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Research On Modelica-Based Training Simulation System Of Tamper Operations, Xiaobo Peng, Cheng Tao, Feng Ping, Jianming Du

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Tamping operations are trivial and must comply with operation specifications, which requires the training simulation system of tamper operations (TSSTO) have ability to manage its operation process. For this requirement, a TSSTO based on Modelica was developed. The multi-domain physical model of the tamper system, which is responsible for the simulation calculation of the system, was constructed by Modelica. The status model, which manages the operation process, was configured according to operation specifications. The interactive simulation was accomplished through a pipe that operations drive the status model then the status model drives the physical model. The algorithm of interactive …

Research Method For Integrating Subjective And Objective Information In Evaluating Quality Level Of Journals, Zhang Quan, Wen Xin, Liping Yu, Jia Wei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The evaluation of the quality level of academic journals was investigated. In order to overcome the drawbacks of current methods which made uses of only the subjective evaluation information or the objective information on the journals, a comprehensive evaluation method was proposed for integrating both the decision makers' subjective information and the objective information. The decision makers' subjective evaluation information was expressed in some grade, grade interval, or a fuzzy set over a grade evaluation set. The objective information of journals was reflected by the numerical attributes, such as, the total citation frequency, impact factor and immediacy …

Research Of Noise Mitigation Method Based On Dspwvd-Tfpf In Communication System, Lingdong Su, Mingyue Zhai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the case of low SNR, the quality of the communication system will be decreased and the traditional TFPF on time-frequency clustering and noise suppression will descend. In order to overcome these, a new family of TF distribution, namely, the joint directionally smoothing Wigner-Ville distribution was presented to achieve instantaneous frequency estimation. This new TF distributions is based on the definition of the directionally smoothed pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (DSPWVD) and point wise adaptive weight averaging of a bank of DSPWVD with different directions. The simulation shows that at low SNR, compared to traditional TFPF, DSPWVD-TFPF algorithm can better …

Large Eddy Simulation Of Effect Of Geometric Parameters On Low Pressure Of Turbulent Flow Over Gate Slot, Shihua He, Lixiang Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The turbulent flow over the hydraulic plane gate slot was studied using large eddy simulation method. The effects of geometric parameters including width-to-depth ratio, stagger ratio, slope ratio and fillet ratio on hydraulic characteristics within and near the gate slot were simulated systematically. According to the vulnerable cavitation locations of the flow over the slot, the pressure distributions in swirl area and the separation zone at the rear of downstream corner of the slot were investigated emphatically. The results show that the effects of width-to-depth ratios and stagger ratios on the pressure distribution of the flow are significantly. …

Deep Learning Techniques For Structural Response Prediction During Strong Ground Motions, Ahmed A. Torky, Susumu Ohno Prof., Toshide Kashima Prof.

Civil Engineering

In this paper, deep learning techniques are applied to predict a building’s structural response to strong ground motions. Data from sensors near and inside structures measure accelerations during strong ground motions. The Building Research Institute (BRI) ANX building, an eight-story structure, has experienced major earthquakes since 1998. Sensors in the building provide and accumulate big data of historic events. Changes of the natural frequency of the ANX building from the big data is initially quantified. The time-series data of the historic events can be used to predict future response to future events using deep learning models rapidly. Although previous literature …

Machine Learning Applications For Drug Repurposing, Hansaim Lim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The cost of bringing a drug to market is astounding and the failure rate is intimidating. Drug discovery has been of limited success under the conventional reductionist model of one-drug-one-gene-one-disease paradigm, where a single disease-associated gene is identified and a molecular binder to the specific target is subsequently designed. Under the simplistic paradigm of drug discovery, a drug molecule is assumed to interact only with the intended on-target. However, small molecular drugs often interact with multiple targets, and those off-target interactions are not considered under the conventional paradigm. As a result, drug-induced side effects and adverse reactions are often neglected …

Large Signal Modeling For Llc Resonant Converter, Zheng Kai, Jianbing Li, Zhou Dongfang, Li Kai, Songzhen Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The large-signal model modeling issue of LLC resonant converter was dealt with by using averaged large-signal modeling method, on the basis of a full-bridge LLC voltage-multiplying resonant converter. The SSOC (self-sustained oscillation controller) was analyzed, and the operation mode of LLC resonant converter under the SSOC mode was investigated. The nonlinear state space model of LLC resonant converter was established by analyzing linear approximation of nonlinear terms and harmonic balance, and the averaged large-signal model of LLC resonant converter was proposed. Two curves of large signal model and nonlinear state space model were proved to be identical …

Construction Of Virtual Atmospheric Environment Based On Mm5 And Sedris, Lianlei Lin, Ding Wei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The new virtual test for virtual atmosphere environment puts forward higher requirements, such as providing complex atmospheric environment which includes a variety of atmospheric parameters and improving usability and reusability of atmospheric environment data. A method to construct virtual atmospheric environment based on MM5 and SEDRIS was proposed which met the above demands. The original data of complex atmospheric environment in any region and scale was generated by using MM5 model. According to the characteristics as well as the dynamic relationship between time and space of grid of atmospheric data, SEDRIS was selected to regulate appropriate DRM class, SRF …

Measuring The Perceived Social Intelligence Of Robots, Kimberly A. Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, R. Shane Westfall, Andrea Fink-Armold, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, David Feil-Seifer

Psychology Faculty Research

Robotic social intelligence is increasingly important. However, measures of human social intelligence omit basic skills, and robot-specific scales do not focus on social intelligence. We combined human robot interaction concepts of beliefs, desires, and intentions with psychology concepts of behaviors, cognitions, and emotions to create 20 Perceived Social Intelligence (PSI) Scales to comprehensively measure perceptions of robots with a wide range of embodiments and behaviors. Participants rated humanoid and non-humanoid robots interacting with people in five videos. Each scale had one factor and high internal consistency, indicating each measures a coherent construct. Scales capturing perceived social information processing skills (appearing …

A Semi-Automated Approach To Medical Image Segmentation Using Conditional Random Field Inference, Yu-Chi Hu

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in delivering effective patient care in various diagnostic and treatment modalities. Manual delineation of target volumes and all critical structures is a very tedious and highly time-consuming process and introduce uncertainties of treatment outcomes of patients. Fully automatic methods holds great promise for reducing cost and time, while at the same time improving accuracy and eliminating expert variability, yet there are still great challenges. Legally and ethically, human oversight must be integrated with ”smart tools” favoring a semi-automatic technique which can leverage the best aspects of both human and computer.

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Solar Power Forecasting Using Wavelet Transform And Machine Learning Approaches, Abdullah Nor Azliana

Student Works (2020-2029)

Generation of photovoltaic (PV) power is intermittent in nature and integration of PV system into the grid system causes an imbalanced power production and power demand. One of the efforts to reduce this problem is to forecast the generation of solar power in the PV system. Solar power forecasting requires the collection of solar power and meteorological data. Hence, this work collected solar power data and various meteorological data (global radiation, tilted radiation, temperature surrounding, humidity surrounding, PV module/ PV panel temperature and wind speed) from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). A pre-processing process is carried out to ensure that …

Pricing And Equilibrium In On-Demand Ride-Pooling Markets, Jintao Ke, Hai Yang, Xinwei Li, Hai Wang, Jieping Ye

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the recent rapid growth of technology-enabled mobility services, ride-sourcing platforms, such as Uber and DiDi, have launched commercial on-demand ride-pooling programs that allow drivers to serve more than one passenger request in each ride. Without requiring the prearrangement of trip schedules, these programs match on-demand passenger requests with vehicles that have vacant seats. Ride-pooling programs are expected to offer benefits for both individual passengers in the form of cost savings and for society in the form of traffic alleviation and emission reduction. In addition to some exogenous variables and environments for ride-sourcing market, such as city size and population …

Learning To Collaborate In Multi-Module Recommendation Via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Without Communication, Xu He, An Bo, Yanghua Li, Haikai Chen, Rundong Wang, Xinrun Wang, Runsheng Yu, Xin Li, Zhirong Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the rise of online e-commerce platforms, more and more customers prefer to shop online. To sell more products, online platforms introduce various modules to recommend items with different properties such as huge discounts. A web page often consists of different independent modules. The ranking policies of these modules are decided by different teams and optimized individually without cooperation, which might result in competition between modules. Thus, the global policy of the whole page could be sub-optimal. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-agent cooperative reinforcement learning approach with the restriction that different modules cannot communicate. Our contributions are …

Extracting Deep Features From Short Ecg Signals For Early Atrial Fibrillation Detection, Xiaodan Wu, Yumeng Zheng, Chao-Hsien Chu, Zhen He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) at an early stage has a short duration and is sometimes asymptomatic, making it difficult to detect. Although the use of mobile sensing devices has provided the possibility of real-time cardiac detection, it is highly susceptible to the noise signals generated by body movement. Therefore, it is of great importance to study early AF detection for mobile terminals with noise immunity. Extracting effective features is critical to AF detection, but most existing studies used shallow time, frequency or time-frequency energy (TFE) features with weak representation that need to rely on long ECG signals to capture the variation …

Time-Warped Sparse Non-Negative Factorization For Functional Data Analysis, Chen Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Fugee Tsung

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This article proposes a novel time-warped sparse non-negative factorization method for functional data analysis. The proposed method on the one hand guarantees the extracted basis functions and their coefficients to be positive and interpretable, and on the other hand is able to handle weakly correlated functions with different features. Furthermore, the method incorporates time warping into factorization and hence allows the extracted basis functions of different samples to have temporal deformations. An efficient framework of estimation algorithms is proposed based on a greedy variable selection approach. Numerical studies together with case studies on real-world data demonstrate the efficacy and applicability …

Research 4.0: Research In The Age Of Automation, Rob Procter, Ben Glover, Elliot Jones

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Executive Summary

There is a growing consensus that we are at the start of a fourth industrial revolution, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, robotics, the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, 5G, new forms of energy storage and quantum computing. This wave of technical innovations is already having a significant impact on how research is conducted, with dramatic change across research methods in recent years within some disciplines, as this project’s interim report set out.

Whilst there are a wide range of technologies associated with the fourth industrial revolution, this report primarily seeks to understand what …

Research About Method Of Face Detection And Tracking Based On Active Vision, Enzeng Dong, Shengxu Yan, Jigang Tong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the method of combining the Camshift algorithm mixing Kalman filter with Adaboost algorithm, a face-detection and tracking algorithm on the active vision was proposed. The algorithm proposed realized the face automatic detection and tracking by using Adaboost algorithm and Camshift mixed algorithm; according to the positional relation of target centroid and the view centre, and the difference of area between the region of the face target and the view, the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) control algorithm was designed. Through the rules designed for pan, tilt and zoom control, the algorithm achieved the goal of …

Three-Dimensional Fuzzy Control Of Catheter Robotic In Endovascular Master-Slave Interventional Surgery, Ximei Zhao, Jiankang You, Liu Hao, Hongyi Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In minimally invasive endovascular interventional surgery, catheter was vulnerable to be interfered by uncertain factors such as heartbeat and breathing of patients during catheter robot of slave side conveyed catheter. In order to retrain impact on catheter transport of these factors and realize that slave side of catheter robot system tracked control command of master side accurately and quickly, kinematic model of catheter distal bending section was established, and catheter robot system based on three-dimensional fuzzy controller was designed. Three-dimensional fuzzy controller that introduced the function of rate of error change on the basis of two-dimensional fuzzy controller …

Velocity Deception Jamming Analysis Of Coherent Video Simulation Of Anti-Ship Pd Seeker, Cuiqiong Mo, Jiahai Li, Huanyao Dai, Qiuju Chen, Zhao Jing

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: According to existed experimental evaluation of radar electronic jamming simulation for terminal guidance, the ballistic calculation model was simplified relatively. Particle model was usually adopted which made simulation results have serious distortion. The pulse Doppler radar seeker was discussed in six degree of freedom trajectory simulation of the closed loop (PDRS) for coherent video simulation, and simulation results show that the VGPO has no direct effect on the angle tracking loop, just through guidance filter affects the convergence angle velocity estimation, which leads to little change of guidance precision. The conclusion and anechoic chamber measurements results show that the …

Algorithm For Solving Symmetric Cone Complementarity Problems, Leifu Gao, Dongmei Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A monotonic trust region algorithm for symmetric cone complementarity problems was proposed based on a smoothing function. The problem was transformed into unconstrained optimization problem and the trust region subproblem was constructed. The problem was solved by using trust region algorithm combined with nonmonotonic strategies, and the global convergence of the algorithm was proved. Numerical experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm is effective for symmetric cone complementarity problems.

Pid Closed Loop Control Performance Analysis Of Piezostack-Driven Jet Dispensing Valve, Yunbo Fu, Xinbo Li, Guojun Liu, Jianfang Liu, Yaowu Shi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A new type of piezostack-driven jetting dispenser was proposed which used hydraulic magnification, and analyzed its injection process and injection condition. The open loop model of dispensing system was built by AMESim software. The simulation proved the feasibility. The closed loop control system with PID (Proportion Integration Differentiation) algorithm was set up to improve performance of open loop dispensing system, and the open and closed loop control performance was compared under the simulation environment. Analysis shows that PID closed loop system can improve performance of piezostack-driven jetting dispensing system. When nozzle diameter is 0.1mm and syringe pressure …

Simulation Of Physical Field Of 300ka Prebaked Aluminum Reduction Cell, Shuiping Zeng, Shasha Wang, Rongjuan Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The SY300 Prebake cell of some factory as a basic simplified model, the solidworks software was used to build a three-dimensional physical model of aluminum reduction cell. In the use of some assumptions, reasonable ideal field segmentation and under the premise of sharing model information and results, the physical model of electric field, magnetic field, flow field and its calculation module of coupling field were established respectively by using the the finite element software Comsol and Matlab Multiphysics software. On Comsol platform, electric, magnetic field of aluminum electrolytic cell were solved when replacing the anode, and current density …

Low Complexity Method Based On Fc-Ce-Slm For Papr Reduction In Ofdm System, Ce Ji, Lijuan Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Selected mapping (SLM) algorithm uses Cross Entropy (CE) algorithm to get the most optimal sign sequence so that SLM can make the effect of PAPR Reduction achieve optimum. However, it needs too many times iterative computations, so it will increase the complexity of the algorithm. In order to solve this problem, a fast convergence factor in the CE-SLM algorithm was introduced to make the sampling probability converge to 0 or 1 quickly in the system, which reduced the iterative times of getting the optimal sign sequence. Computer simulation results show that the approved algorithm reduces the iterative times of …

Research On Parallel Simulation Of Hypersonic Vehicles, Xuegong Sun, Chunye Gong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The system simulation of hypersonic vehicles was a multi-physics coupling process. It needed many iterations with large scale data to finish the simulation. To fix up the computational challenges, the distributed simulation was developed. But distributed simulation had no obvious effect on the computational efficiency. In order to enhance the computational efficiency, the grid parallel method and model parallel algorithm were studied based on the high performance cluster system. The parallel simulation method for fluid dynamics, data exchange method for partition boundary and load balance technology for parallel computing were developed and applied to the system simulation of hypersonic …

Traffic Simulation Of Elementary And Middle School's Gate Road During Student Departing School Based On Ca Model, Mingbao Pang, Chen Jing, Yang Min

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The simulation problem of student departing school to the traffic flow of elementary and middle school's gate road was studied by using a cellular automaton model. Based on STNS (symmetric two-lane Nagel-Schreckenberg) model, a cellular automaton model on the interference road section of elementary and middle school's gate during student departure school was established. The traffic flow characteristics of the road during student departure school time were discussed via the simulation experiment. The effects were analyzed how the proportion of students departing school by private cars, the proportion of students departing school by school buses, and the …

Simulation Research On Influence Of Blood Flow On Heating During Hifu Treatment, Suqin Dai, Shengyou Qian, Yaosheng Gui, Xiao Sheng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: When blood vessel exists in the tumor tissue, and its boundary portion close to the vessel will be strongly influenced by the cooling effect of the blood vessel. This influence will lead to the incomplete cancer treatment. To study the influence of blood flow on heating towards the above situation, concave spherical transducer was used as the heat source, and sound intensity distribution was obtained by Rayleigh integral. Pennes equation was solved with finite difference method, then the dose distribution was calculated to determine the thermal damage degree of tissue using quantitative relationship between the heating time and temperature. …

Hardware-In-The-Loop Test-Bed For Testing Of Lunar Rover Gnc Based On Vision-In-The-Loop, Zhiping Li, Zhang Zhi, Jianxin Chen, Wang Lei, Hehua Ju

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A hardware-in-the-loop and vision-in-the-loop test-bed for the testing of the lunar rover guide navigation control (GNC) subsystem was introduced. The composition of the test-bed and its dataflow were delicately designed. Then the vision-in-the-loop concept was designed. To overcome the problem of matching between the hazard-camera's focus and the images' distortion parameters, the distortion computation on the edge of the image pixels was ignored. Furthermore, to fulfill the closed-loop testing, the stereo vision function was accomplished by using multiple processes that made the images rapidly generated and the cameras' position and attitude parameters were supplied from rover's dynamics. Many …

Balanced Bee Colony Algorithm Based On Fitness Euclidean-Distance Ratio, Zhang Ming, Tian Na, Zhicheng Ji

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: According to the power exploration and poor exploitation ability of artificial bee colony (ABC), a balanced bee colony (FER-ABC) was proposed. This algorithm modified the search equation based on “fitness Euclidean-distance ratio” and differential algorithm (DE). The FER strategy is useful for multi-optimization and the DE is beneficial to single- optimization. In order to exploit the advantages to full, a new search structure was proposed which balanced the exploitation and exploration. For continuous problems, the simulations on twelve benchmark functions indicate that this FER-ABC algorithm can improve the accuracy effectively and increase the convergence rate apparently. For the discrete …

Digital Water Depth Processing For Multibeam Based On Average Slope Of Terrain, Jiacheng Yu, Xueqiang Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: According to the characteristic of multibeam bathymetry in which measurement depth is influenced by terrain, revision algorithm was proposed based on average slope along the horizontal and vertical terrain. Five depth revision factors were obtained, and a depth smooth template was designed. The initial scan depth data were revised by the 5 revision factors, and then the revised depth data were filtered by the template. Simulation results show that, the depth of measurement error can be reduced greatly after revision, the designed template relative to the conventional Gauss template has higher smooth precision, more adapted to the water …

Decoupling Control Research Of Neutral Buoyancy Plant Based On Cmac, Peilong Li, Wang Lei, Gaofeng Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To solve the control problem of neutral buoyancy plant, a dynamic decoupling and multidimensional compound control agorithm was proposed. By the plant force situation analysis, its six degree motion control model was developed. Then a dynamic decoupling neural network was designed with the merit of adaptation of the dynamic changing coupling situation. CMAC (Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller) and PID compound control was adopted in single channel control, whose advantage is that it combines the rapidity of CMAC feedforward control and anti-interference of PID feedback control. MATLAB simulation results show that the algorithm can control the plant's position and posture …