Actuator fault tolerant control using adaptive RBFNN fuzzy sliding mode controller for coaxial octorotor UAV

In this paper, a robust controller for a Six Degrees of Freedom (6 DOF) coaxial octorotor helicopter control is proposed in presence of actuator faults. Radial Base Function Neural Network (RBFNN), Fuzzy Logic Control approach (FLC) and Sliding Mode Control (SMC) technique are used to design a controller, named Fault Tolerant Control (FTC), for each subsystem of the octorotor helicopter. The proposed FTC scheme allows avoiding difficult modeling, attenuating the chattering effect of the SMC, reducing the rules number of the fuzzy controller, and guaranteeing the stability and the robustness of the system. The simulation results show that the proposed FTC can greatly alleviate the chattering effect, good tracking in presence of actuator faults.     

Responsive supply in fashion mass customisation systems with consumer returns

Mass customisation systems have been well-established in the fashion industry. Some fashion brands offer the mass customisation system for their selected seasonal products, and allow unconditional returns and full refund for any unsatisfied customers. Motivated by the above mentioned observed industrial practice and based on the growing importance of responsive supply, we explore in this paper the value of quick response supply in fashion mass customisation systems with consumer returns. We focus on investigating how the consumer returns rate affects (i) the optimal inventory decision of the fashion brand, (ii) the achievability of Pareto improvement in implementing quick response supply, (iii) the respective values of quick response for the fashion brand, the fashion supplier and also the fashion supply chain, and (iv) the impact of quick response supply on the environment. We interestingly find that consumer returns enhance the value of quick response supply to the fashion supplier. Quick response supply is also found to be helpful in reducing the environmental cost under the fashion mass customisation system with consumer returns.     

命名实体识别技术综述

命名实体识别是自然语言处理中的热点研究方向之一,目的是识别文本中的命名实体并将其归纳到相应的实体类型中。首先阐述了命名实体识别任务的定义、目标和意义,分析提出了命名实体识别的主要难点在于领域命名实体识别局限性、命名实体表述多样性和歧义性、命名实体的复杂性和开放性;然后介绍了命名实体识别研究的发展进程,从最初的规则和字典方法到传统的统计学习方法再到现在的深度学习方法,不断地将新技术应用到命名实体识别研究中以提高性能;接着系统梳理了当下命名实体识别任务中的若干热门研究点,分别是匮乏资源下的命名实体识别、细粒度命名实体识别、嵌套命名实体识别以及命名实体链接;最后针对评判命名实体识别模型的好坏,总结了常用的若干数据集和实验测评指标,并给出了未来的研究建议。     

Integrated multi-factory production and distribution scheduling applying vehicle routing approach

This paper introduces a new integrated multi-factory production and distribution scheduling problem in supply chain management. This supply chain consists of a number of factories joined together in a network configuration. The factories produce intermediate or finished products and supply them to other factories or to end customers that are distributed in various geographical zones. The problem consists of finding a production schedule together with a vehicle routing solution simultaneously to minimise the sum of tardiness cost and transportation cost. A mixed-integer programming model is developed to tackle the small-sized problems using CPLEX, optimally. Due to the NP-hardness, to deal with medium- and large-sized instances, this paper develops a novel Improved Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (IICA) employing a local search based on simulated annealing algorithm. Performance of the proposed IICA is compared with the optimal solution and also with four variants of population-based metaheuristics: Imperialist Competitive Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO), and Improved PSO. Based on the computational results, it is statistically shown that quality of the IICA’s solutions is the same as optimal ones solving small problems. It also outperforms other algorithms in finding near-optimal solutions dealing with medium and large instances in a reasonably short running time.     

Modeling and analysis for multilayered complex communication network of satellite navigation system

This study is extended to construct the network model, the node model, and the link model of complex communication network for satellite navigation system (CCN‐SNS) based on the hierarchical architecture. Firstly, a method called snapshots was proposed to describe the dynamic topology for CCN‐SNS; secondly, another method was put forward to model the different nodes of the CCN‐SNS; thirdly, the different links between every two different nodes were modeled. Therefore, based on the OPNET tools, a simulation for the CCN‐SNS, which contains the models that proposed earlier used to analyze the navigation accuracy and network transmission performance, was performed.     

改进的卷积神经网络单幅图像超分辨率重建

针对经典的基于卷积神经网络的单幅图像超分辨率重建方法网络较浅、提取的特征少、重建图像模糊等问题，提出了一种改进的卷积神经网络的单幅图像超分辨率重建方法，设计了由密集残差网络和反卷积网络组成的新型深度卷积神经网络结构。原始低分辨率图像输入网络，利用密集残差学习网络获取更丰富的有效特征并加快特征梯度流动，其次通过反卷积层将图像特征上采样到目标图像大小，再利用密集残差学习高维特征，最后融合不同卷积核提取的特征得到最终的重建图像。在Set5和Set14数据集上进行了实验，并和Bicubic、K-SVD、SelfEx、SRCNN等经典重建方法进行了对比，重建出的图像在整体清晰度和边缘锐度方面更好，另外峰值信噪比（PSNR）平均分别提高了2.69?dB、1.68?dB、0.74?dB和0.61?dB。实验结果表明，该方法能够获取更丰富的细节信息，得到更好的视觉效果，达到了图像超分辨率的增强任务。     

Modeling task completion time of in-vehicle information systems while driving with keystroke level modeling

The use of touchscreen-based in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) is increasing. To ensure safe driving, it is important to evaluate IVIS task performance during driving situations. Therefore, we proposed a model to assess the task completion time (TCT) of IVIS tasks while driving using a keystroke-level modeling (KLM) technique. The basic assumptions and heuristic rules of driver behaviors were considered. In addition, based on the characteristics of visual and manual IVIS interactions, we determined the basic unit operators (i.e., visual, manual, and mental operators). User experiments were conducted to determine the individual execution times of unit tasks and to measure the TCT of IVIS tasks while driving. Based on the heuristic rules for model development and individual task execution times, we derive a predictive model for the TCT of IVIS tasks. We used a regression analysis to validate the modeling procedure, showing that the observed TCT was found to have a strong positive correlation with the predicted time from the modeling process. The findings showed that the task completion time needed to perform a secondary task in a driving context can be predicted by KLM. This study provides meaningful insights into the design of touchscreen-based IVIS to enhance driving safety.     

Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Images Based on Microarray Camera

In the field of images and imaging, super-resolution (SR) reconstruction of images is a technique that converts one or more low-resolution (LR) images into a highresolution (HR) image. The classical two types of SR methods are mainly based on applying a single image or multiple images captured by a single camera. Microarray camera has the characteristics of small size, multi views, and the possibility of applying to portable devices. It has become a research hotspot in image processing. In this paper, we propose a SR reconstruction of images based on a microarray camera for sharpening and registration processing of array images. The array images are interpolated to obtain a HR image initially followed by a convolution neural network (CNN) procedure for enhancement. The convolution layers of our convolution neural network are 3×3 or 1×1 layers, of which the 1×1 layers are used to improve the network performance particularly. A bottleneck structure is applied to reduce the parameter numbers of the nonlinear mapping and to improve the nonlinear capability of the whole network. Finally, we use a 3×3 deconvolution layer to significantly reduce the number of parameters compared to the deconvolution layer of FSRCNN-s. The experiments show that the proposed method can not only ameliorate effectively the texture quality of the target image based on the array images information, but also further enhance the quality of the initial high resolution image by the improved CNN.     

建筑材料供应中断对承包商成本的冲击研究——基于鲁棒模型分析

为了揭示供应商与承包商为主体的二级供应链中，两者间耦合作用条件下发生的供应中断对供应商最优决策及对承包商成本的影响机制，且剖析供应中断对承包商成本的冲击效应，以供应商存在高退出风险为研究对象，在仅知产量均值与方差条件下，运用Scarf提出的“极大极小值”鲁棒决策方法，通过设定不同决策情况下的供应链系统反馈，分析了不同退出标准情况下二级供应链的博弈过程。基于理论支撑下的鲁棒模型数值仿真结果得出：在退出标准α为100时，中间变量在290~350范围内，供应商存在最优决策，但承包商最优决策无法确定；与α为0时相比，在订货量达到一定状态，即α为140时，承包商成本增加了1.5%，表明承包商成本与供应商退出标准呈正相关，退出标准越高，对承包商成本造成的冲击效应越大。此研究结论为供应链初期不稳定且信息不完整条件下发生的供应中断影响机理提供了新的视角。