Receding horizon approach for container flow assignment in intermodal freight transport

Impact and relevance of transit disturbances on planning in intermodal container networks using disturbance cost analysis

An intermodal container transportation network is being developed between Rotterdam and several inland terminals in North West Europe: the EUROPEAN GATEWAY SERVICES network. This network is developed and operated by the sea terminals of EUROPE CONTAINER TERMINALS (ECT). To use this network cost-efficiently, centralised planning by the sea...

Kalman Filter-Based Distributed Predictive Control of Large-Scale Multi-Rate Systems: Application to Power Networks

Time-instant optimization for liybrid model predictive control of the Rhine-Meuse delta

De Saint-Venant equations-based model assessment in model predictive control of open channel flow

Demand Response With Micro-CHP Systems

With the increasing application of distributed energy resources and novel information technologies in the electricity infrastructure, innovative possibilities to incorporate the demand side more actively in power system operation are enabled. A promising, controllable, residential distributed generation technology is a microcombined heat and...

An Iterative Approach for Distributed Model Predictive Control of Irrigation Canals

Optimization techniques have played a fundamental role in designing automatic control systems for the most part of the past half century. This dependence is ever more obvious in today’s wide-spread use of online optimization-based control methods, such as Model Predictive Control (MPC) [1]. The ability to capture process constraints and...

Multi-agent model predictive control for transportation networks: Serial versus parallel schemes

Multi-Agent Control for the Transportation Networks of the Future

When going from Delft to Rotterdam by train, or when driving over the highway, or biking through the Dutch landscape, did you ever look up and wonder about the network of power lines that span our country? The electricity network, globally on of the largest structures created by mankind, is a complex system consisting of thousands of power...