The paper studies a packing problem for ellipses placed into an arbitrary disconnected polygonal domain. Neither a number of ellipses nor their sizes are fixed. The objective is maximizing packing factor. The ellipses...
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We present a method to reduce the computational burden of solving a sequence of convex quadratic programs (QPs). By determining offline what search space is most important, we can restrict our online problem to that s...
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We present a method to reduce the computational burden of solving a sequence of convex quadratic programs (QPs). By determining offline what search space is most important, we can restrict our online problem to that subspace, reducing the dimension and computational cost of the QP solver. The process we present is very simple requiring surprisingly little data. Further, we present a modified sequential QP algorithm that leverages the restricted QP approach to solve nonlinear programming problems found in model predictive control. Lastly, we apply these to a benchmark MPC problem and demonstrate their effectiveness using a variety of established QP solvers. We demonstrate that QP problems can be solved faster with minimal MPC performance degradation and highlight future directions for this work.
In this paper, an algorithm based on Inliers tracking statistics is proposed to solve the problem of motion-blur interference of RGB-D SLAM front-end pose estimation and back-end optimization. Firstly, the feature ext...
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In this paper, an algorithm based on Inliers tracking statistics is proposed to solve the problem of motion-blur interference of RGB-D SLAM front-end pose estimation and back-end optimization. Firstly, the feature extraction and matching of the RGB image are carried out and the inliers is obtained by the RANSAC algorithm. Then, the blur image affected by the camera motion is removed by the tracking and statistics of the inliers quantity, and the camera position is solved by the nonlinear optimization method. Finally, the motion trajectory and the three-dimensional dense point cloud are plotted by and optimized global pose. Experimental results based on standard test set show that the algorithm based on Inliers tracking can improve the robustness and precision of SLAM system.
In the under-constrained system that multiple unmanned helicopters cooperatively tow a load by cables, the tension of the cables cannot be obtained directly since the number of the equations is always smaller than the...
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The indicator dilution method (IDM) is one approach to measure pulmonary perfusion using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). To be able to calculate perfusion parameters and to increase robustnes, it is necessary t...
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Network function virtualization (NFV) places network functions onto the virtual machines (VMs) of physical machines (PMs) located in data centers. In practice, a data flow may pass through multiple network functions, ...
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Network function virtualization (NFV) places network functions onto the virtual machines (VMs) of physical machines (PMs) located in data centers. In practice, a data flow may pass through multiple network functions, which collectively form a service chain across multiple VMs residing on the same or different PMs. Given a set of service chains, network operators have two options for placing them: (a) minimizing the number of VMs and PMs so as to reduce the server rental cost or (b) placing VMs running network functions belonging to the same service chain on the same or nearby PMs so as to reduce the network delay. In determining the optimal service chain placement, operators face the problem of minimizing the server cost while still satisfying the end-to-end delay constraint. The present study proposes an optimization model to solve this problem using a nonlinear programming (NLP) approach. The proposed model is used to explore various operational problems in the service chain placement field. The results suggest that the optimal cost ratio for PMs with high, hybrid, and low capacity, respectively, is equal to 4:2:1. Meanwhile, the maximum operating utilization rate should be limited to 55% in order to minimize the rental cost. Regarding quality of service (QoS) relaxation, the server cost reduces by 20%, 30%, and 32% as the end-to-end delay constraint is relaxed from 40 to 60, 80, and 100 ms, respectively. For the server location, the cost decreases by 25% when the high-capacity PMs are decentralized rather than centralized. Finally, the cost reduces by 40% as the repetition rate in the service chain increases from 0 to 2. A heuristic algorithm, designated as common sub chain placement first (CPF), is proposed to solve the service chain placement problem for large-scale problems (eg, 256 PMs). It is shown that the proposed algorithm reduces the solution time by up to 86% compared with the NLP optimization model, with an accuracy reduction of just 8%.
In this paper we address the problem of coordinating automated vehicles at intersections, with a special focus on turning maneuvers. The inclusion of rear-end collision avoidance constraints into the problem is decide...
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(纸本)9783907144008
In this paper we address the problem of coordinating automated vehicles at intersections, with a special focus on turning maneuvers. The inclusion of rear-end collision avoidance constraints into the problem is decided during turning maneuvers by a smooth function of the vehicle state, rather than integer variables. Moreover, curvature-based acceleration constraints are introduced, which limit the velocity of the vehicle during the turn, and a term in the objective function accounts for passenger comfort. We discuss how the coordination problem is formulated as a nonlinear program and show though simulations that for practical problem instances the proposed approximation is either exact or introduces very little conservativeness.
The highly exothermic nature of the low-density polyethylene (LDPE) polymerization process and the heating-cooling prerequisite in tubular reactor can lead to various problems particularly safety and economic. These i...
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The highly exothermic nature of the low-density polyethylene (LDPE) polymerization process and the heating-cooling prerequisite in tubular reactor can lead to various problems particularly safety and economic. These issues complicate the monomer conversion maximization approaches. Consequently, the dynamic optimization study to obtain maximum conversion of the LDPE is carried out. A mathematical model has been developed and validated using industrial data. In the dynamic optimization study, maximum monomer conversion (X-M) is considered as the objective function, whereas the constraint and bound consists of maximum reaction temperature and product melt flow index (MFI). The orthogonal collocation (OC) on finite elements is used to convert the original optimization problems into nonlinear programming (NLP) problems, which are then solved using sequential quadratic program (SQP) methods. The result shows that five interval numbers produce better optimization result compared to one and two intervals.
Numerical optimization and the finite element method have been developed together to make possible the emergence of structural optimization as a potential design tool. The main research goal of this paper is the devel...
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Numerical optimization and the finite element method have been developed together to make possible the emergence of structural optimization as a potential design tool. The main research goal of this paper is the development of mathematical support and a numerical algorithm to solve parametric optimization problems of structures with orientation on software implementation in a computer-aided design system. The paper considers parametric optimization problems for bar structures formulated as nonlinear programming ones. The method of the objective function gradient projection onto the active constraints surface with simultaneous correction of the constraints violations has been used to solve the parametric optimization problem. Equivalent Householder transformations of the resolving equations of the method have been proposed. They increase numerical efficiency of the algorithm developed based on the considered method. Additionally, proposed improvement for the gradient projection method also consists of equivalent Givens transformations of the resolving equations. They ensure acceleration of the iterative searching process in the specified cases described by the paper due to decreasing the amount of calculations. The comparison of the optimization results of truss structures presented by the paper confirms the validity of the optimum solutions obtained using proposed improvement of the gradient projection method. The efficiency of the proposed improvement of the gradient projection method has been also confirmed taking into account the number of iterations and absolute value of the maximum violation in the constraints.
Polarimetric target decomposition is a powerful tool for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data interpretation and utilization. Although many advances have been reported, scattering mechanism ambiguity st...
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(纸本)9781728153049
Polarimetric target decomposition is a powerful tool for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data interpretation and utilization. Although many advances have been reported, scattering mechanism ambiguity still occurs for manmade targets with large orientations. Recently, a general model-based decomposition has been established to mitigate this ambiguity by modeling the orientations of manmade structures. However, the optimal solutions are obtained with nonlinear optimization which usually costs a large computation time. This work aims at maintaining the generalized scattering models while significantly reducing the computation burden. The main contributions are two-fold. Firstly, the generalized scattering models are adapted to fit the actual observed situation. The second contribution is the parameter inversion. In proposed decomposition procedure, the volume scattering power is derived through an eigen decomposition problem. Then, the helix scattering power is obtained through the imaginary part of a coherency matrix element. The next two scattering components of odd-bounce and double-bounce are calculated through a set of linear equations. As a result of extra freedoms, the roll-invariant feature, Alpha angle from H/alpha/A decomposition is selected as a branch condition to discriminate between dominant odd-bounce and double bounce scattering mechanisms. The comparison experiments are carried out on airborne PolSAR data sets. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method achieved improved decomposition performance and greatly reduced computation time.
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