Diagnostic of fuel cell air supply subsystems based on pressure signal records and statistical pattern recognition approach

A data-driven and application-oriented diagnosis tool is developed for Fuel Cell (FC) air supply subsystems. A bench emulating a FC air line is built to study normal and abnormal operations (clogged inlet, air leakage, error in compressor speed control) and data are collected using the air pressure transducer, which is usually implemented in FC generators. A pattern recognition approach is then applied to statistical features extracted from the pressure signal. The performance of the diagnosis strategy is evaluated from confusion matrices, associated to graphs and performance indicators. Two examples of compressors, air subsystem managements, and data records are considered to examine the method portability. Best classification rates (>95%) are obtained on test profiles, when the pressure regulation is disabled; fault stamps can thus be found in the pressure signal morphology. Regarding the frequency of data logging, both 1 kHz and 100 Hz values are found effective for fault isolations.     

试论如何建立煤矿安全生产的长效机制

针对中国煤炭行业安全生产管理的现状,阐述了几项强化煤矿安全管理的对策.通过强化措施的实施以达到建立煤矿安全生产的长效机制.     

Assessment and weighting of meteorological ensemble forecast members based on supervised machine learning with application to runoff simulations and flood warning

Numerical weather forecasts, such as meteorological forecasts of precipitation, are inherently uncertain. These uncertainties depend on model physics as well as initial and boundary conditions. Since precipitation forecasts form the input into hydrological models, the uncertainties of the precipitation forecasts result in uncertainties of flood forecasts. In order to consider these uncertainties, ensemble prediction systems are applied. These systems consist of several members simulated by different models or using a single model under varying initial and boundary conditions. However, a too wide uncertainty range obtained as a result of taking into account members with poor prediction skills may lead to underestimation or exaggeration of the risk of hazardous events. Therefore, the uncertainty range of model-based flood forecasts derived from the meteorological ensembles has to be restricted.In this paper, a methodology towards improving flood forecasts by weighting ensemble members according to their skills is presented. The skill of each ensemble member is evaluated by comparing the results of forecasts corresponding to this member with observed values in the past. Since numerous forecasts are required in order to reliably evaluate the skill, the evaluation procedure is time-consuming and tedious. Moreover, the evaluation is highly subjective, because an expert who performs it makes his decision based on his implicit knowledge.Therefore, approaches for the automated evaluation of such forecasts are required. Here, we present a semi-automated approach for the assessment of precipitation forecast ensemble members. The approach is based on supervised machine learning and was tested on ensemble precipitation forecasts for the area of the Mulde river basin in Germany. Based on the evaluation results of the specific ensemble members, weights corresponding to their forecast skill were calculated. These weights were then successfully used to reduce the uncertainties within rainfall-runoff simulations and flood risk predictions.     

DL-Learner—A framework for inductive learning on the Semantic Web

In this system paper, we describe the DL-Learner framework, which supports supervised machine learning using OWL and RDF for background knowledge representation. It can be beneficial in various data and schema analysis tasks with applications in different standard machine learning scenarios, e.g. in the life sciences, as well as Semantic Web specific applications such as ontology learning and enrichment. Since its creation in 2007, it has become the main OWL and RDF-based software framework for supervised structured machine learning and includes several algorithm implementations, usage examples and has applications building on top of the framework. The article gives an overview of the framework with a focus on algorithms and use cases.     

奉御董造与禁廷制样:两宋地方官窑执行的御用瓷设计制度

宋朝兴起的地方官窑为宫廷烧造御用瓷是官手工业发展的亮点之一,并逐步形成了两宋地方官窑执行的御用瓷设计制度,设计制度形成绝非偶然,它是宋朝强化皇权意志、器用制度与地方精湛制瓷工艺共同作用的结果。地方官窑主要执行有奉御董造制度、禁廷制样制度。体现的御用瓷设计制度特征十分明显:前期是指专门接受宫廷敕命,由专官管理,奉御烧造宫廷各种用瓷,有命则供,否则止;后期是指宫廷对御用瓷有专门的设计图式,特由礼部礼制局彩画制样后,向地方官窑降发图样烧造御用瓷。尤其是地方官窑执行的禁廷制样须索制度为明代御器厂和清代御窑厂所继承。     

Simplified supervised i-vector modeling with application to robust and efficient language identification and speaker verification

This paper presents a simplified and supervised i-vector modeling approach with applications to robust and efficient language identification and speaker verification. First, by concatenating the label vector and the linear regression matrix at the end of the mean supervector and the i-vector factor loading matrix, respectively, the traditional i-vectors are extended to label-regularized supervised i-vectors. These supervised i-vectors are optimized to not only reconstruct the mean supervectors well but also minimize the mean square error between the original and the reconstructed label vectors to make the supervised i-vectors become more discriminative in terms of the label information. Second, factor analysis (FA) is performed on the pre-normalized centered GMM first order statistics supervector to ensure each gaussian component's statistics sub-vector is treated equally in the FA, which reduces the computational cost by a factor of 25 in the simplified i-vector framework. Third, since the entire matrix inversion term in the simplified i-vector extraction only depends on one single variable (total frame number), we make a global table of the resulting matrices against the frame numbers’ log values. Using this lookup table, each utterance's simplified i-vector extraction is further sped up by a factor of 4 and suffers only a small quantization error. Finally, the simplified version of the supervised i-vector modeling is proposed to enhance both the robustness and efficiency. The proposed methods are evaluated on the DARPA RATS dev2 task, the NIST LRE 2007 general task and the NIST SRE 2010 female condition 5 task for noisy channel language identification, clean channel language identification and clean channel speaker verification, respectively. For language identification on the DARPA RATS, the simplified supervised i-vector modeling achieved 2%, 16%, and 7% relative equal error rate (EER) reduction on three different feature sets and sped up by a factor of more than 100 against the baseline i-vector method for the 120 s task. Similar results were observed on the NIST LRE 2007 30 s task with 7% relative average cost reduction. Results also show that the use of Gammatone frequency cepstral coefficients, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and spectro-temporal Gabor features in conjunction with shifted-delta-cepstral features improves the overall language identification performance significantly. For speaker verification, the proposed supervised i-vector approach outperforms the i-vector baseline by relatively 12% and 7% in terms of EER and norm old minDCF values, respectively.     

Supervised locally linear embedding projection (SLLEP) for machinery fault diagnosis

Following the intuition that the measured signal samples usually distribute on or near the nonlinear low-dimensional manifolds embedded in the high-dimensional signal space, this paper proposes a new machinery fault diagnosis approach based on supervised locally linear embedding projection (SLLEP). The approach first performs the recently proposed manifold learning algorithm supervised locally linear embedding (SLLE) on the high-dimensional fault signal samples to learn the intrinsic embedded multiple manifold features corresponding to different fault modes, and map them into a low-dimensional embedded space to achieve fault feature extraction. For dealing with the new fault sample, the approach then applies local linear regression to find the projection that best approximates the implicit mapping from high-dimensional samples to the embedding. Finally fault classification is carried out in the embedded manifold space. The ball bearing data and rotor bed data are both used to validate the proposed approach. The results show that the proposed approach obviously improves the fault classification performance and outperform the other traditional approaches.     

Adaptive local kernel-based learning for soft sensor modeling of nonlinear processes

Soft sensor techniques have been widely used to estimate product quality or other key indices which cannot be measured online by hardware sensors. Unfortunately, their estimation performance would deteriorate under certain circumstances, e.g., the change of the process characteristics, especially for global learning approaches. Meanwhile, local learning methods always only utilize input information to select relevant instances, which may lead to a waste of output information and inaccurate sample selection. To overcome these disadvantages, a new local modeling algorithm, adaptive local kernel-based learning scheme (ALKL) is proposed. First, a new similarity measurement using both input and output information is proposed and utilized in a supervised locality preserving projection technique to select relevant samples. Second, an adaptive weighted least squares support vector regression (AW-LSSVR) is employed to establish a local model and predict output indices for each query data. In AW-LSSVR, instead of using traditional cross-validation methods, the trade-off parameters are adjusted iteratively and the local model is updated recursively, which reduces the computational complexity a lot. The proposed ALKL is applied to an online crude oil endpoint prediction in an industrial fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) process. The experimental results demonstrate the high precision of our ALKL approach.     

基于监督局部线性嵌入的飞机目标识别方法

维数约简是目标识别的一个重要预处理步骤.由于飞机目标图像对各种空间变换(包括平移、尺度、旋转等变换)和观察角度、位置以及光照等因素都比较敏感,使得很多线性维数约简算法不能有效地用于飞机目标识别.局部线性嵌入(LLE)是一种有效的非线性维数约简方法,提出了一种基于LLE的监督LLE算法,并应用于多种条件下的飞机目标识别中...     

Application-independent feature selection for texture classification

Recent developments in texture classification have shown that the proper integration of texture methods from different families leads to significant improvements in terms of classification rate compared to the use of a single family of texture methods. In order to reduce the computational burden of that integration process, a selection stage is necessary. In general, a large number of feature selection techniques have been proposed. However, a specific texture feature selection must be typically applied given a particular set of texture patterns to be classified. This paper describes a new texture feature selection algorithm that is independent of specific classification problems/applications and thus must only be run once given a set of available texture methods. The proposed application-independent selection scheme has been evaluated and compared to previous proposals on both Brodatz compositions and complex real images.