Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    Target Discrimination with Neural Networks
    (1995) Lin, Daw-Tung; Dayhoff, Judith E.; Resch, C.L.; ISR
    The feasibility of distinguishing multiple type components of exo-atmospheric targets is demonstrated by applying the Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN) and the Adaptive Time-Delay Neural Network (ATNN). Exo-atmospheric targets are especially difficult to distinguish using currently available techniques because all target parts follow the same spatial trajectory. Thus classification must be based on light sensors that record signal over time. Results have demonstrated that the trained neural networks were able to successfully identify warheads from other missile parts on a variety of simulated scenarios, including differing angles and tumbling. The network with adaptive time delays (the ATNN) performs highly complex mapping on a limited set of training data and achieves better generalization to overall trends of situations compared to the TDNN, which includes time delays but adapts only its weights. The ATNN was trained on additive noisy data and it is shown that the ATNN possesses robustness to environment variations.
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    Learning with the Adaptive Time-Delay Neural Network
    (1993) Lin, Daw-Tung; Ligomenides, Panos A.; Dayhoff, Judith E.; ISR
    The Adaptive Time-delay Neural Network (AT N N), a paradigm for training a nonlinear neural network with adaptive time-delays, is described. Both time delays and connection weights are adapted on-line according to a gradient descent approach, with time delays unconstrained with respect to one another, and an arbitrary number of interconnections with different time delays placed between any two processing units. Weight and time-delay adaptations evolve based on inputs and target outputs consisting of spatiotemporal patterns (e.g. multichannel temporal sequences). The AT N N is used to generate circular and figure- eight trajectories, to model harmonic waves, and to do chaotic time series predictions. Its performance outstrips that of the time-delay neural network (T D N N), which has adaptable weights but fixed time delays. Applications to identification and control as well as signal processing and speech recognition are domains to which this type of network can be appropriately applied.
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    A Learning Algorithm for Adaptive Time-Delays in a Temporal Neural Network
    (1992) Lin, Daw-Tung; Dayhoff, Judith E.; Ligomenides, Panos A.; ISR
    The time delay neural network (TDNN) is an effective tool for speech recognition and spatiotemporal classification. This network learns by example, adapts its weights according to gradient descent, and incorporates a time delay on each interconnection. In the TDNN, time delays are fixed throughout training, and strong weights evolve for interconnections whose delay values are important to the pattern classification task. Here we present an adaptive time delay neural network (ATNN) that adapts its time delay values during training, to better accommodate to the pattern classification task. Connection strengths are adapted as well in the ATNN. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the TDNN on chaotic series prediction.