In chemical industries, process operations are usually comprised of several discrete operating regions with distributions that drift over time. These complexities complicate outlier detection in the presence of intrinsic process dynamics. In this article, we consider the problem of detecting univariate outliers in dynamic systems with multiple operating points. A novel method combining the time...

We propose a method that uses off-the-shelf binary classifiers and combines them in real-time to achieve quality, time, and cost characteristics that satisfy user-provided constraints; moreover, it shares intermediate computation (e.g., features, classifiers, kernels) between classes to reduce time and cost. An important distinction between this approach and others is that the primary focus of ...

Experimental results from a first-order ILC algorithm applied to a large-size sixdegrees-of-freedom commercial industrial robot are presented. The ILC algorithm is based on measurements of the motor angles, but in addition to the conventional evaluation of the ILC algorithm based on the motor-side error, the tool-path error on the arm side is evaluated using a laser-measurement system. Experime...

This work presents a method for finding diversity set operating points, which are Pareto optimal and diverse, to digital subscriber lines (DSL). Several works presented in the literature have proposed algorithms for optimizing data transmission in DSL lines, which results in a unique operating point for the modems. These works use spectrum balancing algorithms to solve the power allocation prob...

This article presents a wearable lower extremity exoskeleton (LEE) designed to augment the ability of a human to walk while carrying payloads. The ultimate goal of the current research is to design and control a wearable power-assisted system that integrates a human’s intellect as the control command. The system in this work consists of an inner exoskeleton and an outer exoskeleton. The inner s...

This paper develops a constructive homotopy-based methodology for finding all or multiple dc operating points of nonlinear circuits and systems. Several sufficient conditions for the connectivity of all the solutions along a single homotopy path are derived. These conditions offer criteria to determine an initial guess from which all the solutions can be obtained by following the single homotop...

Soft Open Points (SOPs) are power electronic devices installed in place of normally-open points in electrical power distribution networks. They are able to provide active power flow control, reactive power compensation and voltage regulation under normal network operating conditions, as well as fast fault isolation and supply restoration under abnormal conditions. Two control modes were develop...

We introduce a classifier and parameter selection algorithm for Classifier-as-a-Service applications where there are many components (e.g., features, kernels, classifiers) available to construct classification algorithms. Queries specify varying requirements (i.e., quality and execution time), some of which may require combining classification algorithms to satisfy; each query may have a differ...

The role of biomarkers in disease prognosis continues to be an important investigation in many cancer studies. In order for these biomarkers to have practical application in clinical decision making regarding patient treatment and follow-up, it is common to dichotomize patients into those with low vs. high expression levels. In this study, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, area un...