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Constrained LQR Using Online Decomposition Techniques

Colin Neil Jones, Georgios Stathopoulos

This paper presents an algorithm to solve the infinite horizon constrained linear quadratic regulator (CLQR) problem using operator splitting methods. First, the CLQR problem is reformulated as a (finite-time) model predictive control (MPC) problem without ...

2016

Self-triggered Control with Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian

Distributed embedded systems are pervasive components jointly operating in a wide range of applications. Moving toward energy harvesting powered systems enables their long-term, sustainable, scalable, and maintenance-free operation. When these systems are ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Providing ancillary service with commercial buildings: the Swiss perspective

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ali Ahmadi Khatir, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Ancillary services constitute the cornerstone of the power grid. They allow for an efficient system operation, provide resilience to uncertainties and establish safeguards against unprecedented events. Their importance is growing due to the rise of grid de ...

2015

Joint Energy Management for Distributed Energy Harvesting Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian

Employing energy harvesting to power the Internet of Things supports their long-term, self-sustainable, and maintenance-free operation. These energy harvesting systems have an energy management subsystem to orchestrate the flow of energy and optimize their ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021

A Neural Network Architecture to Learn Explicit MPC Controllers from Data

Colin Neil Jones, Emilio Maddalena

We present a methodology to learn explicit Model Predictive Control (eMPC) laws from sample data points with tunable complexity. The learning process is cast in a special Neural Network setting where the coefficients of two linear layers and a parametric q ...

ELSEVIER2020

Model predictive building climate control for mitigating heat pump noise pollution

Colin Neil Jones, Jicheng Shi

Noise pollution from heat pumps (HPs) has been an emerging concern to their broader adoption, especially in densely populated areas. This paper explores a model predictive control (MPC) approach for climate control of buildings, aimed at minimizing the noi ...

2025

Y Stability and performance verification of optimization-based controllers

Colin Neil Jones, Milan Korda

This paper presents a method to verify closed-loop properties of optimization-based controllers for deterministic and stochastic constrained polynomial discrete-time dynamical systems. The closed-loop properties amenable to the proposed technique include g ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

NSM Converges to a k-NN Regressor Under Loose Lipschitz Estimates

Colin Neil Jones, Emilio Maddalena

Although it is known that having accurate Lipschitz estimates is essential for certain models to deliver good predictive performance, refining this constant in practice can be a difficult task especially when the input dimension is high. In this letter, we ...

2020

A Generalized Representer Theorem for Hilbert Space - Valued Functions

Colin Neil Jones, Sanket Sanjay Diwale

The necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a generalized representer theorem are presented for learning Hilbert space - valued functions. Representer theorems involving explicit basis functions and Reproducing Kernels are a common occurrence ...

2019

System identification via nuclear norm regularization for simulated moving bed processes from incomplete data sets

Colin Neil Jones

The application of nuclear norm regularization to system identification was recently shown to be a useful method for identifying low order linear models. In this paper, we consider nuclear norm regularization for identification of simulated moving bed proc ...

IEEE2009

Distributed state estimation for discrete-time linear time invariant systems: A survey

Colin Neil Jones, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

Motivated by the increasing availability and quality of miniaturized sensors, computers, and wireless communication devices arid given their enormous potential, the use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) has become widespread. Because in many applications o ...

2019

Controller complexity reduction for piecewise affine systems through safe region elimination

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We consider the class of piecewise affine optimal state feedback control laws applied to discrete-time piecewise affine systems, motivated by recent work on the computation of closed-form MPC controllers. The storage demand and complexity of these optimal ...

IEEE2007

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

KPC: Learning-Based Model Predictive Control with Deterministic Guarantees

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Emilio Maddalena, Paul Scharnhorst

We propose Kernel Predictive Control (KPC), a learning-based predictive control strategy that enjoys deterministic guarantees of safety. Noise-corrupted samples of the unknown system dynamics are used to learn several models through the formalism of non-pa ...

2021

Robust Tracking Commitment

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Altug Bitlislioglu

Many engineering problems that involve hierarchical control applications, such as demand side ancillary service provision to the power grid, can be posed as a robust tracking commitment problem. In this setting, the lower-level controller commits a set of ...

2017

Regularized economic model predictive control with barrier functions

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu

In this article, we consider the use of barrier functions as a regularizing cost in economic model predictive control (EMPC). We focus on a specific variant, EMPC with generalized terminal constraints (G-EMPC), as it is suitable for tackling large-scale pr ...

WILEY2020

A Proximal-Point Lagrangian-Based Parallelizable Nonconvex Solver for Bilinear Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang, Yingzhao Lian

Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) has been widely adopted to manipulate bilinear systems with dynamics that include products of the inputs and the states. These systems are ubiquitous in chemical processes, mechanical systems, and quantum physics, ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Optimal Thrust Vector Control of an Electric Small-Scale Rocket Prototype

Colin Neil Jones, Petr Listov, Roland Schwan

Recent advances in Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithms and methodologies, combined with the surge of computational power of available embedded platforms, allows the use of real-time optimization-based control of fast mechatronic systems. This paper p ...

IEEE2022

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

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

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

Risk-aware scheduling and dispatch of flexibility events in buildings

Colin Neil Jones

Residential and commercial buildings, equipped with systems such as heat pumps (HPs), hot water tanks, or stationary energy storage, have a large potential to offer their consumption flexibility as grid services. In this work, we leverage this flexibility ...

2024