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Historical reenactors are not merely mad eccentrics; they are also earnest history aficionados eager for us to learn from the past – says Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska from the PAS Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Warsaw.
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Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
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  1. PAS Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Warsaw
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Wola Justowska has long been thought of as the most attractive urban villa district of Krakow. A timber church from the XVI century that had originally been built in Komorowice Śląskie was relocated here in the year 1948, subsequently burning down a fire in 1978 in unknown circumstances. It had been rebuilt soon after, only to be set on fire a second time in 2002. After discussing numerous ideas and locations of its reconstruction, the design team developed a final version of its design, which featured the reconstruction of the church in its original location – in accordance with the will of the residents of Wola – which had been preceded by appropriate landscape analyses. The design calls for the reconstruction of the timber church in a slightly modified manner and placing it upon a concrete plinth, which is to be partially sheltered by the varied terrain around it. The aim of this idea was similar to that of the initial reconstruction, namely, to reconcile the form of the historical building that is to be reconstructed with the modern needs of the parish.

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Aleksander Böhm
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The article presents in a sketch of the history and the state of research of Polish etymological studies from Aleksander Brückner to Wiesław Boryś on the Slavic and Indo‑European background. The paper also discusses the different types of etymological dictionaries and suggests the directions of further research.
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Leszek Bednarczuk
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  1. Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Kraków
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The restored Royal Castle in Warsaw includes original decorative pieces that link it back to its illustrious past from before WWII
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Bożena Radzio
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  1. Royal Castle in Warsaw
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Conservation of the Old Town Zamość began to realize almost a hundred years ago. Then the eminent preachers of culture in the early period. 20.year inter-made idea of restoring the prestige of the works of Polish culture. The idea of protecting national cultural heritage grew gradually until such time as the first scientific research, development of standards and principles of care and maintenance. Today Zamość was inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. Many things made, much remains to be done.

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Bonawentura Maciej Pawlicki
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The problem of reconstructing an unknown disturbance under measuring a part of phase coordinates of a system of linear differential equations is considered. Solving algorithm is designed. The algorithm is based on the combination of ideas from the theory of dynamical inversion and the theory of guaranteed control. The algorithm consists of two blocks: the block of dynamical reconstruction of unmeasured coordinates and the block of dynamical reconstruction of an input.

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Marina Blizorukova
Vycheslav Maksimov
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We present here a few thoughts regarding topological aspects of transferring a signal of a continuous time into its discrete counterpart and recovering an analog signal from its discrete-time equivalent. In our view, the observations presented here highlight the essence of the above transformations. Moreover, they enable deeper understanding of the reconstruction formula and of the sampling theorem. We also interpret here these two borderline cases that are associated with a time quantization step going to zero, on the one hand, and approaching its greatest value provided by the sampling theorem, on the other

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Andrzej Borys
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The purpose of this study is to solve the efficiency and reliability problems of upstream water intake structures for energy and irrigation systems in the region of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Among the methods used in the study, experimental, analytical, and modelling methods should be distinguished. During the study, analyses and field investigations of main structures, and energy and irrigation systems in the foothills were conducted to identify the reasons for the low efficiency and reliability of existing old water intake structures and reduce their negative impact on the environment. The results of the study showed that many water intake structures built on small rivers are not only in poor working condition but also do not meet modern environmental requirements. Many of these structures were built more than thirty years ago and have not been modernized or reconstructed in accordance with new technologies and requirements. As a result of the study, recommendations were prepared for the design of new water intake structures that meet all modern environmental requirements and guarantee the more efficient use of water resources. These new facilities will also help to reduce water losses during the overflow process, which will make the use of water more cost-effective. Additionally, one of the main outcomes is the developed useful model, which pertains to the field of hydroengineering construction for water intake from mountain and foothill rivers, serving as an additional barrier to reduce the influx of large sediment into the reservoir.
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Rashad Saffan oqlu Abilov
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  1. Educational Center, Azerbaijan Scientific-Research and Design-Prospecting Power Engineering Institute, Republic of Azerbaijan
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The war, which broke out in Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022, has left cities and infrastructure destroyed. While hostilities continue, war damage, including architectural monuments, is being recorded. The following paper is part of these activities. It aims to emphasise the scale of the destruction of cultural heritage sites and to identify the possibilities of their reconstruction and restoration. This study analyses international doctrinal documents and recommendations on the protection of historic monuments (e.g., ICOMOS), Ukrainian regulations and the literature on the reconstruction of historic urban layouts and architecture after the Second World War, primarily in Poland. The research is also based on methods used in restoration work, architectural survey documentation, and historical and comparative analysis. The war damage (as of May 2022) is discussed in general.
Russian rocket attacks are inflicting damage to sites in almost all of Ukraine, but the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lugansk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions have suffered the most. This paper presents examples of destruction in selected regions surveyed directly by the authors — the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Chernihiv and Mykolaiv regions. In Kyiv, mainly residential buildings and shopping centres have been destroyed, whereas in the Mykolaiv region the scale of destruction has been greater, including residential build- ings, schools and Orthodox churches. The conclusions provide proposals for the post-war reconstruction of selected buildings.
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Tomasz Kozłowski
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Yulia Ivashko
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ORCID: ORCID
Serhii Belinskyi
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Andrii Dmytrenko
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ORCID: ORCID
Oleksandr Ivashko
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ORCID: ORCID

  1. Chair of Architectural Design, Cracow University of Technology
  2. Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Department of Architecture
  3. National University ‘Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic’, Department of Architecture
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In the research on historic, composed green areas various computer technologies are applied, including among others reconstruction ideograms and virtual spatial models. They are created on the basis of historical cartographic materials, among which Prussian maps Urmesstichblatts and Messtischblatts deserve special attention as they provide extraordinarily useful and often otherwise unavailable information concerning the system of spatial composition.

The article presents a method of procedure on the example of selected research objects. Such studies are extremely useful in the process of research, analyses and documentation of the authentic state of historical sites. Moreover, they provide a significant material for further analyses concerning revalorisation and creation of the cultural landscape.

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Piotr Urbański
Miłosz Walerzak
Agnieszka Wilkaniec
Agnieszka Rosada
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The techniques of photogrammetric reconstruction were compared to the laser scanning in the article. The different conditions and constraints were introduced for reconstructed images, e.g. different materials, lighting condition, camera resolution, number of images in the sequence or using a-pripori calibration. The authors compare the results of surface reconstruction using software tools avaliable for photogrammetric reconstruction. The analysis is preformed for the selected objects with regard to laserscanned models or mathematical models.

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Krzysztof Skabek
Agnieszka Tomaka
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The paper describes an innovative ultrasound imaging method called Doppler Tomography (DT), otherwise known as Continuous Wave Ultrasonic Tomography (CWUT). Thanks to this method, it is possible to image the tissue cross-section in vivo using a simple two-transducer ultrasonic probe and using the Doppler effect. It should be noted that DT significantly differs from the conventional ultrasound Doppler method of measuring blood flow velocity. The main difference is that when measuring blood flow, we receive information with an image of the velocity distribution in a given blood vessel (Nowicki, 1995), while DT allows us to obtain a cross-sectional image of stationary tissue structure. In the conventional method, the probe remains stationary, while in the DT method, the probe moves and the examined tissue remains stationary.

This paper presents a method of image reconstruction using the DT method. First, the basic principle of correlation of generated Doppler frequencies with the location of inclusions from which they originate is explained. Then the exact process and algorithm in this method are presented. Finally, the impact of several key parameters on imaging quality is examined. As a result, the conclusions of the research allow to improve the image reconstruction process using the DT method.

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Tomasz Świetlik
Krzysztof J. Opieliński
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Visitors to natural history museums can admire replicas of animals that died out ages ago. What tricks can be used to “bring them to life”? How have such animals been reconstructed in the past, and how is it done today?
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Agnieszka Kapuścińska
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  1. Museum of Evolution, PAS Institute of Paleobiology in Warsaw
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Diode neutral point clamped (NPC) three-level converters have been widely used in recent years. Aiming at the problems of the high device failure rate and unstable neutral point potential of NPC three-level converters, an NPC three-level circuit with fourth bridge arm redundancy is proposed based on the traditional NPC three-level converter. The redundant fourth bridge arm is used to realize the function of stabilizing voltage when there is no fault and replacing the fault half-bridge arm to maintain the continuous operation of the converter when there is a fault. By analyzing the working principle of space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) and the power loss of the switch, it is of particular significance to the design and control of NPC three-level converters in the future. Matlab/Simulink verifies the feasibility of the fault-tolerant circuit structure.
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Baoge Zhang
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ORCID: ORCID
Shanyan Ping
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Yi Long
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Yuemin Jiao
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Boxiang Wu
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  1. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China
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This study was carried out to determine the morphometric and volumetric features of the mandible in Van cats by using computed tomography (CT) and a three-dimensional (3D) software program. The study also aimed at presenting the biometrical differences of these mea- surements between genders. A total of 16 adult Van cats (8 males, 8 females) were used in the study. The cats were anesthetized using a ketamine-xylazine combination. They were then scanned using CT under anesthesia and their images were obtained. The scanned images of the mandible in each cat were used for the reconstruction of a 3D model by using the MIMICS 20.1 (The Materialise Group, Leuven, Belgium) software program. Later, morphometric (17 parame- ters), volumetric, and surface area measurements were conducted and statistical analyses were carried out. In our morphometric measurements, it was found that TLM (total length of the mandible), PCD (pogonion to coronoid process distance), CAP (length from the indenta- tion between the condyle process and angular process to pogonion), CAC (length from the inden- tation between the condyle process and the angular process to back of alveole C1), CML (length between C1 - M1), RAH (ramus height), MDM (mandible depth at M1), MHP (height of the mandible in front of P3), and ABC (angular process to back of alveole C1 distance) were greater in male cats; while MWM (mandible width at M1 level) was greater in female cats and was statistically significant (p<0.05). The length and height of the mandible were 6.36±2.42 cm and 3.01±1.81 cm in male cats, respectively. On the other hand, in female cats, the length and height of the mandible were 5.89±2.57 cm and 2.71±1.26 cm, respectively. The volume of the mandible was measured to be 7.39±0.93 cm3 in male cats and 5.40±0.49 cm3 in female cats. The surface areas were 63.50±5.27 cm2 in male cats and 52.73±3.89 cm2 in female cats. In con- clusion, in this study, basic morphometric parameters of the mandible in adult Van cats were found by using CT and a 3D modeling program. The differences between male and female cats were also determined in the study.
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O. Yilmaz
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İ. Demircioglu
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  1. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Van Yuzuncu Yil University, 65080, Van, Turkey
  2. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Harran University, 63200, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
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Assessment of the state of a pulse power supply requires effective and accurate methods to measure and reconstruct the tracking error. This paper proposes a tracking error measurement method for a digital pulse power supply. A de-noising algorithm based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is used to analyse the energy of each Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) component, identify the turning point of energy, and reconstruct the signal to obtain the accurate tracking error. The effectiveness of this EMD method is demonstrated by simulation and actual measurement. Simulation was used to compare the performance of time domain filtering, wavelet threshold de-noising, and the EMD de-noising algorithm. In practical use, the feedback of current on the prototype of the power supply is sampled and analysed as experimental data.

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Rongkun Wang
Sigun Sun
Bingtao Hu
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Geographic trajectory of a pipeline is important information for pipeline maintenance and leak detection. Although accurate trajectory of a ground pipeline usually can be directly measured by using global positioning system technology, it is much difficult to determine trajectory for an underground pipeline where global positioning system signal cannot be received. In this paper, a new method to determine trajectory for an underground pipeline by using a pipeline inspection robot is proposed. The robot is equipped with a low-cost inertial measurement unit and odometers. The kinematic model, measurement model and error propagation model are established for estimating position, velocity and attitude of the robot. The path reconstruction algorithm for the robot is proposed to improve accuracy of trajectory determination based on pipeline features. The experiment is given to illustrate that the position errors of the proposed method are less than 40% of that of the standard extended Kalman filter.
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Shuo Zhang
1
Stevan Dubljevic
1

  1. University of Alberta, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, T6G 2R3 Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Pollen analysis was performed on 14 profiles of fossil biogenic sediments from different parts of the vast depression near the Wola Starogrodzka village (Central Poland). The results allowed the determination of the time of their accumulation for the period from the end of the Odra Glaciation (Warta Stage, Saalian, MIS-6), through the Eemian Interglacial (MIS-5e), to the first interstadial of the Early Vistulian (Brørup, MIS-5c). In many studied profiles, we noted the incompleteness in the pollen record of the Eemian vegetation succession – hiatuses occur usually in the hornbeam (E5) and/or spruce phase (E6). Moreover, the thickness of the same pollen zone and the development of its palynological record are strongly differentiated between individual profiles, e.g. the hornbeam zone (E5) is contained in an exceptionally thick sediment layer (3.7 m) in the PWS1-19 profile, and the oak zone (E3) in the WH-123 and PWS2-19 profiles (1.0 and 1.2 m, respectively), while in other profiles they are represented only by single pollen spectra. If we only had a single profile with a hiatus and/or a poorly developed pollen record, it would be impossible to reconstruct a complete interglacial succession of vegetation. However, having several such imperfect profiles which complemented each other enabled us to do it.
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Mirosława Kupryjanowicz
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Magdalena Fiłoc
1
Edyta Żuk-Kempa
1
Marcin Żarski
2

  1. University of Białystok, Faculty of Biology, Department of Palaeobiology, K. Ciołkowskiego 1J, 15-425 Białystok, Poland
  2. Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute, Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warszawa, Poland
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In 1875 a steel railway bridge was built in northern Warsaw. It had seven spans of 66.22 m and two spans of 15.24 m. In 1908 the second railway bridge was built downstream of the older one. The spacing of supports and spans were the same as in the older bridge. During World War I, both bridges were blown up and then rebuilt, first temporarily and then permanently. Again both were blown up in 1944. In 1945, a temporary crossing was built. In 1947 a permanent bridge was rebuilt, partially replacing rivets with welding. On the pillars of the older bridge, the Gdański Bridge was built (not in this study). In 1963 welded connections were strengthened, in 1980 the structure of the northern track was replaced. In 2016, the northern track was renovated. The replacement of the structure of the southern track is ongoing since 2018.

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T. Bladyniec
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This paper presents a set of concepts aiming at the reconstruction of mechanisms of the development of economic space. These concepts are ordered in the way that consecutive concepts add new pieces of knowledge increasing the degree of cognition of the mechanisms of economic space. This set includes among others: shift from one steady-state to the next steady-states, selforganization and the development out of equilibrium, multiple equilibrium, punctuated equilibrium, innovation in the phase transition, pulsative course of development process, emergence of complex spatial systems, development code of the system of regions.

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Ryszard Domański
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The neutral point clamped (NPC) three-level grid-tied converter is the key equipment connecting renewable energy and power grids. The current sensor fault caused by harsh environment may lead to the split of renewable energy. The existing sensor fault-tolerant methods will reduce the modulation ratio index of the converter system. To ensure continuous operation of the converter system and improve the modulation index, a model predictive control method based on reconstructed current is proposed in this paper. According to the relationship between fault phase current and a voltage vector, the original voltage vector is combined and classified. To maintain the stable operation of the converter and improve the utilization rate of DC voltage, two kinds of fault phase current are reconstructed with DC current, normal phase current and predicted current, respectively. Based on reconstructed three-phase current, a current predictive control model is designed, and a model predictive control method is proposed. The proposed method selects the optimal voltage vector with the cost function and reduces time delay with the current reconstruction sector. The simulation and experimental results showthat the proposed strategy can keep the NPC converter running stably with one AC sensor, and the modulation index is increased from 57.7% to 100%.
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Yanyan Li
1
ORCID: ORCID
Han Xiao
1
Nan Jin
1
ORCID: ORCID
Guanglu Yang
1 2

  1. College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China
  2. Nanyang Cigarette Factory, China Tobacco Henan Industrial Co., Ltd., China
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Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a complicated and challenging task in the human-computer interaction because it is difficult to find the best feature set to discriminate the emotional state entirely. We always used the FFT to handle the raw signal in the process of extracting the low-level description features, such as short-time energy, fundamental frequency, formant, MFCC (mel frequency cepstral coefficient) and so on. However, these features are built on the domain of frequency and ignore the information from temporal domain. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that utilizes multi-layers wavelet sequence set from wavelet packet reconstruction (WPR) and conventional feature set to constitute mixed feature set for achieving the emotional recognition with recurrent neural networks (RNN) based on the attention mechanism. In addition, the silent frames have a disadvantageous effect on SER, so we adopt voice activity detection of autocorrelation function to eliminate the emotional irrelevant frames. We show that the application of proposed algorithm significantly outperforms traditional features set in the prediction of spontaneous emotional states on the IEMOCAP corpus and EMODB database respectively, and we achieve better classification for both speaker-independent and speaker-dependent experiment. It is noteworthy that we acquire 62.52% and 77.57% accuracy results with speaker-independent (SI) performance, 66.90% and 82.26% accuracy results with speaker-dependent (SD) experiment in final.
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Authors and Affiliations

Hao Meng
1
Tianhao Yan
1
Hongwei Wei
1
Xun Ji
2

  1. Key laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Application of Marine Equipment (Harbin Engineering University), Ministry of Education, Harbin, 150001, China
  2. College of Marine Electrical Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China
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Bridge inspections are a vital part of bridge maintenance and the main information source for Bridge Management Systems is used in decision-making regarding repairs. Without a doubt, both can benefit from the implementation of the Building Information Modelling philosophy. To fully harness the BIM potential in this area, we have to develop tools that will provide inspection accurate information easily and fast. In this paper, we present an example of how such a tool can utilise tablets coupled with the latest generation RGB-D cameras for data acquisition; how these data can be processed to extract the defect surface area and create a 3D representation, and finally embed this information into the BIM model. Additionally, the study of depth sensor accuracy is presented along with surface area accuracy tests and an exemplary inspection of a bridge pillar column.
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Authors and Affiliations

Bartosz Wójcik
1
ORCID: ORCID
Mateusz Żarski
1
ORCID: ORCID

  1. Department of Mechanics and Bridges, Faculty of Civil Engendering, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 5, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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An iterative neural network framework is proposed in this paper for the human-induced Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) replication with an inertial electrodynamic mass actuator (APS 400). This is a first approach to the systematization of dynamic load tests on structures in a purely objective, repeatable and pedestrian-independent basis. Therefore, an inversion-free offline algorithm based on Machine Learning techniques has been applied for the first time on an electrodynamic shaker, without requiring its inverse model to tackle the inverse problem of successful force reconstruction. The proposed approach aims to obtain the optimal drive signal to minimize the error between the experimental shaker output and the reference force signal, measured with a pair of instrumented insoles (Loadsol©) for human bouncing at different fre- quencies and amplitudes. The optimal performance, stability and convergence of the system are verified through experimental tests, achieving excellent results in both time and frequency domain.
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Authors and Affiliations

César Peláez-Rodríguez
1 2
ORCID: ORCID
Álvaro Magdaleno
2
Sancho Salcedo-Sanz
1
Antolín Lorenzana
2

  1. Department of Signal Processing and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, 28805, Spain
  2. ITAP. Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales. Universidad de Valladolid. P.º del Cauce, 59, 47011 Valladolid, Spain

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