5 accepted papers
This paper unifies commonly used accelerated stochastic gradient methods (Polyak’s Heavy Ball, Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient and Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam)) as specific cases of a general lowpass regularized learning framework, the Automatic Stochastic Gradient Method (AutoSGM). For AutoSGM…
This paper presents a new tomography-based anomaly mapping algorithm for composite structures. The system consists of an array of piezoelectric transducers which sequentially excites the structure and collects the resulting waveform at the remaining transducers. Anomaly indices computed from the sen…
This paper presents a framework for shared, human-machine control of a prosthetic arm. The method employs electromyogram and peripheral neural signals to decode motor intent, and incorporates a higher-level goal in the controller to augment human effort. The controller derivation employs Markov Deci…
This paper presents a framework for modeling neural decoding using electromyogram (EMG) and electrocorticogram (ECoG) signals to interpret human intent and control prosthetic arms. Specifically, the method of this paper employs Markov Decision Processes (MDP) for neural decoding, parameterizing the…
Impact location estimation techniques are important components of Structural Health Monitoring systems. This paper considers impact location estimation in composite structures using acoustic emission signals arriving at a passive sensor array attached to the structure. Because composite structures a…