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doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1225-4
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This paper surveys the recent advances on the modeling and control of hysteresis of piezoelectric actuators (PTAs) in the context of high precision applications of atomic force microscopes (AFMs). The current states, findings, and outcomes on hysteresis modeling and control in terms of achievable bandwidth and accuracy are discussed in detailed. Future challenges and the scope of possible research are presented to pave the way to video rate atomic force microscopy.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1237-0
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The recycling of construction and demolition waste (CDW) remains an urgent problem to be solved. In the industry, raw CDW needs to be manually sorted. To achieve high efficiency and avoid the risks of manual sorting, a sorting robot can be designed to grasp and sort CDW on a conveyor belt. But dynamic grasping on the conveyor belt is a challenge. We collected location information with a three-dimensional camera and then evaluated the method of dynamic robotic grasping. This paper discusses the grasping strategy of rough processed CDW on the conveyor belt, and implements the function of grasping and sorting on the recycling line. Furthermore, two new mathematical models for a robotic locating system are established, the accuracy of the model is tested with Matlab, and the selected model is applied to actual working conditions to verify the sorting accuracy. Finally, the robot kinematics parameters are optimized to improve the sorting efficiency through experiments in a real system, and it was concluded that when the conveyor speed was kept at around 0.25 m·s-1, better sorting results could be achieved. Increasing the speed and shortening the acceleration/deceleration time would reach the maximum efficiency when the load would allow it. Currently, the sorting efficiency reached approximately 2 000 pieces per hour, showing a high accuracy.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1236-1
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This work aims to reduce queries on big data to computations on small data, and hence make querying big data possible under bounded resources. A query \begin{document}$Q$\end{document} is boundedly evaluable when posed on any big dataset \begin{document}${\cal D}$\end{document}, there exists a fraction \begin{document}${\cal D}_Q$\end{document} of \begin{document}${\cal D}$\end{document} such that \begin{document}$Q({\cal D}) = Q({\cal D}_Q)$\end{document}, and the cost of identifying \begin{document}${\cal D}_Q$\end{document} is independent of the size of \begin{document}${\cal D}$\end{document}. It has been shown that with an auxiliary structure known as access schema, many queries in relational algebra (RA) are boundedly evaluable under the set semantics of RA. This paper extends the theory of bounded evaluation to RAaggr, i.e., RA extended with aggregation, under the bag semantics. (1) We extend access schema to bag access schema, to help us identify \begin{document}${\cal D}_Q$\end{document} for RAaggr queries \begin{document}$Q$\end{document}. (2) While it is undecidable to determine whether an RAaggr query is boundedly evaluable under a bag access schema, we identify special cases that are decidable and practical. (3) In addition, we develop an effective syntax for bounded RAaggr queries, i.e., a core subclass of boundedly evaluable RAaggr queries without sacrificing their expressive power. (4) Based on the effective syntax, we provide efficient algorithms to check the bounded evaluability of RAaggr queries and to generate query plans for bounded RAaggr queries. (5) As proof of concept, we extend PostgreSQL to support bounded evaluation. We experimentally verify that the extended system improves performance by orders of magnitude.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1235-2
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Object tracking is a very important topic in the field of computer vision. Many sophisticated appearance models have been proposed. Among them, the trackers based on holistic appearance information provide a compact notion of the tracked object and thus are robust to appearance variations under a small amount of noise. However, in practice, the tracked objects are often corrupted by complex noises (e.g., partial occlusions, illumination variations) so that the original appearance-based trackers become less effective. This paper presents a correntropy-based robust holistic tracking algorithm to deal with various noises. Then, a half-quadratic algorithm is carefully employed to minimize the correntropy-based objective function. Based on the proposed information theoretic algorithm, we design a simple and effective template update scheme for object tracking. Experimental results on publicly available videos demonstrate that the proposed tracker outperforms other popular tracking algorithms.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1233-4
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Air pollution is one of the most serious hazards to humans′ health nowadays, it is an invisible killer that takes many human lives every year. There are many pollutants existing in the atmosphere today, ozone being one of the most threatening pollutants. It can cause serious health damage such as wheezing, asthma, inflammation, and early mortality rates. Although air pollution could be forecasted using chemical and physical models, machine learning techniques showed promising results in this area, especially artificial neural networks. Despite its importance, there has not been any research on predicting ground-level ozone in Jordan. In this paper, we build a model for predicting ozone concentration for the next day in Amman, Jordan using a mixture of meteorological and seasonal variables of the previous day. We compare a multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLP), support vector regression (SVR), decision tree regression (DTR), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithms. We also explore the effect of applying various smoothing filters on the time-series data such as moving average, Holt-Winters smoothing and Savitzky-Golay filters. We find that MLP outperformed the other algorithms and that using Savitzky-Golay improved the results by 50% for coefficient of determination (R2) and 80% for root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE). Another point we focus on is the variables required to predict ozone concentration. In order to reduce the time required for prediction, we perform feature selection which greatly reduces the time by 91% as well as shrinking the number of features required for prediction to the previous day values of ozone, humidity, and temperature. The final model scored 98.653% for R2, 1.016 ppb for RMSE and 0.800 ppb for MAE.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1232-5
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Large-scale mobile social networks (MSNs) facilitate communications through mobile devices. The users of these networks can use mobile devices to access, share and distribute information. With the increasing number of users on social networks, the large volume of shared information and its propagation has created challenges for users. One of these challenges is whether users can trust one another. Trust can play an important role in users′ decision making in social networks, so that, most people share their information based on their trust on others, or make decisions by relying on information provided by other users. However, considering the subjective and perceptive nature of the concept of trust, the mapping of trust in a computational model is one of the important issues in computing systems of social networks. Moreover, in social networks, various communities may exist regarding the relationships between users. These connections and communities can affect trust among users and its complexity. In this paper, using user characteristics on social networks, a fuzzy clustering method is proposed and the trust between users in a cluster is computed using a computational model. Moreover, through the processes of combination, transition and aggregation of trust, the trust value is calculated between users who are not directly connected. Results show the high performance of the proposed trust inference method.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1230-7
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This paper presents an adaptive equivalent-input-disturbance (AEID) approach that contains a new adjustable gain to improve disturbance-rejection performance. A linear matrix inequality is derived to design the parameters of a control system. An adaptive law for the adjustable gain is presented based on the combination of the root locus method and Lyapunov stability theory to guarantee the stability of the AEID-based system. The adjustable gain is limited in an allowable range and the information for adjusting is obtained from the state of the system. Simulation results show that the method is effective and robust. A comparison with the conventional EID approach demonstrates the validity and superiority of the method.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1231-6
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting social, communicative, and repetitive behavior. The phenotypic heterogeneity of ASD makes timely and accurate diagnosis challenging, requiring highly trained clinical practitioners. The development of automated approaches to ASD classification, based on integrated psychophysiological measures, may one day help expedite the diagnostic process. This paper provides a novel contribution for classifing ASD using both thermographic and EEG data. The methodology used in this study extracts a variety of feature sets and evaluates the possibility of using several learning models. Mean, standard deviation, and entropy values of the EEG signals and mean temperature values of regions of interest (ROIs) in facial thermographic images were extracted as features. Feature selection is performed to filter less informative features based on correlation. The classification process utilizes Naïve Bayes, random forest, logistic regression, and multi-layer perceptron algorithms. The integration of EEG and thermographic features have achieved an accuracy of 94% with both logistic regression and multi-layer perceptron classifiers. The results have shown that the classification accuracies of most of the learning models have increased after integrating facial thermographic data with EEG.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1226-3
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In order to improve the low positioning accuracy and execution efficiency of the robot binocular vision, a binocular vision positioning method based on coarse-fine stereo matching is proposed to achieve object positioning. The random fern is used in the coarse matching to identify objects in the left and right images, and the pixel coordinates of the object center points in the two images are calculated to complete the center matching. In the fine matching, the right center point is viewed as an estimated value to set the search range of the right image, in which the region matching is implemented to find the best matched point of the left center point. Then, the similar triangle principle of the binocular vision model is used to calculate the 3D coordinates of the center point, achieving fast and accurate object positioning. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the object scene images and the robotic arm grasping platform. The experimental results show that the average absolute positioning error and average relative positioning error of the proposed method are 8.22 mm and 1.96% respectively when the object′s depth distance is within 600 mm, the time consumption is less than 1.029 s. The method can meet the needs of the robot grasping system, and has better accuracy and robustness.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1222-7
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This paper proposes a novel less-conservative non-monotonic Lyapunov-Krasovskii stability approach for stability analysis of discrete time-delay systems. In this method, monotonically decreasing requirements of the Lyapunov-Krasovskii method are replaced with non-monotonic ones. The Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is allowed to increase in some steps, but the overall trend should be decreasing. The model of practical systems used for stability analysis usually contain uncertainty. Therefore, firstly a non-monotonic stability condition is derived for certain discrete time-delay systems, then robust non-monotonic stability conditions are proposed for uncertain systems. Finally, a novel stabilization algorithm is derived based on the introduced non-monotonic stability condition. The Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and the controller are obtained by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMI) or iterative LMI based nonlinear minimization. The proposed theorems are first evaluated by some numerical examples, and then by simulation and implementation on the pH neutralizing process plant.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-020-1221-8
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In industry, it is becoming common to detect and recognize industrial workpieces using deep learning methods. In this field, the lack of datasets is a big problem, and collecting and annotating datasets in this field is very labor intensive. The researchers need to perform dataset annotation if a dataset is generated by themselves. It is also one of the restrictive factors that the current method based on deep learning cannot expand well. At present, there are very few workpiece datasets for industrial fields, and the existing datasets are generated from ideal workpiece computer aided design (CAD) models, for which few actual workpiece images were collected and utilized. We propose an automatic industrial workpiece dataset generation method and an automatic ground truth annotation method. Included in our methods are three algorithms that we proposed: a point cloud based spatial plane segmentation algorithm to segment the workpieces in the real scene and to obtain the annotation information of the workpieces in the images captured in the real scene; a random multiple workpiece generation algorithm to generate abundant composition datasets with random rotation workpiece angles and positions; and a tangent vector based contour tracking and completion algorithm to get improved contour images. With our procedures, annotation information can be obtained using the algorithms proposed in this paper. Upon completion of the annotation process, a json format file is generated. Faster R-CNN (Faster R-convolutional neural network), SSD (single shot multibox detector) and YOLO (you only look once: unified, real-time object detection) are trained using the datasets proposed in this paper. The experimental results show the effectiveness and integrity of this dataset generation and annotation method.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-019-1220-9
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Renewable energies have a high impact on power energy production and reduction of environmental pollution worldwide, so high efforts have been made to improve renewable technologies and research about them. This paper presents the thermal performance results obtained by simulation and experimental tests of a parabolic trough collector with central receiver coupled to Fresnel lens, under different configurations on the pipe. The simulation method was computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis in SolidWorks ® software tool, which works with Naiver-Stokes equations to converge on a solution. Experimental tests were formed with all configurations proposed and three observations for each one, a total of 12 observations were performed in all research. As a result, the best thermal performance in simulation was achieved with the Fresnel lens and black pipe collector, with a maximum temperature of 116 °C under 1 000 W/m2 radiation, the same system achieved in experimental tests a maximum temperature of 96 °C with a radiation of 983 W/m2.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-019-1219-2
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Accurate classification of cardiac arrhythmias is a crucial task because of the non-stationary nature of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. In a life-threatening situation, an automated system is necessary for early detection of beat abnormalities in order to reduce the mortality rate. In this paper, we propose an automatic classification system of ECG beats based on the multi-domain features derived from the ECG signals. The experimental study was evaluated on ECG signals obtained from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. The feature set comprises eight empirical mode decomposition (EMD) based features, three features from variational mode decomposition (VMD) and four features from RR intervals. In total, 15 features are ranked according to a ranker search approach and then used as input to the support vector machine (SVM) and C4.5 decision tree classifiers for classifying six types of arrhythmia beats. The proposed method achieved best result in C4.5 decision tree classier with an accuracy of 98.89% compared to cubic-SVM classifier which achieved an accuracy of 95.35% only. Besides accuracy measures, all other parameters such as sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp) and precision rates of 95.68%, 99.28% and 95.8% was achieved better in C4.5 classifier. Also the computational time of 0.65 s with an error rate of 0.11 was achieved which is very less compared to SVM. The multi-domain based features with decision tree classifier obtained the best results in classifying cardiac arrhythmias hence the system could be used efficiently in clinical practices.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-019-1218-3
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Remote sensing image registration is still a challenging task owing to the significant influence of nonlinear differences between remote sensing images. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel approach with regard to feature-based remote sensing image registration. There are two key contributions: 1) we bring forward an improved strategy of composite nonlinear diffusion filtering according to the scale factors in multi-scale space and 2) we design a gradually decreasing resolution of multi-scale pyramid space. And a binary code string is served as feature descriptors to improve matching efficiency. Extensive experiments of different categories of remote image datasets on feature extraction and feature registration are performed. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme compared with other classical algorithms in terms of correct matching ratio, accuracy and computation efficiency.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-019-1217-4
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Dragline excavators are closed-loop mining manipulators that operate using a rigid multilink framework and rope and rigging system, which constitute its front-end assembly. The arrangements of dragline front-end assembly provide the necessary motion of the dragline bucket within its operating radius. The assembly resembles a five-link closed kinematic chain that has two independent generalized coordinates of drag and hoist ropes and one dependent generalized coordinate of dump rope. Previous models failed to represent the actual closed loop of dragline front-end assembly, nor did they describe the maneuverability of dragline ropes under imposed geometric constraints. Therefore, a three degrees of freedom kinematic model of the dragline front-end is developed using the concept of generalized speeds. It contains all relevant configuration and kinematic constraint conditions to perform complete digging and swinging cycles. The model also uses three inputs of hoist and drag ropes linear and a rotational displacement of swinging along their trajectories. The inverse kinematics is resolved using a feedforward displacement algorithm coupled with the Newton-Raphson method to accurately estimate the trajectories of the ropes. The trajectories are solved only during the digging phase and the singularity was eliminated using Baumgarte′s stabilization technique (BST), with appropriate inequality constraint equations. It is shown that the feedforward displacement algorithm can produce accurate trajectories without the need to manually solve the inverse kinematics from the geometry. The research findings are well in agreement with the dragline real operational limits and they contribute to the efficiency and the reduction in machine downtime due to better control strategies of the dragline cycles.
doi: 10.1007/s11633-017-1076-9
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doi: 10.1007/s11633-017-1064-0
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doi: 10.1007/s11633-016-1026-y
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doi: 10.1007/s11633-016-1000-8
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doi: 10.1007/s11633-015-0948-0
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doi: 10.1007/s11633-016-0993-3
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Energy Efficient Scheduler of Aperiodic jobs for Real-Time Embedded Systems
doi: 10.1007/s11633-016-0968-4
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