaluations (the lower numbers denote the best optimization approximation algorithms) and (ii) the final quality of qubit measurements (the higher values indicate all best-approximated solutions were found for a problem). Arbitrary classical Boolean …

Predictive Natural Language Metrics Of Alzheimer's Disease And Cognitive Decline Trend Analysis, Zerui Ma

Computer Science and Engineering Theses and Dissertations

Inspired by Dr. David Snowden's Nun Study, which linked early-life Propositional Idea Density (PID) to later-life Alzheimer's disease, this thesis investigates two questions: whether fine-tuned Transformer-based large language models (LLM) can detect cognitive decline from patient speech transcripts with meaningful feature attribution, and whether longitudinal PID trends are observable across large-scale internet and academic text corpora. We evaluate dementia prediction on the DementiaBank Pitt Corpus and conduct an exploratory longitudinal PID analysis across seven diverse datasets spanning up to 29 years and over 12.6 million documents. This work suggests that linguistic ability metrics, traditional PID metrics and novel LLM-based analysis, …

Machine Learning And Formal Methods In Quantum Chemistry: Theory And Application, Ishna Satyarth

Computer Science and Engineering Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, the progress in inter-disciplinary application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) have truly transformed various fields, from weather forecasting and drug development to medical diagnostics, energy, and sustainability. Computational chemistry uses computational tools to model, predict, analyze, and explain chemical phenomena, while the Quantum chemistry specifically uses techniques based on quantum mechanics (as opposed to classical mechanics or empirical models). Quantum chemistry or Computational chemistry has also observed a momentum in application of ML techniques over the past decade significantly accelerating results and providing valuable insights into vast datasets, often surpassing traditional methods.

This dissertation explores …

Quantum Control Protocols For Robust Quantum Computing, Leeseok Kim

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

The fundamental goal of quantum computing is to precisely control quantum systems to perform meaningful tasks, including implementing high-fidelity quantum gates for reliable quantum computation and accurately simulating complex quantum many- body dynamics. In this dissertation, we develop improved quantum control protocols for three distinct objectives, quantum error suppression, quantum optimal control, and analog quantum algorithms, achieving performance beyond standard approaches. First, we introduce new dynamical decoupling protocols, including both determin- istic and randomized constructions, that can substantially outperform conventional deterministic sequences. We then extend the randomized approach to dynamically corrected gates. Second, we propose a randomized quantum optimal control …

Alternative Positioning, Navigation, And Timing In Global Navigation Satellite System Denied Environments, Joshua R. Atencio

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide the majority of critical positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services for civilian, commercial, and military applications. However, GNSS is vulnerable to service denial from spoofing and jamming from adversaries and environmental obstruction. These vulnerabilities highlight the need for resilient Alternative PNT (APNT) methods. This dissertation investigates APNT frameworks operating in GNSS denied environments. We develop coalition formation and matching theoretic models that allow users APNT services from anchor nodes under resource constraints and in adversarial or emergency conditions. The proposed frameworks optimize positioning accuracy, network utility, and system stability while accounting for geometric dilution …

Adapting Independent Large-Scale Pretrained Models For Human Action Recognition, Selen Pehli̇van

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Transferring knowledge from large-scale, independently pretrained image and text models to video understanding requires addressing several challenges, including maintaining generalization capabilities of models, integrating them into multimodal architectures, and fine-tuning with temporal dynamics. This study evaluates the effectiveness of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques in transferring pretrained knowledge from two independent models for video action recognition within a simple, streamlined multimodal fusion pipeline. Specifically, we adapt CLIP as the text branch and DINOv2 as the image branch, keeping both backbones frozen to preserve their pretrained robustness, while introducing lightweight, task-specific modules to adapt and fuse the branches with temporal dynamics. A …

Accurate Diagnosis Of Diseases By A Novel Ai Pipeline Based On Feature Extraction, Feature Ranking, And Feature Selection From Medical Images, Tuğba Nur Bozkurt, Mehmet Emi̇n Yüksel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The rapid growth of the global population has led to a substantial increase in the number of patients, while the availability of healthcare professionals has not expanded at a comparable rate. This imbalance highlights the urgent need for efficient and reliable computer-aided decision support systems that can reduce clinical workload while maintaining high diagnostic accuracy. In this study, a novel and systematically integrated artificial intelligence-based pipeline is proposed for medical image classification, combining statistical significance-driven feature ranking with evolutionary feature selection in a unified framework. The proposed pipeline consists of four sequential stages: feature extraction, ranking, selection, and classification. Features …

Visual Interpretability Of Multimodal Tissue Perfusion Classification Using Grad-Cam And Saliency Maps, Metehan Zorluoglu

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Accurate identification of the tissue perfusion phase from hand images can aid doctors in decision-making with non-invasive techniques. The present study proposes a multimodal deep learning model for classifying the tissue perfusion phase using infrared, thermal, and visible spectrum images of the human hand. The proposed model consists of various preprocessing techniques such as manipulation, homography alignments, and masking. The significant contribution of this thesis is the interpretability analysis of deep learning models, achieved through the analysis of saliency maps and the Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) methods. The purpose of this method is to find out how the convolutional …

An Optimization Method For Near-Linear Phase Analog Frequency Sampling Filter Design, Leonardo Ledesma

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Analog frequency sampling filters (FSFs) realize a desired frequency response by interpolating a frequency response through a set of harmonically related frequency samples from the filter’s frequency response and are magnitude and phase coefficients used in the filters transfer function. FSFs can be designed to have exact linear phase which makes the FSF attractive for many applications. A FSF’s system transfer function (STF) shows that the filter can be implemented by a series connection of a comb filter and a parallel array of resonators. However, the FSF requires that the zeros created by the comb filter cancel the imaginary axis …