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REVIEWS
Decomposition Methods for Manufacturing System Scheduling: A Survey
Fajun Yang, Kaizhou Gao, Simon Ian Ware, Yuting Zhu, Rong Su
2018, 5(2): 389-400. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510805
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Manufacturing is the application of labor, tools, machines, chemical and biological processing, to an original raw material by changing its physical and geometrical characteristics, in order to make finished products. Since the first industrial revolution, to accommodate the large-scale production, ...
Nonlinear Bayesian Estimation: From Kalman Filtering to a Broader Horizon
Huazhen Fang, Ning Tian, Yebin Wang, MengChu Zhou, Mulugeta A. Haile
2018, 5(2): 401-417. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510808
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This article presents an up-to-date tutorial review of nonlinear Bayesian estimation. State estimation for nonlinear systems has been a challenge encountered in a wide range of engineering fields, attracting decades of research effort. To date, one of the most promising and popular approaches is to ...
Vehicle Dynamic State Estimation: State of the Art Schemes and Perspectives
Hongyan Guo, Dongpu Cao, Chen Hong, Chen Lv, Huaji Wang, Siqi Yang
2018, 5(2): 418-431. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510811
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Next-generation vehicle control and future autonomous driving require further advances in vehicle dynamic state estimation. This article provides a concise review, along with the perspectives, of the recent developments in the estimation of vehicle dynamic states. The definitions used in vehicle dyn...
PAPERS
Coordinated Control Architecture for Motion Management in ADAS Systems
Tzu-Chi Lin, Siyuan Ji, Charles E. Dickerson, David Battersby
2018, 5(2): 432-444. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510814
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) seek to provide drivers and passengers of automotive vehicles increased safety and comfort. Original equipment manufacturers are integrating and developing systems for distance keeping, lane keeping and changing and other functionalities. The modern automobi...
An Online Fault Detection Model and Strategies Based on SVM-Grid in Clouds
PeiYun Zhang, Sheng Shu, MengChu Zhou
2018, 5(2): 445-456. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510817
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Online fault detection is one of the key technologies to improve the performance of cloud systems. The current data of cloud systems is to be monitored, collected and used to reflect their state. Its use can potentially help cloud managers take some timely measures before fault occurrence in clouds....
An Adaptive RBF Neural Network Control Method for a Class of Nonlinear Systems
Hongjun Yang, Jinkun Liu
2018, 5(2): 457-462. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510820
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This paper focuses on designing an adaptive radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) control method for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown parameters and bounded disturbances. The problems raised by the unknown functions and external disturbances in the nonlinear system are overcome by RB...
Stabilization of Uncertain Systems With Markovian Modes of Time Delay and Quantization Density
Jufeng Wang, Chunfeng Liu
2018, 5(2): 463-470. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510823
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This work studies the stabilization of a class of control systems that use communication networks as signal transmission medium. The lateral motion of independently actuated four-wheel vehicle is modeled as an uncertain-linear system. Time delay and quantization density are modeled as Markov chains....
A Model Predictive Scheduling Algorithm in Real-Time Control Systems
Mengya Kang, Chenglin Wen, Chenxi Wu
2018, 5(2): 471-478. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510826
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The ineffective utilization of power resources has attracted much attention in current years. This paper proposes a real-time distributed load scheduling algorithm considering constraints of power supply. Firstly, an objective function is designed based on the constraint, and a base load forecasting...
Explicit Symplectic Geometric Algorithms for Quaternion Kinematical Differential Equation
Hong-Yan Zhang, Zi-Hao Wang, Lu-Sha Zhou, Qian-Nan Xue, Long Ma, Yi-Fan Niu
2018, 5(2): 479-488. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510829
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Solving quaternion kinematical differential equations (QKDE) is one of the most significant problems in the automation, navigation, aerospace and aeronautics literatures. Most existing approaches for this problem neither preserve the norm of quaternions nor avoid errors accumulated in the sense of l...
Social Manufacturing for High-end Apparel Customization
Xiuqin Shang, Fei-Yue Wang, Gang Xiong, Timo R. Nyberg, Yong Yuan, Sheng Liu, Chao Guo, Sen Bao
2018, 5(2): 489-500. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510832
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Social manufacturing (SM), a novel distributed, collaborative and intelligent manufacturing mode, is proposed and developed for high-end apparel customization. The main components of SM cloud are designed, and its research topics are summarized. Then, SM's key technologies are studied. 3D technologi...
Research on the Low-order Control Strategy of the Power System With Time Delay
Xinyi Yu, Xuejinfeng Hong, Jun Qi, Linlin Ou, Yanlin He
2018, 5(2): 501-508. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510835
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In this paper, the design problem of the low-order controller is considered for the power system with a fixed time delay. A linear model of the power system with time delay is firstly established. Then the proportional-integral-differential (PID) controller, which is the typical low-order controller...
LMI Consensus Condition for Discrete-time Multi-agent Systems
Magdi S. Mahmoud, Gulam Dastagir Khan
2018, 5(2): 509-513. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2016.7510016
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This paper examines a consensus problem in multi-agent discrete-time systems, where each agent can exchange information only from its neighbor agents. A decentralized protocol is designed for each agent to steer all agents to the same vector. The design condition is expressed in the form of a linear...
Constructing Multicast Routing Tree for Inter-cloud Data Transmission: An Approximation Algorithmic Perspective
Jun Huang, Shihao Li, Qiang Duan
2018, 5(2): 514-522. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510460
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Networking plays a crucial role in cloud computing especially in an inter-cloud environment, where data communications among data centers located at different geographical sites form the foundation of inter-cloud federation. Data transmissions required for inter-cloud federation in the complex inter...
Operator-Based Robust Nonlinear Control for SISO and MIMO Nonlinear Systems With PI Hysteresis
Shuhui Bi, Lei Wang, Shengjun Wen, Mingcong Deng
2018, 5(2): 523-530. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2016.7510175
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In this paper, operator based robust nonlinear control for single-input single-output (SISO) and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear uncertain systems preceded by generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI) hysteresis is considered respectively. In detail, by using operator based robust right coprime ...
A Novel Design Framework for Smart Operating Robot in Power System
Qiang Wang, Xiaojing Yang, Zhigang Huang, Shiqian Ma, Qiao Li, David Wenzhong Gao, Fei-Yue Wang
2018, 5(2): 531-538. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510838
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This paper proposes the concept and framework of smart operating system based on the artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The demands and the potential applications of AI technologies in power system control centers is discussed in the beginning of the paper. The discussion is based on the resul...
Training and Testing Object Detectors With Virtual Images
Yonglin Tian, Xuan Li, Kunfeng Wang, Fei-Yue Wang
2018, 5(2): 539-546. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510841
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In the area of computer vision, deep learning has produced a variety of state-of-the-art models that rely on massive labeled data. However, collecting and annotating images from the real world is too demanding in terms of labor and money investments, and is usually inflexible to build datasets with ...
Local Robust Sparse Representation for Face Recognition With Single Sample per Person
Jianquan Gu, Haifeng Hu, Haoxi Li
2018, 5(2): 547-554. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510658
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The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of robust face recognition (FR) with single sample per person (SSPP). In the scenario of FR with SSPP, we present a novel model local robust sparse representation (LRSR) to tackle the problem of query images with various intra-class variations, e.g.,...
Fractional-order Sparse Representation for Image Denoising
Leilei Geng, Zexuan Ji, Yunhao Yuan, Yilong Yin
2018, 5(2): 555-563. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510412
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Sparse representation models have been shown promising results for image denoising. However, conventional sparse representation-based models cannot obtain satisfactory estimations for sparse coefficients and the dictionary. To address this weakness, in this paper, we propose a novel fractional-order...
Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Solution Purification Process in Zinc Hydrometallurgy
Bei Sun, Chunhua Yang, Hongqiu Zhu, Yonggang Li, Weihua Gui
2018, 5(2): 564-576. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510844
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The solution purification process is an essential step in zinc hydrometallurgy. The performance of solution purification directly affects the normal functioning and economical benefits of zinc hydrometallurgy. This paper summarizes the authors' recent work on the modeling, optimization, and control ...
U-model Enhanced Dynamic Control of a Heavy Oil Pyrolysis/Cracking Furnace
Quanmin Zhu, Dongya Zhao, Shuzhan Zhang, Pritesh Narayan
2018, 5(2): 577-586. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510847
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This paper proposes a case study in the control of a heavy oil pyrolysis/cracking furnace with a newly extended U-model based pole placement controller (U-PPC). The major work of the paper includes:1) establishing a control oriented nonlinear dynamic model with Naphtha cracking and thermal dynamics;...
Causality Diagram-based Scheduling Approach for Blast Furnace Gas System
Feng Jin, Jun Zhao, Chunyang Sheng, Wei Wang
2018, 5(2): 587-594. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510715
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Rational use of blast furnace gas (BFG) in steel industry can raise economic profit, save fossil energy resources and alleviate the environment pollution. In this paper, a causality diagram is established to describe the causal relationships among the decision objective and the variables of the sche...
Relief Materials Vehicles Planning in Natural Disasters
Qun Shi, Wen Yang, Zhen-Ming Yang, Qian-Chuan Zhao
2018, 5(2): 595-601. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510850
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A variety of relief materials needs to be transported to the disaster hit areas immediately after natural disasters. This paper studies the problem of planning relief materials vehicles in order to maximize their total weight. We propose a new method named substitution equilibrium point which can be...
Cyber Attack Protection and Control of Microgrids
Md Masud Rana, Li Li, Steven W. Su
2018, 5(2): 602-609. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510655
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Recently, the smart grid has been considered as a next-generation power system to modernize the traditional grid to improve its security, connectivity, efficiency and sustainability. Unfortunately, the smart grid is susceptible to malicious cyber attacks, which can create serious technical, economic...
Robust H∞ Load Frequency Control of Multi-area Power System With Time Delay: A Sliding Mode Control Approach
Yonghui Sun, Yingxuan Wang, Zhinong Wei, Guoqiang Sun, Xiaopeng Wu
2018, 5(2): 610-617. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510649
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This paper is devoted to investigate the robust H∞ sliding mode load frequency control (SMLFC) of multi-area power system with time delay. By taking into account stochastic disturbances induced by the integration of renewable energies, a new sliding surface function is constructed to guarantee the f...
An Exploration on Adaptive Iterative Learning Control for a Class of Commensurate High-order Uncertain Nonlinear Fractional Order Systems
Jianming Wei, Youan Zhang, Hu Bao
2018, 5(2): 618-627. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510361
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This paper explores the adaptive iterative learning control method in the control of fractional order systems for the first time. An adaptive iterative learning control (AILC) scheme is presented for a class of commensurate high-order uncertain nonlinear fractional order systems in the presence of d...
A Novel Approach for Enhancement of Geometric and Contrast Resolution Properties of Low Contrast Images
Koushlendra Kumar Singh, Manish Kumar Bajpai, Rajesh Kumar Pandey
2018, 5(2): 628-638. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510670
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The present work encompasses a new image enhancement algorithm using newly constructed Chebyshev fractional order differentiator. We have used Chebyshev polynomials to design Chebyshev fractional order differentiator. We have generated the high pass filter corresponding to it. The designed filters a...
Relationship Between Integer Order Systems and Fractional Order Systems and Its Two Applications
Xuefeng Zhang
2018, 5(2): 639-643. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2016.7510205
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Existence of periodic solutions and stability of fractional order dynamic systems are two important and difficult issues in fractional order systems (FOS) field. In this paper, the relationship between integer order systems (IOS) and fractional order systems is discussed. A new proof method based on...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Letter to the Editor Re "Fractional Modeling and SOC Estimation of Lithium-ion Battery"
Rahat Hasan, Jonathan Scott
2018, 5(2): 644-644. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510853
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