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Vol 51, No 2 (2017)

Article

Guaranteed-result strategy to synthesize a decentralized control for systems under parametric perturbations

Shashihin V.N.

Abstract

This paper describes a technique to synthesize robust control for a large-scale system under parametric perturbations. The control law designed provides the guaranteed quality of transient processes under the worst parametric perturbation admissible. The problem is solved based on the required minimax conditions. A modified performance criterion is employed that allows the computational cost of decentralized control synthesis to be reduced significantly.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):75-84
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The effect of attribute normalization factors in attribute distance weighted average

Xiong G., Lan J., Zhang H., Ding T.

Abstract

Attribute distance weighted average (ADWA) is a new filtering paradigm, which can progressively alleviate the denoising contradiction between the noise removal and feature preservation by introducing new attributes. As the key control parameters in ADWA, the attribute normalization factors play an important role in the final filtering result. An in-depth study is necessary to exam the effect the attribute normalization factors have on the filtering performance and the rules they follow, which can then serve as a guide for the determination and optimization of attribute normalization factors. For this purpose, the three attributes of a signal, “Location,” “Value,” and “Gradient,” are studied as an example in this paper. Experimental results indicate that the normalization factors directly determine the strength of the effect the corresponding attributes have on the filtering result. If the normalization factor increases, ADWA’s ability in noise removal becomes stronger and meanwhile its ability in feature preservation becomes weaker. Therefore, the denoising contradiction still exists for ADWA of a specific attribute rank. However, since different attributes contribute to the filtering performance independently in different regions of a signal, the denoising contradiction can be further alleviated by introducing new attributes, and thus a more satisfactory outcome can be obtained.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):85-96
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Deep learning in pharmacy: The prediction of aqueous solubility based on deep belief network

Tian S., Li L., Wang M., Lu X., Li H., Yu L.

Abstract

The aqueous solubility of a drug is a significant factor for its bioavailability. Since many drugs on the market are the oral drugs, their absorption and metabolism in organisms are closely related to its aqueous solubility. As one of the most important properties of drug, the molecule aqueous solubility has received increasing attentions in drug discovery field. The methods of shallow machine learning have been applied to the field of pharmacy, with some success. In this paper, we established a multilayer deep belief network based on semi-supervised learning model to predict the aqueous solubility of compounds. This method can be used for recognizing whether compounds are soluble or not. Firstly, we discussed the influence of feature dimension to predict accuracy. Secondly, we analyzed the parameters of model in predicting aqueous solubility of drugs and contrasted the shallow machine learning with the similar deep architecture. The results showed that the model we proposed can predict aqueous solubility accurately, the accuracy of DBN reached 85.9%. The stable performance on the evaluation metrics confirms the practicability of our model. Moreover, the DBN model could be applied to reduce the cost and time of drug discovery by predicting aqueous solubility of drugs.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):97-107
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SABC-SBC: a hybrid ontology based image and webpage retrieval for datasets

Deepa C.

Abstract

In the recent days, web mining is the one of the most widely used research area for finding the patterns from the web page. Similarly, web content mining is defined as the process of extracting some useful information from the web pages. For this mining, a Block Acquiring Page Segmentation (BAPS) technique is proposed in the existing work, which removes the irrelevant information by retrieving the contents. Also, the Tag-Annotation-Demand (TAD) re-ranking methodology is employed to generate the personalized images. The major disadvantage of these techniques is that it fails to retrieve both the images and web page contents. In order to overcome this issue, this paper focused to integrate the TAD and BAPS techniques for the image and web page content retrieval. There are two important steps are involved in this paper, which includes, server database upload and content extraction from the database. Furthermore, the databases are applied on the Semantic Annotation Based Clustering (SABC) for image and Semantic Based Clustering (SBC) for webpage content. The main intention of the proposed work is to accurately retrieve both the images and web pages. In experiments, the performance of the proposed SABC technique is evaluated and analyzed in terms of computation time, precision and recall.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):108-113
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A logic-based framework for the security analysis of Industrial Control Systems

Lemaire L., Vossaert J., Jansen J., Naessens V.

Abstract

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used for monitoring and controlling critical infrastructures such as power stations, waste water treatment facilities, traffic lights, and many more. Lately, these systems have become a popular target for cyber-attacks. Security is often an afterthought, leaving them vulnerable to all sorts of attacks. This article presents a formal approach for analysing the security of Industrial Control Systems, both during their design phase and while operational. A knowledge- based system is used to analyse a model of the control system and extract system vulnerabilities. The approach has been validated on an ICS in the design phase.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):114-123
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Determining PID controller coefficients for the moving motor of a welder robot using fuzzy logic

Rezaee A.

Abstract

In this paper, a fuzzy algorithm was used for determining the coefficients of a PID controller using an online method. The plant used in this system is a welder robot, which is used for welding oil and gas pipelines. This robot rest on the pipe and weld it by moving around. The speed is adjusted using a motor moving the robot around the pipe. A digital controller also used for implementation. In this research, in order to choose the rules the skills transmit method and that how the PID response is required has been used. In this paper, the type of algorithms that continuously assigns PID coefficients using an online method depending on the characteristics of the system which is based on fuzzy logic was used. First, the rules associated to each output in relation to inputs are depicted in it. Using the mentioned method, simulation results and then implementation results were obtained and discussed.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):124-132
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Ultrasonic elastography optimization algorithm based on coded excitation and spatial compounding

Zhang Z., Li L., Liu H.

Abstract

Traditional elasticity imaging systems use short pulses with low sound power, causing the signal to be attenuated severely in deep zones. On the basis of the coded excitation and spatial composition theorems, an ultrasonic elastography optimization algorithm is proposed in this paper. It takes advantage of coded excitation and spatial compounding such as high peak power and average sound power, suppresses speckle noise, and improves the imaging quality effectively. Specifically, a coded excitation system encodes the long pulses when transmitting, and then decodes the long pulses into short pulses upon receiving. This increases the average sound power of the beam without sacrificing the spatial resolution. A imaging system based on coded excitation can therefore achieve a good signal-to-noise ratio (SNRe) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNRe) in deep zones below the detection surface. The proposed algorithm combines coded excitation with a filter-group based spatial compounding algorithm at the receiving terminal. Finally, experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields a higher SNRe and CNRe than using chirp coded excitation or spatial compounding alone.

Automatic Control and Computer Sciences. 2017;51(2):133-140
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