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Designing physical artifacts that serve a purpose - such as tools and other functional structures - is central to engineering as well as everyday human behavior. Though automating design has tremendous promise, general-purpose methods do…

The increasing integration of renewable energy, particularly offshore wind, introduces significant uncertainty into hybrid AC-HVDC systems due to forecast errors and power fluctuations. Conventional control strategies typically rely on…

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Topology optimization of microstructures plays a critical role in optimizing functional performance across diverse engineering applications. While metamaterials with enhanced mechanical properties -- such as hyperelasticity, energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-27 Weiming Wang , Yanhao Hou , Renbo Su , Weiguang Wang , Charlie C. L. Wang

Optimal power flow (OPF) over power transmission networks poses challenging large-scale nonlinear optimization problems, which involve a large number of quadratic equality and indefinite quadratic inequality constraints. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Y. Shi , H. D. Tuan , P. Apkarian , A. V. Savkin

Many steady-state problems in power systems, including rectangular power-voltage formulations of optimal power flows in the alternating-current model (ACOPF), can be cast as polynomial optimisation problems (POP). For a POP, one can derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Alan C. Liddell , Jie Liu , Jakub Marecek , Martin Takac

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern a wide range of physical systems, but solving them efficiently remains a major challenge. The idea of a scientific foundation model (SciFM) is emerging as a promising tool for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Amin Totounferoush , Serge Kotchourko , Michael W. Mahoney , Steffen Staab

For many nonlinear control systems, the chosen equilibrium determines both the steady-state efficiency and the dynamic performance. This paper addresses the issue of obtaining an optimal equilibrium in terms of some steady-state operation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Qifeng Li , Qiushi Wang , Konstantin Turitsyn

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is fundamental in power system operations and planning. Large-scale renewable penetration in distribution networks calls for real-time feedback control, and hence the need for fast and distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Qiuyu Peng , Steven H. Low

This paper presents PowerModelsADA, an open-source framework for solving Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems using Alternating Distributed Algorithms (ADA). PowerModelsADA provides a framework to test, verify, and benchmark both existing and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Mohannad Alkhraijah , Rachel Harris , Carleton Coffrin , Daniel K. Molzahn

Designing robust algorithms for the optimal power flow (OPF) problem is critical for the control of large-scale power systems under uncertainty. The chance-constrained OPF (CCOPF) problem provides a natural formulation of the trade-off…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Eli Brock , Haixiang Zhang , Javad Lavaei , Somayeh Sojoudi

The existence of multiple solutions to AC optimal power flow (ACOPF) problems has been noted for decades. Existing solvers are generally successful in finding local solutions, which are stationary points but may not be globally optimal. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-25 Ling Zhang , Baosen Zhang

The increasing penetration of renewable generation and the growing variability of electrified demand introduce substantial operational uncertainty to modern power systems. Topology reconfiguration is widely recognized as an effective and…

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This work presents a multi-layered methodology for efficiently accelerating multimodal foundation models (MFMs). It combines hardware and software co-design of transformer blocks with an optimization pipeline that reduces computational and…

Determining the proper level of details to develop and solve physical models is usually difficult when one encounters new engineering problems. Such difficulty comes from how to balance the time (simulation cost) and accuracy for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Randi Wang , Morad Behandish

Learning to optimize (L2O) parametric approximations of AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) solutions offers the potential for fast, reusable decision-making in real-time power system operations. However, the inherent nonconvexity of AC-OPF…

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Physics-informed neural networks have gained growing interest. Specifically, they are used to solve partial differential equations governing several physical phenomena. However, physics-informed neural network models suffer from several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Diab W. Abueidda , Seid Koric , Erman Guleryuz , Nahil A. Sobh

Convex relaxations of the AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem are essential not only for identifying the globally optimal solution but also for enabling the use of OPF formulations in Bilevel Programming and Mathematical Programs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Lucien Bobo , Andreas Venzke , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The existence of multiple solutions to AC optimal power flow (ACOPF) problems has been noted for decades. Existing solvers are generally successful in finding local solutions, which satisfy first and second order optimality conditions, but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Ling Zhang , Baosen Zhang

As a well-known physical unclonable function that can provide huge number of challenge response pairs (CRP) with a compact design and fully compatibility with current electronic fabrication process, the arbiter PUF (APUF) has attracted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yansong Gao , Jianrong Yao , Lihui Pang , Zhi Zhang , Anmin Fu , Naixue Xiong , Hyoungshick Kim

The Unit Commitment problem with AC power flow constraints (UC-ACOPF) is a non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem encountered in power systems. Its combination of combinatorial complexity and non-convex nonlinear…

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