Designing Evolutionary Wavelet Neural Network for Estimating Foaming Slag Quality in Electric Arc Furnace Using Power Quality Indices

In the present study,a novel approach based on an evolutionary wavelet neural network(EWNN)is proposed to estimate the slag quality in an electric arc furnace(EAF)employing power quality indices.In the EWNN,an evolutionary method is applied to train the parameters for a combination of neural networks and wavelets.I For this purpose,all of the electrical parameters for six melting processes are measured with a power quality analyzer,attached to the secondary component of an EAF transformer at a Saba steel complex,to estimate the foaming slag quality.Experimental results on various combinations of measured electrical parameters,applying the designed EWNN estimator,demonstrate that utilizing five leading indicators leads to the highest precision.The obtained 99%accuracy for estimating the foaming slag quality by EWNN compared to the other methods illustrates the proposed method's efficiency.

Optimized parallel architecture of evolutionary neural network for mass spectrometry data processing

Evolutionary neural network(ENN)shows high performance in function optimization and in finding approximately global optima from searching large and complex spaces.It is one of the most efficient and adaptive optimization techniques used widely to provide candidate solutions that lead to the fitness of the problem.ENN has the extraordinary ability to search the global and learning the approximate optimal solution regardless of the gradient information of the error functions.However,ENN requires high computation and processing which requires parallel processing platforms such as field programmable gate arrays(FPGAs)and graphic processing units(GPUs)to achieve a good performance.This work involves different new implementations of ENN by exploring and adopting different techniques and opportunities for parallel processing.Different versions of ENN algorithm have also been implemented and parallelized on FPGAs platform for low latency by exploiting the parallelism and pipelining approaches.Real data form mass spectrometry data(MSD)application was tested to examine and verify our implementations.This is a very important and extensive computation application which needs to search and find the optimal features(peaks)in MSD in order to distinguish cancer patients from control patients.ENN algorithm is also implemented and parallelized on single core and GPU platforms for comparison purposes.The computation time of our optimized algorithm on FPGA and GPU has been improved by a factor of 6.75 and 6,respectively.

Neuroevolution-enabled adaptation of the Jacobi method for Poisson’s equation with density discontinuities

Lacking labeled examples of working numerical strategies,adapting an iterative solver to accommodate a numerical issue,e.g.,density discontinuities in the pressure Poisson equation,is non-trivial and usually involves a lot of trial and error.Here,we resort to evolutionary neural network.A evolutionary neural network observes the outcome of an action and adapts its strategy accordingly.The process requires no labeled data but only a measure of a network’s performance at a task.Applying neuro-evolution and adapting the Jacobi iterative method for the pressure Poisson equation with density discontinuities,we show that the adapted Jacobi method is able to accommodate density discontinuities.