The development and launch of communication satellite projects pose significant challenges and costs. The expenses can range from several hundred million dollars, contingent on factors such as mission objectives, sate...
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The development and launch of communication satellite projects pose significant challenges and costs. The expenses can range from several hundred million dollars, contingent on factors such as mission objectives, satellite system size and complexity including the launch vehicle, and ground infrastructure. Satellites must be designed to withstand harsh conditions in space, such as the extreme temperatures, radiation, and other hazards, while delivering reliable communication services to its users. However, once a satellite is launched, physical maintenance interventions become infeasible in the event of technical problems. Thus, reliability is a critical aspect for these expensive systems. This study aims to minimize the cost of a high-tech communication satellite by addressing design considerations that meet customer reliability requirements without exceeding power and redundant equipment limits. To achieve this goal, we propose an integer non -linearprogramming model in this research. To solve the satellite design problem, we adopt a two-stage solution approach. Conventional industrial practices in satellite design often involve iterative attempts to determine the redundancy level of onboard units based on customer reliability requirements. These processes rely heavily on the experience of design engineers who evaluate a limited number of alternatives to determine the number of redundant units, resulting in sub -optimal outcomes. In contrast, our proposed approach systematically handles the problem and yields optimal results. Our findings demonstrate that the proposed two-phase approach can achieve optimal redundancy levels within seconds.
The global health crisis caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted the importance of effi-cient disease detection and control strategies for minimizing the number of infections and deaths in the population ...
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The global health crisis caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted the importance of effi-cient disease detection and control strategies for minimizing the number of infections and deaths in the population and halting the spread of the pandemic. Countries have shown different preparedness levels for promptly implementing disease detection strategies, via mass testing and isolation of identified cases, which led to a largely varying impact of the outbreak on the populations and health-care systems. In this paper, we propose a new pandemic resource allocation model for allocating limited disease detection and control resources, in particular testing capacities, in order to limit the spread of a pandemic. The pro-posed model is a novel epidemiological compartmental model formulated as a non-linear programming model that is suitable to address the inherent non-linearity of an infectious disease progression within the population. A number of novel features are implemented in the model to take into account impor-tant disease characteristics, such as asymptomatic infection and the distinct risk levels of infection within different segments of the population. Moreover, a method is proposed to estimate the vulnerability level of the different communities impacted by the pandemic and to explicitly consider equity in the resource allocation problem. The model is validated against real data for a case study of COVID-19 outbreak in France and our results provide various insights on the optimal testing intervention time and level, and the impact of the optimal allocation of testing resources on the spread of the disease among regions. The results confirm the significance of the proposed modeling framework for informing policymakers on the best preparedness strategies against future infectious disease outbreaks.(c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
To support artificial intelligence (AI)-involved tasks offloaded from the mobile devices (MDs), it is necessary to equip the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with custom-made co-processor (CP) for handling AI workloads i...
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To support artificial intelligence (AI)-involved tasks offloaded from the mobile devices (MDs), it is necessary to equip the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with custom-made co-processor (CP) for handling AI workloads in multi-UAV-empowered Edge Intelligence. Existing CPU-oriented task scheduling algorithm cannot apply to the CPU+CP heterogeneous architecture. In this backdrop, this paper first formulates the joint service function placement, collaborative task scheduling, UAV deployment, and MD position determination problem as a Mixed Integer non-linear programming problem. Then, an alternating optimization-based algorithm is put forward to derive a sub-optimal solution of the problem utilizing Differential Evolution and Greedy-based Hungarian algorithms. A series of experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposal. Results show that authors' proposal can achieve an overall revenue that is roughly 50% higher than those of existing methods.
Load modeling significantly impacts the time-domain response of power systems in transient stability studies but this effect is often underestimated in Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power flow (TSCOPF) studi...
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Load modeling significantly impacts the time-domain response of power systems in transient stability studies but this effect is often underestimated in Transient Stability Constrained Optimal Power flow (TSCOPF) studies. The object of this study is twofold: 1) it proposes a robust formulation based on a relevant node representation approach that allows the use of any type of load model in TSCOPF algorithms, while maintaining the accuracy and reducing the size of a full representation approach;and 2) it conducts a comparative analysis of how load modeling influences the cost of ensuring stability and provides a summary of several recommendations for load modeling in these algorithms. The results show that the usual approach in TSCOPF studies, which involves impedance-based load modeling, leads to a significant false stabilization effect in the rotor angle trajectories. On the other hand, the use of the constant power model yields conservative results at a significant computational cost. This paper advocates for the adoption of the relevant node TSCOPF approach proposed in this work, retaining detailed exponential or polynomial load models for their flexibility and accuracy, while incurring only a slight increase in the computational effort.
This paper presents numerical strategies for a computationally efficient energy management system that co-optimizes the power split and gear selection of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). We formulate a mixed-integer o...
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This paper presents numerical strategies for a computationally efficient energy management system that co-optimizes the power split and gear selection of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). We formulate a mixed-integer optimal control problem (MIOCP) that is transcribed using multiple-shooting into a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP) and then solved by nonlinear model predictive control. We present two different numerical strategies, a Selective Relaxation Approach (SRA), which decomposes the MINLP into several subproblems, and a Round-n-Search Approach (RSA), which is an enhancement of the known "relax-n-round' strategy. Subsequently, the resulting algorithmic performance and optimality of the solution of the proposed strategies are analyzed against two benchmark strate-gies;one using rule-based gear selection, which is typically used in production vehicles, and the other using dynamic programming (DP), which provides a global optimum of a quantized version of the MINLP. The results show that both SRA and RSA enable about 3.6% cost reduction compared to the rule-based strategy, while still being within 1% of the DP solution. Moreover, for the case studied RSA takes about 35% less mean computation time compared to SRA, while both SRA and RSA being about 99 times faster than DP. Furthermore, both SRA and RSA were able to overcome the infeasibilities encountered by a typical rounding strategy under different drive cycles. The results show the computational benefit of the proposed strategies, as well as the energy saving possibility of co-optimization strategies in which actuator dynamics are explicitly included.
The hybrid-electric powertrain currently used in Formula 1 race cars draws its energy from the car's fuel tank and battery. The usable battery size is limited, and refueling during a race is forbidden by the regul...
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The hybrid-electric powertrain currently used in Formula 1 race cars draws its energy from the car's fuel tank and battery. The usable battery size is limited, and refueling during a race is forbidden by the regulations of the Formula 1 race series. From a strategic point of view, lap-by-lap targets for the fuel and battery consumption must be chosen and imposed on the energy management controller of the car. This task is non-trivial dueto the influence of the on-board fuel mass on the achievable lap time, as well as the cross-couplings between the electric and the combustion part of the powertrain. A systematic approach is thus required to compute the energy allocation strategy that minimizes the total race time. In this paper, we devise an optimization framework in the form of a non-linear program, yielding the optimal battery and fuel consumption targets for each lap of the race. The approach is based on maps that capture the achievable lap time as a function of car mass and allocated battery and fuel energy. These maps are generated beforehand with a model-based single-lap optimization framework and fitted using artificial neural network techniques. To showcase the approach, we present three case studies: First, we compare the optimal strategy to a heuristic method. The im-provement of 2 s over the entire race is substantial, given that the difference only lies in the energy allocation, but not in the overall consumption. It underlines the importance of optimizing the energy allocation. Second, we leverage the framework to compute the optimal fuel load at the beginning of the race. Finally, we apply the developed non-linear program in a shrinking-horizon fashion. Our simulation results show that the resulting model predictive controller correctly reacts to disturbances that frequently occur during a race.
Automotive companies have a stable supply chain due to extensive vehicle production and global supply networks. The purpose of sustainable supply chain intelligence in this study is to minimize system costs and enviro...
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Visual Question Answering (VQA) lies at the intersection of vision and language domains necessitating learning representations from multiple modalities. While the model development for VQA has witnessed tremendous gro...
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Visual Question Answering (VQA) lies at the intersection of vision and language domains necessitating learning representations from multiple modalities. While the model development for VQA has witnessed tremendous growth, the efforts for its deployment on embedded devices have been lagging limiting its true potential. In this work, the authors address this challenge by designing a novel hardware- friendly architecture for VQA based on the transformer model with cross-modality attention. The memory footprint of the VQA model is optimized for on-device deployment using a distributed framework for Post Training Quantization (PTQ) formulated as a non-linear programming (NLP) problem. The NLP problem is solved using an Evolutionary algorithm to determine the low-bit representation of the VQA model with minimal accuracy drop compared to the full precision model. The quantized model for VQA with a marginal accuracy drop of less than 2%, resulted in 4 times memory improvement, and over 2 times latency improvement, enabling its successful deployment on the Samsung Galaxy S23 device. The comprehensive study explores the potential of the proposed generic end-to-end pipeline from VQA model development to its deployment.
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the impact of dams constructed in Turkey on the operational policy of the Mosul Dam. The study employs non-linear programming to establish an optimization model for t...
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The primary aim of this research is to investigate the impact of dams constructed in Turkey on the operational policy of the Mosul Dam. The study employs non-linear programming to establish an optimization model for the Mosul Dam reservoir, with the goal of maximizing hydropower generation and determining the optimal operation policy. Statistical tests, including Kendall's Rank Correlation Test and the Standard Normal Homogeneity Test, were used to analyze the direction and identify change points in the time-series. The results indicate a significant decrease in flow during March, April, and May due to dam construction in Turkey, with quantities ranging from 37.8 to 79 MCM/year for the total period. Conversely, there was a significant increase in flow during August and September due to hydroelectric power generation in the summer, with quantities of 20.6 and 15.5 MCM/year, respectively. Additionally, applying the non-linear optimization model to the last 2 years (2019-2020) and (2020-2021) revealed an increase in hydroelectric power production (220 and 180 MW, respectively) compared to actual hydropower generated (2067 and 2155 MW, respectively), as management did not realize the impact of Ilisu Dam on inflows. At the same time, the hydropower created during these 2 years fell short of the average hydropower generated throughout the entire period, which was 3367 MW. Also, the strength and efficiency of the non-linear optimization model and the possibility of employing it in identifying the operational policy when inflow is relatively low were proved.
This paper builds on the work of Bessem Samet by introducing new results in the context of (v, w)-convex functions, both in general and for differentiable cases. The study extends the definition of (v, w)-convex funct...
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This paper builds on the work of Bessem Samet by introducing new results in the context of (v, w)-convex functions, both in general and for differentiable cases. The study extends the definition of (v, w)-convex functions from Euclidean space to Riemannian manifolds, leading to the concept of geodesic (v, w)-convex functions. Several theorems are proven, including results that show the preservation of (v, w)-convexity under summation and positive scalar multiplication of functions. Additionally, the paper presents novel findings on (v, w)-convexity in Riemannian manifolds, providing a theoretical foundation for future exploration. The developed theorems are also applied to nonlinearprogramming, offering a method to find optimal solutions for differentiable functions within this framework. This research contributes to both the theory of convexity and its applications in optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds.
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