We address the weight-balancing problem for a distributed system whose components (nodes) can exchange information via interconnection links (edges) that form an arbitrary, possibly directed, communication topology (d...
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We address the weight-balancing problem for a distributed system whose components (nodes) can exchange information via interconnection links (edges) that form an arbitrary, possibly directed, communication topology (digraph). A weighted digraph is balanced if, for each node, the sum of the weights of the edges outgoing from that node is equal to the sum of the weights of the edges incoming to that node. Weight-balanced digraphs play a key role in a variety of applications, such as coordination of groups of robots, distributed decision making, and distributed averaging which is important for a wide range of applications in signal processing. We propose a distributed algorithm for solving the weight balancing problem in a minimum number of iterations, when the weights are nonnegative real numbers. We also provide examples to corroborate the proposed algorithm.
This paper investigates convergence properties of scalable algorithms for nonconvex and structured optimization. We consider a method that is adapted from the classic quadratic penalty function method, the Alternating...
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This paper investigates convergence properties of scalable algorithms for nonconvex and structured optimization. We consider a method that is adapted from the classic quadratic penalty function method, the Alternating Direction Penalty Method (ADPM). Unlike the original quadratic penalty function method, in which single-step optimizations are adopted, ADPM uses alternating optimization, which in turn is exploited to enable scalability of the algorithm. A special case of ADPM is a variant of the well known Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), where the penalty parameter is increased to infinity. We show that due to the increasing penalty, the ADPM asymptotically reaches a primal feasible point under mild conditions. Moreover, we give numerical evidence that demonstrates the potential of the ADPM for computing local optimal points when the penalty is not updated too aggressively.
The fuzzy logic theory has been proven to be effective in dealing with various nonlinear systems and has a great success in industry applications. Among different kinds of models for fuzzy systems, the so-called Takag...
Traffic control is an effective and efficient method for the problem of traffic *** complex urban traffic networks,it is necessary to design a high-level controller to regulate the traffic *** the parallel control fra...
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Traffic control is an effective and efficient method for the problem of traffic *** complex urban traffic networks,it is necessary to design a high-level controller to regulate the traffic *** the parallel control framework for complex traffic networks,we design a demand-balance MPC controller based on the MFD-based multi-subnetwork model,which can optimize the network traffic mobility and the network traffic throughput by regulating the input traffic flows of the *** transferring traffic flows among subnetworks are indirectly controlled by the demand-balance MPC controller,and a global optimality can be achieved for the entire traffic *** simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed controller in improving the network traffic throughput.
Information about the vehicle states (e.g. the sideslip angle and the longitudinal velocity), tire forces, and tire-road friction coefficients is crucial for advanced vehicular active safety systems. In particular, th...
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Information about the vehicle states (e.g. the sideslip angle and the longitudinal velocity), tire forces, and tire-road friction coefficients is crucial for advanced vehicular active safety systems. In particular, the latest high-performance control system based on optimally distributing and controlling all tire forces requires feedback of the tire forces and the tire-road friction coefficient of each individual tire. Therefore, estimating all or parts of the vehicle/tire/road states from available sensor measurements in production vehicles has long been an active research topic in both academia and industry. Despite recent advances in automotive estimation technologies, it remains an open question on identifying the tire-road friction coefficient of each individual tire. This paper proposes an integrated estimation system that provides accurate estimates of the vehicle/tire/road states from available sensor measurements. More importantly, the tire-road friction coefficient of each tire can be separately estimated. The performance of the proposed estimation system is verified by simulations based on a complex nonlinear vehicle/ tire model.
A Reliability-Based Robust Design Optimization (RBRDO) for ship hulls is presented. A real ocean environment is considered, including stochastic sea state and speed. The optimization problem has two objectives: (a) th...
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Performance of constrained movements in multiple directions of a workspace simultaneously and in presence of uncertainty is a great challenge for robots. Achieving such tasks by employing control policies which are fu...
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(纸本)9781479947287
Performance of constrained movements in multiple directions of a workspace simultaneously and in presence of uncertainty is a great challenge for robots. Achieving such tasks by employing control policies which are fully determined a priori and do not take into account the system uncertainty can cause undesired stress on the robot end-effector or the environment and result in poor performance. Instead, a sophisticated control policy is required, which can adjust to the varying conditions of a task while taking into account the coupling of motion dynamics between different directions of movement. To this aim, in this paper, we propose a MIMO Extremum Seeking control (ESC)-Model Reference Adaptive control (MRAC) approach with the view of executing fine motion tasks in presence of uncertain task dynamics. ESC enhances robustness of the system to non-parametric uncertainties compared to single MRAC. The proposed approach ensures state tracking as well as optimization of a global state-dependent cost criterion in all directions of movement. We evaluate our approach in simulations and in a real-world robotic engraving task.
Interacting with a random environment, Learning Automata (LAs) are automata that, generally, have the task of learning the optimal action based on responses from the environment. Distinct from the traditional goal of ...
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(纸本)9781479938414
Interacting with a random environment, Learning Automata (LAs) are automata that, generally, have the task of learning the optimal action based on responses from the environment. Distinct from the traditional goal of Learning Automata to select only the optimal action out of a set of actions, this paper considers a multiple-action selection problem and proposes a novel class of Learning Automata for selecting an optimal subset of actions. Their objective is to identify the optimal subset: the top k out of r actions. Based on conventional continuous pursuit and discretized pursuit learning schemes, this paper introduces four pursuit learning schemes for selecting the optimal subset, called continuous equal pursuit, discretized equal pursuit, continuous unequal pursuit and discretized unequal pursuit learning schemes, respectively. In conjunction with a reward-inaction learning paradigm, the above four schemes lead to four versions of pursuit Learning Automata for selecting the optimal subset. The simulation results present a quantitative comparison between them.
In this paper, we study a transmit null-steering beamforming problem for wireless sensor networks in uncertain communication environment. Given a desired receiver direction,the system requires to avoid the unknown eav...
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In this paper, we study a transmit null-steering beamforming problem for wireless sensor networks in uncertain communication environment. Given a desired receiver direction,the system requires to avoid the unknown eavesdroppers as *** this case, we adjust both the sensors distribution and phase offsets such that beamforming is achieved at the desired direction,and meanwhile the communication of all the other directions is suppressed, which substantially reduces the risk of information theft by eavesdroppers. The Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)algorithm is used to solve this constraint problem.
This paper proposes a new algorithm to eliminate the wiper interference in a vehicle's onboard video to improve the detection rate of vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), such as Forward Collisi...
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This paper proposes a new algorithm to eliminate the wiper interference in a vehicle's onboard video to improve the detection rate of vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), such as Forward Collision Warning (FCW) Systems. During raining days, the windshield wipers periodically and partially block the appearance of obstacles on the road that are to be detected in these early warning systems, and hence, impair their performance. The wiper pixels could be in-painted via (1) localizing the pixels belonging to the wipers and (2) replacing the wiper pixels with non-wiper pixels extracted from an adjacent video frame with no such blockage. Finally, since it is impossible to obtain the images captured in the same scenario with and without wiper interference, a quantitatively analyzing framework which blends wipers into non-wiper images is also proposed to quantitatively assess the detection rate of data with wipers, without wipers and with wipers but eliminated by our algorithm. The experimental results show that the wiper pixels being segmented and in-painted blend in unobtrusively with the surrounding pixels and the FCW detection rate is indeed improved.
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