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Castelletti, Andrea (author), Ficchì, Andrea (author), Cominola, Andrea (author), Segovia Castillo, P. (author), Giuliani, Matteo (author), Wu, Wenyan (author), Lucia, Sergio (author), Ocampo-Martinez, Carlos (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Maestre, José María (author)Model Predictive Control (MPC) has recently gained increasing interest in the adaptive management of water resources systems due to its capability of incorporating disturbance forecasts into real-time optimal control problems. Yet, related literature is scattered with heterogeneous applications, case-specific problem settings, and results...journal article 2023
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Sadowska, Anna D. (author), Maestre, José María (author), Kassking, Ruud (author), van Overloop, P.J.A.T.M. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)We propose a model-predictive control (MPC)-based approach to solve a human-in-the-loop control problem for a network system lacking sensors and actuators to allow for a fully automatic operation. The humans in the loop are, therefore, essential; they travel between the network nodes to provide the remote controller with measurements and to...journal article 2023
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Storani, Facundo (author), Di Pace, Roberta (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)The paper proposes a traffic responsive control framework based on a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach. The framework focuses on a centralized method, which can simultaneously compute the network decision variables (i.e., the green timings at each junction and the offset of the traffic light plans of the network). Furthermore, the...journal article 2022
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Bartels, Emiel Aurelius (author), Pippia, T.M. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Electrification of the heat network in buildings together with a rise in popularity of Electric Vehicles (EVs) will result in a need to make investments in the electrical energy infrastructure in order to prevent congestion. This paper discusses the influence of hydrogen in future smart microgrids on these investments. Moreover, smart control...journal article 2022
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Sun, Yubo (author), Ghorbani, Saeid (author), Dai, Xiaodi (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)This study provides a detailed investigation on the reproducibility of two groups of alkali-activated slag (AAS) mixtures, from both fresh properties and strength development perspectives. Three different commercial sodium silicate solutions and one lab-produced silicate activator (made of silica fume and sodium hydroxide) were used to...journal article 2022
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Sun, Yubo (author), Liu, Zhiyuan (author), Ghorbani, Saeid (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The present study explores the possibility of replacing blast furnace slag (BFS) with coal fly ash (FA) to produce alkali-activated material (AAM) concrete with hybrid precursors. With an increased FA replacement ratio, the reaction kinetics, fresh and hardened properties of AAM mixtures have been investigated. The retardation effect on the...journal article 2022
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Carli, Raffaele (author), Cavone, Graziana (author), Pippia, T.M. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Dotoli, Mariagrazia (author)This paper focuses on the control of microgrids where both gas and electricity are provided to the final customer, i.e., multi-carrier microgrids. Hence, these microgrids include thermal and electrical loads, renewable energy sources, energy storage systems, heat pumps, and combined heat and power units. The parameters characterizing the...journal article 2022
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Shi, S. (author), Mazhar, Othmane (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)For the identification of switched systems with measured states and a measured switching signal, this work aims to analyze the effect of switching strategies on the estimation error. The data is assumed to be collected from globally asymptotically or marginally stable switched systems under switches that are arbitrary or subject to an average...journal article 2022
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Rossi, Laura (author), Miranda de Lima Junior, L.C. (author), Sun, Yubo (author), Dehn, Frank (author), Provis, John L. (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The production of cement and concrete contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. Alkali‐activated concretes (AACs) are a family of existing alternative construction materials that could reduce the current environmental impact of Portland cement (PC) production and utilisation. Successful applications of AACs can be found in...journal article 2022
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Sun, Yubo (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Rahul, A. V. (author), Tao, Yaxin (author), Van Bockstaele, Filip (author), Dewettinck, Koen (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)This study aims to interpret the early-stage rheology of alkali-activated slag (AAS) paste from microstructure perspectives. The microstructures visualized by cryogenic scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM) revealed the essential distinction between hydroxide and silicate-activated slag pastes. The hydroxide-based mixture showed typical...journal article 2022
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Lv, Maolong (author), Chen, Zhiyong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Baldi, S. (author)Prescribed-performance control (PPC) for high-power dynamics with time-varying unknown control coefficients requires to address two open problems: (a) given a Nussbaum function, which properties hold for the power of the Nussbaum function? (b) to avoid high gains, how to design a switching gain that increases only when the tracking error is...journal article 2022
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, J. (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)A 3D reactive transport model at microscale is proposed for simulating the chemical reaction process of alkali silica reaction (ASR) thermodynamically and kinetically including the dissolution of reactive silica, the nucleation and growth of ASR products and the dissolution of calcium hydroxide (CH) and calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) as a...journal article 2022
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Fu, J. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Natural disasters pose a tremendous risk to the reliability of distribution networks. In this paper, a novel real-time UAV routing strategy for coordination between monitoring and inspection for post-disaster restoration in distribution networks is proposed. With our proposed real-time UAV routing strategy, damages can be inspected by UAVs...journal article 2022
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Sun, Beibei (author), Sun, Yubo (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted to systematically and quantitively explore the effects of control factors on the early age properties, i.e., workability and strength of slag and fly ash-based alkali-activated paste (BFS/FA-AAP). The control factors on the workability (flowability and setting time) of BFS/FA-AAP include...journal article 2022
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Liu, S. (author), Sadowska, A.D. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)In this paper a scenario-based Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) approach based on a reduced scenario tree is developed for large-scale freeway networks. In the new scenario-based DMPC approach, uncertainties in a large-scale freeway network are distinguished into two categories: global uncertainties for the overall network and...journal article 2022
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Orozco, Camilo (author), Borghetti, Alberto (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Napolitano, Fabio (author), Pulazza, Giorgia (author), Tossani, Fabio (author)The paper presents a coordinated day-ahead and intra-day approach for the scheduling of the resources in a local energy community (LEC). The considered LEC consists of a collective of power prosumers that can directly trade energy with each other in addition to the external provider. The scheduling approach is based on the alternating...journal article 2022
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de Gelder, E. (author), Hof, Jasper (author), Cator, Eric (author), Paardekooper, Jan Pieter (author), Camp, Olaf Op den (author), Ploeg, Jeroen (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)The development of assessment methods for the performance of Automated Vehicles (AVs) is essential to enable the deployment of automated driving technologies, due to the complex operational domain of AVs. One candidate is scenario-based assessment, in which test cases are derived from real-world road traffic scenarios obtained from driving...journal article 2022
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Lv, Maolong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Shi, Chao (author), Baldi, S. (author)This work studies logic-based distributed switching control for nonlinear agents in power-chained form, where logic-based (switching) control arises from the online estimation of the control directions assumed to be unknown for all agents. Compared to the state-of-the-art logic-based mechanisms, the challenge of power-chained dynamics is that...journal article 2022
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de Gelder, E. (author), Paardekooper, Jan Pieter (author), Khabbaz Saberi, Arash (author), Elrofai, Hala (author), Camp, Olaf op den (author), Kraines, Steven (author), Ploeg, Jeroen (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)The development of new assessment methods for the performance of automated vehicles is essential to enable the deployment of automated driving technologies, due to the complex operational domain of automated vehicles. One contributing method is scenario-based assessment in which test cases are derived from real-world road traffic scenarios...journal article 2022
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Ilioudi, A. (author), Dabiri, A. (author), Wolf, B.J. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Deep learning has enabled the rapid expansion of computer vision tasks from image frames to video segments. This paper focuses on the review of the latest research in the field of computer vision tasks in general and on object localization and identification of their associated pixels in video frames in particular. After performing a systematic...journal article 2022