燃料电池电动车车载甲醇重整器

对目前世界几大汽车公司研制开发的燃料电池电动汽车车载甲醇重整器加以介绍，着重讨论了重整器的设计与重整催化剂的布置。指出，甲醇重整器的效果良好，但重整器出口富氢重整气中CO的含量仍然很高，而较高浓度的CO会使燃料电池电极中毒。因此，从重整器中产生出来的重整气在进入燃料电池以前要进行净化。     

模糊神经网络在发动机失火故障诊断中的应用

利用模糊神经网络对发动机失火故障进行诊断,建立起了模糊神经网络控制模型,应用MATLAB软件对其进行训练及仿真,结果表明此控制方法是有效的、可行的。     

BP和RBF神经网络在辨识内燃机燃烧过程中的应用

分析了发动机燃烧过程的研究方式,提出了用BP和RBF网络辨识内燃机燃烧过程的方法。选定神经网络的结构、隐层神经元的作用函数和控制参数,成功地得到了发动机的辨识模型,结果由RBF网络辨识的模型给出,从这一模型可以获得任意点缸内压力和温度以延拓的参数,为排放分析、计算和结构优化提供了良好的基础。     

用改进的前向神经网络预测铁路货运量

对影响铁路货运量的因素进行了分析。根据影响铁路货运量的诸因素的特点，介绍了一种改进的前向神经网络预测方法，并建立了铁路货运量前向神经网络预测模型。算例表明，其预测精度高于常规预测方法。     

基于人工神经网络的柴油机故障诊断

故障诊断是计算机模式识别领域的一个活跃课题。文中提出了基于人工神经网络的柴油机故障诊断方法，设计了适合该诊断系统的BP网络结构，并给出了一种基于黄金分割法改进的BP算法，用来自适应调整网络学习速率。仿真结果表明：该算法具有很快的学习速度和较高的学习精度，完全适用于柴油机故障诊断系统。     

汽车防追尾碰撞数学模型研究

为了提高车辆在高速行驶状态下的主动安全性能,研究了处于追尾行驶状态的本车与前车的运动学特征;针对前车的不同运动状态分别推导出了跟车距离的计算模型并分析了模型中3个关键参数的随机性和动态性,对制动迟滞时间提出了基于模糊推理的确定方法,对本车制动减速度和前车的运动加速度提出了比较实用的动态测算公式;另外,研究了防追尾碰撞的控制与执行,建立了动态调整安全制动停车距离的神经网络模型,提出了基于危险裕度判别的安全控制方法。     

Forecasting current and next trip purpose with social media data and Google Places

Trip purpose is crucial to travel behavior modeling and travel demand estimation for transportation planning and investment decisions. However, the spatial-temporal complexity of human activities makes the prediction of trip purpose a challenging problem. This research, an extension of work by Ermagun et al. (2017) and Meng et al. (2017), addresses the problem of predicting both current and next trip purposes with both Google Places and social media data. First, this paper implements a new approach to match points of interest (POIs) from the Google Places API with historical Twitter data. Therefore, the popularity of each POI can be obtained. Additionally, a Bayesian neural network (BNN) is employed to model the trip dependence on each individual’s daily trip chain and infer the trip purpose. Compared with traditional models, it is found that Google Places and Twitter information can greatly improve the overall accuracy of prediction for certain activities, including “EatOut”, “Personal”, “Recreation” and “Shopping”, but not for “Education” and “Transportation”. In addition, trip duration is found to be an important factor in inferring activity/trip purposes. Further, to address the computational challenge in the BNN, an elastic net is implemented for feature selection before the classification task. Our research can lead to three types of possible applications: activity-based travel demand modeling, survey labeling assistance, and online recommendations.     

A hybrid deep learning based traffic flow prediction method and its understanding

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently demonstrated the capability to predict traffic flow with big data. While existing DNN models can provide better performance than shallow models, it is still an open issue of making full use of spatial-temporal characteristics of the traffic flow to improve their performance. In addition, our understanding of them on traffic data remains limited. This paper proposes a DNN based traffic flow prediction model (DNN-BTF) to improve the prediction accuracy. The DNN-BTF model makes full use of weekly/daily periodicity and spatial-temporal characteristics of traffic flow. Inspired by recent work in machine learning, an attention based model was introduced that automatically learns to determine the importance of past traffic flow. The convolutional neural network was also used to mine the spatial features and the recurrent neural network to mine the temporal features of traffic flow. We also showed through visualization how DNN-BTF model understands traffic flow data and presents a challenge to conventional thinking about neural networks in the transportation field that neural networks is purely a “black-box” model. Data from open-access database PeMS was used to validate the proposed DNN-BTF model on a long-term horizon prediction task. Experimental results demonstrated that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.     

Strain prediction for critical positions of FPSO under different loading of stored oil using GAIFOA-BP neural network

FPSO (floating, production, storage and offloading) units are widely used in the offshore oil and gas industry. Generally, FPSOs have excellent oil storage capacity owing to their huge oil cargo holds. The volume and distribution of stored oil in the cargo holds influence the strain level of hull girder, especially at critical positions of FPSO. However, strain prediction using structural analysis tools is computationally expensive and time consuming. In this study, a prediction tool based on back-propagation (BP) neural network called GAIFOA-BP is proposed to predict the strain values of concerned positions of an FPSO model under different oil storage conditions. The GAIFOA-BP combines BP model and GAIFOA which is a combination of genetic algorithm (GA) and an improved fruit fly optimization algorithm (IFOA). Results from three benchmark tests show that the GAIFOA-BP model has a remarkable performance. Subsequently, a total of 81 sets of training data and 25 sets of testing data are obtained from experiment using fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors installed on the surface of an FPSO model. The numerical results show that the GAIFOA-BP is capable of predicting the strain values with higher accuracy as compared with other BP models. Finally, the reserved GAIFOA-BP model is utilized to predict the strain values under the inputs of a 10-day time series of volume and distribution of stored oil. The predicted strain results are further used to calculate the fatigue consumption of measurement points.