We propose an operating-envelope-aware, prosumer-centric, and efficient energy community that aggregates individual and shared community distributed energy resources and transacts with a regulated distribution system ...
We propose an operating-envelope-aware, prosumer-centric, and efficient energy community that aggregates individual and shared community distributed energy resources and transacts with a regulated distribution system operator (DSO) under a generalized net energy metering tariff design. To ensure safe network operation, the DSO imposes dynamic export and import limits, known as dynamic operating envelopes, on end-users’ revenue meters. Given the operating envelopes, we propose an incentive-aligned community pricing mechanism under which the decentralized optimization of community members’ benefit implies the optimization of overall community welfare. The proposed pricing mechanism satisfies the cost-causation principle and ensures the stability of the energy community in a coalition game setting. Numerical examples provide insights into the characteristics of the proposed pricing mechanism and quantitative measures of its performance.
Wireless networks consisting of low SWaP (size, weight, and power), fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are used in many applications, such as monitoring, search, and surveillance of inaccessible areas. A decen...
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Wireless networks consisting of low SWaP (size, weight, and power), fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are used in many applications, such as monitoring, search, and surveillance of inaccessible areas. A decentralized and autonomous approach ensures robustness to failures;the UAVs explore and sense within the area and forward their information, in a multihop manner, to nearby aerial gateway nodes. However, the unpredictable nature of the events, relatively high speed of the UAVs and dynamic trajectories cause the network topology to change significantly over time, resulting in frequent route breaks. A holistic routing approach is needed to support multiple traffic flows in these networks to provide mobility- and congestion-aware, high-quality routes when needed, with low control and computational overhead, using the information collected in a distributed manner. Existing routing schemes do not address all the mentioned issues. This paper presents a hybrid reactive routing protocol for decentralized UAV networks called Hyd-AODV. It searches routes on-demand (using a multi-metric route selection), monitors a region around the selected route (the "pipe"), and proactively switches to an alternative route before the current route’s quality degrades below a threshold. The impact of pipe width is empirically and theoretically evaluated to find alternate high-quality routes within the pipe and the overhead required to maintain the pipe. A queue management scheme is also incorporated to prioritize packet transmissions based on their age of information (AoI). Compared to existing reactive routing schemes, the proposed approach achieves higher throughput and reduces the number of route discoveries, overhead, and resulting flow interruptions at different traffic loads, node density, and speeds. Despite having limited network topology information and low overhead and route computation complexity, the proposed scheme achieves a superior throughput to proactive optimized l
Photovoltaic (PV) installations grow exponentially, and the mismatch between generation and demand will adversely affect the stability of the grid. This paper presents a modified operational mode of a grid-connected h...
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Increasingly available ultrastructural data from a continuously growing diversity of experimental conditions are driving new opportunities for fruitful neuroscientific hypotheses tested in intracellular compartments s...
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Increasingly available ultrastructural data from a continuously growing diversity of experimental conditions are driving new opportunities for fruitful neuroscientific hypotheses tested in intracellular compartments such as the nanoscale roles of, e.g., the mitochondria. Reliable morphological statistics are based on achieving highly accurate semantic segmentations of EM images. The state-of-the-art deep CNNs can be somewhat brittle;they tend to provide coarse and high-frequency-oscillatory solutions with discontinuities and false positives even for simple mitochondria segmentation. Historically, the current state-of-the-art in medical image segmentation would involve some variant of the encoder-decoder architecture, such as the U-Net architecture. The SAM does not perform as well, since it has not been explicitly trained for the task and does not demonstrate user-interactive, over one billion annotations mostly for natural images. However, the SAM may be applied to segment anything, including medical image segmentation challenging new datasets. This work is aimed at the difficult task of implementing domain adaptation in mitochondria segmentation within EM images obtained from various tissues and species, using deep learning. We do a systematic study to assess SAM's ability to perform segmentation in medical images, measure its performance on volumetric EM datasets, and show that it is powerful at segmenting instances even under challenging imaging conditions. We provide a fine-tuning SAM which can be naturally trained by SAM at an exemplary scale, benefiting from a diverse and large dataset over one million image masks in 11 modalities. This model would be able to perform precise segmentation for a wide range of targets under various imaging conditions, at the level of performance of specialized U-Net models, or even better. A visual comparison is shown between our fine-tuning SAM model and U-Net, along with an examination of different watershed post-processing st
The procedure of automatically recognizing the modulation scheme of the received signal without any knowledge of the communications parameters employed by the transmitter has gained tremendous attention for developing...
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The procedure of automatically recognizing the modulation scheme of the received signal without any knowledge of the communications parameters employed by the transmitter has gained tremendous attention for developing various applications such as dynamic spectrum access in next generation communications systems and in electronic warfare (EW) applications. Amongst the proposed approaches for this procedure, the feature-based approach working on the principles of deep learning models has consistently demonstrated more favorable properties for its integration with real-world applications and realtime operations. However, this approach faces the challenges of low performance efficiency caused by low classification accuracy and high computational complexity in environments characterized by low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio conditions. Therefore, in this paper, we present our research findings on a deep learning-based classifier for Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR) with robust classification accuracy and lower computational complexity, thus leading to higher overall performance efficiency. The feature extraction stage of the proposed classifier operates on the translation of received signal constellations into a graph, which then follows a process of extracting graph information. Mapping the extracted information into features is implemented by a convolutional block. This design employed in our feature extraction stage is the main element for the robustness of our proposed classifier. For our performance evaluations we selected 8QAM, 64QAM and 256QAM, representing candidates for low-, medium- and high-order modulation schemes, respectively. Our simulation results exhibit higher classification accuracy compared to related literature works, by an average of 11 percentage points (p.p.), 11.31 p.p. and 9.3 p.p., respectively, for the successful classification of 8QAM, 64QAM and 256QAM across an SNR range from −10 to 30 dB. The computational complexity analysis indicates t
High spatial resolution of ultracold neutron (UCN) measurements of 1 µm or less is highly desired for many UCN experiments. Optical neural networks are potential radiation-hard hardware platforms for real-time, e...
Three-dimensional tissue cytometry is an important technique for quantitative analysis of cell structures in large fluorescence microscopy volumes. Accurate nuclei detection and segmentation is an important step for 3...
Three-dimensional tissue cytometry is an important technique for quantitative analysis of cell structures in large fluorescence microscopy volumes. Accurate nuclei detection and segmentation is an important step for 3D tissue cytometry. Deep learning methods have shown promising results for nuclei detection and segmentation. However, manually annotating ground truth for training deep learning methods is labor-intensive and not practical for large 3D volumes. In this paper, we propose a 3D nuclei synthesis method, known as 3DSpCycleGAN, for generating 3D ground truth volumes along with corresponding synthetic microscopy volumes. Experimental results using fluorescence microscopy volumes demonstrate that our method generates more realistic 3D volumes when evaluated both visually and quantitatively than previously reported. We also show that using the synthetic volumes generated by 3DSpCycleGAN as training data improves segmentation accuracy for deep learning segmentation techniques.
We adopt a resource-theoretic framework to classify different types of quantum network nonlocality in terms of operational constraints placed on the network. One type of constraint limits the parties to perform local ...
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We adopt a resource-theoretic framework to classify different types of quantum network nonlocality in terms of operational constraints placed on the network. One type of constraint limits the parties to perform local Clifford gates on pure stabilizer states, and we show that quantum network nonlocality cannot emerge in this setting. Yet, if the constraint is relaxed to allow for mixed stabilizer states, then network nonlocality can indeed be obtained. We additionally show that bipartite entanglement is sufficient for generating all forms of quantum network nonlocality when allowing for postselection, a property analogous to the universality of bipartite entanglement for generating all forms of multipartite entangled states.
Volt-VAR control (VVC) methods based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) can effectively control distribution grid voltage and minimize power loss by implementing corrective and preventive control measures on the rea...
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High spatial resolution of ultracold neutron (UCN) measurements of 1 µm or less is highly desired for many UCN experiments. Optical neural networks are potential radiation-hard hardware platforms for real-time, e...
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