This paper presents a novel distributed active set method for model predictive control of linear systems. The combines primal strategy with decentralized conjugate gradient to solve convex quadratic programs. An advantage the proposed compared existing algorithms is feasibility iterates. Numerical results show that can compete alternating direction multipliers in terms communication requirement...

background: radon and its daughters are amongst the most important sources of natural exposure in the world. soil is one of the significant sources of radon/thoron due to both radium and thorium so that the emanated thoron from it may cause increased uncertainties in radon measurements. recently, a diffusion chamber has been designed and optimized for passive discriminative measurements of rado...

in this study, methanol and ether extracts of five endemic asperula species (rubiaceae) from turkey (a. antalyensis, a. brevifolia, a. pseudochlorantha, a. purpurea subsp. apiculata and a. serotina), used in the traditional system of medicine, were tested for antimicrobial activity by the agar well diffusion method and the broth dilution method. the most active species were asperula brevifolia ...

a water soluble, bronsted acid, 5-sulfosalicylic acid as an efficient organocatalyst was used for the synthesis of physiologically active 2-substituted benzimidazole derivatives from o-phenylenediamine and aromatic aldehydes in ethanol at reflux condition. cost-effectiveness, use of non-hazardous solvents, metal free and commercially available catalyst, single-step, environmentally friendly gre...

in this paper a comprehensive approach is presented to improve power swings damping based on direct lyapunov method. the approach combines superconducting magnetic energy storage (smes) system with static synchronous compensator (statcom). considering the energy absorption/injection ability of smes, in transient states the combination exchanges both active and reactive powers with power system....

Augmented Lagrangian methods for large-scale optimization usually require efficient algorithms for minimization with box constraints. On the other hand, active-set box-constraint methods employ unconstrained optimization algorithms for minimization inside the faces of the box. Several approaches may be employed for computing internal search directions in the large-scale case. In this paper a mi...

This paper proposes a new method for direct control of active power and stator flux of permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) used in the wind power generation system. Active power and stator flux are controlled by the proposed discrete time algorithm. Despite the commonly used vector control methods, there is no need for inner current control loops. To decrease the errors between refere...