A Novel Redundancy Resolution Method via Optimization with Additional Tasks

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 1787-1792
Author(s):  
Xue Feng Zhou

This paper presents an optimization method for redundant manipulator redundancy resolution with additional task. The cost function is a compromise between the requirement of accuracy of the main task, the accuracy of the additional task, and the feasibility of the joint velocities. The joint rates that minimize the cost function can be found, and the joint position trajectories can be integrated with an initial configuration. The effectiveness of this presented method is verified by a planar 3-DoF PRR manipulator.

2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Xue Feng Zhou ◽  
Ke Zheng Sun ◽  
Xian Shuai Chen ◽  
Gong Zhang

In order to compute the redundancy-resolution for robots with multi-constraints, an approximate method based on weighted least-norm principle is presented. With this method, different constraints is assigned with corresponding coefficients, and the cost function is given out and optimized for the best between the accuracy and the fulfillment of the constraint, which is based on the weighted least-norm of each constraints and the main task. Firstly, the state of the art of redundant resolution is introduced in brief and the drawback with the application to the resolution with multi-constraints is pointed out. Then the redundancy resolution at velocity level and position level, and the modeling of the constraints are proposed. In view of this, the weighted least-norm method is presented. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulations of a six-DoFs biped walking robot Bibot-U6 with the stability constraint and joint limits constraints. The result shows that the method has an excellent robustness for the under-determined system and over-determined system, meanwhile has a good accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
Dokkyun Yi ◽  
Sangmin Ji ◽  
Jieun Park

Artificial intelligence (AI) is achieved by optimizing the cost function constructed from learning data. Changing the parameters in the cost function is an AI learning process (or AI learning for convenience). If AI learning is well performed, then the value of the cost function is the global minimum. In order to obtain the well-learned AI learning, the parameter should be no change in the value of the cost function at the global minimum. One useful optimization method is the momentum method; however, the momentum method has difficulty stopping the parameter when the value of the cost function satisfies the global minimum (non-stop problem). The proposed method is based on the momentum method. In order to solve the non-stop problem of the momentum method, we use the value of the cost function to our method. Therefore, as the learning method processes, the mechanism in our method reduces the amount of change in the parameter by the effect of the value of the cost function. We verified the method through proof of convergence and numerical experiments with existing methods to ensure that the learning works well.


1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kolonko ◽  
M. T. Tran

It is well known that the standard simulated annealing optimization method converges in distribution to the minimum of the cost function if the probability a for accepting an increase in costs goes to 0. α is controlled by the “temperature” parameter, which in the standard setup is a fixed sequence of values converging slowly to 0. We study a more general model in which the temperature may depend on the state of the search process. This allows us to adapt the temperature to the landscape of the cost function. The temperature may temporarily rise such that the process can leave a local optimum more easily. We give weak conditions on the temperature schedules such that the process of solutions finally concentrates near the optimal solutions. We also briefly sketch computational results for the job shop scheduling problem.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 4362
Author(s):  
Subramaniam Saravana Sankar ◽  
Yiqun Xia ◽  
Julaluk Carmai ◽  
Saiprasit Koetniyom

The goal of this work is to compute the eco-driving cycles for vehicles equipped with internal combustion engines by using a genetic algorithm (GA) with a focus on reducing energy consumption. The proposed GA-based optimization method uses an optimal control problem (OCP), which is framed considering both fuel consumption and driver comfort in the cost function formulation with the support of a tunable weight factor to enhance the overall performance of the algorithm. The results and functioning of the optimization algorithm are analyzed with several widely used standard driving cycles and a simulated real-world driving cycle. For the selected optimal weight factor, the simulation results show that an average reduction of eight percent in fuel consumption is achieved. The results of parallelization in computing the cost function indicates that the computational time required by the optimization algorithm is reduced based on the hardware used.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dokkyun Yi ◽  
Jaehyun Ahn ◽  
Sangmin Ji

A machine is taught by finding the minimum value of the cost function which is induced by learning data. Unfortunately, as the amount of learning increases, the non-liner activation function in the artificial neural network (ANN), the complexity of the artificial intelligence structures, and the cost function’s non-convex complexity all increase. We know that a non-convex function has local minimums, and that the first derivative of the cost function is zero at a local minimum. Therefore, the methods based on a gradient descent optimization do not undergo further change when they fall to a local minimum because they are based on the first derivative of the cost function. This paper introduces a novel optimization method to make machine learning more efficient. In other words, we construct an effective optimization method for non-convex cost function. The proposed method solves the problem of falling into a local minimum by adding the cost function in the parameter update rule of the ADAM method. We prove the convergence of the sequences generated from the proposed method and the superiority of the proposed method by numerical comparison with gradient descent (GD, ADAM, and AdaMax).


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 8798
Author(s):  
Yujiang Xiang ◽  
Shadman Tahmid ◽  
Paul Owens ◽  
James Yang

Box delivery is a complicated manual material handling task which needs to consider the box weight, delivering speed, stability, and location. This paper presents a subtask-based inverse dynamic optimization formulation for determining the two-dimensional (2D) symmetric optimal box delivery motion. For the subtask-based formulation, the delivery task is divided into five subtasks: lifting, the first transition step, carrying, the second transition step, and unloading. To render a complete delivering task, each subtask is formulated as a separate optimization problem with appropriate boundary conditions. For carrying and lifting subtasks, the cost function is the sum of joint torque squared. In contrast, for transition subtasks, the cost function is the combination of joint discomfort and joint torque squared. Joint angle profiles are validated through experimental results using Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) and root-mean-square-error (RMSE). Results show that the subtask-based approach is computationally efficient for complex box delivery motion simulation. This research outcome provides a practical guidance to prevent injury risks in joint torque space for workers who deliver heavy objects in their daily jobs.


Author(s):  
YANLI WAN ◽  
ZHEN TANG ◽  
ZHENJIANG MIAO ◽  
BO LI

Image composition is a very important technique in computer generated imagery. Besides some factors such as contrast, texture and noise that affect the quality of the composition, color harmony between fore- and background is also an important factor that would affect the quality of the composition. However, in the previous image composition techniques, color harmony between fore- and background is seldom considered. In this paper, an optimization method is proposed to deal with the color harmonization problem that used in image composition. A cost function is derived from the local smoothness of the hue values, and the image is harmonized by minimizing the cost function. A new matching cost function is proposed to select the best matching harmonic schemes. Our approach overcomes several shortcomings of the existing color harmonization methods. We validate the performance of our method and demonstrate its effectiveness with a variety of experiments.


Author(s):  
Ismet Sahin

This paper presents a population-based evolutionary optimization method for minimizing a given cost function. The mutation operator of this method selects randomly oriented lines in the cost function domain, constructs quadratic functions interpolating the cost function at three different points over each line, and uses extrema of the quadratics as mutated points. The crossover operator modifies each mutated point based on components of two points in population, instead of one point as is usually performed in other evolutionary algorithms. The stopping criterion of this method depends on the number of almost degenerate quadratics. We demonstrate that the proposed method with these mutation and crossover operations achieves faster and more robust convergence than the well-known Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm algorithms.


Author(s):  
N.D. Koshevoy ◽  
A.V. Malkova

Experimental research methods are increasingly used in industry in the optimization of production processes. Experiments, as a rule, are multifactorial and are connected with optimization of quality of materials, search of optimum conditions of carrying out technological processes, development of the most rational designs of the equipment, etc. The use of experimental planning makes the behavior of the experimenter purposeful and organized, significantly increases productivity and reliability of the results. An important advantage is its versatility, suitability in the vast majority of research areas. When implementing an industrial experiment, the main task is to obtain the maximum amount of useful information about the influence of individual factors of the production process, provided that the minimum number of expensive observations in the shortest period of time. Therefore, it is important to increase the efficiency of experimental research with minimal time and cost. For this purpose, it is expedient to develop systems of automation of experiments which will allow to reduce terms of carrying out experimental researches and to reduce expenses for them. Object of research: processes of optimization of plans of multifactor experiment on cost and time expenses. Subject of research: an optimization method developed on the basis of the gravitational search algorithm, which consists in comparing the force of gravity (cost) of the first row of the planning matrix of the experiment to the next rows of the matrix. In the study of photoelectric transducers of angular displacements, the efficiency and effectiveness of the gravitational search method were analyzed in comparison with previously developed methods: analysis of line permutations, particle swarm, taboo search. The cost of carrying out the experiment plan and the efficiency for solving optimization problems in comparison with the original plan and the implementation of the above methods are shown.


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