Optimal Control Strategies for Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Systems with Market Interaction

Seasonal thermal energy storage systems (STESSs) can shift the delivery of renewable energy sources and mitigate their uncertainty problems. However, to maximize the operational profit of STESSs and ensure their long-term profitability, control strategies that allow them to trade on wholesale electricity markets are required. While control...

Adaptive predictive path following control based on least squares support vector machines for underactuated autonomous vessels

Since vessel dynamics could vary during maneuvering because of load changes, speed changing, environmental disturbances, aging of mechanism, etc., the performance of model-based path following control may be degraded if the controller uses the same motion model all the time. This article proposes an adaptive path following control method...

Adaptive Cruise Control for a SMART Car: A Comparison Benchmark for MPC-PWA Control Methods

The design of an adaptive cruise controller for a SMART car, a type of small car, is proposed as a benchmark setup for several model predictive control methods for nonlinear and piecewise affine systems. Each of these methods has been already applied to specific case studies, different from method to method. This paper has therefore the purpose...