Houngkamhang, Nongluck

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nongluck.ho@kmitl.ac.th

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Multi-Entropy Feature Extraction With LSTM Networks for Acoustic Emission-Based Railway Crack Localization
(2026-01-01)
Laon, Popphon
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Pourbunthidkul, Supavee
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Rattan, Praphaporn
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Sahavisit, Tanawit
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Suwansin, Wara
Railway infrastructure security is contingent upon the prompt identification of structural anomalies within steel tracks. This research establishes a framework that merges acoustic emission (AE) sensing with advanced machine learning for prompt fracture identification and location. To improve the quality of Raw AE signals, they are first cleaned using Kalman filtering to tackle environmental disturbances and ambiguous readings. The characteristics that arise from entropy comprising approximate entropy, Shannon entropy, and dimensional entropy are derived to delineate the temporal patterns of fracture-induced emissions. Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is applied to remove outliers during preprocessing. Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks classify crack locations into three anatomical regions: rail head, web, and foot. Experimental validation with 3,000 labeled AE signals (1,000 per class) under laboratory conditions, the full pipeline that integrates Kalman filtering, entropy features, DBSCAN, and an LSTM classifier attains an accuracy of 98.83%. With an entropy-based variant, the accuracy drops to 96.67%, confirming the incremental value of temporal denoising and outlier rejection. While using mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) baseline achieves 97.67% accuracy, a deep neural network (DNN) trained on Kalman-filtered, entropy-based, and DBSCAN-processed inputs reaches 96.33% accuracy, underscoring the advantages of temporal modeling for AE. A GRU using the same Kalman-filtered, entropy-based, and DBSCAN-processed inputs, achieves 97.67% accuracy, but trails the LSTM overall. When deployed on actual railway lines with a mobile inspection platform, the system maintained robust performance, correctly identifying 84.67% of cracks at 3 km/h and 80.67% at 5 km/h. The LSTM configuration consistently outperformed all alternative approaches, including the entropy-only variant, MFCC-based method, DNN classifier, and GRU model. This confirms the LSTM’s enhanced capability to capture the temporal dynamics of AE signals, establishing it as the most effective framework for AE-based crack localization in railway structural health monitoring.
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An Enhanced Cascaded Deep Learning Framework for Multi-Cell Voltage Forecasting and State of Charge Estimation in Electric Vehicle Batteries Using LSTM Networks
(2025-06-01)
Pourbunthidkul, Supavee
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Pahaisuk, Narawit
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Laon, Popphon
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Houngkamhang, Nongluck
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Phasukkit, Pattarapong
Enhanced Battery Management Systems (BMS) are essential for improving operational efficacy and safety within Electric Vehicles (EVs), especially in tropical climates where traditional systems encounter considerable performance constraints. This research introduces a novel two-tiered deep learning framework that utilizes a two-stage Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) framework for precise prediction of battery voltage and SoC. The first tier employs LSTM-1 forecasts individual cell voltages across a full-scale 120-cell Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery pack using multivariate time-series data, including voltage history, vehicle speed, current, temperature, and load metrics, derived from dynamometer testing. Experiments simulate real-world urban driving, with speeds from 6 km/h to 40 km/h and load variations of 0, 10, and 20%. The second tier uses LSTM-2 for SoC estimation, designed to handle temperature-dependent voltage fluctuations in high-temperature environments. This cascade design allows the system to capture complex temporal and inter-cell dependencies, making it especially effective under high-temperature and variable-load environments. Empirical validation demonstrates a 15% improvement in SoC estimation accuracy over traditional methods under real-world driving conditions. This study marks the first deep learning-based BMS optimization validated in tropical climates, setting a new benchmark for EV battery management in similar regions. The framework’s performance enhances EV reliability, supporting the growing electric mobility sector.
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Hybrid Unsupervised–Supervised Learning Framework for Rainfall Prediction Using Satellite Signal Strength Attenuation
(2026-01-01)
Laon, Popphon
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Sahavisit, Tanawit
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Pourbunthidkul, Supavee
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Puangragsa, Sarut
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Wichittrakarn, Pattharin
Satellite communication systems experience significant signal degradation during rain events, a phenomenon that can be leveraged for meteorological applications. This study introduces a novel hybrid machine learning framework combining unsupervised clustering with cluster-specific supervised deep learning models to transform satellite signal attenuation into a predictive tool for rainfall prediction. Unlike conventional single-model approaches treating all atmospheric conditions uniformly, our methodology employs K-Means Clustering with the Elbow Method to identify four distinct atmospheric regimes based on Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) patterns from a 12-m Ku-band satellite ground station at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand, combined with absolute pressure and hourly rainfall measurements. The dataset comprises 98,483 observations collected with 30-s temporal resolutions, providing comprehensive coverage of diverse tropical atmospheric conditions. The experimental platform integrates three subsystems: a receiver chain featuring a Low-Noise Block (LNB) converter and Software-Defined Radio (SDR) platform for real-time data acquisition; a control system with two-axis motorized pointing incorporating dual-encoder feedback; and a preprocessing workflow implementing data cleaning, K-Means Clustering (k = 4), Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique (SMOTE) for balanced representation, and standardization. Specialized Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks trained for each identified cluster enable capture of regime-specific temporal dynamics. Experimental validation demonstrates substantial performance improvements, with cluster-specific LSTM models achieving R<sup>2</sup> values exceeding 0.92 across all atmospheric regimes. Comparative analysis confirms LSTM superiority over RNN and GRU. Classification performance evaluation reveals exceptional detection capabilities with Probability of Detection ranging from 0.75 to 0.99 and False Alarm Ratios below 0.23. This work presents a scalable approach to weather radar systems for tropical regions with limited ground-based infrastructure, particularly during rapid meteorological transitions characteristic of tropical climates.
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Reinforcement Learning-Driven Framework for High-Precision Target Tracking in Radio Astronomy
(2025-12-01)
Sahavisit, Tanawit
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Laon, Popphon
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Pourbunthidkul, Supavee
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Wichittrakarn, Pattharin
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Phasukkit, Pattarapong
Radio astronomy requires precise target localization and tracking to ensure accurate observations. Conventional regulation methodologies, encompassing PID controllers, frequently encounter difficulties due to orientation inaccuracies precipitated by mechanical limitations, environmental fluctuations, and electromagnetic interferences. To tackle these obstacles, this investigation presents a reinforcement learning (RL)-oriented framework for high-accuracy monitoring in radio telescopes. The suggested system amalgamates a localization control module, a receiver, and an RL tracking agent that functions in scanning and tracking stages. The agent optimizes its policy by maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a critical factor in astronomical measurements. The framework employs a reconditioned 12-m radio telescope at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), originally constructed as a satellite earth station antenna for telecommunications and was subsequently refurbished and adapted for radio astronomy research. It incorporates dual-axis servo regulation and high-definition encoders. Real-time SNR data and streaming are supported by a HamGeek ZedBoard with an AD9361 software-defined radio (SDR). The RL agent leverages the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm with a self-attention actor–critic model, while hyperparameters are tuned via Optuna. Experimental results indicate strong performance, successfully maintaining stable tracking of randomly moving, non-patterned targets for over 4 continuous hours without any external tracking assistance, while achieving an SNR improvement of up to 23.5% compared with programmed TLE-based tracking during live satellite experiments with Thaicom-4. The simplicity of the framework, combined with its adaptability and ability to learn directly from environmental feedback, highlights its suitability for next-generation astronomical techniques in radio telescope surveys, radio line observations, and time-domain astronomy. These findings underscore RL’s potential to enhance telescope tracking accuracy and scalability while reducing control system complexity for dynamic astronomical applications.

Houngkamhang, Nongluck

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