Energy
Design and Development of Miniature long distance multi-moving robots for 3D Smart Sensing for underground Pipe Inspection
Pulles, Alireza, Lai, Weiyao, Sahari, Erika, Guo, XiaoQi, Bernhard, Marc
In a guaranteed application, In most cases, the lines are covered to comply with the robot course shifts past it, sliding into the safety regulations and avoid possible consequences. As track as it progresses. This obstacle can be addressed by a result of all considerations, pipe networks are clearly controlling the robot using potentially working transmission used to transport liquids and gases in stables and urban parts. MRINSPECT-VI [10, 11] uses multi-colossal areas.We also showed that bioactivated robots with caterpillars, transfer parts to control the speed of three modules. However, inchworms, walking parts [1] and screw-driven a central transmission system is used, in which he structures [2] are suitable for different needs. Anyway, distributes the work and speed to three modules. This perspective most of them use dynamic control techniques to guide and caused the focal yield (Z) to rotate faster than her move the line. The reliance on the robot's course in the other two results (X and Y), making the Z yield actually line added to the difficulty, and unless a common control affected by hatch unfolding. This is caused by the fact procedure was included, the robots were similarly slippery.
Cardinality-Regularized Hawkes-Granger Model
Idé, Tsuyoshi, Kollias, Georgios, Phan, Dzung T., Abe, Naoki
We propose a new sparse Granger-causal learning framework for temporal event data. We focus on a specific class of point processes called the Hawkes process. We begin by pointing out that most of the existing sparse causal learning algorithms for the Hawkes process suffer from a singularity in maximum likelihood estimation. As a result, their sparse solutions can appear only as numerical artifacts. In this paper, we propose a mathematically well-defined sparse causal learning framework based on a cardinality-regularized Hawkes process, which remedies the pathological issues of existing approaches. We leverage the proposed algorithm for the task of instance-wise causal event analysis, where sparsity plays a critical role. We validate the proposed framework with two real use-cases, one from the power grid and the other from the cloud data center management domain.
Simultaneously Learning Stochastic and Adversarial Bandits with General Graph Feedback
Kong, Fang, Zhou, Yichi, Li, Shuai
The problem of online learning with graph feedback has been extensively studied in the literature due to its generality and potential to model various learning tasks. Existing works mainly study the adversarial and stochastic feedback separately. If the prior knowledge of the feedback mechanism is unavailable or wrong, such specially designed algorithms could suffer great loss. To avoid this problem, \citet{erez2021towards} try to optimize for both environments. However, they assume the feedback graphs are undirected and each vertex has a self-loop, which compromises the generality of the framework and may not be satisfied in applications. With a general feedback graph, the observation of an arm may not be available when this arm is pulled, which makes the exploration more expensive and the algorithms more challenging to perform optimally in both environments. In this work, we overcome this difficulty by a new trade-off mechanism with a carefully-designed proportion for exploration and exploitation. We prove the proposed algorithm simultaneously achieves $\mathrm{poly} \log T$ regret in the stochastic setting and minimax-optimal regret of $\tilde{O}(T^{2/3})$ in the adversarial setting where $T$ is the horizon and $\tilde{O}$ hides parameters independent of $T$ as well as logarithmic terms. To our knowledge, this is the first best-of-both-worlds result for general feedback graphs.
Modelling spatio-temporal trends of air pollution in Africa
Gahungu, Paterne, Kubwimana, Jean Remy, Muhimpundu, Lionel Jean Marie Benjamin, Ndamuzi, Egide
Atmospheric pollution remains one of the major public health threat worldwide with an estimated 7 millions deaths annually. In Africa, rapid urbanization and poor transport infrastructure are worsening the problem. In this paper, we have analysed spatio-temporal variations of PM2.5 across different geographical regions in Africa. The West African region remains the most affected by the high levels of pollution with a daily average of 40.856 $\mu g/m^3$ in some cities like Lagos, Abuja and Bamako. In East Africa, Uganda is reporting the highest pollution level with a daily average concentration of 56.14 $\mu g/m^3$ and 38.65 $\mu g/m^3$ for Kigali. In countries located in the central region of Africa, the highest daily average concentration of PM2.5 of 90.075 $\mu g/m^3$ was recorded in N'Djamena. We compare three data driven models in predicting future trends of pollution levels. Neural network is outperforming Gaussian processes and ARIMA models.
Data Parallelism and Distributed Deep Learning at production scale (part 2)
Lastly, our optimiser is wrapped by Horovod's implementation for distributed optimisation (which handles the all-gather and all-reduce MPI operations). We next assign training callbacks to GPU processors based on the processor's (unique) global rank. By default, rank-0 is designated as the root node. There are some operations we only need executing on a single node (for example, using a model checkpoint to save model weights to file). Each processor will effectively run their own training job which optionally prints training accuracy, loss, and custom metrics to CloudWatch.
Data Centred Intelligent Geosciences: Research Agenda and Opportunities, Position Paper
Nascimento, Aderson Farias do, Musicante, Martin A., da Costa, Umberto Souza, Carvalho, Bruno M., Nunes, Marcus Alexandre, Vargas-Solar, Genoveva
This paper describes and discusses our vision to develop and reason about best practices and novel ways of curating data-centric geosciences knowledge (data, experiments, models, methods, conclusions, and interpretations). This knowledge is produced from applying statistical modelling, Machine Learning, and modern data analytics methods on geo-data collections. The problems address open methodological questions in model building, models' assessment, prediction, and forecasting workflows.
DeePKS+ABACUS as a Bridge between Expensive Quantum Mechanical Models and Machine Learning Potentials
Li, Wenfei, Ou, Qi, Chen, Yixiao, Cao, Yu, Liu, Renxi, Zhang, Chunyi, Zheng, Daye, Cai, Chun, Wu, Xifan, Wang, Han, Chen, Mohan, Zhang, Linfeng
Recently, the development of machine learning (ML) potentials has made it possible to perform large-scale and long-time molecular simulations with the accuracy of quantum mechanical (QM) models. However, for high-level QM methods, such as density functional theory (DFT) at the meta-GGA level and/or with exact exchange, quantum Monte Carlo, etc., generating a sufficient amount of data for training a ML potential has remained computationally challenging due to their high cost. In this work, we demonstrate that this issue can be largely alleviated with Deep Kohn-Sham (DeePKS), a ML-based DFT model. DeePKS employs a computationally efficient neural network-based functional model to construct a correction term added upon a cheap DFT model. Upon training, DeePKS offers closely-matched energies and forces compared with high-level QM method, but the number of training data required is orders of magnitude less than that required for training a reliable ML potential. As such, DeePKS can serve as a bridge between expensive QM models and ML potentials: one can generate a decent amount of high-accuracy QM data to train a DeePKS model, and then use the DeePKS model to label a much larger amount of configurations to train a ML potential. This scheme for periodic systems is implemented in a DFT package ABACUS, which is open-source and ready for use in various applications.
A Review of Federated Learning in Energy Systems
Cheng, Xu, Li, Chendan, Liu, Xiufeng
With increasing concerns for data privacy and ownership, recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in machine learning (ML). An emerging paradigm, federated learning (FL), has gained great attention and has become a novel design for machine learning implementations. FL enables the ML model training at data silos under the coordination of a central server, eliminating communication overhead and without sharing raw data. In this paper, we conduct a review of the FL paradigm and, in particular, compare the types, the network structures, and the global model aggregation methods. Then, we conducted a comprehensive review of FL applications in the energy domain (refer to the smart grid in this paper). We provide a thematic classification of FL to address a variety of energy-related problems, including demand response, identification, prediction, and federated optimizations. We describe the taxonomy in detail and conclude with a discussion of various aspects, including challenges, opportunities, and limitations in its energy informatics applications, such as energy system modeling and design, privacy, and evolution.
Percepto drones to monitor a floating solar farm - The Robot Report
A floating solar farm off the coast of Thailand, a $34 million project, will be monitored by Percepto drones. Percepto announced that it has completed a proof-of-concept (POC) with the Electric Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) to monitor a 250-acre floating solar farm. The farm is the size of 70 soccer fields and is located 350 m from the nearest shoreline. Percepto's AIM software and drone-in-a-box solution will autonomously perform routine inspections of panels and other equipment to detect anomalies and ensure everything is operating properly. The drones will provide regular operations and maintenance reports, map the location of the panels; and perform inspections of substations, transformers, floating fences and solar floaters, which hold the solar panels above water.
Lincoln replaced the steering wheel with a 'chess piece controller' in its Model L100 concept
Monterey Car Week has been a hotbed of EV debuts this year with unveilings from Dodge, Acura, DeLorean and a host of other automakers. On Thursday, Lincoln revealed the Model L100, its futuristic foray into electrified mobility, which draws inspiration from the company's very first luxury sedan, the 1922 Model L. Like its pre-Depression predecessor, the Model L100 exhibits a shocking degree of opulence. "Next generation battery cell and pack technologies," read the Thursday release, will deliver "game changing energy density," while the steering wheel will be replaced with a "jewel-inspired chess piece controller that captures light and depth by redefining the vehicle controls inside the cabin." That fancy yoke won't be much use for actual steering thanks to the vehicle's theoretical autonomous driving capabilities taking care of the navigating. "Concept vehicles allow us to reimagine and illustrate how new experiences can come to life with the help of advanced technologies and allow our designers more creative freedom than ever before," Anthony Lo, Ford's chief design officer, in a statement.