Neural network classifier with analytic translation and scaling capabilities for optimal signal viewing
Richard B. Vilim, S. W. Wegerich · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1995
A neural network originally proposed by Szu for performing pattern recognition has been modified for use in a noisy manufacturing environment. Signals from the factory floor are frequently affine transformed and, as a consequence, a signal may not be properly aligned with respect to the input node that corresponds to the signal leading edge or with respect to the number of nodes representing the time varying part. Rater than translate and scale the presented signal, an operation which because of noise can be prone to numerical error since the signal is not smoothly varying, the network in this paper has the capability to analytically translate and scale its internal representation of the signal so that it overlays the presented signal. A response surface in the neighborhood of the stored reference signal is built during, training, and covers the range of translate and scale parameter values expected. A genetic algorithm is used to search over this hilly terrain to find the optimal values of these parameters so that the reference signal overlays the presented signal. The procedure is repeated over all hypothesized pattern classes with the best fit identifying the class.