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Intelligent Sensor Analysis and Actuator Control

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Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2001)

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This paper describes a tool called Isaac (intelligent sensor analysis and actuator controller) that autonomously explores the behavior of a dynamical system and uses the resulting knowledge to help build and test mathematical models of that system. Isaac is a unified knowledge representation and reasoning framework for input/output modeling that can be incorporated into any automated tool that reasons about dynamical models. It is based on two modeling paradigms, intelligent sensor data analysis and qualitative bifurcation analysis, which capture essential parts of an engineer’s reasoning about modeling problems. We demonstrate Isaac’s power and adaptability by incorporating it into the Pret automated system identification tool and showing how input/ output modeling expands Pret’s repertoire.

Supported by NSF NYI #CCR-9357740, NSF #MIP-9403223, ONR #N00014-96- 1-0720, and a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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  1. Rockwell Scientific, 444 High Street, Suite 400, Palo Alto, CA, 94301-1671

    Matthew Easley

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0430

    Elizabeth Bradley

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, Centre for Autonomous Systems, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Frank Hoffmann

  2. Imperial College, Huxley Building 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    David J. Hand  & Niall Adams  & 

  3. Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Box 1679, Station B, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA

    Douglas Fisher

  4. Department of Computer Science, New University of Lisbon, 2825-114, Caparica, Portugal

    Gabriela Guimaraes

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Easley, M., Bradley, E. (2001). Intelligent Sensor Analysis and Actuator Control. In: Hoffmann, F., Hand, D.J., Adams, N., Fisher, D., Guimaraes, G. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis. IDA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44816-0_36

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