In order to solve the problem of multi-target trajectory correlation in underwater environments, such as the error of underwater measurement and the inconsistency of the targets reported by sensors, we leverage the gr...
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In order to solve the problem of multi-target trajectory correlation in underwater environments, such as the error of underwater measurement and the inconsistency of the targets reported by sensors, we leverage the gradation pre-processing to eliminate the noise and propose the Gaussian mixture model by the topology information between the trajectories. A novel mixed integer nonlinear programming is constructed to determine the relationship between underwater target trajectories, and the correlation bias is reduced by recursing the sensor bias estimation continuously. At the same time, the idea of weighting is introduced to maximize the clustering expectation. The optimal closure solution of the GMM is achieved with the expectation maximization clustering. The corresponding relationship of the trajectory is gotten at the expectation maximization stage, and finally obtains the trajectory correlation result of the underwater targets. The simulation results show that the GMP algorithm has better positive correlation rate and robustness than other algorithms with different target numbers in different dimensions, different sensor angular ranging errors, and different sensor detection probabilities. The GMP algorithm has advantages in the complex underwater environments with multiple noise and high false alarms, and it has accuracy and robustness in underwater multi-target trajectory correlation.
Open shop scheduling problems (OSSP) are highly significant in engineering and industry, involving critical scheduling challenges. The job type determines the duration required for material transfer between machines a...
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ABSTR A C T In most studies about operation optimization of integrated energy system (IES), the heating subsystem adopts the quality regulation method. However, considering the poor economy of quality regulation, quan...
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ABSTR A C T In most studies about operation optimization of integrated energy system (IES), the heating subsystem adopts the quality regulation method. However, considering the poor economy of quality regulation, quantity regulation method is proposed to improve the economy. Due to possible hydraulic vertical imbalance resulted from quantity regulation, the operation optimization must consider the effects of both thermal and hydraulic dynamic char-acteristics on IES. In this work, a new multi-objective quantity regulation scheduling method of electric-thermal IES is proposed, which adopts an electro-thermal decoupling bi-level optimization structure, a nonlinear dynamic thermo-hydraulic network model, objectives of economy and carbon emission indices and more reasonable nonlinear constraints. An IES prototype of 5-node power system with 5-node thermal system is designed to verify the proposed quantity regulation scheduling method. When solving the optimization problem, method NSGA-II combines with Gurobi is 40% faster in computational speed when compared with other methods. When compared with a single layer solution method, the proposed bi-level optimization model results in a scheduling strategy that can absorb 100% renewable power with operation cost of 10150.18 U.S. dollars (39.5% reduction) and carbon emission of 1303.7 ton (13% reduction). The hydraulic transient process resulted from the quantity regulation is also analyzed to demonstrate that the optimized scheduling strategy could satisfy the safety requirement of the heating network operation. Therefore, the proposed scheduling optimization method is more effective and satisfied.
Melt crystallization is a promising and widely used method for obtaining pure compounds. Nonetheless, separation of 3,3-dilauryl thiodipropionate (DLTP) has not yet been realized by melt crystallization. Solid liquid ...
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Melt crystallization is a promising and widely used method for obtaining pure compounds. Nonetheless, separation of 3,3-dilauryl thiodipropionate (DLTP) has not yet been realized by melt crystallization. Solid liquid equilibrium is the fundamental for the separation process design. In this work, we evaluated the feasibility of the purification of DLTP from the DLTP/lauryl alcohol (LA) binary mixture by melt crystallization technique. For this purpose, the solid-liquid equilibrium data were measured using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) technique. The experimental data were correlated by Wilson, Margules-3-suffix and Non-Random Two-Liquid (NRTL) activity coefficient models to obtain the binary parameters of the three models. Eutectic composition and temperature were calculated using NRTL model, which were x(LA) = 0.961 (molar fraction) and 295.79 K, respectively. On the basis of the solid-liquid equilibrium, the multistage countercurrent separation configurations were proposed for the separation of the binary system. The formulated mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem was solved using the branch-and-bound algorithm. The conceptual designs for multistage countercurrent configuration were derived based on MINLP optimization by comparing results at various conditions. Results showed that at least 3 crystallization stages with k(eff) <= 0.4 are required to obtain the 99% (mass fraction) DLTP product within the initial concentration range from 10% to 30% (mass fraction). (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Microalgae have attracted great research interest as a feedstock for producing a wide range of end-products. However, recent studies show that the tight processing integration technology for microalgae-based biorefine...
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Microalgae have attracted great research interest as a feedstock for producing a wide range of end-products. However, recent studies show that the tight processing integration technology for microalgae-based biorefinery makes production less economical and even has a negative impact on sustainability. In this study, a new two-tier superstructure optimization design methodology is proposed to locate the optimal processing pathway. This model is developed based on the decomposition strategy and the relationship-based investigation, coupling an outer-tier structure with an inner-tier structure, wherein the outlet flows of the middle stages is relaxed and then an appropriate level of redundancy for designing the processing is provided. Two scenarios are developed to compare the most promising biorefinery configurations under two different design option favors. By solving the mixed integer nonlinear programming model with the objective functions of maximizing the yield of the desired products and maximizing the gross operating margin, the optimization results obtained show the ability of this framework to provide the promising configurations and cost-effectiveness of microalgae-based biorefinery. Compared with Scenario 1, the optimized solutions in Scenario 2 feature a gross operating margin increase up to 27.09% and an increase in product yield up to 25.00%. The proposed method improves the original huge computing scale and ensures economics without simplifying the processing pathways.
Optimum selection of input variables, number of hidden neurons and connections among the network elements deliver the best configuration of an ANN, usually resulting in reduced over-fitting and improved test performan...
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Optimum selection of input variables, number of hidden neurons and connections among the network elements deliver the best configuration of an ANN, usually resulting in reduced over-fitting and improved test performance. This study focuses on the development of a superstructure-oriented feedforward ANN design and training algorithm whose impacts are demonstrated on an industrial Ethylene Oxide (EO) plant for the prediction of product related variables. Proposed method brings about a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem (MINLP) to be solved, which takes the existence of inputs, neurons, and connections among the network elements into account by binary variables in addition to continuous weights of existing connections. Our investigations show that almost 85% of the ANN connections are removed compared to the fully connected ANN (FC-ANN) with 50% decrease in the number of inputs of the ANN. The modified ANN delivers a better prediction performance over FC-ANN, since FC-ANN suffers from over-fitting. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Optimal reliability demonstration test plans with controlled expected producer and consumer risks are computed. Device failure times follow Weibull distributions, whereas prior information on device reliability is des...
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Optimal reliability demonstration test plans with controlled expected producer and consumer risks are computed. Device failure times follow Weibull distributions, whereas prior information on device reliability is described by limited beta models. Minimum-cost test durations, sample sizes and acceptance numbers are found by solving mixed integer nonlinear programming problems. Lower and upper bounds on the minimal feasible number of failures allowed, as well as a reasonable approximation, are first deduced. An iterative method is then presented for determining the optimal lot inspection plan. Numerical and graphical analyses and several applications in industrial manufacturing are also provided for illustrative and comparative purposes. The inclusion of substantial prior knowledge allows the reliability engineer to reduce test time, sample size and cost, and leads to improved risk assessments for both producers and consumers. The proposed approach also enables the practitioners the flexibility to define precise limits of the device reliability and to combine multiple experts' opinions. In addition, the best plan can continually be updated as more subjective or objective information becomes available.
Lot-sizing and pricing are two important manufacturing decisions that impact together the profit of a company. Existing works address the joint lot-sizing and pricing problem without backlogging, although it is a usua...
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Lot-sizing and pricing are two important manufacturing decisions that impact together the profit of a company. Existing works address the joint lot-sizing and pricing problem without backlogging, although it is a usual strategy that permits to satisfy customer demand with delay. In this work, we study a new multi-product joint lot-sizing and pricing problem with backlogging and limited production capacity. The objective is to maximize the total company profit over a finite planning horizon. For the problem, a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation is given. Then, several optimality properties are provided and a tighter MINLP model is established based on these properties. According to the NP-hard nature and non-linearity of the model, a model based heuristic that focuses on efficiently solving small-sized instances is proposed and a genetic algorithm (GA) with new progressive repair strategy is developed to address large-sized instances. Managerial insights are drawn based an illustrative example. Numerical experiments are conducted on 64 benchmark based instances and 105 randomly generated instances with up to 10 products and 12 periods, which validates the MINLP formulation and shows the efficiency of the proposed solution methods.
Due to the rapid development of algorithms and techniques that are used to deal with mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, many global MINLP solvers were introduced. In this paper, computational experi...
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Due to the rapid development of algorithms and techniques that are used to deal with mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, many global MINLP solvers were introduced. In this paper, computational experiments were done to compare between the performances of five of these solvers. Some of these solvers do not support trigonometric functions. Therefore, piecewise linear approximation (PLA) is applied to problems having these function so the solvers can deal with these problems. Additional computational tests were performed on to show how PLA can be useful, even to some powerful global solvers.
The minimum cost flow problem (MCFP) is the most generic variation of the network flow problem which aims to transfer a commodity throughout the network to satisfy demands. The problem size (in terms of the number of ...
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The minimum cost flow problem (MCFP) is the most generic variation of the network flow problem which aims to transfer a commodity throughout the network to satisfy demands. The problem size (in terms of the number of nodes and arcs) and the shape of the cost function are the most critical factors when considering MCFPs. Existing mathematical programming techniques often assume the cost functions to be linear or convex. Unfortunately, the linearity and convexity assumptions are too restrictive for modelling many real-world scenarios. In addition, many real-world MCFPs are large-scale, with networks having a large number of nodes and arcs. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic tree-based genetic algorithm (PTbGA) for solving large-scale minimum cost integer flow problems with nonlinear non-convex cost functions. We first compare this probabilistic tree-based representation scheme with the priority-based representation scheme, which is the most commonly-used representation for solving MCFPs. We then compare the performance of PTbGA with that of the priority-based genetic algorithm (PrGA), and two state-of-the-art mathematical solvers on a set of MCFP instances. Our experimental results demonstrate the superiority and efficiency of PTbGA in dealing with large-sized MCFPs, as compared to the PrGA method and the mathematical solvers. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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