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Design And Implementation Of Reconfigurable Video Array Processor Test Platform, Jiang Lin, Feilong He, Shan Rui, Wang Shuai, Haoyue Wu, Wu Xin

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the design requirements of the reconfigurable video array processor and the problem of traditional method testing the video codec system with slow speed, low precision and poor observability. A Qt-based user interface is developed, and a hardware-software co-testing platform based on FPGA is designed and implemented. The platform realizes the data transmission and image reproduction based on the software simulation on the PC side, and the parallel mapping of the video encoding and decoding algorithms based on the reconfigurable video array processor on the FPGA side. The experiment results show that the data can be transmitted correctly …

Force/Position Hybrid Control Method For Surface Parts Polishing Robot, Yufeng Ding, Xinpu Min

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A force/position hybrid control method for polishing the complex surface with an industrial robot is put forward. The method can achieve the stable force control and precise position control to ensure the consistency of the material removal rate at different normal vectors. After the trajectory of the normal vector is planned in CAD software, the force signal feedback from the sensor and the PI controller in the normal vector direction are combined,and the robot end tool corrects the motion trajectory in the vector direction of the surface to indirectly control the contact force between the tool and the surface. …

High-Fidelity Simulation Of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy, Peng Liu, Weixin Si, Zheng Rui, Xiangyun Liao, Dongliang Xu, Ping'an Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The virtual reality simulator of the video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) surgery lobectomy is of great value to the surgeon's surgical training and planning. In order to simulate the high-fidelity video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy, a VATS lobectomy simulator to realistically and efficiently simulate the different surgical operations during the VATS lobectomy procedure is developed. Based on the Position-Based Dynamics framework, the deformation induced by tool-tissue and tissue-tissue interactions, soft tissue cuts as well as subsequent surgical suture operations is simulated. The Marching Cubes algorithm is employed to achieve the surface rendering, especially for the cutting process. The GPU parallel computing technique is …

Application Of Improved Inverse Decoupling Active Disturbance Rejection Internal Model Control In Grinding, Zhou Ying, Qiaojuan Jia, Zhang Yan, Mingxin Chang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the characteristics of the multivariable, strong coupling and large time delay of the grinding classification system, the improved inverse decoupling active disturbance rejection internal model control method is proposed. The inverse decoupling method is used to realize the decoupling of the grinding classification system, and the improved internal model control and linear active disturbance rejection control are adopted for the decoupled subsystem. By introducing the internal model compensator and the gain to compensate the time delay, the dependence of the system upon the model is reduced .The model mismatch, external disturbance and uncertainties are suppressed by adjusting …

Simulation And Analysis Of Kinematic Parameters Of Vehicle Offset And Rear-End Collision Accident, Wenhui Zhang, Yongmin Su, Shurui Sun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to deeply study the motion behavior of vehicles in the rear-end collision, a vehicle rear end collision accident model is established in the PC-Crash simulation environment. Considering with the relative velocity, offset, speed of the rear-end vehicle and wheel angle, the acceleration, yaw angle and yaw rate of the vehicle are obtained. The research results show that when the bias degree is 20%, the yaw angles of the rear-end vehicle and rear tracked vehicle is the biggest, and is easy to induce the secondary accidents such as rollover and fixtures crash. The larger the relative …

A Route Recovery Mechanism Using Hybrid Anti-Interference Method, Ziwen Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Yimin Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the jamming attacks in the industrial wireless sensor networks, a route recovery mechanism based on the WirelessHART graph routing is proposed. The jamming attack detection method is used to obtain the node and area being attacked by the jamming attack, the uncoordinated frequency hopping spread spectrum is used to generate the frequency hopping sequence of the node of being attacked by the jamming attack and that of the surrounding nodes, so that the traditional frequency hopping spread spectrum is performed on the nodes. Detects again, and combines the routing cost and the WirelessHART graph routing …

Simulation On A Car-Following Strategy For Adaptive Cruise Control System, Zhiqiang Zhai, Jinliang Xu, Yuan Hao, Yongming Zhou, Longfei Zhao, Shiqian Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A car-following strategy based on the variable distance is proposed to improve the applicability of the ACC (Adaptive cruise control) system. The curvature radius of centroid trajectory of the host vehicle is computed by the kinetic model based on the unscented Kalman filter. In order to identify the car-following object, a vehicle tracking model is presented according to the relative kinetic states between the front vehicle and the host vehicle. The ACC system adjust the velocity of the host vehicle to control the safe distance between the host vehicle and the object vehicle. A complex condition with the lane-changing …

Research On Sliding Mode Control Of Robotic Arm Based On Fractional Calculus, Zhang Xin, Jiaxin Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An effective fractional order sliding mode control method is proposed for the nonlinear and uncertain robotic arm system by combining the advantages of the fractional calculus theory and the sliding mode control strategy. In the design of the controller, the fractional calculus is introduced into the sliding mode control by using the fractional order reaching law and the fractional order sliding mode control law respectively, and is proved by the Lyapunov theory to ensure the stability of the system. The proposed control method is applied to a two-joint robotic arm and is verified by the MATLAB simulation software. The …

Optimization Design And Locomotion Characteristics Analysis Of Wheeled Traction Robot, Wu Wei, Li Bo, Nana Liu, Guangzhi Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To evaluate quantitatively the dynamic locomotion characteristics and obstacle performance of the wheeled traction robot in horizontal well with single pipe diameter, the mechanical model of the crawling module of the wheeled traction robot is established and the structural and size parameters are optimized. The ADAMS model of the current robot is presented, and the Simulink models of three parts of the driving module, supporting mechanism and traction resistance are built. A specified method of the ADAMS/Simulink joint simulation modeling is proposed to analyze the locomotion characteristics and obstacle performance of the wheeled traction robot. The simulation results …

Model And Simulation Of Interactive Dissemination Of Multiple Public Opinion Information Under Government Intervention, Zhiying Wang, Weikang Wang, Chaolong Yue

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to identify the interactive dissemination rules of the multiple public opinion information (POI) in major emergencies and make the intervention decisions more pertinently, an intervention model of interactive dissemination is proposed. The model integrates the characteristics of the unequal competition of multiple POI, expands the existing intervention model of the single POI dissemination, and could analyze the intervention measures from the global perspective of the interactive dissemination. Case analysis and simulation results show that the proposed model could well simulate the evolution of the interactive transmission of the multiple POI. Although the strong POI is more harmful …

Research On Dynamic Editable Method For Combat Simulation Model Combination, Wu Wei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Focus on the low flexibility, interactivity and maneuverability of the combat simulation system, a dynamic editing method for the simulation model combination is proposed. This method is based on the technology of dynamic design of model combination, dynamic editing of simulation model combination and visual programming, which using the Interface-oriented and face-cut design in the model design to realize the flexible and high efficient combat modeling and simulation. A military ship model is designed as the experimental case, in which the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are discussed and verified. The experiment results demonstrate that the method …

Optimization Algorithm Based On Human Infection With Avian Influenza, Guangqiu Huang, Qiuqin Lu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To get the global optimal solution of some complex nonlinear optimization problems, an optimization algorithm based on the human avian influenza infectious diseases is proposed by using its dynamic model of cross species transmission. Applies the H7N9 infectious disease model to create the operators S^u-S^u, I^u-I^u, S^u-I^u, I^u-S^u, S^u-D^u, I^u-D^u, and to enable the individuals to exchange information among the same species and cross-species. The S^u-S^u and I^u-I^u operators …

Design Of Virtual Training System For Horizontally Oriented Drill Based On Unity3d, Guojun Wen, Xia Yu, Yudan Wang, Zifei Hu, Wu Dan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the equipment shortage, serious resource loss and hidden dangers in traditional horizontally oriented drilling rig training, a design scheme of the horizontally oriented drilling rig virtual training system based on the Unity3D is proposed. An experimental platform is built to verify the feasibility. The solidworks, 3dsMax model construction, Unity3D software virtual animation and scene development, Rodrigues rotation matrix 3D trajectory algorithm derivation, data acquisition (DAQ), system software and hardware communication and other technical content are used in the program. The experimental results show that the scheme is feasible, the system has the good operability and true immersion …

Modeling And Simulation For Prevention And Control Of Drug Abuse And Drug-Related Crime Based On System Dynamics, Liu Feng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the existing drug abuse dynamics models, the drug users are assumed to be permanent immune to drugs after rehabilitation and the possibility of the recovery drug users being susceptible again is neglected. To solve the problem, through the system dynamics (SD) method, the evolution process of the drug-related crowds is analyzed, and a relevant model based on the transient immunity is constructed. The trends of the drug abuse and drug-related crime are predicted by the simulation experiments, and the sensitivity analysis indicates that the rate of contact and exposure to drugs is the most sensitive factor of the …

Non-Contact Object Size Acquisition Based On Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion, Kang Lai, Yingmei Wei, Jiang Jie, Yuxiang Xie

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In consideration of the visual data and the data from the inertial measurement unit (IMU) having the different characteristics, the 6D pose of the visual sensor is recovered from the captured video by using the vision-based 3D reconstruction techniques, the obtained pose information and inertial measurements is fused via the spatial-temporal alignment, and based on the determined scale of the visual 3D reconstruction the non-contact measurement of a scene is performed. The proposed approach achieves a relative measurement error of about 3% in the non-contact object size estimation experiment. As it does not require the additional calibration object …

Prediction Of Flight Taxi-Out Time In A Busy Airport Based On Lwsvr, Zhiwei Xing, Songyue Jiang, Luo Qian, Luo Xiao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at improving the accuracy of predicting the flight taxi-out time in a busy airport, based on the local regression and weighted support vector regression, a prediction model of the locally weighted support vector regression is proposed. The model uses the K nearest neighbor method to reduce the capacity of the training sample set and build a predictive model for each predicted sample. The bandwidth parameter of the Gaussian weighting function is optimized with the Mahalanobis distance between the forecast sample and training samples, and the weighting coefficients are obtained. Combining the airport departure flight data in simulation analysis, …

Two-Stage Dynamic Emergency And Disaster Resistance Operation Strategy For Active Distribution Network, Zhang Wei, Li Quan, Yuqiu Zhou, Yuhang Luo, Peifeng Xi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The persistence and gradual change of the typhoons and other dynamic disasters, increase the complexity of the fault recovery process. In order to quickly restore the power to the active distribution network, a two-stage dynamic emergency operational strategy is proposed and the corresponding overall optimization model is established. The strategy includes the resource allocation plan, island partition scheme and cooperative scheme of the emergency repair and restoration. In the first stage, the pre-disaster resource allocation plan is made according to the travel time and attribute matching situation between the disaster-stricken areas and the repair resources. In the second stage, …

Simulation Research On Effectiveness Of Reward And Punishment Strategy In Open-Pit Mines, Xingxin Nie, Cunrui Bai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Mining safety accidents occur frequently, and one of the main causes is the miners' Intentional Unsafe Behavior (IUB), and therefore implementing the reward and punishment strategy on it is the key coping strategy. In order to study how the reward and punishment strategy acts on the Intentional Unsafe Behavior (IUB) of the miners and how effective the strategy is, based on the Behavioral Economics + IUB Diffusion Theory, combined with the Multi-Agent model to analyze the influencing factors of the miners' IUB, and based on the work situation adaptability function and the unsafe behavior adaptability function, the simulation model …

Exploring Usage Of Web Resources Through A Model Of Api Learning, Finn Voichick

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are essential to modern software development, and new APIs are frequently being produced. Consequently, software developers must regularly learn new APIs, which they typically do on the job from online resources rather than in a formal educational context. The Kelleher–Ichinco COIL model, an acronym for “Collection and Organization of Information for Learning,” was recently developed to model the entire API learning process, drawing from information foraging theory, cognitive load theory, and external memory research. We ran an exploratory empirical user study in which participants performed a programming task using the React API with the goal of …

Exploring Attacks And Defenses In Additive Manufacturing Processes: Implications In Cyber-Physical Security, Nicholas Deily

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Many industries are rapidly adopting additive manufacturing (AM) because of the added versatility this technology offers over traditional manufacturing techniques. But with AM, there comes a unique set of security challenges that must be addressed. In particular, the issue of part verification is critically important given the growing reliance of safety-critical systems on 3D printed parts. In this thesis, the current state of part verification technologies will be examined in the con- text of AM-specific geometric-modification attacks, and an automated tool for 3D printed part verification will be presented. This work will cover: 1) the impacts of malicious attacks on …

A Real-Time Internet Of Things (Iot) Based Affective Framework For Monitoring Emotions In Infants, Alhagie Sallah

Electrical Engineering Theses

An increase in the number of working parents has led to a higher demand for remotely monitoring activities of babies through baby monitors. The baby monitors vary from simple audio and video monitoring frameworks to advance applications where we can integrate sensors for tracking vital signs such as heart rate, respiratory rate monitoring. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices where each device can is recognizable in the network. The IoT node is a sensor or device, which primarily functions as a data acquisition unit. The data acquired through the IoT nodes are wirelessly transmitted to the …

Ml-Medic: A Preliminary Study Of An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool Facilitating Clinical Applications Of Machine Learning For Precision Medicine, Laura Stevens, David Kao, Jennifer Hall, Carsten Görg, Kaitlyn Abdo, Erik Linstead

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Accessible interactive tools that integrate machine learning methods with clinical research and reduce the programming experience required are needed to move science forward. Here, we present Machine Learning for Medical Exploration and Data-Inspired Care (ML-MEDIC), a point-and-click, interactive tool with a visual interface for facilitating machine learning and statistical analyses in clinical research. We deployed ML-MEDIC in the American Heart Association (AHA) Precision Medicine Platform to provide secure internet access and facilitate collaboration. ML-MEDIC’s efficacy for facilitating the adoption of machine learning was evaluated through two case studies in collaboration with clinical domain experts. A domain expert review was also …

College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Spring 2020, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …

Elicitation And Aggregation Of Data In Knowledge Intensive Crowdsourcing, Dohoon Kim

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

With the significant advance of internet and connectivity, crowdsourcing gained more popularity and various crowdsourcing platforms emerged. This project focuses on knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing, in which agents are presented with the tasks that require certain knowledge in domain. Knowledge-intensive crowdsourcing requires agents to have experiences on the specific domain. With the constraint of resources and its trait as sourcing from crowd, platform is likely to draw agents with different levels of expertise and knowledge and asking same task can result in bad performance. Some agents can give better information when they are asked with more general question or more knowledge-specific task …

A Virtual 4d Ct Scanner, Xiwen Li

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

4D CT scan is widely used in medical imaging. Images are acquired through phases. In this case, we can track the motion of organs such as heart. However, it also introduces motion artifacts. A lot of research focuses on remove these artifacts. It is difficult to acquire artifact data by a real CT scanner. In this project, we implement a virtual CT machine to simulate the real 4D CT scan. we also conduct experi- ments to check its clinical reality with respect to respiratory and heart motion parameters.

Centrality Of Blockchain, Zixuan Li

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

Decentralization is widely recognized as the property and one of most important advantage of blockchain over legacy systems. However, decentralization is often discussed on the consensus layer and recent research shows the trend of centralization on several subsystem of blockchain. In this project, we measured centralization of Bitcoin and Ethereum on source code, development eco-system, and network node levels. We found that the programming language of project is highly centralized, code clone is very common inside Bitcoin and Ethereum community, and developer contribution distribution is highly centralized. We further discuss how could these centralizations lead to security issues in blockchain. …

Solving Disappearance At Gastech With Visual Analytic Techniques, Saulet Yskak

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

We are living in a society, where images and charts speak louder than words. Therefore, information visualization plays a major role in solving complex problems since it provides a visual summary of data that makes it easier to identify trends and patterns.

In this master project, I propose a web – based visual analytics tool that enables to analyze complex email and time based / event series data. The visual analytics framework uses test data from IEEE VAST Challenge 2014: Mini challenge 1 that concentrated on the disappearance of employees of a fictional GAStech company, but the tool allows users …

A Physics-Based Machine Learning Study Of The Behavior Of Interstitial Helium In Single Crystal W–Mo Binary Alloys, Adib J. Samin

Faculty Publications

In this work, the behavior of dilute interstitial helium in W–Mo binary alloys was explored through the application of a first principles-informed neural network (NN) in order to study the early stages of helium-induced damage and inform the design of next generation materials for fusion reactors. The neural network (NN) was trained using a database of 120 density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the alloy. The DFT database of computed solution energies showed a linear dependence on the composition of the first nearest neighbor metallic shell. This NN was then employed in a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation, which took into …

Understanding Eye Gaze Patterns In Code Comprehension, Jonathan Saddler

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Program comprehension is a sub-field of software engineering that seeks to understand how developers understand programs. Comprehension acts as a starting point for many software engineering tasks such as bug fixing, refactoring, and feature creation. The dissertation presents a series of empirical studies to understand how developers comprehend software in realistic settings. The unique aspect of this work is the use of eye tracking equipment to gather fine-grained detailed information of what developers look at in software artifacts while they perform realistic tasks in an environment familiar to them, namely a context including both the Integrated Development Environment (Eclipse or …

Using Taint Analysis And Reinforcement Learning (Tarl) To Repair Autonomous Robot Software, Damian Lyons, Saba Zahra

Faculty Publications

It is important to be able to establish formal performance bounds for autonomous systems. However, formal verification techniques require a model of the environment in which the system operates; a challenge for autonomous systems, especially those expected to operate over longer timescales. This paper describes work in progress to automate the monitor and repair of ROS-based autonomous robot software written for an a-priori partially known and possibly incorrect environment model. A taint analysis method is used to automatically extract the data-flow sequence from input topic to publish topic, and instrument that code. A unique reinforcement learning approximation of MDP utility …