• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.12 no.3_4
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• pp.345-361
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• 2013

Locating and assessing the severity of damage in large or complex structures is one of the most challenging problems in the field of civil engineering. Considering that the wavelet packet transform (WPT) has the ability to clearly reflect the damage characteristics of structural response signals and the artificial neural network (ANN) is capable of learning in an unsupervised manner and of forming new classes when the structural exhibits change, this paper investigates a multi-stage structural damage diagnosis method by using the WPT and ANN based on "energy-damage" theory, in which, the wavelet packet component energies are first extracted to be damage sensitive feature and then adopted as input into an improved back propagation (BP) neural network model for damage diagnosis in a step by step mode. To validate the efficacy of the presented approach of the damage diagnosis, the benchmark structure of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is employed in the case study. The results of damage diagnosis indicate that the method herein is computationally efficient and is able to detect the existence of different damage patterns in the simulated experiment where minor, moderate and severe damages corresponds to involving in the loss of stiffness on braces or the removal bracing in various combinations.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.397-410
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• 2022

It is essential to monitor the working conditions of bolt-connected joints, which are widely used in various kinds of steel structures. The looseness of bolts may directly affect the stability and safety of the entire structure. In this study, a guided wave-based method for bolt looseness detection and localization is presented for a joint structure with multiple bolts. SH waves generated and received by a small number (two pairs) of magnetostrictive transducers were used. The bolt looseness index was proposed based on the changes in the reconstructed responses excited by the time reversal signals of the measured unit impulse responses. The damage locations and local damage severities were estimated using the damage indices from several wave propagation paths. The back propagation neural network (BPNN) technique was employed to identify the local damages. Numerical and experimental studies were conducted on a lap joint with eight bolts. The results show that the total damage severity can be successfully detected under the effect of external force and measurement noise. The local damage severity can be estimated reasonably for the experimental data using the BPNN constructed by the training patterns generated from the finite element simulations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.4367-4385
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• 2016

With millions of people across the globe suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD), an objective, confirmatory test for the same is yet to be developed. This research aims to develop a system which can assist the doctor in objectively saying whether the patient is normal or under risk of PD. The proposed work combines the eye-hand co-ordination behaviour with the DaTscan images in order to determine the risk of this disorder. Initially, eye-hand coordination level of the patient is assessed through a hardware module. Then, the DaTscan image is analysed and used to extract certain geometrical parameters which shall indicate the presence of PD. These parameters are then finally fed into a Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network using Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) Back propagation training algorithm. Experimental results indicate that the proposed system exhibits an accuracy of around 93%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bio-Environment Control Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.181-190
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• 2003

컴퓨터 시각장치에 의한 3차원 정보를 이용한 연구현황으로서는 최근에 많이 연구되어지고 있으며, 그 중에서 가장 일반적인 방법으로 사람의 눈과 비슷한 구조를 가진 스테레오 시각을 이용한다. 한 대의 카메라를 통해 얻어지는 3차원 형상 정보는 3차원 대상체가 2차원 평면상에 투사되어 얻어진 정보이므로 대상체가 갖는 3차원 공간 정보를 얻기 위한 접근법이 필요하다. (중략)

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.229-241
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• 2013

The objective of this study is to reveal the sufficiency of neural networks (NN) as a securer, quicker, more robust and reliable method to be used in seismic assessment of existing reinforced concrete buildings. The NN based approach is applied as an alternative method to determine the seismic performance of each existing RC buildings, in terms of damage level. In the application of the NN, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) with a back-propagation (BP) algorithm is employed using a scaled conjugate gradient. NN based model wasd eveloped, trained and tested through a based MATLAB program. The database of this model was developed by using a statistical procedure called P25 method. The NN based model was also proved by verification set constituting of real existing RC buildings exposed to 2003 Bingol earthquake. It is demonstrated that the NN based approach is highly successful and can be used as an alternative method to determine the seismic performance of each existing RC buildings.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.772-777
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• 1993

This paper presents a neuro-fuzzy modelling method that determines chemicals dosing model based on historical operation data for effective water quality control in water treatment system and calculates automatically the amount of optimum chemicals dosing against the changes of raw water qualities and flow rate. The structure identification in the modelling by means of neuro-fuzzy reasing is performed by Genetic Algorithm(GA) and Complex Method in which the numbers of hidden layer and its hidden nodes, learning rate and connection pattern between input layer and output layer are identified. The learning network is implemented utilizing Back Propagation(BP) algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed modelling scheme and the feasibility of the acquired neuro-fuzzy network is evaluated through computer simulation for chemicals dosing control in water treatment system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.151-155
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• 1996

To automate an excavator the control issues resulting from environmental uncertainties must be solved. In particular the interactions between the excavation tool and the excavation environment are dynamic, unstructured and complex. In addition, operating modes of an excavator depend on working conditions, which makes it difficult to derive the exact mathematical model of excavator. Even after the exact mathematical model is established, it is difficult to design of a controller because the system equations are highly nonlinear and the state variable are coupled. The objective of this study is to design a multi-layer neural network which controls the position of excavator's attachment. In this paper, a dynamic controller has been developed based on an error back-propagation(BP) neural network. Computer simulation results demonstrate such powerful characteristics of the proposed controller as adaptation to changing environment, robustness to disturbance and performance improvement with the on-line learning in the position control of excavator attachment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.383-386
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• 1997

In this paper, We proposed a parallel structure of the Neural Network model to nonlinear complex system. Neural Network was used as basic model which has learning ability and high tolerence level. This paper, we used Neural Network which has BP(Error Back Propagation Algorithm) model. But it sometimes has difficulty to append characteristic of input data to nonlinear system. So that, I used HCM(hard c-Means) method of clustering technique to append property of input data. Clustering Algorithms are used extensively not only to organized categorize data, but are also useful for data compression and model construction. Gas furance, a sewage treatment process are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed model and then obtained higher accuracy than other previous medels.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.400-410
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• 1992

This paper deals with a design of neural network control architectures for robot motion. Three types of control architectures are designed as follows : 1) a neural network control architecture which has the same characteristics as computed torque method 2) a neural network control architecture for compensating the control error on computed torque method with fixed feedback gain 3) neural network adaptive control architecture. Computer simulation of PUMA manipulator with 6 links is conducted for robot motion in order to examine the proposed neural network control architectures.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07b
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• pp.782-784
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• 1999

This paper deals with speed control of DC-servo motor using a Back-Propagation(BP) Learning Algorism and a PID controller Conventionally in the industrial control, PID controller has been used. But the PID controller produced suitable parameter of each system and also variable of PID controller should be changed enviroment, disturbance, load. So this paper revealed for experimental, a neural network and a PID controller combined system using developed speed characters of a Variable Load DC-servo motor. The parameters of the plant are determined by neural network perform on on-line system after training the neural network on off-line system.