— In order to achieve autonomous vertical wall climbing, the transition phase from the ground to the wall requires extra consideration inevitably. This paper focuses on the contact sequence planner to transition betw...
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Cluster detection plays a fundamental role in the analysis of data. In this paper, we focus on the use of sdefective clique models for network-based cluster detection and propose a nonlinear optimization approach that...
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A study addresses offline construction of the database. The main focus and contribution of this study are database building and interpolation for the Database-Driven Safe Flight Envelope Prediction System (DEFEND) sys...
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A study addresses offline construction of the database. The main focus and contribution of this study are database building and interpolation for the Database-Driven Safe Flight Envelope Prediction System (DEFEND) system. More importantly, through complexity analysis, the database approach is shown to be feasible for onboard real-time implementation within the aircraft control laws. Reachability analysis as the method to compute safe flight envelopes, as the theory provides a set-valued insight into safety and control design of dynamic systems. One advantage of this method is that all possible trajectories can be computed from all available control strategies and initial states, which naturally meets the safety guarantees. The computed results are called reachable sets, which are defined as a set of states that reach a certain target set within a certain time horizon and current control authority. Two sets of envelopes are computed using the level-set method toolbox. One is the pitching envelope, referred to the motion in the longitudinal plane with horizontal tail damage. The other is the rolling envelope, referred to the motion in the lateral plane with wing tip loss.
Aerodynamic forces are not negligible for a reusable rocket returning back to Earth. How the aerodynamic controls and propulsion should be coordinated to realize fuel-optimal precise landing is addressed in this paper...
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Aerodynamic forces are not negligible for a reusable rocket returning back to Earth. How the aerodynamic controls and propulsion should be coordinated to realize fuel-optimal precise landing is addressed in this paper. To this end, a model-based optimal control problem is formulated with the rocket's angle of attack and thrust as control inputs, and constraints on the controls are included to reflect the capabilities of the vehicle. Precise landing requires the (highly nonlinear and nonconvex) problem to be solved onboard in real time. This ability of online computation is becoming increasingly desired in aerospace guidance and control for autonomous missions. Hence, this paper presents how to solve the rocket landing problem via convex optimization that has guaranteed polynomial-time complexity. Specifically, a novel methodology of handling the rocket nonlinear dynamics is introduced, and a relaxation technique used to convexify nonconvex constraints is theoretically proved to be valid. High efficiency of the proposed method, with potential for online computation, is demonstrated by numerical examples and comparisons with other methods.
The well known constant rank constraint qualification [Math. Program. Study 21:110-126, 1984] introduced by Janin for nonlinear programming has been recently extended to a conic context by exploiting the eigenvector s...
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We consider nonlinear optimization problems that involve surrogate models represented by neural networks. We demonstrate first how to directly embed neural network evaluation into optimization models, highlight a diff...
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This study presents a comprehensive approach for the distribution system expansion planning (DSEP) that considers investment, operation, carbon dioxide emission and reliability costs, as well as uncertainties over loa...
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This study presents a comprehensive approach for the distribution system expansion planning (DSEP) that considers investment, operation, carbon dioxide emission and reliability costs, as well as uncertainties over load demand and wind-based distributed generation. A restoration strategy is taken into account for obtaining the energy not supplied under the 'N - 1' criterion and the corresponding reliability cost over a planning horizon. The problem is modelled as mixed-integer non-linear programming by using the artificial immune system algorithm. Also, two methods to represent uncertainties are applied and compared: an interval technique through an interval power flow and a scenario-based approach. Network constraints are considered, as the limits of current, voltage and power from substations, as well as the obtaining of radial and connected topology. The novelty of the proposed interval DSEP consists of handling the uncertainties over operation in an efficient manner through a single step, instead of the several deterministic evaluations of the scenario-based approach. Numerical results are presented for well known test systems, which show the potentials of the proposed approach.
This study presents a novel scheme for transmission expansion planning (TEP) based on piecewise McCormick relaxation. The model presented considers investment and operation cost and identifies the transmission lines t...
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This study presents a novel scheme for transmission expansion planning (TEP) based on piecewise McCormick relaxation. The model presented considers investment and operation cost and identifies the transmission lines to be built. Since the AC power flow equations are inherently non-convex and non-linear, the resulting TEP model will be a highly complex optimisation problem, in which the optimal global solution is not guaranteed to be found by the existing techniques. This study aims to transform the non-linear model of the power network into a novel linear one. The model proposed is much more precise compared with the DC approach, while the global solution is guaranteed to be found by the off-the-shelf solvers. This accurate transformation from a non-convex and non-linear AC-TEP formulation into a linear-TEP model enables the planner to get more insight into the power flow of the power system. The TEP problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming problem and is solved using the efficient commercial solvers. The results of the case studies show the tractability and exactness of the proposed model as well as its superiority over the state-of-the-art schemes.
This paper addresses the optimal power flow (OPF) issue by using the CONOPT solver for nonlinear programming embedded in the Generalized Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software package. The research is performed on ...
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This paper addresses the optimal power flow (OPF) issue by using the CONOPT solver for nonlinear programming embedded in the Generalized Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software package. The research is performed on both standard IEEE 30-bus test systems and their modified version. The system modification has been done in order to assess the impact of the integrated renewable energy sources, primarily wind energy sources, on the OPF. The obtained results strongly confirm the GAMS/CONOPT efficiency for solving the OPF problem. GAMS/CONOPT always converges to the same optimal solution contrary to many well-known optimization techniques. Additionally, the GAMS/CONOPT requested computation time considerably outperforms that of the other techniques in the field (in all analyzed cases, in the worst situation, more than 30 times). These performances promote GAMS/CONOPT as a very successive tool for solving the real-time OPF problem.
In this paper we present an adaptive wavelet algorithm (WAA) tailored for dynamic optimization problems (DOP). The main feature of the WAA is the automatic computation of time-domain discretization, generating a self-...
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In this paper we present an adaptive wavelet algorithm (WAA) tailored for dynamic optimization problems (DOP). The main feature of the WAA is the automatic computation of time-domain discretization, generating a self-adapting control parameterization, which depends on the nonlinear characteristics of the mathematical model. For this, the control variables are analyzed and treated at different wavelet levels. First, we have demonstrated the advantages of WAA over heuristic adaptive procedures, proposed in the last years. Second, the results of the proposed strategy are illustrated through the solution of ten case studies. According to the results, the computation cost could be reduced by about 56% on average. Besides, the average NLP size reduction was approximately 49.94%, showing that one of the most considerable advantages of the algorithm is the adaptive discretization without prior information of the control profile. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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