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Residential prosumers with PV-battery systems increasingly manage their electricity exchange with the power grid to minimize costs. This study investigates the performance of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Rule-Based Control (RBC) under…
In this paper, a method is proposed for on-line monitoring of the control updating period in fast-gradient-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes. Such schemes are currently under intense investigation as a way to accommodate for…
Electrochemical batteries are ubiquitous devices in our society. When they are employed in mission-critical applications, the ability to precisely predict the end of discharge under highly variable environmental and operating conditions is…
Battery energy storage systems (ESS) are widely used in microgrids to complement high renewables. However, the real-time energy management of microgrids with battery ESS is challenging in two aspects: 1) the evolution process of battery…
Voltage regulation under conventional grid-forming controllers is tightly coupled to power sharing and dc-link dynamics. Consequently, its tracking accuracy deteriorates during grid faults, sudden power sharing changes, or dc-bus voltage…
Model-predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool for controlling highly dynamic robotic systems subject to complex constraints. However, MPC is computationally demanding, and is often impractical to implement on small, resource-constrained…
We develop a new method which extends Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to incorporate the effect of control to extract low-order models from high-dimensional, complex systems. DMD finds spatial-temporal coherent modes, connects local-linear…
This paper presents a hierarchical control scheme for interconnected linear systems. At the higher layer of the control structure a robust centralized Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm based on a reduced order dynamic model of the…
We investigate the charging dynamics of a frequency-modulated quantum battery (QB) placed within a dissipative cavity environment. Our study focuses on the interaction of such a battery under both weak and strong coupling regimes, employing…
A mini scale helicopter exhibits not only increased sensitivity to control inputs and disturbances, but also higher bandwidth of its dynamics. These properties make model helicopters, as a flying robot, more difficult to control. The…
Optimizing operational set points for modular multilevel converters (MMCs) in Multi-Terminal Direct Current (MTDC) transmission systems is crucial for ensuring efficient power distribution and control. This paper presents an enhanced…
Integration of distributed energy resources has created a need for autonomous, dynamic voltage regulation. Decentralized Volt-VAr Control (VVC) of grid-connected inverters presents a unique opportunity for voltage management but, if…
A new Multi-Carrier Differential Chaos Shift Keying (MC-DCSK) modulation is presented in this paper. The system endeavors to provide a good trade-off between robustness, energy efficiency and high data rate, while still being simple…
We propose uplink power control (PC) methods for massive multiple-input multiple-output systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters, which are specifically tailored to address the non-monotonic data detection performance with respect to…
The AC frequency in electrical power systems is conventionally regulated by synchronous machines. The gradual replacement of these machines by asynchronous renewable-based generation, which provides little or no frequency control, increases…
Control co-design (CCD) is a technique for improving the closed-loop performance of systems through the coordinated design of both plant parameters and an optimal control policy. While model predictive control (MPC) is an attractive control…
This paper proposes a novel wide-area control strategy for modulating the active power injections to damp the critical frequency oscillations in power systems, this includes the inter-area oscillations and the transient frequency swing. The…
As the cost of batteries lowers, sizing and control methods that are both fast and can achieve their promised performances when deployed are becoming more important. In this paper, we show how stochastically tuned rule based controllers…
A model predictive control (MPC) scheme for a permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is presented. The torque controller optimizes a quadratic cost consisting of control error and machine losses repeatedly, accounting the voltage and…
This paper considers the integrated motion control and energy management problems of the series hybrid electric vehicles (SHEV) with constraints. We propose a multi-objective model predictive control (MOMPC)-based energy management…