Recent development trends in wind power generation have increased the importance of the safe operation of wind-turbine blades (WTBs). To realize this objective, it is essential to inspect WTBs for any defects before they are placed into operation. However, conventional methods of fault inspection in WTBs can be rather difficult to implement, since complex curvatures that characterize the WTB structures must ensure accurate and reliable inspection. Moreover, it is considered useful if inspection results can be objectively and consistently classified and analyzed by an automated system and not by the subjective judgment of an inspector. To address this concern, the construction of a pressure-and shape-adaptive phased-array ultrasonic testing platform, which is controlled by a nanoengine operation system to inspect WTBs for internal defects, has been presented in this paper. An automatic classifier has been designed to detect discontinuities in WTBs by using an A-scanimaging-based convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed CNN classifier design demonstrates a classification accuracy of nearly 99%. Results of the study demonstrate that the proposed CNN classifier is capable of automatically classifying the discontinuities of WTB with high accuracy, all of which could be considered as defect candidates.

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In This paper, we propose a real-time stage distributed control system. With the advancement of IT technology, tasks that people have worked on in the past have been automated. The domestic performance business is growing rapidly as it is equally applied to the performance stage mechanism. EtherCAT was adopted to enhance the synchronization performance of the stage control system and the redundant structure was constructed to ensure stability. In addition, the stability of the main controller is secured by implementing the interlock system.

Rule discovery is an operation that discovers patterns frequently occurring in a given database. Rule discovery makes it possible to find useful rules from a stock database, thereby recommending buying or selling times to stock investors. In this paper, we discuss storage structures for efficient processing of queries in a system that recommends stock investments. First, we propose five storage structures for efficient recommending of stock investments. Next, we discuss their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. Then, we verify their performances by extensive experiments with real-life stock data. The results show that the histogram-based structure improves the query performance of the previous one up to about 170 times.