4.9 Mini robot

This tiny tool can do some work automatically with default settings.

• Step 1: Click to select one data file (see 3.6 Data Requirement) in Acycle main window.
• Step 2: Click the mini-robot button.
• Step 3: Review parameters and click the “OK” button.

It will do:

1. Data preparation

   Check selected data:

   • remove NaN numbers
   • sort data (based on the first column)
   • remove duplicated numbers (replace with their mean value)
   • remove empty values

2. Interpolation

   • using the median sampling rate

3. Detrending

   • removing a 25% LOWESS trend

4. Power spectral analysis

   • showing significant frequencies;
   • aided with a robust AR(1) red noise model using a log best-fit to the 20% median-smoothed spectrum.

5. Evolutionary FFT

   • using an adjusted sliding window.

6. Wavelet transform

   • using default settings.

7. Save results

8. Pause 0.5 seconds after each above step.