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In the process of scratch defect detection in textured materials, there are often problems of low efficiency in traditional manual detection, large errors in machine vision, and difficulty in distinguishing defective scratches from the background texture. In order to solve these problems, we developed an enhanced scratch defect detection system for textured materials based on optimized photometric stereo vision and FFT-Gabor filtering. We designed and optimized a novel hemispherical image acquisition device that allows for selective lighting angles. This device integrates images captured under multiple light sources to obtain richer surface gradient information for textured materials, overcoming issues caused by high reflections or dark shadows under a single light source angle. At the same time, for the textured material, scratches and a textured background are difficult to distinguish; therefore, we introduced a Gabor filter-based convolution kernel, leveraging the fast Fourier transform (FFT), to perform convolution operations and spatial domain phase subtraction. This process effectively enhances the defect information while suppressing the textured background. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method were validated through material applicability experiments and comparative method evaluations using a variety of textured material samples. The results demonstrated a stable scratch capture success rate of 100% and a recognition detection success rate of 98.43% ± 1.0%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The range-Doppler algorithm (RDA), a key technique for generating synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, offers high-resolution images but requires significant memory resources and involves complex signal processing. Moreover, the multitude of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) operations in RDA necessitates high bandwidth and lacks data reuse, leading to bottlenecks. This paper introduces a synthetic aperture radar dual in-line memory module (SARDIMM), which executes RDA operations near memory via near-memory processing (NMP), thereby effectively reducing memory accesses, execution time, and energy consumption. The embedded NMP module in SARDIMM optionally supports a combination of FFT, IFFT, and matched filter operations of the RDA for range and azimuth compression. The operator within the NMP module accelerates the FFT by performing two radix-2 single butterfly operations in parallel. The NMP module was implemented and validated on a Xilinx UltraScale+ field-programmable gate array (FPGA) using Verilog-HDL. The acceleration performance of RDA for images of various sizes was evaluated through a simulator modified with gem5 and DRAMSim3 and achieved a 6.34–6.93× speedup and 41.9–48.2% energy savings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Power quality measurements are essential to monitor, analyse and control the operation of smart grids within power systems. This work aims to develop and calibrate a PQ network analyser. As the penetration of non-linear loads connected to power systems is increasing every day, it is essential to measure power quality. In this sense, a power quality (PQ) analyser is based on the high-speed sampling of electrical signals in single-phase and three-phase electrical installations, which are available in real time for analysis using wireless Wi-Fi (Wireless-Fidelity) networks. The PQAE (Power Quality Analyser Embedded) power quality analyser has met the calibration standards for Class A devices from IEC 61000-4-30, IEC 61000-4-7 and IEC 62586-2. In this paper, a complete guide to the tests included in this standard has been provided. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) obtains the harmonic components from the measured signals and the window functions used reduce spectral leakage. The window size depends on the fundamental frequency of, intensity of and changes in the signal. Harmonic measurements from the 2nd to 50th harmonics for each phase of the voltage and each phase and neutral of the current have been performed, using the Fast Fourier transform algorithm with various window functions and their comparisons. PQAE is developed on an open-source platform that allows you to adapt its programming to the measurement needs of the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper explores the realm of fault detection in distributed motors through the vision of the Internet of electrical drives. This paper aims at employing artificial neural networks supported by the data collected by the Internet of distributed devices. Cross-verification of results offers reliable diagnosis of industrial motor faults. The proposed methodology involves the development of a cyber–physical system architecture and mathematical modeling framework for efficient fault detection. The mathematical model is designed to capture the intricate relationships within the cyber–physical system, incorporating the dynamic interactions between distributed motors and their edge controllers. Fast Fourier transform is employed for signal processing, enabling the extraction of meaningful frequency features that serve as indicators of potential faults. The artificial neural network based fault detection system is integrated with the solution, utilizing its ability to learn complex patterns and adapt to varying motor conditions. The effectiveness of the proposed framework and model is demonstrated through experimental results. The experimental setup involves diverse fault scenarios, and the system's performance is evaluated in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and false positive rates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pressure sensors prepared from sapphire exhibit excellent characteristics, including high-temperature resistance, high hardness, and resistance to electromagnetic interference. A Fast Fourier Transform and Mean Square Error (FFT-MSE) demodulation algorithm was employed to demodulate a sapphire sandwich-structure Fabry–Perot (F-P) pressure sensor. Through simulation analysis, the experimental results indicated that the demodulation error of the air cavity length in the range of 206 μm to 216 μm was less than 0.0008%. Compared to single demodulation methods and combined demodulation methods based on FFT or Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE), the method proposed in this work reduced the demodulation error by more than three times and increased accuracy by more than six times. The algorithm was utilized to demodulate the sapphire sandwich-structure F-P pressure sensor, and the test results indicated that the fitting error of the sensor was less than 0.025% within the pressure range of 0 MPa to 10 MPa. The repeatability error was less than 0.066%, the zero-point deviation was 1.26%, and the maximum stability deviation was 0.0063% per 30 min. The algorithm effectively demodulated the actual cavity length variation in the sapphire sandwich-structure F-P pressure sensor, providing a solution for the performance evaluation of the sapphire sandwich-structure F-P pressure sensor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional single image super-resolution (SISR) methods, which focus on integer scale super-resolution, often require separate training for each scale factor, leading to increased computational resource consumption. In this paper, we propose MambaSR, a novel arbitrary-scale super-resolution approach integrating Mamba with Fast Fourier Convolution Blocks. MambaSR leverages the strengths of the Mamba state-space model to extract long-range dependencies. In addition, Fast Fourier Convolution Blocks are proposed to capture the global information in the frequency domain. The experimental results demonstrate that MambaSR achieves superior performance compared to different methods across various benchmark datasets. Specifically, on the Urban100 dataset, MambaSR outperforms MetaSR by 0.93 dB in PSNR and 0.0203 dB in SSIM, and on the Manga109 dataset, it achieves an average PSNR improvement of 1.00 dB and an SSIM improvement of 0.0093 dB. These results highlight the efficacy of MambaSR in enhancing image quality for arbitrary-scale super-resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is renowned for its all-weather and all-time imaging capabilities, making it invaluable for ship target recognition. Despite the advancements in deep learning models, the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the frequency domain is often constrained by memory limitations and the stringent real-time requirements of embedded systems. To surmount these obstacles, we introduce the Split_ Composite method, an innovative convolution acceleration technique grounded in Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). This method employs input block decomposition and a composite zero-padding approach to streamline memory bandwidth and computational complexity via optimized frequency-domain convolution and image reconstruction. By capitalizing on FFT's inherent periodicity to augment frequency resolution, Split_ Composite facilitates weight sharing, curtailing both memory access and computational demands. Our experiments, conducted using the OpenSARShip-4 dataset, confirm that the Split_ Composite method upholds high recognition precision while markedly enhancing inference velocity, especially in the realm of large-scale data processing, thereby exhibiting exceptional scalability and efficiency. When juxtaposed with state-of-the-art convolution optimization technologies such as Winograd and TensorRT, Split_ Composite has demonstrated a significant lead in inference speed without compromising the precision of recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robotic manipulators play a key role in modern industrial manufacturing processes. Monitoring their operational health is of paramount importance. In this paper, a novel anomaly detection framework named U-TFF is introduced for energy consumption auditing of robotic manipulators. It comprises a cascade of Time–Frequency Fusion (TFF) blocks to extract both time and frequency domain features from time series data. The block applies the Fast Fourier Transform to convert the input to the frequency domain, followed by two separate dense layers to process the resulting real and imaginary components, respectively. The frequency and time features are then combined to reconstruct the input. A U-shaped architecture is implemented to link corresponding TFF blocks of the encoder and decoder at the same level through skip connections. The semi-supervised model is trained using data exclusively from normal operations. Significant errors were generated during testing for anomalies with data distributions deviating from the training samples. Consequently, a threshold based on the magnitude of reconstruction errors was implemented to identify anomalies. Experimental validation was conducted using a custom dataset, including physical attacks as abnormal cases. The proposed framework achieved an accuracy and recall of approximately 0.93 and 0.83, respectively. A comparison with other benchmark models further verified its superior performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Characteristics of random ocean waves have been measured by different devices, and X-band marine radar is one of the typical devices. This study proposes an enhanced methodology for estimating the significant wave height of ocean waves through the analysis of X-band radar images, particularly leveraging the shadowing characteristics inherent within radar images. The enhancement of the shadowing-based algorithm is achieved by incorporating three different key physical properties of ocean waves. These include the spatial autocorrelation function (SACF) in the Smith function, the orthogonal property of mean surface slopes, and the relationship of high-order spectral moments. The enhanced algorithm is complementarily integrated with fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based spectral analysis, facilitating the determination of significant wave height without the necessity for supplementary reference measurements. Numerical tests have been conducted using synthetic and real radar images corresponding to various sea states to validate the accuracy and reliability of the proposed methodology. The results demonstrate that the proposed techniques consistently improve the estimation accuracy of significant wave heights for both synthetic and real radar images. Even though the measured real radar images used for validation are not exhaustive in terms of the amount of dataset and range of sea state severity, considering that the proposed technique is in its early development stage, it is inspiring that its effectiveness and physical validity have been demonstrated through the present study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Remote sensing images are inevitably affected by the degradation of haze with complex appearance and non-uniform distribution, which remarkably affects the effectiveness of downstream remote sensing visual tasks. However, most current methods principally operate in the original pixel space of the image, which hinders the exploration of the frequency characteristics of remote sensing images, resulting in these models failing to fully exploit their representation ability to produce high-quality images. This paper proposes a frequency-oriented remote sensing dehazing Transformer named FOTformer, to explore information in the frequency domain to eliminate disturbances caused by haze in remote sensing images. It contains three components. Specifically, we developed a frequency-prompt attention evaluator to estimate the self-correlation of features in the frequency domain rather than the spatial domain, improving the image restoration performance. We propose a content reconstruction feed-forward network that captures information between different scales in features and integrates and processes global frequency domain information and local multi-scale spatial information in Fourier space to reconstruct the global content under the guidance of the amplitude spectrum. We designed a spatial-frequency aggregation block to exchange and fuse features from the frequency domain and spatial domain of the encoder and decoder to facilitate the propagation of features from the encoder stream to the decoder and alleviate the problem of information loss in the network. The experimental results show that the FOTformer achieved a more competitive performance against other remote sensing dehazing methods on commonly used benchmark datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When using traditional Euler deconvolution optimization strategies, it is difficult to distinguish between anomalies and their corresponding Euler tails (those solutions are often distributed outside the anomaly source, forming "tail"-shaped spurious solutions, i.e., misplaced Euler solutions, which must be removed or marked) with only the structural index. The nonparametric estimation method based on the normalized B-spline probability density (BSS) is used to separate the Euler solution clusters and mark different anomaly sources according to the similarity and density characteristics of the Euler solutions. For display purposes, the BSS needs to map the samples onto the estimation grid at the points where density will be estimated in order to obtain the probability density distribution. However, if the size of the samples or the estimation grid is too large, this process can lead to high levels of memory consumption and excessive computation times. To address this issue, a fast linear binning approximation algorithm is introduced in the BSS to speed up the computation process and save time. Subsequently, the sample data are quickly projected onto the estimation grid to facilitate the discrete convolution between the grid and the density function using a fast Fourier transform. A method involving multivariate B-spline probability density estimation based on the FFT (BSSFFT), in conjunction with fast linear binning appropriation, is proposed in this paper. The results of two random normal distributions show the correctness of the BSS and BSSFFT algorithms, which is verified via a comparison with the true probability density function (pdf) and Gaussian kernel smoothing estimation algorithms. Then, the Euler solutions of the two synthetic models are analyzed using the BSS and BSSFFT algorithms. The results are consistent with their theoretical values, which verify their correctness regarding Euler solutions. Finally, the BSSFFT is applied to Bishop 5X data, and the numerical results show that the comprehensive analysis of the 3D probability density distributions using the BSSFFT algorithm, derived from the Euler solution subset of  x 0 , y 0 , z 0 , can effectively separate and locate adjacent anomaly sources, demonstrating strong adaptability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gaussian processes have gained popularity in contemporary solutions for mathematical modeling problems, particularly in cases involving complex and challenging-to-model scenarios or instances with a general lack of data. Therefore, they often serve as generative models for data, for example, in classification problems. However, a common problem in the application of Gaussian processes is their computational complexity. To address this challenge, sparse methods are frequently employed, involving a reduction in the computational domain. In this study, we propose an innovative computational approach for Gaussian processes. Our method revolves around selecting a computation domain based on Chebyshev nodes, with the optimal number of nodes determined by minimizing the degree of the Chebyshev series, while ensuring meaningful coefficients derived from function values at the Chebyshev nodes with fast Fourier transform. This approach not only facilitates a reduction in computation time but also provides a means to reconstruct the original function using the functional series. We conducted experiments using two computational methods for Gaussian processes: Markov chain Monte Carlo and integrated nested Laplace approximation. The results demonstrate a significant reduction in computation time, thereby motivating further development of the proposed algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In general, when using infrared thermography (IRT) techniques to excite a heat source on the surface of an inspection object, the heat source is focused on the center of the image of the infrared (IR) camera. If the object to be inspected is small, uniform excitation of the heat source is possible, but if the area is large, the heat source is concentrated locally, resulting in uneven heat distribution. Therefore, in this study, heat distribution was analyzed after inducing a non-uniform heat source by exciting the heat source at different locations. Additionally, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm with Gaussian filtering was applied to resolve the non-uniform distribution of the heat sources. Excellent results were obtained from the amplitude image, and the effectiveness of the FFT algorithm was verified using the Otsu algorithm. Finally, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was calculated, and the detection ability according to each thinning rate was analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Featured Application: The conducted research constitutes valuable information for the manufacturing industry. Based on the obtained results, it is possible to select appropriate cutting conditions and equipment that allow for vibration reduction. This is an important issue because it improves the stability of machining processes, which may also result in an improvement in the quality of the manufactured parts. Vibrations mitigation also increases machining safety. The conducted research confirmed that the milling process of the AZ91D magnesium alloy can be carried out with relatively high stability over a wide range of cutting parameters. Trochoidal milling is one of the solutions for increasing the efficiency of machining processes. A decreased cutting tool's arc of contact leads to a reduction in the generated cutting forces, thus improving process stability. Vibration is an inherent part of any machining process, affecting the accuracy and quality of the manufactured components, but it can also pose a danger to machine operators. Chatter is particularly detrimental, leaving characteristic marks on shaped surfaces and potentially leading to catastrophic tool damage. Therefore, it is important to ensure the stability of machining and also reduce vibration. The primary purpose of the conducted research is to evaluate the stability of the milling process of the AZ91D magnesium alloy performed through a trochoidal strategy. An additional objective is to establish the effect of the variation in machining parameters and toolholder types on milling stability. Three types of toolholders most commonly used in industry are used in the study. The basis of the investigation is the measurement of vibration displacement and acceleration analysed in the time domain. A spectral analysis of the signals is also performed based on Fast Fourier Transform, to identify signal components and detect the susceptibility to chatter occurrence. An important part of the study is also an attempt to use the Composite Multiscale Entropy as an indicator to determine the stability of the machining processes. Entropy does not exceed the values of 1.5 for cutting speed and 2.5 for feed per tooth, respectively. Vibration acceleration does not exceed (in most cases) the value of 20 m/s2 for the peak-to-peak parameter and the shrinkfit toolholder. For vibration displacement (peak-to-peak parameter), there are oscillations around the value of 0.9 mm for all kinds of toolholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unmanned sailboats, harnessing wind for propulsion, offer great potential for extended marine research due to their virtually unlimited endurance. The sails typically operate at high attack angles, which contrasts with aircraft that maintain small angles to prevent stalling. Despite the reduction in lift during stalling, the resultant increase in drag contributes significantly to the sail's thrust. However, the sail often experiences vortex shedding due to high attack angles, leading to low-frequency oscillations and erratic navigation. This study employs large-eddy simulations (LESs) on a 3D NACA0012 sail at a Reynolds number of 3.6 × 105, which is validated by experimental data. It observes the lift and drag coefficients across attack angles from 5 to 90 degrees and compares these with a Dynarig sail. The findings reveal that higher attack angles amplify fluctuations in lift and drag coefficients. Vortex shedding, resulting from flow separation, creates pressure changes and oscillations in aerodynamic forces. Fast Fourier transformation (FFT) analysis identifies dominant frequencies between 0.5 and 10 Hz, indicating low-frequency oscillations. The study's insights into the impact of attack angle and sail type on the oscillation frequency are favorable for the design of unmanned sailboats, aiding in the prediction of wind-induced frequencies and optimal attack angle determination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is an electric motor that can function effectively in challenging operating conditions thanks to its sturdy construction and resilience to external factors. Despite somewhat weaker parameters in terms of energy and power density compared to other types of electric motors, the SRM is recommended for applications such as the military, mining, industry, and other locations where the reliability of vehicle drive is essential. Therefore, monitoring the motor's operating state and identifying the fault's condition while it is still in the beginning phase is crucial. The paper presents SRM diagnostic methods and the authors' research on the test stand. The examined faults were dynamic eccentricity and imbalance. Experiments were performed for various rotational speeds and loads. The analysis of the results consisted of the interpretation of the current and acceleration spectra acquired from proper sensors. The spectra bands are compared in terms of their amplitudes and frequency values. These results show the nonlinear characteristics of the motor's operation, and interpretation of these results allows for estimating the impact of a fault parameter on a motor's performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recognition, decoding and tracking of vortex patterns is of increasing importance in many fields, ranging from the astronomical observations of distant galaxies to turbulence phenomena in liquids or gases. Currently, coherent light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) are of particular interest for optical communication, metrology, micro-machining or particle manipulation. One common task is to identify characteristic spiral patterns in pixelated intensity maps at real-world signal-to-noise ratios. A recently introduced combination of polar mapping and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was extended to novel sampling configurations and applied to the quantitative analysis of the spiral interference patterns of OAM beams. It is demonstrated that specific information on topological parameters in non-uniform arrays of OAM beams can be obtained from significantly distorted and noisy intensity maps by extracting one- or two-dimensional angular frequency spectra from single or concatenated circular cuts in either spatially fixed or scanning mode. The method also enables the evaluation of the quality of beam shaping and optical transmission. Results of proof-of-principle experiments are presented, resolution limits are discussed, and the potential for applications is addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study of 2D roughness profiles on a flat surface generated on a steel workpiece by ball nose end milling with linear equidistant tool paths (pick-intervals). The exploration of the milled surface with a surface roughness tester (on the pick and feed directions) produces 2D roughness profiles that usually have periodic evolutions. These evolutions can be considered as time-dependent signals, which can be described as a sum of sinusoidal components (the wavelength of each component is considered as a period). In order to obtain a good approximate description of these sinusoidal components, two suitable signal processing techniques are used in this work: the first technique provides a direct mathematical (analytical) description and is based on computer-aided curve (signal) fitting (more accurate); the second technique (synthetic, less accurate, providing an indirect and incomplete description) is based on the spectrum generated by fast Fourier transform. This study can be seen as a way to better understand the interaction between the tool and the workpiece or to achieve a mathematical characterisation of the machined surface microgeometry in terms of roughness (e.g., its description as a collection of closely spaced 2D roughness profiles) and to characterise the workpiece material in terms of machinability by cutting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article contains a study of methods for solving integral equations in the context of acoustic problems. The methodology considered is applied to describe acoustic wave propagation and scattering. Efficient discretization methods are used together with iterative methods to solve the operator equations, including an apparatus for fast multiplication of the resulting post-discretization Toeplitz matrices by a vector using the fast Fourier transform. The theoretical analysis of the proposed numerical algorithm demonstrates its efficiency in terms of the required number of arithmetic operations and the memory footprint of the computing system. The presented numerical simulation demonstrates the possibility of solving the problem of acoustic wave propagation in transparent media using the proposed methods. A visualization of the obtained solutions for a practical problem with a high level of discretization of the solution volume domain is also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is the most commonly used signal processing method in modern digital sensor design for signal study and analysis. It is often implemented in hardware, such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA), using the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. The frequency resolution (i.e., frequency bin size) is determined by the number of time samples used in the DFT, when the digital sensor's bandwidth is fixed. One can vary the sensitivity of a radio frequency receiver by changing the number of time samples used in the DFT. As the number of samples increases, the frequency bin width decreases, and the digital receiver sensitivity increases. In some applications, it is useful to compute an ensemble of FFT lengths; e.g., 2 P − j for j = 0 ,   1 ,   2 ,   ... ,   J , where j is defined as the spectrum level with frequency resolution   2 j · Δ f . Here Δ f is the frequency resolution at j = 0 . However, calculating all of these spectra one by one using the conventional FFT method would be prohibitively time-consuming, even on a modern FPGA. This is especially true for large values of P ; e.g., P ≥ 20 . The goal of this communication is to introduce a new method that can produce multi-resolution spectrum lines corresponding to sample lengths   2 P − j for all J + 1 levels, concurrently, while one long 2 P -length FFT is being calculated. That is, the lower resolution spectra are generated naturally as by-products during the computation of the 2 P -length FFT, so there is no need to perform additional calculations in order to obtain them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a new method for calculating the quaternion discrete Fourier transform for one-dimensional data. Although the computational complexity of the proposed method still belongs to the O (N log 2 N) class, it allows us to reduce the total number of arithmetic operations required to perform it compared to other known methods for computing this transform. Moreover, compared to the method using symplectic decomposition, the presented method does not require changing the basis in the subspace of pure quaternions and, consequently, calculating the new basis vectors and change-of-basis matrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of water depth inversion using imagery, the commonly used methods are based on water reflectance and wave extraction. Among these methods, the Optical Bathymetry Method (OBM) is significantly influenced by bottom sediment and climate, while the wave method requires a specific study area. This study introduces a method combining the FFT and spatial profile measurement to invert the wavelength of the wave bathymetry method (WBM), which enhances accuracy and reduces workload. The method was applied to remote sensing images of Sanya Bay in China, obtained from the Worldview satellite. The average error of the inverted depth results after applying the wavelength inversion technique was 15.9%, demonstrating consistency with the depth measurements obtained through the OBM in clear water of the bay. The WBM has notable advantages over the OBM, as it is unaffected by water quality. In addition, the influence of wave period on the accuracy of water depth retrieval was theoretically evaluated, revealing that a larger wave period leads to a better depth measurement. The depth measurement from two images with different wave periods aligned with the theoretical analysis. These results showcase the applicability and potential of the WBM for accurately estimating water depth in various coastal environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Free space optical communication is developing towards laser communication networking. A novel method of quadrant detector (QD) multi-spot position detection based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed for multi-spot laser communication systems. The mathematical model is constructed, and the Monte Carlo method is used to validate it. The position calculation of three beams incident on QD is simulated. The influence of key parameters on the accuracy of position detection is analyzed when the spots are at the same position and a different position. The results show that when the SNR of the system is 31.74 dB, the radius of the Gauss spot is 2 mm, the number of FFT (fast Fourier transform) points is 1024, and the center of the multi-spot is at the same position of the detector target; the accuracy of signal position detection calculated by the equation is 1.433 μm, and the simulation results are 1.351 μm, 1.354 μm, and 1.389 μm, respectively. When the center position of the multi-spot is at different positions of the detector target, the detection accuracy calculated by the formula is 1.438 μm, 1.433 μm, and 1.434 μm, respectively, and the simulation results are 1.419 μm, 1.387 μm, and 1.346 μm, respectively. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed multi-target simultaneous detection method. This article proposes a new multi-spot position detection method which can not only achieve one-to-multiple node laser communication but also improve the accuracy of point position detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerical simulations, based on the theories of computational fluid dynamics and combustion, are currently a powerful tool in the field of fire engineering. Field models allow us to analyze key aspects such as the integrity of buildings and safety. However, it is fundamental to define strategies that allow engineers to obtain a balance between the precision of the results and the computational cost. One of the most relevant sub-models is the turbulence model. This paper presents the research carried out in the field of two-dimensional computational simulations of turbulent dilatable flows to evaluate the behavior of diffusion flames, hot gases, and smoke produced in accidental fires. Several computational simulations have been performed using direct numerical simulations and large eddy simulation turbulence models in the two-dimensional field, analyzing the ability of the models to correctly characterize the transport of hot gases and the behavior of the thermal plumes if the grid resolution is adequate to the physics of the problem. Additionally, several three-dimensional models have been developed to contrast and validate the results obtained in the two-dimensional simulations. In order to validate the capacity to develop a qualitative analysis of two-dimensional models in fire engineering, an evaluation criterion is presented based on the frequency spectral analysis to study the capacity of each type of turbulence model to accurately capture the vorticity of these dilatable flows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic information survey on homesteads requires understanding the shape of homesteads, and the shape of the homesteads based on the spatial location can reflect information such as their outline and regularity, but the current shape classification of rural homesteads at the parcel scale lacks analytical methods. In this study, we endeavor to explore a classification model suitable for characterizing homestead shapes at the parcel scale by assessing the impact of various research methods. Additionally, we aim to uncover the evolutionary patterns in homestead shapes. The study focuses on Yangdun Village, located in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, as the research area. The data utilized comprise Google Earth satellite imagery and a vector layer representing homesteads at the parcel scale. To classify the shapes of homesteads and compare classification accuracy, we employ a combination of methods, including the fast Fourier transform (FFT), Hu invariant moments (HIM), the Boyce and Clark shape index (BCSI), and the AlexNet model. Our findings reveal the following: (1) The random forest method, when coupled with FFT, demonstrates the highest effectiveness in identifying the shape categories of homesteads, achieving an average accuracy rate of 88.6%. (2) Combining multiple methods does not enhance recognition accuracy; for instance, the accuracy of the FFT + HIM combination was 88.4%. (3) The Boyce and Clark shape index (BCSI) proves unsuitable for classifying homestead shapes, yielding an average accuracy rate of only 58%. Furthermore, there is no precise numerical correlation between the homestead category and the shape index. (4) It is noteworthy that over half of the homesteads in Yangdun Village exhibit rectangular-like shapes. Following the "homesteads reform", square-like homesteads have experienced significant vacating, resulting in a mixed arrangement of homesteads overall. The research findings can serve as a methodological reference for the investigation of rural homestead shapes. Proficiency in homestead shape classification holds significant importance in the realms of information investigation, regular management, and layout optimization of rural land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Structures for the evaluation of fast Fourier transforms are important components in several signal-processing applications and communication systems. Their capabilities play a key role in the performance enhancement of the whole system in which they are embedded. In this paper, a novel implementation of the discrete Fourier transform is proposed, based on a bit-slice approach and on the exploitation of the input sequence finite word length. Input samples of the sequence to be transformed are split into binary sequences and each one is Fourier transformed using only complex sums. An FPGA-based solution characterized by low latency and low power consumption is designed. Simulations have been carried out, first in the Matlab environment, then emulated in Quartus IDE with Intel. The hardware implementation of the conceived system and the test for the functional accuracy verification have been performed, adopting the DE2-115 development board from Terasic, which is equipped with the Cyclone IV EP4CE115F29C7 FPGA by Intel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to mine the information contained in the bridge health monitoring data as well as to improve the shortcomings of traditional identification methods. In this paper, a bridge damage identification method based on the combination of data mining and deep neural networks is introduced. Firstly, a noise reduction method based on parameter optimisation of wavelet threshold decomposition is proposed, which further removes the noise signal by introducing two adjustment parameters in the threshold function to adapt to different wavelet decomposition layers. Furthermore, the Fast Fourier Transform is used to analyse the feature pattern of the original signal in the frequency domain, and the modal frequency features that exhibit the difference in damage categories are extracted from the spectrogram through sliding windows. Finally, a large number of irrelevant variables with small weight contributions are discarded by principal component analysis, and only the sensitive features with the most informative categories are retained as the input to the deep neural networks. The experimental results show that the new metrics after the feature engineering process improve the ability of damage identification and have stronger robustness, while our damage identification scheme achieves a good balance between the model computation and recognition accuracy. Furthermore, the recognition accuracy of the deep neural networks reaches over 93% with only three feature dimensions retained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Condition monitoring of induction machines (IMs) with the aim of increasing the machine's lifetime, improving the efficiency and reducing the maintenance cost is necessary and inevitable. Among different types of methods presented for mechanical and electrical fault tracing in induction machines, stator current signature analysis has attracted great attention in recent decades. This popularity is mainly due to the non-invasive nature of this technique. A non-recursive method named variational mode decomposition (VMD) is used for the decomposition of any signal into several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). This technique can be employed for detection of faulty components in a current signature. However, mode mixing of extracted IMFs makes the mechanical and electrical fault detection of IMs complicated, especially in the case where fault indices emerge close to the supply frequency. To achieve this, we rectify the signal of stator current prior to applying VMD. The main advantage of the presented approach is allowing the fault indices to be properly demodulated from the main frequency to avoid mode mixing phenomenon. The method shows that the dominant frequencies of the current signal can be isolated in each IMFs, appropriately. The proposed strategy is validated to detect the rotor asymmetric fault (RAF) in a wound rotor induction machine (WRIM), in both transient and steady-state conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For front-end wireless applications in small battery-powered devices, discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is a critical processing method for discrete time signals. Advanced radix structures are created to reduce the impact of transistor malfunction. To develop DFT, with radix sizes 4, 8, etc., is a complex and tricky issue for algorithm designers. The main reason for this is that the butterfly algorithm's lower-radix-level equations were manually estimated. This requires the selection of a new design process. As a result of fewer calculations and smaller memory requirements for computationally intensive scientific applications, this research focuses on the radix-4 fast Fourier-transform (FFT) technique. A new 64-point DFT method based on radix-4 FFT and multi-stage strategy to solve DFT-related issues is presented in this paper. Based on the results of simulations with Xilinx ISE, it can be concluded that the algorithm developed is faster than conventional approaches, with an 18.963 ns delay and 12.68 mW of power consumption. It was found that the computed picture compression drop ratios of 0.10, 0.31, 0.61 and 0.83 had a direct relationship to the varied tolerances tested, 0.0007625, 0.003246, 0.013075 and 0.03924. Fast reconstruction techniques, wireless medical devices and other applications benefit from this FFT's low power consumption, small storage requirements, and high processing speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Image classification methods based on deep learning have been widely used in the study of nonintrusive load identification. However, in the process of encoding the load electrical signals into images, how to fully retain features of the raw data and thus increase the recognizability of loads carried with very similar current signals are still challenging, and the loss of load features will cause the overall accuracy of load identification to decrease. To deal with this problem, this paper proposes a nonintrusive load identification method based on the improved Gramian angular field (iGAF) and ResNet18. In the proposed method, fast Fourier transform is used to calculate the amplitude spectrum and the phase spectrum to reconstruct the pixel matrices of the B channel, G channel, and R channel of generated GAF images so that the color image fused by the three channels contains more information. This improvement to the GAF method enables generated images to retain the amplitude feature and phase feature of the raw data that are usually missed in the general GAF image. ResNet18 is trained with iGAF images for nonintrusive load identification. Experiments are conducted on two private datasets, ESEAD and EMCAD, and two public datasets, PLAID and WHITED. Experimental results suggest that the proposed method performs well on both private and public datasets, achieving overall identification accuracies of 99.545%, 99.375%, 98.964%, and 100% on the four datasets, respectively. In particular, the method demonstrates significant identification effects for loads with similar current waveforms in private datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The investigations of the discrete and fast linear canonical transform (LCT) are becoming one of the hottest research topics in modern signal processing and optics. Among them, the fast calculation of LCT for non-uniform data is one of key problems. Focus on this problem, a new fast algorithm of the LCT has been proposed in this paper firstly by interpolation and approximation theory. The proposed algorithms can calculate quickly the LCT of the data, whether the input or output data is uniform. Secondly, the complexity and precision of derived algorithms have been analyzed for different situations. Finally, the experimental results are presented to verify the correctness of the obtained results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Navigating with low noise is the key capability in the submarine design considerations, and noise reduction is also one of the most critical issues in the related fields. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the source of noise during design stage to improve the survivability of the submarines. The main objective of this research is using the supervised neural network to construct the system of noise localization to identify noise source in the large acoustic tunnel. Firstly, we started our proposed method by improving the Yangzhou's method and Shunsuke's method. In the test results, we find that the errors of the both can be reduced by using the min-max normalization to highlight the data characteristics of the low amplitude in some frequency. And Yangzhou's method has higher accuracy than Shunsuke's method. Then, we reset the diagonal numbers of the cross spectral matrix in Yangzhou's method to zero and replace mean absolute error to be the loss function for improving the stability of training, and get the most suitable neural network construction for our research. After our optimization, the error decreases from 0.315 m to 0.008 m in cuboid model test. Finally, we apply our method to the cavitation tunnel model. A total of 100 data sets were used for training, 10 sets for verification, and 5 for testing. The average error of the test result is 0.13 m. For the model test in cavitation tunnel in National Taiwan Ocean University, the length of ship model is around 7 m. And the average error is sufficient to determine the noise source position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work describes a post-processing scheme for multiphase flow systems to characterize primary atomization. The scheme relies on the 2D fast Fourier transform (FFT) to separate the inherently multi-scale features present in the flow results. Emphasis is put on the robust quantitative analysis enabled by this scheme, with this work specifically focusing on comparing atomizer nozzle designs. The generalized finite difference (GFD) method is used to simulate a high pressure gas injected into a viscous liquid stream. The proposed scheme is applied to time-averaged results exclusively. The scheme is used to evaluate both the surface and volume features of the fluid system. Due to the better recovery of small-scale features using the proposed scheme, the benefits of post-processing multiphase surface information rather than fluid volume information was shown. While the volume information lacks the fine-scale details of the surface information, the duality between interfaces and fluid volumes leads to similar trends related to the large-scale spatial structure recovered from both surface- and volume-based data sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study entailed a load evaluation for the tower design of a large floating offshore wind turbine system in accordance with the wave conditions. The target model includes the IEA 15 MW reference wind turbine and a semi-submersible VolturnUS-S reference floating offshore wind turbine platform from the University of Maine. The OpenFAST, which is an aero-hydro-servo-elastic fully coupled analysis tool, was used for load analysis. The DLC1.2 and 1.6 were used as the design load cases, and the environmental conditions suitable for the design load cases were cited in the VolturnUS-S platform report. Load evaluation was performed according to time series and FFT results. The findings of the study are as follows: first, in the correlation analysis, the tower-top deflection had the highest correlation, and this further affects nacelle acceleration. Second, the tower-base pitch moment increased with the significant wave height. However, the wave peak period increased until it matched the tower-top deflection frequency and decreased thereafter. Third, the comparison between the normal and severe sea state conditions revealed that the tower-base pitch moments for the two conditions are almost similar, despite the conditions wherein the wave spectral energy differs by a factor of 3.5. Fourth, the tower shape is changed while adjusting the diameter of the tower, and the tower-top and tower-base pitch moments are reviewed using a redesigned tower. Even if the mass is the same, adjusting the diameter of the tower reduces only the pitch moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the main applications of the gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite data is their combination with local gravity anomalies for geoid and gravity field modeling purposes. The aim of the present paper was the determination of an improved geoid model for the wider Hellenic area, using original GOCE SGG data filtered to retain only useful signals inside the measurement bandwidth (MBW) of the satellite. The filtered SGGs, originally at the satellite altitude, were projected to a mean orbit (MO) and then downward continued to the Earth's surface (ES) in order to be combined with local gravity anomalies. For the projection to an MO, grids of disturbing gravity gradients from a global geopotential model (GGM) were used, computed per 1 km from the maximum satellite altitude to that of the MO. The downward continuation process was then undertaken using an iterative Monte Carlo (MC) simulated annealing method with GGM gravity anomalies on the ES used as ground truth data. The final geoid model over the wider Hellenic area was estimated, employing the remove–compute–restore method and both Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Least Squares Collocation (LSC). Gravity-only, GOCE-only and combined models using local gravity and GOCE data were determined and evaluation of the results was carried out against available GNSS/levelling data in the study area. From the results achieved, it was concluded that even when FFT is used, so that a combined grid of local gravity and GOCE data is used, improvements to the differences regarding GNSS/levelling data by 14.53% to 27.78% can be achieved. The geoid determination with LSC was focused on three different areas over Greece, with different characteristics in the topography and gravity variability. From these results, improvements from 14.73%, for the well-surveyed local data of Thessaly, to 32.88%, over the mountainous area of Pindos, and 57.10% for the island of Crete for 57.10% were found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we present a comparative analysis of different numerical methods to obtain the focusing properties of the zone plates based on Fibonacci and Cantor sequences. The Fresnel approximation was solved numerically in order to obtain the axial irradiance provided by these diffractive lenses. Two different methods were applied. The first one is based on numerical integration, specifically the Simpson integration method and the two-dimensional Gaussian quadrature. The second consisted in the implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform in both one and two dimensions. The axial irradiance of the lenses, the relative error with respect to the analytical solution, and the calculation time required by each method are analyzed and compared. From this analysis it was concluded that the Gauss method presents the best balance between accuracy and computation time. This analysis could be useful to decide the most convenient numerical method to be used for the study of more complex diffractive structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We used numerical methods to define the normative structure of resting-state EEG (rsEEG) in a pilot study of 37 healthy subjects (10–74 years old), using a double-banana bipolar montage. Artifact-free 120–200 s epoch lengths were visually identified and divided into 1 s windows with a 10% overlap. Differential channels were grouped by frontal, parieto-occipital, and temporal lobes. For every channel, the power spectrum was calculated and used to compute the area for delta (0–4 Hz), theta (4–8 Hz), alpha (8–13 Hz), and beta (13–30 Hz) bands and was log-transformed. Furthermore, Shannon's spectral entropy (SSE) and coherence by bands were computed. Finally, we also calculated the main frequency and amplitude of the posterior dominant rhythm. According to the age-dependent distribution of the bands, we divided the patients in the following three groups: younger than 20; between 21 and 50; and older than 51 years old. The distribution of bands and coherence was different for the three groups depending on the brain lobes. We described the normative equations for the three age groups and for every brain lobe. We showed the feasibility of a normative structure of rsEEG picked up with a double-banana montage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, Chebyshev polynomials—which are ultraspherical in the first and second kind and hence symmetric, while the third and fourth order are not ultraspherical and are hence non-symmetric—are used for the simulation of two-dimensional mass transfer equation arising during the convective air drying processes of food products subject to Robin and Neumann boundary conditions. These simulations are used to improve the quality of dried food products and for prediction of the moisture distributions. The equation is discretized in both temporal and special variables by using the second order finite difference scheme and spectral method based on Chebyshev polynomial with the help of fast Fourier transform on tensor product grid, respectively. A system of algebraic equations is obtained after applying the proposed numerical scheme, which is then solved by an appropriate iterative method. The error analysis of the proposed scheme is provided. Some numerical examples are presented to confirm the numerical efficiency and theoretical justification of the proposed scheme. Our numerical scheme has an exponential rate of convergence, which means that one can achieve a very accurate solution using a few collocation points, as opposed to the other available techniques which are very slow in terms of convergence and consume a lot of time. In order to further validate the accuracy of our numerical method, a comparison is made with the exact solution using different norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Earth rotation parameters (ERPs), including polar motion (PMX and PMY) and universal time (UT1-UTC), play a central role in functions such as monitoring the Earth's rotation and high-precision navigation and positioning. Variations in ERPs reflect not only the overall state of movement of the Earth, but also the interactions among the atmosphere, ocean, and land on the spatial and temporal scales. In this paper, we estimated ERP series based on very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations between 2011–2020. The results show that the average root mean square errors (RMSEs) are 0.187 mas for PMX, 0.205 mas for PMY, and 0.022 ms for UT1-UTC. Furthermore, to explore the high-frequency variations in more detail, we analyzed the polar motion time series spectrum based on fast Fourier transform (FFT), and our findings show that the Chandler motion was approximately 426 days and that the annual motion was about 360 days. In addition, the results also validate the presence of a weaker retrograde oscillation with an amplitude of about 3.5 mas. This paper proposes a hybrid prediction model that combines convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network: the CNN–LSTM model. The advantages can be attributed to the CNN's ability to extract and optimize features related to polar motion series, and the LSTM's ability to make medium- to long-term predictions based on historical time series. Compared with Bulletin A, the prediction accuracies of PMX and PMY are improved by 42% and 13%, respectively. Notably, the hybrid CNN–LSTM model can effectively improve the accuracy of medium- and long-term polar motion prediction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gas–liquid two-phase flow is very common in industrial pipelines. Flow regime identification is the first step to design, analyze, and operate the gas–liquid system successfully. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology for identification of a two-phase flow regime using post signal processing techniques, namely Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Probabilistic Density Function (PDF). Three different flow regimes were simulated in a 6 m horizontal pipe with a 0.050 m inner diameter. A Level-Set (LS) method coupled with Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is used to model the air–water interface. After validation of the numerical method, dynamic pressure readings were collected with the intent to identify the associated flow regimes by post-processing of these signals. It was concluded that dynamic pressure signals of different flow regimes show different characteristics (like dominant frequency, FFT amplitude, PDF location and PDF magnitude) in the time and frequency domains. These characteristics can be potentially used as differentiating factors to distinguish different flow regimes. This research is limited to stratified, slug, and annular flow in the horizontal pipe. This paper uses a new approach to identify the flow regime in a horizontal pipe by Fast Fourier Transform and Probability Density Function of dynamic pressure readings obtained by using numerical simulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatiotemporal evolution and fluctuation characteristics of a centrifugal compressor are investigated by numerical simulation under near-stall conditions and with a high mass-flow rate. The large-eddy simulation (LES) for unsteady computations is implemented in the numerical simulation of unsteady flow. The internal flow physical mechanism of the centrifugal compressor is presented at a high mass-flow rate (1.1 Qn) and low mass-flow rate (0.8 Qn, near-stall). The spatiotemporal evolution of the velocity and streamline for the internal flow of the centrifugal compressor demonstrates that a lot of large-scale eddies near the tongue are transformed into small-scale ones at high mass-flow rates. High mass-flow rate resulted in excessive fluid velocity in the impeller. A large amount of impact loss massive backflow appears near the tip clearance, and boundary layer separation of the suction surface emerges firstly and at a low mass-flow rate. Considerable flow loss occurs in the centrifugal compressor at the two non-designed operating flow rates. Several pressure and velocity fluctuations in the key position of the compressor are presented by the two deviations from design conditions. The analysis of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and amplitude spectrum show that the starting point of flow instability in the impeller is different for the two deviations from design-condition flow rates. Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution and spatiotemporal characteristics of pressure and velocity fluctuations can provide insight into the unsteady internal flow of centrifugal compressors at high mass-flow rates (1.1 Qn) and near-stall conditions (0.8 Qn). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the computation systems that are frequently utilized in Digital Signal Processing (DSP)- and Fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based applications, binary multipliers play a crucial role. Multipliers are one of the basic arithmetic components used, and they require more hardware resources and computational time. Due to this, numerous studies have been performed so as to decrease the computational time and hardware requirements. In this research study on reducing the necessary computational time, a high-speed binary multiplier known as the Grouping and Decomposition (GD) multiplieris proposed. The proposed multiplier aims to achieve competency in processing algorithms over existing multiplier architectures through a combination of the parallel grouping of partial products of the same size and the decomposition of each grouped partial-product bit, with the final summation performed using a 5:2 logic adder (5LA). The usage of parallel processing and decomposition logic reduces the number of computation steps and hence achieves a higher speed in multiplication. The front-end and physical design implementation of the proposed GD multiplier have been executed in the 180 nm technology library using the Cadence® Virtuoso and Cadence® Virtuoso Assura tools. From the front-end design of the 8 × 8 proposed GD multiplier, it was observed that the GD multiplier achieves a reduction of approximately 56% in computation time and a reduction of 53% in power–delay product when compared to existing multiplier architectures. A further reduction in the power–delay product is achieved by the physical design implementation of the proposed multiplier due to the internal routing of subsystems with the shortest-path algorithm. The proposed multiplier works better with higher-order multiplication and is suitable for high-end applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Layover detection is crucial in 3D array SAR topography reconstruction. However, existing algorithms are not automated and accurate enough in practice. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel layover detection method that combines the complex-valued (cv) neural network and expert knowledge to extract features in the amplitude and phase of multi-channel SAR. First, inspired by expert knowledge, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) residual convolutional neural network was developed to eliminate the training divergence of the cv network, deepen networks without extra parameters, and facilitate network learning. Then, another innovative component, phase convolution, was designed to extract phase features of the layover. Subsequently, various cv neural network components were integrated with FFT residual learning blocks and phase convolution on the skeleton of U-Net. Due to the difficulty of obtaining SAR images marked with layover truths, a simulation was performed to gather the required dataset for training. The experimental results indicated that our approach can efficiently determine the layover area with higher precision and fewer noises. The proposed method achieves an accuracy of 97% on the testing dataset, which surpasses previous methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While acoustic emission (AE) testing can be used as a valuable technique in structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing, little research has been conducted to establish its sources, particularly in 2024-T3 aluminium alloys. The major contribution of this work is that it provides a method to obtain a better linear relationship of count rate with crack growth rate based on waveform. This paper aims to characterise AE sources by synchronising the AE waveforms with load levels and then to propose possible dominant frequency ranges. The AE waveforms during fatigue crack growth in edge-notched 2024-T3 aluminium specimens, from an initial crack length of 10 mm to 70 mm, were collected at two different load ratios R = 0.125 and 0.5. At the same time, the crack growth rate was determined using thermal imaging and associated control software. The AE waveforms obtained were processed using the fast Fourier transform. It was shown that a significantly higher AE count rate was recorded at R = 0.125 compared to R = 0.5 when the maximum load was kept the same. This means that the R-ratio would affect the total amount of AE activities collected. It was also found that the dominant frequency range of the AE waveforms directly related to crack growth was 152–487 kHz, and the ranges due to crack closure were likely to be 310 kHz–316 kHz and 500–700 kHz. Based on the proposed frequency ranges, waveform selection was conducted and a better linear relationship between count rate and crack growth rate was observed. This study provides a better understanding of the AE sources and waveforms for future structural health monitoring applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Principal component analysis (PCA) as a machine-learning technique could serve in disease diagnosis and prognosis by evaluating the dynamic morphological features of exosomes via Cryo-TEM-imaging. This hypothesis was investigated after the crude isolation of similarly featured exosomes derived from the extracellular vehicles (EVs) of immature dendritic cells (IDCs) JAWSII. It is possible to identify functional molecular groups by FTIR, but the unique physical and morphological characteristics of exosomes can only be revealed by specialized imaging techniques such as cryo-TEM. On the other hand, PCA has the ability to examine the morphological features of each of these IDC-derived exosomes by considering software parameters such as various membrane projections and differences in Gaussians, Hessian, hue, and class to assess the 3D orientation, shape, size, and brightness of the isolated IDC-derived exosome structures. In addition, Brownian motions from nanoparticle tracking analysis of EV IDC-derived exosomes were also compared with EV IDC-derived exosome images collected by scanning electron microscopy and confocal microscopy. Sodium-Dodecyl-Sulphate-Polyacrylamide-Gel-Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was performed to separate the protein content of the crude isolates showing that no considerable protein contamination occurred during the crude isolation technique of IDC-derived-exosomes. This is an important finding because no additional purification of these exosomes is required, making PCA analysis both valuable and novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large sparse linear algebraic systems can be found in a variety of scientific and engineering fields and many scientists strive to solve them in an efficient and robust manner. In this paper, we propose an interpretable neural solver, the Fourier neural solver (FNS), to address them. FNS is based on deep learning and a fast Fourier transform. Because the error between the iterative solution and the ground truth involves a wide range of frequency modes, the FNS combines a stationary iterative method and frequency space correction to eliminate different components of the error. Local Fourier analysis shows that the FNS can pick up on the error components in frequency space that are challenging to eliminate with stationary methods. Numerical experiments on the anisotropic diffusion equation, convection–diffusion equation, and Helmholtz equation show that the FNS is more efficient and more robust than the state-of-the-art neural solver. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the main problems in oil fields is the deposition of scale inside oil pipelines, which causes problems such as the reduction of the internal diameter of oil pipes, the need for more energy to transport oil products, and the waste of energy. For this purpose, the use of an accurate and reliable system for determining the amount of scale inside the pipes has always been one of the needs of the oil industry. In this research, a non-invasive, accurate, and reliable system is presented, which works based on the attenuation of gamma rays. A dual-energy gamma source (241Am and 133Ba radioisotopes), a sodium iodide detector, and a steel pipe are used in the structure of the detection system. The configuration of the detection structure is such that the dual-energy source and the detector are directly opposite each other and on both sides of the steel pipe. In the steel pipe, a stratified flow regime consisting of gas, water, and oil in different volume percentages was simulated using Monte Carlo N Particle (MCNP) code. Seven scale thicknesses between 0 and 3 cm were simulated inside the tube. After the end of the simulation process, the received signals were labeled and transferred to the frequency domain usage of fast Fourier transform (FFT). Frequency domain signals were processed, and four frequency characteristics were extracted from them. The multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network was used to obtain the relationship between the extracted frequency characteristics and the scale thickness. Frequency characteristics were defined as inputs and scale thickness in cm as the output of the neural network. The prediction of scale thickness with an RMSE of 0.13 and the use of only one detector in the structure of the detection system are among the advantages of this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A frequency spectrum segmentation methodology is proposed to extract the frequency response of circuits and systems with high resolution and low distortion over a wide frequency range. A high resolution is achieved by implementing a modified Dirichlet function (MDF) configured for multi-tone excitation signals. Low distortion is attained by limiting or avoiding spectral leakage and interference into the frequency spectrum of interest. The use of a window function allowed for further reduction in distortion by suppressing system-induced oscillations that can cause severe interference while acquiring signals. This proposed segmentation methodology with the MDF generates an interleaved frequency spectrum segment that can be used to measure the frequency response of the system and can be represented in a Bode and Nyquist plot. The ability to simulate and measure the frequency response of the circuit and system without expensive network analyzers provides good stability coverage for reliable fault detection and failure avoidance. The proposed methodology is validated with both simulation and hardware. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Air pollution is a severe problem for the global environment. Most people spend 80% to 90% of the day indoors; therefore, indoor air pollution is as important as outdoor air pollution. The problem is more severe on school campuses. There are several ways to improve indoor air quality, such as air cleaners or ventilation. Air-quality sensors can be used to detect indoor air quality in real time to turn on air cleaner or ventilation. With an efficient and accurate clustering technique for indoor air-quality data, different ventilation strategies can be applied to achieve a better ventilation policy with accurate prediction results to improve indoor air quality. This study aims to cluster the indoor air quality data (i.e., CO2 level) collected from the school campus in Taiwan without other external information, such as geographical location or field usage. In this paper, we propose the Max Fast Fourier Transform (maxFFT) Clustering Approach to classify indoor air quality to improve the efficiency of the clustering and extract the required feature. The results show that without using geographical information or field usage, the clustering results can correctly reflect the ventilation condition of the space with low computation time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider the numerical solution of the discrete multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) by means of the Sinkhorn algorithm. In general, the Sinkhorn algorithm suffers from the curse of dimensionality with respect to the number of marginals. If the MOT cost function decouples according to a tree or circle, its complexity is linear in the number of marginal measures. In this case, we speed up the convolution with the radial kernel required in the Sinkhorn algorithm via non-uniform fast Fourier methods. Each step of the proposed accelerated Sinkhorn algorithm with a tree-structured cost function has a complexity of O (K N) instead of the classical O (K N 2) for straightforward matrix–vector operations, where K is the number of marginals and each marginal measure is supported on, at most, N points. In the case of a circle-structured cost function, the complexity improves from O (K N 3) to O (K N 2) . This is confirmed through numerical experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]