Vol. 23, No. 1
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- ItemDetection of Emergent Situations in Complex Systems by Structural Invariant (MB, M)(Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 2017-06-01) Bila, Jiri; Novak, MartinThe paper introduces complete description of the detection method that uses structural invariant Matroid and its Bases (MB, M). There are recapitulated essential concepts from the used knowledge field as “complex system, emergent situations (A, B, C)”, Ramsey theorem and principal computation variables “power” and “complexity” of emergence phenomenon. The method is explained in details and the demonstration of its application is done by the detection of emergent situation – violation of Short Water Cycle in an ecosystem.
- ItemHeuristic Methodology for Forecasting of Production in Waste Management(Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 2017-06-01) Smejkalova, Veronika; Somplak, Radovan; Nevrly, VlastimirThe forecast of waste production and disposal is an important requirement for a future waste management planning. The problem is very often a short time series of the database. This paper suggests an approach to forecast the production of multiple waste types in micro-regions taking into account this challenge by combining many techniques. The heuristic methodology consisting of few steps is formulated. First, the input data are transformed and the methods from cluster analysis are repetitively applied. The second step is about a determination of quality for trend functions based on historical data. In the last step is performed the testing. The di erent type of representatives from cluster analysis is used to calculate indices of determination which are compared. This procedure is repeated until the criteria hit. The proposed approach reduced the computational time and managed to aggregate micro-regions with a similar trend. The forecast should have contributions in terms of building new facilities or adaptations to the existing ones, where it is necessary to estimate the production of waste for several years in advance. The article includes a case study of production forecast for several waste types in territorial units of the Czech Republic. The forecast is based on data in years 2009{2014 and following year 2015 was used to assess the quality of the nal models. In the future, the database will expand and thus it will be possible to make more precise estimates and to develop statistical methods to measure this prognostic tool.
- ItemEmpirical Casestudy on Approaches to Sampled Control(Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 2017-06-01) Burger, Alexandra; Wellhausen, JensTwo main approaches on sampled control are compared, the descrete equivalent design and the direct discrete design. Both design methods are used to implement a control system for a real plant, DC-motor. It is shown that discrete equivalent design works well with su cient high sampling rates and that direct discrete design works nearly independent of sampling time.
- ItemOn Testing Reduction of Left-Censored Weibull Distribution to Exponential Submodel(Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 2017-06-01) Fusek, MichalWhen analyzing environmental or chemical data, it is often necessary to deal with left-censoredobservations. Since the distribution of the observed variable is often asymmetric, the exponential or the Weibulldistribution can be used. This paper summarizes statistical model of a multiply left-censored Weibull distribution,and estimation of its parameters and their variances using the expected Fisher information matrix. Since inmany situations the Weibull distribution is unnecessarily complicated for data modelling, statistical tests (theLagrange multiplier test, the likelihood ratio test, the Wald test) for assessing suitability of replacement ofthe censored Weibull distribution with the exponential submodel are introduced and their power functions areanalyzed using simulations.
- ItemLocal Control of (4,5,7,8-10)-Filtration Snake Robot via CGA(Institute of Automation and Computer Science, Brno University of Technology, 2017-06-01) Hrdina, Jaroslav; Navrat, Ales; Vasik, Petr; Matousek, RadomilWe describe the local control of a (6{8){link snake like robot endowed with omnidirectional wheels on two links (head and tail). All calculations including the position, direct kinematics, di erential kinematics and inverse kinematics are described in the terms of CGA only.