Ensuring the safety of pedestrians is essential and challenging when autonomous vehicles are involved.Classical pedestrian avoidance strategies cannot handle uncertainty,and learning-based methods lack performance gua...Ensuring the safety of pedestrians is essential and challenging when autonomous vehicles are involved.Classical pedestrian avoidance strategies cannot handle uncertainty,and learning-based methods lack performance guarantees.In this paper we propose a hybrid reinforcement learning(HRL)approach for autonomous vehicles to safely interact with pedestrians behaving uncertainly.The method integrates the rule-based strategy and reinforcement learning strategy.The confidence of both strategies is evaluated using the data recorded in the training process.Then we design an activation function to select the final policy with higher confidence.In this way,we can guarantee that the final policy performance is not worse than that of the rule-based policy.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method,we validate it in simulation using an accelerated testing technique to generate stochastic pedestrians.The results indicate that it increases the success rate for pedestrian avoidance to 98.8%,compared with 94.4%of the baseline method.展开更多
选址决策在推进海洋能多能互补发电的实用化和产业化的进程中起重要作用。构建选址决策模型,将影响选址决策不可公度、相互制约的因素系统化。建立评价指标体系规范化方法及方案比选预处理方法。提出适用于求解该模型的多属性决策方法...选址决策在推进海洋能多能互补发电的实用化和产业化的进程中起重要作用。构建选址决策模型,将影响选址决策不可公度、相互制约的因素系统化。建立评价指标体系规范化方法及方案比选预处理方法。提出适用于求解该模型的多属性决策方法——改进的层次分析法(analytical hierarchy process,AHP),并引入集体决策理论。通过中国重点资助的500 k W海洋能独立电力系统示范工程来论证模型及求解方法的科学性、适用性及可行性。展开更多
Nowadays network virtualization is utterly popular.As a result,how to protect the virtual networks from attacking on the link is increasingly important.Existing schemes are mainly backup-based,which suffer from data l...Nowadays network virtualization is utterly popular.As a result,how to protect the virtual networks from attacking on the link is increasingly important.Existing schemes are mainly backup-based,which suffer from data loss and are helpless to such attacks like data tampering.To offer high security level,in this paper,we first propose a multipath and decision-making(MD) scheme which applies multipath simultaneously delivery and decision-making for protecting the virtual network.Considering different security requirement for virtual link,we devise a hybrid scheme to protect the virtual links.For the critical links,MD scheme is adopted.For the other links,we adopt the Shared Backup Scheme.Our simulation results indicate the proposed scheme can significantly increase the security level of the critical link high in the loss of less acceptance ratio.展开更多
The study determined the roles of agricultural extension in hybrid rice technology decision-making process by extension agents,Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar.The specific objectives were:to study personal characteristics of agri...The study determined the roles of agricultural extension in hybrid rice technology decision-making process by extension agents,Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar.The specific objectives were:to study personal characteristics of agricultural extension agents,experiences and their roles,to identify extension agents’opinion on hybrid rice technology decision-making process,and to determine relationship between the roles of agricultural extension agents and decision-making process of hybrid rice production.One hundred and eight extension agents were collected who were working in Department of Agriculture,Nay Pyi Taw area and surveyed and interviewed by questionnaires.The study revealed that majority of agricultural extension agents(65.7%)were female staffs and most of extension agents(40.7%)were under 30 years as young staffs.Majority of extension agents(81.5%)were educated only Agri-Diploma.More than half(54.6%)had one to five-year experiences in employment and 58.3%had no hybrid rice training experience and source of information regarding the hybrid rice production was received 63.9%from Department of Agriculture(DOA).Study found that there was highly significant relationship between most of the roles of agricultural extension agents and hybrid rice technology decision-making process of stages 4 and 5.And then most of the extension agents’roles singnificantly related with stage 2 except role of conducting introduction of hybrid seeds and distribution through by Seed Co.Ltds which was highly significant.Beside,most of the roles of extension agents significantly related with stage 3.However stages 1 and 6 were no singnificantly related.Finally above all,a well structure seed business,Good Agricultural Practices and farm level mechanization and quality extension service are very important to increase the adoption of hybrid rice in Myanmar.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61872217,U20A20285,52122217,and U1801263)the Key R&D Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2020YFB1710901)。
文摘Ensuring the safety of pedestrians is essential and challenging when autonomous vehicles are involved.Classical pedestrian avoidance strategies cannot handle uncertainty,and learning-based methods lack performance guarantees.In this paper we propose a hybrid reinforcement learning(HRL)approach for autonomous vehicles to safely interact with pedestrians behaving uncertainly.The method integrates the rule-based strategy and reinforcement learning strategy.The confidence of both strategies is evaluated using the data recorded in the training process.Then we design an activation function to select the final policy with higher confidence.In this way,we can guarantee that the final policy performance is not worse than that of the rule-based policy.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method,we validate it in simulation using an accelerated testing technique to generate stochastic pedestrians.The results indicate that it increases the success rate for pedestrian avoidance to 98.8%,compared with 94.4%of the baseline method.
文摘选址决策在推进海洋能多能互补发电的实用化和产业化的进程中起重要作用。构建选址决策模型,将影响选址决策不可公度、相互制约的因素系统化。建立评价指标体系规范化方法及方案比选预处理方法。提出适用于求解该模型的多属性决策方法——改进的层次分析法(analytical hierarchy process,AHP),并引入集体决策理论。通过中国重点资助的500 k W海洋能独立电力系统示范工程来论证模型及求解方法的科学性、适用性及可行性。
基金supported by Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61521003)National Key Research and Development Plan(2016YFB0800101)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61602509)
文摘Nowadays network virtualization is utterly popular.As a result,how to protect the virtual networks from attacking on the link is increasingly important.Existing schemes are mainly backup-based,which suffer from data loss and are helpless to such attacks like data tampering.To offer high security level,in this paper,we first propose a multipath and decision-making(MD) scheme which applies multipath simultaneously delivery and decision-making for protecting the virtual network.Considering different security requirement for virtual link,we devise a hybrid scheme to protect the virtual links.For the critical links,MD scheme is adopted.For the other links,we adopt the Shared Backup Scheme.Our simulation results indicate the proposed scheme can significantly increase the security level of the critical link high in the loss of less acceptance ratio.
文摘The study determined the roles of agricultural extension in hybrid rice technology decision-making process by extension agents,Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar.The specific objectives were:to study personal characteristics of agricultural extension agents,experiences and their roles,to identify extension agents’opinion on hybrid rice technology decision-making process,and to determine relationship between the roles of agricultural extension agents and decision-making process of hybrid rice production.One hundred and eight extension agents were collected who were working in Department of Agriculture,Nay Pyi Taw area and surveyed and interviewed by questionnaires.The study revealed that majority of agricultural extension agents(65.7%)were female staffs and most of extension agents(40.7%)were under 30 years as young staffs.Majority of extension agents(81.5%)were educated only Agri-Diploma.More than half(54.6%)had one to five-year experiences in employment and 58.3%had no hybrid rice training experience and source of information regarding the hybrid rice production was received 63.9%from Department of Agriculture(DOA).Study found that there was highly significant relationship between most of the roles of agricultural extension agents and hybrid rice technology decision-making process of stages 4 and 5.And then most of the extension agents’roles singnificantly related with stage 2 except role of conducting introduction of hybrid seeds and distribution through by Seed Co.Ltds which was highly significant.Beside,most of the roles of extension agents significantly related with stage 3.However stages 1 and 6 were no singnificantly related.Finally above all,a well structure seed business,Good Agricultural Practices and farm level mechanization and quality extension service are very important to increase the adoption of hybrid rice in Myanmar.
