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Real-Time Hierarchical Map Segmentation For Coordinating Multi-Robot Exploration, Tianze Luo, Zichen Chen, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Coordinating a team of autonomous agents to explore an environment can be done by partitioning the map of the environment into segments and allocating the segments as targets for the individual agents to visit. However, given an unknown environment, map segmentation must be conducted in a continuous and incremental manner. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hierarchical map segmentation method for supporting multi-agent exploration of indoor environments, wherein clusters of regions of segments are formed hierarchically from randomly sampled points in the environment. Each cluster is then assigned with a cost-utility value based on the minimum cost possible …

Safe Delivery Of Critical Services In Areas With Volatile Security Situation Via A Stackelberg Game Approach, Tien Mai, Arunesh Sinha

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Vaccine delivery in under-resourced locations with security risks is not just challenging but also life threatening. The COVID pandemic and the need to vaccinate added even more urgency to this issue. Motivated by this problem, we propose a general framework to set-up limited temporary (vaccination) centers that balance physical security and desired (vaccine) service coverage with limited resources. We set-up the problem as a Stackelberg game between the centers operator (defender) and an adversary, where the set of centers is not fixed a priori but is part of the decision output. This results in a mixed combinatorial and continuous optimization …

A Fair Incentive Scheme For Community Health Workers, Avinandan Bose, Tracey Li, Arunesh Sinha, Tien Mai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Community health workers (CHWs) play a crucial role in the last mile delivery of essential health services to under-served populations in low-income countries. Many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provide training and support to enable CHWs to deliver health services to their communities, with no charge to the recipients of the services. This includes monetary compensation for the work that CHWs perform, which is broken down into a series of well-defined tasks. In this work, we partner with a NGO D-Tree International to design a fair monetary compensation scheme for tasks performed by CHWs in the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar in Tanzania, …

Drone Detection Using Yolov5, Burchan Aydin, Subroto Singha

Faculty Publications

The rapidly increasing number of drones in the national airspace, including those for recreational and commercial applications, has raised concerns regarding misuse. Autonomous drone detection systems offer a probable solution to overcoming the issue of potential drone misuse, such as drug smuggling, violating people’s privacy, etc. Detecting drones can be difficult, due to similar objects in the sky, such as airplanes and birds. In addition, automated drone detection systems need to be trained with ample amounts of data to provide high accuracy. Real-time detection is also necessary, but this requires highly configured devices such as a graphical processing unit (GPU). …

Skeleton-Based Hand Gesture Recognition Using Data-Level Fusion, Oluwaleke Yusuf

Theses and Dissertations

Hand Gesture Recognition (HGR) is a form of perceptual computing that allows artificial systems to capture and interpret human gestures. HGR has applications in human-machine interaction, virtual reality, augmented reality, and human behavior analysis. The human hand can assume a near-infinite number of poses and orientations to form myriad gestures, thus increasing the difficulty of the HGR task.

The hand skeleton of connected joints effectively describes the hand’s geometric shape and thus contains richer semantic gesture information while eliminating noise from individual differences in physical hand characteristics. The efficacy and computational efficiency of skeleton-based HGR frameworks can be significantly enhanced …

Predicting Suicidal And Self-Injurious Events In A Correctional Setting Using Ai Algorithms On Unstructured Medical Notes And Structured Data, Hongxia Lu, Alex Barrett, Albert Pierce, Jianwei Zheng, Yun Wang, Chun Chiang, Cyril Rakovski

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Suicidal and self-injurious incidents in correctional settings deplete the institutional and healthcare resources, create disorder and stress for staff and other inmates. Traditional statistical analyses provide some guidance, but they can only be applied to structured data that are often difficult to collect and their recommendations are often expensive to act upon. This study aims to extract information from medical and mental health progress notes using AI algorithms to make actionable predictions of suicidal and self-injurious events to improve the efficiency of triage for health care services and prevent suicidal and injurious events from happening at California's Orange County Jails. …

Arl-Wavelet-Bpf Optimization Using Pso Algorithm For Bearing Fault Diagnosis, Muhammad Ahsan, Dariusz Bismor, Muhammad Arslan Manzoor

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Rotating element bearings are the backbone of every rotating machine. Vibration signals measured from these bearings are used to diagnose the health of the machine, but when the signal-to-noise ratio is low, it is challenging to diagnose the fault frequency. In this paper, a new method is proposed to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by applying the Asymmetric Real Laplace wavelet Bandpass Filter (ARL-wavelet-BPF). The Gaussian function of the ARL-wavelet represents an excellent BPF with smooth edges which helps to minimize the ripple effects. The bandwidth and center frequency of the ARL-wavelet-BPF are optimized using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. …

Artificial Intelligence, Basic Skills, And Quantitative Literacy, Gizem Karaali

Numeracy

The introduction in November 2022 of ChatGPT, a freely available language-based artificial intelligence, has led to concerns among some educators about the feasibility and benefits of teaching basic writing and critical thinking skills to students in the context of easily accessed, AI-based cheating mechanisms. As of now, ChatGPT can write pretty convincing student-level prose, but it is still not very good at answering quantitatively rich questions. Therefore, for the time being, the preceding concerns may not be shared by a large portion of the numeracy education community. However, as Google and WolframAlpha are definitely capable of answering standard and some …

Synthesize Heterogeneous Biological Knowledge Via Representation Learning For Alzheimer’S Disease Drug Repurposing, Xiaoqian Jiang, Yejin Kim

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Developing drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease has been extremely challenging and costly due to limited knowledge of underlying mechanisms and therapeutic targets. To address the challenge in AD drug development, we developed a multi-task deep learning pipeline that learns biological interactions and AD risk genes, then utilizes multi-level evidence on drug efficacy to identify repurposable drug candidates. Using the embedding derived from the model, we ranked drug candidates based on evidence from post-treatment transcriptomic patterns, efficacy in preclinical models, population-based treatment effects, and clinical trials. We mechanistically validated the top-ranked candidates in neuronal cells, identifying drug combinations with efficacy in …

Chatgpt And The Rise Of Ai, Derek C. Schuurman

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Derek C. Schuurman considers the rise of AI from a Christian perspective in January 2023 in a blog post for the Christian Scholar's Review asking questions such as "how are people distinct from machines?" and "how can we discern norms for the responsible use of AI?" This blog post was one of the 2024 Word Awards Winners Honouring the Best of Canadian Christian Writing from 2023.

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Integrated Organizational Machine Learning For Aviation Flight Data, Michael J. Pritchard, Paul Thomas, Eric Webb, Jon Martin, Austin Walden

National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS)

An increased availability of data and computing power has allowed organizations to apply machine learning techniques to various fleet monitoring activities. Additionally, our ability to acquire aircraft data has increased due to the miniaturization of small form factor computing machines. Aircraft data collection processes contain many data features in the form of multivariate time-series (continuous, discrete, categorical, etc.) which can be used to train machine learning models. Yet, three major challenges still face many flight organizations 1) integration and automation of data collection frameworks, 2) data cleanup and preparation, and 3) embedded machine learning framework. Data cleanup and preparation has …

Research On Intelligent Optimization Method Of Combat Sos Based On Gabc Algorithm, Hucheng Zhang, Jingyu Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problem that exploratory simulation can not traverse the solution space quickly, and provide the auxiliary decision-making scheme in real time, a genetic algorithm based on classifier is proposed. The framework of simulation optimization method based on the algorithm is established. It can find the optimal solution according to the dynamic changes of key factors and decision targets of the system, which is suitable for such as seeking the best efficiency-cost ratio scheme and the optimization of the optimal power deployment and other systems. Based on the simulation bed system of the National Defense …

Chameleon Swarm Algorithm For Segmental Variation Learning Of Population And S-Type Weight, Damin Zhang, Yi Wang, Linna Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: It is the best choice for intelligent algorithms to be applied to specific fields to explore strong searching ability, good reliability and stability.In this paper, aiming at the defects of chameleon swarm algorithm, such as unstable solution, low convergence accuracy and unbalanced search and development, a chameleon swarm algorithm (RMSCSA) based on population diversity segmental mutation learning and S-type weight is proposed. The refraction mirror learning strategy (RML) is introduced to make the chameleon more consistent with the observation in nature and enhance its diversity. The introduction of segmental variation of population diversity can keep the individuals with poor …

Development Opportunities And Application Prospects Of Aero-Engine Simulation Technology Under Digital Transformation, Jianguo Cao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The development of China's social economy and the improvement of its national defense capability in the new era put forward higher requirements for the development of aero-engines. It is urgent to promote the digital transformation of aero-engines in order to achieve coordinated, agile and efficient aero-engine development. Based on the current research and development of aero-engine in China, this paper clarifies the new connotation of "speediness and efficiency, accurate mapping, comprehensive coverage, and dynamic prediction" given by the development of emerging cutting-edge technologies to aero-engine simulation technology, as well as the new technical features of "spatio-temporal ubiquity, data driven, …

Research On Mixed Flow Line Balancing And Scheduling Optimization With Multiple Constraints, Zhenping Li, Ying Shi, Lingyun Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the phenomena of unbalanced load between stations and product accumulation caused by unreasonable design of mixed flow line in G enterprise, based on the matching relationship between processes and stations, cycle time, process priority and other constraint, with the objectives of reducing the number of stations, balancing the workload between stations, and reducing the products waiting time, a multi-objective mixed integer programming model for mixed flow line balance and product scheduling problem is established. A hierarchical algorithm and a hybrid heuristic algorithm are designed respectively; the accuracy of the hierarchical algorithm is verified by small-scale …

Large-Scale Multi-Objective Natural Computation Based On Dimensionality Reduction And Clustering, Weidong Ji, Yuqi Yue, Xu Wang, Ping Lin

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In multi-objective optimization problems, as the number of decision variables increases, the optimization ability decreases significantly. To solve "dimension disaster", a large-scale multi-objective natural computation method based on dimensionality reduction and clustering is proposed. The decision variables are optimized by locally linear embedding(LLE) to obtain the representation of high-dimensional variables in the low-dimensional space, then the individuals are grouped through K-means to select the appropriate guide individuals for the population to strengthen the convergence and diversity. To verify the effectiveness, the method is applied to the multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm and the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm. The convergence …

Research On Vr Experience Comfort Based On Motion Perception, Wei Quan, Chao Wang, Xuena Geng, Cheng Han

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A VR video comfort evaluation model based on motion perception is proposed for viewers who will feel discomfort such as vertigo and nausea after a virtual reality (VR) experience. By performing dense optical flow estimation on stereoscopic VR video and calculating the video frame velocity matrix by analyzing the horizontal and vertical motions in the scene, the frame acceleration feature extraction methods based on frame difference method and based on time domain are proposed. Taking the extracted velocity, acceleration and other motions features as input, a model is established using the support vector regression algorithm, and VR video experience …

Drosophila Retina Simulation System And The Emergence Of Orientation Selectivity, Ziyu Liu, Yiran Zhuo, Zhuoyi Song

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To investigate the biophysical mechanisms underlying the Drosophila retinal computations, a piece of simulation software is constructed. By constructing the connectivity of the optical structure of the Drosophila compound eye with the neural network and retinal neuronal information encoding processes,, the retinal transformation from the light to the electrical signals is simulated. The photo-transduction model is optimized by a stochastic process. The generating mechanism of orientation selectivity (OS) is explored in the Drosophila retina's output neurons through a simulation system. Experiments show that with comparable simulation accuracy, the simulation speed increases by 40 times. The software can now be …

Research On Modeling And Simulation Of Application Efficiency Of Tactical Medical Equipment, Guowei Lu, Xueqiang Tao, Deguang Duan, Hao Li, Zerui Zhang, En Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In view of the lack of effective modeling and simulation means for the current research on the application efficiency of tactical medical treatment equipment in our army, a modeling and simulation research framework for the application effectiveness of equipment through the wounded model, equipment model and evaluation model is constructed. Based on the multi-agent method in Anylogic8.7.0 modeling and simulation platform, the casualty generation and its circulation process among medical treatment equipment are simulated. In the context of a tactical medical exercis, the overall support capability of medical treatment equipment is evaluated scientifically and quantitatively, and the key equipment …

Simulation-Based Adaptive Dynamic Scheduling For Bi-Objective Parallel Multi-Processor Open Shop, Yarong Chen, Shuchen Guan, Chengjun Huang, Lixia Zhu, Fuhder Chou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the parallel multi-processor open shop scheduling problem with uncertain job's release time,processing time and urgent jobs, an adaptive dynamic method integrating FlexSim simulation model and NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm is designed to optimize the bi-objectives of TWC(total weighted completion time) and TWT(total weighted tardiness). By using the FlexSim simulation model, this method determines the adaptive scheduling cycle according to the dynamic workload of the open shop, and conducts right-shift rescheduling to the urgent jobs. NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm is used to generate the bi-objective optimization scheduling scheme. Experimental results of a grain sorting shop show that compared with the rule-based real-time …