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Splitting methods in control

Georgios Stathopoulos, Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Alexander Szücs

The need for optimal control of processes under a restricted amount of resources renders first order optimization methods a viable option. Although computationally cheap, these methods typically suffer from slow convergence rates. In this work we discuss t ...

IEEE2014

Model Predictive Control for Market-Based Demand Response Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

In this study, we investigate the maximum possible profit for a commercial office building participating in New York’s Day-Ahead Demand Response (DADR) program. We formulate an optimal control problem, assuming perfect knowledge of future weather, occupanc ...

2014

Optimization of an Airborne Wind Energy System Using Constrained Gaussian Processes

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Sanket Sanjay Diwale

Wind resources tend to be significantly stronger and more consistent with increasing altitude. This effect creates a potential for power generation that can be reaped by an Airborne Wind Energy system positioned at elevations exceeding the height of conven ...

2014

Convex computation of the maximum controlled invariant set for discrete-time polynomial control systems

Colin Neil Jones, Milan Korda

We characterize the maximum controlled invariant (MCI) set for discrete-time systems as the solution of an infinite-dimensional linear programming problem. In the case of systems with polynomial dynamics and semialgebraic state and control constraints, we ...

2013

Trajectory-tracking and Path-following Controllers for Constrained Underactuated Vehicles using Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti

This paper addresses the design of Model Predictive Control (MPC) laws to solve the trajectory-tracking problem and the path-following problem for constrained underactuated vehicles. By allowing an arbitrarily small asymptotic tracking error, we derive MPC ...

2013

Optimal Altitude Estimation for Power Generating Kites in an Uncertain Wind-Field

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos

2013

Call for Papers: 'Predictive control for embedded systems'

Colin Neil Jones

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Certification Aspects of the Fast Gradient Method for Solving the Dual of Parametric Convex Programs

Colin Neil Jones

This paper examines the computational complexity certification of the fast gradient method for the solution of the dual of a parametric con- vex program. To this end, a lower iteration bound is derived such that for all parameters from a compact set a solu ...

Springer Heidelberg2013

On the selection of the most appropriate MPC problem formulation for buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Milan Korda

Model Predictive Control (MPC) for buildings has gained a lot of attention recently. It has been shown that MPC can achieve significant energy savings in the range between 15-30 % compared to a conventional control strategy, e.g., to a rule-based controlle ...

2013

Multi-Parametric Toolbox 3.0

Colin Neil Jones

The Multi-Parametric Toolbox is a col- lection of algorithms for modeling, control, analysis, and deployment of constrained optimal controllers developed under Matlab. It features a powerful ge- ometric library that extends the application of the toolbox b ...

2013

Least-restrictive robust periodic model predictive control applied to room temperature regulation

Colin Neil Jones

State-feedback model predictive control (MPC) of constrained discrete-time periodic affine systems is considered. The periodic systems’ states and inputs are subject to periodically time-dependent, hard, polyhedral constraints. Disturbances are additive, b ...

Elsevier2013

Robust Distributed Model Predictive Control of Linear Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

In this work, synthesis and closed-loop operation of robust distributed model predictive control (MPC) for linear systems using distributed optimization is discussed. Previous work has shown that a nominal MPC controller for this setup can be synthesized a ...

2013

A Model Predictive Control Scheme with Additional Performance Index for Transient Behavior

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, António Pedro Rodrigues de Aguiar

This paper presents a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear continuous time systems where an extra performance index, which is not a measure of the distance to the set point, is introduced to influence the transient behavior of the controlled ...

2013

Trajectory-tracking and Path-following Controllers for Constrained Underactuated Vehicles using Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti

This paper addresses the design of Model Predictive Control (MPC) laws to solve the trajectory-tracking problem and the path-following problem for constrained under-actuated vehicles. By allowing an arbitrarily small asymptotic tracking error, we derive MP ...

IEEE2013

Spectrogram MPC: Enforcing hard constraints on system's output spectra

Colin Neil Jones, Jean-Hubert Hours, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

A novel model predictive control (MPC) scheme that allows one to enforce hard constraints on the spectrum of a constrained system’s output signal is presented. The approach is based on a time-local analysis of the spectrum of output signals by means of the ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

Computational Complexity Certification for Real-Time MPC With Input Constraints Based on the Fast Gradient Method

Colin Neil Jones

This paper proposes to use Nesterov's fast gradient method for the solution of linear quadratic model predictive control (MPC) problems with input constraints. The main focus is on the method's a priori computational complexity certification which consists ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Learning Near-optimal Decision Rules for Energy Efficient Building Control

Colin Neil Jones

Recent studies suggest that advanced optimization based control methods such as model predictive control (MPC) can increase energy efficiency of buildings. However, adoption of these methods by industry is still slow, as building operators are used to work ...

2012

Learning Near-optimal Decision Rules for Energy Efficient Building Control

Colin Neil Jones

2012

Online Thermal Control Methods for Multi-Processor Systems

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

With technological advances, the number of cores integrated on a chip is increasing. This, in turn is leading to thermal constraints and thermal design challenges. Temperature gradients and hot-spots not only affect the performance of the system, but also ...

Association for Computing Machinery2012

Efficient Interior Point Methods for Multistage Problems Arising in Receding Horizon Control

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

Receding horizon control requires the solution of an optimization problem at every sampling instant. We present efficient interior point methods tailored to convex multistage problems, a problem class which most relevant MPC problems with linear dynamics c ...

2012

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