Pull request #870: Feature/VECTO-1547 upodate lh cycle remove reading declaration data from fs

Merge in VECTO/vecto-sim from VECTO/mq_vecto-sim:feature/VECTO-1547-upodate-lh-cycle-remove-reading-declaration-data-from-fs to develop

* commit '063b067e':
  adapt expected values in testcases due to changes in LH cycle
  remove reading pcc parametersd from filesystem, remove reading cycles from filesystem remove unused feature (serializing vectorundata)
  do not read effshift parameters from file system
  removing previous lh candidates
  update gradient profile in lh cycle