scholarly journals STREMODO, ein innovatives Verfahren zur kontinuierlichen Erfassung der Stressbelastung von Schweinen bei Haltung und Transport

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Manteuffel ◽  
P. C. Schön

Abstract. Title of the paper: STREMODO, an innovative technique for continuous stress assessment of pigs in housing and transport Vocal utterances of animals are the results of emotional states in specific situations. Therefore, distress calls of pigs can be used as indicators of impaired welfare. An automatic system was developed that responds selectively to stress vocalisations and that registrates and records their amount in the time domain. It can be applied in housing systems, during transports and in abattoirs. The patented technique is based on sequential records of the actual sound events in short time windows (92ms) and a parsimonious coding by 12 complex parameters (LPC-coefficients). A subsequent artificial neural network trained with respective parameters from porcine stress vocalisations is able to detect stress utterances with an error rate of less than 5 % even in noisy stables.

Author(s):  
Niels Hørbye Christiansen ◽  
Per Erlend Torbergsen Voie ◽  
Jan Høgsberg ◽  
Nils Sødahl

Dynamic analyses of slender marine structures are computationally expensive. Recently it has been shown how a hybrid method which combines FEM models and artificial neural networks (ANN) can be used to reduce the computation time spend on the time domain simulations associated with fatigue analysis of mooring lines by two orders of magnitude. The present study shows how an ANN trained to perform nonlinear dynamic response simulation can be optimized using a method known as optimal brain damage (OBD) and thereby be used to rank the importance of all analysis input. Both the training and the optimization of the ANN are based on one short time domain simulation sequence generated by a FEM model of the structure. This means that it is possible to evaluate the importance of input parameters based on this single simulation only. The method is tested on a numerical model of mooring lines on a floating off-shore installation. It is shown that it is possible to estimate the cost of ignoring one or more input variables in an analysis.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6837
Author(s):  
Fabio Corti ◽  
Michelangelo-Santo Gulino ◽  
Maurizio Laschi ◽  
Gabriele Maria Lozito ◽  
Luca Pugi ◽  
...  

Classic circuit modeling for supercapacitors is limited in representing the strongly non-linear behavior of the hybrid supercapacitor technology. In this work, two novel modeling techniques suitable to represent the time-domain electrical behavior of a hybrid supercapacitor are presented. The first technique enhances a well-affirmed circuit model by introducing specific non-linearities. The second technique models the device through a black-box approach with a neural network. Both the modeling techniques are validated experimentally using a workbench to acquire data from a real hybrid supercapacitor. The proposed models, suitable for different supercapacitor technologies, achieve higher accuracy and generalization capabilities compared to those already presented in the literature. Both modeling techniques allow for an accurate representation of both short-time domain and steady-state simulations, providing a valuable asset in electrical designs featuring supercapacitors.


Author(s):  
Yongzhi Qu ◽  
Gregory W. Vogl ◽  
Zechao Wang

Abstract The frequency response function (FRF), defined as the ratio between the Fourier transform of the time-domain output and the Fourier transform of the time-domain input, is a common tool to analyze the relationships between inputs and outputs of a mechanical system. Learning the FRF for mechanical systems can facilitate system identification, condition-based health monitoring, and improve performance metrics, by providing an input-output model that describes the system dynamics. Existing FRF identification assumes there is a one-to-one mapping between each input frequency component and output frequency component. However, during dynamic operations, the FRF can present complex dependencies with frequency cross-correlations due to modulation effects, nonlinearities, and mechanical noise. Furthermore, existing FRFs assume linearity between input-output spectrums with varying mechanical loads, while in practice FRFs can depend on the operating conditions and show high nonlinearities. Outputs of existing neural networks are typically low-dimensional labels rather than real-time high-dimensional measurements. This paper proposes a vector regression method based on deep neural networks for the learning of runtime FRFs from measurement data under different operating conditions. More specifically, a neural network based on an encoder-decoder with a symmetric compression structure is proposed. The deep encoder-decoder network features simultaneous learning of the regression relationship between input and output embeddings, as well as a discriminative model for output spectrum classification under different operating conditions. The learning model is validated using experimental data from a high-pressure hydraulic test rig. The results show that the proposed model can learn the FRF between sensor measurements under different operating conditions with high accuracy and denoising capability. The learned FRF model provides an estimation for sensor measurements when a physical sensor is not feasible and can be used for operating condition recognition.


Author(s):  
Hyeon Bae ◽  
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Youn-Tae Kim ◽  
Sungshin Kim ◽  
Sang-Hyuk Lee ◽  
...  

The motor is the workhorse of industries. The issues of preventive and condition-based maintenance, online monitoring, system fault detection, diagnosis, and prognosis are of increasing importance. This paper introduces fault detection for induction motors. Stator currents are measured by current meters and stored by time domain. The time domain is not suitable for representing current signals, so the frequency domain is applied to display signals. The Fourier Transform is employed to convert signals. After signal conversion, signal features must be extracted by signal processing such as wavelet and spectrum analysis. Features are entered in a pattern classification model such as a neural network model, a polynomial neural network, or a fuzzy inference model. This paper describes fault detection results that use Fourier and wavelet analysis. This combined approach is very useful and powerful for detecting signal features.


2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henryk Majchrzak ◽  
Andrzej Cichoń ◽  
Sebastian Borucki

Abstract This paper provides an example of the application of the acoustic emission (AE) method for the diagnosis of technical conditions of a three-phase on-load tap-changer (OLTC) GIII type. The measurements were performed for an amount of 10 items of OLTCs, installed in power transformers with a capacity of 250 MVA. The study was conducted in two different OLTC operating conditions during the tapping process: under load and free running conditions. The analysis of the measurement results was made in both time domain and time-frequency domain. The description of the AE signals generated by the OLTC in the time domain was performed using the analysis of waveforms and determined characteristic times. Within the time-frequency domain the measured signals were described by short-time Fourier transform spectrograms.


Geophysics ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 1216-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiou‐Fen Shieh ◽  
Robert B. Herrmann

Ground roll noise on land data sets overwhelms the desired reflection seismic signal unless special steps are taken in data acquisition and processing to control it. This is usually done in the field by the design of group arrays for data acquisition. On the other hand, if multicomponent data are acquired, it is possible to remove ground roll during processing using polarization analysis. Even though this processing is computation‐intensive, the potential exists for obtaining results similar to conventional data acquisition, but with deployment of fewer sensors in the field with minimal group array effects. It also has potential for deriving new information. We describe a two‐dimensional polarization‐filter analysis for use with vertical and in‐line sensors. A time‐domain spectral matrix technique is developed since the recorded seismic signal is the superposition of multiple signals in the time domain, each with different frequency content and time‐varying polarization. This technique is implemented by decomposing the signal into individual frequency components using narrow band‐pass filters and defining the polarization characteristic using sliding time windows. We show that both incoherent noise and specific linearly polarized constituents can be successfully filtered.


Speech is classified into voice, unvoiced and silence. The voice speech is the periodic vibration of vocal folds. Background noise affects the speech signals. In many speech applications calculation of pitch plays a major role. The paper proposes a pitch detection algorithm based on the short-time average magnitude difference function (AMDF) and the short-term autocorrelation function (ACF). Detecting the Pitch within the speech signal is important in most of all the speech related applications. Detection of Pitch is useful in identification of speaker. One solution to get detect with the pitch is by using the time domain algorithms. This paper gives idea about estimation and detection of pitch in time domain algorithm for different voice samples


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