An assessment study of a novel approach is presented that combines discrete state-space Dynamic Programming and Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle for online optimal control of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). In addition to electric energy storage and gear, kinetic energy and travel time are considered states in this paper. After presenting the corresponding model using a parallel HEV as an example, a benchmark method with Dynamic Programming is introduced which is used to show the solution quality of the novel approach. It is illustrated that the proposed method yields a close-to-optimal solution by solving the optimal control problem over one hundred thousand times faster than the benchmark method. Finally, a potential online usage is assessed by comparing solution quality and calculation time with regard to the quantization of the state space.

Approximately 2 to 3 million people in the United States suffer from chronic wounds, which are defined as wounds that do not heal in 30 days time; an estimated $25 billion per year is spent on their treatment in the United States. In our work, we focused on treating chronic wounds with bacterial infections using hyperbaric and topical oxygen therapies. We used a mathematical model describing the interaction between bacteria, neutrophils and oxygen. Optimal control theory was then employed to study oxygen treatment strategies with the mathematical model. Existence of a solution was shown for both therapies. Uniqueness was also shown for hyperbaric therapy. We then used a forward-backward sweep method to find numerical solutions for the therapies. We concluded by putting forth ideas for how this problem could progress toward finding applicable treatment strategies.

Durch die Integration mindestens eines weiteren Energiewandlers in den Antriebsstrang gewinnen parallele Hybridfahrzeuge einen zusätzlichen Freiheitsgrad gegenüber konventionellen Fahrzeugen. Neben der Auslegung und Effizienz der einzelnen Antriebskomponenten, ist vor allem die Nutzung dieses zusätzlichen Freiheitsgrades entscheidend dafür verantwortlich, inwiefern die beim Betrieb eines Hybridfahrzeugs erwünschten Ziele, wie die Minimierung des Kraftstoffverbrauchs oder der Abgasemissionen, erreicht werden können. Zuständig dafür sind sogenannte Betriebsstrategien. In einem ersten Schritt gibt die vorliegende Diplomarbeit einen Überblick aktueller Betriebsstrategieansätze für Fahrzeuge mit einer parallelen Hybridarchitektur und stellt ausgewählte Beiträge wertend gegenüber. Anschließend wird mit der optimierungsbasierten Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) ein vielversprechender Ansatz in ein MATLAB/Simulink-Längsdynamikmodell umgesetzt. Die für diesen Ansatz maßgebliche Bestimmung des Äquivalenzfaktors erfolgt dabei ohne Verwendung von Prädiktionsdaten. Eine Gegenüberstellung der erzielten Kraftstoffverbrauchswerte zu denen einer regelbasierten Betriebsstrategie, zeigt die Vorteile des implementierten ECMS-Ansatzes. Um den unterschiedlichen Ladezuständen am Fahrtende gerecht zu werden, wird eine ladungsabhängige Kraftstoffkorrektur vorgestellt. / By integrating at least one additional energy converter into the drive train, parallel hybrid vehicles gain an additional degree of freedom compared to conventional vehicles. In addition to the design and efficiency of the individual drive train components, especially the use of this additional degree of freedom is the key responsible to achieve the desired goals in the operation of a hybrid vehicle, such as minimizing fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. Responsible for this are so-called supervisory strategies. In a first step, the present thesis provides an overview of current supervisory control strategies for vehicles with a parallel hybrid architecture and compares selected approaches. In a second step, a promising Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) is chosen and implemented in a MATLAB/Simulink-longitudinal dynamics model. This approach relates on the determination of the equivalence factor which is carried out without the use of prediction data. A comparison of the fuel consumption, obtained for a rule-based supervisory strategy, shows the advantages of the implemented ECMS approach. To consider the different states of charge at the end of the trip, a charge-dependent fuel correction will be presented.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-10T16:41:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ARLANDSON MATHEUS SILVA OLIVEIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2015..pdf: 1086287 bytes, checksum: 8275364016e59e314e21589fb09a88dc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T16:41:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ARLANDSON MATHEUS SILVA OLIVEIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2015..pdf: 1086287 bytes, checksum: 8275364016e59e314e21589fb09a88dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02 / Capes / Para ler o resumo deste trabalho recomendamos o download do arquivo, uma vez que o mesmo possui fórmulas e caracteres matemáticos que não foram possíveis trascreve-los aqui. / To read the summary of this work we recommend downloading the file, since it has formulas and mathematical characters that were not possible to transcribe them here.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-24T16:01:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GEIZANE LIMA DA SILVA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2010..pdf: 596736 bytes, checksum: d02e34d40e7147e46c734ba297c181bf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-24T16:01:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GEIZANE LIMA DA SILVA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2010..pdf: 596736 bytes, checksum: d02e34d40e7147e46c734ba297c181bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03 / Capes / Neste trabalho estudamos a existência de soluções positivas do tipo blow-up para uma classe de equações elípticas semilineares. Usamos argumentos desenvolvidos por Cîrstea & Radulescu [6], Lair & Wood [20] e as técnicas empregadas são o Método de Sub e Supersolução, Teoremas de Ponto Fixo e em alguns resultados exploramos a simetria radial e algumas estimativas para equações elípticas. / In this work we studied the existence of blow-up positive solutions for the class of semilinear elliptic equations. We used arguments developed by Cîrstea & Radulescu [6], and by Lair & Shaker [20] and the techniques used are the method of Sub and Supersolution, Fixed point theorems and some results explored radial symmetry and some estimates for elliptic equations.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-15T11:46:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 947145 bytes, checksum: 7294f81daf663930a60afca1aecbee7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this work we talk about properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the conductivity equation in a smooth manifold with boundary of R2. We use several times the Maximum Principle to conclude a Alternating Property of the Dirichlet-to- Neumann map. Using this property, we and that the Kernel satises a given set of inequalities. Finally, we note that these inequalities imply the Alternating Property of the Kernel of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. / Neste trabalho dissertamos sobre Propriedades do Funcional de Dirichlet-Neumann para uma equação de condutividade numa variedade diferenciavel bidimensional com bordo. Utilizamos varias vezes o Principio do Maximo para concluir que esse Funcional tem uma Propriedade Alternada. A partir dessa propriedade, verificamos que o Nucleo do Funcional satisfaz um conjunto especifico de desigualdades. Porém, verificamos que essas desigualdades implicam na Propriedade Alternada do Nucleo do Funcional.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Este trabalho à baseado no artigo The Mean Curvature Cylindrically Bounded Submanifolds, nele abordaremos uma estimativa para a curvatura mÃdia de subvariedades completas cilindricamente limitadas. Ademais apresentaremos uma relaÃÃo entre uma estimativa da curvatura mÃdia e o fato de M ser estocasticamente incompleta. / This work is based on the article The Mean Curvature Cylindrically Bounded Submanifolds, it will discuss an estimate for the mean curvature of complete cylindrically submanifolds bounded. Furthermore we present a relationship between an estimate of the mean curvature and the fact that M is stochastically incomplete.

Le manuscrit est constitué de deux parties indépendantes.Propriétés des Solutions de Viscosité des Equations Integro-Différentielles.Nous considérons des équations intégro-différentielles elliptiques et paraboliques non-linéaires (EID), où les termes non-locaux sont associés à des processus de Lévy. Ce travail est motivé par l'étude du Comportement en temps long des solutions de viscosité des EID, dans le cas périodique. Le résultat classique nous dit que la solution u(¢, t ) du problème de Dirichlet pour EID se comporte comme ?t Åv(x)Åo(1) quand t !1, où v est la solution du problème ergodique stationaire qui correspond à une unique constante ergodique ?.En général, l'étude du comportement asymptotique est basé sur deux arguments: la régularité de solutions et le principe de maximumfort.Dans un premier temps, nous étudions le Principe de Maximum Fort pour les solutions de viscosité semicontinues des équations intégro-différentielles non-linéaires. Nous l'utilisons ensuite pour déduire un résultat de comparaison fort entre sous et sur-solutions des équations intégro-différentielles, qui va assurer l'unicité des solutions du problème ergodique à une constante additive près. De plus, pour des équationssuper-quadratiques le principe de maximum fort et en conséquence le comportement en temps grand exige la régularité Lipschitzienne.Dans une deuxième partie, nous établissons de nouvelles estimations Hölderiennes et Lipschitziennes pour les solutions de viscosité d'une large classe d'équations intégro-différentielles non-linéaires, par la méthode classique de Ishii-Lions. Les résultats de régularité aident de plus à la résolution du problème ergodique et sont utilisés pour fournir existence des solutions périodiques des EID.Nos résultats s'appliquent à une nouvelle classe d'équations non-locales que nous appelons équations intégro-différentielles mixtes. Ces équations sont particulièrement intéressantes, car elles sont dégénérées à la fois dans le terme local et non-local, mais leur comportement global est conduit par l'interaction locale - non-locale, par exemple la diffusion fractionnaire peut donner l'ellipticité dans une direction et la diffusion classique dans la direction orthogonale.Visualisation et Restauration d'Images par Mouvements de CourbureLe rôle de la courbure dans la perception visuelle remonte à 1954, et on le doit à Attneave. Des arguments neurologiques expliquent que le cerveau humain ne pourrait pas possiblement utiliser toutes les informations fournies par des états de simulation. Mais en réalité on enregistre des régions où la couleur change brusquement (des contours) et en outre les angles et les extremas de courbure. Pourtant, un calcul direct de courbures sur une image est impossible. Nous montrons comment les courbures peuvent être précisément évaluées, à résolution sous-pixelique par un calcul sur les lignes de niveau après leur lissage indépendant.Pour cela, nous construisons un algorithme que nous appelons Level Lines (Affine) Shortening, simulant une évolution sous-pixelique d'une image par mouvement de courbure moyenne ou affine. Aussi bien dans le cadre analytique que numérique, LLS (respectivement LLAS) extrait toutes les lignes de niveau d'une image, lisse indépendamment et simultanément toutes ces lignes de niveau par Curve Shortening(CS) (respectivement Affine Shortening (AS)) et reconstruit une nouvelle image. Nousmontrons que LL(A)S calcule explicitement une solution de viscosité pour le le Mouvement de Courbure Moyenne (respectivement Mouvement par Courbure Affine), ce qui donne une équivalence avec le mouvement géométrique.Basé sur le raccourcissement de lignes de niveau simultané, nous fournissons un outil de visualisation précis des courbures d'une image, que nous appelons un Microscope de Courbure d'Image. En tant que application, nous donnons quelques exemples explicatifs de visualisation et restauration d'image : du bruit, des artefacts JPEG, de l'aliasing seront atténués par un mouvement de courbure sous-pixelique / The present dissertation has two independent parts.Viscosity solutions theory for nonlinear Integro-Differential EquationsWe consider nonlinear elliptic and parabolic Partial Integro-Differential Equations (PIDES), where the nonlocal terms are associated to jump Lévy processes. The present work is motivated by the study of the Long Time Behavior of Viscosity Solutions for Nonlocal PDEs, in the periodic setting. The typical result states that the solution u(¢, t ) of the initial value problem for parabolic PIDEs behaves like ?t Å v(x) Å o(1) as t ! 1, where v is a solution of the stationary ergodic problem corresponding to the unique ergodic constant ?. In general, the study of the asymptotic behavior relies on two main ingredients: regularity of solutions and the strong maximum principle.We first establish Strong Maximum Principle results for semi-continuous viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear PIDEs. This will be used to derive Strong Comparison results of viscosity sub and super-solutions, which ensure the up to constants uniqueness of solutions of the ergodic problem, and subsequently, the convergence result. Moreover, for super-quadratic equations the strong maximum principle and accordingly the large time behavior require Lipschitz regularity.We then give Lipschitz estimates of viscosity solutions for a large class of nonlocal equations, by the classical Ishii-Lions's method. Regularity results help in addition solving the ergodic problem and are used to provide existence of periodic solutions of PIDEs. In both cases, we deal with a new class of nonlocal equations that we term mixed integrodifferential equations. These equations are particularly interesting, as they are degenerate both in the local and nonlocal term, but their overall behavior is driven by the local-nonlocal interaction, e.g. the fractional diffusion may give the ellipticity in one direction and the classical diffusion in the complementary one.Image Visualization and Restoration by CurvatureMotionsThe role of curvatures in visual perception goes back to 1954 and is due to Attneave. It can be argued on neurological grounds that the human brain could not possible use all the information provided by states of simulation. But actually human brain registers regions where color changes abruptly (contours), and furthermore angles and peaks of curvature. Yet, a direct computation of curvatures on a raw image is impossible. We show how curvatures can be accurately estimated, at subpixel resolution, by a direct computation on level lines after their independent smoothing.To performthis programme, we build an image processing algorithm, termed Level Lines (Affine) Shortening, simulating a sub-pixel evolution of an image by mean curvature motion or by affine curvature motion. Both in the analytical and numerical framework, LL(A)S first extracts all the level lines of an image, then independently and simultaneously smooths all of its level lines by curve shortening (CS) (respectively affine shortening (AS)) and eventually reconstructs, at each time, a new image from the evolved level lines.We justify that the Level Lines Shortening computes explicitly a viscosity solution for the Mean CurvatureMotion and hence is equivalent with the clasical, geometric Curve Shortening.Based on simultaneous level lines shortening, we provide an accurate visualization tool of image curvatures, that we call an Image CurvatureMicroscope. As an application we give some illustrative examples of image visualization and restoration: noise, JPEG artifacts, and aliasing will be shown to be nicely smoothed out by the subpixel curvature motion.

An assessment study of a novel approach is presented that combines discrete state-space Dynamic Programming and Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle for online optimal control of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). In addition to electric energy storage and gear, kinetic energy and travel time are considered states in this paper. After presenting the corresponding model using a parallel HEV as an example, a benchmark method with Dynamic Programming is introduced which is used to show the solution quality of the novel approach. It is illustrated that the proposed method yields a close-to-optimal solution by solving the optimal control problem over one hundred thousand times faster than the benchmark method. Finally, a potential online usage is assessed by comparing solution quality and calculation time with regard to the quantization of the state space.

[pt] Esta dissertação versa sobre a teoria das soluções de viscosidadepara equações diferenciais parciais elípticas completamente não-lineares com ingredientes mensuráveis. Nosso principal objetivo é demonstrar o Princípio do Máximo de Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci neste contexto. / [en] This dissertation deals with the theory of viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations with measurable ingredients. Our main objective is to demonstrate the Aleksandrov-Bakelman-Pucci Maximum Principle in this context.