In this paper, size reduction of antenna structures taking reflection response and total efficiency into account has been investigated. In order to find available design trade-offs concerning the antenna footprint, it...
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(纸本)9788890701870
In this paper, size reduction of antenna structures taking reflection response and total efficiency into account has been investigated. In order to find available design trade-offs concerning the antenna footprint, its wideband matching, and efficiency, numerical optimization has been employed. Appropriate formulation of the objective function permits identification of the designs that exhibit the minimum possible footprint while maintaining the maximum in-band reflection and average efficiency within the prescribed thresholds. For the sake of demonstration, a specific case study of a UWB monopole is considered. A set of designs generated using the proposed approach provides a designer with a comprehensive knowledge about the capabilities of a given antenna topology and facilitates a decision making process driven by a particular application and performance requirements.
The set of events available for execution in a Parallel Discrete Event simulation (PDES) are known as the pending event set. In a Time Warp synchronized simulation engine, these pending events are scheduled for execut...
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(纸本)9781450344890
The set of events available for execution in a Parallel Discrete Event simulation (PDES) are known as the pending event set. In a Time Warp synchronized simulation engine, these pending events are scheduled for execution in an aggressive manner that does not strictly enforce the causal relations between events. One of the key principles of Time Warp is that this relaxed causality will result in the processing of events in a manner that implicitly satisfies their causal order without paying the overhead costs of a strict enforcement of their causal order. On a shared memory platform the event scheduler generally attempts to schedule all available events in their Least TimeStamp First (LTSF) order to facilitate event processing in their causal order. By following an LTSF scheduling policy, a Time Warp scheduler can generally process events so that: (i) the critical path of the event timestamps is scheduled as early as possible, and (ii) causal violations occur infrequently. While this works effectively to minimize rollback (triggered by causal violations), as the number of parallel threads increases, the contention to the shared data structures holding the pending events can have significant negative impacts on overall event processing throughput. This work examines the application of profile data taken from Discrete-Event simulation (DES) models to drive the simulation kernel optimization process. In particular, we take profile data about events in the schedule pool from three DES models to derive alternate scheduling possibilities in a Time Warp simulation kernel. Profile data from the studied DES models suggests that in many cases each Logical Process (LP) in a simulation will have multiple events that can be dequeued and executed as a set. In this work, we review the profile data and implement group event scheduling strategies based on this profile data. Experimental results show that event group scheduling can help alleviate contention and improve performance. Ho
Lean NOx Trap (LNT) is one of the most effective after-treatment technologies used to reduce NOx emissions of diesel engines. One relevant problem in this context is LNT regeneration timing control. This problem is in...
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(纸本)9781509028733
Lean NOx Trap (LNT) is one of the most effective after-treatment technologies used to reduce NOx emissions of diesel engines. One relevant problem in this context is LNT regeneration timing control. This problem is indeed difficult due to the fact that LNTs are highly nonlinear systems, involving complex physical/chemical processes, that are hard to model. In this paper, a novel approach for regeneration timing of LNTs is proposed, allowing us to overcome these issues. This approach, named data-driven model predictive control (D-2-MPC), does not require a physical model of the engine/trap system but is based on low-complexity polynomial prediction models, directly identified from data. The regeneration timing is computed through an optimization algorithm, which uses the identified models to predict the LNT behavior. Two D-2-MPC strategies are proposed, and tested in a co-simulation study, where the plant is represented by a detailed LNT model, built using the well-known commercial tool AMEsim, and the controller is implemented in Matlab/Simulink.
Surrogate models are commonly used to approximate the multivariate input or output behavior of complex systems. In this paper, surrogate assisted calibration frameworks are proposed to calibrate the crowd model. To in...
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(纸本)9781538634288
Surrogate models are commonly used to approximate the multivariate input or output behavior of complex systems. In this paper, surrogate assisted calibration frameworks are proposed to calibrate the crowd model. To integrate the surrogate models into the evolutionary calibration framework, both the offline and online training based approaches are developed. The offline training needs to generate training set in advance, while the online training can adaptively build and re-build the surrogate model along the evolutionary process. Our simulation results demonstrate that the surrogate assisted calibration framework with the online training is effective and the surrogate model using artificial neural network obtains the best overall performance in the scenario evaluated in the case study.
Cellular Automata (CA) have been introduced many decades ago as one of the most efficient parallel computational models able to simulate various physical processes and systems where the interactions are local. In this...
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Cellular Automata (CA) have been introduced many decades ago as one of the most efficient parallel computational models able to simulate various physical processes and systems where the interactions are local. In this paper, we are trying to advance the application of CA in modeling wildfires by accounting for the fuzziness intrinsic to the numerous environmental variables and mechanisms engaged with the emergence of the phenomenon itself. The proposed Fuzzy CA (FCA) model adopts a data-driven approach, based on evolutionary optimization, which allows incorporating knowledge from real wildfires in order to enhance its accuracy. The main difficulty for doing so arrives from the computational complexity of the proposed framework and the burden of computational resources needed for its application, which would prevent the real-time prediction of fire spread scenarios. In order to tackle the aforementioned difficulties, we propose model's fully parallel implementations in Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) hardware. In the article, we first investigate the speedup achieved by the developed parallel implementations. Then, we present and discuss two applications to heterogeneous landscapes through comparisons with observed wildfires. Moreover, we compare the proposed framework with two different modelling approaches and results found are really promising. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In complex (dynamic) systems, models are usually too complex for a direct evaluation, and simulation is the method of choice (indirect optimization). Another aspect is the structure of the design space for complex sys...
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The proceedings contain 25 papers. The topics discussed include: multi-tier priority queues and 2-tier ladder queue for managing pending events in sequential and optimistic parallel simulations;a conflict-resilient lo...
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(纸本)9781450344890
The proceedings contain 25 papers. The topics discussed include: multi-tier priority queues and 2-tier ladder queue for managing pending events in sequential and optimistic parallel simulations;a conflict-resilient lock-free calendar queue for scalable share-everything PDES platforms;quantitative drivenoptimization of a time warp kernel;an integrated human decision making model under extended belief-desire-intention framework;exposing inter-process information for efficient parallel discrete event simulation of spatial stochastic systems;efficient parallel simulation over social contact network with skewed degree distribution;and Durango: scalable synthetic workload generation for extreme-scale application performance modeling and simulation.
The proceedings contain 13 papers. The topics discussed include: on the importance of scaling in equation-based modelling;collision handling with variable-step integrators;parallelizing simulations with runtime profil...
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(纸本)9781450363730
The proceedings contain 13 papers. The topics discussed include: on the importance of scaling in equation-based modelling;collision handling with variable-step integrators;parallelizing simulations with runtime profiling and scheduling;equation-based modelling and simulation of hybrid systems;stochastic time Petri nets - time processes modelling in Modelica and application in hospital and healthcare;representations of equation-based models are not created equal;elaborate control: variable-structure modeling from an operational perspective;functional hybrid modelling towards mathematical physics;on the terminology and structuring of co-simulation methods;code generation for STM32F4 boards with Modelica device drivers;compile-time dynamic and recursive data structures in Modelica;towards an OpenModelica-based sensitivity analysis platform including optimization-driven strategies;and traceability and impact analysis in requirement verification.
Explicit size reduction of multi-band antennas using EM-driven design optimization is presented. The major challenge of multi-band antenna miniaturization is the necessity of independent control of frequency allocatio...
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The work presents the current situation concerning positioning systems manufactured by well-known companies in the industry: Festo, SMC, etc, or patented solutions for positioning system. The authors suggest, followin...
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The work presents the current situation concerning positioning systems manufactured by well-known companies in the industry: Festo, SMC, etc, or patented solutions for positioning system. The authors suggest, following a thorough analysis, as a original solution, a positioning system driven by an electrical stepping motor. There are presented some particular elements of design, modeling, execution, testing and optimization of the proposed system. For validation, the mathematical model, authors have developed, in Matlab environment, a graphic user interface in which one can simulate the operation of several solutions with stepping motors, different positioning strokes.
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