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Brunovsky Riccati Recursion for Linear Model Predictive Control

In almost all algorithms for Model Predictive Control (MPC), the most time-consuming step is to solve some form of Linear Quadratic (LQ) Optimal Control Problem (OCP) repeatedly. The commonly recognized best option for this is a Riccati recursion based sol ...

IEEE2025

Adaptive Disturbance Rejection with Data-driven LPV Control for Hybrid Microvibration Isolation Systems

Elias Sebastian Klauser

Requirements for pointing accuracy in Earth observation missions have tightened tolerable microvibration levels on satellites. Various mitigation techniques, including active, passive, and hybrid methods, have been proposed to prevent microvibration propag ...

EPFL2025

An optimal control strategy to design passive thermal cloaks of arbitrary shape

Riccardo Saporiti

In this paper, we describe a numerical framework for achieving passive thermal cloaking of arbitrary shapes in both static and transient regimes. The design strategy is cast as the solution of an optimal control problem (OCP) for the heat equation where th ...

2024

Neural Distributed Controllers with Port-Hamiltonian Structures

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Muhammad Zakwan

Controlling large-scale cyber-physical systems necessitates optimal distributed policies, relying solely on local real-time data and limited communication with neighboring agents. However, finding optimal controllers remains challenging, even in seemingly ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Editorial: Structural sensing for asset management

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola

2023

Influence of gravity connections and damper activation forces on the seismic behavior of steel CBF buildings with dissipative floor connectors

Dimitrios Lignos, Martina Paronesso

This paper investigates the influence of typical gravity connections on the seismic demands of steel concentrically braced frame (CBF) buildings with friction dampers as dissipative floor connectors. The investigated connections include (i) typical shear t ...

WILEY2023

Differential Evolution and Fuzzy-Logic-Based Predictive Algorithm for V2G Charging Stations

Emilio Maddalena

This work proposes a differential evolution algorithm to control a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system based on photovoltaic generation and energy cost curves, and constraints associated with the power converters' operation, battery charging strategy, and initial ...

2023

Near-Optimal Design of Safe Output-Feedback Controllers From Noisy Data

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Luca Furieri, Baiwei Guo, Andrea Martin

As we transition toward the deployment of data-driven controllers for black-box cyberphysical systems, complying with hard safety constraints becomes a primary concern. Two key aspects should be addressed when input-output data are corrupted by noise: how ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

The critical role of electricity storage for a clean and renewable European economy

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Paul Michael Stadler, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Alessio Santecchia

A fully renewable Europe is a major climate goal and an assumed priority by the European Union. However, intermittent renewables require hefty backup power sources to compensate for sudden generation shortfalls, ensuring grid stability and balance across t ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Inkjet-Printed Soft Intelligent Medical Bracelet for Simultaneous Real-Time Sweat Potassium (K+), Sodium (Na+), and Skin Temperature Analysis

Sandro Carrara, Ata Jedari Golparvar, Ali Meimandi

Truly wearable, fully flexible, and multiparametric sweat analysis with soft and socially discrete packaging offers tremendous potential to enable the next generation of noninvasive digital biomarkers analysis. Several examples of miniaturized potentiometr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

High-throughput computational solvent screening for lignocellulosic biomass processing

Jeremy Luterbacher, Anastasiia Komarova, Arpa Ghosh

Lignocellulose is one of the most promising renewable bioresources for the production of chemicals. For sustainable and competitive biorefineries, effective valorization of all biomass fractions is crucial. However, current efforts in lignocellulose fracti ...

2023

Behavioral adaptations to cold environments: A comparative study of active nomadic and modern sedentary lifestyles

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee

Modern occupants hardly use their capacity to adapt to the wide range of thermal environments due to living in well-insulated buildings with indoor climatization. However, climate change with associated health hazards necessitates exploring the limits of h ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for solid-oxide stack-based power-to-methane systems: Design, experiment and modeling

Jan Van Herle, Philippe Aubin

The power-to-methane process using a solid-oxide electrolyser, followed by an exothermic methanation reactor, is effective for the production of an energy carrier (synthesis methane) that can be readily stored and transported at a large scale. A significan ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Stability Verification of Neural Network Controllers using Mixed-Integer Programming

Colin Neil Jones, Daniel Kuhn, Roland Schwan

We propose a framework for the stability verification of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) representable control policies. This framework compares a fixed candidate policy, which admits an efficient parameterization and can be evaluated at a low comp ...

2023

Parametric Studies of the EU DEMO Central Solenoid

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin

The Central Solenoid (CS) is at the core of the EU DEMO tokamak, and has a strong impact on the tokamak design and the overall machine size. By ramping its current, the CS generates a change of magnetic flux, which initiates the plasma, and induces and con ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Development of a magnetic calcium-alginate hydrogel-sphere encapsulated with Fe-Mn-Zr ternary metal composite for heavy metal adsorption

Xinyi Huang

Heavy metal contamination has become one of the greatest global environmental problems. In this study, a magnetic calcium-alginate hydrogel-sphere encapsulated with Fe-Mn-Zr ternary-metal composite (MCHETC) was prepared through a combined co-precipitation ...

2023

Facilitated machine learning for image-based fruit quality assessment

Fernando Perez Cruz

Image-based machine learning models can be used to make the sorting and grading of agricultural products more efficient. In many regions, implementing such systems can be difficult due to the lack of centralization and automation of postharvest supply chai ...

2023

Mitigating the Heterointerface Driven Instability in Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Hong Zhang, Anurag Krishna, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Mathias Dankl

Metal halide perovskites have thepotential to revolutionizethefield of photovoltaics, though limited stability has impeded commercialexploitation. The soft heterointerface between the perovskite andcharge-transporting layer is one of the major bottlenecks ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Plasma based noise reduction system

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Stanislav Sergeev

An active noise reduction system (2) comprising an electroacoustic plasma transducer (5) for mounting in an installation structure and an acoustic sensing system (11). The electroacoustic plasma transducer comprises a plasma electrode arrangement (6) inclu ...

2023

Identification of AC Distribution Networks With Recursive Least Squares and Optimal Design of Experiment

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata

The increasing penetration of intermittent distributed energy resources in power networks calls for novel planning and control methodologies which hinge on detailed knowledge of the grid. However, reliable information concerning the system topology and par ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022