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Dudziak, Jillian Amistoso Perez. "Intelligent design." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4881.
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As human beings we are designed and created in a fabric that is profound and complex. We are built with a framework where mind and body work in a concerted effort to maintain our lives automatically. A deep and defining part of our existence as humans is not just the innate desire to live but to live in consistent well-being--emotionally, physically, and mentally. I believe when we incorporate our knowledge of human physiology into our creative process then we allow ourselves a greater opportunity to create an authentic connection with our intended audience. My work during the past three years has been rooted in the study of these philosophical and scientific principles. I created a series of visual experimentations that aim to assist in my understanding of human beings at an emotional and biological level. Armed with a deep desire to understand humanity, my goal is to create work that fosters positive change and has significant impact in the world. My past and present research has been focused on human emotions, the intuitive creative process and the relationship between technology and establishing social identity.ID: 029809330; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 20).
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Atanackovic, Djordje. "Intelligent power system design." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ29878.pdf.
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Atanackovic, Djordje. "intelligent power system design." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41969.
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In this thesis, the concept of an intelligent system for the design and planning of electric power systems is developed. Such a system serves to preserve the vast body of power system design knowledge by identifying, structuring and consolidating it into one easily accessible source. The intelligent system can then be used to support experienced power system planners or for training purposes. The main planning and design activities considered include the design of a complete power system or of specific subsystems such as a substation or a transmission corridor. The principal features and main components of this general intelligent system, called PSIDE, are delineated.A general methodology and a design tool were then devised for modelling and using this kind of knowledge. The object-oriented strategy was found to be the most suitable due its powerful capabilities to naturally represent the structure and behaviour of power systems. Thus, PSIDE is based on object-oriented knowledge models for design tasks such as point-to-point transmission design, insulation coordination as well as protection system and substation design.
In order to validate the proposed concepts as well as the object-oriented paradigm adopted for their realization, a substation design module (SIDE) was fully developed and tested.
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Bonanni, Leonardo Amerigo 1977. "Design of intelligent interiors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33895.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.Includes bibliographical references.
Ubiquitous computing is transforming interior design by allowing utilities, goods and information to be delivered where and when we need them. How will new information technologies impact the design of interior spaces? Intelligent interiors can be more flexible and expressive than traditional spaces. Automation, personal fabrication and augmented reality can be applied to interior spaces with new interaction modes that operate at an architectural scale. Water, light, and other utilities can be automated in a way that empowers users by providing direct feedback, tangible benefit and being fail-soft. Appliances can make it possible to produce and recycle a large number of variable goods locally and on demand. Many of the objects and surfaces of interior spaces can serve as displays to provide information intuitively where and when it is needed. This thesis demonstrates how distributed intelligence can increase productivity and enrich the experience of interior spaces. Experiments with augmentations to the utilities, goods and information of a working kitchen suggest guidelines for interaction with intelligent interior spaces. The perceptual load and quality of interaction needs to be balanced; for example in our experiments projected text was almost always distracting.
(cont.) This work demonstrated that: information should behave at the scale of architectural space; an intelligent interior space should provide as much fidelity at the lowest bandwidth possible to support activity without distracting from tasks; the association of information to the tasks and objects referred to should be concrete and obvious; and appropriate feedback should accompany new interaction to increase the control and confidence of users. This thesis shows that new interaction modes for interior spaces can be intuitively understood and valued. In addition to being more flexible and functional, intelligent interiors can enrich everyday activity with new sensory experiences.
by Leonardo Amerigo Bonanni.
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Ramsden, Sean. "Intelligent design and biology." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007561.
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The thesis is that contrary to the received popular wisdom, the combination of David Hume's sceptical enquiry and Charles Darwin's provision of an alternative theoretical framework to the then current paradigm of natural theology did not succeed in defeating the design argument. I argue that William Paley's work best represented the status quo in the philosophy of biology circa 1800 and that with the logical mechanisms provided us by William Dembski in his seminal work on probability, there is a strong argument for thr work of Michael Behe to stand in a similar position today to that of Paley two centuries ago. The argument runs as follows: In Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 1 I introduce the issues. In Section 3 I argue that William Paley's exposition of the design argument was archetypical of the natural theology school and that given Hume's already published criticism of the argument, Paley for one did not feel the design argument to be done for. I further argue in Section 4 that Hume in fact did no such thing and that neither did he see himself as having done so, but that the design argument was weak rather than fallacious. In Section 5 I outline the demise of natural theology as the dominant school of thought in the philosophy of biology, ascribing this to the rise of Darwinism and subsequently neo-Darwinism. I argue that design arguments were again not defeated but went into abeyance with the rise of a new paradigm associated with Darwinism, namely methodological naturalism. In Chapter 2 I advance the project by a discussion of William Dembski's formulation of design inferences, demonstrating their value in both everyday and technical usage. This is stated in Section 1. In Sections 2 and 3 I discuss Dembski's treatment of probability, whilst in Section 4 I examine Dembski's tying of different levels of probability to different mechanisms of explanation used in explicating the world. Section 5 is my analysis of the logic of the formal statement of the design argument according to Dembski. In Section 6 I encapsulate objections to Dembski. I conclude the chapter (with Section 7) by claiming that Dembski forwards a coherent model of design inferences that can be used in demonstrating that there is little difference between the way that Paley came to his conclusions two centuries ago and how modem philosophers of biology (such as I take Michael Behe to be, albeit that by profession he is a scientist) come to theirs when offering design explanations. Inference to the best explanation is demonstrated as lying at the crux of design arguments. In Chapter 3 I draw together the work of Michael Behe and Paley, showing through the mechanism of Dembski's work that they are closely related in many respects and that neither position is to be lightly dismissed. Section 1 introduces this. In Section 2 I introduce Behe's concept of irreducible complexity in the light of (functional) explanation. Section 3 is a detailed analysis of irreducible complexity. Section 4 raises and covers objections to Behe with the general theme being that (neo-) Darwinians beg the question against him. In Section 4 I apply the Dembskian mechanic directly to Behe's work. I argue that Behe does not quite meet the Dembskian criteria he needs to in order for his argument to stand as anything other than defeasible. However, in Section 5 I conclude by arguing that this is exactly what we are to expect from Behe's and similar theories, even within competing paradigms, in the philosophy of biology, given that inference to the best explanation is the logical lever therein at work.KMBT_363
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Quinn, Liam. "Intelligent design of manufacturing systems." Thesis, De Montfort University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/10696.
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The design of a manufacturing system is normally performed in two distinct stages, i.e. steady state design and dynamic state design. Within each system design stage a variety of decisions need to be made of which essential ones are the determination of the product range to be manufactured, the layout of equipment on the shopfloor, allocation of work tasks to workstations, planning of aggregate capacity requirements and determining the lot sizes to be processed. This research work has examined the individual problem areas listed above in order to identify the efficiency of current solution techniques and to determine the problems experienced with their use. It has been identified that for each design problem. although there are an assortment of solution techniques available, the majority of these techniques are unable to generate optimal or near optimal solutions to problems of a practical size. In addition, a variety of limitations have been identified that restrict the use of existing techniques. For example, existing methods are limited with respect to the external conditions over which they are applicable and/or cannot enable qualitative or subjective judgements of experienced personnel to influence solution outcomes. An investigation of optimization techniques has been carried out which indicated that genetic algorithms offer great potential in solving the variety of problem areas involved in manufacturing systems design. This research has, therefore, concentrated on testing the use of genetic algorithms to make individual manufacturing design decisions. In particular, the ability of genetic algorithms to generate better solutions than existing techniques has been examined and their ability to overcome the range of limitations that exist with current solution techniques. IIFor each problem area, a typical solution has been coded in terms of a genetic algorithm structure, a suitable objective function constructed and experiments performed to identify the most suitable operators and operator parameter values to use. The best solution generated using these parameters has then been compared with the solution derived using a traditional solution technique. In addition, from the range of experiments undertaken the underlying relationships have been identified between problem characteristics and optimality of operator types and parameter values. The results of the research have identified that genetic algorithms could provide an improved solution technique for all manufacturing design decision areas investigated. In most areas genetic algorithms identified lower cost solutions and overcame many of the limitations of existing techniques.
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Haque, Mesbah 1972. "Intelligent parking management infrastructure design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8032.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71).
This thesis discusses the different components required to build and design a prototype for the Intelligent Parking Management (IPM) infrastructure. Different aspects of the hardware and software components used to build the prototype is also discussed in the thesis along with discussion of business and marketing strategies for the viability of the solution for commercial use. A prototype solution was built using hardware and software components. The prototype was tested for real-time parking meter availability information for both general web customers and smart device users such as PDA with wireless access and Smart Phone mobile devices using 3G technologies. The tests were conducted in a controlled environment with simulation data for real parking meters. The IPM prototype solution infrastructure built was able to provide real-time parking information. The information was accessible via the Internet through standard browsers and 3G enable Smart Phones. The integration between the hardware and software components and the IPM infrastructure design prototype was enabled through various technologies such as Microsoft .NET platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Mobile Internet toolkit, DTS, ASP.NET and ADO.NET. The thesis discusses these technologies and their interconnectivity within the IPM infrastructure.
by Mesbah Haque.
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Cheng, Mansim Connie 1979. "The design of intelligent cookware." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/27092.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82).
This thesis investigates the opportunity of teaching people how to cook by analyzing the ingredients' chemical content as they are using them, and the consequent creation of a specific class of context-aware cookware that aids its users. An inquisition on the chemical content of different food and the appropriate electronics for measuring it was done. An instrument, with embedded sensors and intelligence and in the form of a spatula, was created base on the result of the research, and tested to be able to measure salinity, acidity, temperature, and consistency. This tool was used to demonstrate that several ingredients could be measured easily, and recipes as varied as pickles and pancakes could be improved. The work demonstrates the possibility of having intelligence in the kitchen, and examines the pedagogical value of intelligent tools when they are capable of collaborating with and guiding its user. The research also inquires into the field of ubiquitous computing, in which sensors are placed in ordinary objects, and to assess its impact in a domestic environment.
by Mansim Connie Cheng.
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Eckert, Claudia. "Intelligent support for knitwear design." Thesis, Open University, 1997. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54436/.
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Communication between different members of a design team often poses difficulties. The knitwear design process is shared by the designers, who plan the visual and tactile appearance of the garments, and the technicians, who have to realise the garment on a knitting machine and assemble it. This thesis reports a detailed empirical study of over' twenty companies in Britain and Germany, which shows that the communication problem constitutes a major bottleneck. Designers specify their designs inaccurately, incompletely and inconsistently; the technicians interpret these specifications according to their previous experience of similar designs, and produce garments very different from the designers' original intention. Knitwear is inherently difficult to describe, as no simple and complete notation exists for knitted structures; and the relationship between visual appearance and structure and technical properties of knitted fabric is subtle and complex. At the same time the interaction between designers and technicians is badly managed in many companies. This thesis argues that this communication bottleneck can be overcome by enabling designers to produce accurate specifications of technically correct designs, through the help. of an intelligent computer support system that corrects inconsistent input and proposes design suggestions that the user can edit. In this thesis this proposal is elaborated for one aspect of knitwear design: garment shape construction. Garment shapes are modelled using Bezier curves generated using design heuristics drawn from industrial practice, to create curves that look right to a designer and can be easily edited. The development of the garment shape models presented in this thesis involved the solution of unusual problems in numerical analysis. The thesis shows how the mathematical models can be integrated into an intelligent CAD system, and discusses die benefits of such a system could have for the design process.
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MCINTYRE, SCOTT CAMPBELL. "PLEXPLAN: AN INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PLANNING (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183897.
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PLEXPLAN, an automated software system and methodology for Information Systems (IS) planning, is described. The PLEXPLAN methodology and tools are used to integrate information from multiple and dynamic perspectives on the organization. A conceptual and technical software architecture is described which permits storage, integration and manipulation of such information. The PLEXPLAN methodology is consistent with the PLEXPLAN software architecture inasmuch as specific techniques in the methodology are represented in the automated environment as tools. A case is presented where PLEXPLAN was used to address an Information Systems planning task. Use of the PLEXPLAN methodology and tools is specifically described as they relate to the case.
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Wakelam, Mark. "Intelligent hybrid approach for integrated design." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263942.
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Perelson, Andrew J. M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "iPlot : an intelligent lighting design assistant." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33604.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-97).
iPlot is an intelligent lighting design assistant. Given a performance space and a set of lighting goals, each specifying an area to be lit and a direction, iPlot explores the space of possible light arrangements in search of solutions that satisfy the goals. It employs a generate, test, and repair strategy in which solutions are generated and tested to see if they satisfy a goal. If a goal failed to be satisfied iPlot uses the explanation of this failure to propose a number of repair suggestions that either modify the solutions or relax the set of goals to form a new goal set. It then carries out these suggestions to create new solutions viewable by the designer as a light plot, a two-dimensional top down view of the performance space, lighting pipes, and lights all drawn to scale. This thesis describes iPlot and an experiment that involved asking a lighting designer to evaluate the light plots that iPlot produced.
by Andrew J. Perelson.
M.Eng.
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El-Nakla, Samir. "Intelligent electronic design for mechatronic systems." Thesis, Abertay University, 2004. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/f767c64f-e5c8-40f5-aa3f-ac9186634a9c.
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Mechatronics requires the integration of a range of technologies from mechanical engineering, electronics and software, often with conflicting requirements. This problem is particularly complex with respect to the electronic parts of a mechatronics system where there are currently no computer-based tools available to support and assist designers during the early stages of the design process. Recognising this, the thesis was initially defined and developed based on the decomposition of a mechatronic system into its different system components using Functional Decomposition and top down approach. This led to the development and implementation of a computer-based system at lower level and which is used to assist in the design of electronic systems, which themselves form a part of a larger or mechatronic system. Filter design was chosen as an exemplar for the purpose of demonstrating the approach used, which will also enable and support the reflection of the strategy onto other electronic systems. The system can be developed to the point of providing an expert system that support users who are either experienced or inexperienced in filter design. It can also provide help, assistance and advice to the user. Filter design knowledge has been acquired from related experts and sources such as texts and represented and coded appropriately. A range of different filter designs are stored in a well-designed database that the design can be retrieved from when needed using strategy based on a combination of Case Based Reasoning and rules. The final part of the project is concerned with the definition of means by the methodology can be linked to other system domains to generate an overall design and to manage the transfer of information, including constraints and conflicts, between levels within the design process by means of a Data Dictionary. A major aim of the demonstrator tool in addition to providing help and support to users is to achieve timesavings and enhance the cost effectiveness of the design process. Also it can ease the communication between different technology-groupings in a mechatronic design team. What has been achieved is an increased understanding of the decomposition of the mechatronic system and of the interrelationships between the technical domains. At the lower levels the emphasis is on the electronic components of a mechatronic system, and of how the development of the chosen exemplar can be used as a basis from which the overall electronic system can be developed and linked to the mechatronic system.
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Nie, Lei. "RFID based prepaid intelligent water meter : [MSc thesis in Intelligent Systems Design] /." Göteborg : IT-universitetet, Chalmers tekniska högskola och Göteborgs universitet, 2006. http://www.ituniv.se/w/index.php?option=com_itu_thesis&Itemid=319.
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Signell, Andreas. "Tro, vetenskap, undervisning och intelligent design : Intelligent design och didaktik – analys av läromedel inom religionsämnet för gymnasiet." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16566.
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Den här uppsatsen handlar om rörelsen intelligent design, som tror att en intelligent skapare ligger bakom stegen i evolutionen. På så vis blir inte evolutionen en slumpmässig sak, utan en sedermera intelligent designad evolution. Den här intelligenta skaparen är med andra ord Gud. Uppsatsens ämnar undersöka intelligent design och gymnasieskolan, närmare bestämt hur ID korrelerar med didaktik. Rent konkret är syftet med uppsatsen att se hur man i de centrala didaktiska frågeställningarna bemöter intelligent design i religionsläroböcker på gymnasial nivå. De fyra frågeställningar uppsatsen utgår ifrån är följande : Vilken tyngd och utrymme får intelligent design i undervisningsmaterialet? Hur beskrivs intelligent design i jämförelse med hur bibelns skapelsetro eller kreationism framställs? Kan idén om intelligent design inspirera elevernas intresse och frågor om religion och tro? Varför ska man undervisa om intelligent design? För att besvara dessa frågor består huvuddelen av uppsatsen av ett litteraturstudium med hermeneutisk inriktning av tre läroböcker på gymnasialnivå. I bakgrunden tas även grundläggande information och historik om intelligent design upp. Av materialet som studeras kan jag dra slutsatsen att intelligent design får en relativt liten roll i undervisningsmaterialet och att intelligent design ofta sammanställs med kreationism. Förslag ges på hur intelligent design kan inspirera eleverna till intressanta diskussioner i ämnet religionskunskap genom att erbjuda ett tredje perspektiv, en blandning av vetenskap och tro som kompletterar varandra. Utifrån detta och andra argument ges goda orsaker för att undervisa om ID i skolan.
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Dascanio, John Lewis II. "The development of an integrated intelligent design environment." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/17784.
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Malkawi, Ali Mahmoud. "Building energy design and optimization : intelligent computer-aided thermal design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21793.
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Landau, Harry Edward. "Intelligent tutoring systems : a design support tool /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA288489.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1994.Thesis advisor(s): Kishore Sengupta, B. Ramesh. "September 1994." Bibliography: p. 41-42. Also available online.
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Alani, Shayma. "Design of intelligent ensembled classifiers combination methods." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12793.
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Classifier ensembling research has been one of the most active areas of machine learning for a long period of time. The main aim of generating combined classifier ensembles is to improve the prediction accuracy in comparison to using an individual classifier. A combined classifiers ensemble can improve the prediction results by compensating for the individual classifier weaknesses in certain areas and benefiting from better accuracy of the other ensembles in the same area. In this thesis, different algorithms are proposed for designing classifier ensemble combiners. The existing methods such as averaging, voting, weighted average, and optimised weighted method does not increase the accuracy of the combiner in comparison to the proposed advanced methods such as genetic programming and the coalition method. The different methods are studied in detail and analysed using different databases. The aim is to increase the accuracy of the combiner in comparison to the standard stand-alone classifiers. The proposed methods are based on generating a combiner formula using genetic programming, while the coalition is based on estimating the diversity of the classifiers such that a coalition is generated with better prediction accuracy. Standard accuracy measures are used, namely accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and area under the curve, in addition to training error accuracies such as the mean square error. The combiner methods are compared empirically with several stand-alone classifiers using neural network algorithms. Different types of neural network topologies are used to generate different models. Experimental results show that the combiner algorithms are superior in creating the most diverse and accurate classifier ensembles. Ensembles of the same models are generated to boost the accuracy of a single classifier type. An ensemble of 10 models of different initial weights is used to improve the accuracy. Experiments show a significant improvement over a single model classifier. Finally, two combining methods are studied, namely the genetic programming and coalition combination methods. The genetic programming algorithm is used to generate a formula for the classifiers’ combinations, while the coalition method is based on a simple algorithm that assigns linear combination weights based on the consensus theory. Experimental results of the same databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods compared to conventional combining methods. The results show that the coalition method is better than genetic programming.
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Al-Shammaa, Mohammed. "Granular computing approach for intelligent classifier design." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13686.
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Granular computing facilitates dealing with information by providing a theoretical framework to deal with information as granules at different levels of granularity (different levels of specificity/abstraction). It aims to provide an abstract explainable description of the data by forming granules that represent the features or the underlying structure of corresponding subsets of the data. In this thesis, a granular computing approach to the design of intelligent classification systems is proposed. The proposed approach is employed for different classification systems to investigate its efficiency. Fuzzy inference systems, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems and classifier ensembles are considered to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed approach. Each of the considered systems is designed using the proposed approach and classification performance is evaluated and compared to that of the standard system. The proposed approach is based on constructing information granules from data at multiple levels of granularity. The granulation process is performed using a modified fuzzy c-means algorithm that takes classification problem into account. Clustering is followed by a coarsening process that involves merging small clusters into large ones to form a lower granularity level. The resulted granules are used to build each of the considered binary classifiers in different settings and approaches. Granules produced by the proposed granulation method are used to build a fuzzy classifier for each granulation level or set of levels. The performance of the classifiers is evaluated using real life data sets and measured by two classification performance measures: accuracy and area under receiver operating characteristic curve. Experimental results show that fuzzy systems constructed using the proposed method achieved better classification performance. In addition, the proposed approach is used for the design of neural network classifiers. Resulted granules from one or more granulation levels are used to train the classifiers at different levels of specificity/abstraction. Using this approach, the classification problem is broken down into the modelling of classification rules represented by the information granules resulting in more interpretable system. Experimental results show that neural network classifiers trained using the proposed approach have better classification performance for most of the data sets. In a similar manner, the proposed approach is used for the training of neuro-fuzzy systems resulting in similar improvement in classification performance. Lastly, neural networks built using the proposed approach are used to construct a classifier ensemble. Information granules are used to generate and train the base classifiers. The final ensemble output is produced by a weighted sum combiner. Based on the experimental results, the proposed approach has improved the classification performance of the base classifiers for most of the data sets. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm is used to determine the combiner weights automatically.
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Scurlock, Robert E. "Design of an Intelligent Tutoring System shell." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26459.
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Schofield, Damian. "Surface mine design using intelligent computer techniques." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13113/.
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Surface mine planning involves the results of algorithmic numerical calculations being used by engineers to make informed decisions relating to the design. The Department of Mining Engineering at the Unversity of Nottingham has in the past been involved in developing modular algorithmic packages. The emphasis of the computer research has now altered. Smaller specialised systems are now being developed to cover individual aspects of the design process. Artificial intelligence techniques are being introduced into the mining environment to solve the planning problems often associated with the large amounts of uncertain information needed by the engineer. This thesis is concerned with the development of MINDER, a decision support system capable of assisting the mine planner in the complex task of optimum surface mining equipment selection. An expert system shell has been used to create a series of individual application modules, each containing a multi-level knowledge base structure. An information handling system has been developed which is capable of storing consultation information and transfering it between knowledge bases and between application modules. Once an effective method of information handling had been achieved the flow of control between the system knowledge bases was rapid and followed complex inferencing routes. Most of the commercially available packages mathematically model a deposit, calculate volumes and simulate operations. One of the aims of the MINDER system was to integrate with other software, for example MINDER is capable of reading volumetric and material information from Surpac mine planning software. Geological data and manufacturer’s equipment specifications are stored in DbaseIV databases. The expert system is capable of writing macros based on the consultation and performing complex relation operations involved in the elimination and ranking of equipment. In a similar manner macros are written to control the simulation package GPSS which used to simulate operations using the selected equipment. A range of ‘in-house’ Pascal software is used for numerical calculations and matrix manipulation, an example of this is the fuzzy logic software used to handle uncertain information. Another aspect of the project is an investigation into the use of machine learning techniques in the field of equipment selection. Knowledge induction software has been used to induce new rules and check those produced in the MINDER system. Various experiments have been carried out using neural network software to produce equipment selection models. Training data taken from the mining industry was used on both these systems and the results were tested against MINDER consultation results.
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Masuku, Eric S. "Intelligent CAD mould design for injection moulding." Thesis, University of Bath, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323605.
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Abu-Alola, Abdulmohsin. "Genetic algorithms for intelligent control system design." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282507.
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Graves, Alan R. "Integrated architecture for intelligent telerobotic system design." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366710.
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Finniear, Lee John. "An intelligent Geographic Information System for design." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1991. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32546.
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Recent advances in geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been summarised, concentrating on the theoretical aspects of their construction and use. Existing projects combining AI and GIS have also been discussed, with attention paid to the interfacing methods used and problems uncovered by the approaches. AI and GIS have been combined in this research to create an intelligent GIS for design. This has been applied to off-shore pipeline route design. The system was tested using data from a real pipeline design project.
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Azimian, Amin. "Design of an Intelligent Traffic Management System." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1323275800.
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De, Brandt T. "Development of an intelligent printer sharer." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1134.
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Thesis (M.Diploma in Technology)--Cape Technikon, Cape Town, 1993This thesis describes the design, development and implementation of an intelligent printer sharer, capable of servicing ten personal computers and two printers.
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Rutherford, James H. "An intelligent design support environment : the application of intelligent knowledge-based systems and advanced HCI techniques to building design." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1990. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21581.
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Building design is becoming an increasingly complex process. Technological advances in building materials and construction methods have necessitated the specification of more rigourous regulatory constraints to which the designer must adhere. Although a diverse range of sophisticated computer based design tools, addressing the formal functional requirements of building design, exist to assist the designer in the decision making process, as a result of their sophistication, such tools often require considerable specialist knowledge of the methodologies employed before they can realistically be utilized on a routine basis. As a result a growing interest has developed in intelligent user-interfaces in an attempt to make complex application software more accessible, maintainable and extendible. However, owing to inconsistencies between front-ends, the current trend in user interface management systems tends to propagate the encapsulation of application functionality within a static, esoteric style of dialogue; restricting interaction to the lowest common user level and therefore denying the designer unrestricted access to the embedded methodologies required for creative solution synthesis. By adopting a communications view of the user-interface, this thesis illustrates how a dynamically adaptable user-interface, coupled to a multi-level knowledge based system consisting of surface level models derived from human laws, with deep models of reasoning, employing non-procedural, opportunistic knowledge acquisition mechanisms, may be utilised to accommodate the dynamically varying nature of the design process. The resulting object oriented framework is an intelligent design support system which isolates the user from the low level aspects of CAD tool management; enabling experts from different sub-disciplines to access the functionality of a comprehensive range of design tools in manner suited to their individual conceptual vocabulary, level of expertise, and idiosyncratic design procedures. Although the framework described within this thesis is generally applicable across a range of domains, specific examples of user stereotypes and dialogue templates used to illustrate the principles behind the system are derived from building performance assessment and prediction.
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Antonini, Mattia. "From Edge Computing to Edge Intelligence: exploring novel design approaches to intelligent IoT applications." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/308630.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) has deeply changed how we interact with our world. Today, smart homes, self-driving cars, connected industries, and wearables are just a few mainstream applications where IoT plays the role of enabling technology. When IoT became popular, Cloud Computing was already a mature technology able to deliver the computing resources necessary to execute heavy tasks (e.g., data analytic, storage, AI tasks, etc.) on data coming from IoT devices, thus practitioners started to design and implement their applications exploiting this approach. However, after a hype that lasted for a few years, cloud-centric approaches have started showing some of their main limitations when dealing with the connectivity of many devices with remote endpoints, like high latency, bandwidth usage, big data volumes, reliability, privacy, and so on. At the same time, a few new distributed computing paradigms emerged and gained attention. Among all, Edge Computing allows to shift the execution of applications at the edge of the network (a partition of the network physically close to data-sources) and provides improvement over the Cloud Computing paradigm. Its success has been fostered by new powerful embedded computing devices able to satisfy the everyday-increasing computing requirements of many IoT applications. Given this context, how can next-generation IoT applications take advantage of the opportunity offered by Edge Computing to shift the processing from the cloud toward the data sources and exploit everyday-more-powerful devices? This thesis provides the ingredients and the guidelines for practitioners to foster the migration from cloud-centric to novel distributed design approaches for IoT applications at the edge of the network, addressing the issues of the original approach. This requires the design of the processing pipeline of applications by considering the system requirements and constraints imposed by embedded devices. To make this process smoother, the transition is split into different steps starting with the off-loading of the processing (including the Artificial Intelligence algorithms) at the edge of the network, then the distribution of computation across multiple edge devices and even closer to data-sources based on system constraints, and, finally, the optimization of the processing pipeline and AI models to efficiently run on target IoT edge devices. Each step has been validated by delivering a real-world IoT application that fully exploits the novel approach. This paradigm shift leads the way toward the design of Edge Intelligence IoT applications that efficiently and reliably execute Artificial Intelligence models at the edge of the network.
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Antonini, Mattia. "From Edge Computing to Edge Intelligence: exploring novel design approaches to intelligent IoT applications." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/308630.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) has deeply changed how we interact with our world. Today, smart homes, self-driving cars, connected industries, and wearables are just a few mainstream applications where IoT plays the role of enabling technology. When IoT became popular, Cloud Computing was already a mature technology able to deliver the computing resources necessary to execute heavy tasks (e.g., data analytic, storage, AI tasks, etc.) on data coming from IoT devices, thus practitioners started to design and implement their applications exploiting this approach. However, after a hype that lasted for a few years, cloud-centric approaches have started showing some of their main limitations when dealing with the connectivity of many devices with remote endpoints, like high latency, bandwidth usage, big data volumes, reliability, privacy, and so on. At the same time, a few new distributed computing paradigms emerged and gained attention. Among all, Edge Computing allows to shift the execution of applications at the edge of the network (a partition of the network physically close to data-sources) and provides improvement over the Cloud Computing paradigm. Its success has been fostered by new powerful embedded computing devices able to satisfy the everyday-increasing computing requirements of many IoT applications. Given this context, how can next-generation IoT applications take advantage of the opportunity offered by Edge Computing to shift the processing from the cloud toward the data sources and exploit everyday-more-powerful devices? This thesis provides the ingredients and the guidelines for practitioners to foster the migration from cloud-centric to novel distributed design approaches for IoT applications at the edge of the network, addressing the issues of the original approach. This requires the design of the processing pipeline of applications by considering the system requirements and constraints imposed by embedded devices. To make this process smoother, the transition is split into different steps starting with the off-loading of the processing (including the Artificial Intelligence algorithms) at the edge of the network, then the distribution of computation across multiple edge devices and even closer to data-sources based on system constraints, and, finally, the optimization of the processing pipeline and AI models to efficiently run on target IoT edge devices. Each step has been validated by delivering a real-world IoT application that fully exploits the novel approach. This paradigm shift leads the way toward the design of Edge Intelligence IoT applications that efficiently and reliably execute Artificial Intelligence models at the edge of the network.
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Sugiono. "Investigating an intelligent concept design tool for automotive car body design." Thesis, University of Derby, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/334913.
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The newly designed car in the automotive industry should meet the customers' requirements, e.g. the outlook of the car, size of the car, usage of the car, among other requirements. It must still consider the factors of social life, resources and environmental problems during the automotive design, such as fuel consumption, emission, global warming, noise, accidents etc. [1], [2], [3]. As a result, the right concept of automotive body design still includes a measurement of its performance and an investigation of its effect on modem life. The aim of the project is to create a car body concept design tool to achieve the design for fuel consumption, design for aerodynamic noise and design for car body vibration. The system is developed with two options for the user: partial limited function car body design and full function car body design. In the partial limited function design, the user is asked to modify the limited size values on three optimized car body designs; optimum saloon car body design, optimum estate car body design, and optimum hatchback car body design which only took place in the small, local sensitive areas. For the full function car body design, the user is allowed to design the overall automotive's size to create a new outlooking vehicle. In order to do so, databases were created to store information pertaining to size versus fuel, size versus vibration, and size versus noise. As per academic style, the research project begins with the literature review and then concentrates on the survey of the geometry types of existing car body designs. The information has been analyzed and classified to serve as references in building the car body models. It is then tested by using Computational Aero-acoustic (CAA) for noise (dB), Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) for fuel economic factors (lift force and drag coefficient), and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for vibration (Hz). At this stage, all the information from simulation tests are collected and inputted into the database. At the same time, a Taguchi tool is employed to select the optimum BPNN architecture with Genetic Algorithm (GA) which is used to train the BPNN. Finally, the thesis will deliver the car body design modules for estate, saloon and hatchback types with complete information pertaining to external aerodynamic noise, aerodynamic vibration and fuel consumption
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Li, Lin. "Intelligent laser cladding control system design and construction." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/7683.
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Vary, Beth Alexandra. "Display Design and Intelligent Automation: Design of an Intelligent Water Monitor Display." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18946.
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In response to growing concerns over the susceptibility of water distribution systems to contamination, this thesis presents the design and evaluation of an ecological display for an intelligent water monitoring system. Work Domain Analysis and Control Task Analysis were used to uncover the information requirements of the display. The work domain model in this thesis is one of a limited number of such models to include a representation of the automation. The resulting ecological display was evaluated in a comparative usability study against an alternative display based on a competitor’s product. Nine certified water operators participated. The displays were compared across three categories of usability measures: effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. No significant differences were observed. The results, however, helped identify design changes for the display. The implications for the design of intelligent automation displays, and the challenge of designing displays in parallel with early development of automation systems, are discussed.
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Lin, Wei-Sheng, and 林偉勝. "Intelligent Control for Ballbot Design." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/384q44.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
機電整合研究所
98
This thesis main topic is under-actuated system, proposing two intelligent control methods and evaluating all these control feasibilities. First of all, hierarchical sliding-mode control method is used to control the second order of under-actuated system ballbot. Then, fuzzy controller is used to adjust hierarchical sliding-mode control parameters, using sliding surface as input, and immediately adjusting sliding surface subsystem''s slope and reaching law, also improving dynamic system performance.Right now computer simulation is used to verify the feasibility of controller.
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Chen, Bo-jheng, and 陳博正. "Design of an Intelligent Equalizer." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90618989422930725293.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
電機工程系
98
This research is on the basis of psychoacoustic theory. According to Fletcher-Munson’s Equal Loudness Curve, ears to the sound are characterized by nonlinearity, and same loudness in frequency requires different sound press level, which highlights the concept that ears have balanced feeling to different loudness in sound. Consequently, the study intends to set up a table that presents the compensative relationship between volume and equalizer by testing users’ actual sound in examining the volume variation of pure tone signal. Based on the table using C language to implemented, the study shows that equalizer makes adjustments automatically in compensating different volume while users adjust volume.
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Wang, Li-Ming, and 王立銘. "Intelligent Autonomous Instruction Memory Design." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95708813154981005410.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊學院碩士在職專班資訊組
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Main concept of Intelligent Autonomous Instruction Memory (iAIM) is to equip top-level instruction memory with “program flow tracing” capability by incorporating dynamic branch predictor into top-level instruction memory. With help of dynamic branch predictor, instruction memory can know where to fetch the next instruction without instruction address supplied by CPU most of the time. The purpose of such concept is to reduce instruction address traffic between CPU and instruction memory to a minimum. The realization of such concept may conserve more energy on instruction address bus than many known instruction address bus encoding techniques. While dynamic branch predictor is removed from CPU to instruction memory, additional auxiliary hardware and an efficient control bus communication protocol between CPU and instruction memory are essential to maintain program flow correctness and original dynamic branch predictor operation. A simple design of iAIM that makes use of the above concept is proposed first, followed by an enhanced design that equips iAIM with a partial instruction decoder capable of calculating branch target address by decoding branch instruction. A more enhanced design that equips iAIM with a partial instruction decoder and a return stack is proposed finally. The experiment results show three proposed designs can reduce instruction address transmission to 97.71%, 98.49% and 99.99% and reduce total bit transitions to 84.99%, 86.54% and 92.01% compared with conventional architecture respectively. All these designs greatly outperform T0 encoding technique. The third design outperforms T0 DAT with 128 entries technique slightly.
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Prasad, Naga P. "An intelligent approach to design tasks." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/879.
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Hsu, Hung-Yao. "Development towards intelligent design for assembly." 2001. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/46675.
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This thesis addresses research towards the development of an intelligent design for assembly evaluation system (IDFAES) based on the design for assembly (DFA) principels. The research project aimed to enhance the capability of existing DFA methodologies in order to support activities such as redesign, design modification and assembly planning during the product development cycle.
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Lee, Chen-Han, and 李承翰. "The Design of Intelligent Image Sensor." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77686785316805023727.
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碩士大葉大學
資訊工程學系碩士班
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Brightness obviously affects the pixel value of an image sensor. Image identification from a traditional sensor may generate a bias and surveillant misunderstandings because of weather. The purpose of the research is to develop an intelligent image sensor for image identification. The intelligent sensor integrates an optoelectronic converting circuit and an embedded system and can convert the brightness to an analog voltage. From the voltage value, we can establish a contrast list to show the relationship of the analog voltage and image pixel values. Using the list and applying the linear interpolation method, we can eliminate the effect of the brightness and raise the identification rate. The intelligent image sensor can not only largely decrease the identification bias but also save storage space and costs compared to the traditional solution.
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簡秋豪. "The Intelligent Design of Biomimetic Fish." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g37kuj.
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碩士建國科技大學
自動化工程系暨機電光系統研究所
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In this paper as a PID control theory point of view , bionic fish design acceleration motion control , do a continuous coherent action by the predecessor to the end of the actuator and control into three , namely, forward, left turn , right turn . Using Arduino UNO board as the control core, with PID servo motor control theory, and APP Inventor write phone APP, combined with Bluetooth module control bionic machinery fish, mimic the way fish swim, the purpose is to explore the concept of motion control in practice on the future if we integrate more functions, such as camera, GPS, sonar and completely automated its design will be more complete. Keywords: fuzzy adaptive PID, bionic fish, mobile APP, Bluetooth module
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Yiying-Chen and 陳奕穎. "Intelligent Design in Automatic Drilling Machine." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33936946933943019730.
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碩士建國科技大學
自動化工程系暨機電光系統研究所
98
ABSTRAT The current traditional drilling machines are usually unable to identify the different kind of material hardness during the drilling action. Therefore, the drills are easily abraded or damaged which may cause the increase of cost. Due to these problems and disadvantages of the drills, this paper designs an intelligent automatic drilling machine to improve the disadvantages of traditional fixed speed drilling machines. The purpose of this design is to avoid the collision of hard material and cause the drill collapse or breaking. On the contrary, when the material’s hardness is lower, such as plastic materials, it can become a high-speed execution. After the penetrating, it will retreat from the subject in low-speed rotation. While using high-speed in drilling, faster speed can avoid the high temperature of drilling the materials. The high temperature will lead to the problem of deformation of aperture or low accuracy. The system integrates a touch screen and a PLC controller to automatically select and judge the materials for the drilling machine. The experiment proves the design can actually improve the drilling efficiency and extend the usage of drills. Keywords: Drill pressd, rilling machine, touch screen, PLC controller
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Lin, Wai-Hon, and 林偉宏. "Intelligent Controller Design for Electric Bicycles." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46845788965088663789.
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碩士吳鳳技術學院
光機電暨材料研究所
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Bicycle is a space free and multi-functional traffic tool that can use for transportation, daily habit, and exercising. Moreover, if the battery is installed on bicycle, this can ease rider's energy. The purpose of this research is to design a practical bicycle with a versatile and inexpensive controller that can be commercially produced. We developed an intelligent electric bicycle that base fuzzy logic control on the Programmable System-on-Chips approach. The key point is to use fuzzy logic control to control the speed of the bicycle that efficiency the use of the limited battery's power. The uses of fuzzy logic control design have three models, electric bicycle model, smart model and fixed speed mode. Sensor include use hall sensor. The LCD displayer on the bicycle panel can provide the battery voltage, speed and mode of the bicycle. To gain more power of the motor, we used direct current motor. Via many experiments, we have carefully adjusted the parameters, such as memberships and rule; the final result matches our expectation.
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Chen, Te-YU, and 陳德育. "Intelligent Self-Organizing Control System Design." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76161457222309243202.
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博士元智大學
電機工程學系
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This dissertation focused on a novel design of intelligent self-organizing control system based on adaptive control and fuzzy sliding-mode control for the uncertain nonlinear systems. The proposed control scheme is comprised of a main controller and an auxiliary compensation controller. The main controller, a fuzzy neural network (FNN) controller or a cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC), is utilized to approximate an ideal controller and an auxiliary compensation controller is utilized to attenuate the residual approximation error with a specified tracking performance. The self-organizing technology is a modern skill for adjusting the structure of control system by itself without the need for preliminary knowledge and it can reduce the calculation loading for the control system. In this dissertation, the fuzzy rules in FNN and the numbers of layer and block in CMAC will be adjusted automatically. In these intelligent self-organizing control systems design, the on-line parameter tuning methodology using both of the gradient descent method and the Lyapunov stability theorem is developed to increase the system learning capability and to guarantee the stability of the system. The developed control system design methods are then applied to some control system applications, such as chaotic Duffing system, mass-spring-damper system, Chau’s chaotic circuit system, inverted double pendulums system, linear ultrasonic motor (LUSM) system and brushless DC (BLDC) motor for demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed design methods.
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Hsu, Huan-Ming, and 許桓銘. "Design of Intelligent IP Camera Middleware." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67778876005744804151.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
資訊教育研究所
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The issue of surveillance and secutiry has been emphasized through the development of Internet. The evolution of the surveillance system has been a migration from the analog CCTV (Closed Circuit TeleVision) system to the integration system of digital IP camera. In 2008, two international alliances, PSIA (Physical Security Interoperability Alliance) and ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) are formed, and they purposed the front-end/rear-end integrated protocols based on the network surveillance system. So far, many products for surveillance software system in the marketplace claim to be able to fully support those two international alliances, PSIA (Physical Security Interoperability Alliance) and ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum), based on a market survey. However, in fact, the ONVIF core specification Ver. 1 was first proposed in 2008. The ONVIF core specification Ver. 2 was then updated in 2010. In 2012, the ONVIF core structure specification Ver. 2.1.1 was launched. For those users and venders of IP camera, the uncertain protocol of the ONVIF core specification will cause the difficulty and inconvenience of surveillance software system in setting, installation, and management. The possibility of the uncertain protocol and the unstable surveillance software system still exists in those high cost system. In this thesis, the design of intelligent IP camera middleware is proposed and implemented based on a reliable architecture of surveillance software system. The main contributions of the thesis as follows. First, we implemented the Universal Middleware Bridge System (UMBS) for IP Cam networking. The UMBS provides the related mechanisms for system manual setting, automatic configuration, and management to improve the whole procedures of setting and installation. The UMBS is composed of four main functional modules, Live Video (LV), Playback Video (PV), Intelligent Scheduler (iScheduler), and System Configuration (SC). The structure of the robust UMBS supports the adaptability and flexibility for design and development of IP cam application system. Secondly, the image searching algorithm for surveillance system is purposed. There are two subsystems including face recognition subsystem and face/object comparsion subsystem in the algorithm. In the algorithm, four major functions comprise skin color recognition, image noise removal, conneted component labeling, and face or object comparsion. The image searching algorithm for surveillance system can be applied to the design of surveillance software platform in the future.
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Su, Yu-Chuan, and 蘇育全. "Intelligent Prognostics System Design and Implementation." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52294261805944836241.
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博士國立成功大學
製造工程研究所碩博士班
94
This dissertation proposes an intelligent prognostics system (IPS) for semiconductor and TFT-LCD manufacturing. The IPS comprises several generic embedded devices (GEDs) and remote clients. The GED can be easily embedded into various types of equipment to acquire equipment engineering data and meet the specification requirements of Interface A for supporting semiconductor industry equipment engineering capabilities. Furthermore, the GED has an open-standard application interface offering any pluggable and customized intelligent applications. With this feature, the intelligent applications can be distributed and localized releasing the factory network burden and enhancing equipment reliability and processing quality. This dissertation also develops two typical pluggable applications: the predictive maintenance scheme (PMS) for detecting equipment faults and the quality prognostics scheme (QPS) for conjecturing equipment-processing quality. Integrating the PMS into the IPS and the QPS into the IPS are respectively accomplished using the conveyor equipment and the sputtering equipment in a TFT-LCD factory. These two illustrative examples clearly demonstrate that IPS is versatile, configurable, and effective.
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Hao, Ou Chia, and 歐家豪. "Design of An Intelligent DNS Planning." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21412899043496804535.
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碩士國立交通大學
資訊科學系
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure. Today, most internetworking services are based on the working model that there will be some DNS queries before the communication activities. The shortage of DNS domain experts, and the hierarchical and distributed properties of the DNS system make the planning and management more difficult. In this thesis, we propose an Intelligent DNS Planning and Management System (iDNS-PMS) to help inexperienced administrators solve the planning and management problems. DNS Ontology Construction Algorithm (DNS-OCA) is a knowledge acquisition algorithm that can be used to systematically extract knowledge from domain experts to construct the DNS ontology hierarchy. The DNS ontology hierarchy can help administrators understand the DNS domain knowledge and can be used to construct the foundation of the knowledge base, DNS Knowledge Objects (DNS-KO). We construct the DNS ontology after we perform the DNS-OCA, and it has been verified by the experts. It is not only useful for people to understand the DNS domain but also helpful when we construct our system. Finally, We implement a prototype of iDNS-PMS to evaluate the potential of this system and for advanced research in the future.
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Wu, Jin-Xiao, and 吳俊曉. "VR/Robot Integration: Intelligent Interface Design." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65412921737260152191.
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碩士國立交通大學
電機與控制工程系
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Nowadays, teleoperation has been used in the environment that is hazardous or inaccessible for human. The introduction of virtual reality technique to teleoperation provides the operators different viewing angles to look at the environment. In this thesis, we implement a VR-based telerobotic system, and develop an intelligent interface to help the operator for manipulation. Besides providing both 3D environmental visual and force feedbacks, the VR-based telerobotic system utilizes the potential field approach to plan robot path. Thus, this system can provide the operator the functions of obstacle avoidance, guidance toward the goal, and path tracking. We evaluated the its performance through several experiments to see whether better performance on task completion time and contact force can be achieved, when the operator manipulates the robot in the free space or contacting with the environment.
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Liu, Chan-Chia, and 劉展嘉. "Intelligent Ventilation System Design for Ventilator." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58012180197190077403.
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碩士國立中央大學
電機工程學系
104
Mechanical ventilator performs essential functions in critical care medicine. Mechanical ventilator provides respiratory failure patients with mechanical ventilation which makes patients reduce work of breathing (WOB) and maintain gas exchange. PESP laboratory designed a system for optimal minute volume (OMV) which is needed in clinic. The system regulated the percentage minute volume(%MinVol) automatically in ASV. This thesis is based on adaptive support ventilation(ASV) Otis equation used to build in conditional pressure support ventilation(PSV) which applicate all mechanical ventilator brands. Clinician measures OMV by adjusting pressure value of mechanical ventilator in PSV. The percentage OMV(%OMV) can be the criteria of weaning mechanical ventilator from patients and the asthma index of physiologic monitor. Owing to regulating pressure value of mechanical ventilator, paramedics spend much time finding patients’ minute volume so that the hospitals increase the burdens of human resource indirectly. As a result, this thesis build in PSV which applicate every mechanical ventilator. The primary design of this thesis is the process of measuring OMV automatically. The experiment, which is used to simulate three different kinds of lung models verify OMV results. The methods of intelligent ventilation system are to measure OMV and demonstrate patients’ physiological information on monitoring interface. This thesis integrates the trends of patients’ physiological with electronic medical records(EMR). Application of smart phone are developed to make paramedics handle patients’ physiological conditions all the time and increase paramedics’ efficiencies.
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Chen, Shih-wei, and 陳師偉. "Architecture Design for Intelligent Surveillance System." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55259860404743267403.
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碩士國立中央大學
電機工程學系
104
The digital surveillance system becomes more and more popular in recent years. It attempts to raise amount of high resolution cameras, consequently those systems stupendously increase the computational load on central server. As in the intelligent object recognition processing flow, the technique on segmentation and tracking multiple targets, such as tracking group of people through occlusion is still challenging. In this paper, we present an architecture design for intelligent surveillance system. Mainly made up of four image processing module composed, contains foreground detection, sliced connected component labeling, object grouping and object tracking. We have a complete system-level solution on algorithm and VLSI implementation. This design is using TSMC 90 nm library with 4 MHz operation frequency. Without calculating memory of gate count about 18.71K. Power consumption about 11.4037mW and memory usage is 92.288Kbytes. Simply use the center and boundary box of the object will be able to track objects, and solve the problem occurs when occlusion.