Effective charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) control strategies can utilise the properties of electric vehicles (EVs) to obtain various benefits. EVs are modelled as individuals in existing charging control algorithms...
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Effective charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) control strategies can utilise the properties of electric vehicles (EVs) to obtain various benefits. EVs are modelled as individuals in existing charging control algorithms. In this study, a new modelling method of EVs and an optimal charging control strategy are proposed so that all EVs in a control area can be regarded as a single object in the optimisation process. The strategy minimises the total charging cost of EVs, and can be further expanded to serve V2G control. With the new modelling method, the computational burden of the optimisation algorithm can be reduced significantly and does not increase with the number of EVs. Thus the strategy is extremely effective when the number of EVs becomes large, and the implementation cost could be more reasonable since less computational capacity is required. Case studies are presented to illustrate the performance of the strategy.
Spectral measures have long been used to quantify the robustness of real-world graphs. For example, spectral radius (or the principal eigenvalue) is related to the effective spreading rates of dynamic processes (e.g.,...
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Spectral measures have long been used to quantify the robustness of real-world graphs. For example, spectral radius (or the principal eigenvalue) is related to the effective spreading rates of dynamic processes (e.g., rumor, disease, information propagation) on graphs. Algebraic connectivity (or the Fiedler value), which is a lower bound on the node and edge connectivity of a graph, captures the "partitionability" of a graph into disjoint components. In this work we address the problem of modifying a given graph's structure under a given budget so as to maximally improve its robustness, as quantified by spectral measures. We focus on modifications based on degree-preserving edge rewiring, such that the expected load (e.g., airport flight capacity) or physical/hardware requirement (e.g., count of ISP router traffic switches) of nodes remain unchanged. Different from a vast literature of measure-independent heuristic approaches, we propose an algorithm, called EdgeRewire, which optimizes a specific measure of interest directly. Notably, EdgeRewire is general to accommodate six different spectral measures. Experiments on real-world datasets from three different domains (Internet AS-level, P2P, and airport flights graphs) show the effectiveness of our approach, where EdgeRewire produces graphs with both (i) higher robustness, and (ii) higher attack-tolerance over several state-of-the-art methods.
A moving approach for the VHM (Vector Hysteron Model) is here described, to reconstruct both scalar and rotational magnetization of electrical steels with weak anisotropy, such as the non oriented grain Silicon steel....
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A moving approach for the VHM (Vector Hysteron Model) is here described, to reconstruct both scalar and rotational magnetization of electrical steels with weak anisotropy, such as the non oriented grain Silicon steel. The hysterons distribution is postulated to be function of the magnetization state of the material, in order to overcome the practical limitation of the congruency property of the standard VHM approach. By using this formulation and a suitable accommodation procedure, the results obtained indicate that the model is accurate, in particular in reproducing the experimental behavior approaching to the saturation region, allowing a real improvement respect to the previous approach. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The dynamics of a distributed solar collector field can be modelled by a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) based on the energy balance. The model-based optimal control of the outlet temperature ...
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(纸本)9781509045839
The dynamics of a distributed solar collector field can be modelled by a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) based on the energy balance. The model-based optimal control of the outlet temperature is studied. One of few ways to influence the outlet temperature is by adjusting the oil pump volumetric flow rate. In this work, an optimal algorithm is developed to minimize the mismatch between the outlet temperature and a desired temperature. The method is based on the adjoint approach for constrained optimization problems with a nonlinear hyperbolic PDE applied as an optimization constraint. In particular, the algorithm simplifies a problem by decomposing it into a two-level optimization problem. Unlike the traditional tracking control such as motion planing, the reference tracking equations in this work do not need state trajectory generation. Finally, the proposed approach is verified to perform well via a computer simulation.
Inspired by concepts in quantum mechanics and particle swarm optimization(PSO) algorithm,quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization(QPSO) algorithm was proposed as a variant of PSO algorithm with better global search...
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Inspired by concepts in quantum mechanics and particle swarm optimization(PSO) algorithm,quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization(QPSO) algorithm was proposed as a variant of PSO algorithm with better global search *** the same time,some improved QPSO algorithms are also *** order to determine whether the performance of the algorithm is affected by the location of the parameter,this paper compares four variants of QPSO *** operator is exerted on the mean best position and the particle's previous position to improve the search ability of the QPSO algorithm,***,some empirical studies on popular benchmark functions are performed in order to make a full performance evaluation and comparison among four variants of QPSO *** experimental results show that the new parameter based on individual particles evolutionary process which located in the mean best position algorithm(IEQPSO-1) is more effective approach than others in most cases.
We consider the problem of convex constrained minimization of an average of n functions, where the parameter and the features are related through inner products. We focus on second order batch updates, where the curva...
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(纸本)9781509052943
We consider the problem of convex constrained minimization of an average of n functions, where the parameter and the features are related through inner products. We focus on second order batch updates, where the curvature matrix is obtained by assuming random design and by applying the celebrated Stein's lemma together with subsampling techniques. The proposed algorithm enjoys fast convergence rates similar to the Newton method, yet the per-iteration cost has the same order of magnitude as the gradient descent. We demonstrate its performance on well-known optimization problems where Stein's lemma is not directly applicable, such as M-estimation for robust statistics, and inequality form linear/quadratic programming etc. Under certain assumptions, we show that the constrained optimization algorithm attains a composite convergence rate that is initially quadratic and asymptotically linear. We validate its performance through widely encountered optimization tasks on several real and synthetic datasets by comparing it to classical optimization algorithms.
The paper analyzes the relationship between the traffic flow and the look-ahead control. The purpose of the analysis is to map the impact of the unique speed profiles used by the look-ahead controlled vehicles on the ...
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Ideally, ironless linear motors can reach very high precision with simple classical commutation using three-phase sinusoidal currents. However, in reality, due to deviations from the design parameters, there are vario...
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In this paper, we continue our work on linear least squares based adaptation (LLS) for deep neural networks. We show that our previously proposed algorithm is a special case of an optimization algorithm called Alterna...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509041183
In this paper, we continue our work on linear least squares based adaptation (LLS) for deep neural networks. We show that our previously proposed algorithm is a special case of an optimization algorithm called Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). We demonstrate that the adaptation algorithm can improve the performance on various deep neural networks including the bidirectional long short term memory (BLSTM). On the Switchboard subset of the Hub5 2000 evaluation set, we show that LLS adaptation can achieve 6 to 9% relative word error rate (WER) reduction, and improve our two-pass system to 7.5% WER. In this paper, we also analyze the factors that could contribute to the success of an adaptation algorithm. This helps us to understand under what circumstances, adaptation could improve the system performance.
We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509041183
We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon, which makes the method preferable in applications where linear measurement models are inaccurate. We construct the measurement model by expanding the scattered wave-field with an accelerated-gradient method, which is guaranteed to converge and is suitable for large-scale problems. We provide explicit formulas for computing the gradient of our measurement model with respect to the unknown image, which enables image formation with a sparsity-driven numerical optimization algorithm. We validate the method both analytically and with numerical simulations.
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