Designing detection systems based on transimpedance amplifiers is a complex task because noise, frequency response, and stability are coupled constraints. This work presents a straightforward design method of detectio...
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Designing detection systems based on transimpedance amplifiers is a complex task because noise, frequency response, and stability are coupled constraints. This work presents a straightforward design method of detection systems based on transimpedance amplifiers. We take into account the objectives, scope of the design, and requirements and specifications, including the input signal levels. According to the small-signal model, the noise and stability are analyzed in detail. We present a systematic procedure to search for the acceptable values of the feedback network components based on these analyses. Then, we define a merit function to compare the performance of the acceptable combinations of feedback network components. For every acceptable combination, the function gives a quantitative measure of the degree of compliance for each design parameter: signal-to-noise ratio, highest operating frequency, and phase margin. As an example, we apply the method to optimize the design of an optical detection system using a PIN photodiode and a low-noise operational amplifier.
The communication in quarantined areas, e.g., due to the new COVID-19 pandemic, between isolated areas and in areas with technical damage has resulted in a great deal of interest concerning the safety of the populatio...
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The communication in quarantined areas, e.g., due to the new COVID-19 pandemic, between isolated areas and in areas with technical damage has resulted in a great deal of interest concerning the safety of the population. A new method for ensuring communication between different areas, using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with a well-established mobility schedule is proposed. UAVs fly based on a mission plan using regular polygons covering an area from a map. The area is considered to be equidistantly covered with points, grouped in triangles which are further grouped into hexagons. In this paper, UAVs, including battery charging or battery swapping stations and light weight Wi-Fi boards, are used for the data transfer among drones and stations using delivery protocols. UAV network analysis and evaluation (lengths of the arcs in seconds) based on experimental preliminary flight tests are proposed. Multiple simulations are performed based on six DTN algorithms, single-copy, and multiple-copies algorithms, and the efficiency of data transmission (delivery rate and latency) is analyzed. A very good delivery rate of 0.973 is obtained using the newly introduced TD-UAV Dijkstra algorithm.
In this paper, secure beamforming design in cooperative cognitive radio networks for Internet of Things (IoT) is investigated, where we maximize the secrecy sum rate for the IoT devices (IoDs) to protect their communi...
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In this paper, secure beamforming design in cooperative cognitive radio networks for Internet of Things (IoT) is investigated, where we maximize the secrecy sum rate for the IoT devices (IoDs) to protect their communication and employ the nonorthogonal multiple access scheme at the cognitive access point (AP) to serve the cognitive users. The formulated secure beamforming optimization problem is a non-convex problem and its global optimal solution is very hard to find. To overcome this difficulty, we propose an iterative algorithm based on semidefinite programming and monotonic optimization method to obtain the global optimal solution, which has high computational complexity and is suitable for the case that the cognitive AP has a powerful computing ability. For some application scenarios in which the cognitive AP has a lower computing ability, we propose suboptimal solutions based on zero-forcing scheme, which have much lower computational complexity. Furthermore, we derive the limit value of the secrecy sum rate for the IoDs when the transmit power of the cognitive AP goes to infinity, which can serve as an upper bound for our proposed solutions. Numerical results are also provided to verify the effectiveness of our proposed solutions.
This manuscript proposes a modern optimization framework for parameter extraction of a triple-diode model of the unknown solar cell and Photovoltaic (PV) module parameters. The suggested optimization framework is base...
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This manuscript proposes a modern optimization framework for parameter extraction of a triple-diode model of the unknown solar cell and Photovoltaic (PV) module parameters. The suggested optimization framework is based on applying a new metaheuristic optimization algorithm called Artificial Ecosystem-based Optimizer (AEO) to determine the nine unknown parameters of the triple-diode model of PV equivalent circuit model. Fitting the experimental data is the main objective of the extracted unknown parameters to develop a generic PV model. In this context, the root means squared error (RMSE) between the measured and estimated data is considered as the primary objective function. This objective function achieves the closeness degree between the estimated and experimental data. On the way to accomplish this study, the proposed AEO is carried out on three different commercial PV cells/modules. To assess the proposed algorithm, a comprehensive comparison study is used compared with several well-matured optimization algorithms reported in the literature. The attained numerical results prove the high precision and fast response of the proposed AEO algorithm for identifying multiple PV models.
Support vector machine (SVM) parameters such as penalty parameter and kernel parameters have a great influence on the complexity and accuracy of SVM model. In this paper, quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (Q...
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Support vector machine (SVM) parameters such as penalty parameter and kernel parameters have a great influence on the complexity and accuracy of SVM model. In this paper, quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) has been employed to optimize the parameters of SVM, so that the classification error can be reduced. To evaluate the proposed model (QPSO-SVM), the experiment adopted seven standard classification datasets which are obtained from UCI machine learning data repository. For verification, the results of the QPSO-SVM algorithm are compared with the standard PSO, and genetic algorithm (GA) which is one of the well-known optimization algorithms. Moreover, the results of QPSO are compared with the grid search, which is a conventional method of searching parameter values. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed model is capable to find the optimal values of the SVM parameters. The results also showed lower classification error rates compared with standard PSO and GA algorithms.
While the optimization of design is an effective way to increase the performance of metasurfaces, there is still much to be done to improve optimization algorithms. In this work, a transgenic genetic algorithm (TGA) p...
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While the optimization of design is an effective way to increase the performance of metasurfaces, there is still much to be done to improve optimization algorithms. In this work, a transgenic genetic algorithm (TGA) proposed for metasurface design offers higher performance and more design freedom. Based on GAs, transgenic technology is introduced into metasurface design to improve both performance and flexibility. We describe the generation of a transgenic factor (TF), how it operates on metasurface design, and explain the feasibility of enhancing design freedom using a TGA. To target the broadband regime and high efficiency, an electromagnetic polarization converter and an absorber are then designed by TGA, respectively. As a result, polarization conversion of more than -1 dB and absorption of over 90% were achieved from 8.09 GHz to 24.90 GHz and 7.71 GHz to 20.01 GHz, respectively. Both simulated and measured results are highly consistent, which validates the stable performance achieved by the proposed TGA design. What is more, a performance comparison between different TFs illustrates the subtle influence of TFs, revealing that the performance is improved to some extent by an increase of surface-design freedom. Significantly, this effort provides more freedom in the design method, leading to the realization of many expected improvements.
We propose a new method to accelerate the convergence of optimization algorithms. This method, termed Powerball method, simply adds a power coefficient.. [0,1) to the gradient used in various gradient-based optimizati...
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We propose a new method to accelerate the convergence of optimization algorithms. This method, termed Powerball method, simply adds a power coefficient.. [0,1) to the gradient used in various gradient-based optimization schemes. In its essence, the Powerball method can be regarded as the steepest gradient descent with respect to the p-norm, where p = 1 + (1/gamma). As a motivation, we first present the continuous-time models of the proposed optimization schemes and analyze their finite-time convergence properties. We then develop several variants of the Powerball method that empirically outperform the standard descent methods, especially during the initial iterations. On multiple real datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed methods can provide a tenfold speedup of the convergence of both (stochastic) gradient descent and limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-GoldfarbShanno (L-BFGS) methods.
k-Means (KM) is well known for its ease of implementation as a clustering technique. It has been applied for color quantization in RGB, YUV, hyperspectral image, Lab, and other spaces, but this leads to fragmented seg...
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k-Means (KM) is well known for its ease of implementation as a clustering technique. It has been applied for color quantization in RGB, YUV, hyperspectral image, Lab, and other spaces, but this leads to fragmented segments as the pixels are clustered only in the color space without considering connectivity. The problem has been attacked by adding connectivity constraints, or using joint color and spatial features (r, g, b, x, y), which prevent fragmented and nonconvex segments. However, it does not take into account the complexity of the shape itself. The Mumford-Shah model has been earlier used to overcome this problem but with slow and complex mathematical optimization algorithms. We integrate Mumford-Shah model directly into KM context and construct a fast and simple implementation of the algorithm. The proposed approach uses standard KM algorithm with distance function derived from Mumford-Shah model so that it optimizes both the content and the shape of the segments jointly. We demonstrate by experiments that the proposed algorithm provides better results than comparative methods when compared using various error evaluation criteria. The algorithm is applied on 100 images in the Weizmann dataset and two remote sensing images. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Interior point methods are applicable to a large class of problems and can be very reliable for convex optimization, even without a good initial guess for the optimal solution. Active-set methods, on the other hand, a...
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Interior point methods are applicable to a large class of problems and can be very reliable for convex optimization, even without a good initial guess for the optimal solution. Active-set methods, on the other hand, are often restricted to linear or quadratic programming but they have a lower computational cost per iteration and superior warm starting properties. The present paper proposes an approach for improving the numerical conditioning and warm starting properties of interior point methods, based on an active-set identification strategy and inexact Newton-type optimization techniques. In addition, we show how this reduces the average computational cost of the linear algebra operations in each interior point iteration. We developed an efficient C code implementation of the active-set based interior point method (ASIPM) and show that it can be competitive with state of the art solvers for a standard case study of model predictive control stabilizing an inverted pendulum on a cart. Copyright (C) 2020 The Authors.
One of the cornerstones of geostatistics is the variogram. Fitting a variogram model to observed data is certainly one of the routine tasks in daily geostatistics practice. The central role of the variogram and the di...
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One of the cornerstones of geostatistics is the variogram. Fitting a variogram model to observed data is certainly one of the routine tasks in daily geostatistics practice. The central role of the variogram and the difficulty of performing variogram modeling manually call for an automatic, or at least a computer-assisted, method. Fitting a parametric curve to observational points in an XY chart is far from new and the GSLib software package has included a module (called VARFIT) to perform automatic variogram fitting in 1D since its debut many years ago. Nevertheless, extending its objective function to fitting to variogram map (2D) resulted in a method with poor performance. Hence, this work proposes a computational method to fit variogram models to variogram maps with a different objective function based on the principles of the Fourier Integral Method (FIM). A map is synthesized from the theoretical variogram model using the principles of FIM. The metric of the objective function is the sum of squares of differences between each pixel value of the synthetic map and the input map. The genetic algorithm uses this metric to find the variogram parameters of a model with good fitness. Since the genetic algorithm has a stochastic component, the best fit is not certain. Hence, several runs with different random number generator seeds are performed. The parameters of all fitted models are collected and cluster analysis in parameter space is done with the DBSCAN algorithm. The centers of the clusters are the parameters of the sought variogram model. Open-source software was written and made available, in which the proposed objective function was tested alongside the 2D version of the one in VARFIT. Results showed better effectiveness of the proposed method in fitting variogram models for the variogram map case.
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