Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 472-480.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.02.18

• Systems Engineering • Previous Articles    

Approach to simulation optimization of time-varying parameters system based on neural network

Shihui WU1,*, Yu ZHOU2, Zhengxin LI1, Xiaodong LIU1, Bo HE1   

  1. 1. Equipment Management and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Engineering School, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China
    2. School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • Received:2021-03-21 Online:2023-01-13 Published:2023-02-04
  • Contact: Shihui WU

Abstract:

Simulation optimization (SO) of time-varying parameters (TVP) systems is an emerging research topic, which is different from traditional SO problems in that the real-time requirements are very high while the accuracy requirements are relatively lower. This paper proposes to transform the SO problem with TVP into a neural network (NN) prediction problem, and theoretically proves the feasibility of the method. Firstly, training samples are generated by offline SO, and an appropriate NN model is designed and trained to describe the relationship between input TVP and the corresponding optimal solutions. Then, the well trained NN model is used to realize online real-time prediction of the optimal solution. Considering the impact of boundary samples on the optimal solution fitting curve, we propose to train internal training samples and boundary training samples respectively so that two different NN models will be built to better reflect the fitting curve. The simulation and empirical study show that, our approach can provide online real-time satisfactory solutions as TVP changes, which presents an approach to SO problems with TVP.

Key words: time-varying parameter (TVP), simulation optimization (SO), neural network (NN), online optimization

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