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    Developing trend of domestic electricity tariffs in Great Britain

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    Model migration neural network for predicting battery aging trajectories

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    Accurate prediction of batteries’ future degradation is a key solution to relief users’ anxiety on battery lifespan and electric vehicle’s driving range. Technical challenges arise from the highly nonlinear dynamics of battery aging. In this paper, a feed-forward migration neural network is proposed to predict the batteries’ aging trajectories. Specifically, a base model that describes the capacity decay over time is first established from the existed battery aging dataset. This base model is then transformed by an input-output slope-and-bias-correction (SBC) method structure to capture the degradation of target cell. To enhance the model’s nonlinear transfer capability, the SBC-model is further integrated into a four-layer neural network, and easily trained via the gradient correlation algorithm. The proposed migration neural network is experimentally verified with four different commercial batteries. The predicted RMSEs are all lower than 2.5% when using only the first 30% of aging trajectories for neural network training. In addition, illustrative results demonstrate that a small size feed-forward neural network (down to 1-5-5-1) is sufficient for battery aging trajectory prediction

    Research on RBF neural network model reference adaptive control system based on nonlinear U – model

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    The overall objective of this study is to design the nonlinear U-model-based radial basis function neural network model reference adaptive control system, through research into a class of complex time-varying nonlinear plants. First, the ideal nonlinear plant is adopted as the reference model and transformed into the U-model representation. In the process, the authors establish the corresponding relationship between the degrees of the reference nonlinear model and the controlled nonlinear plants, and carry out research into the corresponding coefficient relationship between the reference nonlinear model and the controlled nonlinear plants. Also, the impact of the adjusting amplitude and tracking speed of the model on the system control accuracy is analyzed. Then, according to the learning error index of the neural network, the paper designs the adaptive algorithm of the radial basis function neural network, and trains the network by the error variety. With the weight coefficients and network parameters automatically updated and the adaptive controller adjusted, the output of controlled nonlinear plants can track the ideal output completely. The simulation results show that the model reference adaptive control system based on RBF neural network has better control effect than the nonlinear U-model adaptive control system based on the gradient descent method

    LAWS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THROWING POWER CHANGES FOR DIFFERENT WOMEN DISCUS THROWERS

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    Throwing power means that rate of muscle do work when throwers do throwing movements. It depends on strength and speed of throwers. It is a sensitive index to mirror explosive force and fast strength Tl1is paper adopts experiment and video analysis methods. The purpose was to research the laws and characteristics of throwing power changes for different women’s discus throwers through measuring results of throwing various weights to deferent Chinese women’s discus throwers (master:55m, n1=13; first grade: 51m, n2=17; second grade: 39m, n3=30). The results show that following: 1.Throwing weight of women[s discus throwers is closely related to throwing power. With increasing of the weight, the power also raise gradually (r1 =0. 905, r2= o 862, r3=0.900) But when the weight comes up to a certain extent, the power not only don’t raise but also reduce obviously if the weight is continued increasing (r1 =0.996, r2=-0.964, r3= -0.933). It is various that different women’s discus throwers show the greatest throwing power and its corresponding throwing weight. Generally speaking, the higher thrower’s performance level is, the greater the greatest throwing power and its corresponding throwing weight show. Even if the level of throwers is same, the weight of the greatest throwing power is not completely sam

    Automated Configuration of Genetic Algorithms by Tuning for Anytime Performance

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    Finding the best configuration of algorithms' hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is an important task in evolutionary computation. We compare in this work the results of four different hyperparameter tuning approaches for a family of genetic algorithms on 25 diverse pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. More precisely, we compare previously obtained results from a grid search with those obtained from three automated configuration techniques: iterated racing, mixed-integer parallel efficient global optimization, and mixed-integer evolutionary strategies. Using two different cost metrics, expected running time and the area under the empirical cumulative distribution function curve, we find that in several cases the best configurations with respect to expected running time are obtained when using the area under the empirical cumulative distribution function curve as the cost metric during the configuration process. Our results suggest that even when interested in expected running time performance, it might be preferable to use anytime performance measures for the configuration task. We also observe that tuning for expected running time is much more sensitive with respect to the budget that is allocated to the target algorithms

    Benchmarking a (μ+λ)(\mu+\lambda) Genetic Algorithm with Configurable Crossover Probability

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    We investigate a family of (μ+λ)(\mu+\lambda) Genetic Algorithms (GAs) which creates offspring either from mutation or by recombining two randomly chosen parents. By scaling the crossover probability, we can thus interpolate from a fully mutation-only algorithm towards a fully crossover-based GA. We analyze, by empirical means, how the performance depends on the interplay of population size and the crossover probability. Our comparison on 25 pseudo-Boolean optimization problems reveals an advantage of crossover-based configurations on several easy optimization tasks, whereas the picture for more complex optimization problems is rather mixed. Moreover, we observe that the ``fast'' mutation scheme with its are power-law distributed mutation strengths outperforms standard bit mutation on complex optimization tasks when it is combined with crossover, but performs worse in the absence of crossover. We then take a closer look at the surprisingly good performance of the crossover-based (μ+λ)(\mu+\lambda) GAs on the well-known LeadingOnes benchmark problem. We observe that the optimal crossover probability increases with increasing population size μ\mu. At the same time, it decreases with increasing problem dimension, indicating that the advantages of the crossover are not visible in the asymptotic view classically applied in runtime analysis. We therefore argue that a mathematical investigation for fixed dimensions might help us observe effects which are not visible when focusing exclusively on asymptotic performance bounds

    Optimal CHP Planning in Integrated Energy Systems considering Use-of-System Charges

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    This paper proposes a novel optimal planning model for combined heat and power (CHP) in multiple energy systems of natural gas and electricity to benefit both networks by deferring investment for network owners and reducing use-of-system (UoS) charge for network users. The new planning model considers the technical constraints of both electricity and natural gas systems. A two-stage planning approach is proposed to determine the optimal site and size of CHPs. In the first stage, a long-run incremental cost matrix is designed to reflect CHP locational impact on both natural gas and electricity network investment, used as a criterion to choose the optimal location. In the second stage, CHP size is determined by solving an integrated optimal model with the objective to minimize total incremental network investment costs. The proposed method is resolved by the interior-point method and implemented on a practically integrated electricity and natural gas systems. Two case studies are conducted to test the performance for single and multiple CHPs cases. This paper enables cost-efficient CHP planning to benefit integrated natural gas and electricity networks and network users in terms of reduced network investment cost and consequently reduced UoS charges
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