Variations in muscular contraction are known to significantly impact the quality of the generated EMG signal and the output decision of a proposed classifier. This is an issue when the classifier is further implemented in prosthetic hand design. Therefore, this study aims to develop a deep learning classifier to improve the classification of hand motion gestures and investigate the effect of force variations on their accuracy on amputees.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents an automatic ECG signal classification system that applied the Deep Learning (DL) model to classify four types of ECG signals. In the first part of our work, we present the model development. Four different classes of ECG signals from the PhysioNet open-source database were selected and used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh accuracy and a real-time system are priorities in the development of a prosthetic hand. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a real-time embedded time-domain feature extraction and machine learning on a system on chip (SoC) Raspberry platform using a multi-thread algorithm to operate a prosthetic hand device. The contribution of this study is that the implementation of the multi-thread in the pattern recognition improves the accuracy and decreases the computation time in the SoC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Cobb angle measurement of the scoliotic spine is prone to inter- and intra-observer variations in the clinical setting. This paper proposes a deep learning architecture for detecting spine vertebrae from X-ray images to evaluate the Cobb angle automatically. The public AASCE MICCAI 2019 anterior-posterior X-ray image dataset and local images were used to train and test the proposed convolutional neural network architecture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe reliable and cost-effective condition monitoring of the bearings installed in water pumps is a real challenge in the industry. This paper presents a novel strong feature selection and extraction algorithm (SFSEA) to extract fault-related features from the instantaneous power spectrum (IPS). The three features extracted from the IPS using the SFSEA are fed to an extreme gradient boosting (XBG) classifier to reliably detect and classify the minor bearing faults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeat rate of a combined cycle power plant (CCPP) is a parameter that is typically used to assess how efficient a power plant is. In this paper, the CCPP heat rate was predicted using an artificial neural network (ANN) method to support maintenance people in monitoring the efficiency of the CCPP. The ANN method used fuel gas heat input (P1), CO percentage (P2), and power output (P3) as input parameters.
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November 2020
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene are extensively studied materials in the field of sensing technology and other electronic devices due to their better functional and structural properties. Additionally, more attention is given to utilize these materials as a filler to reinforce the properties of other materials. However, the role of weight percentage of CNTs in the piezoresistive properties of these materials has not been reported yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing cooling load is one of the important aspects to increase energy saving in the building. This paper presents the data record of temperatures (surface and space temperatures) and relative humidities in a building model integrated with green facade systems. The research was conducted in a tropical climate country.
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April 2019
To evaluate the possibilities for biofuel and bioenergy production , which is an invasive plant available in Brunei Darussalam, was investigated. Proximate analysis of shows that the moisture content, volatile matters, fixed carbon, and ash contents were 9.56%, 65.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProcess monitoring using indirect methods relies on the usage of sensors. Using sensors to acquire vital process related information also presents itself with the problem of big data management and analysis. Due to uncertainty in the frequency of events occurring, a higher sampling rate is often used in real-time monitoring applications to increase the chances of capturing and understanding all possible events related to the process.
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