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Integrated Quantum Information Processing Controlled Phase Gate, Richard S. Kim, Attila A. Szep, Michael L. Fanto, Paul M. Alsing, Gordon E. Lott, Christopher C. Tison

AFIT Patents

An electro-optical directional coupler is provided having a substrate and a first and second optical waveguide formed on the substrate, where the second waveguide extends adjacent to and parallel with the first waveguide for at least one interaction length. The interaction length has a first end and a second end such that an optical signal applied only to one of the first and second waveguides couples to the other of the first and second waveguides between the ends. A first electrode is proximate the first and second waveguides and between the ends of the interaction length. A first voltage applied …

A Bibliometric Survey On The Diagnosis Of Plant Leaf Diseases Using Artificial Intelligence, Rutuja Rajendra Patil, Sumit Kumar Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Due to uncertain environmental conditions such as untimely rainfall, hailstorms, draught, fog the agriculture sector faces huge loss in crop yield. One of the biggest reason is plant leaf diseases. Therefore the need arises to diagnose the plant leaf diseases beforehand so that the diseases could be avoided and crop yield loss could be minimized. The paper represents the bibliometric study of plant leaf disease diagnosis using Artificial Intelligence. The study focuses on 472 scientific documents such as journals, articles, book chapters publicized in various journals. These documents are extracted from Scopus database after querying it with keywords related to …

Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume. Volume 1

Human-Machine Communication

This is the complete volume of HMC Volume 1.

Sharing Stress With A Robot: What Would A Robot Say?, Honson Y. Ling, Elin A. Björling

Human-Machine Communication

With the prevalence of mental health problems today, designing human-robot interaction for mental health intervention is not only possible, but critical. The current experiment examined how three types of robot disclosure (emotional, technical, and by-proxy) affect robot perception and human disclosure behavior during a stress-sharing activity. Emotional robot disclosure resulted in the lowest robot perceived safety. Post-hoc analysis revealed that increased perceived stress predicted reduced human disclosure, user satisfaction, robot likability, and future robot use. Negative attitudes toward robots also predicted reduced intention for future robot use. This work informs on the possible design of robot disclosure, as well as …

The Robot Privacy Paradox: Understanding How Privacy Concerns Shape Intentions To Use Social Robots, Christoph Lutz, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux

Human-Machine Communication

Conceptual research on robots and privacy has increased but we lack empirical evidence about the prevalence, antecedents, and outcomes of different privacy concerns about social robots. To fill this gap, we present a survey, testing a variety of antecedents from trust, technology adoption, and robotics scholarship. Respondents are most concerned about data protection on the manufacturer side, followed by social privacy concerns and physical concerns. Using structural equation modeling, we find a privacy paradox, where the perceived benefits of social robots override privacy concerns.

Building A Stronger Casa: Extending The Computers Are Social Actors Paradigm, Andrew Gambino, Jesse Fox, Rabindra A. Ratan

Human-Machine Communication

The computers are social actors framework (CASA), derived from the media equation, explains how people communicate with media and machines demonstrating social potential. Many studies have challenged CASA, yet it has not been revised. We argue that CASA needs to be expanded because people have changed, technologies have changed, and the way people interact with technologies has changed. We discuss the implications of these changes and propose an extension of CASA. Whereas CASA suggests humans mindlessly apply human-human social scripts to interactions with media agents, we argue that humans may develop and apply human-media social scripts to these interactions. Our …

Me And My Robot Smiled At One Another: The Process Of Socially Enacted Communicative Affordance In Human-Machine Communication, Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo

Human-Machine Communication

The term affordance has been inconsistently applied both in robotics and communication. While the robotics perspective is mostly object-based, the communication science view is commonly user-based. In an attempt to bring the two perspectives together, this theoretical paper argues that social robots present new social communicative affordances emerging from a two-way relational process. I first explicate conceptual approaches of affordance in robotics and communication. Second, a model of enacted communicative affordance in the context of Human-Machine Communication (HMC) is presented. Third and last, I explain how a pivotal social robot characteristic—embodiment—plays a key role in the process of social communicative …

Ontological Boundaries Between Humans And Computers And The Implications For Human-Machine Communication, Andrea L. Guzman

Human-Machine Communication

In human-machine communication, people interact with a communication partner that is of a different ontological nature from themselves. This study examines how people conceptualize ontological differences between humans and computers and the implications of these differences for human-machine communication. Findings based on data from qualitative interviews with 73 U.S. adults regarding disembodied artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (voice-based AI assistants, automated-writing software) show that people differentiate between humans and computers based on origin of being, degree of autonomy, status as tool/tool-user, level of intelligence, emotional capabilities, and inherent flaws. In addition, these ontological boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred as technologies emulate …

Toward An Agent-Agnostic Transmission Model: Synthesizing Anthropocentric And Technocentric Paradigms In Communication, Jaime Banks, Maartje M. A. De Graaf

Human-Machine Communication

Technological and social evolutions have prompted operational, phenomenological, and ontological shifts in communication processes. These shifts, we argue, trigger the need to regard human and machine roles in communication processes in a more egalitarian fashion. Integrating anthropocentric and technocentric perspectives on communication, we propose an agent-agnostic framework for human-machine communication. This framework rejects exclusive assignment of communicative roles (sender, message, channel, receiver) to traditionally held agents and instead focuses on evaluating agents according to their functions as a means for considering what roles are held in communication processes. As a first step in advancing this agent-agnostic perspective, this theoretical paper …

A Monte Carlo Approach To Closing The Reality Gap, Damian Lyons, James Finocchiaro, Michael Novitzky, Christopher Korpela

Faculty Publications

We propose a novel approach to the ’reality gap’ problem, i.e., modifying a robot simulation so that its performance becomes more similar to observed real world phenomena. This problem arises whether the simulation is being used by human designers or in an automated policy development mechanism. We expect that the program/policy is developed using simulation, and subsequently deployed on a real system. We further assume that the program includes a monitor procedure with scalar output to determine when it is achieving its performance objectives. The proposed approach collects simulation and real world observations and builds conditional probability functions. These are …

Channel Scanning And Access Point Selection Mechanisms For 802.11 Handoff: A Survey, Dhananjay Singh

Computer Science and Engineering Master's Theses

While the cellular technology has been evolving continuously in recent years and client handoffs remain unnoticed, the 802.11 networks still impose an enormous latency issue once the client device decides to roam between the Access Point (AP). This latency is caused by many factors reckoning on scanning the channels and searching for APs with better signal strength. Once data from all the nearby APs has been collected, the client picks the most suitable AP and tries to connect with it. The AP verifies if it has enough capability to serve the client. It also ensures that the client has the …

A Lightweight Magnetorheological Actuator Using Hybrid Magnetization, Masoud Moghani, Mehrdad Kermani Ph.D., P.Eng.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

Copyright © 2020, IEEE

This paper presents the design and validation of a lightweight Magneto-Rheological (MR) clutch, called Hybrid Magneto-Rheological (HMR) clutch. The clutch utilizes a hybrid magnetization using an electromagnetic coil and a permanent magnet. The electromagnetic coil can adjust the magnetic field
generated by the permanent magnet to a desired value, and fully control the transmitted torque. To achieve the maximum torque to mass ratio, the design of HMR clutch is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem with three design objectives, namely the transmitted torque, the mass of the clutch, and the
magnetic field strength within the clutch …

Tiny Disco: A Cost-Effective, High-Fidelity Wireless Audio System, Luke Martin Liberatore

Computer Engineering

The Tiny Disco is a WiFi based concert system, featuring improvements on popular “Silent Disco” concerts. Rather than being tied to compression and bandwidth restrictions present in traditional silent disco systems, the Tiny Disco system can deliver 320kbps+ audio quality, and allows listeners to bring their own headphones, further lending to the high quality audio experience.

Tiny Disco uses a Raspberry Pi as the audio server, and Espressif ESP32 microcontrollers as audio receivers/clients. The Tiny Disco is primarily geared toward smaller concerts and niche events where audio quality is valued, though due to its WiFi-based architecture, it can be expanded …

Cache-Enabled In Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks For Transmission Performance, Jiachen Yang, Houbing Song, Chaofan Ma, Jiabao Man, Huifang Xu, Gan Zheng

Publications

The proliferation of mobile devices that support the acceleration of data services (especially smartphones) has resulted in a dramatic increase in mobile traffic. Mobile data also increased exponentially, already exceeding the throughput of the backhaul. To improve spectrum utilization and increase mobile network traffic, in combination with content caching, we study the cooperation between primary and secondary networks via content caching. We consider that the secondary base station assists the primary user by pre-caching some popular primary contents. Thus, the secondary base station can obtain more licensed bandwidth to serve its own user. We mainly focus on the time delay …

A Hybrid Agent-Based And Equation Based Epidemiological Model For The Spread Of Infectious Diseases, Elizabeth Hunter

Doctoral

Infectious disease models are essential in understanding how an outbreak might occur and how best to mitigate an outbreak. One of the most important factors in modelling a disease is choosing an appropriate model and determining the assump tions needed to create the model. The main research questions this thesis addresses are how do we create a model for the spread of infectious diseases that captures heterogeneous agents without using an inordinate amount of computing power and how can we use that model to plan for future infectious disease outbreaks. We start our work by analysing and comparing equation based …

Algorithms Of Oppression [Uno Pa Theory Proseminar Presentation], Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Slides of two classes taught in the Theory Proseminar in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha by Sue Ann Gardner on February 11 and 18, 2020.

Connects information theory to applicable knowledge frameworks in public administration. Includes an in-depth discussion of the concepts addressed in Samiya Umoja Noble's book Algorithms of Oppression (published by New York University Press, New York, New York, United States, 2018) in the context of public administration and public academic libraries.

Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting In Deregulated Electricity Market Based On Enhanced Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Pourdaryaei Alireza

Student Works (2020-2029)

Electricity price forecasting is considered as one of prime factors for operation, planning and scheduling of price-setter market participants. However, possessing time variant, non-linear and non-stationary behaviors make the electricity price a complex signal. The main challenge in this area is providing highly accurate and efficient day-ahead price forecasting. A suitable feature selection technique, which is able to model the interacting features and nonlinearities of the forecast processes, is still required although researches have been performed for day-ahead forecasting. In this research, a hybrid electricity price forecasting methodology is proposed using two-stage feature selection method and optimization using adaptive neuro-fuzzy …

Code Smells: A Synthetic Narrative Review, Peter Kokol Prof, Marko Kokol, Sašo Zagoranski

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices, which might hinder comprehension, increase code complexity and fault-proneness and decrease maintainability of software systems. The aim of our study was to perform a triangulation of bibliometric and thematic analysis on code smell literature production. The search was performed on Scopus (Elsevier, Netherlands) database using the search string “code smells” which resulted in 442 publications. The Go-to statement was the first bad code smells identified in software engineering history in 1968. The literature production trend has been positive. The most productive countries were the United States, Italy and Brazil. Eight …

Retrospective Study Of Fmol Health System Utilization Using Geospatial Information, Deekshith Mandala

LSU Master's Theses

Medicaid Expansion and closing of Emergency Departments (ED) like Earl K. Long, Baton Rouge General Mid-City ED, and Champion Medical Center changed the health care landscape in East Baton Rouge Parish (EBRP). In this research study, a Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to analyze the impact of the expansion of Medicaid and the inauguration of Our Lady of the Lake North Baton Rouge ED (OLOL NBR ED) over the utilization of Franciscan Missionaries of our Lady Health System (FMOLHS) for both emergency and non-emergency health care services. This study is performed across the 58 neighborhoods of EBRP. Overutilization of …

Research On The Strategy Of Adaptive Uvls Based On Rtds Simulation, Zhao Dan, Man Ji, Yunling Ni, Dengxin Liu, Weidong Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the improvement of the slow and unstable system voltage recovery after the low voltage load shedding load protected by centralized station area, the traditional low voltage load shedding load strategy will be researched. Considering the factors such as the power shortage and the important grade of the load, the power factor of the load to be cut is introduced, and the low load shedding model is established by minimizing the amount of cut load and minimizing the reactive power. The research is transformed into a belt Constrained multi-objective optimization research. The multi- objective particle swarm optimization algorithm …

Design Of Air Defense Missile Weapon System Simulation Platform Based On Xsim Platform, Kaizhi Ruan, Qingqing Yuan, Wenhua Zhai, Zhiqiang Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Taking the system simulation technology which applied to the scheme argumentation, optimization design, flight test forecast, battle effectiveness evaluation of air defense missile weapon system as background, the design method of air defense missile weapon system simulation platform based on Xsim platform was put forward. The total configuration design, model design and simulation process design of the platform were discussed. An simulation platform of an air defense missile weapon system was accomplished. The result proves the platform can simulate the battle process of air defense missile weapon system, support the simulation work of air defense weapon at different …

Analysis And Optimization Of Combustion Characteristics Of Cement Kiln Cooperatively Disposing Domestic Refuse, Jingbing Wu, Hanqing Tang, Xu Jun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Because the traditional methods can hardly analyze the complex combustion characteristics of cement kiln mixed with domestic refuse, a data mining technology is introduced. A domestic cement plant is selected as the object, and its operating data and relevant parameters are collected. The influence coefficient of each parameter on coal consumption and NO_x emission is analyzed by using Stability Selection algorithm. The mathematical model of coal consumption and NO_x emission is established with Random Forest algorithm, and the key optimization parameters and their optimal values are obtained by K-means clustering algorithm. The result shows that this method …

An Enhanced Multi-Modal Function Optimization Fireworks Algorithm Base On Loser-Out Tournament, Xiaoning Shen, Wang Qian, Huang Yao, You Xuan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An enhanced multi-modal fireworks algorithm based on the loser-out tournament is proposed. A new position-based mapping rule is used to map the explosion sparks beyond the upper boundary of the explosion space to the area near the upper boundary, and to map the one below the lower boundary to the area near the lower boundary. A strategy which adaptively adjusts the number of explosion sparks is introduced to better balance the global and local search abilities of the algorithm. The 28 functions in the CEC2013 standard test function set are selected to the test. Experimental results show that the …

A Xor-Based Visual Cryptography Scheme For (2, N) Access Structure With Ideal Structure Division, Yuqiao Cheng, Zhengxin Fu, Bin Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: We propose a XOR-based visual cryptography scheme for (2, n) access structures. According to the definition of ideal access structure, the relationship of shares among the minimal qualified subsets is analyzed. And based on it, a division algorithm of access structures is presented with the theory of graph. By this approach, we can obtain the least number of ideal access structures. Additionally the processes of secret sharing and recovering are given. Experimental results show that this scheme can achieve a perfect secret recovery. Compared with existing schemes, the pixel expansion of our paper is the best.

Study On Hardware-In-Loop Simulation Of Space-Feed Low-Frequency Guidance With Turntable External, Linpeng Wang, Chaolei Wang, Yuting Dai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Low-frequency detection, tracking and guidance of stealthy targets need new requirements for hardware-in-loop simulation verification technology. Turntable built-in usually produces electromagnetic interference to seeker. A turntable external method for space- feed low-frequency guidance of hardware in- loop simulation system is proposed. The space-feed low-frequency guidance simulation model is established, and the influence of turntable electromagnetic interference on the seeker is completely eliminated by the turntable external. The simulation environment of non-inertial space motion is constructed to solve the information fusion problem of multiple spaces for hardware-in-loop simulation. The feasibility of the simulation method is verified. The results show that …

Study On Three-Dimensional Scene Sar Radio Frequency Simulation Technology, Guijie Diao, Ni Hong, Yang Liang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) radio frequency simulation technology for three-dimensional scene is significant for SAR system test and the research of signal processing algorithms. A SAR radio frequency signal simulation is the core technology. Based on preliminary SAR frequency simulation scheme, a real-time SAR radio frequency signal simulation method for three-dimensional scene is proposed, and key parameters such as backward scattering coefficient, range between radar and target, shielding factor, antenna pattern weighting factor are calculated in real time according to the flight path information of SAR radar platform. Finally, the test results proved the validity of the method.

Matching Between Mac Address And Object Based On Rssi Change Sequence, Zhang Liang, Kaifeng Hao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The connection between real people and the MAC of the communications device is of high value to public and network security. A better solution was proposed to improve the existing methods. MAC and real-time RSSI changes of the communication device were obtained by multiple Wi-Fi probes, then the RSSI status change sequence was constructed. The distance between object and multiple Wi-Fi probes was obtained by the object tracking, and the sequence of distance state change was constructed. After two kinds of sequences were compared, the optimal result was selected as the matching result between the moving object and the …

State Of Charge Estimation Of The Lithium-Ion Battery Based On Improved Extended Kalman Particle Filter Algorithm, Xia Fei, Zhicheng Wang, Shuotao Hao, Daogang Peng, Beili Yu, Yimin Huang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The three order Thevenin model of 18650 Lithium-Ion battery is established based on the experimental data of UTS divided capacity tester. The extended kalman filtering (EKF) algorithm is adopted as the important density function of particle filter (PF) algorithm, and the extended Kalman particle filter (EKPF) algorithm is formed. The sample degradation and lack of diversity in the re-sampling stage of EKPF algorithm is optimized by an improved re-sampling algorithm which based on a weight sorting and survival of the fittest particles. The improved EKPF algorithm is applied to estimate the State of Charge (SOC) of the three order …

Curvature-Based Bp Algorithm Optimization And Its Application In Fnn, Weili Xiong, Wenxin Sun, Xudong Shi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to improve the optimization efficiency of BP algorithm affected by the selection of step size, a step size optimization BP algorithm based on curvature information is proposed and applied to the training process of FNN (Fuzzy Neural Network). Reference to Newton's method, The gradient of the cost function and the curvature information in the direction are calculated to determine the direction and magnitude of the parameter adjustment in each iteration. This method only needs to consider the two order information of the gradient direction, so it does not need the storage and processing of Hessian matrix. The …

Low-Complexity Apit Algorithm And Its Opnet Simulation Of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, Jiahui Xu, Keyu Chen, En Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Due to the energy limitations of underwater acoustic sensor networks, low-complexity location algorithms are more suitable for underwater acoustic sensor networks. The traditional APIT algorithm can obtain better location accuracy with less control overhead, which is beneficial to the location of underwater sensor networks, but it has high complexity and large redundancy errors. This paper proposes a low-complexity APIT algorithm replaced the traditional grid SCAN algorithm with a point scanning method, and builds an underwater acoustic sensor network environment on the OPNET platform, and elaborates the implementation process of the location algorithm in underwater sensor network. Simulation results …