This paper considers an online control problem involving two controllers. A central controller chooses an action from a feasible set that is determined by time-varying and coupling constraints, which depend on all pas...
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This paper considers an online control problem involving two controllers. A central controller chooses an action from a feasible set that is determined by time-varying and coupling constraints, which depend on all past actions and states. The central controller's goal is to minimize the cumulative cost;however, the controller has access to neither the feasible set nor the dynamics directly, which are determined by a remote local controller. Instead, the central controller receives only an aggregate summary of the feasibility information from the local controller, which does not know the system costs. We show that it is possible for an online algorithm using feasibility information to nearly match the dynamic regret of an online algorithm using perfect information whenever the feasible sets satisfy a causal invariance criterion and there is a sufficiently large prediction window size. To do so, we use a form of feasibility aggregation based on entropic maximization in combination with a novel online algorithm, named Penalized Predictive Control (PPC) and demonstrate that aggregated information can be efficiently learned using reinforcement learning algorithms. The effectiveness of our approach for closed-loop coordination between central and local controllers is validated via an electric vehicle charging application in power systems.
Home energy management systems (HEMS) offer control and the ability to manage energy, generating and collecting energy consumption data at the most detailed level. However, data at this level poses various privacy con...
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(纸本)9781450391573
Home energy management systems (HEMS) offer control and the ability to manage energy, generating and collecting energy consumption data at the most detailed level. However, data at this level poses various privacy concerns, including, for instance, profiling consumer behaviors and large-scale surveillance. The question of how utility providers can get value from such data without infringing consumers' privacy has remained under-investigated. We address this gap by exploring the pro-sharing attitudes and privacy perceptions of 30 HEMS users and non-users through an interview study. While participants are concerned about data misuse and stigmatization, our analysis also reveals that incentives, altruism, trust, security and privacy, transparency and accountability encourage data sharing. From this analysis, we derive privacy design strategies for HEMS that can both improve privacy and engender adoption.
Inertial Navigation System (INS) and Inertial measurement Unit (IMU) are commonly used technologies in modern navigation and attitude control fields. INS is a navigation system based on the principle of inertial senso...
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Edge computing plays a key role in providing services for emerging compute-intensive applications while bringing computation close to end devices. FPGAs have been deployed to provide custom acceleration services due t...
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(纸本)9783981926361
Edge computing plays a key role in providing services for emerging compute-intensive applications while bringing computation close to end devices. FPGAs have been deployed to provide custom acceleration services due to their reconfigurability and support for multi-tenancy in sharing the computing resource. This paper explores an FPGA-based Multi-Accelerator Edge computing System, that serves various DNN applications from multiple end devices simultaneously. To dynamically maximize the responsiveness to end devices, we propose a system framework that exploits the characteristic of applications in patterns and employs a staggering module coupled with a mixed offline/online multi-queue scheduling method to alleviate resource contention, and uncertain delay caused by network delay variation. Our evaluation shows the framework can significantly improve responsiveness and robustness in serving multiple end devices.
.Abstract models of embedded systems are useful for various tasks, ranging from diagnosis, through testing to monitoring at run-time. However, deriving a model for an unknown system is difficult. Generic learners like...
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(纸本)9781665421355
.Abstract models of embedded systems are useful for various tasks, ranging from diagnosis, through testing to monitoring at run-time. However, deriving a model for an unknown system is difficult. Generic learners like decision trees can identify specific properties of systems and have been applied successfully, e.g., for anomaly detection and test case identification. We consider Decision Tree Learning (DTL) to derive a new type of model from given observations with bounded history for systems that have a Mealy machine representation. We prove theoretical limitations and evaluate the practical characteristics in an experimental validation.
Longitudinal engagement with generative AI (GenAI) storytelling agents is a timely but less charted domain. We explored multigenerational experiences with "Dreamsmithy," a daily dream-crafting app, where par...
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Modern SSDs achieve low latency and high throughput by utilizing multiple levels of SSD parallelism. Fairness is also a critical design consideration in cloud environments and has inspired great interest in recent yea...
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Accurate and highly-granular channel capacity telemetry of the cellular last hop is crucial for the effective operation of transport layer protocols and cutting edge applications, such as video on demand and video tel...
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The necessity of ensuring people's safety in urban conditions during gathering in a certain indoor or outdoor area, as well as during the operation of technical equipment, requires measurement of their number, wei...
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A burst buffer is a common method to bridge the performance gap between the I/O needs of modern supercomputing applications and the performance of the shared file system on large-scale supercomputers. However, existin...
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