O presente trabalho estuda o processo de estampagem incremental em chapas de alumínio puro, descrevendo as ferramentas e um suporte prensa chapas. Estuda e pesquisa bibliograficamente e experimentalmente o processo de estampagem incremental. O trabalho apresenta os procedimentos de caracterização utilizados para determinar os limites do processo, aplicáveis para chapas de 0,5 mm de espessura em alumínio puro. A caracterização da chapa, juntamente com o ensaio mecânico de tração e os testes práticos de estampagem fornecerão um panorama da estampagem incremental, para algumas situações diversas sobre o tema. Para a execução dos testes práticos foi fabricado um dispositivo prensa chapas e um punção, matriz incremental e ferramenta de estampagem incremental, também foram feitas adaptações na máquina CNC, centro de usinagem CNC com três eixos. / This paper studies the process of incremental sheet forming, in plates the aluminum pure, describing the tools and support a press plates. Studies and literature search and experimentally the process of stamping incremental. The work presents the characterization of procedures used to determine the limits of the process, applicable to plates of 0.5 mm thick pure aluminum. The characterization of the plate, along with mechanical traction test and practical tests of printing provide an overview of incremental printing, for some different situations on the subject. For the practical implementation of the tests was a device manufactured press plates and a puncture, matrix and incremental tool for stamping incremental, were also made adjustments in the CNC machine, CNC machining center with three axles.

O presente trabalho estuda o processo de estampagem incremental em chapas de alumínio puro, descrevendo as ferramentas e um suporte prensa chapas. Estuda e pesquisa bibliograficamente e experimentalmente o processo de estampagem incremental. O trabalho apresenta os procedimentos de caracterização utilizados para determinar os limites do processo, aplicáveis para chapas de 0,5 mm de espessura em alumínio puro. A caracterização da chapa, juntamente com o ensaio mecânico de tração e os testes práticos de estampagem fornecerão um panorama da estampagem incremental, para algumas situações diversas sobre o tema. Para a execução dos testes práticos foi fabricado um dispositivo prensa chapas e um punção, matriz incremental e ferramenta de estampagem incremental, também foram feitas adaptações na máquina CNC, centro de usinagem CNC com três eixos. / This paper studies the process of incremental sheet forming, in plates the aluminum pure, describing the tools and support a press plates. Studies and literature search and experimentally the process of stamping incremental. The work presents the characterization of procedures used to determine the limits of the process, applicable to plates of 0.5 mm thick pure aluminum. The characterization of the plate, along with mechanical traction test and practical tests of printing provide an overview of incremental printing, for some different situations on the subject. For the practical implementation of the tests was a device manufactured press plates and a puncture, matrix and incremental tool for stamping incremental, were also made adjustments in the CNC machine, CNC machining center with three axles.

O presente trabalho investiga o comportamento da chapa de latão C268, com 0,50 mm de espessura, quando exposto ao processo de Estampagem Incremental de Chapas de Metal (Incremental Sheet Metal Forming -ISMF). Especificamente para a pesquisa, foram utilizadas as modalidades de Estampagem Incremental com Ponto Simples (Single Point Incremental Forming- SPIF) e Estampagem Incremental de Múltiplos Passes (Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming- MSPIF). Os experimentos foram baseados em uma geometria de tronco de pirâmide de base quadrada com 100 mm de lado e 45 mm de profundidade. Para as estratégias de estampagem foi atribuído, a estampagem helicoidal. Como resultado principal, foi verificado o ângulo de parede máximo atingido por cada processo de estampagem incremental. Adicionalmente, ensaios de tração, análise de deformações e de rugosidade da chapa de latão foram realizados. Todos os seus resultados estão detalhados na investigação. Para os parâmetros adotados nestes experimentos, o ângulo de parede obtido por SPIF foi maior do que pelo estudo proposto por MSPIF. / The present study investigates the performance of the brass plate C-268 with 0.50 mm thickness, when exposed to Incremental Sheet Metal Forming (ISMF). Specifically for research, it was used the modalities Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) and Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming (MSPIF). The experiments were based on a truncated pyramid geometry with square base 100 mm side and 45 mm depth. For forming strategies has been assigned, the helical forming. As the main outcome, it was found the maximum wall angle achieved by each process of incremental printing. In addition, tensile tests, analysis of deformation and roughness of the brass sheet were performed. All results are detailed in the investigation. For the parameters used in these experiments, the wall angle obtained by SPIF is greater than the study proposed by MSPIF.

O presente trabalho investiga o comportamento da chapa de latão C268, com 0,50 mm de espessura, quando exposto ao processo de Estampagem Incremental de Chapas de Metal (Incremental Sheet Metal Forming -ISMF). Especificamente para a pesquisa, foram utilizadas as modalidades de Estampagem Incremental com Ponto Simples (Single Point Incremental Forming- SPIF) e Estampagem Incremental de Múltiplos Passes (Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming- MSPIF). Os experimentos foram baseados em uma geometria de tronco de pirâmide de base quadrada com 100 mm de lado e 45 mm de profundidade. Para as estratégias de estampagem foi atribuído, a estampagem helicoidal. Como resultado principal, foi verificado o ângulo de parede máximo atingido por cada processo de estampagem incremental. Adicionalmente, ensaios de tração, análise de deformações e de rugosidade da chapa de latão foram realizados. Todos os seus resultados estão detalhados na investigação. Para os parâmetros adotados nestes experimentos, o ângulo de parede obtido por SPIF foi maior do que pelo estudo proposto por MSPIF. / The present study investigates the performance of the brass plate C-268 with 0.50 mm thickness, when exposed to Incremental Sheet Metal Forming (ISMF). Specifically for research, it was used the modalities Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) and Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming (MSPIF). The experiments were based on a truncated pyramid geometry with square base 100 mm side and 45 mm depth. For forming strategies has been assigned, the helical forming. As the main outcome, it was found the maximum wall angle achieved by each process of incremental printing. In addition, tensile tests, analysis of deformation and roughness of the brass sheet were performed. All results are detailed in the investigation. For the parameters used in these experiments, the wall angle obtained by SPIF is greater than the study proposed by MSPIF.

O presente trabalho investiga o comportamento da chapa de latão C268, com 0,50 mm de espessura, quando exposto ao processo de Estampagem Incremental de Chapas de Metal (Incremental Sheet Metal Forming -ISMF). Especificamente para a pesquisa, foram utilizadas as modalidades de Estampagem Incremental com Ponto Simples (Single Point Incremental Forming- SPIF) e Estampagem Incremental de Múltiplos Passes (Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming- MSPIF). Os experimentos foram baseados em uma geometria de tronco de pirâmide de base quadrada com 100 mm de lado e 45 mm de profundidade. Para as estratégias de estampagem foi atribuído, a estampagem helicoidal. Como resultado principal, foi verificado o ângulo de parede máximo atingido por cada processo de estampagem incremental. Adicionalmente, ensaios de tração, análise de deformações e de rugosidade da chapa de latão foram realizados. Todos os seus resultados estão detalhados na investigação. Para os parâmetros adotados nestes experimentos, o ângulo de parede obtido por SPIF foi maior do que pelo estudo proposto por MSPIF. / The present study investigates the performance of the brass plate C-268 with 0.50 mm thickness, when exposed to Incremental Sheet Metal Forming (ISMF). Specifically for research, it was used the modalities Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) and Multi Pass Single Point Incremental Forming (MSPIF). The experiments were based on a truncated pyramid geometry with square base 100 mm side and 45 mm depth. For forming strategies has been assigned, the helical forming. As the main outcome, it was found the maximum wall angle achieved by each process of incremental printing. In addition, tensile tests, analysis of deformation and roughness of the brass sheet were performed. All results are detailed in the investigation. For the parameters used in these experiments, the wall angle obtained by SPIF is greater than the study proposed by MSPIF.

This dissertation focuses on the novel learning strategy based on geometric support vector machines to address the difficulties of processing immense data set. Support vector machines find the hyper-plane that maximizes the margin between two classes, and the decision boundary is represented with a few training samples it becomes a favorable choice for incremental learning. The dissertation presents a novel method Geometric Incremental Support Vector Machines (GISVMs) to address both efficiency and accuracy issues in handling massive data sets. In GISVM, skin of convex hulls is defined and an efficient method is designed to find the best skin approximation given available examples. The set of extreme points are found by recursively searching along the direction defined by a pair of known extreme points. By identifying the skin of the convex hulls, the incremental learning will only employ a much smaller number of samples with comparable or even better accuracy. When additional samples are provided, they will be used together with the skin of the convex hull constructed from previous dataset. This results in a small number of instances used in incremental steps of the training process. Based on the experimental results with synthetic data sets, public benchmark data sets from UCI and endoscopy videos, it is evident that the GISVM achieved satisfactory classifiers that closely model the underlying data distribution. GISVM improves the performance in sensitivity in the incremental steps, significantly reduced the demand for memory space, and demonstrates the ability of recovery from temporary performance degradation.

Machine condition monitoring is gaining importance in industry due to the need to increase machine reliability and decrease the possible loss of production due to machine breakdown. Often the data available to build a condition monitoring system does not fully represent the system. It is also often common that the data becomes available in small batches over a period of time. Hence, it is important to build a system that is able to accommodate new data as it becomes available without compromising the performance of the previously learned data. In real-world applications, more than one condition monitoring technology is used to monitor the condition of a machine. This leads to large amounts of data, which require a highly skilled diagnostic specialist to analyze. In this thesis, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are used to build a condition monitoring system that has incremental learning capabilities. Two incremental learning algorithms are implemented, the first method uses Fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM) algorithm and the second uses Learn++ algorithm. In addition, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems are used to build a condition monitoring system that is able to accommodate various analysis techniques. Experimentation was performed on two sets of condition monitoring data; the dissolved gas analysis (DGA) data obtained from high voltage bushings and the vibration data obtained from motor bearing. Results show that both Learn++ and FAM are able to accommodate new data without compromising the performance of classifiers on previously learned information. Results also show that intelligent agent and multi-agent system are able to achieve modularity and flexibility.

Training a large dataset has become a serious issue for researchers because it requires large memories and can take a long time for computing. People are trying to process large scale dataset not only by changing programming model, such as using MapReduce and Hadoop, but also by designing new algorithms that can retain performance with less complexity and runtime. In this thesis, we present implementations of incremental learning and online learning methods to classify a large traffic light dataset for traffic light recognition. The introduction part includes the concepts and related works of incremental learning and online learning. The main algorithm is a modification of IMORL incremental learning model to enhance its performance over the learning process of our application. Then we briefly discuss how the traffic light recognition algorithm works and the problem we encounter during training. Rather than focusing on incremental learning, which uses batch to batch data during training procedure, we introduce Pegasos, an online style primal gradient-based support vector machine method. The performance of Pegasos for classification is extraordinary and the number of instances it uses for training is relatively small. Therefore, Pegasos is the recommended solution to the large dataset training problem.

Estágio realizado no INEGI - e orientado pelo Dr. Pedro Teixeira / Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Mecânica. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2013

We study the problem of recovering the structure from motion of figures which are allowed to perform a controlled non-rigid motion. We use Regge Calculus to approximate a general surface by a net of triangles. The non- rigid flexing motion we deal with corresponds to keeping the triangles rigid and allowing bending only at the joins between triangles. We show that depth information can be obtained by using a modified version of the Incremental Rigidity Scheme devised by Ullman (1984). We modify this scheme to allow for flexing motion and call our version the Incremental Semirigidity Scheme.