LearningADD: Machine learning based acoustic defect detection in factory automation

Defect inspection of glass bottles in the beverage industrial is of significance to prevent unexpected losses caused by the damage of bottles during manufacturing and transporting. The commonly used manual methods suffer from inefficiency, excessive space consumption, and beverage wastes after filling. To replace the manual operations in the pre-filling detection with improved efficiency and reduced costs, this paper proposes a machine learning based Acoustic Defect Detection (LearningADD) system. Moreover, to realize scalable deployment on edge and cloud computing platforms, deployment strategies especially partitioning and allocation of functionalities need to be compared and optimized under realistic constraints such as latency, complexity, and capacity of the platforms. In particular, to distinguish the defects in glass bottles efficiently, the improved Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) is employed to extend the extracted feature sets, and then Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) based feature selection is applied to optimize the feature sets. Five deployment strategies are quantitatively compared to optimize real-time performances based on the constraints measured from a real edge and cloud environment. The LearningADD algorithms are validated by the datasets from a real-life beverage factory, and the F-measure of the system reaches 98.48 %. The proposed deployment strategies are verified by experiments on private cloud platforms, which shows that the Distributed Heavy Edge deployment outperforms other strategies, benefited from the parallel computing and edge computing, where the Defect Detection Time for one bottle is less than 2.061 s in 99 % probability.     

网络信息资源分级体系框架的构建

网络信息分级是保障网络信息内容安全的重要手段。主要构建了网络信息资源分级体系框架六元组模型,分析了相关组成元素的内容,以适应不同行业应用。     

基于自由摆的平板精确控制与激光追踪系统

以TI公司的MSP430F5438单片机为控制核心,结合步进电机和精密电位器WDD35D-4,实现了基于自由摆的平板控制与激光追踪系统。当摆杆摆角为45°～60°时,平板可以承载8枚一元硬币,并在5个摆动周期内维持稳定;当摆杆摆角为30°～60°时,固定在摆杆平板上的激光笔可以在15s内找到并跟踪1.5m远处的靶心。     

Optimal Performance in Tracking Stochastic Signal Under Disturbance Rejection

The analysis method of optimal tracking performance is proposed for multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) linear time‐invariant (LTI) systems under disturbance rejection. An H₂ criterion of the error signal between the output of the plant and the reference signal is used as a measure for the tracking performance. Spectral factorization is applied to obtain the optimal solution of the system tracking error. The explicit expressions are derived for this minimal tracking error with respect to random reference signals under disturbance rejection. It is shown that the nonminimum phase zeros, the zero direction, the unstable poles, the pole direction of a given plant, statistical characteristics of the reference input signal, and disturbance signal have a negative effect on a feedback system's ability to reduce the system error with disturbance rejection. The results show that the optimal tracking performance will further be damaged because of disturbance rejection. Some typical examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results.     

Weighted principal component extraction with genetic algorithms

Pattern recognition techniques have been widely used in a variety of scientific disciplines including computer vision, artificial intelligence, biology, and so forth. Although many methods present satisfactory performances, they still have several weak points, thus leaving a lot of space for further improvements. In this paper, we propose two performance-driven subspace learning methods by extending the principal component analysis (PCA) and the kernel PCA (KPCA). Both methods adopt a common structure where genetic algorithms are employed to pursue optimal subspaces. Because the proposed feature extractors aim at achieving high classification accuracy, enhanced generalization ability can be expected. Extensive experiments are designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in real-world problems including object recognition and a number of machine learning tasks. Comparative studies with other state-of-the-art techniques show that the methods in this paper are capable of enhancing generalization ability for pattern recognition systems.     

A hybrid stock selection model using genetic algorithms and support vector regression

In the areas of investment research and applications, feasible quantitative models include methodologies stemming from soft computing for prediction of financial time series, multi-objective optimization of investment return and risk reduction, as well as selection of investment instruments for portfolio management based on asset ranking using a variety of input variables and historical data, etc. Among all these, stock selection has long been identified as a challenging and important task. This line of research is highly contingent upon reliable stock ranking for successful portfolio construction. Recent advances in machine learning and data mining are leading to significant opportunities to solve these problems more effectively. In this study, we aim at developing a methodology for effective stock selection using support vector regression (SVR) as well as genetic algorithms (GAs). We first employ the SVR method to generate surrogates for actual stock returns that in turn serve to provide reliable rankings of stocks. Top-ranked stocks can thus be selected to form a portfolio. On top of this model, the GA is employed for the optimization of model parameters, and feature selection to acquire optimal subsets of input variables to the SVR model. We will show that the investment returns provided by our proposed methodology significantly outperform the benchmark. Based upon these promising results, we expect this hybrid GA-SVR methodology to advance the research in soft computing for finance and provide an effective solution to stock selection in practice.     

CAD与CAPP集成研究回转体类零件特征识别

本文研究了回转体轴类,轴套类零件的特征识别。对这类零件常用的特征单元进行了定义,描述了这类零件的特征模型:介绍了它的识别方法和特征参数定义方法。     

Effective vehicle width in self-paced tracking

In self-paced tracking tasks, such as driving, the speed is related to the lateral tolerance. This lateral tolerance has been varied in two ways in previous studies by changing the track width for constant vehicle width and vice versa. The current study used both an automobile driving task and a computer/mouse task to show that these two ways of varying lateral tolerance did not produce equivalent results. Subjects behaved as if vehicle width were less important than track width. Speeds and errors both increased as vehicle width increased for a constant lateral tolerance. This could have safety consequences when driving in confined spaces.     

基于内容的静态语义概念视频检索方法研究

本文针对互联网视频检索技术的发展,阐述了目前主流视频搜索引擎的技术现状,分析了互联网视频检索的关键技术,特别是对于视频特征的提取技术。本文的创新点是提出了一种通用的基于内容的静态语义视频检索方法,该方法可以弥补基于文本视频检索的有关不足,并且在TRECVID的视频概念检索数据的静态语义概念中得到验证,运行稳定。     

均衡化特征匹配的非刚体细胞形态跟踪

提出利用均衡化特征匹配来进行非刚性细胞形体跟踪的方法。采用重启动的随机游走方法建立并求解特征匹配概率模型,利用双向均衡方法对匹配邻接矩阵进行均衡化处理,得到指定目标与待跟踪目标之间的精确匹配,以获得目标的定位跟踪结果。同时利用特征匹配结果进行目标的自动标定,并应用图像分割方法进行目标的精确轮廓跟踪。实验结果表明,将该方法应用于视频中动态背景下的运动细胞形态跟踪时,在背景相似度较高及目标迅速移动的条件下,表现出了良好的性能,与同类方法相比可获得较高的定位精度以及更为准确的目标轮廓。