Industry 4.0: Hand Recognition on Assembly Supervision Process

In the assembly industry, the process of assembling components is very important in order to produce a quality product. Assembly of components should be carried out sequentially based on the standards set by the company. For companies that still operate the assembly process manually by employee, sometimes errors occur in the assembly process, which can affect the quality of production. In order to be carried out the assembly process according to the procedure, a system is needed that can detect employee hands when carrying out the assembly process automatically. This study proposes an artificial intelligence-based real-time employee hand detection system. This system will be the basis for the development of an automatic industrial product assembly process to welcome the Industry 4.0. To verify system performance, several experiments were carried out, such as; detecting the right and left hands of employees and detecting hands when using accessories or not. From the experimental results it can be concluded that the system is able to detect the right and left hands of employees well with the resulting FPS average of 15.4.Pada industri perakitan, proses merakit komponen merupakan hal yang sangat penting guna menghasilkan produk yang berkualitas. Perakitan komponen hendaklah dilakukan secara urut berdasarkan standar yang telah ditentukan oleh perusahaan. Bagi perusahaan yang masih menggunakan proses perakitan secara manual yakni dengan menggunakan tenaga manusia, terkadang terjadi kesalahan dalam proses perakitan, sehingga dapat mempengaruhi kualitas produksi. Agar proses perakitan dapat dilakukan sesuai prosedur, maka diperlukan sebuah sistem yang dapat mendeteksi tangan karyawan ketika melakukan proses perakitan secara otomatis. Penelitian ini mengusulkan sistem pendeteksian tangan karyawan secara real-time berbasis kecerdasan buatan. Sistem ini akan menjadi dasar untuk pengembangan proses perakitan produk industri secara otomatis untuk menyambut industri 4.0. Untuk memverifikasi kinerja sistem, beberapa percobaan dilakukan yaitu mendeteksi tangan kanan dan kiri karyawan serta mendeteksi tangan ketika menggunakan aksesoris atau tidak. Dari hasil percobaan dapat disimpulkan bahwa sistem mampu mendeteksi tangan kanan dan kiri karyawan dengan baik dengan rata-rata FPS yang dihasilkan adalah 15.4

New methods of partial transmit sequence for reducing the high peak-to-average-power ratio with low complexity in the ofdm and f-ofdm systems

The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (OFDM) is one of the most important components for the multicarrier waveform design in the wireless communication standards. Consequently, the OFDM system has been adopted by many high-speed wireless standards. However, the high peak-to-average- power ratio (PAPR) is the main obstacle of the OFDM system in the real applications because of the non-linearity nature in the transmitter. Partial transmit sequence (PTS) is one of the effective PAPR reduction techniques that has been employed for reducing the PAPR value 3 dB; however, the high computational complexity is the main drawback of this technique. This thesis proposes novel methods and algorithms for reducing the high PAPR value with low computational complexity depending on the PTS technique. First, three novel subblocks partitioning schemes, Sine Shape partitioning scheme (SS-PTS), Subsets partitioning scheme (Sb-PTS), and Hybrid partitioning scheme (H-PTS) have been introduced for improving the PAPR reduction performance with low computational complexity in the frequency-domain of the PTS structure. Secondly, two novel algorithms, Grouping Complex iterations algorithm (G-C-PTS), and Gray Code Phase Factor algorithm (Gray-PF-PTS) have been developed to reduce the computational complexity for finding the optimum phase rotation factors in the time domain part of the PTS structure. Third, a new hybrid method that combines the Selective mapping and Cyclically Shifts Sequences (SLM-CSS-PTS) techniques in parallel has been proposed for improving the PAPR reduction performance and the computational complexity level. Based on the proposed methods, an improved PTS method that merges the best subblock partitioning scheme in the frequency domain and the best low-complexity algorithm in the time domain has been introduced to enhance the PAPR reduction performance better than the conventional PTS method with extremely low computational complexity level. The efficiency of the proposed methods is verified by comparing the predicted results with the existing modified PTS methods in the literature using Matlab software simulation and numerical calculation. The results that obtained using the proposed methods achieve a superior gain in the PAPR reduction performance compared with the conventional PTS technique. In addition, the number of complex addition and multiplication operations has been reduced compared with the conventional PTS method by about 54%, and 32% for the frequency domain schemes, 51% and 65% for the time domain algorithms, 18% and 42% for the combining method. Moreover, the improved PTS method which combines the best scheme in the frequency domain and the best algorithm in the time domain outperforms the conventional PTS method in terms of the PAPR reduction performance and the computational complexity level, where the number of complex addition and multiplication operation has been reduced by about 51% and 63%, respectively. Finally, the proposed methods and algorithms have been applied to the OFDM and Filtered-OFDM (F-OFDM) systems through Matlab software simulation, where F-OFDM refers to the waveform design candidate in the next generation technology (5G)

Predicting Risk of Mortality in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients using Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms

Background: Since hospitalized patients with COVID-19 are considered at high risk of death, the patients with the sever clinical condition should be identified. Despite the potential of machine learning (ML) techniques to predict the mortality of COVID-19 patients, high-dimensional data is considered a challenge, which can be addressed by metaheuristic and nature-inspired algorithms, such as genetic algorithm (GA). Objective: This paper aimed to compare the efficiency of the GA with several ML techniques to predict COVID-19 in-hospital mortality.Material and Methods: In this retrospective study, 1353 COVID-19 in-hospital patients were examined from February 9 to December 20, 2020. The GA technique was applied to select the important features, then using selected features several ML algorithms such as K-nearest-neighbor (K-NN), Decision Tree (DT), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) were trained to design predictive models. Finally, some evaluation metrics were used for the comparison of developed models. Results: A total of 10 features out of 56 were selected, including length of stay (LOS), age, cough, respiratory intubation, dyspnea, cardiovascular diseases, leukocytosis, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), C-reactive protein, and pleural effusion by 10-independent execution of GA. The GA-SVM had the best performance with the accuracy and specificity of 9.5147e+01 and 9.5112e+01, respectively.  Conclusion: The hybrid ML models, especially the GA-SVM, can improve the treatment of COVID-19 patients, predict severe disease and mortality, and optimize the utilization of health resources based on the improvement of input features and the adaption of the structure of the models

Selected Papers from the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management

This collection represents successful invited submissions from the papers presented at the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management held in Beijing, China, 22–24 September 2017. With over 500 participants, the conference was co-hosted by the Management Science Department of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Society of Energy Economics and Management, and Renmin University of China on the subject area of “Energy Transition of China: Opportunities and Challenges”. The major strategies to transform the energy system of China to a sustainable model include energy/economic structure adjustment, resource conservation, and technology innovation. Accordingly, the conference and its associated publications encourage research to address the major issues faced in supporting the energy transition of China. Papers published in this collection cover the broad spectrum of energy economics issues, including building energy efficiency, industrial energy demand, public policies to promote new energy technologies, power system control technology, emission reduction policies in energy-intensive industries, emission measurements of cities, energy price movement, and the impact of new energy vehicle

A Comprehensive Survey of Convolutions in Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends

In today's digital age, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a subset of Deep Learning (DL), are widely used for various computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and image segmentation. There are numerous types of CNNs designed to meet specific needs and requirements, including 1D, 2D, and 3D CNNs, as well as dilated, grouped, attention, depthwise convolutions, and NAS, among others. Each type of CNN has its unique structure and characteristics, making it suitable for specific tasks. It's crucial to gain a thorough understanding and perform a comparative analysis of these different CNN types to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, studying the performance, limitations, and practical applications of each type of CNN can aid in the development of new and improved architectures in the future. We also dive into the platforms and frameworks that researchers utilize for their research or development from various perspectives. Additionally, we explore the main research fields of CNN like 6D vision, generative models, and meta-learning. This survey paper provides a comprehensive examination and comparison of various CNN architectures, highlighting their architectural differences and emphasizing their respective advantages, disadvantages, applications, challenges, and future trends

Arquitectura de detección de actividades criminales basada en análisis de vídeo en tiempo real

[ES] Esta tesis doctoral propone el desarrollo de una arquitectura para sistema de detección de actividades criminales en vídeo aplicado a sistemas de mando y control para seguridad ciudadana. Este sistema está basado en la técnica de Deep Learning Faster R-CNN y tiene el novedoso enfoque de tratar las acciones criminales como los hurtos callejeros, en donde pueden ser identificados objetos como evidencia en una escena de vídeo. Esta tesis muestra el desarrollo de dicha aplicación, que demuestra ser efectiva, identificando la manera de reducir el costo computacional del análisis de vídeo cuadro a cuadro obteniendo rendimientos congruentes con las tasas de cuadros por segundo generados por cámaras de sistema de vídeo vigilancia ciudadana. También es objeto de estudio una posible implementación en el sistema de seguridad ciudadana de la Policía Nacional de Colombia.[EN] This doctoral thesis proposes the development of a system to detect criminal activities in video applied to command and control systems for citizen security. This system is based on the Deep Learning technique called Faster R-CNN and has the novel approach of treating criminal actions like street thefts as objects that can be identified in a video scene. This thesis shows the development of this application and the way to reduce the computational cost of the video analysis frame by frame, obtaining performances congruent with the frame rate generated by citizen video surveillance system cameras. There is also a possible implementation in the citizen security system of the National Police of Colombia is being studied.[CA] Esta tesi doctoral proposa el desenrotllament d'una arquitectura per a sistema de detecció d'activitats criminals en vídeo aplicat a sistemes de comandament i control per a seguretat ciutadana. Este sistema està basat en la tècnica de Deep Learning Faster R-CNN i té el nou enfocament de tractar les accions criminals com les afanades guies de carrers com a objectes que poden ser identificats en una escena de vídeo. Esta tesi mostra el desenrotllament de la dita aplicació, que demostra ser efectiva, identificant la manera de reduir el cost computacional de l'anàlisi de vídeo quadro a quadro obtenint rendiments congruents amb les taxes de cuados per segon generats per cambres de sistema de vídeo vigilància ciutadana. També s'estudia una possible implementació en el sistema de seguretat ciutadana de la Policia Nacional de Colòmbia.Suárez Páez, JE. (2020). Arquitectura de detección de actividades criminales basada en análisis de vídeo en tiempo real [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/153162TESI

Enhanced technology acceptance model to explain and predict learners' behavioural intentions in learning management systems

A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyE-learning has become the new paradigm for modern teaching moreover, the technology allows to break the resurrection of time and place by enabling people to learn whenever and wherever they want. In information system research, learners' acceptance of e-learning can be predicted and explained using technology acceptance models. This research developed enhanced technology acceptance model to explain students' acceptance of learning management systems (LMSs) in Saudi Arabia. The research model aims to investigate the viability of TAM constructs in a nonwestern country. Moreover, due to the cultural impact of the Saudi Arabian culture towards genders, the research addresses the moderating effect of gender towards LMSs acceptance. The developed model variables identification focuses on two motivation aspects, extrinsic and intrinsic. The developed model consisted of ten variables in total, which can be categorised into three groups. First, the extrinsic variables consisting of information quality, functionality, accessibility, and user interface design. Second, the intrinsic variables are consisting of computer playfulness, enjoyment, and learning goal orientation. Third, the TAM variables consisting of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavioural intention. Moreover, to validate and examine the developed model, a questionnaire tool was developed for data collection. Furthermore, the data was collected from electronically from three universities over six weeks. The research findings supported the developed model. Additionally, the identified variables were good critical in predicting and explaining students' acceptance of LMSs. The research applied structural equation modelling for statistical analysis using IBM AMOS. The research results confirmed the applicability of the developed model to explain the Saudi students' acceptance of LMSs. The developed model explained high variance among the dependent variables outperforming the excising models. The research improved the explanatory power of the TAM model through the identified variables. Furthermore, the research results showed that the extrinsic variables were stronger predictors of students' perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavioural intention. In addition, the results showed that males and females perception towards the LMS was significantly different. The male students' acceptance towards LMSs was higher than females. Moreover, enjoyment was the stronger determinant of females' behavioural intention

Artificial Intelligence in Landscape Architecture: A Survey of Theory, Culture, and Practice

This dissertation explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the landscape architecture profession. It looks at how AI has evolved in the field, its current influence, and its potential to change research, teaching, and professional practice. The research includes a detailed review of existing literature to identify trends in AI applications and gaps in knowledge. It also examines landscape architects\u27 attitudes towards AI, revealing a mix of enthusiasm for its benefits and concerns about its impact on creativity and design processes, and proposes new ways of thinking about and working with AI. The work brings a unique perspective on AI in the field and gives valuable insights for future research and practice