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A special issue of Designs (ISSN 2411-9660). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioengineering Design".

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Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milan, Italy
Interests: control theory; mechatronics; sensors and actuators; motion control; vibration control; vehicle dynamics; fault detection; health monitoring; wind energy
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Prof. Dr. Shen Yin

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Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Verkstedteknisk, P414, Gløshaugen, Richard Birkelands vei 2B, 7034 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: fault diagnosis/prognosis and fault-tolerance; reliability, safety, and security; system and control theory; data-driven monitoring and optimization; machine learning and computer vision; applications on health diagnosis and cyber-physical systems
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Prof. Dr. Peng Shi

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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: systems and control; intelligent systems; hybrid systems
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Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, there has been increased attention to the problem of high level of automation for modern complex industrial systems with more focus on reliability, safety as well as economic performance of these systems. To this aim, literature of the work has witnessed the rapid growth of research developments on modeling, control, filtering, diagnostics and prognostics in modern industrial processes, thus become more important for both academic and industrial domains.

The primary objective of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest achievements and to identify critical issues and challenges for future investigation on mathematical or data-driven modeling, optimization techniques, health monitoring, diagnostics and control design of modern complex systems. The papers to be published in the issue are expected to provide the latest results in advanced techniques especially for large-scale process industry and advanced complex electric/mechatronic/aerospace systems.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi
Prof. Dr. Shen Yin
Prof. Dr. Peng Shi
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Keywords

Mathematical modeling and identification for modern complex systems
Robust control and filtering issues for modern complex systems
Optimization theory for controller and observer design for modern complex systems
Data-driven modeling techniques for modern complex systems
Fault diagnosis, prognosis and health monitoring system design
Deep learning techniques and big data solutions with complex system applications
Intelligence techniques, such as fuzzy logic, neural network approaches
Simulation technology for complex systems
Industrial applications

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Fault Classification of Axial and Radial Roller Bearings Using Transfer Learning through a Pretrained Convolutional Neural Network

by Martin Hemmer, Huynh Van Khang, Kjell G. Robbersmyr, Tor I. Waag and Thomas J. J. Meyer

Designs 2018, 2(4), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2040056 - 19 Dec 2018

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Detecting bearing faults is very important in preventing non-scheduled shutdowns, catastrophic failures, and production losses. Localized faults on bearings are normally detected based on characteristic frequencies associated with faults in time and frequency spectra. However, missing such characteristic frequency harmonics in a spectrum does not guarantee that a bearing is healthy, or noise might produce harmonics at characteristic frequencies in the healthy case. Further, some defects on roller bearings could not produce characteristic frequencies. To avoid misclassification, bearing defects can be detected via machine learning algorithms, namely convolutional neural network (CNN), support vector machine (SVM), and sparse autoencoder-based SVM (SAE-SVM). Within this framework, three fault classifiers based on CNN, SVM, and SAE-SVM utilizing transfer learning are proposed. Transfer of knowledge is achieved by extracting features from a CNN pretrained on data from the imageNet database to classify faults in roller bearings. The effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated based on vibration and acoustic emission signal datasets from roller bearings with artificial damage. Finally, the accuracy and robustness of the fault classifiers are evaluated at different amounts of noise and training data. Full article

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Extraction of Structural System Designs from Topologies via Morphological Analysis and Artificial Intelligence

by Achyuthan Jootoo and David Lattanzi

Designs 2018, 2(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2010008 - 13 Feb 2018

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Structural system design is the process of giving form to a set of interconnected components subjected to loads and design constraints while navigating a complex design space. While safe designs are relatively easy to develop, optimal designs are not. Modern computational optimization approaches employ population based metaheuristic algorithms to overcome challenges with the system design optimization landscape. However, the choice of the initial population, or ground structure, can have an outsized impact on the resulting optimization. This paper presents a new method of generating such ground structures, using a combination of topology optimization (TO) and a novel system extraction algorithm. Since TO generates monolithic structures, rather than systems, its use for structural system design and optimization has been limited. In this paper, truss systems are extracted from topologies through morphological analysis and artificial intelligence techniques. This algorithm, and its assessment, constitutes the key contribution of this paper. The structural systems obtained are compared with ground truth solutions to evaluate the performance of the algorithms. The generated structures are also compared against benchmark designs from the literature. The results indicate that the presented truss generation algorithm produces structures comparable to those generated through metaheuristic optimization, while mitigating the need for assumptions about initial ground structures. Full article

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A Controller Design Based on Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model Employing Trajectory of Partial Uncertainty

by Hugang Han and Daisuke Hamasaki

Designs 2018, 2(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2010007 - 13 Feb 2018

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When the Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is used to design controllers for a concerned system, the discrepancy between the system and its T-S fuzzy model becomes crucial sometimes in terms of control performance, particularly in cases when the magnitude of the discrepancy is relatively large. While most existing works have focused on approaches to restrain the influence of the discrepancy, the idea used in this paper is to extract as much information from the discrepancy as possible at first and then use it in the controller design before restraining its influence. By doing so, the magnitude of the discrepancy is reduced accordingly, and thus, better control performance can be expected. Including the discrepancy and other uncertain elements like the inner parameters’ perturbation, a term called uncertainty is considered in this paper. Assuming that the uncertainty influences the system behavior through the state and control input, an observer able to catch the trajectory of the partial uncertainty related to the control input is proposed. Then, a controller employing the trajectory is suggested. All design parameters are obtained by solving certain linear matrix inequalities, which guarantees the system stability. Finally, simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Full article

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Design of Distributed Multi-Actuator Systems with Incomplete State Information for Vibration Control of Large Structures

by Francisco Palacios-Quiñonero, Josep Rubió-Massegú, Josep Maria Rossell and José Rodellar

Designs 2018, 2(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2010006 - 11 Feb 2018

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In this paper, we investigate the design and performance of static feedback controllers with partial-state information for the seismic protection of tall buildings equipped with incomplete multi-actuation systems. The proposed approach considers a partially instrumented multi-story building with an incomplete system of interstory force–actuation devices implemented on selected levels of the building, and an associated set of collocated sensors that measure the corresponding interstory drifts and interstory velocities. The main elements of the proposed controller design methodology are presented by means of a twenty-story building equipped with a system of ten interstory actuators arranged in three different layouts: concentrated, semi-distributed and fully-distributed. For these control configurations, partial-state controllers are designed following a static output-feedback H-infinity controller design approach, and the corresponding frequency and time responses are investigated. The obtained results clearly indicate that the proposed partial-state controllers are effective in mitigating the building seismic response. They also show that a suitable distribution of the instrumented stories is a relevant factor in the control system performance. Full article

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Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for High-Frequency Sampled-Data Systems with Actuator Faults

by Dongyang Zhao, Yu Liu, Ming Liu and Jinyong Yu

Designs 2018, 2(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2010003 - 17 Jan 2018

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This paper investigates the sliding mode control for high-frequency sampled-data systems with actuator faults. Besides matched nonlinearity, this paper also considers unmeasurable states and unknown actuator degradation ratio as important factors of the overall system. The estimates of system state vector are obtained by an adaptive sliding mode observer method firstly. Then, a novel integral-type sliding surface, corresponding to the unified closed-loop delta operator system, is provided based on aforementioned estimation values, and the fault closed-loop system is proven to be stable by the proposed sliding mode control law. Finally, the fault-tolerant control theory is verified to be valid via a practical simulation example. Full article

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A New Observer Design for Fuzzy Bilinear Systems with Unknown Inputs

by Jun Yoneyama

Designs 2017, 1(2), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs1020010 - 21 Nov 2017

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An observer design for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown inputs is considered. Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy bilinear systems represent a wide class of nonlinear systems, and these systems with unknown inputs are an ideal model for many physical systems. For such systems, a design method for obtaining an observer that estimates the state of the system is proposed. A parallel distributed observer (PDO), which is constructed with local linear observers and the appropriate grade of the membership functions, is a conventional observer for Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy bilinear systems. However, it is known that its design conditions have conservativeness. In this paper, to reduce the conservatism in the design conditions, non-PDO with new design conditions is proposed. Our design conditions are derived from a multiple Lyapunov function, which depends on the membership function with time-delay in the premise variables. This method eventually reduces the conservatism and enables us to construct an observer for a wide class of nonlinear systems. When the premise variables are the state variables that are not measurable, Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy bilinear systems can represent a wider class of nonlinear systems. Hence, an observer design for fuzzy bilinear systems with unmeasurable premise variables is also proposed. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate our design methods. Full article

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Machine Learning with Applications in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis

by Wenbin Yue, Zidong Wang, Hongwei Chen, Annette Payne and Xiaohui Liu

Designs 2018, 2(2), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2020013 - 9 May 2018

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Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, representing the majority of new cancer cases and cancer-related deaths according to global statistics, making it a significant public health problem in today’s society. The early diagnosis of BC can improve the prognosis and chance of survival significantly, as it can promote timely clinical treatment to patients. Further accurate classification of benign tumours can prevent patients undergoing unnecessary treatments. Thus, the correct diagnosis of BC and classification of patients into malignant or benign groups is the subject of much research. Because of its unique advantages in critical features detection from complex BC datasets, machine learning (ML) is widely recognised as the methodology of choice in BC pattern classification and forecast modelling. In this paper, we aim to review ML techniques and their applications in BC diagnosis and prognosis. Firstly, we provide an overview of ML techniques including artificial neural networks (ANNs), support vector machines (SVMs), decision trees (DTs), and k-nearest neighbors (k-NNs). Then, we investigate their applications in BC. Our primary data is drawn from the Wisconsin breast cancer database (WBCD) which is the benchmark database for comparing the results through different algorithms. Finally, a healthcare system model of our recent work is also shown. Full article

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