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Learning decision rules for energy efficient building control

Colin Neil Jones

While rule based control (RBC) is current practice in most building automation systems that issue discrete control signals, recent simulation studies suggest that advanced, optimization based control methods such as hybrid model predictive control (HMPC) c ...

Elsevier2014

SVR-AMA: An Asynchronous Alternating Minimization Algorithm With Variance Reduction for Model Predictive Control Applications

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu

This paper focuses on the design of an asynchronous dual solver suitable for model predictive control (MPC) applications. The proposed solver relies on a state-of-the-art variance reduction (VR) scheme, previously used in the context of proximal stochastic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

We demonstrate how charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles can be utilized for the provision of Ancillary Services to the Power Grid. Fast- charging stations that supply energy to vehicles at high power rates in- corporate energy storage to prevent ...

2018

Constrained bundle methods with inexact minimization applied to the energy regulation provision problem

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

We consider a class of large scale robust optimization problems. While the robust optimization literature often relies on structural assumptions to reformulate the problem in a tractable form using duality, this method is not always applicable and can resu ...

2017

Uncertainty-aware Flexibility Envelope Prediction in Buildings with Controller-agnostic Battery Models

Colin Neil Jones, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Paul Scharnhorst

Buildings are a promising source of flexibility for the application of demand response. In this work, we introduce a novel battery model formulation to capture the state evolution of a single building. Being fully data-driven, the battery model identificat ...

IEEE2023

Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services

Colin Neil Jones, Christophe Salzmann, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper presents a predictive control scheme for coordinating a set of heterogeneous and complementary resources at different time scales for the provision of ancillary services. In particular, we combine building thermodynamics (slow), and energy stora ...

2018

Learning Proximal Operators with Gaussian Processes

Colin Neil Jones, Georgios Stathopoulos, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Several distributed-optimization setups involve a group of agents coordinated by a central entity (coordinator), altogether operating in a collaborative framework. In such environments, it is often common that the agents solve proximal minimization problem ...

IEEE2018

A Time Splitting Based Real-Time Iteration Scheme for Nonlinear MPC

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang

This paper proposes a parallelizable real-time algorithm for model predictive control (MPC). In contrast to existing distributed and parallel optimization algorithms for linear MPC such as dual decomposition or the alternating direction method of multiplie ...

IEEE2019

Active Directional Modifier Adaptation with Trust Region - Application to Energy-Harvesting Kites

Dominique Bonvin, Colin Neil Jones, Sanket Sanjay Diwale, Martand Singhal, Matthieu Jonin

Many real-time optimization schemes maximize process performance by performing a model-based optimization. However, due to plant-model mismatch, the model-based solution is often suboptimal. In modifier adaptation, measurements are used to correct the mode ...

IEEE2018

Optimal decision trees for point location in polytopic data sets - application to explicit MPC

Colin Neil Jones

Explicit Model Predictive Control (EMPC) produces control laws defined over a set of polytopic regions in the state space. In this paper we present a method to create a binary search tree for point location in such polytopic sets, in order to provide a fas ...

2010

Robustly Learning Regions of Attraction From Fixed Data

Colin Neil Jones

While stability analysis is a mainstay for control science, especially computing regions of attraction of equilibrium points, until recently most stability analysis tools always required explicit knowledge of the model or a high-fidelity simulator represen ...

2025

Asynchronous decentralized adjustable robust operation for multi-area integrated electricity-gas systems considering wind power uncertainty

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang

Modern energy infrastructure has evolved into an integrated electricity and natural gas systems (IEGS), which often encompasses multiple geographically-diverse energy areas. This paper focuses on the decentralized adjustable robust operation problem for mu ...

2022

A design method for distributed luenberger observers

Colin Neil Jones, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

The paper addresses the problem of designing distributed observers for discrete linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with distributed sensor nodes subjected to bounded measurement noise. A solution is proposed in terms of a distributed LTI Luenberger observ ...

IEEE2018

Temperature sensor placement in thermal management systems for MPSoCs

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Colin Neil Jones, Francesco Zanini

Modern high-performance processors employ ther- mal management systems, which rely on accurate readings of on-die thermal sensors. Systematic tools for analysis and determination of best allocation and placement of thermal sensors is therefore a highly rel ...

IEEE2010

Temperature Sensor Placement in Thermal Management Systems for MPSoCs

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Colin Neil Jones, Francesco Zanini

Modern high-performance processors employ thermal management systems, which rely on accurate readings of on-die thermal sensors. Systematic tools for analysis and determination of best allocation and placement of thermal sensors is therefore a highly relev ...

IEEE Press2010

Robust Learning Model Predictive Control for Periodically Correlated Building Control

Colin Neil Jones, Jicheng Shi, Yingzhao Lian

Accounting for more than 40% of global energy consumption, residential and commercial buildings will be key players in any future green energy systems. To fully exploit their potential while ensuring occupant comfort, a robust control scheme is required to ...

2021

Efficient point location via subdivision walking with application to explicit MPC

Colin Neil Jones, Yang Wang

An explicit (or closed-form) solution to Model Predictive Control (MPC) results in a polyhedral subdivision of the state-space when the system and constraints are linear, and the cost is linear or quadratic. Within each region the optimal control law is an ...

2007

Evaluation of advanced control strategies of electric thermal storage systems in residential building stock

Colin Neil Jones

This paper investigates the effect of different control strategies applied to electric thermal storage systems to provide demand response services. These results indicate how policymakers or manufacturers could target the implementation of advanced control ...

2021

Supplementary material for the paper: A coordinator-driven communication reduction scheme for distributed optimization using the projected gradient method

Colin Neil Jones, Georgios Stathopoulos

2018

Experimental Verification of Sum-Of-Squares-Based Controller Tuning Technique with Extension to Parallel Multimodel Uncertainty Processing

Colin Neil Jones, Ivan Pejcic

Many control schemes require significant tuning effort to achieve desired performance targets, causing a need for general tools that can perform controller tuning in an automated fashion. This paper represents a continuation of the previous work in which a ...

IEEE2019