{"title":"Chain Branch Leaf-Gateway, a Strategy for Dynamic Clustering and Optimal Coverage of Communication for Automated Mobility","authors":"Sabrine Belmekki, D. Gruyer, C. Tatkeu","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998893","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main issues with embedded sensors in Automated Vehicle (AV) concerns their limited perception capabilities (limited range) and short-term reaction to only close events. However, for safer operations, AVs need to anticipate distant events. To reach this goal, it is essential to propose efficient communication architectures and strategies that guarantee a high level of Quality of Service (QoS). Therefore, cooperation among communication “nodes” is essential to establish and maintain the links between vehicles or vehicles and infrastructure. However, the communication links could be interrupted in some situations such as Vehicles leaving the area covered by the communications (vehicle alone or in low vehicle density), or the high velocity of vehicles (reduced range). This paper proposes an improvement of the Chain Branch Leaf (CBL) strategy with the implementation of a Gateway mechanism (CBL-G). The initial Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) strategy is now extended with a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) configuration in motorway areas in order to guarantee V2X architecture. CBL-G objective is to develop a dynamic communication clustering strategy with a distributed and dedicated Road Side Units (RSU) topology for optimal communication coverage. The proposed solution improves the QoS for critical functions (i.e risk assessment, accurate and distributed localization) by redirecting isolated vehicle nodes and clusters to RSUs.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131376827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case Study of Digital Twin for Greenhouse Horticulture Production Flow","authors":"D. A. Howard, Zheng Ma, B. Jørgensen","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998914","url":null,"abstract":"Greenhouse horticulture production is associated with high uncertainty and a long learning process due to its high dependency on the outdoor & indoor environment and plant types. Digital Twin (DT) technology enables a faster understanding of greenhouse horticulture facilities, obtaining insight into the production process flow and investigating the consequences of production decisions. However, no digital twin has been developed in this field due to the complexity of greenhouse production. Therefore, this paper presents a case study of a DT development for a Danish greenhouse production flow using multi-method modeling and multi-agent simulation. The results show that the developed DT can accurately represent the greenhouse production process and estimate the plant growth state with an absolute error of 0.31 days compared to the observed production. Furthermore, the developed DT can accurately predict deviations to the plant growth state corresponding to previously observed behavior at the facility. To capture the greenhouse production process flow at the top-level greenhouse DT agent, the underlying physical agents developed included: compartments, growth climate, conveyors, staff, tables, plants, soil machine, table loading, and packing station as well as the packing station. Lastly, the developed DT method supports agent re-usability for other case studies.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131289051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael A. Varner, Frost Mitchell, Jie Wang, Kirk Webb, G. Durgin
{"title":"Enhanced RF Modeling Accuracy Using Simple Minimum Mean-Squared Error Correction Factors","authors":"Michael A. Varner, Frost Mitchell, Jie Wang, Kirk Webb, G. Durgin","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998888","url":null,"abstract":"This work proposes a quick, accurate means to generate correction factors for established propagation models such as the terrain-integrated rough earth model (TIREM). Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE) techniques are applied, extending the applicability of this already-accurate and flexible propagation model and improving the standard deviation error between measurement and predicted by as much as 6.9 dB in some regions of a signal-strength measurement campaign at the University of Utah campus.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130734507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Wang, Hengrui Ma, Lidong Qin, Shidong Wu, Bowen Ren
{"title":"Optimal Power Flow of Low Carbon Power System Based on NSGA2 Algorithm and Carbon Flow Theory","authors":"G. Wang, Hengrui Ma, Lidong Qin, Shidong Wu, Bowen Ren","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998972","url":null,"abstract":"The research on optimal power flow optimization of power system considering carbon emission intensity can make full use of low-carbon resources in the system and reduce carbon emissions in the operation of power system. This paper proposes a power flow optimization method considering carbon emissions based on NSGA2 algorithm, and the TOPSIS method is used to obtain the optimal solution from the Pareto optimal solution set of multi-objective optimization. That provides a theoretical basis for low-carbon dispatching of power systems. The simulation example shows that this paper can reduce carbon emissions by 45.9% while increasing the system cost by 3.75% compared with the ordinary optimal power flow calculation. The proposed method can significantly reduce the carbon emissions of the system with a little increase in the system cost.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117157528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolutionary Deep Reinforcement Learning for Volt-VAR Control in Distribution Network","authors":"Ruiqi Si, Tianlu Gao, Yuxin Dai, Yuyang Bai, Yuqi Jiang, Jun Zhang","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998947","url":null,"abstract":"As an important form of renewable energy integrated to the power system, distribution network is being challenged by voltage violation and network loss increase. Currently, model-based Vol-Var control (VVC) methods are widely used to reduce voltage violation and network loss. However, model-based methods need accurate parameters of distribution network. In practice, accurate model is difficult to obtain. In this paper, we propose a model-free evolutionary deep reinforcement learning (E-DRL) algorithm to solve the VVC problem. Based on E-DRL, the agent evolves autonomously by continuously interacting with the environment learning control strategy. Inverter-based PVs and SVGs are used to provide fast and continuous control. VVC problem is solved by soft actor-critic algorithm, which uses the maximum entropy technique to balance the exploration and exploitation. Numerical simulations on IEEE 13-bus system demonstrate that the proposed method has satisfied performance.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115803286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Twin-Assisted Lane-changing and Variable Speed Limit Control for Weaving Segments","authors":"Tingting Fan, I. W. Ho, E. Chung","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998933","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid growth of traffic demand, the lane-changing concentration problem of weaving segments is significant on the highway, resulting in decreased operation efficiency and road safety. The cooperative intelligence transportation system (C-ITS) with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology provides the possibility for emerging new cooperative strategies to alleviate that problem. Most of the existing V2X-assisted traffic control strategies assume that communication and connection between vehicles are perfect, which does not reflect reality. To accurately describe the dynamics of vehicular traffic and node connections, a joint traffic and network simulator is established to construct the digital twin system, where two traffic control strategies, namely the lane-changing (LC) distribution strategy and the variable speed limit (VSL) control strategy, are proposed and validated in a complex vehicular communication network. The simulation results show that packet loss negatively affects the performance of V2X-assisted LC control, and the integrated strategy improves the overall average speed by up to 40.4%, compared with the LC control alone.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128979524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel Intelligence in Semantic Digital Twins: An Interactive Decision-Support System for Indoor Comfort","authors":"Alex Donkers, Jelle van Midden, Dujuan Yang","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998960","url":null,"abstract":"While buildings should be designed for their occupants, many buildings fail to satisfy their expectations. The growing research body on personal comfort models is promising to reduce the gap between perceived and predicted comfort; however, measuring perceived comfort levels, integrating them with other heterogeneous information, and making decisions based on the integrated data is a challenge. This paper combines semantic web technologies with an interactive dashboard to measure and integrate the occupants' feedback on indoor comfort. A personal comfort model then calculates an individual's preferred indoor climate. The system is tested in a case study with two occupants and shows that the digital twin can use the human-machine interaction to improve decision-making.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127311733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ray Zayas, Logan E. Beaver, Behdad Chalaki, Heeseung Bang, Andreas A. Malikopoulos
{"title":"A Digital Smart City for Emerging Mobility Systems","authors":"Ray Zayas, Logan E. Beaver, Behdad Chalaki, Heeseung Bang, Andreas A. Malikopoulos","doi":"10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DTPI55838.2022.9998963","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing demand for emerging mobility systems with connected and automated vehicles has imposed the necessity for quality testing environments to support their development. In this paper, we introduce a Unity-based virtual simulation environment for emerging mobility systems, called the Information and Decision Science Lab's Scaled Smart Digital City (IDS 3D City), intended to operate alongside its physical peer and its established control framework. By utilizing the Robot Operation System, AirSim, and Unity, we constructed a simulation environment capable of iteratively designing experiments significantly faster than it is possible in a physical testbed. This environment provides an intermediate step to validate the effectiveness of our control algorithms prior to their implementation in the physical testbed. The IDS 3D City also enables us to demonstrate that our control algorithms work independently of the underlying vehicle dynamics, as the vehicle dynamics introduced by AirSim operate at a different scale than our scaled smart city. Finally, we demonstrate the behavior of our digital environment by performing an experiment in both the virtual and physical environments and comparing their outputs.","PeriodicalId":409822,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence (DTPI)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116466067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}