Batteryless Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices need to schedule tasks on very limited energy budgets from intermittent energy harvesting. Creating an energy-aware scheduler allows the device to schedule tasks in an efficient manner to avoid power loss during execution. To achieve this, we need insight in the Worst-Case Energy Consumption (WCEC) of each schedulable task on the device. Different methodologies exist to determine or approximate the energy consumption. However, these approaches are computationally expensive and infeasible to perform on all type of devices; or are not accurate enough to acquire safe upper bounds. We propose a hybrid methodology that combines machine learning-based prediction on small code sections, called hybrid blocks, with static analysis to combine the predictions to a final upper bound estimation for the WCEC. In this paper, we present our work on an automated testbench for the Code Behaviour Framework (COBRA) that measures and profiles the upper bound energy consumption on the target device. Next, we use the upper bound measurements of the testbench to train eight different regression models that need to predict these upper bounds. The results show promising estimates for three regression models that could potentially be used for the methodology with additional tuning and training.
Machine Learning (ML) has made its way into a wide variety of advanced applications, where high accuracies can be achieved when these ML models are evaluated in the same context as they were trained and validated on. However, when these high-accuracy models are exposed to out-of-distribution points such as noisy inputs, their performance could potentially degrade significantly. Recommending the most suitable ML model that retains a higher accuracy when exposed to these noisy inputs can overcome this performance degradation. For this, a mapping between the noise distribution at the input and the resulting accuracy needs to be obtained. Though, this relationship is costly to evaluate as this is a computationally intensive task. To minimize this computational cost, we employ metalearning to predict this mapping; that is, the performance of different ML models is predicted given the distribution parameters of the input noise. Although metalearning is an established research field, performance predictions based on noise distribution parameters have not been accomplished before. Hence, this research focuses on predicting the per-class classification performance based on the distribution parameters of the input noise. For this, our approach is twofold. First, in order to gain insights in this noise-to-performance relationship, we analyse the per-class performance of well-established convolutional neural networks through our multi-level Monte Carlo simulation. Second, we employ metalearning to learn this relationship between the input noise distribution and the resulting per-class performance in a sample-efficient way by incorporating Latin Hypercube Sampling. The noise performance analyses present novel insights about the per-class performance degradation when gradually increasing noise is augmented on the input. Additionally, we show that metalearning is capable of accurately predicting the per-class performance based on the noise distribution parameters. We also show the relationship between the number of metasamples and the metaprediction accuracy. Consequently, this research enables future work to make accurate classifier recommendations in noisy environments.
This paper investigates and compares the neutroninduced soft-error tolerance effectiveness of five classical attitude estimation (AE) processing approaches that are typically embedded in inertial navigation systems of autonomous things. Results of 14-MeV and thermal neutron radiation testing campaigns indicate that all the AE approaches -implemented without protection mechanisms -can be critically perturbed by single event upsets (SEUs), recovering themselves after a few seconds if sensors' measurements are continuously provided. Moreover, Kalman filter-based AE approaches presented better effectivenesses in tolerating SEUs than AE based on gradient descent.
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