7 research outputs found
Wave Sequential Data Assimilation in Support of Wave Energy Converter Power Prediction
Integration of renewable power sources into grids remains an active research
and development area, particularly for less developed renewable energy
technologies such as wave energy converters (WECs). WECs are projected to have
strong early market penetration for remote communities, which serve as natural
microgrids. Hence, accurate wave predictions to manage the interactions of a
WEC array with microgrids is especially important. Recently developed, low-cost
wave measurement buoys allow for operational assimilation of wave data at
remote, site specific locations where real-time data have previously been
unavailable.
We present the development and assessment of a wave modeling framework with
real-time data assimilation capabilities for WEC power prediction. The
availability of real-time wave spectra from low-cost wave measurement buoys
allows for operational data assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter
technique within a hybrid modeling procedure whereby physics-based numerical
wave models are combined with data-driven error models that aim to capture the
discrepancy in prescribed boundary conditions. With that aim, measured wave
spectra are assimilated for combined state and parameter estimation while
taking into account model and observational errors. The analysis allows for
more accurate and precise wave characteristic predictions at the locations of
interest. Initial deployment data obtained offshore Yakutat, Alaska, indicated
that measured wave data from one buoy that were assimilated into the wave
modeling framework resulted in improved forecast skill in comparison to
traditional numerical forecasts
Sequential Monte Carlo smoothing with application to parameter estimation in non-linear state space models
This paper concerns the use of sequential Monte Carlo methods (SMC) for
smoothing in general state space models. A well-known problem when applying the
standard SMC technique in the smoothing mode is that the resampling mechanism
introduces degeneracy of the approximation in the path space. However, when
performing maximum likelihood estimation via the EM algorithm, all functionals
involved are of additive form for a large subclass of models. To cope with the
problem in this case, a modification of the standard method (based on a
technique proposed by Kitagawa and Sato) is suggested. Our algorithm relies on
forgetting properties of the filtering dynamics and the quality of the
estimates produced is investigated, both theoretically and via simulations.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/07-BEJ6150 the Bernoulli
(http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm
Online data processing: comparison of Bayesian regularized particle filters
The aim of this paper is to compare three regularized particle filters in an
online data processing context. We carry out the comparison in terms of hidden
states filtering and parameters estimation, considering a Bayesian paradigm and
a univariate stochastic volatility model. We discuss the use of an improper
prior distribution in the initialization of the filtering procedure and show
that the regularized Auxiliary Particle Filter (APF) outperforms the
regularized Sequential Importance Sampling (SIS) and the regularized Sampling
Importance Resampling (SIR).Comment: Submitted to the Electronic Journal of Statistics
(http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(http://www.imstat.org
Online Expectation-Maximization Type Algorithms For Parameter Estimation In General State Space Models
In this paper we present new online algorithms to estimate static parameters in nonlinear non Gaussian state space models. These algorithms rely on online Expectation-Maximization (EM) type algorithms. Contrary to standard Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods recently proposed in the literature, these algorithms do not degenerate over time
A comparison of inferential methods for highly non-linear state space models in ecology and epidemiology
Highly non-linear, chaotic or near chaotic, dynamic models are important in
fields such as ecology and epidemiology: for example, pest species and diseases
often display highly non-linear dynamics. However, such models are problematic
from the point of view of statistical inference. The defining feature of
chaotic and near chaotic systems is extreme sensitivity to small changes in
system states and parameters, and this can interfere with inference. There are
two main classes of methods for circumventing these difficulties: information
reduction approaches, such as Approximate Bayesian Computation or Synthetic
Likelihood and state space methods, such as Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo,
Iterated Filtering or Parameter Cascading. The purpose of this article is to
compare the methods, in order to reach conclusions about how to approach
inference with such models in practice. We show that neither class of methods
is universally superior to the other. We show that state space methods can
suffer multimodality problems in settings with low process noise or model
mis-specification, leading to bias toward stable dynamics and high process
noise. Information reduction methods avoid this problem but, under the correct
model and with sufficient process noise, state space methods lead to
substantially sharper inference than information reduction methods. More
practically, there are also differences in the tuning requirements of different
methods. Our overall conclusion is that model development and checking should
probably be performed using an information reduction method with low tuning
requirements, while for final inference it is likely to be better to switch to
a state space method, checking results against the information reduction
approach