Decisions on how best to optimize today's energy systems operations are becoming ever so complex and conflicting such that model-based predictive control algorithms must play a key role. However, learning dynamica...
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(纸本)9781450342643
Decisions on how best to optimize today's energy systems operations are becoming ever so complex and conflicting such that model-based predictive control algorithms must play a key role. However, learning dynamical models of energy consuming systems such as buildings, using grey/white box approaches is very cost and time prohibitive due to its complexity. This paper presents data-driven methods for making control-oriented model for peak power reduction in buildings. Specifically, a data predictive control with regression trees (DPCRT) algorithm, is presented. DPCRT is a finite receding horizon method, using which the building operator can optimally trade off peak power reduction against thermal comfort without having to learn white/grey box models of the systems dynamics. We evaluate the performance of our method using a DoE commercial reference virtual test-bed and show how it can be used for learning predictive models with 90% accuracy, and for achieving 8.6% reduction in peak power and costs.
Personalized recommender systems provide great opportunities for targeted advertisements, by displaying ads alongside genuine recommendations. We consider a biased recommendation system where such ads are displayed wi...
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The performance of parallel programs is notoriously difficult to reason in virtualized environments. Although performance degradations caused by virtualization and interferences have been well studied, there is little...
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The gateway is a key component for sensor network deployments and the Internet of Things. Sensor deployments often tend towards low-power communication protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy or IEEE 802.15.4. Gateways...
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(纸本)9781450342643
The gateway is a key component for sensor network deployments and the Internet of Things. Sensor deployments often tend towards low-power communication protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy or IEEE 802.15.4. Gateways are essential to connect these devices to the Internet at large. Over time though, gateways have gained additional responsibilities as well. Sensors expect gateways to handle device-specific data translation and local processing while also providing services, such as time synchronization, to the low-power device. As a centralized computing resource, the gateway is also an obvious location for running local applications which interact with sensor data and control nearby actuators. Today, vendors and researchers often create their own device-specific gateways to handle these *** propose a generic gateway platform capable of supporting the needs of many devices. In our architecture, devices provide a pointer, such as a URL, to descriptions of their interfaces. The gateway can download the interface descriptions and use them to determine how to interact with the device, translating its data to a usable format and enabling local services to communicate with it. The translated data is provided to services including user applications, local logging, device status monitoring, and cloud applications. By simultaneously supporting communication with many sensors, our gateway architecture can simplify future sensor network deployments and enable intelligent building applications.
Like other fundamental abstractions for high-performance computing, search trees need to support both high concurrency and data locality. However, existing locality-aware search trees based on the van Emde Boas layout...
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We consider live-streaming over a peer-to-peer network in which peers are allowed to enter or leave the system adversarially and arbitrarily. Previous approaches for streaming have either used randomized distribution ...
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Automotive platforms today run hundreds of millions of lines of software code implementing a large number of different control applications spanning across safety-critical functionality to driver assistance and comfor...
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(纸本)9781509034215
Automotive platforms today run hundreds of millions of lines of software code implementing a large number of different control applications spanning across safety-critical functionality to driver assistance and comfort-related functions. While such control software today is largely designed following model-based approaches, the underlying models do not take into account the details of the implementation platforms, on which the software would eventually run. Following the state-of-the-art in control theory, the focus in such design is restricted to ensuring the stability of the designed controllers and meeting control performance objectives, such as settling time or peak overshoot. However, automotive platforms are highly cost-sensitive and the issue of designing “resource-efficient” controllers has largely been ignored so far and is addressed using very ad hoc techniques. In this paper, we will illustrate how, following traditional embedded systems design oriented thinking, computation, communication and memory issues can be incorporated in the controller design stage, thereby resulting in control software not only satisfying the usual control performance metrics but also making efficient utilization of the resources on distributed automotive architectures.
This paper proposes a domain-specific solution for iterative learning of big and dense (non-sparse) datasets. A large host of learning algorithms, including linear and regularized regression techniques, rely on iterat...
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Neural encoder is one of the key components in neuromorphic computing systems, whereby sensory information is transformed into spike coded trains. The design of temporal encoder has attracted a widespread attention in...
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(纸本)9781509034215
Neural encoder is one of the key components in neuromorphic computing systems, whereby sensory information is transformed into spike coded trains. The design of temporal encoder has attracted a widespread attention in the field of neuromorphic computing in the past few years. The information in the temporal encoding scheme with inter-spike intervals can arise from correlations between spike times, which could not be incorporated in the traditional rate encoding scheme. In this paper, we propose a robust and energy efficient analog implementation of the spiking temporal encoder. We pattern the neural activities across multiple timescales and encode the sensory information using time dependent temporal scales. The concept of iteration structure is introduced to construct a neural encoder that greatly increases the information process ability of the proposed temporal encoder. Integrated with iteration technique and operational-amplifier-free design, the error rate of the output temporal codes is reduced to an extremely low level. A lower sampling rate accompanied by additional verification spikes is introduced in the schemes, which significantly reduces the power consumption of the encoding system. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed neuron circuit is the first analog hardware implementation of the neural encoder that could present the sensory data using inter-spike interval temporal encoding scheme. The simulation and measurement results show the proposed temporal encoder exhibits not only energy efficiency but also high accuracy.
Nowadays mobile device (e.g., smartphone) users not only have a high expectation on the availability of the cellular data service, but also increasingly depend on the high end-to-end (E2E) performance of their applica...
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