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1 – 10 of 90Michael Popp and Wolfgang Mathis
The purpose of this paper is to present the embedding of linear and nonlinear order reduction methods in a theoretical framework for handling hierarchically interconnected…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the embedding of linear and nonlinear order reduction methods in a theoretical framework for handling hierarchically interconnected dynamical systems.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the component connection modeling (CCM), a modified framework called mCCM for describing interconnected dynamic systems especially with hierarchical structures is introduced and used for order reduction purposes. The balanced truncation method for linear systems and the trajectory piecewise linear reduction scheme are used for the order reduction of systems described within the mCCM framework.
Findings
It is shown that order reduction methods can be embedded into the context of interconnected dynamical systems with the benefit of having a further degree of freedom in form of the hierarchical level, on which the order reduction is performed.
Originality/value
The aspect of hierarchy within system descriptions is exploited for order reduction purposes. This distinguishes the presented approach from common methods, which already start with single large-scale systems without explicitly considering hierarchical structures.
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The purpose of this paper is to establish an intelligent framework to generate the data representatives in snapshot simulation in order to construct the online reduced-order model…
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The purpose of this paper is to establish an intelligent framework to generate the data representatives in snapshot simulation in order to construct the online reduced-order model based on the generated data information. It could greatly reduce the computational time in snapshot simulation and accelerate the computational efficiency in the real-time computation of reduced-order modeling.
Design/methodology/approach
The snapshot simulation, which generates the data to construct reduced-order models (ROMs), usually is computationally demanding. In order to accelerate the snapshot generation, this paper presents a discrete element interpolaiton method (DEIM)-embedded hybrid simulation approach, in which the entire snapshot simulation is partitioned into multiple intervals of equal length. One of the three models: the full order model (FOM), local ROM, or local ROM-DEIM which represents a hierarchy of model approximations, fidelities and computational costs, will be adopted in each interval.
Findings
The outcome of the proposed snapshot simulation is an efficient ROM-DEIM applicable to various online simulations. Compared with the traditional FOM and the hybrid method without DEIM, the proposed method is able to accelerate the snapshot simulation by 54.4%–63.91% and 10.5%–27.85%, respectively. In the online simulation, ROM-DEIM only takes 4.81%–8.56% of the computational time of FOM, while preserving excellent accuracy (with relative error <1%).
Originality/value
1. A DEIM-embedded hybrid snapshot simulation methodology is proposed to accelerate snapshot data generation and reduced-order model (ROM)-DEIM development. 2. The simulation alternates among FOM, ROM and ROM-DEIM to adaptively generate snapshot data of salient subspace representation while minimizing computational load. 3. The DEIM-embedded hybrid snapshot approach demonstrates excellent accuracy (<1% error) and computational efficiency in both online snapshot simulation and online ROM-DEIM verification simulation.
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Camillo Genesi and Mario Montagna
– The purpose of this work is that of showing some efficient techniques to perform PV-PQ node type switching in multiple power flow computations.
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Purpose
The purpose of this work is that of showing some efficient techniques to perform PV-PQ node type switching in multiple power flow computations.
Design/methodology/approach
Reactive generation limits of generation buses must be taken into account to obtain realistic power flow solutions. This may result computationally demanding when many power flow computations are required as in contingency screening or Monte Carlo simulations. In the present paper, the implementation of efficient PV-PQ node type switching is examined with particular emphasis on the efficiency of computation. Some different methods are proposed and compared on the basis of computation speed and accuracy.
Findings
Tests show the efficiency of the proposed methods with reference to actual networks with up to 800 buses.
Originality/value
The classical method of (partial) re-factorisation is not very efficient when many power flow solutions are to be evaluated. In the present work, a different approach is proposed; it is based on grounding each PV node by a fictitious short-circuit branch which is removed when the node type is changed to PQ. This operation is carried out by compensation of the solution and combined with the modifications required for contingency simulation.
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Many important electronic systems are modelled by discrete‐time equations with nonlinearities that are discontinuous and piecewise‐linear, often arising as a result of…
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Many important electronic systems are modelled by discrete‐time equations with nonlinearities that are discontinuous and piecewise‐linear, often arising as a result of quantization. Approximations based on linearization – the standard engineering response to nonlinearity – are often quite unhelpful in these systems, because of the form of the nonlinearity. Certain methods and results have been developed over a number of years for the analysis of discontinuous piecewise‐linear discrete‐time dynamics. The aim of this tutorial paper is to review that body of knowledge, and to show how it can be applied to representative electronic systems.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses an important electronic circuit – the ΣΔ modulator – as a central example, and considers the dynamical behaviour exhibited by this circuit and related circuits.
Findings
The circuits under investigation exhibit complex forms of behaviour that can be explained by the application of methods of nonlinear discrete‐time dynamics.
Originality/value
This paper is intended to provide a brief introduction to the body of research that exists into the behaviour of nonlinear discrete‐time circuits and systems with discontinuous piecewise‐linear nonlinearities.
Marissa Condon and Rossen Ivanov
This paper presents the application in circuit simulation of a method for model reduction of nonlinear systems that has recently been developed for chemical systems. The technique…
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This paper presents the application in circuit simulation of a method for model reduction of nonlinear systems that has recently been developed for chemical systems. The technique is an extension of the well‐known balanced truncation method that has been applied extensively in the reduction of linear systems. The technique involves the formation of controllability and observability gramians either by simulated results or by measurement data. The empirical gramians are subsequently employed to determine a subspace of the full state‐space that contains the most significant dynamics of the system. A Galerkin projection is used to project the system onto the subspace to form a lower‐dimensional nonlinear model. The method is applied to a nonlinear resistor network which is a standard example for exemplifying the effectiveness of a nonlinear reduction strategy.
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Gabriela Ciuprina, Daniel Ioan, Aurel-Sorin Lup, Luis Miguel Silveira, Anton Duca and Michael Kraft
This paper proposes an algorithm for the extraction of reduced order models of MEMS switches, based on using a physics aware simplification technique.
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Purpose
This paper proposes an algorithm for the extraction of reduced order models of MEMS switches, based on using a physics aware simplification technique.
Design/methodology/approach
The reduced model is built progressively by increasing the complexity of the physical model. The approach starts with static analyses and continues with dynamic ones. Physical phenomena are introduced sequentially in the reduced model whose order is increased until accuracy, computed by assessing forces that are kept in the reduced model, is acceptable.
Findings
The technique is exemplified for RF-MEMS switches, but it can be extended for any device where physical phenomena can be included one by one, in a hierarchy of models. The extraction technique is based on analogies that are carried out for both the multiphysics and the full-wave electromagnetic phenomena and their couplings. In the final model, the multiphysics electromechanical phenomena is reduced to a system with lumped components with nonlinear elastic and damping forces, coupled with a system with distributed and lumped components which represents the reduced model of the RF electromagnetic phenomena.
Originality/value
Contrary to the order reduction by projection methods, this approach has the advantage that the simplified model can be easily understood, the equations and variables have significance for the user and the algorithm starts with a model of minimal order, which is increased until the approximation error is acceptable. The novelty of the proposed method is that, being tailored to a specific application, it is able to keep physical interpretation inside the reduced model. This is the reason why, the obtained model has an extremely low order, much lower than the one achievable with general state-of-the-art procedures.
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Kang Min, Fenglei Ni, Guojun Zhang, Xin Shu and Hong Liu
The purpose of this paper is to propose a smooth double-spline interpolation method for six-degree-of-freedom rotational robot manipulators, achieving the global C2 continuity of…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a smooth double-spline interpolation method for six-degree-of-freedom rotational robot manipulators, achieving the global C2 continuity of the robot trajectory.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents a smooth double-spline interpolation method, achieving the global C2 continuity of the robot trajectory. The tool center positions and quaternion orientations are first fitted by a cubic B-spline curve and a quartic-polynomial-based quaternion spline curve, respectively. Then, a parameter synchronization model is proposed to realize the synchronous and smooth movement of the robot along the double spline curves. Finally, an extra u-s function is used to record the relationship between the B-spline parameter and its arc length parameter, which may reduce the feed rate fluctuation in interpolation. The seven segments jerk-limited feed rate profile is used to generate motion commands for algorithm validation.
Findings
The simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective and can generate the global C2-continuity robot trajectory.
Originality/value
The main contributions of this paper are as follows: guarantee the C2 continuity of the position path and quaternion orientation path simultaneously; provide a parameter synchronization model to realize the synchronous and smooth movement of the robot along the double spline curves; and add an extra u-s function to realize arc length parameterization of the B-spline path, which may reduce the feed rate fluctuation in interpolation.
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Marissa Condon and Rossen Ivanov
The paper is aimed at the development of novel model reduction techniques for nonlinear systems.
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Purpose
The paper is aimed at the development of novel model reduction techniques for nonlinear systems.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is based on the bilinear and polynomial representation of nonlinear systems and the exact solution of the bilinear system in terms of Volterra series. Two sets of Krylov subspaces are identified which capture the most essential part of the input‐output behaviour of the system.
Findings
The paper proposes two novel model‐reduction strategies for nonlinear systems. The first involves the development, in a novel manner compared with previous approaches, of a reduced‐order model from a bilinear representation of the system, while the second involves reducing a polynomial approximation using Krylov subspaces derived from a related bilinear representation. Both techniques are shown to be effective through the evidence of a standard test example.
Research limitations/implications
The proposed methodology is applicable to so‐called weakly nonlinear systems, where both the bilinear and polynomial representations are valid.
Practical implications
The suggested methods lead to an improvement in the accuracy of nonlinear model reduction, which is of paramount importance for the efficient simulation of state‐of‐the‐art dynamical systems arising in all aspects of engineering.
Originality/value
The proposed novel approaches for model reduction are particularly beneficial for the design of controllers for nonlinear systems and for the design and analysis of radio‐frequency integrated circuits.
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