Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

Bio: Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli is an academic researcher from K.N.Toosi University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fuzzy control system & Control theory. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 157 publications receiving 1812 citations. Previous affiliations of Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli include Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran & Islamic Azad University.

Robust state fault diagnosis in nonlinear discretetime systems with modelling uncertainties; using an automated intelligent methodology

Abstract: Modern systems are required to guarantee a high degree of safety and self-diagnostics capabilities. This paper investigates the problem of state fault diagnosis in nonlinear systems with modeling uncertainties. In contrast with common literature, the fault diagnosis scheme is proposed in discrete time domain. This property relaxes the risk of stability and performance degradation in deriving discrete equivalent of continuous methods. An estimator is designed in order to generate residual signal by utilizing a proper nonlinear state transformation. A robust compensator term is implemented in estimator to decrease effect of modeling uncertainties and approximation error on residual signal. When the residual signal is exceeded detection threshold, an on-line fault approximator is turned on and trained by appropriate parameter update law. An extra term is considered in update rule to overcome the need of persistency of excitation (PE). The implement of all robust compensator term, PE relaxing term and proper parameter adaption law improve the accuracy of fault reconstruction. The result would be obviously vital in tolerant and time-life prediction stages after fault diagnosis.

Modeling and identification of catalytic reformer unit using locally linear model trees

Abstract: This paper presents a Neuro-fuzzy based method using local linear model trees (LOLIMOT) train algorithm for nonlinear identification of a catalytic reformer unit in oil refinery plant. This unit include highly nonlinear behaviour and it is complicated to obtain an accurate physical model. There for, it is necessary to use such appropriate method providing suitable while preventing computational complexities. LOLIMOT algorithm as an incremental learning algorithm has been used several time as a well-known method for nonlinear system identification and estimation. For comparison, Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Bases Function (RBF) neural networks as well-known methods for nonlinear system identification and estimation are used to evaluate the performance of LOLIMOT. The results presented in this paper clearly demonstrate that the LOLIMOT is superior to other methods in identification of nonlinear system such as catalytic reformer unit (CRU).

Process performance verification using viability theory

Abstract: The development of efficient methods for process performance verification has drawn a lot of attention in the research community. Viability theory is a mathematical tool to identify the trajectories of a dynamical system which remains in a constraint set. In this paper, viability theory is investigated for this purpose in the case of nonlinear processes that can be represented in Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) form. In particular, verification algorithms based on the use of invariance and viability kernels and capture basin are proposed. The difficulty with the application of this theory is the computation of these sets. A Lagrangian method has been used to approximate these sets. Because of simplicity and efficient computations, zonotopes are adopted for set representation. Two new sets called Safe Work Area (SWA) and Required Performance (RP) are defined and an algorithm is proposed to use these concepts for the verification purpose. Finally, two application examples based on well-known case studies, a two-tank system and PH neutralization plant, are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Classification of Multi-Class Datasets Using 2D Membership Functions in TSK Fuzzy System

Abstract: Fuzzy modeling of high-dimensional systems is a challenging topic. This study proposes an effective approach to data-based fuzzy modeling of high-dimensional systems. The proposed method works on the fuzzification layer and tries to use two-dimensional membership functions instead of onedimensional ones. This approach reduces fuzzy rule base radically due to using of two-dimensional membership functions which lead to reduction of parameters. The resulting fuzzy system generated by this method has the following distinct features: 1) the fuzzy system is quite simplified; 2) the fuzzy system is interpretable; 3) the dependencies between the inputs and the outputs are clearly shown. This method has successfully been applied to three classification problem and the results are compared with other works.

Position control of Pulse Width Modulated pneumatic systems: an experimental comparison

Abstract: In this study, a new adaptive controller is proposed for position control of pneumatic systems. Difficulties associated with the mathematical model of the system in addition to the instability caused by Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) in the learning-based controllers using gradient descent, motivate the development of a new approach for PWM pneumatics. In this study, two modified Feedback Error Learning (FEL) methods are suggested and the their effectiveness are validated by experimental tracking data. The first one is a combination of PD (Proportional–Derivative) and RBF (Radial Basis Function) and in the second one RBF is replaced by ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System). The robustness to varying mass is also examined. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms, especially with ANFIS, are able to give good performance regardless of any uncertainties.

Adaptive Control

Abstract: This book, written by two major figures in adaptive control, provides a wealth of material for researchers, practitioners, and students. While some researchers in adaptive control may note the absence of a particular topic, the book‘s scope represents a high-gain instrument. It can be used by designers of control systems to enhance their work through the information on many new theoretical developments, and can be used by mathematical control theory specialists to adapt their research to practical needs. The book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in adaptive control.

Learning from class-imbalanced data

Abstract: 527 articles related to imbalanced data and rare events are reviewed.Viewing reviewed papers from both technical and practical perspectives.Summarizing existing methods and corresponding statistics by a new taxonomy idea.Categorizing 162 application papers into 13 domains and giving introduction.Some opening questions are discussed at the end of this manuscript. Rare events, especially those that could potentially negatively impact society, often require humans decision-making responses. Detecting rare events can be viewed as a prediction task in data mining and machine learning communities. As these events are rarely observed in daily life, the prediction task suffers from a lack of balanced data. In this paper, we provide an in depth review of rare event detection from an imbalanced learning perspective. Five hundred and seventeen related papers that have been published in the past decade were collected for the study. The initial statistics suggested that rare events detection and imbalanced learning are concerned across a wide range of research areas from management science to engineering. We reviewed all collected papers from both a technical and a practical point of view. Modeling methods discussed include techniques such as data preprocessing, classification algorithms and model evaluation. For applications, we first provide a comprehensive taxonomy of the existing application domains of imbalanced learning, and then we detail the applications for each category. Finally, some suggestions from the reviewed papers are incorporated with our experiences and judgments to offer further research directions for the imbalanced learning and rare event detection fields.

A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection

Abstract: Feature selection is an important task in data mining and machine learning to reduce the dimensionality of the data and increase the performance of an algorithm, such as a classification algorithm. However, feature selection is a challenging task due mainly to the large search space. A variety of methods have been applied to solve feature selection problems, where evolutionary computation (EC) techniques have recently gained much attention and shown some success. However, there are no comprehensive guidelines on the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches. This leads to a disjointed and fragmented field with ultimately lost opportunities for improving performance and successful applications. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art work on EC for feature selection, which identifies the contributions of these different algorithms. In addition, current issues and challenges are also discussed to identify promising areas for future research.