International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA)

IJISA Vol. 16, No. 2, Apr. 2024

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REGULAR PAPERS

Cost-effective Robotic Arm Simulation and System Verification

By Apostolos Tsagaris Charalampos Polychroniadis Anastasios Tzotzis Panagiotis Kyratsis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2024

In recent years, the utilization of virtual environments in industry 4.0 has witnessed significant growth, particularly in the design, implementation, and management of robotic systems. This paper addresses the need for enhanced control in robotic arms by presenting the design and implementation of a 5DoF robotic arm transformed into a digital platform through specialized software. The methods employed involve detailed direct and inverse kinematic modeling to replicate the physical arm in a digital environment. Our measurements indicate an impressive accuracy ranging from 97% to 100% in the movements of the digital model, closely mirroring its physical counterpart. This research not only contributes to the development of simulation systems but also holds promise for the broader adoption of digital twins. The paper discusses the background, outlines the methodology, highlights key findings, and concludes with the potential future impact of this work on the advancement of robotic systems and simulation technologies.

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A New Approach to Improving Search Efficiency in Digital Libraries

By Irada Alakbarova Dilbar Alizada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.02.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2024

The development of Internet technologies influences the activities of libraries and changes their nature. The volume of content collected in digital libraries is growing rapidly. This requires the use of new technologies to search and obtain electronic materials (text, video, images, sound files) stored in the e-library. Today, using the new capabilities of network technologies and intelligent systems, the proper organization of the digital library, and increasing the efficiency of library services are the main factors leading to an increase in the number of readers and their satisfaction. The main objectives of digital libraries are to ensure efficient retrieval of electronic resources and collaboration between users. While researching various scientific articles on library and information sciences (LIS), we did not encounter approaches using cluster analysis in combination with wiki technologies. To collaborate users in digital libraries and their involvement in organizing electronic resources, we propose using an open database managed by wiki technologies. To effectively search for electronic resources in these open databases, it is proposed to use the clear clustering method. The clear clustering method also allows you to control the quality of clustering. The proposed method is important when creating intelligent (smart) libraries that are easy to manage and automate certain tasks. The research aims to create not just a smart library, but a smart library based on wiki technologies.

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Machine Learning-based Approaches in Error Detection and Score Prediction for Small Arm Firing Systems in the Military Domain

By Salman Rahman Nusrat Sharmin Tanzil Ahmed

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.02.03, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2024

Error pattern recognition is a routine job in the military to provide corrective guidelines to the shooter. Errors can be recognized with a visual approach based on the spreading pattern of bullets on the target board, which are categorized into four categories: long horizontal error, long vertical error, bi-focal error, and scattered error. Currently, this process is performed manually and requires active human involvement. Similarly, an automated system to predict the future performance of a shooter is not available in the military domain. Moreover, the performance of a shooter depends on several factors, including age, weather, ammunition type, availability of light, previous scores, shooting range, classification of firing, and other factors. The military domain has not addressed the automatic prediction of such performance. While error correction and performance analysis have been extensively explored in the field of sports, their application within the military domain remains an untapped area of research and investigation. Numerous recent endeavors have suggested the utilization of deep learning to tackle this challenge. However, the absence of real-time data poses a significant obstacle, rendering these solutions seemingly impractical. In this paper, we have applied machine- learning approaches and adopted the best algorithm to automate the error pattern recognition system within a military domain. Our proposed methodology has two modules. The first module uses various algorithms and finds a random forest classifier that can do better to recognize the pattern of error and in the second phase, we used the AdaBoost classifier to predict the score and performance of a firer. Several experiments have been conducted, and the results show an average accuracy of 0.968 using Random Forest to recognize the pattern of error and an accuracy of 0.69 using AdaBoost to predict score performance. The data has been collected from the real-time environment of the military domain and experiments have been carried out using real-time scenarios with the military in mind.

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Quantification of EEG Characteristics for Epileptic Seizure Detection and Monitoring of Anaesthesia Using Spectral Analysis

By Anand Ghuli Anil Kannur Abhishek Mali Aishwarya Mangasuli

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.02.04, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2024

Epilepsy is considered one of the primary neurological disorders, and its treatment requires abundant technological assistance. General Anaesthesia induces distinct patterns in brain activity, with the most common being a gradual increase in low-frequency signals as the level of Anaesthesia deepens. In this instance, a method of validating epileptic seizures and Anaesthesia through the utilization of electroencephalogram (EEG) data, acquired non-invasively, is introduced. Epileptic seizures and detection of the presence of Anaesthesia approaches make use of discrete Laplace Transformation (LT), Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT), and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Here, it is discussed how power spectral analysis (PSA) helps study EEG characteristics in detecting epileptic behavior and the presence of Anaesthesia. A dataset of EEG (Epileptic and Anaesthesia), which is available publicly [1,2], has been used in the propounded technique using FIR filters and LT, DCT, and FFT are used to store and process 16 channel data. Power Spectrum Density (PSD) and its average were contrasted against a specific spectrum and frequency range of a typical EEG signal to obtain the results. This work uses a technique to determine whether the patient being studied is epileptic and awake or anesthetized.

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Optimized Image Captioning: Hybrid Transformers Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks: Enhanced with Beam Search

By Sushma Jaiswal Harikumar Pallthadka Rajesh P. Chinchewadi Tarun Jaiswal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.02.05, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2024

Deep learning has improved image captioning. Transformer, a neural network architecture built for natural language processing, excels at image captioning and other computer vision applications. This paper reviews Transformer-based image captioning methods in detail. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) extracted image features and RNNs or LSTM networks generated captions in traditional image captioning. This method often has information bottlenecks and trouble capturing long-range dependencies. Transformer architecture revolutionized natural language processing with its attention strategy and parallel processing. Researchers used Transformers' language success to solve image captioning problems. Transformer-based image captioning systems outperform previous methods in accuracy and efficiency by integrating visual and textual information into a single model. This paper discusses how the Transformer architecture's self-attention mechanisms and positional encodings are adapted for image captioning. Vision Transformers (ViTs) and CNN-Transformer hybrid models are discussed. We also discuss pre-training, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning to improve caption quality. Transformer-based image captioning difficulties, trends, and future approaches are also examined. Multimodal fusion, visual-text alignment, and caption interpretability are challenges. We expect research to address these issues and apply Transformer-based image captioning to medical imaging and distant sensing. This paper covers how Transformer-based approaches have changed image captioning and their potential to revolutionize multimodal interpretation and generation, advancing artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.

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