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Comparative analysis of nonlinear models developed using machine learning algorithms
Maja Rožman, Alen Kišić, Dijana Oreški, 2024, original scientific article

Abstract: Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used in a vast spectrum of domains where statistical approaches were previously used. Algorithms such as artificial neural networks, classification, regression trees, or support vector machines provide various advantages over traditional linear regression or discriminant analysis. Advantages such as flexibility, scalability, and improved accuracy in dealing with diverse data types, nonlinear problems, and dimensionality reduction, compared to traditional statistical methods are empirically demonstrated in many previous research papers. In this paper, two machine learning algorithms are compared with one statistical method on highly nonlinear data. Results indicate a high level of effectiveness for machine learning algorithms when dealing with nonlinearity.
Keywords: machine learning, decision tree algorithm, artificial neural network, predictive models, data characteristics, nonlinear data, artificial intelligence
Published in DKUM: 02.07.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 1
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Power-based concept for current injection by inverter-interfaced distributed generations during transmission-network faults
Boštjan Polajžer, Bojan Grčar, Jernej Černelič, Jožef Ritonja, 2021, original scientific article

Abstract: This paper analyzes the influence of inverter-interfaced distributed generations’ (IIDGs) response during transmission network faults. The simplest and safest solution is to switch IIDGs off during network faults without impacting the network voltages. A more elaborate and efficient concept, required by national grid codes, is based on controlling the IIDGs’ currents, involving positive- and negative-sequence voltage measured at the connection point. In this way the magnitude and phase of the injected currents can be adjusted, although the generated power will depend on the actual line voltages at the connection point. Therefore, an improved concept is proposed to adjust IIDGs’ fault current injection through the required active and reactive power, employing the same voltage characteristics. The proposed, i.e., power-based concept, is more definite than the currentbased one, since the required power will always be generated. The discussed concepts for the fault current injection by IIDGs were tested in different 110-kV networks with loop and radial topologies, and for different short-circuit capabilities of the aggregated network supply. Based on extensive numerical calculations, the power-based concept during transmission networks faults generates more reactive power compared to the current-based concept. However, the voltage support by IIDGs during transmission networks faults, regardless of the concept being used, is influenced mainly by the short-circuit capability of the aggregated network supply. As regards distance protection operation, it is influenced additionally by the network topology, i.e., in radial network topology, the remote relay’s operation can be delayed due to a largely seen impedance.
Keywords: distributed generation, fault current injection, voltage support, distance protection, transmission network faults
Published in DKUM: 16.06.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 2
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Integrating Multi-Physics Modeling within Multi-Objective Optimization to Enhance the Performance and Efficiency of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines : doktorska disertacija
Mitja Garmut, 2025, doctoral dissertation

Abstract: This Dissertation focuses on the optimization of an Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) machine for handheld battery-powered tools, aiming to enhance performance and efficiency. The research integrates multi-physics modeling, including electromagnetic Finite Element Method (FEM) and thermal models, to evaluate machine performance under various operating conditions. The performance is evaluated according to selected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Further, different control methods, such as Field Oriented Control and Square-Wave Control, impact the performance significantly and are incorporated into the optimization process. Due to the computational challenges of FEM-based performance evaluations in Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO), this work utilizes Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based meta-models, to accelerate the optimization process while preserving accuracy. The developed meta-models capture nonlinear machine characteristics from the FEM model. These meta-models are then used to evaluate machine performance through a combination of analytical and numerical post-processing methods. Four MOO scenarios are presented, each aimed at optimizing the cross-sectional design of IPM machines, to enhance performance and efficiency while reducing mass and cost. Additionally, these scenarios modify the machine’s electromagnetic behavior, to ensure better alignment with the selected control method. By comparing the optimization process of Scenario 1, which uses direct FEM-based evaluation without time reduction measures, to the approach incorporating Artificial Neural Network based meta-models, the total number of individual FEM evaluations decreased from 2.35×10^9 to 2.03×10^5, without almost any loss of accuracy. This reduced the computation time from 297 years to 9.07 days on our standard desktop computer. The obtained ANN-base meta-models can be used further for other optimizations without the need for additional FEM evaluations. In all four optimization scenarios, the use of meta-models enabled the generation of a Pareto front of the optimal solutions, leading to improved KPIs compared to the reference design. The highest relative improvement occurred in Scenario 1, where the selected optimized machine design achieved a 30% increase in power density compared to the reference design.
Keywords: Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) Machine, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Meta-Modeling, Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO), Finite Element Method (FEM), Multi-Physics Modeling, Field Oriented Control (FOC), Square-Wave Control (SWC)
Published in DKUM: 15.05.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 57
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Collective dynamics of swarmalators with higher-order interactions
Md Sayeed Anwar, Gourab Kumar Sar, Matjaž Perc, Dibakar Ghosh, 2024, original scientific article

Abstract: Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics, but how they affect transitions between different states in swarmalator systems is yet to be determined. To that effect, we here study an analytically tractable swarmalator model that incorporates both pairwise and higher-order interactions, resulting in four distinct collective states: async, phase wave, mixed, and sync states. We show that even a minute fraction of higher-order interactions induces abrupt transitions from the async state to the phase wave and the sync state. We also show that higher-order interactions facilitate an abrupt transition from the phase wave to the sync state bypassing the intermediate mixed state. Moreover, elevated levels of higher-order interactions can sustain the presence of phase wave and sync state, even when pairwise interactions lean towards repulsion. The insights gained from these findings unveil self-organizing processes that hold the potential to explain sudden transitions between various collective states in numerous real-world systems.
Keywords: collective dynamics, nonlinear oscillator, higher-order interactions, complex network, statistical physics
Published in DKUM: 07.05.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 1
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Structural roles and gender disparities in corruption networks
Arthur A. B. Pessa, Alvaro F. Martins, Mônica V. Prates, Sebastián Gonçalves, Cristina Masoller, Matjaž Perc, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, 2025, original scientific article

Abstract: Criminal activities are predominantly due to males, with females exhibiting a significantly lower involvement, especially in serious offenses. This pattern extends to organized crime, where females are often perceived as less tolerant to illegal practices. However, the roles of males and females within corruption networks are less understood. Here, we analyze data from political scandals in Brazil and Spain to shed light on gender differences in corruption networks. Our findings reveal that females constitute 10% and 20% of all agents in the Brazilian and Spanish corruption networks, respectively, with these proportions remaining stable over time and across different scandal sizes. Despite this disparity in representation, centrality measures are comparable between genders, except among highly central individuals, for which males are further overrepresented. Additionally, gender has no significant impact on network resilience, whether through random dismantling or targeted attacks on the largest component. Males are more likely to be involved in multiple scandals than females, and scandals predominantly involving females are rare, though these differences are explained by a null network model in which gender is randomly assigned while maintaining gender proportions. Our results further reveal that the underrepresentation of females partially explains gender homophily in network associations, although in the Spanish network, male-to-male connections exceed expectations derived from a null model.
Keywords: gender disparity, corruption network, political scandal, social physics, social physics
Published in DKUM: 25.04.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 0
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Robot for navigation in maize crops for the Field Robot Event 2023
David Iván Sánchez-Chávez, Noé Velázquez-López, Guillermo García-Sánchez, Alan Hernández-Mercado, Omar Alexis Avendaño-Lopez, Mónica Elizabeth Berrocal-Aguilar, 2024, original scientific article

Abstract: Navigation in a maize crop is a crucial task for the development of autonomous robots in agriculture, with numerous applications such as spraying, monitoring plant growth and health, and detecting weeds and pests. The Field Robot Event 2023 (FRE) continued to challenge universities and other research teams to push the development of algorithms for agricultural robots further. The Universidad Autónoma Chapingo has been developing a robot for various agricultural tasks, aiming to provide a low-cost alternative to work with Mexican farmers in the future. For this edition of the FRE, a navigation algorithm was created using an encoder, an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), an RPLIDAR (Rotating Platform Light Detection and Ranging), and cameras to collect data for decision-making. The algorithm was developed in ROS Melodic, dividing the task into steps that were tested to determine the robot's actual movements. The system navigates by using ROIs (regions of interest) and the mass center to guide the robot between maize rows. It calculates the mean of the final orientation values before reaching the end of a row, which is detected using an RPLIDAR. For turns and straight-line movements to reach the next row, the orientation is used as a guide. To detect plants for spraying, lasers located on each side of the vehicle are employed. Obstacle detection relies on a YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once) trained model and a laser, while reverse navigation uses a rear camera. During the competition, the robot faced challenges such as dealing with grass, the small size of the plants, and the need to use a different power source, which affected its performance.
Keywords: machine vision, convolutional neural network (CNN), regions of interest (ROI), autonomous navigation
Published in DKUM: 23.04.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 0
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Using a region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) for potato segmentation in a sorting process
Jaka Verk, Jernej Hernavs, Simon Klančnik, 2025, original scientific article

Abstract: This study focuses on the segmentation part in the development of a potato-sorting system that utilizes camera input for the segmentation and classification of potatoes. The key challenge addressed is the need for efficient segmentation to allow the sorter to handle a higher volume of potatoes simultaneously. To achieve this, the study employs a region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) approach for the segmentation task, while trying to achieve more precise segmentation than with classic CNN-based object detectors. Specifically, Mask R-CNN is implemented and evaluated based on its performance with different parameters in order to achieve the best segmentation results. The implementation and methodologies used are thoroughly detailed in this work. The findings reveal that Mask R-CNN models can be utilized in the production process of potato sorting and can improve the process.
Keywords: image segmentation, potato sorting, neural network, mask RCNN, object detection, production process, machine learning, AI
Published in DKUM: 27.03.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 14
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Knowledge graph alignment network with node-level strong fusion
Shuang Liu, Man Xu, Yufeng Qin, Niko Lukač, 2022, original scientific article

Abstract: Entity alignment refers to the process of discovering entities representing the same object in different knowledge graphs (KG). Recently, some studies have learned other information about entities, but they are aspect-level simple information associations, and thus only rough entity representations can be obtained, and the advantage of multi-faceted information is lost. In this paper, a novel node-level information strong fusion framework (SFEA) is proposed, based on four aspects: structure, attribute, relation and names. The attribute information and name information are learned first, then structure information is learned based on these two aspects of information through graph convolutional network (GCN), the alignment signals from attribute and name are already carried at the beginning of the learning structure. In the process of continuous propagation of multi-hop neighborhoods, the effect of strong fusion of structure, attribute and name information is achieved and the more meticulous entity representations are obtained. Additionally, through the continuous interaction between sub-alignment tasks, the effect of entity alignment is enhanced. An iterative framework is designed to improve performance while reducing the impact on pre-aligned seed pairs. Furthermore, extensive experiments demonstrate that the model improves the accuracy of entity alignment and significantly outperforms 13 previous state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords: knowledge graph, entity ealignment, graph convolutional network, knowledge fusion
Published in DKUM: 27.03.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 5
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The microdynamics shaping the relationship between democracy and corruption
Boris Podobnik, Marko Jusup, Dean Korošak, Petter Holme, Tomislav Lipić, 2022, original scientific article

Abstract: Physics has a long tradition of laying rigorous quantitative foundations for social phenomena. Here, we up the ante for physics' forays into the territory of social sciences by (i) empirically documenting a tipping point in the relationship between democratic norms and corruption suppression, and then (ii) demonstrating how such a tipping point emerges from a micro-scale mechanistic model of spin dynamics in a complex network. Specifically, the tipping point in the relationship between democratic norms and corruption suppression is such that democratization has little effect on suppressing corruption below a critical threshold, but a large effect above the threshold. The micro-scale model of spin dynamics underpins this phenomenon by reinterpreting spins in terms of unbiased (i.e. altruistic) and biased (i.e. parochial) other-regarding behaviour, as well as the corresponding voting preferences. Under weak democratic norms, dense social connections of parochialists enable coercing enough opportunist voters to vote in favour of perpetuating parochial in-group bias. Society may, however, strengthen democratic norms in a rapid turn of events during which opportunists adopt altruism and vote to subdue bias. The emerging model outcome at the societal scale thus mirrors the data, implying that democracy either perpetuates or suppresses corruption depending on the prevailing democratic norms.
Keywords: tipping point, complex network, sociophysics
Published in DKUM: 13.03.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 2
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