• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제61권3호
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• pp.347-357
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• 2017

The applications of active control is being more popular nowadays. Several control algorithms have been developed to determine optimum control force. In this paper, a Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization (CPSO) technique, based on Logistic map, is used to compute the optimum control force of active tendon system. A chaotic exploration is used to search the solution space for optimum control force. The response control of Multi-Degree of Freedom (MDOF) shear buildings, equipped with active tendons, is introduced as an optimization problem, based on Instantaneous Optimal Active Control algorithm. Three MDOFs are simulated in this paper. Two examples out of three, which have been previously controlled using Lattice type Probabilistic Neural Network (LPNN) and Block Pulse Functions (BPFs), are taken from prior works in order to compare the efficiency of the current method. In the present study, a maximum allowable value of control force is added to the original problem. Later, a twenty-story shear building, as the third and more realistic example, is considered and controlled. Besides, the required Central Processing Unit (CPU) time of CPSO control algorithm is investigated. Although the CPU time of LPNN and BPFs methods of prior works is not available, the results show that a full state measurement is necessary, especially when there are more than three control devices. The results show that CPSO algorithm has a good performance, especially in the presence of the cut-off limit of tendon force; therefore, can widely be used in the field of optimum active control of actual buildings.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2003

본 논문은 직접 토오크 제어 (Direct Torque control, DTC)를 이용한 릴럭턴스 동기전동기 (Reluctance Synchronous Motor, RSM)의 최대 효율 제어에 관한 연구이다. 릴럭턴스 동기전동기의 등가모델 해석에 있어서 철손의 영향을 고려하여 이론적으로 분석하였으며, 최대효율제어를 위하여 토크 전류와 여자전류 사이의 최적 각을 유도하였다. 릴럭턴스 동기전동기의 경우는 자속이 전류에 비례하므로 유도전동기와는 달리 자속레벨을 제어하면서 토오크의 동특성을 유지할 수 있다는 특징을 가지고 있으며, 제시된 연구에서는 릴럭턴스 동기전동기의 이러한 특징을 적용하여 직접 토오크 제어의 장점인 빠른 토오크 응답특성을 유지하면서 최대 효율 제어가 이루어지도록 한다. d/q 릴럭턴스 비가 2.57인 1.0 Kw 릴럭턴스 동기전동기를 이용하여 실험을 통해 제안된 방법들의 정당성을 입증하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.69-83
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• 1999

The most common used control device on tall buildings and high-rise structures is active and passive tuned mass damper (ATMD and TMD). The major advantages of ATMD and TMD are discussed. The existing installations of various passive/active control devices on real structures are listed. A set of parameter optimization methods is proposed to determine optimal parameters of passive tuned mass dampers under wind excitation. Simplified formulas for determining the optimal parameters are proposed so that the design of a TMD can be carried out easily. Optimal design of wind-induced vibration control of frame structures is investigated. A thirty-story tall building is used as an example to demonstrate the procedure and to verify the efficiency of ATMD and TMD with the optimal parameters.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.379-392
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• 2020

The paper presents a Life-Cycle Cost-based optimization framework for wind-excited tall buildings equipped with Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs). The objective is to minimize the Life-Cycle Cost that comprises initial costs of the structure, the control system and costs related to repair, maintenance and downtime over the building's lifetime. The integrated optimization of structural sections and mass ratio of the TMDs is carried out, leading to a set of Pareto optimal solutions. The main advantage of the proposed methodology is that, differently from the traditional optimal design approach, it allows to perform the unified design of both the structure and the control system in a Life Cycle Cost Analysis framework. The procedure quantifies wind-induced losses, related to structural and nonstructural damage, considering the stochastic nature of the loads (wind velocity and direction), the specificity of the structural modeling (e.g., non-shear-type vibration modes and torsional effects) and the presence of the TMDs. Both serviceability and ultimate limit states related to the structure and the TMDs' damage are adopted for the computation of repair costs. The application to a case study tall building allows to demonstrate the efficiency of the procedure for the integrated design of the structure and the control system.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.511-528
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• 2021

There are recently some advances in solving numerically topology optimization problems for large-scaled trusses based on ground structure approach. A disadvantage of this approach is that the final design usually includes many bars, which is difficult to be produced in practice. One of efficient tools is a so-called filter scheme for the ground structure to reduce this difficulty and determine several distinct bars. In detail, this technique is valuable for practical uses because unnecessary bars are filtered out from the ground structure to obtain a well-defined structure during the topology optimization process, while it still guarantees the global equilibrium condition. This process, however, leads to a singular system of equilibrium equations. In this case, the minimization of least squares with Tikhonov regularization is adopted. In this paper, a proposed algorithm in controlling optimal Tikhonov parameter is considered in combination with the filter scheme due to its crucial role in obtaining solution to remove numerical singularity and saving computational time by using sparse matrix, which means that the discrete optimal topology solutions depend on choosing the Tikhonov parameter efficiently. Several numerical examples are investigated to demonstrate the efficiency of the filter parameter control algorithm in terms of the large-scaled optimal topology designs.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.99-112
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• 2012

This paper attempts to present a numerical method for solving optimal control problems. The method is based upon constructing the n-th degree Jacobi polynomials to approximate the control vector and use differentiation matrix to approximate derivative term in the state system. The system dynamics are then converted into system of algebraic equations and hence the optimal control problem is reduced to constrained optimization problem. Numerical examples illustrate the robustness, accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권11호
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• pp.1578-1583
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• 2013

In this paper, stochastic optimization algorithms of PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) and APSO (Adaptive Particle Swam Optimization) are studied and compared. It is revealed that the APSO provides faster convergence and better search efficiency than the conventional PSO when they are adopted to find the global minimum of a two-dimensional function. The advantages of the APSO comes from the ability to control the inertia weight, and acceleration coefficients. To verify that the APSO is working better than the standard PSO, the design of a 10GHz microstrip patch as one of the elements of a high frequency array antenna is taken as a test-case and shows the optimized result with 5 iterations in the APSO and 28 iterations in th PSO.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.1218-1228
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• 1997

The move limit strategy is used to avoid the excessive approximation in the structural optimization. The size of move limit has been obtained by engineering experience. Recently, efforts based on analytic methods are performed by some researchers. These methods still have problems, such as prematurity or oscillation of the move limit size. The existing methods usually control the bound of design variables based on the magnitude. Thus, they can not properly handle the configuration variables based on the geometry in the configuration optimization. In this research, the size of move limit is calculated based on the accuracy of approximation. The method is coded and applied to the two-point reciprocal quadratic approximation method. The efficiency is evaluated through examples.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.1809-1814
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• 2003

Differential evolution (DE) algorithm is presented and applied to global optimization in this research. DE suggested initially fur the solution to Chebychev polynomial fitting problem is similar to genetic algorithm(GA) including crossover, mutation and selection process. However, differential evolution algorithm is simpler than GA because it uses a vector concept in populating process. And DE turns out to be converged faster than CA, since it employs the difference information as pseudo-sensitivity In this paper, a trial vector and its control parameters of DE are examined and unconstrained optimization problems of highly nonlinear multimodal functions are demonstrated. To illustrate the efficiency of DE, convergence rates and robustness of global optimization algorithms are compared with those of simple GA.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.369-375
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• 2017

본 연구는 제설작업의 효율성을 높일 수 있도록 제설차량의 작업구간 할당 및 제설기지 위치를 최적화할 수 있는 PSO 알고리듬을 제시하였다. 기존의 PSO 알고리듬을 개선하여 해공간의 탐색 성능을 높일 수 있는 개선된 알고리듬을 제시하였으며, 제설차량의 작업구간 할당 문제에 적용할 수 있도록 개체의 표현 및 적합도 합수값을 제시하였다. 또한 제시한 알고리듬의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 지자체의 실제 사례에 적용하였으며, 기존 알고리듬과 개선된 알고리듬을 비교하였다. 그 결과 개선된 PSO의 경우 기존 알고리듬보다 폭넓게 해공간을 탐색하여 지역해에 빠지지 않고 더 우수한 해를 도출하는 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 개별 제설차량의 작업부하가 평준화될 수 있도록 작업구간을 할당할 수 있으며, 할당된 작업구간에 가장 가까운 지점을 도출하여 제설전진기지의 위치를 결정하는데 활용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.