Metamodeling is regarded as a powerful analysis tool to learn the input-output relationship of a system based on a limited amount of data collected when experiments with real systems are costly or impractical. As a popular metamodeling method, Gaussian process regression (GPR), has been successfully applied to analyses of various engineering systems. However, GPR-based metamodeling for time-dependent systems (TDSs) is especially challenging due to three reasons. First, TDSs require an appropriate account for temporal effects, however, standard GPR cannot address temporal effects easily and satisfactorily. Second, TDSs typically require analytics tools with a sufficiently high computational efficiency to support online decision making, but standard GPR may not be adequate for real-time implementation. Lastly, reliable uncertainty quantification is a key to success for operational planning of TDSs in real world, however, research on how to construct adequate error bounds for GPR-based metamodeling is sparse. Inspired by the challenges encountered in GPR-based analyses of two representative stochastic TDSs, i.e., load forecasting in a power system and trajectory prediction for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this dissertation aims to develop novel modeling, sampling, and statistical analysis techniques for enhancing the computational and statistical efficiencies of GPR-based metamodeling to meet the requirements of practical implementations. Furthermore, an in-depth investigation on building uniform error bounds for stochastic kriging is conducted, which sets up a foundation for developing robust GPR-based metamodeling techniques for analyses of TDSs under the impact of strong heteroscedasticity. / Ph.D. / Metamodeling has been regarded as a powerful analysis tool to learn the input-output relationship of an engineering system with a limited amount of experimental data available. As a popular metamodeling method, Gaussian process regression (GPR) has been widely applied to analyses of various engineering systems whose input-output relationships do not depend on time. However, GPR-based metamodeling for time-dependent systems (TDSs), whose input-output relationships depend on time, is especially challenging due to three reasons. First, standard GPR cannot properly address temporal effects for TDSs. Second, standard GPR is typically not computationally efficient enough for real-time implementations in TDSs. Lastly, research on how to adequately quantify the uncertainty associated with the performance of GPR-based metamodeling is sparse. To fill this knowledge gap, this dissertation aims to develop novel modeling, sampling, and statistical analysis techniques for enhancing standard GPR to meet the requirements of practical implementations for TDSs. Effective solutions are provided to address the challenges encountered in GPR-based analyses of two representative stochastic TDSs, i.e., load forecasting in a power system and trajectory prediction for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Furthermore, an in-depth investigation on quantifying the uncertainty associated with the performance of stochastic kriging (a variant of standard GPR) is conducted, which sets up a foundation for developing robust GPR-based metamodeling techniques for analyses of more complex TDSs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/98806 |
| Date | 04 June 2020 |
| Creators | Xie, Guangrui |
| Contributors | Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chen, Xi, Bansal, Manish, Weng, Yang, Choi, Seongim Sarah |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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