A neural network approach to fluid quantity measurement in dynamic environments

Mechatronics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-155

  Terzic, Edin ^a   Nagarajah, Romesh ^b   Alamgir, Muhammad ^a  

^a Delphi Corporation   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accurate fluid quantity measurement; Backpropagation neural network; Liquid slosh; Signal smoothing; Smart capacitive sensor

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; BACKPROPAGATION; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; FUNCTIONS; LIQUID SLOSHING; MEDIAN FILTERS; TEMPERATURE;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL SMOOTHING; STATISTICAL AVERAGING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79551474493     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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