Improving the control of shading blinds, lights, natural ventilation, and HVAC systems while satisfying human comfort requirements can result in significant energy cost savings with time-of-day electricity pricing. Tr...
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Improving the control of shading blinds, lights, natural ventilation, and HVAC systems while satisfying human comfort requirements can result in significant energy cost savings with time-of-day electricity pricing. Traditionally, the above-mentioned devices are controlled separately. In this paper, a novel formulation for the integrated control and the corresponding solution methodology are presented. The problem is to minimize daily energy costs of lights and HVAC systems while satisfying equipment capacities, system dynamics, and human comfort. The problem is complicated since 1) individual rooms are coupled as they compete for the HVAC with limited capacity and nonlinear characteristics, and 2) the problem is believed to be NP-hard in view that decision variables are all discrete. A solution methodology that combines Lagrangian relaxation and stochastic dynamic programming is developed within the surrogate optimization framework to obtain near-optimal strategies. These strategies are further refined to become novel control rules for easy practical implementation. Numerical simulation results show that both of the above strategies can effectively reduce the total energy cost, and that the integrated control works better than selected traditional control strategies.
Differentiation and integration of non-integer order have drawn increasing attention in research community. Fractional order dynamic systems have been recognized as effective tools for characterizing the real-world ph...
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Differentiation and integration of non-integer order have drawn increasing attention in research community. Fractional order dynamic systems have been recognized as effective tools for characterizing the real-world phenomena around and inside us. From the notion of fuzzy logic, it is natural to quest the potential of fractional dynamic systems with fuzzy orders. In this paper, for the first time, we propose the basic framework of fractional order dynamic system with fuzzy order. This basic idea is to adopt fuzzy system to characterize the differential order in a class of variable-order or constant-order fractional dynamic systems. Examples are included to illustrate the operating process.
This paper suggests a new stability analysis approach dedicated to a class of fuzzy control systems controlling multi input-multi output (MIMO) nonlinear processes by means of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy logic controllers. Th...
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This paper suggests a new stability analysis approach dedicated to a class of fuzzy control systems controlling multi input-multi output (MIMO) nonlinear processes by means of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy logic controllers. The approach is based on LaSalle's global invariant set theorem, and an original stability theorem offers sufficient stability conditions. The applicability and efficiency of the theoretical results are illustrated by a MIMO case study dealing with the fuzzy control of a spherical three tank system.
This paper describes a nonlinear Image-Based Visual Servo (IBVS) controller for the Flare phase of the landing maneuver of a fixed-wing aircraft in the presence of wind gust. Optic-Flow and 2D image features are explo...
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This paper describes a nonlinear Image-Based Visual Servo (IBVS) controller for the Flare phase of the landing maneuver of a fixed-wing aircraft in the presence of wind gust. Optic-Flow and 2D image features are exploited from the image of the runway to design a feedback controller for the automatic maneuver. The controller is divided into two parts. The first part guarantees the horizontal alignment with the center of the runway and uses the two lines delimiting the runway represented through a modification of the so-called Plucker coordinates. The second part takes advantage of the Optic-Flow measurements to ensure a smooth touchdown. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of the control approach.
There are several applications for which it is important to both detect and communicate changes in data models. For instance, in some mobile robotics applications (e.g. surveillance) a robot needs to detect significan...
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There are several applications for which it is important to both detect and communicate changes in data models. For instance, in some mobile robotics applications (e.g. surveillance) a robot needs to detect significant changes in the environment (e.g. a layout change) which it may achieve by comparing current data provided by its sensors with previously acquired data (e.g. map) of the environment. This often constitutes an extremely challenging task due to the large amounts of data that must be compared in real-time. This paper proposes a framework to detect, and represent changes through a compact model. The main steps of the procedure are: multi-scale sampling to reduce the computation burden; change detection based on Gaussian mixture models; fitting superquadrics to detected changes; and refinement and optimization using the split and merge paradigm. Experimental results in various real and simulated scenarios demonstrate the approach's feasibility and robustness with large datasets.
We propose a method, called Direct Kernel Perceptron (DKP), to directly calculate the weights of a single perceptron using a closed-form expression which does not require any training stage. The weigths minimize a per...
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We propose a method, called Direct Kernel Perceptron (DKP), to directly calculate the weights of a single perceptron using a closed-form expression which does not require any training stage. The weigths minimize a performance measure which simultaneously takes into account the training error and the classification margin of the perceptron. The ability to learn non-linearly separable problems is provided by a kernel mapping between the input and the hidden space. Using Gaussian kernels, DKP achieves better results than the standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for a wide variety of benchmark two-class data sets. The computational cost of DKP linearly increases with the dimension of the input space and it is much lower than the corresponding to SVM.
In wireless sensor networks, since the existing methods of dividing sensors based on the random deployment of nodes can not guarantee the optimal deployment to target coverage, a probabilistic disc model based optimal...
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In wireless sensor networks, since the existing methods of dividing sensors based on the random deployment of nodes can not guarantee the optimal deployment to target coverage, a probabilistic disc model based optimal deterministic deployment scheme of sensor nodes was proposed. Firstly, probabilistic disc model was used to capture the stochastic nature of sensing. And, node sensing radius meeting to user needs was computed. Secondly, the candidate positions where nodes were placed to coverage target set were computed by using the concept of the most multi-overlapping domains of target point. Finally, known the candidate positions, by using simulated annealing genetic algorithm, the optimal positions and the least number of nodes to coverage target set were gained. Simulation results show that the nodes optimal deployment method is obtained based on user needs. The optimal allocation of resources is realized in wireless sensor networks.
The currently leading cognitive theory of consciousness, Global Workspace Theory,1,2 postulates that the primary functions of consciousness include a global broadcast serving to recruit internal resources with which t...
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We argue that the functions of consciousness are implemented in a bio-computational manner. That is to say, the conscious as well as the non-conscious aspects of human thinking, planning, and perception are produced b...
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In most large-scale real-world pattern classification problems, there is always some explicit information besides given training data, namely prior knowledge, with which the training data are organized. In this paper,...
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In most large-scale real-world pattern classification problems, there is always some explicit information besides given training data, namely prior knowledge, with which the training data are organized. In this paper, we proposed a framework for incorporating this kind of prior knowledge into the training of min-max modular (M3) classifier to improve learning performance. In order to evaluate the proposed method, we perform experiments on a large-scale Japanese patent classification problem and consider two kinds of prior knowledge included in patent documents: patent's publishing date and the hierarchical structure of patent classification system. In the experiments, traditional support vector machine (SVM) and Ma-SVM without prior knowledge are adopted as baseline classifiers. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to the baseline classifiers in terms of training cost and generalization accuracy. Moreover, Ma-SVM with prior knowledge is found to be much more robust than traditional support vector machine to noisy dated patent samples, which is crucial for incremental learning.
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