meta heuristic optimization techniques and its applications in robotics

... depth-averaged model in a nonorthogonal curvilinear coordinates for prediction of flow pattern in meandering channel with 60o and 90o bend, and also with compound meandering channel In this study, ... coordinates for predicting sea level, currents in estuarine and shelf water (Muin and Spaulding 1996) Ye and McCorquodale (1997) developed a depth-averaged model in a non-orthogonal curvilinear system ... surface profile into vertical intake In this regard, the model showed its applicability in computing the flow into intake with air-entrainment The model was also applied to investigate the flow over...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... classification accuracy rate Since each sample is excluded from the training set in turn, the independence between the test set and the training set is maintained In a database with N examples, ... [3] S Krishnan and R M Rangayyan, “Automatic de-noising of knee-joint vibration signals using adaptive time-frequency representations,” Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, vol 38, ... Inc., “SPSS advanced statistics user’s guide,” in User Manual, SPSS Inc., Chicago, Ill, USA, 1990 [12] M Shan, F Kuo, and M Chen, “Music style mining and classification by melody,” in Proceedings...

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... relating unfamiliar or new phenomenon to something in the existed knowledge schema And human beings master a compendium of reasoning and problem solving heuristics, e.g eliminating pertinent information ... perception, intelligence and reasoning capability, and cooperates with the automatic computing in solving complex real-world problems Earlier research in VA and its relevant applications set the stepping ... governments and industries are forming a diverse and interdisciplinary team They have actively engaged in this new research [28], and have developed successful visual analytics system and applications in...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 10:59

... Drafting-Kissing-Tumbling and (b) Drafting – Kissing – Inverse Tumbling mechanism (dp = 12.7 mm) 196 Fig 7.8 Numerical simulations on two sphere sedimentation using IB – LBM showing DKT and Inverse ... when the inclined square cylinder is at θ=30deg 125 Fig 5.3 Isotherms (a-d) and Streamlines (e-h) for square cylinder at deg inclination with increase in Ra value as 103, 104, 105 and 106 (from ... multiplier/fictitious domain DKT Drafting – Kissing – Tumbling FD/FDM Finite difference/ Finite difference method FE/FEM Finite element/ Finite element method FV/FMV Finite volume/ Finite volume method...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... AuNR (a and b) and the corresponding TEM images The scale bar in a and b is 20 nm (Page 80) Figure 4.22 Single particle scattering spectra and TEM pictures (insets) of a PS-AuNP (a) and PS-AuNP-QD ... created and characterized recently with either lithography or chemical techniques This growing interest on interactions between SPs and electromagnetic fields breeds a fast expanding discipline in ... of disciplines For example, a lot of scientists and engineers from electrical and computer science are interested in using metallic nanowires as the next generation of interconnects in CPUs because...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... by means of rainfall forecasting and nowcasting The Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) was applied over Singapore and its neighboring region for rainfall forecasting Its performance ... forecasting by combining the WRF results and TM results to provide an improved rainfall forecasting Combined rainfall forecasting provides more vii accurate results than rainfall forecasts from a single ... rainfall model resulting from NWP and from TM The combined rainfall forecasting covered the full-span of a 24-hour rainfall forecasting Introduce, conceptualize and calibrate a widely used rainfall-runoff...

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... dividing tool to divide the input space into inlier and outlier sub-spaces and to use dedicated classifiers to handle the inliers and outliers in the corresponding spaces before non-linearly combining ... (Random () ≡ 1) BEGIN LOOP until h (new training pattern x) ≠ y (x)) BEGIN Get a new training pattern x END END ELSE BEGIN LOOP until h (new training pattern x) ≡ y (x)) BEGIN Get a new training ... training samples for training the individual weak learner h2 I3 is used to denote the number of training patterns in the input space X needed to generate the I1 training samples for training...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:37

... Solving NLPs and MINLPs 147 5.1 Introduction 148 5.2 Description of DETL 152 5.3 Handling Integer and Binary Variables 155 5.4 Handling Constraint and Boundary Violations 156 5.5 Implementation and ... developments and applications of global optimization can be found in engineering discipline including chemical engineering The reason is that mathematical programming is an active and vibrant research in ... Global minimization aims at determining not just a local minimum but the minimum among the minima (smallest local minimum) in the region of interest In contrast to local Chapter Introduction optimization...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:39

... targets in the human, pig and cow feces, together with those present in the influent of a municipal and swine wastewater treatment plant, were determined individually using multiplexing HOPE……………………………………………………………………… ... significant role in maintaining the host health (Guarner and Malagelada, 2003) For example, species like B vulgatus and B caccae can colonize the surface area of intestinal mucosa and inhibit adherence ... factors, and the findings are hypothesized to provide insights to the functional roles of microorganisms in maintaining the homeostasis of a microbial ecosystem Although we continue to accrue new insights...

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... of large rings (rings of 12 oxygen atoms as the minimum constricting apertures) This gives zeolite beta interesting potential applications in catalytic reactions where high thermal and hydrothermal ... (

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... relevant ranking Second application is a search engine for imaged documents in PDF files In particular, a plug -in is implemented in Acrobat Reader and performs all the preprocessing and matching procedures ... written in Bold style; • In 49% cases, the paper abstract section is printed in Italic style; • In 30% cases, the figure or table captions are printed in Bold style and in 19% cases, in Italic ... character in question fits between the baseline and the x-line or if not, whether it has an ascender or descender, and the number and spatial distribution of the connected components Its processing...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 10:51

... Multi-Objective Optimization: Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering, World Scientific, Singapore Ravindran, A., Ragsdell, K.M and Reklaitis, G.V (2006) Engineering Optimization: Methods and Applications, ... achieving sustainable processes and manufacturing In view of its importance and usefulness, optimization has attracted the interest of chemical engineers and researchers in both industry and academia, ... Advances in Process Systems Engineering – Vol STOCHASTIC GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION Techniques and Applications in Chemical Engineering 7669 tp.indd 4/22/10 10:35:38 AM Advances in Process Systems Engineering...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:36

... within the averaging volume, the situation at t = t2 in Fig is reached from the beginning (t = t0 ) Thus, at each point in the wetting phase and at each point in the non-wetting phase within the ... wetting and non-wetting phase (left hand side) and between non-wetting and solid phase (right hand side) after 17s 17 17 Mass and Heat Transfer During Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media - Theory and ... kinetics 19 19 Mass and Heat Transfer During Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media - Theory and Modeling Mass and Heat Transfer During Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media - Theory and Modeling T l from interfacial...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 06:20

... residual stress and cracking in cementitious composites: the in uence of internal and external restraint Proceedings of 4th International Research Seminar Self-Desiccation and Its Importance in Concrete ... 1989; Murthy & Singh, 1997) in studies of non-Darcy convective heat transfer in porous media Invoking the Boussinesq approximations, and defining the velocity components u and v in terms of stream ... which involves the complex interaction between three phases (air, groundwater and soil) and also in many industrial applications such as enhanced oil recovery (e.g., chemical flooding and CO2 injection),...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 06:20

... size can, during their movement in the system, collide and interact with the gas–liquid interface and, in consequence, the gas bubbles break into smaller ones causing an increase in interfacial ... semitransparent mirror coating (Fig 10) The cell was encased in a metal frame and formed a working cell of the interferometer adjusted to a band of the infinite width The insert placed in the gap had a ... (Fig 8a) In coalescing system, it can be explained that solids in a small quantity during their movement in the system hit the gas bubbles, which are breaking into the smaller ones and in consequence,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 06:20

... challenge and creates a 138 138 Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications major interest in many industrial applications ... transducing part, the strain generated during operation in a copper alloy coupling having four strain gauges is recorded continuously In the impeller displacement transducing part, a switching circuit ... Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications Local modeling of transfers in gas-liquid bubbly flows 3.1 Mass transfer in gas-liquid...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 06:20

... Reynolds number and inlet temperature are examined It was found that an increase in the angle of inclination results in thinner and faster moving liquid films The authors show that, increasing airflow ... transfer coefficient in a bend a – (1) Internal generating line, ϕ = 45° ; (2) middle generating line, ϕ = 80° ; (3) external generating line, ϕ = 80° ; b – (1) Internal generating line, ϕ = 45° ; ... Successive and versatile investigation of heat and mass transfer in two-phase flows is caused by their wide application in power engineering, cryogenics, chemical engineering, and aerospace industry,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 06:20

... performed in another installation including a glass column with the internal diameter of cm and an active height of 70 cm The handicraft packing was made of corrugated metal gauze and had the following ... extraction with and without a chemical reaction and the dimensioning of the extractors with original 208 Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications experimental work and interpretations ... entering (1) or exiting (2) the column xe , ye are the solute concentrations in raffinate and in the extract respectivelly, in equilibrium conditions in every point along the column [HTU]od and...

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... solutions, metastable (e.g., amorphous) and stable (e.g., intermetallic) phases in the course of MA is impossible without intermixing on the atomic level in the vicinity of interfaces in composite ... decomposition of an amorphous or intermetallic phase was observed during prolonged 238 Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications ball milling in certain systems (El-Eskandarany et al., 1997; ... fracturing of cold welding of initial metal particles, and separate a unit 240 Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems and its Applications structural element, viz diffusion couple “metal B (phase 2)-metal...

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