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Meeting Temporary Facility Energy Demand With Climate-Optimized Off-Grid Energy Systems, Jay F. Pearson, Torrey J. Wagner, Justin D. Delorit, Steven J. Schuldt

Faculty Publications

Remote and contingency operations, including military and disaster-relief activities, often require the use of temporary facilities powered by inefficient diesel generators that are expensive to operate and maintain. Site planners can reduce operating costs by increasing shelter insulation and augmenting generators with photovoltaic-battery hybrid energy systems, but they must select the optimal design configuration based on the region’s climate to meet the power demand at the lowest cost. To assist planners, this paper proposes an innovative, climate-optimized, hybrid energy system selection model capable of selecting the facility insulation type, solar array size, and battery backup system to minimize the annual …

Flexibly Serving A Finite Number Of Heterogeneous Jobs In A Tandem System, Yun Fong Lim, Bingnan Lu, Rowan Wang, Wenjia Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Many manufacturing and service systems require a finite number of heterogeneous jobs to be processed by two stations in tandem. Each station serves at most one job at a time and there is a finite buffer between the two stations. We consider two flexible servers that are cross-trained to work at both stations. The duration for a server to finish a job at a station is exponentially distributed with a rate that depends on the server, the station, and the job. Our goal is to identify an efficient policy to dynamically assign the servers to the stations such that the …

Goods Consumed During Transit In Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problems: Modeling And Solution, Wenzhe Yang, Di Wang, Wei Pang, Ah-Hwee Tan, You Zhou

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This article presents the modeling and solution of an extended type of split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP). In SDVRP, the demands of customers need to be met by efficiently routing a given number of capacitated vehicles, wherein each customer may be served multiple times by more than one vehicle. Furthermore, in many real-world scenarios, consumption of vehicles en route is the same as the goods being delivered to customers, such as food, water and fuel in rescue or replenishment missions in harsh environments. Moreover, the consumption may also be in virtual forms, such as time spent in constrained tasks. …

Inventory Models For Deteriorating Items With Power Pattern Demand Rate, Olalekan Adaraniwon Amos

Student Works (2020-2029)

Inventory management has become a prevalent topic in the field of operational research over some decades now. It cuts across many areas like management sciences, statistics and engineering. However, research focusing on inventory model with power demand pattern is quite limited. Demand patterns are defined as different ways by which products are removed out of inventory to supply customers demand during the schedule period. Power demand pattern permits suiting the demand to a more practical situation. In this research, four deterministic inventory model for deteriorating items with power demand pattern has been developed. We considered in the first models an …

A Retrial Queueing Model With Thresholds And Phase Type Retrial Times, Srinivas R. Chakravarthy

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Publications

There is an extensive literature on retrial queueing models. While a majority of the literature on retrial queueing models focuses on the retrial times to be exponentially distributed (so as to keep the state space to be of a reasonable size), a few papers deal with nonexponential retrial times but with some additional restrictions such as constant retrial rate, only the customer at the head of the retrial queue will attempt to capture a free server, 2-state phase type distribution, and finite retrial orbit. Generally, the retrial queueing models are analyzed as level-dependent queues and hence one has to use …

Identification Of Patterns And Disruptions In Ambient Sensor Data From Private Homes, Yan Wang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The world’s population is rapidly aging and the increasing demand for home and health care services from this aging population brings unprecedented challenges to the economy and society. Ambient-assisted smart homes, residences equipped with ambient sensors to monitor the resident’s daily activities in a continuous and unobtrusive way, present great potential to manage the growing care service needs of this older population segment, and enable them to age-in-place.

Despite growing research, using ambient sensor data from private homes to monitor daily activities, health and wellness still faces significant challenges. To study ambient sensor data from private homes where annotated data …

Waiting-Time Paradox In 1922, Naoki Masuda, Takayuki Hiraoka

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

We present an English translation and discussion of an essay that a Japanese physicist, Torahiko Terada, wrote in 1922. In the essay, he described the waiting-time paradox, also called the bus paradox, which is a known mathematical phenomenon in queuing theory, stochastic processes, and modern temporal network analysis. He also observed and analyzed data on Tokyo City trams to verify the relevance of the waiting-time paradox to busy passengers in Tokyo at the time. This essay seems to be one of the earliest documentations of the waiting-time paradox in a sufficiently scientific manner.

Maintenance Isn’T Just About Grease, Jim Burgin

Operations Management Presentations

Document maintenance is becoming a bit of a challenge. Slowly, but surely, business leaders are realizing that maintenance isn’t just a “necessary evil” but a competitive advantage that can help differentiate their company from others in the same industry. Maintenance is a broad concept, and this webinar is just to get you thinking about maintenance in a different way. Because of the “necessary evil” concept, professional maintenance resources are rare.

Maintenance costs real money. Depending on the size of the operation, labor, contractors, and material costs can be significant. While that seems like a lot of money, consider the costs …

A Data-Driven Framework For Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Integrating Markov Decision Processes, Hidden Markov Models And Predictive Modeling, Hossein Kamalzadeh

Operations Research and Engineering Management Theses and Dissertations

The problem of decision making under uncertainty can be broken down into two parts. First, how do we learn about the world? This involves the problem of modeling the system and its uncertainty. Secondly, given what we currently know about the world, how should we decide what to do, taking into account uncertainty of future events and observations that may change our conclusions. Many systems evolve over time and often the next state of the system is not known with certainty, often modeled as a probability distribution over system states. Dealing with such systems especially when we can make a …

Optimization Algorithm Based On Human Infection With Avian Influenza, Guangqiu Huang, Qiuqin Lu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To get the global optimal solution of some complex nonlinear optimization problems, an optimization algorithm based on the human avian influenza infectious diseases is proposed by using its dynamic model of cross species transmission. Applies the H7N9 infectious disease model to create the operators S^u-S^u, I^u-I^u, S^u-I^u, I^u-S^u, S^u-D^u, I^u-D^u, and to enable the individuals to exchange information among the same species and cross-species. The S^u-S^u and I^u-I^u operators …

Design And Research On Semi-Physical Simulation Test System Of Aero Engine, Jingfeng Shen, Chulei Li, Dianliang Wu, Jiaxin Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the high danger and difficulty of the operation in the aero-engine test, a semi-physical simulation test system that integrates the functions of the test-run operation training, process analysis, simulation of the typical engine performance fault is proposed. Based on the fast response, accurate calculation and high human operation simulation of the engine digital model, the key problems of the research and implementation, such as the structural design of the distributed semi-physical simulation system, visualization of the calculation model of the engine subsystem and real-time visualization of the aero-engine test data displaying in the three-dimensional cave automatic …

Non-Contact Object Size Acquisition Based On Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion, Kang Lai, Yingmei Wei, Jiang Jie, Yuxiang Xie

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In consideration of the visual data and the data from the inertial measurement unit (IMU) having the different characteristics, the 6D pose of the visual sensor is recovered from the captured video by using the vision-based 3D reconstruction techniques, the obtained pose information and inertial measurements is fused via the spatial-temporal alignment, and based on the determined scale of the visual 3D reconstruction the non-contact measurement of a scene is performed. The proposed approach achieves a relative measurement error of about 3% in the non-contact object size estimation experiment. As it does not require the additional calibration object …

Simulation Of Human Body Temperature Distribution Based On New Solution For Heat Conduction Differential Equation, Sina Dang, Hongjun Xue, Xiaoyan Zhang, Chengwen Zhong, Caiyong Tao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the traditional rectangular coordinate system, the human body characteristics can not match the differential equation. This leads to the low accuracy of the simulation results. Based on the geometric characteristics of the elliptic cylinder, the differential equation of the heat conduction is transformed from the rectangular coordinate system to the elliptic one, and the finite volume method of the alternating direction full implicit scheme pair is adopted. The improved heat conduction differential equation is applied to the simulation of the human body temperature. The simulation results, compared with the calculated values of the traditional differential equation …

Simulation Research On Effectiveness Of Reward And Punishment Strategy In Open-Pit Mines, Xingxin Nie, Cunrui Bai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Mining safety accidents occur frequently, and one of the main causes is the miners' Intentional Unsafe Behavior (IUB), and therefore implementing the reward and punishment strategy on it is the key coping strategy. In order to study how the reward and punishment strategy acts on the Intentional Unsafe Behavior (IUB) of the miners and how effective the strategy is, based on the Behavioral Economics + IUB Diffusion Theory, combined with the Multi-Agent model to analyze the influencing factors of the miners' IUB, and based on the work situation adaptability function and the unsafe behavior adaptability function, the simulation model …

Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Mach–Zehnder Interferometer For Gas Sensing, Kaveh Nazeri, Farid Ahmed, Vahid Ahsani, Hang-Eun Joe, Colin Bradley, Ehsan Toyserkani, Martin B. G. Jun

Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

A novel and compact interferometric refractive index (RI) point sensor is developed using hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) and experimentally demonstrated for high sensitivity detection and measurement of pure gases. To construct the device, the sensing element fiber (HC-PCF) was placed between two single-mode fibers with airgaps at each side. Great measurement repeatability was shown in the cyclic test for the detection of various gases. The RI sensitivity of 4629 nm/RIU was demonstrated in the RI range of 1.0000347–1.000436 for the sensor with an HC-PCF length of 3.3 mm. The sensitivity of the proposed Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) sensor increases when …

Modeling Analysis And Prediction On Ncp Epidemic Transmission, Huaxiong Sheng, Wu Lin, Changliang Xiao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The modeling analysis on the NCP (Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia) epidemic transmission before and after the closure of Wuhan is presented. On the basis of preprocessing the epidemic data, the classical SIR model and differential recurrence method are used to analyze and forecast the epidemic situation in the stage of control. The theoretical value and measured value fits well. In the stage of free transmission, the logistic model is used to compare and analyze the epidemic data five days in advance or later with the actual data to show the importance of taking the epidemic prevention measures in time. The …

High-Fidelity Simulation Of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy, Peng Liu, Weixin Si, Zheng Rui, Xiangyun Liao, Dongliang Xu, Ping'an Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The virtual reality simulator of the video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) surgery lobectomy is of great value to the surgeon's surgical training and planning. In order to simulate the high-fidelity video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy, a VATS lobectomy simulator to realistically and efficiently simulate the different surgical operations during the VATS lobectomy procedure is developed. Based on the Position-Based Dynamics framework, the deformation induced by tool-tissue and tissue-tissue interactions, soft tissue cuts as well as subsequent surgical suture operations is simulated. The Marching Cubes algorithm is employed to achieve the surface rendering, especially for the cutting process. The GPU parallel computing technique is …

A New Interactive Simulation Method For Virtual Tape Measurement, Dongjin Huang, Chenfeng Jiang, Xianglong Wang, Linhui Gu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The virtual tape measurement is an extremely important process in the industrial training systems, and the fidelity of the measurement depends on the stability of the grasp and the accuracy of the tape measure. Combined with the virtual hand, a new interactive simulation method for the virtual tape measurement is proposed and applied to the wind-driven generator alignment training simulation system. The fusion of the geometric rules and physical rules improves the grasping judgment method, and the quaternion adjusts the grasp gesture. Based on the 3D algorithm, the tape width uneven is solved by optimizing the vertex setting to …

A Route Recovery Mechanism Using Hybrid Anti-Interference Method, Ziwen Sun, Yanqi Zhang, Yimin Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the jamming attacks in the industrial wireless sensor networks, a route recovery mechanism based on the WirelessHART graph routing is proposed. The jamming attack detection method is used to obtain the node and area being attacked by the jamming attack, the uncoordinated frequency hopping spread spectrum is used to generate the frequency hopping sequence of the node of being attacked by the jamming attack and that of the surrounding nodes, so that the traditional frequency hopping spread spectrum is performed on the nodes. Detects again, and combines the routing cost and the WirelessHART graph routing …

Simulation On A Car-Following Strategy For Adaptive Cruise Control System, Zhiqiang Zhai, Jinliang Xu, Yuan Hao, Yongming Zhou, Longfei Zhao, Shiqian Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A car-following strategy based on the variable distance is proposed to improve the applicability of the ACC (Adaptive cruise control) system. The curvature radius of centroid trajectory of the host vehicle is computed by the kinetic model based on the unscented Kalman filter. In order to identify the car-following object, a vehicle tracking model is presented according to the relative kinetic states between the front vehicle and the host vehicle. The ACC system adjust the velocity of the host vehicle to control the safe distance between the host vehicle and the object vehicle. A complex condition with the lane-changing …

Research On Sliding Mode Control Of Robotic Arm Based On Fractional Calculus, Zhang Xin, Jiaxin Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: An effective fractional order sliding mode control method is proposed for the nonlinear and uncertain robotic arm system by combining the advantages of the fractional calculus theory and the sliding mode control strategy. In the design of the controller, the fractional calculus is introduced into the sliding mode control by using the fractional order reaching law and the fractional order sliding mode control law respectively, and is proved by the Lyapunov theory to ensure the stability of the system. The proposed control method is applied to a two-joint robotic arm and is verified by the MATLAB simulation software. The …

Optimization Design And Locomotion Characteristics Analysis Of Wheeled Traction Robot, Wu Wei, Li Bo, Nana Liu, Guangzhi Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To evaluate quantitatively the dynamic locomotion characteristics and obstacle performance of the wheeled traction robot in horizontal well with single pipe diameter, the mechanical model of the crawling module of the wheeled traction robot is established and the structural and size parameters are optimized. The ADAMS model of the current robot is presented, and the Simulink models of three parts of the driving module, supporting mechanism and traction resistance are built. A specified method of the ADAMS/Simulink joint simulation modeling is proposed to analyze the locomotion characteristics and obstacle performance of the wheeled traction robot. The simulation results …

Prediction Of Flight Taxi-Out Time In A Busy Airport Based On Lwsvr, Zhiwei Xing, Songyue Jiang, Luo Qian, Luo Xiao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at improving the accuracy of predicting the flight taxi-out time in a busy airport, based on the local regression and weighted support vector regression, a prediction model of the locally weighted support vector regression is proposed. The model uses the K nearest neighbor method to reduce the capacity of the training sample set and build a predictive model for each predicted sample. The bandwidth parameter of the Gaussian weighting function is optimized with the Mahalanobis distance between the forecast sample and training samples, and the weighting coefficients are obtained. Combining the airport departure flight data in simulation analysis, …

Research On Failure Modes Analysis Based On Weighted Evidence Theory, Lulu Shao, Jihong Han, Niu Kan, Xiaohu Liu, Shao Fang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the risk priority numbers of different failure modes being equal and the criticality of the fault modes changing greatly due to the tiny change of the risk parameters, a method of the failure modes analysis based on the weighted evidence theory is proposed from the perspective of the methodology of dealing with the uncertainty problem. The method qualifies the epistemic uncertainty existing in the expert evaluation of the risk parameters into the basic belief assignment and expert attribute weight respectively, and the information propagation and processing of the epistemic uncertainty is solved, and the ordered arrangement …

Design And Implementation Of Reconfigurable Video Array Processor Test Platform, Jiang Lin, Feilong He, Shan Rui, Wang Shuai, Haoyue Wu, Wu Xin

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the design requirements of the reconfigurable video array processor and the problem of traditional method testing the video codec system with slow speed, low precision and poor observability. A Qt-based user interface is developed, and a hardware-software co-testing platform based on FPGA is designed and implemented. The platform realizes the data transmission and image reproduction based on the software simulation on the PC side, and the parallel mapping of the video encoding and decoding algorithms based on the reconfigurable video array processor on the FPGA side. The experiment results show that the data can be transmitted correctly …

Design Of Virtual Training System For Horizontally Oriented Drill Based On Unity3d, Guojun Wen, Xia Yu, Yudan Wang, Zifei Hu, Wu Dan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the equipment shortage, serious resource loss and hidden dangers in traditional horizontally oriented drilling rig training, a design scheme of the horizontally oriented drilling rig virtual training system based on the Unity3D is proposed. An experimental platform is built to verify the feasibility. The solidworks, 3dsMax model construction, Unity3D software virtual animation and scene development, Rodrigues rotation matrix 3D trajectory algorithm derivation, data acquisition (DAQ), system software and hardware communication and other technical content are used in the program. The experimental results show that the scheme is feasible, the system has the good operability and true immersion …

Force/Position Hybrid Control Method For Surface Parts Polishing Robot, Yufeng Ding, Xinpu Min

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A force/position hybrid control method for polishing the complex surface with an industrial robot is put forward. The method can achieve the stable force control and precise position control to ensure the consistency of the material removal rate at different normal vectors. After the trajectory of the normal vector is planned in CAD software, the force signal feedback from the sensor and the PI controller in the normal vector direction are combined,and the robot end tool corrects the motion trajectory in the vector direction of the surface to indirectly control the contact force between the tool and the surface. …

Application Of Improved Inverse Decoupling Active Disturbance Rejection Internal Model Control In Grinding, Zhou Ying, Qiaojuan Jia, Zhang Yan, Mingxin Chang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the characteristics of the multivariable, strong coupling and large time delay of the grinding classification system, the improved inverse decoupling active disturbance rejection internal model control method is proposed. The inverse decoupling method is used to realize the decoupling of the grinding classification system, and the improved internal model control and linear active disturbance rejection control are adopted for the decoupled subsystem. By introducing the internal model compensator and the gain to compensate the time delay, the dependence of the system upon the model is reduced .The model mismatch, external disturbance and uncertainties are suppressed by adjusting …

Simulation And Analysis Of Kinematic Parameters Of Vehicle Offset And Rear-End Collision Accident, Wenhui Zhang, Yongmin Su, Shurui Sun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to deeply study the motion behavior of vehicles in the rear-end collision, a vehicle rear end collision accident model is established in the PC-Crash simulation environment. Considering with the relative velocity, offset, speed of the rear-end vehicle and wheel angle, the acceleration, yaw angle and yaw rate of the vehicle are obtained. The research results show that when the bias degree is 20%, the yaw angles of the rear-end vehicle and rear tracked vehicle is the biggest, and is easy to induce the secondary accidents such as rollover and fixtures crash. The larger the relative …

Modeling And Simulation For Prevention And Control Of Drug Abuse And Drug-Related Crime Based On System Dynamics, Liu Feng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the existing drug abuse dynamics models, the drug users are assumed to be permanent immune to drugs after rehabilitation and the possibility of the recovery drug users being susceptible again is neglected. To solve the problem, through the system dynamics (SD) method, the evolution process of the drug-related crowds is analyzed, and a relevant model based on the transient immunity is constructed. The trends of the drug abuse and drug-related crime are predicted by the simulation experiments, and the sensitivity analysis indicates that the rate of contact and exposure to drugs is the most sensitive factor of the …