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Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Haoxiang Wan , Xingpeng Li

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem consists in controlling a large fleet of heterogeneous electricity production units in order to minimize the total production cost while satisfying consumer demand. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are used as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Hélène Arvis , Olivier Beaude , Nicolas Gast , Stéphane Gaubert , Bruno Gaujal

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach provides a computationally efficient formulation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Elisa Andina , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Unit commitment (UC) is one of the most important power system operation problems. To integrate higher penetration of wind power into power systems, more compressed air energy storage (CAES) plants are being built. Existing cavern models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Junpeng Zhan , Yunfeng Wen , Osama Aslam Ansari , C. Y. Chung

In this letter, we describe and develop edge-based and node-based formulations for combined-cycle units (CCUs) with different levels of accuracy in respecting physical restrictions of each turbine, from no restriction requirement of each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Yongpei Guan , Lei Fan , Yanan Yu

This paper presents a novel approach to handle the computational complexity in security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) with corrective network reconfiguration (CNR) to harness the flexibility in transmission networks. This is achieved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy, frequency response and its security are of significant concerns for reliable power system operations. Frequency-constrained unit commitment (FCUC) is proposed to address this challenge.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Yichen Zhang , Hantao Cui , Jianzhe Liu , Feng Qiu , Tianqi Hong , Rui Yao , Fangxing Li

Wind generation is traditionally treated as a non-dispatchable resource and is fully absorbed unless there are security issues. To tackle the operational reliability issues caused by the volatile and non-dispatchable wind generation, many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Cheng Wang , Feng Liu , Feng Qiu , Wei Wei , Jianhui Wang , Shengwei Mei

We consider the problem of minimizing costs in the generation unit commitment problem, a cornerstone in electric power system operations, while enforcing an N-k-e reliability criterion. This reliability criterion is a generalization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Richard Li-Yang Chen , Neng Fan , Ali Pinar , Jean-Paul Watson

The unit commitment problem (UC) is crucial for the operation and market mechanism of power systems. With the development of modern electricity, the scale of power systems is expanding, and solving the UC problem is also becoming more and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Jiangwei Hou , Qiaozhu Zhai , Yuzhou Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

This paper presents a novel 2-stage microgrid unit commitment (Microgrid-UC) algorithm considering cold-load pickup (CLPU) effects, three-phase load balancing requirements, and feasible reconfiguration options. Microgrid-UC schedules the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Rongxing Hu , Ashwin Shirsat , Valliappan Muthukaruppan , Si Zhang , Yiyan Li , Lidong Song , Bei Xu , Victor Paduani , Ning Lu , Mesut Baran , Wenyuan Tang

With increased reliance on cyber infrastructure, large scale power networks face new challenges owing to computational scalability. In this paper we focus on developing an asynchronous decentralized solution framework for the Unit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Paritosh Ramanan , Murat Yildirim , Edmond Chow , Nagi Gebraeel

This letter presents a corrective frequency-constrained UC (C-FCUC) for island power systems implementing analytical constraints on underfrequency load shedding (UFLS). Since UFLS is inevitable for sufficiently large disturbances, one can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Almudena Rouco , Mohammad Rajabdorri , Lukas Sigrist , Enrique Lobato , Ignacio Egido

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is a computationally complex process utilized in power system day-ahead scheduling and market clearing. SCUC is run daily and requires state-of-the-art algorithms to speed up the process. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

Maintaining instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand is critical for reliability and grid instability. System operators achieve this through solving the task of Unit Commitment (UC),ca high dimensional large-scale…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Anna Van Boven , Bri-Mathias Hodge , Kyri Baker

The Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) problem presents formidable computational challenges due to its combinatorial complexity, large-scale network dimensions, and numerous security constraints. While conventional temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Yingxiao Wang , Yanting Huang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is solved for power system day-ahead generation scheduling, which is a large-scale mixed-integer linear programming problem and is very computationally intensive. Model reduction of SCUC may bring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

Planning energy production is a challenging task due to its cost-sensitivity, fast-moving energy markets, uncertainties in demand, and technical constraints of power plants. Thus, more complex models of this so-called \emph{unit commitment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Pascal Halffmann , Patrick Holzer , Kai Plociennik , Michael Trebing

Two-stage robust unit commitment (RUC) models have been widely used for day-ahead energy and reserve scheduling under high renewable integration. The current state of the art relies on budget-constrained polyhedral uncertainty sets to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Alexandre Velloso , Alexandre Street , David Pozo , José M. Arroyo , Noemi G. Cobos

The unit commitment (UC) problem, which determines operating schedules of generation units to meet demand, is a fundamental task in power systems operation. Existing UC methods using mixed-integer programming are not well-suited to highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Patrick de Mars