This paper presents a novel approach based on the back-propagation neural network (BPNN) for the insulation diagnosis of power transformers. Four epoxy-resin power transformers with typical insulation defects are purposely made by a manufacturer. These transformers are used as the experimental models of partial discharge (PD) examination. Then, a precious PD detector is used to measure the 3-D ...

Combing back-propagation neural network (BPNN) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) techniques, this study proposes EMD-BPNN model for forecasting. In the first stage, the original exchange rate series were first decomposed into a finite, and often small, number of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). In the second stage, kernel predictors such as BPNN were constructed for forecasting. Compared w...

In this paper, we propose a scheme to integrate independent component analysis (ICA) and neural networks for electrocardiogram (ECG) beat classification. The ICA is used to decompose ECG signals into weighted sum of basic components that are statistically mutual independent. The projections on these components, together with the RR interval, then constitute a feature vector for the following cl...

Integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) has been extensively used in aircraft applications like autopilot, to provide better navigation, even in the absence of GPS. Even though Kalman Filter (KF) based GPS/INS integration provides a robust solution to navigation, it requires prior knowledge of the error model of INS, which increases the complexity of ...

Butt welding of austenitic stainless steel 304 plates was carried out using an electron beam. Experiments were conducted for various combinations of input process parameters determined according to central composite design. Three input parameters, namely accelerating voltage, beam current, and welding speed were considered during the experiments. The weld-bead parameters, namely bead width and ...

In this work a multilingual speaker identification system is proposed. The feature extraction techniques employed in the system extract Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), delta mel frequency cepstral coefficient (DMFCC) and format frequency. The feature selection is done using hybrid model of particle swarm optimizatiom (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). We have used Back Propagation (BP...

Bead-on-plate welding of zircaloy-4 (a reactive material) plates was conducted using electron beam according to central composite design of experiments. Its predictive models were developed in the form of knowledge-based systems in both forward and reverse directions using neural networks. Input parameters considered for this welding of reactive metals were accelerating voltage, beam current an...

An accurate and stable short-term traffic forecasting model is very important for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The forecasting results can be used to relieve traffic congestion and improve the mobility of transportation. This paper proposes a new hybrid model of grey system theory and neural networks with particle swarm optimization, namely, GNN-PSO. The proposed hybrid model can e...

In this article, we propose a super-resolution method to resolve the problem of image low spatial because of the limitation of imaging devices. We make use of the strong nonlinearity mapped ability of the back-propagation neural networks(BPNN). Training sample images are got by undersampled method. The elements chose as the inputs of the BPNN are pixels referred to Non-local means(NL-Means). Ma...

Deterioration models are important and essential part of any Pavement Management System (PMS). These models are used to predict future pavement situation based on existence condition, parameters causing deterioration and implications of various maintenance and rehabilitation policies on pavement. The majority of these models are based on roughness which is one of the most important indices in p...