基于RBF神经网络模型的结构可靠度优化方法

在结构构件尺寸、材料属性以及外部载荷等不确定性因素影响下,基于可靠度的优化给出了兼顾结构的成本和安全性能的安全设计方案.由于传统的可靠度优化方法采用嵌套的双层优化列式求解,因此导致计算量过大.为了克服这个问题,学者们相继提出了解耦方法和单循环方法等方法.该文采用RBF神经网络模型用于可靠度优化问题的求解中,通过拉丁超立方方法构造代理模型,并用误差指标来验证代理模型的精确程度,同时自适应更新代理模型直至满足需求.通过与现有可靠度优化4种主流算法的比较,说明了该文提出算法的高效性和稳健性.     

种群规模自适应粒子群在配送中心连续型选址中的应用

本文依照更具有现实意义的“加工厂—配送中心—用户”的模式建立物流配送中心连续型选址模型,并针对较大规模的选址问题提出求解算法。该算法是将具有较强鲁棒性的自适应粒子算法和改进的ALA(Alert Location-Allocation)方法结合而得,该算法中种群规模自适应变化,对经典粒子移动方程进行改进,消除了学习因子,惯性因子随粒子适应值自适应变化,改进的ALA方法提高了算法计算效率。数值试验表明,本文所建模型具有一定的实践优越性,所提出的算法能有效避免陷入局部最优,寻优能力和鲁棒性均较强。     

基于粒子群优化Kriging模型的边坡可靠度分析

采用传统极限平衡法进行边坡可靠度分析时,不可避免会遇到一个问题,即边坡功能函数形式的高度非线性以及隐含性.对于隐式功能函数,传统的求解方法是通过对功能函数进行多次迭代,从而得到安全系数值.但是由于功能函数的形式较为复杂,导致迭代计算的过程变得尤为繁琐且效率低下.鉴于传统边坡可靠度分析中存在的安全系数计算繁琐耗时的问题,提出一种基于粒子群优化(PSO)算法的自动采样Kriging代理模型方法,该方法可以代替功能函数的作用进行安全系数的求解.首先用拉丁超立方抽样方法(LHS)选取少量土体参数组,并通过极限平衡法求出对应的安全系数,将土体参数组和安全系数作为初始样本建立Kriging模型;其次由粒子群优化算法将最有期望改善模型拟合精度的样本点添加到样本集合中,以逐步迭代提升Kriging模型的计算精度;最后集合经典蒙特卡洛模拟(MCS)获得边坡的破坏概率.通过一个双层的土质边坡算例分析,证明了该方法可以实现准确高效的安全系数计算,尤其是在安全系数计算量十分庞大的情况下可以大大节省计算时间,是一种有效的边坡工程稳定可靠度分析方法.     

求解复杂优化问题的基于信息熵的自适应蚁群算法

针对基本蚁群算法存在收敛速度慢、易陷入局部最优、计算复杂且不易求解连续优化问题等缺陷 ,提出了一种基于信息熵的改进自适应蚁群算法 ,采用由信息熵控制的路径选择及随机扰动策略实现了算法的自适应调节 ,克服了基本蚁群算法的不足 .典型的 NP-hard问题的计算实例表明 ,该方法具有较好的收敛性、稳定性和鲁棒性 ,可用于离散及连续的组合优化问题求解中 ,其不失为求解复杂组合优化问题的一种较好的方法 .     

受扰不确定混沌系统的降阶修正函数投影同步

研究了具有不同阶数的受扰不确定混沌系统的降阶修正函数投影同步问题.基于Lyapunov稳定性理论和自适应控制方法,设计了统一的非线性状态反馈控制器和参数更新规则,使得混沌响应系统按照相应的函数尺度因子矩阵和混沌驱动系统的部分状态变量实现同步.方法考虑了实际系统中的模型不确定性和外界扰动,具有较强的实用性和鲁棒性.数值仿真证明了控制方法的有效性.     

比例风险模型下参数极大似然估计的自适应优化算法及其改进算法

自适应优化算法可避免很多常用数值算法遭遇的困难,例如:高维矩阵求逆问题,初值选取的问题和算法的收敛问题等等.因此,自适应优化算法得到了迅速的发展和广泛的应用,本文研究了比例风险模型下的自适应优化算法.首先利用三种自适应优化算法-Adam算法、RMSprop算法、Adagrad算法求解比例风险模型下的参数估计数值解问题,获得了自适应算法的计算优良性.然后,推广了比例风险模型下的Adam算法的研究,发展了一种改进的Adam算法,进一步提高了算法的计算速度并展现了其计算优势.     

一类Sprott-O混沌系统的H_∞状态控制和自适应控制研究

研究了一类Sprott-O混沌系统的H_∞状态反馈控制和自适应反推控制问题.首先,通过绘制系统的Lyapunov指数图、混沌吸引子图及参数变化时的分岔图等验证了系统在一定参数条件下具有的复杂混沌动力学行为;然后,分别应用H_∞状态反馈控制方法和自适应反推控制方法设计不同的控制器,对混沌系统加以控制;最后,通过数值仿真验证了所设计控制器的有效性.     

基于嵌入式多项式混沌展开法的随机边界下流动与传热问题不确定性量化

提出了一种嵌入式多项式混沌展开(polynomial chaos expansion, PCE)的随机边界条件下流动与传热问题不确定性量化方法及有限元程序框架.该方法利用Karhunen-Loeve展开表达随机输入边界条件,以及嵌入式多项式混沌展开法表达输出随机场;同时利用谱分解技术将控制方程转化为一组确定性控制方程,并对每个多项式混沌进行求解得到其统计特征.与Monte-Carlo法相比,该方法能够准确高效地预测随机边界条件下流动与传热问题的不确定性特征,同时可以节省大量计算资源.     

结构模糊可靠性分析方法的泛灰求解

针对现有的基于区间求解结构模糊可靠度方法的缺陷,提出了一种新的求解结构模糊可靠度方法.该方法利用泛灰数描述与结构基本变量概率分布相关的不确定参数,并将这些泛灰数引入到结构模糊可靠度计算中,得出了较为精确的结构可靠度计算结果.数值算例表明,该方法得到的结构可靠度区间更窄,实现了利用较少的信息量得到较精确的可靠度计算结果,相比传统的结构模糊可靠度计算方法能提供更多、更精确的关于结构安全程度的有用信息.     

基于混沌优化和自适应反向学习的秃鹰搜索算法

针对秃鹰搜索算法求解精度低、收敛速度较慢、容易陷入局部最优的问题,提出一种基于混沌优化和自适应反向学习的秃鹰搜索算法.首先,在选择搜索空间阶段引入正弦混沌映射更新秃鹰群位置,增加随机性,优化全局搜索能力;其次,在俯冲捕获猎物阶段加入指数自适应,平衡了全局搜索和局部搜索,同时加快收敛速度;最后,对更新后的最优秃鹰位置使用反向学习策略,提高跳出局部最优的可能性.选取12个测试函数对算法的性能进行了测试,结果表明本文改进的秃鹰搜索算法具有更优的求解精度和收敛速度.     

基于多项式混沌拓展模型和bootstrap的结构可靠性分析方法

多项式混沌拓展(polynomial chaos expansion,PCE)模型现已发展为全局灵敏度分析的强大工具,却很少作为替代模型用于可靠性分析。针对该模型缺乏误差项从而很难构造主动学习函数来逐步更新的事实,在结构可靠性分析的框架下提出了基于PCE模型和bootstrap重抽样的仿真方法来计算失效概率。首先,对试验设计(experimental design)使用bootstrap重抽样步骤以刻画PCE模型的预测误差;其次,基于这个局部误差构造主动学习函数,通过不断填充试验设计以自适应地更新模型,直到能够精确地逼近真实的功能函数;最后,当PCE模型具有足够精确的拟合、预测能力,再使用蒙特卡洛仿真方法来计算失效概率。提出的平行加点策略既能在模型更新过程中找到改进模型拟合能力的"最好"的点,又考虑了模型拟合的计算量;而且,当失效概率的数量级较低时,PCE-bootstrap步骤与子集仿真(subset simulation)的结合能进一步加速失效概率估计量的收敛。本文方法将PCE模型在概率可靠性领域的应用从灵敏度分析延伸到了可靠性分析,同时,算例分析结果显示了该方法的精确性和高效性。     

Hybrid control variates-based simulation method for structural reliability analysis of some problems with low failure probability

The safety analysis of systems with nonlinear performance function and small probability of failure is a challenge in the field of reliability analysis. In this study, an efficient approach is presented for approximating small failure probabilities. To meet this aim, by introducing Probability Density Function (PDF) control variates, the original failure probability integral was reformulated based on the Control Variates Technique (CVT). Accordingly, using the adaptive cooperation of the subset simulation (SubSim) and the CVT, a new formulation was offered for the approximation of small failure probabilities. The proposed formulation involves a probability term (resulting from a fast-moving SubSim) and an adaptive weighting term that refines the obtained probability. Several numerical and engineering problems, involving nonlinear performance functions and system-level reliability problems, are solved by the proposed approach and common reliability methods. Results showed that the proposed simulation approach is not only more efficient, but is also robust than common reliability methods. It also presents a good potential for application in engineering reliability problems.     

Feedback control and adaptive control of the energy resource chaotic system

In this paper, the problem of control for the energy resource chaotic system is considered. Two different method of control, feedback control (include linear feedback control, non-autonomous feedback control) and adaptive control methods are used to suppress chaos to unstable equilibrium or unstable periodic orbits. The Routh–Hurwitz criteria and Lyapunov direct method are used to study the conditions of the asymptotic stability of the steady states of the controlled system. The designed adaptive controller is robust with respect to certain class of disturbances in the energy resource chaotic system. Numerical simulations are presented to show these results.     

Chaos suppression of a class of unknown uncertain chaotic systems via single input

This paper deals with the design of a robust adaptive control scheme for chaos suppression of a class of chaotic systems. We assume that model uncertainties and external disturbances disturb the system’s dynamics. The bounds of both model uncertainties and external disturbances are assumed to be unknown in advance. Moreover, it is assumed that the nonlinear terms of the chaotic system dynamics are unknown bounded. Based on the global boundedness feature of the chaotic systems’ trajectories, a simple one input adaptive sliding mode control approach is proposed to suppress the chaos of the uncertain chaotic system. Furthermore, using a dynamical sliding manifold the discontinuous sign function in the control input is diverted to the first derivative of the control input to eliminate the chattering. Finally, the robustness of the proposed approach is mathematically proved and numerically illustrated.     

A posteriori error estimates for mixed FEM in elasticity

A residue based reliable and efficient error estimator is established for finite element solutions of mixed boundary value problems in linear, planar elasticity. The proof of the reliability of the estimator is based on Helmholtz type decompositions of the error in the stress variable and a duality argument for the error in the displacements. The efficiency follows from inverse estimates. The constants in both estimates are independent of the Lamé constant , and so locking phenomena for are properly indicated. The analysis justifies a new adaptive algorithm for automatic mesh–refinement. Received July 17, 1997     

Synchronization of different dimensional chaotic systems with time varying parameters, disturbances and input nonlinearities

In this paper, the problems of robust exponential generalized and robust exponential Q-S chaos synchronization are investigated between different dimensional chaotic systems. We consider the more practical and realistic cases when unknown time varying parameters with uncertainties, environmental disturbances, and nonlinearity of input control signals are present. The adaptive technique is employed to design the appropriate controllers and the validity of the proposed controllers are proved using Lyapunov stability theorem. Furthermore, numerical simulations are performed to show the efficiency of the presented scheme.     

M5 model tree and Monte Carlo simulation for efficient structural reliability analysis

Practically, the performance of many engineering problems can be defined using a complex implicit limit state function. Approximation of the accurate failure probability is very time-consuming and inefficient based on Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) for complex performance functions. M5 model tree (M5Tree) model is robust approach for simulation and prediction phenomena, which provides ability to dealing with complex implicit problems by dividing them into smaller problems. By improving the efficiency of reliability method using accurate approximated failure probability, an efficient reliability method using the MCS and M5Tree is proposed to calibrate the performance function and estimate the failure probability, respectively. The superiorities including simplicity and accuracy of M5Tree meta-model are investigated to evaluate the actual performance function through five nonlinear complex mathematical and structural reliability problems. The proposed reliability method-based MCS and M5Tree improved the computational efforts for evaluating the performance function in reliability analysis. The M5Tree significantly increased the efficiency of reliability analysis with accurate failure probability.     

A hybrid self-adjusted mean value method for reliability-based design optimization using sufficient descent condition

Due to the efficiency and simplicity, advanced mean value (AMV) method is widely used to evaluate the probabilistic constraints in reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) problems. However, it may produce unstable results as periodic and chaos solutions for highly nonlinear performance functions. In this paper, the AMV is modified based on a self-adaptive step size, named as the self-adjusted mean value (SMV) method, where the step size for reliability analysis is adjusted based on a power function dynamically. Then, a hybrid self-adjusted mean value (HSMV) method is developed to enhance the robustness and efficiency of iterative scheme in the reliability loop, where the AMV is combined with the SMV on the basis of sufficient descent condition. Finally, the proposed methods (i.e. SMV and HSMV) are compared with other existing performance measure approaches through several nonlinear mathematical/structural examples. Results show that the SMV and HSMV are more efficient with enhanced robustness for both convex and concave performance functions.     

Artificial neural network based inverse reliability analysis

An inverse reliability analysis is the problem to find design parameters corresponding to specified reliability levels expressed by reliability index or by theoretical failure probability. Design parameters can be deterministic or they can be associated to random variables described by statistical moments. The aim is to solve generally not only the single design parameter case but also the multiple parameter problems with given multiple reliability constraints. A new general approach of inverse reliability analysis is proposed. The inverse analysis is based on the coupling of a stochastic simulation of Monte Carlo type and an artificial neural network. A novelty of the approach is the utilization of the efficient small-sample simulation method Latin Hypercube Sampling used for the stochastic preparation of the training set. (© 2010 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A new semi-smooth Newton multigrid method for control-constrained semi-linear elliptic PDE problems

In this paper a new multigrid algorithm is proposed to accelerate the convergence of the semi-smooth Newton method that is applied to the first order necessary optimality systems arising from a class of semi-linear control-constrained elliptic optimal control problems. Under admissible assumptions on the nonlinearity, the discretized Jacobian matrix is proved to have an uniformly bounded inverse with respect to mesh size. Different from current available approaches, a new numerical implementation that leads to a robust multigrid solver is employed to coarsen the grid operator. Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method, which shows to be computationally more efficient than the full-approximation-storage multigrid in current literature. In particular, our proposed approach achieves a mesh-independent convergence and its performance is highly robust with respect to the regularization parameter.