Real-Time Identification of Media in a Laboratory-Scaled Penetrating Process

In this paper, a neural network technique is applied to real-time classifying media while a projectile is penetrating through them. A laboratory-scaled penetrating setup was built for the experiment. Features used as the network inputs were extracted from the acceleration of penetrator. 6000 set of features from a single penetration with known media and status were used to train the neural network. The trained system was tested on 30 different penetration experiments. The system produced an accuracy of 100% on the training data set. And, their precision could be 99% for the test data from 30 tests.

Authors:

• Sheng-Hong Pong
• Herng-Yu Huang
• Yi-Ju Lee
• Shih-Hsuan Chiu

Keywords:

• back-propagation
• identification
• neural network
• penetration.

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