描述:There is a worldwide effort to advance the usage of zero-emission propulsion systems for aircraft. Due to their high thermodynamic efficiency and the fact that they produce no CO2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\textrm{CO}{2}$$\end{document} and NOx\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\textrm{NO}{x}$$\end{document} emissions, hydrogen-powered fuel cells are becoming increasingly popular for aviation purposes. However, fuel cell systems suffer from lower power density and higher cooling requirements when compared to conventional propulsion systems. Harnessing the high potential requires an optimised design of the whole propulsion system and its heat management system. This paper aims to present a method for the preliminary design and dimensioning of a fuel cell-based hybrid-electric propulsion system, which respects the limits of the heat management system and is weight and efficiency optimised. Thermodynamic models of the whole propulsion system are a crucial element to enable further investigations. Such a model has been developed, which is suitable for unsteady simulations of the propulsion and the heat management system performance of a short-range four-seater aircraft. A parameter study of the design parameters has been performed to display their impact on the system mass, the overall efficiency and the total hydrogen consumption. These results enable the identification of an overall optimised configuration. The study indicates that fuel cell-only configurations with an oversized fuel cell stack are beneficial for the analysed aircraft and flight mission.
描述:Avionics systems are a crucial part of aircraft, and the heterogeneity of resources also leads to load differentials within these systems. Inefficient load balancing technology faces the dual challenge of over-utilization and under-utilization of resources, which results in the decline of service performance (in the case of over-utilization) or the waste of resources (in the case of under-utilization). However, it is necessary to control avionics systems via an efficient load balancing method under time constraints and resource states. Therefore, this paper proposes a load balancing method for avionics systems using both artificial bee colony and simulated annealing algorithms. First, the load balancing model of avionics systems is established; this model can reflect the demands of the tasks for the resources in detail. Then, the load balancing of avionics systems is realized by artificial bee colony and simulated annealing algorithms, the hybrid algorithm not only retains the advantages of simple and easy implementation of ABC algorithm, but also utilizes the probability jump of SA algorithm to jump out of the local extreme and achieve the effect of global optimization. Finally, compared with the existing algorithms, the experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper produces a good and stable load balance performance.
描述:In this manuscript, a novel framework has been presented for firm classification of a geographical area based on spatial as well as time-series analysis of multi-temporal very high resolution (VHR) satellite images. For this dual objective, an attention-based deep learning mechanism combined with the capabilities of convolutional-recurrent neural networks has been investigated for this purpose. The proposed classification strategy is introduced as ‘firm’ since it allows the classifier to assign only one class label to a multi-temporal image stack of co-registered images, as opposed to multiple. This technique ascertains the land-cover class by taking into consideration the geophysical changes on a landmass and thus outsmarting the conventional techniques relying on the visual interpretation of a single image. The attention mechanism focuses on the important portions of the image scene while the convolutional long short-term memory neural networks exploit the temporal dependencies on the time-series image scenes. Moreover, an adaptive land cover classification scheme, considering the features extracted from the proposed classification approach has been explored for more robust time-series based firm classification. To assess the performance of the proposed schemes, the experiments have been conducted on the two novels VHR multi-temporal land cover classification datasets. The investigated models have been shown to have the capacity to outperform the other state-of-the-art techniques under non-adaptive as well as adaptive scenarios using the multi-temporal images captured over disjoint geographical locations.
描述:The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have significantly empowered the safety and operational efficiency within the aviation sector for safer and more efficient operations. Airlines derive informed decisions to enhance operational efficiency and strategic planning through extensive contextual analysis of customer reviews and feedback from social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. However, this form of analytical endeavor is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Extensive studies have investigated NLP algorithms for sentiment analysis based on textual customer feedback, thereby underscoring the necessity for an in-depth investigation of transformer architecture-based NLP models. In this study, we conducted an exploration of the large language model BERT and three of its derivatives using an airline sentiment tweet dataset for downstream tasks. We further honed this fine-tuning by adjusting the hyperparameters, thus improving the model’s consistency and precision of outcomes. With RoBERTa distinctly emerging as the most precise and overall effective model in both the binary (96.97%) and tri-class (86.89%) sentiment classification tasks and persisting in outperforming others in the balanced dataset for tri-class sentiment classification, our results validate the BERT models’ application in analyzing airline industry customer sentiment. In addition, this study identifies the scope for improvement in future studies, such as investigating more systematic and balanced datasets, applying other large language models, and using novel fine-tuning approaches. Our study serves as a pivotal benchmark for future exploration in customer sentiment analysis, with implications that extend from the airline industry to broader transportation sectors, where customer feedback plays a crucial role.