Development of an Optimized Neural Network for the Detection of Pipe Defects Using a Microwave Signal

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wissam M. Alobaidi ◽  
Entidhar A. Alkuam ◽  
Eric Sandgren
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Microwave Signal ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Optimal Topology ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Optimal Weights ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Data Files

Neural network technology is applied to the detection of a pipe wall thinning (PWT) in a pipe using a microwave signal reflection as an input. The location, depth, length, and profile geometry of the PWT are predicted by the neural network from input parameters taken from the resonance frequency plots for training data generated through computer simulation. The network is optimized using an evolutionary optimization routine, using the 108 training data samples to minimize the errors produced by the neural network model. The optimizer specified not only the optimal weights for the network links but also the optimal topology for the network itself. The results demonstrate the potential of the approach in that when data files were input that were not part of the training data set, fairly accurate predictions were made by the network. The results from the initial network models can be utilized to improve the future performance of the network.

scholarly journals Bootstrapping a Neural Morphological Generator from Morphological Analyzer Output for Inuktitut

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Micher
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Set Size ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Surface Character ◽  
Finite State ◽  
Character Sequences ◽  
Finite State Transducer

We present a method for building a morphological generator from the output of an existing analyzer for Inuktitut, in the absence of a two-way finite state transducer which would normally provide this functionality. We make use of a sequence to sequence neural network which “translates” underlying Inuktitut morpheme sequences into surface character sequences. The neural network uses only the previous and the following morphemes as context. We report a morpheme accuracy of approximately 86%. We are able to increase this accuracy slightly by passing deep morphemes directly to output for unknown morphemes. We do not see significant improvement when increasing training data set size, and postulate possible causes for this.

Analysis of Fin-Tube Evaporator Performance With Limited Experimental Data Using Artificial Neural Networks

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Pacheco-Vega ◽  
Mihir Sen ◽  
Rodney L. McClain
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Heat Rate ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Activation Function ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Fin Tube

Abstract In the current study we consider the problem of accuracy in heat rate estimations from artificial neural network models of heat exchangers used for refrigeration applications. The network configuration is of the feedforward type with a sigmoid activation function and a backpropagation algorithm. Limited experimental measurements from a manufacturer are used to show the capability of the neural network technique in modeling the heat transfer in these systems. Results from this exercise show that a well-trained network correlates the data with errors of the same order as the uncertainty of the measurements. It is also shown that the number and distribution of the training data are linked to the performance of the network when estimating the heat rates under different operating conditions, and that networks trained from few tests may give large errors. A methodology based on the cross-validation technique is presented to find regions where not enough data are available to construct a reliable neural network. The results from three tests show that the proposed methodology gives an upper bound of the estimated error in the heat rates.

An explicit methodology for manufacturing cost–tolerance modeling and optimization using the neural network integrated with the genetic algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-443
Author(s):  
A. Saravanan ◽  
J. Jerald ◽  
A. Delphin Carolina Rani
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Neural Network Model ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Manufacturing Cost ◽  
Genetic Operators ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Neural Network

AbstractThe objective of the paper is to develop a new method to model the manufacturing cost–tolerance and to optimize the tolerance values along with its manufacturing cost. A cost–tolerance relation has a complex nonlinear correlation among them. The property of a neural network makes it possible to model the complex correlation, and the genetic algorithm (GA) is integrated with the best neural network model to optimize the tolerance values. The proposed method used three types of neural network models (multilayer perceptron, backpropagation network, and radial basis function). These network models were developed separately for prismatic and rotational parts. For the construction of network models, part size and tolerance values were used as input neurons. The reference manufacturing cost was assigned as the output neuron. The qualitative production data set was gathered in a workshop and partitioned into three files for training, testing, and validation, respectively. The architecture of the network model was identified based on the best regression coefficient and the root-mean-square-error value. The best network model was integrated into the GA, and the role of genetic operators was also studied. Finally, two case studies from the literature were demonstrated in order to validate the proposed method. A new methodology based on the neural network model enables the design and process planning engineers to propose an intelligent decision irrespective of their experience.

System Identification for Nonlinear Maneuvering of Ships Using Neural Network

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
G. Rajesh ◽  
G. Giri Rajasekhar ◽  
S. K. Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
System Identification ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Marquardt Algorithm ◽  
Hydrodynamic Derivatives ◽  
Hidden Layer

This paper deals with the application of nonparametric system identification to the nonlinear maneuvering of ships using neural network method. The maneuvering equations contain linear as well as nonlinear terms, and one does not attempt to determine the parameters (or hydrodynamic derivatives) associated with nonlinear terms, rather all nonlinear terms are clubbed together to form one unknown time function per equation, which are sought to be represented by neural network coefficients. The time series used in training the network are obtained from simulated data of zigzag and spiral maneuvers. The neural network has one middle or hidden layer of neurons and the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is used to obtain the network coefficients. Using the best choices for number of hidden layer neurons, length of training data, convergence tolerance, and so forth, the performances of the proposed neural network models have been investigated and conclusions drawn.

System Identification of UAV Alap-Alap Using Back Propagation Neural Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 1212-1219
Author(s):  
Afrias Sarotama ◽  
Benyamin Kusumoputro
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Back Propagation Neural Network ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Flight Data ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

A good model is necessary in order to design a controller of a system off-line. It is especially beneficial in the implementation of new advanced control schemes in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Considering the safety and benefit of an off-line tuning of the UAV controllers, this paper identifies a dynamic MIMO UAV nonlinear system which is derived based on the collection of input-output data taken from a test flights (36250 samples data). These input-output sample flight data are grouped into two flight data sets. The first flight data set, a chirp signal, is used for training the neural network in order to determine parameters (weights) for the network. Validation of the network is performed using the second data set, which is not used for training, and is a representation of UAV circular flight movement. An artificial neural network is trained using the training data set and thereafter the network is excited by the second set input data set. The predicted outputs based on our proposed Neural Network model is similar to the desired outputs (roll, pitch and yaw) which has been produced by real UAV system.

scholarly journals Prediction of Area and Production of Groundnut Using Box-Jenkins Arima and Neural Network Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Pavana Kumar ◽  
Ferdinand B. Lyngdoh
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Neural Network Approach ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Hidden Layer

Selection of parameters for Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model in the prediction process is one of the most important tasks. In the present study, groundnut data was utlised to decide appropriate p, d, q parameters for ARIMA model for the prediction purpose. Firstly, the models were fit to data without splitting into training and validation/testing sets and evaluated for their efficiency in predicting the area and production of groundnut over the years. Meanwhile, models are compared among other fitted ARIMA models with different p, d, q parameters based on decision criteria’s viz., ME, RMSE, MAPE, AIC, BIC and R-Square. The ARIMA model with parameters p-2 d-1-2, q-1-2 are found adequate in predicting the area as well as production of groundnut. The model ARIMA (2, 2, 2) and ARIMA (2,1,1) predicted the area of groundnut crop with minimum error estimates and residual characteristics (ei). The models were fit into split data i.e., training and test data set, but these models’ prediction power (R-Square) declined during testing. In case of predicting the area, ARIMA (2,2,2) was consistent over the split data but it was not consistent while predicting the production over years. Feed-forward neural networks with single hidden layer were fit to complete, training and split data. The neural network models provided better estimates compared to Box-Jenkins ARIMA models. The data was analysed using R-Studio.

scholarly journals USING OF PROJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION IN CREATING NEURAL NETWORK DATA SET

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
V. V. Kuzmina ◽  
A. V. Khamukhin ◽  
A. I. Kononova
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Projective Transformation ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Network Data ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Network Training ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Recognition Quality ◽  
Long Time

An experience of the neural network data set creation automation, which is used for license plate recognition, has been presented. The main problem of neural network training with data, obtained by nature filming is that collecting require amount of data takes a long time, beside this neural network does not effectively recognizer rare license plate formats after training. The main objective of the work is to improve recognition quality and training speed of the neural network. To achieve this objective, training data set is formed from automatically generated license plate images. Projective transformation are used for filming distortion imitation. The data set, generated in this way, includes all license plate standards, and the rare kinds percentage is enough to effectively recognize them. Using of the presented generator allows not only to significantly accelerate training data set creation, but also to improve rarely used standards of license plates recognition quality.

Deformation Prediction of Mouse Embryos in Cell Injection Experiment by a Feedforward Artificial Neural Network

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Abbasi ◽  
M. T. Ahmadian ◽  
G. R. Vossoughi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Mouse Embryos ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Cell Manipulation ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Institute Of Technology

In this study, neural network models have been used to predict the mechanical behaviors of mouse embryos. In addition, sensitivity analysis has been carried out to investigate the influence of the significance of input parameters on the mechanical behavior of mouse embryos. In order to reach these purposes two neural network models have been implemented. Experimental data earlier deduced-by [Flu¨ckiger, M. (2004). Cell Membrane Mechanical Modeling for Microrobotic Cell Manipulation. Diploma Thesis, ETHZ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, WS03/04] –were collected to obtain training and test data for the neural network. The results of these investigations show that the correlation values of the test and training data sets are between0.9988 and 1.0000, which are in good agreement with the experimental observations.

scholarly journals Does the Zero Carry Essential Information for Artificial Neural Network learning to simulate the contaminant transport in Urban Areas?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2090 (1) ◽  
pp. 012027
Author(s):  
M. Berendt-Marchel ◽  
A. Wawrzynczak
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Dispersion Models ◽  
Contamination Source ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural

Abstract The release of hazardous materials in urbanized areas is a considerable threat to human health and the environment. Therefore, it is vital to detect the contamination source quickly to limit the damage. In systems localizing the contamination source based on the measured concentrations, the dispersion models are used to compare the simulated and registered point concentrations. These models are run tens of thousands of times to find their parameters, giving the model output’s best fit to the registration. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) can replace in localization systems the dispersion models, but first, they need to be trained on a large, diverse set of data. However, providing an ANN with a fully informative training data set leads to some computational challenges. For example, a single simulation of airborne toxin dispersion in an urban area might contain over 90% of zero concentration in the positions of the sensors. This leads to the situation when the ANN target includes a few percent positive values and many zeros. As a result, the neural network focuses on the more significant part of the set - zeros, leading to the non-adaptation of the neural network to the studied problem. Furthermore, considering the zero value of concentration in the training data set, we have to face many questions: how to include zero, scale a given interval to hide the zero in the set, and include zero values at all; or limit their number? This paper will try to answer the above questions and investigate to what extend zero carries essential information for the ANN in the contamination dispersion simulation in urban areas. For this purpose, as a testing domain, the center of London is used as in the DAPPLE experiment. Training data is generated by the Quick Urban & Industrial Complex (QUIC) Dispersion Modeling System.

scholarly journals Spectra Recognition Model for O-type Stars Based on Data Augmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Yu Yang ◽  
Ke-Fei Wu ◽  
A-Li Luo ◽  
Zhi-Qiang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Validation Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Recognition Model ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
The Neural Network

It is an ongoing issue in astronomy to recognize and classify O-type spectra comprehensively. The neural network is a popular recognition model based on data. The number of O-stars collected in LAMOST is <1% of AFGK stars, and there are only 127 O-type stars in the data release seven version. Therefore, there are not enough O-type samples available for recognition models. As a result, the existing neural network models are not effective in identifying such rare star spectra. This paper proposed a novel spectra recognition model (called LCGAN model) to solve this problem with data augmentation, which is based on Locally Connected Generative Adversarial Network (LCGAN). The LCGAN introduced the locally connected convolution and two timescale update rule to generate O-type stars' spectra. In addition, the LCGAN model adopted residual and attention mechanisms to recognize O-type spectra. To evaluate the performance of proposed models, we conducted a comparative experiment using a stellar spectral data set, which consists of more than 40,000 spectra, collected by the large sky area multi-object fiber spectroscopic telescope (LAMOST). The experimental results showed that the LCGAN model could generate meaningful O-type spectra. In our validation data set, the recognition accuracy of the data enhanced recognition model can reach 93.67%, 8.66% higher than that of the non-data enhanced identification model, which lays a good foundation for further analysis of astronomical spectra.

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