作者:
Snyman, JAUniv Pretoria
Dept Mech & Aeronaut Engn Multidisciplinary Design Optimizat Grp ZA-0002 Pretoria South Africa
This paper describes an accurate and reliable new algorithm (LFOPC) for solving constrained optimization problems, through a three-phase application of the well-established leap-frog method for unconstrained optimizat...
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This paper describes an accurate and reliable new algorithm (LFOPC) for solving constrained optimization problems, through a three-phase application of the well-established leap-frog method for unconstrained optimization, to penalty function formulations of the original constrained problems. The algorithm represents a considerable improvement over an earlier version (LFOPCON) which requires the judicious choice of parameter settings for efficient use. The current algorithm automatically executes normalization and scaling operations on the gradients of the constraints. This results in a robust algorithm that, apart from convergence tolerances, requires virtually no parameter settings. The method has been well tested, on both standard analytical test problems and practical engineering design problems. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Most papers which solve a problem on a graph class assume there is a promise that the input is in the class. Thus, the algorithm could produce incorrect output, or fail to terminate in the time bound claimed, if the i...
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Camera based probes and machine vision have found increased use in coordinate measuring machines over the past years and the calibration of artifacts for these probes has become an important task for NIST. Until recen...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819435848
Camera based probes and machine vision have found increased use in coordinate measuring machines over the past years and the calibration of artifacts for these probes has become an important task for NIST. Until recently these artifacts have been calibrated using one or two dimensional measuring machines with electro-optic microscopes or scanning devices as probes. These sensors evaluate only a small section of the edge of a grid mark, and irregularities in this particular spot from local deformations or contamination influence the measurement result. Since these measurements result in a single number based on the entire field of view, the influence of small irregularities are not easily detected. Since different probes scan different parts of the grid mark edge they may give systematically different positions of the mark. The conversion to video based sensors has allowed more flexibility it edge detection, although most instruments still use least squares fits as the substitute geometry of straight edges. This method is very susceptible to noise and edge irregularities. We present some experiments for finding the sub-pixel edge point locations and fitting the set of edge points to a line using a fairly simple least sum of absolute deviations fit. Data from a high accuracy 2D measuring machine is used to show the strengths of the algorithms.
The use of the overset concept for the unstructured grid method is relatively unexplored. However, the overset approach can extend the applicability of the unstructured grid method for real engineering problems withou...
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The use of the overset concept for the unstructured grid method is relatively unexplored. However, the overset approach can extend the applicability of the unstructured grid method for real engineering problems without much need for code development. The multiple moving-body problem is one of those applications. Improvement in local resolution for Euler/Navier-Stokes computations on unstructured grids is another use of the overset concept. An efficient and robust algorithm to localize the intergrid boundaries for the overset unstructured grid method is proposed. Simplicity and automation in the intergrid-boundary definition are realized using the wall distance as a basic parameter. The neighbor-to-neighbor jump search algorithm is efficiently utilized in the method. The robustness and efficiency of the search is improved by the use of subsidiary grids that are generated as a byproduct of the Delaunay triangulation method. The basic procedure of the present method is described for a multielement airfoil problem. The effects of the overset method on the solution accuracy and the convergence are tested by ONERA M6-wing. The capability of the method is demonstrated by application to an airplane-rocket boaster separation problem.
In this paper, we address the issues related to the design of fuzzy robust principal component analysis (FRPCA) algorithms. The design of robust principal component analysis has been studied in the literature of stati...
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In this paper, we address the issues related to the design of fuzzy robust principal component analysis (FRPCA) algorithms. The design of robust principal component analysis has been studied in the literature of statistics for over two decades. More recently Xu and Yuille proposed a family of online robust principal component analysis based on statistical physics approach. We extend Xu and Yuille's objective function by using fuzzy membership and derive improved algorithms that can extract the appropriate principal components from the spoiled data set. The difficulty of selecting an appropriate hard threshold in Xu and Yuille's approach is alleviated by replacing the threshold by an automatically selected soft threshold in FRPCA. Artificially generated data sets are used to evaluate the performance of various PCA algorithms. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
The authors propose an efficient and computationally fast algorithm for solving the mix-up problem in complex arrays. The Lagrange multiplier theory is used in the optimisation of the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) ...
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The authors propose an efficient and computationally fast algorithm for solving the mix-up problem in complex arrays. The Lagrange multiplier theory is used in the optimisation of the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) cost function and the input data are processed in blocks. Furthermore, a simplification of the CMA cost function is proposed that leads to a robust algorithm for solving this problem. Simulations are presented to support the analysis.
This paper extends the method for the construction of the intersection graph, which was proposed by the authors for polyhedral solids, to curved solids. In order to be robust against numerical errors, the method explo...
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This paper extends the method for the construction of the intersection graph, which was proposed by the authors for polyhedral solids, to curved solids. In order to be robust against numerical errors, the method exploits the topological connectivity properties of the edge-face intersection points. Furthermore, as a part of the algorithm for the construction of the intersection graph, this paper presents a new method for the computation of the tangent points between an intersection curve and a boundary curve of a surface.
A novel method (based on the characteristics of scatter matrices and frequency-sensitive competitive learning) for training the hidden layer of a radial basis fraction neural network is proposed. The method is demonst...
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A novel method (based on the characteristics of scatter matrices and frequency-sensitive competitive learning) for training the hidden layer of a radial basis fraction neural network is proposed. The method is demonstrated ro be robust and to outperform the state-of-the-art algorithm.
A simple robust algorithm which efficiently represents signals with a very high amount of noise is presented, according to the expressions for the mean, variance and the optimal window width of the Wigner distribution...
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A simple robust algorithm which efficiently represents signals with a very high amount of noise is presented, according to the expressions for the mean, variance and the optimal window width of the Wigner distribution estimator. Its application in the time-varying filtering is illustrated.
This paper proposes a new face-based data structure and robust algorithms for processing polyhedra. The face-based structure is introduced for representing designers' intentions and constraints on faces without re...
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This paper proposes a new face-based data structure and robust algorithms for processing polyhedra. The face-based structure is introduced for representing designers' intentions and constraints on faces without redundancy as well as machining features for the faces, and for handling computational errors. To construct the algorithms, the following three principles are employed. Fundamental data are coefficients of plane equations, and coordinate values of vertices which include computational errors are treated as secondary. Incidence tests among geometrical elements such as vertices, edges and faces are performed based on a determinant value of four faces. A local topological structure, where many faces intersect near a point and ambiguities of the topology remain, is determined as a tree structure so as not to make small faces according to the global feature of the shape in terms of a sequence of the face segments and edge classification as concave and convex. In this paper, the incidence test is explained geometrically. algorithms for Boolean set operations are presented along with classification of incidence patterns, and some examples executed with them are shown. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd
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