scholarly journals Intelligent System for Analysis and Monitoring of Flood Embankments Based on Electrical Impedance Tomography, Machine Learning and Internet of Things

Author(s):  
Tomasz Rymarczyk ◽  
Edward Kozłowski ◽  
Grzegorz Kłosowski

The article presents a non-destructive test system based on electrical impedance tomography for monitoring flood embankments. The technology of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things with the use of electrical impedance tomography enables real-time monitoring of flood embankments. This solution provides a visual analysis of damage and leaks, which allows for quick and effective intervention and possible prevention of danger. A dedicated solution based on the IT structure, dedicated laboratory models and a dedicated measurement system with various types of sensors and machine learning algorithms for image reconstruction has been developed. The system includes specialized intelligent devices for tomographic measurements. The application contains the analysis of anomalies occurring in the structure of the object as a result of damage or danger and breaking the shaft during the flood. The presented solution enables ongoing monitoring of objects by collecting measurement results, forecasts and simulations. The main advantage of the proposed system is the spatial ability to analyse shafts, high accuracy of imaging and high speed of data processing. The use of tomographic techniques in conjunction with image reconstruction algorithms allow for non-invasive and very accurate spatial assessment of humidity and damages of flood embankments. The presented results show the effectiveness of the presented research.

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rymarczyk ◽  
Grzegorz Kłosowski ◽  
Edward Kozłowski ◽  
Paweł Tchórzewski

The main goal of this work was to compare the selected machine learning methods with the classic deterministic method in the industrial field of electrical impedance tomography. The research focused on the development and comparison of algorithms and models for the analysis and reconstruction of data using electrical tomography. The novelty was the use of original machine learning algorithms. Their characteristic feature is the use of many separately trained subsystems, each of which generates a single pixel of the output image. Artificial Neural Network (ANN), LARS and Elastic net methods were used to solve the inverse problem. These algorithms have been modified by a corresponding increase in equations (multiply) for electrical impedance tomography using the finite element method grid. The Gauss-Newton method was used as a reference to machine learning methods. The algorithms were trained using learning data obtained through computer simulation based on real models. The results of the experiments showed that in the considered cases the best quality of reconstructions was achieved by ANN. At the same time, ANN was the slowest in terms of both the training process and the speed of image generation. Other machine learning methods were comparable with the deterministic Gauss-Newton method and with each other.


Author(s):  
Tomasz Rymarczyk ◽  
Edward Kozłowski ◽  
Paweł Tchórzewski ◽  
Grzegorz Kłosowski ◽  
Przemysław Adamkiewicz

The article presents machine learning methods in the field of reconstruction of tomographic images. The presented research results show that electric tomography makes it possible to analyze objects without interfering with them. The work focused mainly on electrical impedance tomography and image reconstruction using deterministic methods and machine learning, reconstruction results were compared and various numerical models were used. The main advantage of the presented solution is the ability to analyze spatial data and high speed of processing. The implemented algorithm based on logistic regression is promising in image reconstruction. In addition, the elastic net method was used to solve the problem of selecting input variables in the regression model.


Sensor Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Pengcheng Zhang ◽  
Jianming Wang ◽  
Qingliang Chen ◽  
Zhijie Lian ◽  
...  

Purpose Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a technique for reconstructing the conductivity distribution by injecting currents at the boundary of a subject and measuring the resulting changes in voltage. Image reconstruction for EIT is a nonlinear problem. A generalized inverse operator is usually ill-posed and ill-conditioned. Therefore, the solutions for EIT are not unique and highly sensitive to the measurement noise. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a novel image reconstruction algorithm for EIT based on patch-based sparse representation. The sparsifying dictionary optimization and image reconstruction are performed alternately. Two patch-based sparsity, namely, square-patch sparsity and column-patch sparsity, are discussed and compared with the global sparsity. Findings Both simulation and experimental results indicate that the patch based sparsity method can improve the quality of image reconstruction and tolerate a relatively high level of noise in the measured voltages. Originality/value EIT image is reconstructed based on patch-based sparse representation. Square-patch sparsity and column-patch sparsity are proposed and compared. Sparse dictionary optimization and image reconstruction are performed alternately. The new method tolerates a relatively high level of noise in measured voltages.


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