Deep learning-based wind turbine blade fault diagnosis has been widely applied due to its advantages in end-to-end feature extraction.However,several challenges remain.First,signal noise collected during blade operati...Deep learning-based wind turbine blade fault diagnosis has been widely applied due to its advantages in end-to-end feature extraction.However,several challenges remain.First,signal noise collected during blade operation masks fault features,severely impairing the fault diagnosis performance of deep learning models.Second,current blade fault diagnosis often relies on single-sensor data,resulting in limited monitoring dimensions and ability to comprehensively capture complex fault states.To address these issues,a multi-sensor fusion-based wind turbine blade fault diagnosis method is proposed.Specifically,a CNN-Transformer Coupled Feature Learning Architecture is constructed to enhance the ability to learn complex features under noisy conditions,while a Weight-Aligned Data Fusion Module is designed to comprehensively and effectively utilize multi-sensor fault information.Experimental results of wind turbine blade fault diagnosis under different noise interferences show that higher accuracy is achieved by the proposed method compared to models with single-source data input,enabling comprehensive and effective fault diagnosis.展开更多
Octopuses,due to their flexible arms,marvelous adaptability,and powerful suckers,are able to effortlessly grasp and disengage various objects in the marine surrounding without causing devastation.However,manipulating ...Octopuses,due to their flexible arms,marvelous adaptability,and powerful suckers,are able to effortlessly grasp and disengage various objects in the marine surrounding without causing devastation.However,manipulating delicate objects such as soft and fragile foods underwater require gentle contact and stable adhesion,which poses a serious challenge to now available soft grippers.Inspired by the sucker infundibulum structure and flexible tentacles of octopus,herein we developed a hydraulically actuated hydrogel soft gripper with adaptive maneuverability by coupling multiple hydrogen bond-mediated supramolecular hydrogels and vat polymerization three-dimensional printing,in which hydrogel bionic sucker is composed of a tunable curvature membrane,a negative pressure cavity,and a pneumatic chamber.The design of the sucker structure with the alterable curvature membrane is conducive to realize the reliable and gentle switchable adhesion of the hydrogel soft gripper.As a proof-of-concept,the adaptive hydrogel soft gripper is capable of implement diversified underwater tasks,including gingerly grasping fragile foods like egg yolks and tofu,as well as underwater robots and vehicles that station-keeping and crawling based on switchable adhesion.This study therefore provides a transformative strategy for the design of novel soft grippers that will render promising utilities for underwater exploration soft robotics.展开更多
Soft grippers research is gaining increasing attention for their flexibility.However,the conventional soft gripper primar-ily focuses on soft fingers,without considering the palm.This makes grasping forces concentrate...Soft grippers research is gaining increasing attention for their flexibility.However,the conventional soft gripper primar-ily focuses on soft fingers,without considering the palm.This makes grasping forces concentrated in the fingertip areas,resulting in objects being prone to damage and instability during handling,especially for delicate items.Additionally,pre-transportation classification faces challenges:tactile methods are complex,visual methods are environment-sensitive,and both struggle with similar objects.To address these problems,inspired by the human hand's transition between finger grasp and palm support and the lotus's hierarchical structure,this paper proposes a dual-layer gripper,named IOSGrip-per.It features four pneumatic soft fingers and a rotational soft-rigid palm.Through coordinated control of the fingers and palm,it transitions concentrated fingertip squeeze force to distributed palm support force,reducing squeeze force and squeeze duration.Moreover,it integrates a range sensor and four load cells,enabling stable and accurate measurements of the object's height and weight.Furthermore,a classifier is developed based on K-nearest neighbor algorithm,allowing real-time object classification.Experiments demonstrate that compared to only using soft fingers,the IOSGripper signifi-cantly reduces the squeeze force on the objects(with 0 N squeeze force during palm support)and damage on the delicate object,while improving grasping stability.Its height and weight measurement errors are within 2 mm and 1 g,respectively.And it achieves high accuracy in three test scenarios,including classifying similar objects.This study provides useful insights for the design of soft grippers capable of human-like grasping and sorting tasks.展开更多
With the intelligent upgrading of manufacturing equipment,achieving high-precision and efficient fault diagnosis is essential to enhance equipment stability and increase productivity.Online monitoring and fault diagno...With the intelligent upgrading of manufacturing equipment,achieving high-precision and efficient fault diagnosis is essential to enhance equipment stability and increase productivity.Online monitoring and fault diagnosis technology play a critical role in improving the stability of metal additive manufacturing equipment.However,the limited proportion of fault data during operation challenges the accuracy and efficiency of multi-classification models due to excessive redundant data.A multi-sensor and principal component analysis(PCA)and support vector machine(SVM)asymptotic classification(PCSV)for additive manufacturing fault diagnosis method is proposed,and it divides the fault diagnosis into two steps.In the first step,real-time data are evaluated using the T2 and Q statistical parameters of the PCAmodel to identify potential faults while filtering non-fault data,thereby reducing redundancy and enhancing real-time efficiency.In the second step,the identified fault data are input into the SVM model for precise multi-class classification of fault categories.The PCSV method advances the field by significantly improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency,achieving an accuracy of 99%,a diagnosis time of 0.65 s,and a training time of 503 s.The experimental results demonstrate the sophistication of the PCSV method for high-precision and high-efficiency fault diagnosis of small fault samples.展开更多
Aimed at the problems of grippers struggling to adapt to irregular shapes and having insufficient grasping ability,reported here is a smart trapezoidal skin based on trapezoidal interlocking and magnetorheological sti...Aimed at the problems of grippers struggling to adapt to irregular shapes and having insufficient grasping ability,reported here is a smart trapezoidal skin based on trapezoidal interlocking and magnetorheological stiffness.The skin has upper and lower trapezoidal interlocking structures made from a magnetorheological elastomer,and its internal cavity is filled with magnetorheological grease.During the grasping process,the elastomer trapezoidal structural units provide better support and interlocking,while the magnetorheological grease realizes rapid stiffness adjustment under a magnetic field.This design offers good adaptability to irregular shapes as well as enhanced grasping capability via trapezoidal interlocking and magnetically variable stiffness.Furthermore,introducing a liquid-metal resistive sensing layer enables the skin to detect the slip state of the object,and the magnetic field generated by an electromagnet controlled by a microcontroller increases the skin stiffness and improves the grasping performance.As reported here,the support and interlocking of trapezoidal structures and the magnetovariable stiffness of magnetorheological materials are used comprehensively to provide a new reference for the design of variable-stiffness grippers.展开更多
Microseismic (MS) source location plays an important role in MS monitoring. This paper proposes a MS source location method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and multi-sensor arrays, where a free weight joint...Microseismic (MS) source location plays an important role in MS monitoring. This paper proposes a MS source location method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and multi-sensor arrays, where a free weight joints the P-wave first arrival data. This method adaptively adjusts the preference for “superior” arrays and leverages “inferior” arrays to escape local optima, thereby improving the location accuracy. The effectiveness and stability of this method were validated through synthetic tests, pencil-lead break (PLB) experiments, and mining engineering applications. Specifically, for synthetic tests with 1 μs Gaussian noise and 100 μs large noise in rock samples, the location error of the multi-sensor arrays jointed location method is only 0.30 cm, which improves location accuracy by 97.51% compared to that using a single sensor array. The average location error of PLB events on three surfaces of a rock sample is reduced by 48.95%, 26.40%, and 55.84%, respectively. For mine blast event tests, the average location error of the dual sensor arrays jointed method is 62.74 m, 54.32% and 14.29% lower than that using only sensor arrays 1 and 2, respectively. In summary, the proposed multi-sensor arrays jointed location method demonstrates good noise resistance, stability, and accuracy, providing a compelling new solution for MS location in relevant mining scenarios.展开更多
Ensuring that autonomous vehicles maintain high precision and rapid response capabilities in complex and dynamic driving environments is a critical challenge in the field of autonomous driving.This study aims to enhan...Ensuring that autonomous vehicles maintain high precision and rapid response capabilities in complex and dynamic driving environments is a critical challenge in the field of autonomous driving.This study aims to enhance the learning efficiency ofmulti-sensor feature fusion in autonomous driving tasks,thereby improving the safety and responsiveness of the system.To achieve this goal,we propose an innovative multi-sensor feature fusion model that integrates three distinct modalities:visual,radar,and lidar data.The model optimizes the feature fusion process through the introduction of two novel mechanisms:Sparse Channel Pooling(SCP)and Residual Triplet-Attention(RTA).Firstly,the SCP mechanism enables the model to adaptively filter out salient feature channels while eliminating the interference of redundant features.This enhances the model’s emphasis on critical features essential for decisionmaking and strengthens its robustness to environmental variability.Secondly,the RTA mechanism addresses the issue of feature misalignment across different modalities by effectively aligning key cross-modal features.This alignment reduces the computational overhead associated with redundant features and enhances the overall efficiency of the system.Furthermore,this study incorporates a reinforcement learning module designed to optimize strategies within a continuous action space.By integrating thismodulewith the feature fusion learning process,the entire system is capable of learning efficient driving strategies in an end-to-end manner within the CARLA autonomous driving simulator.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposedmodel significantly enhances the perception and decision-making accuracy of the autonomous driving system in complex traffic scenarios while maintaining real-time responsiveness.This work provides a novel perspective and technical pathway for the application of multi-sensor data fusion in autonomous driving.展开更多
Quadruped robots with body joints exhibit enhanced mobility,however,in outdoor environments,the energy that the robot can carry is limited,necessitating optimization of energy consumption to accomplish more tasks with...Quadruped robots with body joints exhibit enhanced mobility,however,in outdoor environments,the energy that the robot can carry is limited,necessitating optimization of energy consumption to accomplish more tasks within these constraints.Inspired by quadruped animals,this paper proposes an energy-saving strategy for a body joint quadruped robot based on Central Pattern Generator(CPG)with multi-sensor fusion bio-reflexes.First,an energy consumption model for the robot is established,and energy characteristic tests are conducted under different gait parameters.Based on these energy characteristics,optimal energy-efficient gait parameters are determined for various environmental conditions.Second,biological reflex mechanisms are studied,and a motion control model based on multi-sensor fusion biological reflexes is established using CPG as the foundation.By integrating the reflex model and gait parameters,real-time adaptive adjustments to the robot’s motion gait are achieved on complex terrains,reducing energy loss caused by terrain disturbances.Finally,a prototype of the body joint quadruped robot is built for experimental verification.Simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the robot’s Cost of Transport(COT)and significantly improves energy efficiency.The related research results can provide a useful reference for the research on energy efficiency of quadruped robots on complex terrain.展开更多
At present, multi-se nsor fusion is widely used in object recognition and classification, since this technique can efficiently improve the accuracy and the ability of fault toleranc e. This paper describes a multi-se...At present, multi-se nsor fusion is widely used in object recognition and classification, since this technique can efficiently improve the accuracy and the ability of fault toleranc e. This paper describes a multi-sensor fusion system, which is model-based and used for rotating mechanical failure diagnosis. In the data fusion process, the fuzzy neural network is selected and used for the data fusion at report level. By comparing the experimental results of fault diagnoses based on fusion data wi th that on original separate data,it is shown that the former is more accurate than the latter.展开更多
基金supported by the China Three Gorges Corporation(No.NBZZ202300860)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52275104)the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(No.2023RC3097).
文摘Deep learning-based wind turbine blade fault diagnosis has been widely applied due to its advantages in end-to-end feature extraction.However,several challenges remain.First,signal noise collected during blade operation masks fault features,severely impairing the fault diagnosis performance of deep learning models.Second,current blade fault diagnosis often relies on single-sensor data,resulting in limited monitoring dimensions and ability to comprehensively capture complex fault states.To address these issues,a multi-sensor fusion-based wind turbine blade fault diagnosis method is proposed.Specifically,a CNN-Transformer Coupled Feature Learning Architecture is constructed to enhance the ability to learn complex features under noisy conditions,while a Weight-Aligned Data Fusion Module is designed to comprehensively and effectively utilize multi-sensor fault information.Experimental results of wind turbine blade fault diagnosis under different noise interferences show that higher accuracy is achieved by the proposed method compared to models with single-source data input,enabling comprehensive and effective fault diagnosis.
基金the financial support from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB0470303)the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFB4600101)+5 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52175201)the Research Program of Science and Technology Department of Gansu Province (24JRRA059, 24JRRA044, and 24YFFA014)the Science Fund of Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing at Yantai (AMGM2024F12)the Major Program (ZYFZFX-2) of the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CASthe Special Research Assistant Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe Oasis Scholar of Shihezi University
文摘Octopuses,due to their flexible arms,marvelous adaptability,and powerful suckers,are able to effortlessly grasp and disengage various objects in the marine surrounding without causing devastation.However,manipulating delicate objects such as soft and fragile foods underwater require gentle contact and stable adhesion,which poses a serious challenge to now available soft grippers.Inspired by the sucker infundibulum structure and flexible tentacles of octopus,herein we developed a hydraulically actuated hydrogel soft gripper with adaptive maneuverability by coupling multiple hydrogen bond-mediated supramolecular hydrogels and vat polymerization three-dimensional printing,in which hydrogel bionic sucker is composed of a tunable curvature membrane,a negative pressure cavity,and a pneumatic chamber.The design of the sucker structure with the alterable curvature membrane is conducive to realize the reliable and gentle switchable adhesion of the hydrogel soft gripper.As a proof-of-concept,the adaptive hydrogel soft gripper is capable of implement diversified underwater tasks,including gingerly grasping fragile foods like egg yolks and tofu,as well as underwater robots and vehicles that station-keeping and crawling based on switchable adhesion.This study therefore provides a transformative strategy for the design of novel soft grippers that will render promising utilities for underwater exploration soft robotics.
基金the Major research program of national natural science foundation of China(91848206).
文摘Soft grippers research is gaining increasing attention for their flexibility.However,the conventional soft gripper primar-ily focuses on soft fingers,without considering the palm.This makes grasping forces concentrated in the fingertip areas,resulting in objects being prone to damage and instability during handling,especially for delicate items.Additionally,pre-transportation classification faces challenges:tactile methods are complex,visual methods are environment-sensitive,and both struggle with similar objects.To address these problems,inspired by the human hand's transition between finger grasp and palm support and the lotus's hierarchical structure,this paper proposes a dual-layer gripper,named IOSGrip-per.It features four pneumatic soft fingers and a rotational soft-rigid palm.Through coordinated control of the fingers and palm,it transitions concentrated fingertip squeeze force to distributed palm support force,reducing squeeze force and squeeze duration.Moreover,it integrates a range sensor and four load cells,enabling stable and accurate measurements of the object's height and weight.Furthermore,a classifier is developed based on K-nearest neighbor algorithm,allowing real-time object classification.Experiments demonstrate that compared to only using soft fingers,the IOSGripper signifi-cantly reduces the squeeze force on the objects(with 0 N squeeze force during palm support)and damage on the delicate object,while improving grasping stability.Its height and weight measurement errors are within 2 mm and 1 g,respectively.And it achieves high accuracy in three test scenarios,including classifying similar objects.This study provides useful insights for the design of soft grippers capable of human-like grasping and sorting tasks.
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China Grant 2022YFB4602200.
文摘With the intelligent upgrading of manufacturing equipment,achieving high-precision and efficient fault diagnosis is essential to enhance equipment stability and increase productivity.Online monitoring and fault diagnosis technology play a critical role in improving the stability of metal additive manufacturing equipment.However,the limited proportion of fault data during operation challenges the accuracy and efficiency of multi-classification models due to excessive redundant data.A multi-sensor and principal component analysis(PCA)and support vector machine(SVM)asymptotic classification(PCSV)for additive manufacturing fault diagnosis method is proposed,and it divides the fault diagnosis into two steps.In the first step,real-time data are evaluated using the T2 and Q statistical parameters of the PCAmodel to identify potential faults while filtering non-fault data,thereby reducing redundancy and enhancing real-time efficiency.In the second step,the identified fault data are input into the SVM model for precise multi-class classification of fault categories.The PCSV method advances the field by significantly improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency,achieving an accuracy of 99%,a diagnosis time of 0.65 s,and a training time of 503 s.The experimental results demonstrate the sophistication of the PCSV method for high-precision and high-efficiency fault diagnosis of small fault samples.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52075264).
文摘Aimed at the problems of grippers struggling to adapt to irregular shapes and having insufficient grasping ability,reported here is a smart trapezoidal skin based on trapezoidal interlocking and magnetorheological stiffness.The skin has upper and lower trapezoidal interlocking structures made from a magnetorheological elastomer,and its internal cavity is filled with magnetorheological grease.During the grasping process,the elastomer trapezoidal structural units provide better support and interlocking,while the magnetorheological grease realizes rapid stiffness adjustment under a magnetic field.This design offers good adaptability to irregular shapes as well as enhanced grasping capability via trapezoidal interlocking and magnetically variable stiffness.Furthermore,introducing a liquid-metal resistive sensing layer enables the skin to detect the slip state of the object,and the magnetic field generated by an electromagnet controlled by a microcontroller increases the skin stiffness and improves the grasping performance.As reported here,the support and interlocking of trapezoidal structures and the magnetovariable stiffness of magnetorheological materials are used comprehensively to provide a new reference for the design of variable-stiffness grippers.
基金Project(SICGM2023301) supported by the State Key Laboratory of Strata Intelligent Control and Green Mining Co-founded by Shandong Province and the Ministry of Science and Technology,ChinaProject(SMDPC202202) supported by the Key Laboratory of Mining Disaster Prevention and Control,ChinaProject(U21A2030) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China。
文摘Microseismic (MS) source location plays an important role in MS monitoring. This paper proposes a MS source location method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and multi-sensor arrays, where a free weight joints the P-wave first arrival data. This method adaptively adjusts the preference for “superior” arrays and leverages “inferior” arrays to escape local optima, thereby improving the location accuracy. The effectiveness and stability of this method were validated through synthetic tests, pencil-lead break (PLB) experiments, and mining engineering applications. Specifically, for synthetic tests with 1 μs Gaussian noise and 100 μs large noise in rock samples, the location error of the multi-sensor arrays jointed location method is only 0.30 cm, which improves location accuracy by 97.51% compared to that using a single sensor array. The average location error of PLB events on three surfaces of a rock sample is reduced by 48.95%, 26.40%, and 55.84%, respectively. For mine blast event tests, the average location error of the dual sensor arrays jointed method is 62.74 m, 54.32% and 14.29% lower than that using only sensor arrays 1 and 2, respectively. In summary, the proposed multi-sensor arrays jointed location method demonstrates good noise resistance, stability, and accuracy, providing a compelling new solution for MS location in relevant mining scenarios.
文摘Ensuring that autonomous vehicles maintain high precision and rapid response capabilities in complex and dynamic driving environments is a critical challenge in the field of autonomous driving.This study aims to enhance the learning efficiency ofmulti-sensor feature fusion in autonomous driving tasks,thereby improving the safety and responsiveness of the system.To achieve this goal,we propose an innovative multi-sensor feature fusion model that integrates three distinct modalities:visual,radar,and lidar data.The model optimizes the feature fusion process through the introduction of two novel mechanisms:Sparse Channel Pooling(SCP)and Residual Triplet-Attention(RTA).Firstly,the SCP mechanism enables the model to adaptively filter out salient feature channels while eliminating the interference of redundant features.This enhances the model’s emphasis on critical features essential for decisionmaking and strengthens its robustness to environmental variability.Secondly,the RTA mechanism addresses the issue of feature misalignment across different modalities by effectively aligning key cross-modal features.This alignment reduces the computational overhead associated with redundant features and enhances the overall efficiency of the system.Furthermore,this study incorporates a reinforcement learning module designed to optimize strategies within a continuous action space.By integrating thismodulewith the feature fusion learning process,the entire system is capable of learning efficient driving strategies in an end-to-end manner within the CARLA autonomous driving simulator.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposedmodel significantly enhances the perception and decision-making accuracy of the autonomous driving system in complex traffic scenarios while maintaining real-time responsiveness.This work provides a novel perspective and technical pathway for the application of multi-sensor data fusion in autonomous driving.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.52075488)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LY20E050023).
文摘Quadruped robots with body joints exhibit enhanced mobility,however,in outdoor environments,the energy that the robot can carry is limited,necessitating optimization of energy consumption to accomplish more tasks within these constraints.Inspired by quadruped animals,this paper proposes an energy-saving strategy for a body joint quadruped robot based on Central Pattern Generator(CPG)with multi-sensor fusion bio-reflexes.First,an energy consumption model for the robot is established,and energy characteristic tests are conducted under different gait parameters.Based on these energy characteristics,optimal energy-efficient gait parameters are determined for various environmental conditions.Second,biological reflex mechanisms are studied,and a motion control model based on multi-sensor fusion biological reflexes is established using CPG as the foundation.By integrating the reflex model and gait parameters,real-time adaptive adjustments to the robot’s motion gait are achieved on complex terrains,reducing energy loss caused by terrain disturbances.Finally,a prototype of the body joint quadruped robot is built for experimental verification.Simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the robot’s Cost of Transport(COT)and significantly improves energy efficiency.The related research results can provide a useful reference for the research on energy efficiency of quadruped robots on complex terrain.
文摘At present, multi-se nsor fusion is widely used in object recognition and classification, since this technique can efficiently improve the accuracy and the ability of fault toleranc e. This paper describes a multi-sensor fusion system, which is model-based and used for rotating mechanical failure diagnosis. In the data fusion process, the fuzzy neural network is selected and used for the data fusion at report level. By comparing the experimental results of fault diagnoses based on fusion data wi th that on original separate data,it is shown that the former is more accurate than the latter.