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Shantanu Das

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arXiv2016

Multi-objective LQR with Optimum Weight Selection to Design FOPID Controllers for Delayed Fractional Order Processes

An optimal trade-off design for fractional order (FO)-PID controller is proposed in this paper with a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) based technique using two conflicting time domain control objectives. The deviation of the state trajectories and control signal are automatically enforced by the LQR. A class of delayed FO systems with single non-integer order element has been controlled here which exhibit both sluggish and oscillatory open loop responses. The FO time delay processes are controlled within a multi-objective optimization (MOO) formulation of LQR based FOPID design. The time delays in the FO models are handled by two analytical formulations of designing optimal quadratic regulator for delayed systems. A comparison is made between the two approaches of LQR design for the stabilization of time-delay systems in the context of FOPID controller tuning. The MOO control design methodology yields the Pareto optimal trade-off solutions between the tracking performance for unit set-point change and total variation (TV) of the control signal. Numerical simulations are provided to compare the merits of the two delay handling techniques in the multi-objective LQR-FOPID design, while also showing the capability of load disturbance suppression using these optimal controllers. Tuning rules are then formed for the optimal LQR-FOPID controller knobs, using the median of the non-dominated Pareto solution to handle delays FO processes.

math.OC↗

arXiv2016

Energy-efficient Delivery by Heterogeneous Mobile Agents

We consider the problem of delivering $m$ messages between specified source-target pairs in a weighted undirected graph, by $k$ mobile agents initially located at distinct nodes of the graph. Each agent consumes energy proportional to the distance it travels in the graph and we are interested in optimizing the total energy consumption for the team of agents. Unlike previous related work, we consider heterogeneous agents with different rates of energy consumption (weights~$w_i$). To solve the delivery problem, agents face three major challenges: \emph{Collaboration} (how to work together on each message), \emph{Planning} (which route to take) and \emph{Coordination} (how to assign agents to messages). We first show that the delivery problem can be 2-approximated \emph{without} collaborating and that this is best possible, i.e., we show that the \emph{benefit of collaboration} is 2 in general. We also show that the benefit of collaboration for a single message is~$1/\ln 2 \approx 1.44$. Planning turns out to be \NP-hard to approximate even for a single agent, but can be 2-approximated in polynomial time if agents have unit capacities and do not collaborate. We further show that coordination is \NP-hard even for agents with unit capacity, but can be efficiently solved exactly if they have uniform weights. Finally, we give a polynomial-time $(4\max\tfrac{w_i}{w_j})$-approximation for message delivery with unit capacities.

cs.DS↗

arXiv2016

Collaborative Delivery with Energy-Constrained Mobile Robots

We consider the problem of collectively delivering some message from a specified source to a designated target location in a graph, using multiple mobile agents. Each agent has a limited energy which constrains the distance it can move. Hence multiple agents need to collaborate to move the message, each agent handing over the message to the next agent to carry it forward. Given the positions of the agents in the graph and their respective budgets, the problem of finding a feasible movement schedule for the agents can be challenging. We consider two variants of the problem: in non-returning delivery, the agents can stop anywhere; whereas in returning delivery, each agent needs to return to its starting location, a variant which has not been studied before. We first provide a polynomial-time algorithm for returning delivery on trees, which is in contrast to the known (weak) NP-hardness of the non-returning version. In addition, we give resource-augmented algorithms for returning delivery in general graphs. Finally, we give tight lower bounds on the required resource augmentation for both variants of the problem. In this sense, our results close the gap left by previous research.

cs.DS↗

arXiv2016

Experimental characterization of negative refractive index material NRM at Ka band

In this paper, we discuss the experimental characterization of a negative refractive material NRM at Ka band using LR labyrinth Ring and wire array WA. We describe in detail the the LR and wire array characterization separately, and after that the combined experimental results, for NRM are reported. The LRs analytical and simulation study is not new but design in Ka band and different experimental procedure for the characterization of the negative refractive index is the novelty of this paper. For performing a negative refractive index experiment we made prism of 150 Prism angle . We get enhanced transmittance of more than 20 dB from background, at a negative angle of refraction. The values of the negative refractive index in a band of about 1 G Hz around 31 GHz are retrieved from the experimental data.

physics.class-ph↗

arXiv2016

Design and Experimental Characterization of Spiral Resonator variants-TTSR , NBSR

In this paper we have carried out numerical simulation and experimental characterization of two variants of SR (Spiral resonator) viz. TTSR (Two-Turn Spiral Resonator) and NBSR (Non Bianisotropic spiral resonator). The numerical simulation of these develop magnetic inclusion structures are done with commercially available Finite Element Method (FEM) based Ansys HFSS-13 simulation software, and transmission experiment using S-parameter retrieval technique. The experimental characterization of those fabricated structures is used in the parallel plate waveguide experiment (not reported earlier) and then validate our experimental results with the Ansys HFSS-13 simulation software; which in not available in any published literature.

physics.gen-ph↗

arXiv2016

A Study of Fractional Schrodinger Equation-composed via Jumarie fractional derivative

One of the motivations for using fractional calculus in physical systems is due to fact that many times, in the space and time variables we are dealing which exhibit coarse-grained phenomena, meaning that infinitesimal quantities cannot be placed arbitrarily to zero-rather they are non-zero with a minimum length. Especially when we are dealing in microscopic to mesoscopic level of systems. Meaning if we denote x the point in space and t as point in time; then the differentials dx (and dt) cannot be taken to limit zero, rather it has spread. A way to take this into account is to use infinitesimal quantities as (\Deltax)^α(and (\Deltat)^α) with 0<α<1, which for very-very small \Deltax (and \Deltat); that is trending towards zero, these 'fractional' differentials are greater that \Deltax (and \Deltat). That is (\Deltax)^α>\Deltax. This way defining the differentials-or rather fractional differentials makes us to use fractional derivatives in the study of dynamic systems. In fractional calculus the fractional order trigonometric functions play important role. The Mittag-Leffler function which plays important role in the field of fractional calculus; and the fractional order trigonometric functions are defined using this Mittag-Leffler function. In this paper we established the fractional order Schrodinger equation-composed via Jumarie fractional derivative; and its solution in terms of Mittag-Leffler function with complex arguments and derive some properties of the fractional Schrodinger equation that are studied for the case of particle in one dimensional infinite potential well.

physics.gen-ph↗

arXiv2016

Analytical Solutions of Classical and Fractional KP-Burger Equation and Coupled KdV equation

Evaluation of analytical solutions of non-linear partial differential equations (both classical and fractional) is a rising subject in Applied Mathematics because its applications in Physical biological and social sciences. In this paper we have used generalized Tanh method to find the exact solution of KP-Burger equation and coupled KdV equation. The fractional Sub-equation method has been used to find the solution of fractional KP-Burger equation and fractional coupled KdV equations. The exact solution obtained by fractional sub-equation method reduces to classical solution when order of fractional derivative tends to one. Finally numerical simulation has done. The numerical simulation justifies that the solutions of two fractional differential equations reduces to shock solution for KP-Burger equation and soliton solution for coupled KdV equations when order of derivative tends to one.

nlin.PS↗

arXiv2016

Mobile Agents Rendezvous in spite of a Malicious Agent

We examine the problem of rendezvous, i.e., having multiple mobile agents gather in a single node of the network. Unlike previous studies, we need to achieve rendezvous in presence of a very powerful adversary, a malicious agent that moves through the network and tries to block the honest agents and prevents them from gathering. The malicious agent is assumed to be arbitrarily fast, has full knowledge of the network and it cannot be exterminated by the honest agents. On the other hand, the honest agents are assumed to be quite weak: They are asynchronous and anonymous, they have only finite memory, they have no prior knowledge of the network and they can communicate with the other agents only when they meet at a node. Can the honest agents achieve rendezvous starting from an arbitrary configuration in spite of the malicious agent? We present some necessary conditions for solving rendezvous in spite of the malicious agent in arbitrary networks. We then focus on the ring and mesh topologies and provide algorithms to solve rendezvous. For ring networks, our algorithms solve rendezvous in all feasible instances of the problem, while we show that rendezvous is impossible for an even number of agents in unoriented rings. For the oriented mesh networks, we prove that the problem can be solved when the honest agents initially form a connected configuration without holes if and only if they can see which are the occupied nodes within a two-hops distance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to study such a powerful and mobile fault model, in the context of mobile agents. Our model lies between the more powerful but static fault model of black holes (which can even destroy the agents), and the less powerful but mobile fault model of Byzantine agents (which can only imitate the honest agents but can neither harm nor stop them).

cs.DC↗

arXiv2015

Solution of System of Linear Fractional Differential Equations with Modified derivative of Jumarie Type

Solution of fractional differential equations is an emerging area of present day research because such equations arise in various applied fields. In this paper we have developed analytical method to solve the system of fractional differential equations in-terms of Mittag-Leffler function and generalized Sine and Cosine functions, where the fractional derivative operator is of Jumarie type. The use of Jumarie type fractional derivative, which is modified Rieman-Liouvellie fractional derivative, eases the solution to such fractional order systems. The use of this type of Jumarie fractional derivative gives a conjugation with classical methods of solution of system of linear integer order differential equations, by usage of Mittag-Leffler and generalized trigonometric functions. The ease of this method and its conjugation to classical method to solve system of linear fractional differential equation is appealing to researchers in fractional dynamic systems. Here after developing the method, the algorithm is applied in physical system of fractional differential equation. The analytical results obtained are then graphically plotted for several examples for system of linear fractional differential equation.

math.CA↗

arXiv2015

Analytical solution with tanh-method and fractional sub-equation method for non-linear partial differential equations and corresponding fractional differential equation composed with Jumarie fractional derivative

The solution of non-linear differential equation, non-linear partial differential equation and non-linear fractional differential equation is current research in Applied Science. Here tanh-method and Fractional Sub-Equation methods are used to solve three non-linear differential equations and the corresponding fractional differential equation. The fractional differential equations here are composed with Jumarie fractional derivative. Both the solution is obtained in analytical traveling wave solution form. We have not come across solutions of these equations reported anywhere earlier.

math.GM↗

arXiv2015

Formulation and solutions of fractional continuously variable order mass spring damper systems controlled by viscoelastic and viscous-viscoelastic dampers

The article presents the formulation and a new approach to find analytic solutions for fractional continuously variable order dynamic models viz. Fractional continuously variable order mass-spring damper systems. Here, we use the viscoelastic and viscous-viscoelastic dampers for describing the damping nature of the oscillating systems, where the order of fractional derivative varies continuously. Here, we handle the continuous changing nature of fractional order derivative for dynamic systems, which has not been studied yet. By successive iteration method, here we find the solution of fractional continuously variable order mass-spring damper systems, and then give a close form solution. We then present and discuss the solutions obtained in the cases with continuously variable order of damping for this oscillator with graphical plots.

physics.class-ph↗

arXiv2015

Fractional Weierstrass function by application of Jumarie fractional trigonometric functions and its analysis

The classical example of no-where differentiable but everywhere continuous function is Weierstrass function. In this paper we define the fractional order Weierstrass function in terms of Jumarie fractional trigonometric functions. The Holder exponent and Box dimension of this function are calculated here. It is established that the Holder exponent and Box dimension of this fractional order Weierstrass function are the same as in the original Weierstrass function, independent of incorporating the fractional trigonometric function. This is new development in generalizing the classical Weierstrass function by usage of fractional trigonometric function and obtain its character and also of fractional derivative of fractional Weierstrass function by Jumarie fractional derivative, and establishing that roughness index are invariant to this generalization.

math.CA↗

arXiv2015

Solutions of Linear Fractional non-Homogeneous Differential Equations with Jumarie Fractional Derivative and Evaluation of Particular Integrals

In this paper we describe a method to solve the linear non-homogeneous fractional differential equations (FDE), composed with Jumarie type Fractional Derivative, and describe this method developed by us, to find out Particular Integrals, for several types of forcing functions. The solutions are obtained in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions, fractional sine and cosine functions. We have used our earlier developed method of finding solution to homogeneous FDE composed via Jumarie fractional derivative, and extended this to non-homogeneous FDE. We have demonstrated these developed methods with few examples of FDE, and also applied in fractional damped forced differential equation. This method proposed by us is useful as it is having conjugation with the classical methods of solving non-homogeneous linear differential equations, and also useful in understanding physical systems described by FDE.

math.CA↗

arXiv2015

Lock-in Problem for Parallel Rotor-router Walks

The rotor-router model, also called the Propp machine, was introduced as a deterministic alternative to the random walk. In this model, a group of identical tokens are initially placed at nodes of the graph. Each node maintains a cyclic ordering of the outgoing arcs, and during consecutive turns the tokens are propagated along arcs chosen according to this ordering in round-robin fashion. The behavior of the model is fully deterministic. Yanovski et al.(2003) proved that a single rotor-router walk on any graph with m edges and diameter $D$ stabilizes to a traversal of an Eulerian circuit on the set of all 2m directed arcs on the edge set of the graph, and that such periodic behaviour of the system is achieved after an initial transient phase of at most 2mD steps. The case of multiple parallel rotor-routers was studied experimentally, leading Yanovski et al. to the conjecture that a system of $k \textgreater{} 1$ parallel walks also stabilizes with a period of length at most $2m$ steps. In this work we disprove this conjecture, showing that the period of parallel rotor-router walks can in fact, be superpolynomial in the size of graph. On the positive side, we provide a characterization of the periodic behavior of parallel router walks, in terms of a structural property of stable states called a subcycle decomposition. This property provides us the tools to efficiently detect whether a given system configuration corresponds to the transient or to the limit behavior of the system. Moreover, we provide polynomial upper bounds of $O(m^4 D^2 + mD \log k)$ and $O(m^5 k^2)$ on the number of steps it takes for the system to stabilize. Thus, we are able to predict any future behavior of the system using an algorithm that takes polynomial time and space. In addition, we show that there exists a separation between the stabilization time of the single-walk and multiple-walk rotor-router systems, and that for some graphs the latter can be asymptotically larger even for the case of $k = 2$ walks.

cs.DM↗

arXiv2015

Analytic Solution of Linear Fractional Differential Equation with Jumarie Derivative in Term of Mittag-Leffler Function

There is no unified method to solve the fractional differential equation. The type of derivative here used in this paper is of Jumarie formulation, for the several differential equations studied. Here we develop an algorithm to solve the linear fractional differential equation composed via Jumarie fractional derivative in terms of Mittag-Leffler function; and show its conjugation with ordinary calculus. In these fractional differential equations the one parameter Mittag-Leffler function plays the role similar as exponential function used in ordinary differential equations.

math.CA↗

arXiv2015

Characterization of non-differentiable points in a function by Fractional derivative of Jumarrie type

There are many functions which are continuous everywhere but not differentiable at some points, like in physical systems of ECG, EEG plots, and cracks pattern and for several other phenomena. Using classical calculus those functions cannot be characterized-especially at the non-differentiable points. To characterize those functions the concept of Fractional Derivative is used. From the analysis it is established that though those functions are unreachable at the non-differentiable points, in classical sense but can be characterized using Fractional derivative. In this paper we demonstrate use of modified Riemann-Liouvelli derivative by Jumarrie to calculate the fractional derivatives of the non-differentiable points of a function, which may be one step to characterize and distinguish and compare several non-differentiable points in a system or across the systems. This method we are extending to differentiate various ECG graphs by quantification of non-differentiable points; is useful method in differential diagnostic. Each steps of calculating these fractional derivatives is elaborated.

math.CA↗

arXiv2015

Squeeze flow of potato starch gel: effect of loading history on visco-elastic properties

In this work gelatinized potato starch is shown to retain the memory of past loading history. It exhibits a visco-elastic response which does not depend solely on instantaneous conditions. A simple squeeze flow experiment is performed, where loading is done in two steps with a time lag $τ\sim$ seconds between the steps. The effect on the strain, of varying $τ$ is reproduced by a three element visco-elastic solid model. Non-linearity is introduced through a generalized calculus approach by incorporating a non-integer order time derivative in the viscosity equation. A strain hardening proportional to the time lag between the two loading steps is also incorporated. This model reproduces the three salient features observed in the experiment, namely - the memory effect, slight initial oscillations in the strain as well as the long-time solid-like response. Dynamic visco-elasticity of the sample is also reported.

cond-mat.soft↗

arXiv2015

Electrical Impedance Response of Gamma Irradiated Gelatin based Solid Polymer Electrolytes Analyzed Using a Generalized Calculus Formalism

The electrical impedance response of Gelatin based solid polymer electrolyte to gamma irradiation is investigated by impedance spectroscopy. An analysis based on Poisson-Nernst-Plank model, incorporating fractional time derivatives is carried out. A detailed derivation for anomalous impedance function is given.The model involves boundary conditions with convolution of the fractional time derivative of ion density and adsorption desorption relaxation kinetics. A fractional diffusion-drift equation is used to solve the bulk behavior of the mobile charges in the electrolyte. The complex adsorption-desorption process at the electrode-electrolyte interface produces an anomalous effect in the system. The model gives a very good fit for the observed impedance data for this biopolymer based solid electrolyte in wide range of frequencies. We have compared different parameters based upon this model for both irradiated and unirradiated samples.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗