Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), can significantly reduce the cost and time required for the inventory counting that takes place daily, weekly, or monthly to maintain the record of the current inventory leve...
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Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), can significantly reduce the cost and time required for the inventory counting that takes place daily, weekly, or monthly to maintain the record of the current inventory levels. This thesis introduces an approach for finding the optimal drone path planning in the dynamic warehouse environment. This study aims to minimize energy consumption and simultaneously scan the inventory levels. Earlier, various approaches are proposed, which use multiple sensors (e.g., GPS, IMU) to increase the efficiency of localization and mapping of drones but have been proved to be ineffective in indoor environments. A 3-D grid cell representation of the static environment is carried out with each cell assigned to an ArUco marker. These ArUco markers consist of real-world coordinates that can be captured with the primary cameras present on the drone. Various state-of-the-art evolutionary optimization algorithms (EOA) such as Simulated Annealing (SA), Ant Colony optimization (ACO), and Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) and unsupervised machine learning techniques like Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are used, and a hybrid version of each of them is developed to obtain the set of non-dominated solutions, which are found by searching the available neighborhood cells. The results show the effectiveness of applied hybrid algorithms in solving the various test cases and the SOM-PSO version produces better results when compared to SOM-ACO and SOM-SA versions. It was observed that SOM-PSO was better than the other two hybrid algorithms and produced results with an average of 1.89% optimality gap for the benchmark TSP dataset and an average of 6.73% for the warehouse test case dataset.
This work introduces a novel methodology to perform the comparative analysis of evolutionary optimization algorithms. The methodology relies simply on linear regression and quantile-quantile plots. The methodology is ...
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This work introduces a novel methodology to perform the comparative analysis of evolutionary optimization algorithms. The methodology relies simply on linear regression and quantile-quantile plots. The methodology is extrapolated as the one-to-one comparison, one-to-many comparison and many-to-many comparison of solution quality and convergence rate. Most of the existing approaches utilize both solution quality and convergence rate to perform comparative analysis. However, many-to-many comparison, i.e., ranking of algorithms is done only in terms of solution quality. The proposed method is capable of ranking algorithms in terms of both solution quality and convergence rate. Method is analyzed with well-established algorithms and real data obtained from 25 benchmark functions.
The present paper deals with the optimal design of a composite sandwich panel with honeycomb core structure using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The face sheets of sandwich panel are considered to be thi...
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The present paper deals with the optimal design of a composite sandwich panel with honeycomb core structure using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The face sheets of sandwich panel are considered to be thin and the sandwich panel is subjected to a uniformly distributed normal load. The Navier type solution and the closed-form expressions for the macroscopic in-plane elastic constants of the honeycombs are used to predict the deflection of the panel. Also, the maximum stress in the composite sandwich panel is determined using the macroscopic stress-strain relation of the honeycomb core and the plate. Niching Memetic PSO (NMPSO) and Locally Informed Particle Swarm (LIPS) variants of PSO are examined to minimize the weight of the panel. Numerical results showed that the optimal geometry of the honeycomb cell has this property that its radius and thickness converge to their lower bounds while its length converges to its upper bound. This means that to have an optimal panel, each cell should have the allowable minimum cross section (highest number of cells) and maximum allowable length. Moreover the effects of panel aspect ratio, cell width and applied load were examined. Also, the numerical results confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the NMPSO in finding optimal solution on the constrained and unconstrained objective functions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
During the daily operation of photovoltaic array, it easily faces the partial shading conditions resulted from the cloud shadow, dropping dust, etc. It will directly cause a lifetime reduction and a generation efficie...
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During the daily operation of photovoltaic array, it easily faces the partial shading conditions resulted from the cloud shadow, dropping dust, etc. It will directly cause a lifetime reduction and a generation efficiency decre-ment for the photovoltaic array. To weaken the negative influence of partial shading condition, one of the most favoured ways is the photovoltaic array reconfiguration. However, the conventional photovoltaic array recon-figuration only aims to maximize the power output, which did not consider the lifetime and control complexity of switching devices. To fill up this gap, this paper constructs a new bi-objective optimization of photovoltaic array reconfiguration, which attempts to simultaneously maximize the output power and minimize the switching number. Consequently, it can dramatically reduce the switching control complexity while improving the gen-eration efficiency, while the operation life of the switching devices can be lengthened. In order to find a high -quality Pareto optimal reconfiguration schemes, six frequently-used evolutionary multi-objective optimizationalgorithms are employed to solve this bi-objective optimization. The effectiveness of bi-objective optimization of photovoltaic array reconfiguration is tested on three scales of total-cross-tied photovoltaic arrays under four partial shading patterns. The simulation results show that the maximum power increment by the proposed technique is up to 26.6% against to that without optimization, while the average switch number decrement is up to 31.1% compared with the single-objective optimizationalgorithms.
Active debris removal missions require an accurate planning for maximizing mission payout, by reaching the maximum number of potential orbiting targets in a given region of space. Such a problem is known to be computa...
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Active debris removal missions require an accurate planning for maximizing mission payout, by reaching the maximum number of potential orbiting targets in a given region of space. Such a problem is known to be computationally demanding and the present paper provides a technique for preliminary mission planning based on a novel evolutionaryoptimization algorithm, which identifies the best sequence of debris to be captured and/or deorbited. A permutation-based encoding is introduced, which may handle multiple spacecraft trajectories. An original archipelago structure is also adopted for improving algorithm capabilities to explore the search space. As a further contribution, several crossover and mutation operators and migration schemes are tested in order to identify the best set of algorithm parameters for the considered class of optimization problems. The algorithm is numerically tested for a fictitious cloud of debris in the neighborhood of Sun-synchronous orbits, including cases with multiple chasers.
This article proposes a state-of-the-art design procedure of integer-order PID (IOPID) and fractional-order PID (FOPID) controller applied to a well-established and diversified engineering application of the Magnetic ...
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This article proposes a state-of-the-art design procedure of integer-order PID (IOPID) and fractional-order PID (FOPID) controller applied to a well-established and diversified engineering application of the Magnetic Levitation System (Maglev). Controller design and implementation for the Maglev system are quite complicated and difficult since the system dynamics exhibits non-linearity with a wide variation of operating points. Also, the system is highly unstable which rules out the possibility to accomplish conventional tuning techniques. Thus in this work, the controller tuning methodology is framed as a complex optimization problem by incorporating a new transient specification-based objective function. For designing and tuning of proposed controller parameters, modern meta-heuristic and evolutionary optimization algorithms are deployed;those are Bird Swarm Algorithm, Elephant Herding optimization, Equilibrium optimizer and Grey Wolf optimization. The software and hardware results demonstrate that FOPID controllers yield better time-domain and frequency-domain performance specifications and exhibit excellent reference tracking capability than IOPID controllers. The performance robustness of the proposed controllers is greatly enhanced subjected to a vast range of parametric uncertainties along with a significant minimization of the control effort.
This paper presents a novel methodology for path generation synthesis of the four-bar mechanism. A new objective function for the path generation synthesis problem, namely, the Geometrical Similarity Error Function (G...
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This paper presents a novel methodology for path generation synthesis of the four-bar mechanism. A new objective function for the path generation synthesis problem, namely, the Geometrical Similarity Error Function (GSEF), is introduced. Indeed, GSEF assesses the similarity between generated and desired paths, and its number of design variables is less than those in the other synthesis methods. Then, using an Innovative Adaptive Algorithm (IAA), some operators are utilized for matching two similar paths. GSEF-IAA methodology has some significant advantages over the reported synthesis methods. The method is fast, takes much less CPU time, and saves a large amount of computer memory. Four path generation problems are solved using GSEF-IAA, and the results are compared with those of previous methods using some well-known optimizationalgorithms to demonstrate the efficiency of GSEF-IAA methodology.
In this paper, a 60 nm Complementary-Vertical TFET (C-VTFET) is designed using silicon on insulation technology is implemented for low power quadrature mirror filter design for different search algorithm using silvaco...
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In this paper, a 60 nm Complementary-Vertical TFET (C-VTFET) is designed using silicon on insulation technology is implemented for low power quadrature mirror filter design for different search algorithm using silvaco TCAD simulation. Various advantages of SOI have been incorporated for the realization of low-voltage with low power (LVLP) for VLSI design digital circuits. To prevent the losses of the Lattice mismatch structure, gate staking of high k -dielectric (HfO2) material with SiO2 was employed using equivalent oxide thickness method. Various engineering method incorporated to optimized the Drain-Voltage characteristics. N-Type and P-Type VTFET is considered using the mixed mode technique. The SiGe layer is employed to enhance the tunneling method of by reducing the bandgap firm 1.1 eV to 0.7 eV. The highest I-ON current and minimum I(OFF )current is reported for the proposed device is I (3.62 x 10(-4) A/mu m) and (1.58 x 10(-18) A/mu m) respectively. The ON/OFF current ratio out recorded as similar to 10(13) respectively. The reconstruction quadrature mirror filter architecture in this manuscript is computationally efficient and virtually flawless. Sparsity among the coefficients is introduced to reduce the number of multipliers and adders required to construct prototype the filter H-0(Z), resulting in a reduction in computational complexity. A well-known population-based evolutionaryoptimization differential search algorithm is used to optimized the objective function. However, Levy's differential search method is also advocated due to sluggish exploitation of traditional differential search algorithm. The suggested algorithm's effectiveness is evaluated by comparing it to other evolutionaryoptimization techniques. The results demonstrate that the proposed technique outperforms previously published evolutionary optimization algorithms. The above analysis validated the proposed device are well incorporated for the execution to design low power filter design
Artificial neural network (ANN) is an information processing paradigm that loosely models the thinking patterns of the human brain with specifications such as real-time learning, self-adaption, and self -organization....
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Artificial neural network (ANN) is an information processing paradigm that loosely models the thinking patterns of the human brain with specifications such as real-time learning, self-adaption, and self -organization. The learning process of ANNs is complex and tackles shortcomings such as a slow convergence rate, learning timeconsuming, and local minimum trapping, especially when using gradient -based optimization techniques. Although many metaheuristics have been proposed to arm ANN and solve these weaknesses, ANN learning still needs solution quality. Therefore, this study proposes an evolutionary crow search algorithm (ECSA) to optimize the hyperparameters of ANNs for diagnosing chronic diseases. ECSA introduces an evolutionary search strategy, self -adaptive adaptive flight length, and an interactive memory mechanism to alleviate the canonical crow search algorithm's shortcomings. The evolutionary search strategy and self -adaptive flight length provide a meaningful search strategy in which crows effectively explore and exploit problem spaces by maintaining population diversity. During the search process, the interactive memory mechanism records the best solution obtained during optimization. The performance of ECSA was evaluated and compared with well-known metaheuristic algorithms in terms of local and global search abilities, local optima avoidance, and convergence speed towards the promising area. Then, the results were statistically analyzed. Ultimately, the effectiveness of an adaptation of ECSA named ECSA-MLP for optimizing hyperparameters of the multilayer perceptron network for diagnosing diseases including coronavirus, breast cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, cervical cancer, Parkinson's, mammography, and acute inflammation was compared with state-of-the-art competitor algorithms. The experimental results indicated the superiority of ECSA over competitor algorithms in optimizing the network.
Scheduling of tasks in scientific workflow has been challenging due to heterogeneous and interdependent tasks in workflow. The scheduling involves selection of different types of virtual machines (VM) belonging to dif...
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Scheduling of tasks in scientific workflow has been challenging due to heterogeneous and interdependent tasks in workflow. The scheduling involves selection of different types of virtual machines (VM) belonging to different instance series (computing, memory, storage) to minimize the overall execution cost and time (makespan). Apart from VM selection, selection of security services (such as authentication, integrity, confidentiality) is critical. In this paper, we propose OptReUse - a workflow schedule generation algorithm for efficient reuse of VMs. Our approach of OptReUse algorithm along with combinatorial optimization approach gives lower cost of scheduling compared to the prior art without incurring delay in the makespan. Further, we enhance the security model by accurate estimation of risks. Our experiments using standard scientific workflows demonstrate that the proposed method gives lower costs compared to the prior VM resource utilization methods.
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