scholarly journals An End-to-End Machine Learning based Unified Architecture for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 7217-7222
Author(s):  
S. Wali ◽  
M. H. U. Haq ◽  
M. Kazmi ◽  
S. A. Qazi

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) or load disaggregation aims to analyze power consumption by decomposing the energy measured at the aggregate level into constituent appliances level. The conventional load disaggregation framework consists of signal processing and machine learning-based pipelined architectures, respectively for explicit feature extraction and decision making. Manual feature selection in such load disaggregation frameworks leads to biased decisions that eventually reduce system performance. This paper presents an efficient End-to-End (E2E) approach-based unified architecture using Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) for NILM. The proposed approach eliminates explicit feature engineering and has a unified classification and prediction model for appliance power. This eventually reduces the computational cost and enhances response time. The performance of the proposed system is compared with conventional algorithms' with the use of recall, precision, accuracy, F1 score, the relative error in total energy and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). These evaluation metrics are calculated on the power consumption of top priority appliances of Reference Energy Disaggregation Dataset (REDD). The proposed architecture with an overall accuracy of 91.2 and MAE of 25.23 outperforms conventional methods for all electrical appliances. It has been showcased through a series of experiments that feature extraction and event-based approaches for NILM can readily be replaced with E2E deep learning techniques allowing simpler and cost-efficient implementation pathways.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Braglia ◽  
André Eugênio Lazzaretti

The interest in power managing systems has been growing in recent years since every industrial or domestic plant moves towards techniques to efficiently reduce energy demand and costs related to it. An attractive solution is represented by Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) systems, whose primary purpose is to find a more appropriate way of keeping track of the power consumption caused by each of the loads that are connected to the monitored plant. A possible real-life implementation of a NILM system is addressed in this work, discussing all the fundamental blocks in its structure, including detecting events, feature extraction, and load classification, using publicly available datasets. Additionally, we provide a solution for an embedded system, able to analyze aggregated waveforms and to recognize each appliance’s contribution in it. The main algorithm, its features, drawbacks, and implementation are thus explained, showing current and future challenges for the final application.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingbai Li ◽  
Patrick Reiser ◽  
André Eberhard ◽  
Pascal Friederich ◽  
Steven Lopez

<p>Photochemical reactions are being increasingly used to construct complex molecular architectures with mild and straightforward reaction conditions. Computational techniques are increasingly important to understand the reactivities and chemoselectivities of photochemical isomerization reactions because they offer molecular bonding information along the excited-state(s) of photodynamics. These photodynamics simulations are resource-intensive and are typically limited to 1–10 picoseconds and 1,000 trajectories due to high computational cost. Most organic photochemical reactions have excited-state lifetimes exceeding 1 picosecond, which places them outside possible computational studies. Westermeyr <i>et al.</i> demonstrated that a machine learning approach could significantly lengthen photodynamics simulation times for a model system, methylenimmonium cation (CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>).</p><p>We have developed a Python-based code, Python Rapid Artificial Intelligence <i>Ab Initio</i> Molecular Dynamics (PyRAI<sup>2</sup>MD), to accomplish the unprecedented 10 ns <i>cis-trans</i> photodynamics of <i>trans</i>-hexafluoro-2-butene (CF<sub>3</sub>–CH=CH–CF<sub>3</sub>) in 3.5 days. The same simulation would take approximately 58 years with ground-truth multiconfigurational dynamics. We proposed an innovative scheme combining Wigner sampling, geometrical interpolations, and short-time quantum chemical trajectories to effectively sample the initial data, facilitating the adaptive sampling to generate an informative and data-efficient training set with 6,232 data points. Our neural networks achieved chemical accuracy (mean absolute error of 0.032 eV). Our 4,814 trajectories reproduced the S<sub>1</sub> half-life (60.5 fs), the photochemical product ratio (<i>trans</i>: <i>cis</i> = 2.3: 1), and autonomously discovered a pathway towards a carbene. The neural networks have also shown the capability of generalizing the full potential energy surface with chemically incomplete data (<i>trans</i> → <i>cis</i> but not <i>cis</i> → <i>trans</i> pathways) that may offer future automated photochemical reaction discoveries.</p>


2021 ◽  
pp. 3790-3803
Author(s):  
Heba Kh. Abbas ◽  
Haidar J. Mohamad

    The Fuzzy Logic method was implemented to detect and recognize English numbers in this paper. The extracted features within this method make the detection easy and accurate. These features depend on the crossing point of two vertical lines with one horizontal line to be used from the Fuzzy logic method, as shown by the Matlab code in this study. The font types are Times New Roman, Arial, Calabria, Arabic, and Andalus with different font sizes of 10, 16, 22, 28, 36, 42, 50 and 72. These numbers are isolated automatically with the designed algorithm, for which the code is also presented. The number’s image is tested with the Fuzzy algorithm depending on six-block properties only. Groups of regions (High, Medium, and Low) for each number showed unique behavior to recognize any number. Normalized Absolute Error (NAE) equation was used to evaluate the error percentage for the suggested algorithm. The lowest error was 0.001% compared with the real number. The data were checked by the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm to confirm the quality and the efficiency of the suggested method, where the matching was found to be 100% between the data of the suggested method and SVM. The six properties offer a new method to build a rule-based feature extraction technique in different applications and detect any text recognition with a low computational cost.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Wei Ju ◽  
Ethan French ◽  
Nadav Geva ◽  
Alexander Kohn ◽  
Zhou Lin

High-throughput virtual materials and drug discovery based on density functional theory has achieved tremendous success in recent decades, but its power on organic semiconducting molecules suffered catastrophically from the self-interaction error until the optimally tuned range-separated hybrid (OT-RSH) exchange-correlation functionals were developed. The accurate but expensive �first-principles OT-RSH transitions from a short-range (semi-)local functional to a long-range Hartree-Fock exchange at a distance characterized by the inverse of a molecule-specific, non-empirically-determined range-separation parameter (ω). In the present study, we proposed a promising stacked ensemble machine learning (SEML) model that provides an accelerated alternative of OT-RSH based on system-dependent structural and electronic configurations. We trained ML-ωPBE, the first functional in our series, using a database of 1,970 organic semiconducting molecules with sufficient structural diversity, and assessed its accuracy and efficiency using another 1,956 molecules. Compared with the �first-principles OT-ωPBE, our ML-ωPBE reached a mean absolute error of 0:00504a_0^{-1} for the optimal value of ω, reduced the computational cost for the test set by 2.66 orders of magnitude, and achieved comparable predictive powers in various optical properties.


Author(s):  
Jingbai Li ◽  
Patrick Reiser ◽  
André Eberhard ◽  
Pascal Friederich ◽  
Steven Lopez

<p>Photochemical reactions are being increasingly used to construct complex molecular architectures with mild and straightforward reaction conditions. Computational techniques are increasingly important to understand the reactivities and chemoselectivities of photochemical isomerization reactions because they offer molecular bonding information along the excited-state(s) of photodynamics. These photodynamics simulations are resource-intensive and are typically limited to 1–10 picoseconds and 1,000 trajectories due to high computational cost. Most organic photochemical reactions have excited-state lifetimes exceeding 1 picosecond, which places them outside possible computational studies. Westermeyr <i>et al.</i> demonstrated that a machine learning approach could significantly lengthen photodynamics simulation times for a model system, methylenimmonium cation (CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>).</p><p>We have developed a Python-based code, Python Rapid Artificial Intelligence <i>Ab Initio</i> Molecular Dynamics (PyRAI<sup>2</sup>MD), to accomplish the unprecedented 10 ns <i>cis-trans</i> photodynamics of <i>trans</i>-hexafluoro-2-butene (CF<sub>3</sub>–CH=CH–CF<sub>3</sub>) in 3.5 days. The same simulation would take approximately 58 years with ground-truth multiconfigurational dynamics. We proposed an innovative scheme combining Wigner sampling, geometrical interpolations, and short-time quantum chemical trajectories to effectively sample the initial data, facilitating the adaptive sampling to generate an informative and data-efficient training set with 6,232 data points. Our neural networks achieved chemical accuracy (mean absolute error of 0.032 eV). Our 4,814 trajectories reproduced the S<sub>1</sub> half-life (60.5 fs), the photochemical product ratio (<i>trans</i>: <i>cis</i> = 2.3: 1), and autonomously discovered a pathway towards a carbene. The neural networks have also shown the capability of generalizing the full potential energy surface with chemically incomplete data (<i>trans</i> → <i>cis</i> but not <i>cis</i> → <i>trans</i> pathways) that may offer future automated photochemical reaction discoveries.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 04006
Author(s):  
Zhijian Lu ◽  
Gang Liu ◽  
Rongwen Liao

The problem of dataset imbalance has raised a wide concern in many machine learning areas, but not in non-intrusive load monitoring, or load disaggregation. In this study, a pictorial evaluation method is proposed to representation the imbalance class distribution in datasets. We colored a Karnaugh maps according to the quantities of different variables combination to offer a visual impact to the whole dataset. After utilizing this method on a public dataset and its testing result, a clear imbalanced abundance in the dataset and an exciting performance have been found. A preliminary Python package to realize this mapping method has been uploaded on GitHuba.


Author(s):  
Kunal Parikh ◽  
Tanvi Makadia ◽  
Harshil Patel

Dengue is unquestionably one of the biggest health concerns in India and for many other developing countries. Unfortunately, many people have lost their lives because of it. Every year, approximately 390 million dengue infections occur around the world among which 500,000 people are seriously infected and 25,000 people have died annually. Many factors could cause dengue such as temperature, humidity, precipitation, inadequate public health, and many others. In this paper, we are proposing a method to perform predictive analytics on dengue’s dataset using KNN: a machine-learning algorithm. This analysis would help in the prediction of future cases and we could save the lives of many.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Medford ◽  
Shengchun Yang ◽  
Fuzhu Liu

Understanding the interaction of multiple types of adsorbate molecules on solid surfaces is crucial to establishing the stability of catalysts under various chemical environments. Computational studies on the high coverage and mixed coverages of reaction intermediates are still challenging, especially for transition-metal compounds. In this work, we present a framework to predict differential adsorption energies and identify low-energy structures under high- and mixed-adsorbate coverages on oxide materials. The approach uses Gaussian process machine-learning models with quantified uncertainty in conjunction with an iterative training algorithm to actively identify the training set. The framework is demonstrated for the mixed adsorption of CH<sub>x</sub>, NH<sub>x</sub> and OH<sub>x</sub> species on the oxygen vacancy and pristine rutile TiO<sub>2</sub>(110) surface sites. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm is highly efficient at identifying the most valuable training data, and is able to predict differential adsorption energies with a mean absolute error of ~0.3 eV based on <25% of the total DFT data. The algorithm is also used to identify 76% of the low-energy structures based on <30% of the total DFT data, enabling construction of surface phase diagrams that account for high and mixed coverage as a function of the chemical potential of C, H, O, and N. Furthermore, the computational scaling indicates the algorithm scales nearly linearly (N<sup>1.12</sup>) as the number of adsorbates increases. This framework can be directly extended to metals, metal oxides, and other materials, providing a practical route toward the investigation of the behavior of catalysts under high-coverage conditions.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Laghuvarapu ◽  
Yashaswi Pathak ◽  
U. Deva Priyakumar

Recent advances in artificial intelligence along with development of large datasets of energies calculated using quantum mechanical (QM)/density functional theory (DFT) methods have enabled prediction of accurate molecular energies at reasonably low computational cost. However, machine learning models that have been reported so far requires the atomic positions obtained from geometry optimizations using high level QM/DFT methods as input in order to predict the energies, and do not allow for geometry optimization. In this paper, a transferable and molecule-size independent machine learning model (BAND NN) based on a chemically intuitive representation inspired by molecular mechanics force fields is presented. The model predicts the atomization energies of equilibrium and non-equilibrium structures as sum of energy contributions from bonds (B), angles (A), nonbonds (N) and dihedrals (D) at remarkable accuracy. The robustness of the proposed model is further validated by calculations that span over the conformational, configurational and reaction space. The transferability of this model on systems larger than the ones in the dataset is demonstrated by performing calculations on select large molecules. Importantly, employing the BAND NN model, it is possible to perform geometry optimizations starting from non-equilibrium structures along with predicting their energies.


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