Tractable Reserve Scheduling Formulations for Alternating Current Power Grids with Uncertain Generation

The increasing penetration of wind power generation introduces uncertainty in the behaviour of electric power grids. This work is concerned with the problem of day-ahead reserve scheduling (RS) for power systems with high levels of wind power penetration, and proposes a novel set-up that incorporates an alternating current (AC) Optimal Power...

Fast MPC Solvers for Systems with Hard Real-Time Constraints

Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced control technique that offers an elegant framework to solve a wide range of control problems (regulation, tracking, supervision, etc) and handle constraints on the plant. The control objectives and constraints are usually formulated as an optimization problem that the MPC controller has to solve ...

Distributed Connectivity-Aware Multirobot Exploration

Networks of mobile robots enable us to explore areas quickly and without danger to human operators. To execute this task successfully, communication between the robots in the network is imperative. In this thesis, we link communication between robots to network integrity, where network integrity is defined as the ability of the network to...