A cyber-physical environment for detecting exceptional and dangerous human behavior in the home by sensors and its verification by computer simulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 105971232093042
Author(s):  
Maximilian Arbeiter ◽  
Tanja Maier ◽  
Gunter Spöck

Today aging of society is becoming increasingly important. Many people want to live at home as long as possible. Very often this leads to accidents at home, which are unnoticed for a long time and therefore cause severe complications. We propose a cyber-physical system consisting of sensors for motion, light, temperature, and so on, which monitors the behavior of elderly people but is non-invasive in the sense that the persons are not observed by a camera and must not wear certain sensors on their body. Unusual behavior or accidents are registered in-time by a change point detection algorithm based on Markov chains, which does not store any data with the exception of the last datum, so that also the integrity of the elderly people is preserved. For verification of this algorithm, a cyber-physical test environment has been programmed which allows to simulate human common and uncommon behavior in house during day and night. This simulation environment is based on behavior trees and decision theory. The verification results suggest that the implemented cyber-physical system for change point and anomaly detection could be successfully used in the real environment of elderly people to give them help in-time when an accident occurs.

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Gold ◽  
Martin G. Frasch ◽  
Christophe L. Herry ◽  
Bryan S. Richardson ◽  
Xiaogang Wang

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Haoran Niu ◽  
Olufemi A. Omitaomu ◽  
Qing C. Cao

Events detection is a key challenge in power grid frequency disturbances analysis. Accurate detection of events is crucial for situational awareness of the power system. In this paper, we study the problem of events detection in power grid frequency disturbance analysis using synchrophasors data streams. Current events detection approaches for power grid rely on individual detection algorithm. This study integrates some of the existing detection algorithms using the concept of machine committee to develop improved detection approaches for grid disturbance analysis. Specifically, we propose two algorithms—an Event Detection Machine Committee (EDMC) algorithm and a Change-Point Detection Machine Committee (CPDMC) algorithm. Both algorithms use parallel architecture to fuse detection knowledge of its individual methods to arrive at an overall output. The EDMC algorithm combines five individual event detection methods, while the CPDMC algorithm combines two change-point detection methods. Each method performs the detection task separately. The overall output of each algorithm is then computed using a voting strategy. The proposed algorithms are evaluated using three case studies of actual power grid disturbances. Compared with the individual results of the various detection methods, we found that the EDMC algorithm is a better fit for analyzing synchrophasors data; it improves the detection accuracy; and it is suitable for practical scenarios.


2016 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Jezewski ◽  
Adam Pawlak ◽  
Krzysztof Horoba ◽  
Janusz Wrobel ◽  
Robert Czabanski ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 1288-1297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Montes De Oca ◽  
Daniel R. Jeske ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Carlos Rendon ◽  
Mazda Marvasti

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 751-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommi A. Perälä ◽  
Douglas P. Swain ◽  
Anna Kuparinen

Marine ecosystems can undergo regime shifts, which result in nonstationarity in the dynamics of the fish populations inhabiting them. The assumption of time-invariant parameters in stock–recruitment models can lead to severe errors when forecasting renewal ability of stocks that experience shifts in their recruitment dynamics. We present a novel method for fitting stock–recruitment models using the Bayesian online change point detection algorithm, which is able to cope with sudden changes in the model parameters. We validate our method using simulations and apply it to empirical data of four demersal fishes in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. We show that all of the stocks have experienced shifts in their recruitment dynamics that cannot be captured by a model that assumes time-invariant parameters. The detected shifts in the recruitment dynamics result in clearly different parameter distributions and recruitment predictions between the regimes. This study illustrates how stock–recruitment relationships can experience shifts, which, if not accounted for, can lead to false predictions about a stock’s recovery ability and resilience to fishing.


2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (S1) ◽  
pp. A172-A172
Author(s):  
Mark Ansermino ◽  
Ping Yang ◽  
Joanne Lim ◽  
Guy Dumont ◽  
Craig R Ries

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