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The Volterra integral-functional series is the classic approach for nonlinear black box dynamical systems modeling. It is widely employed in many domains including radiophysics, aerodynamics, electronic and electrical engineering and many other. Identifying the time-varying functional parameters, also known as Volterra kernels, poses a difficulty due to the curse of dimensionality. This refers to the exponential growth in the number of model parameters as the complexity of the input-output response increases. The least squares method (LSM) is widely acknowledged as the standard approach for tackling the issue of identifying parameters. Unfortunately, the LSM suffers with many drawbacks such as the sensitivity to outliers causing biased estimation, multicollinearity, overfitting and inefficiency with large datasets. This paper presents alternative approach based on direct estimation of the Volterra kernels using the collocation method. Two model examples are studied. It is found that the collocation method presents a promising alternative for optimization, surpassing the traditional least squares method when it comes to the Volterra kernels identification including the case when input and output signals suffer from considerable measurement errors.

High penetration of renewable energy sources coupled with the decentralization of transport and heating loads in future power systems will result in even more complex unit commitment problem solution using energy storage system scheduling for efficient load leveling. This paper employees an adaptive approach to load leveling problem using the Volterra integral dynamical models. The problem is formulated as the solution of the Volterra integral equation of the first kind which is attacked using Taylor-collocation numerical method which has the second-order accuracy and enjoys self-regularization properties, which is associated with confidence levels of system demand. Also, the CESTAC method is applied to find the optimal approximation, optimal error and optimal step of the collocation method. This adaptive approach is suitable for energy storage optimization in real-time. The efficiency of the proposed methodology is demonstrated on the Single Electricity Market of the Island of Ireland., Comment: Submitted to the Bulletin of Irkutsk State University - series Mathematics

Energy storage systems will play a key role in the power system of the twenty first century considering the large penetrations of variable renewable energy, growth in transport electrification and decentralisation of heating loads. Therefore reliable real time methods to optimise energy storage, demand response and generation are vital for power system operations. This paper presents a concise review of battery energy storage and an example of battery modelling for renewable energy applications and second details an adaptive approach to solve this load levelling problem with storage. A dynamic evolutionary model based on the first kind Volterra integral equation is used in both cases. A direct regularised numerical method is employed to find the least-cost dispatch of the battery in terms of integral equation solution. Validation on real data shows that the proposed evolutionary Volterra model effectively generalises conventional discrete integral model taking into account both state of health and the availability of generation/storage., Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures; accepted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Finding the optimal parameters and functions of iterative methods is among the main problems of the Numerical Analysis. For this aim, a technique of the stochastic arithmetic (SA) is used to control of accuracy on Taylor-collocation method for solving first kind weakly regular integral equations (IEs). Thus, the CESTAC (Controle et Estimation Stochastique des Arrondis de Calculs) method is applied and instead of usual mathematical softwares the CADNA (Control of Accuracy and Debugging for Numerical Applications) library is used. Also, the convergence theorem of presented method is illustrated. In order to apply the CESTAC method we will prove a theorem that it will be our licence to use the new termination criterion instead of traditional absolute error. By using this theorem we can show that number of common significant digits (NCSDs) between two successive approximations are almost equal to NCSDs between exact and numerical solution. Finally, some examples are solved by using the Taylor-collocation method based on the CESTAC method. Several tables of numerical solutions based on the both arithmetics are presented. Comparison between number of iterations are demonstrated by using the floating point arithmetic (FPA) for different values of $\varepsilon$., Comment: 24 pages

An inverse problem in spectroscopy is considered. The objective is to restore the discrete spectrum from observed spectrum data, taking into account the spectrometer's line spread function. The problem is reduced to solution of a system of linear-nonlinear equations (SLNE) with respect to intensities and frequencies of the discrete spectral lines. The SLNE is linear with respect to lines' intensities and nonlinear with respect to the lines' frequencies. The integral approximation algorithm is proposed for the solution of this SLNE. The algorithm combines solution of linear integral equations with solution of a system of linear algebraic equations and avoids nonlinear equations. Numerical examples of the application of the technique, both to synthetic and experimental spectra, demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach in enabling an effective enhancement of the spectrometer's resolution., Comment: submitted to Applied Spectroscopy Journal

Development of reliable methods for optimised energy storage and generation is one of the most imminent challenges in moder power systems. In this paper an adaptive approach to load leveling problem using novel dynamic models based on the Volterra integral equations of the first kind with piecewise continuous kernels. These integral equations efficiently solve such inverse problem taking into account both the time dependent efficiencies and the availability of generation/storage of each energy storage technology. In this analysis a direct numerical method is employed to find the least-cost dispatch of available storages. The proposed collocation type numerical method has second order accuracy and enjoys self-regularization properties, which is associated with confidence levels of system demand. This adaptive approach is suitable for energy storage optimisation in real time. The efficiency of the proposed methodology is demonstrated on the Single Electricity Market of Republic of Ireland and Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1507.06484

We propose the generalized quadrature methods for numerical solution of singular integral equation of Abel type. We overcome the singularity using the analytical calculation of the singular integral expression. The problem of solution of singular integral equation is reduced to nonsingular system of linear algebraic equations without shift meshes techniques employment. We also propose generalized quadrature method for solution of Abel equation using the singular integral. Relaxed errors bounds are derived. In order to improve the accuracy we use Tikhonov regularization method. We demonstrate the efficiency of proposed techniques on infrared tomography problem. Numerical experiments show that it make sense to apply regularization in case of highly noisy sources only. That is due to the fact that singular integral equations enjoy selfregularization property.

We propose the numerical methods for solution of the weakly regular linear and nonlinear evolutionary (Volterra) integral equation of the first kind. The kernels of such equations have jump discontinuities along the continuous curves (endogenous delays) which starts at the origin. In order to linearize these equations we use the modified Newton-Kantorovich iterative process. Then for linear equations we propose two direct quadrature methods based on the piecewise constant and piecewise linear approximation of the exact solution. The accuracy of proposed numerical methods is $\mathcal{O}(1/N)$ and $\mathcal{O}(1/N^2)$ respectively. We also suggest a certain iterative numerical scheme enjoying the regularization properties. Furthermore, we adduce generalized numerical method for nonlinear equations. We employ the midpoint quadrature rule in all the cases. In conclusion we include several numerical examples in order to demonstrate the efficiency of proposed numerical methods, Comment: Submitted to APNUM Journal

The numerical method for solution of the weakly regular scalar Volterra integral equation of the 1st kind is proposed. The kernels of such equations have jump discontinuities on the continuous curves which starts at the origin. The mid-rectangular quadrature rule is employed. The accuracy of proposed numerical method is $\mathcal{O}(1/N).$