KNOWLEDGE-BASED PLANNING IN A SIMULATED ROBOT WORLD

Fei, Tang Shuo,Shu, Li Ming,Rong, Hong Bing 대한전자공학회 1992 HICEC:Harbin International Conference on Electroni Vol.1 No.1

This paper introduces some of our current works for making a more generalized and advanced knowledge-based system (KBROPS-2) for intelligent robot planning. It detailed discusses and analyzes the knowledge-based techniques for robot planning in the KBROPS-2 system from its world model, planning implementation consideration, and also illustrates the planning power of the system by solving and analyzing some typical planning problems in the different world and in the same world. The result in this paper shows that knowledge-based hierarchical planning techniques can be successfully used to the high level robot planning and can improve the planning performance both in the capability and the planning speed.

KNOWLEDGE-BASED PLANNING IN A SIMULATED ROBOT WORLD

Tang Shuo Fei,Li Ming Shu,Hong Bing Rong 대한전자공학회 1992 대한전자공학회 Conference Vol.1992 No.2

Effect of Grain Gradation on the Permeability Characteristics of Coarse-grained Soil Conditioned with Foam for EPB Shield Tunneling

Shuo Huang,Shuying Wang,Changjie Xu,Yufeng Shi,Fei Ye 대한토목학회 2019 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.23 No.11

To avoid water spewing out of the screw conveyor, foam is often used to reduce the permeability coefficient of the soil during earth pressure balance (EPB) shield tunneling. Whether foam can effectively reduce the permeability or not strongly depends on soil gradation characteristics. A series of permeability tests were carried out on foam-conditioned soil with changing effective grain size (d10), curvature coefficient (Cc), and uniformity coefficient (Cu), further, three characteristic times were defined to evaluate the permeation safety of the conditioned soil, including critical time (tc), flow rate safety time (ta) and flow quantity safety time (ts). The test results show that with an increase in d10, the initial permeability coefficient of the conditioned soil increased greatly, however, it only changed slightly with increases in Cc and Cu. In addition, permeability coefficient was still much lower than that of the unconditioned soil, even though entered the slow growth period for a long time. It is shown that as the Cc and Cu increased, the ta and ts changed slightly, however, as the d10 increased, the ta and ts decreased significantly. The results indicate that d10 can greatly affect the permeability characteristics of conditioned soil, more specifically, the initial permeability coefficient and the permeation safety. By contrast, Cc and Cu have less effects. In addition, it is not reasonable to consider that the permeability coefficient of the conditioned soil will reach or be close to that of unconditioned soil when most, or all, of foam in the foam-conditioned soil dissipates.

Sensitive Vector Search for Logic Circuit Failure Probability based on Improved Adaptive Cuckoo Algorithm

Shuo Cai,Sicheng Wu,Weizheng Wang,Fei Yu,Lairong Yin 대한전자공학회 2022 Journal of semiconductor technology and science Vol.22 No.2

With the development of microelectronics technology, the feature size of integrated circuit continues to shrink, and circuit performance has been improved. At the same time, however, factors such as process disturbance, power noise, and particle radiation are having an increasingly serious influence on the Failure Probability of Circuits (FPC). Searching the input vectors that are sensitive to FPC can assist circuit designers in selectively reinforcing the circuit to reduce the fault-tolerant overhead and improve the fault-tolerant efficiency. In this paper, an Improved Adaptive Cuckoo Search (IACS) algorithm is proposed to search sensitive circuit vectors. The vector segmentation strategy is used to change the dimension of the input vector, the hill climbing algorithm is used to improve the quality of the initial population, and the adaptive strategy is used to control parameters such as power-law index, discovery probability and scaling factor. At the same time, a Correlation Separation Approach (COSEA) is proposed to calculate the FPC under specific vector excitation. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has higher accuracy and better efficiency compared with existing algorithms.

A New Genetic Algorithm-based Topology Optimization Method of Tensegrity Tori

Shuo Ma,Xing-Fei Yuan,Sheng-Da Xie 대한토목학회 2019 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.23 No.5

This study mainly focuses on a new Genetic Algorithm (GA)-based topology optimization method of tensegrity tori with the ring stiffness set as the optimization objective. To do the structural analysis of self-equilibrated tensegrity tori, a modified stiffness matrix based form-finding method is introduced. A form finding procedure is adopted to generate new tensegrity tori in constant mass with only topology and rest length given. An innovative encoding scheme in GA is proposed to represent tensegrity tori with new sets of topology, prestress, and configuration. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed method is efficient in the topology optimization of tensegrity tori with high ring stiffness.

ZnO Nanowire Arrays on 3D Hierachical Graphene Foam: Biomarker Detection of Parkinson’s Disease

Yue, Hong Yan,Huang, Shuo,Chang, Jian,Heo, Chaejeong,Yao, Fei,Adhikari, Subash,Gunes, Fethullah,Liu, Li Chun,Lee, Tae Hoon,Oh, Eung Seok,Li, Bing,Zhang, Jian Jiao,Huy, Ta Quang,Luan, Nguyen Van,Lee, Y American Chemical Society 2014 ACS NANO Vol.8 No.2

<P>We report that vertically aligned ZnO nanowire arrays (ZnO NWAs) were fabricated on 3D graphene foam (GF) and used to selectively detect uric acid (UA), dopamine (DA), and ascorbic acid (AA) by a differential pulse voltammetry method. The optimized ZnO NWA/GF electrode provided a high surface area and high selectivity with a detection limit of 1 nM for UA and DA. The high selectivity in the oxidation potential was explained by the gap difference between the lowest unoccupied and highest occupied molecular orbitals of a biomolecule for a set of given electrodes. This method was further used to detect UA levels in the serum of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The UA level was 25% lower in PD patients than in healthy individuals. This finding strongly implies that UA can be used as a biomarker for PD.</P><P><B>Graphic Abstract</B> <IMG SRC='http://pubs.acs.org/appl/literatum/publisher/achs/journals/content/ancac3/2014/ancac3.2014.8.issue-2/nn405961p/production/images/medium/nn-2013-05961p_0005.gif'></P><P><A href='http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/nn405961p'>ACS Electronic Supporting Info</A></P>

Expression and Clinical Significance of MicroRNA-376a in Colorectal Cancer

Mo, Zhan-Hao,Wu, Xiao-Dong,Li, Shuo,Fei, Bing-Yuan,Zhang, Bin Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.21

The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is increasing in many Asian countries and microRNAs have already been proven to be associated with tumorigenesis. Currently, microRNA-376a (miR-376a) expression and association with clinical factors in CRC remains unclear. In this study, real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was carried out on 53 matched pairs of CRC and adjacent normal mucosa to investigate the expression levels of miR-376a. According to the high or low expression of miR-376a, patients were divided into two groups. The relationship between miR-376a expression and clinicopathological factors of 53 patients was evaluated. Survival analysis of 53 CRC patients was performed with clinical follow-up information and survival curves were assessed by the Kaplan-Meier method. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining was performed on sections of paraffin-embedded tissue to investigate the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression. MiR-376a showed low expression in cancer tissues compared to the adjacent normal tissues and altered high miR-376a expression tended to be positively correlated with advanced lymph node metastasis and shorter patient survival. VEGF IHC positivity was significantly more common in patients with high expression levels of miR-376a.Those results demonstrated that miR-376a may be a meaningful prognostic biomarker and potential therapeutic target in colorectal cancer.

Association of the PPAR-γ Gene with Altered Glucose Levels and Psychosis Profile in Schizophrenia Patients Exposed to Antipsychotics

Yun-Ru Liu,El-Wui Loh,Tsung-Ming Hu,Tsuo-Hung Lan,Hsien-Jane Chiu,Yung-Han Chang,Shuo-Fei Chen,Yen-Hsin Yu,Cheng-Chung Chen 대한신경정신의학회 2014 PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Vol.11 No.2

Objective Metabolic abnormalities, e.g., diabetes, are common among schizophrenia patients. Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) regulates glucose/lipid metabolisms, and schizophrenia like syndrome may be induced by actions involving retinoid X receptor-α/PPAR-γ heterodimers. We examined a possible role of the PPAR-γ gene in metabolic traits and psychosis profile in schizophrenia patients exposed to antipsychotics. Methods Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the PPAR-γ gene and a serial of metabolic traits were determined in 394 schizophrenia patients, among which 372 were rated with Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Results SNP-10, -12, -18, -19, -20 and -26 were associated with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) whereas SNP-18, -19, -20 and -26 were associated with fasting plasma glucose (FPG). While SNP-23 was associated with triglycerides, no associations were identified between the other SNPs and lipids. Further haplotype analysis demonstrated an association between the PPAR-γ gene and psychosis profile. Conclusion Our study suggests a role of the PPAR-γ gene in altered glucose levels and psychosis profile in schizophrenia patients exposed to antipsychotics. Although the Pro12Ala at exon B has been concerned an essential variant in the development of obesity, the lack of association of the variant with metabolic traits in this study should not be treated as impossibility or a proof of error because other factors, e.g., genes regulated by PPAR-γ, may have complicated the development of metabolic abnormalities. Whether the PPAR-γ gene modifies the risk of metabolic abnormalities or psychosis, or causes metabolic abnormalities that lead to psychosis, remains to be examined.