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Northern China is vigorously promoting cogeneration and clean heating technologies. The accurate prediction of building energy consumption is the basis for heating regulation. In this paper, the daily, weekly, and annual periods of building energy consumption are determined by Fourier transformation. Accordingly, a period-based neural network (PBNN) is proposed to predict building energy consumption. The main innovation of PBNN is the introduction of a new data structure, which is a time-discontinuous sliding window. The sliding window consists of the past 24 h, 24 h for the same period last week, and 24 h for the same period the previous year. When predicting the building energy consumption for the next 1 h, 12 h, and 24 h, the prediction errors of the PBNN are 2.30%, 3.47%, and 3.66% lower than those of the traditional sliding window PBNN (TSW-PBNN), respectively. The training time of PBNN is approximately half that of TSW-PBNN. The time-discontinuous sliding window reduces the energy consumption prediction error and neural network model training time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many thyroid diseases affecting people all over the world. Many diseases affect the thyroid gland, like hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and thyroid cancer. Thyroid inefficiency can cause severe symptoms in patients. Effective classification and machine learning play a significant role in the timely detection of thyroid diseases. This timely classification will indeed affect the timely treatment of the patients. Automatic and precise thyroid nodule detection in ultrasound pictures is critical for reducing effort and radiologists' mistake rate. Medical images have evolved into one of the most valuable and consistent data sources for machine learning generation. In this paper, various machine learning algorithms like decision tree, random forest algorithm, KNN, and artificial neural networks on the dataset create a comparative analysis to better predict the disease based on parameters established from the dataset. Also, the dataset has been manipulated for accurate prediction for the classification. The classification was performed on both the sampled and unsampled datasets for better comparison of the dataset. After dataset manipulation, we obtained the highest accuracy for the random forest algorithm, equal to 94.8% accuracy and 91% specificity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid development of China's electrical industry, the safe operation of electrical facilities is very important for social stability and people's property safety. The failure detection method of conventional electrical equipment is hand detection, which has high experience of the detection person, lacks detection and error detection, and the detection efficiency is low. With the development of artificial intelligence technology, computer-assisted substation inspection is now possible, and substation inspection using an intelligent inspection robot equipped with an infrared device is one of the main substation inspection methods. In this paper, experiments are carried out using several neural network models. For example, if a faster region convolutional neural networks (RCNN) infrared detection model is employed, a good vg16 in the feature region of the extracted image takes into account the quality of the infrared image and the presence of multiple devices. Infrared images can be used to determine the basic features of various electronic devices. In order to detect targets in infrared images of electrical equipment, the fast RCNN target detection algorithm is used, and the overall recognition accuracy reaches 83.1%, and a good application effect is obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coordinated control systems (CCS) in ultra-supercritical thermal power unit, like many other industrial systems, is a complex multivariable system with severe nonlinearity, strong multivariable coupling and uncertainties. In order to meet the requirements of operational stability, economy. etc in ultra-supercritical unit, it is necessary to establish its accurate mathematical model and further design the advanced controller. Against this background, a new fuzzy neural network modeling method is proposed in this paper. First of all, the incremental model is considered separately to improve the rationality of the local linear model structure. Then, the parameters in antecedent part is initialized by a kernel k -means++ algorithm, in which Xie-Beni index is used to optimize the number of fuzzy rules. Finally, supervised adaptive gradient descent algorithm and artificial immune particle swarm optimization algorithm work in stages to complete the training of the consequent part parameters. The proposed modeling method in this paper is applied to a 1000 MW unit in China and shows satisfactory accuracy. In the established model, the MSE of power output, main steam pressure and separator outlet steam temperature are 0.0099, 1.21E-4, 0.0023, respectively. Both numerical and graphical simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the presented fuzzy neural network in modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]