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Baldi, S. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Endel, P (author), Holub, O. (author)
Estimation of energy models from data is an important part of advanced fault detection and diagnosis tools for smart energy purposes. Estimated energy models can be used for a large variety of management and control tasks, spanning from model predictive building control to estimation of energy consumption and user behavior. In practical...
journal article 2016
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Ghosh, D. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Several multiple model adaptive control architectures have been proposed in the literature. Despite many advances in theory, the crucial question of how to synthesize the pairs model/controller in a structurally optimal way is to a large extent not addressed. In particular, it is not clear how to place the pairs model/controller is such a way...
journal article 2016
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Satyavada, H. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Condensing boilers use waste heat from flue gases to pre-heat cold water entering the boiler. Flue gases are condensed into liquid form, thus recovering their latent heat of vaporization, which results in as much as 10%–12% increase in efficiency. Modeling these heat transfer phenomena is crucial to control this equipment. Despite the many...
journal article 2016
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Korkas, Christos D. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Michailidis, Iakovos (author), Boutalis, Yiannis (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author)
Microgrids equipped with small-scale renewable-energy generation systems and energy storage units offer challenging opportunity from a control point of view. In fact, in order to improve resilience and enable islanded mode, micro-grid energy management systems must dynamically manage controllable loads by considering not only matching energy...
conference paper 2016
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Baldi, S. (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author), Pitsillides, Andreas (author), Lestas, Marios (author), Ioannou, Petros A. (author), Wan, Y. (author)
An adaptive decentralized strategy for active queue management of TCP flows over communication networks is presented. The proposed strategy solves locally, at each link, an optimal control problem, minimizing a cost composed of residual capacity and buffer queue size. The solution of the optimal control problem exploits an adaptive...
conference paper 2016
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Satyavada, Harish (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Energy efficiency in building heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment requires the development of accurate models for testing HVAC control strategies and corresponding energy consumption. In order to make the HVAC control synthesis computationally affordable, such control-oriented models are typically a simplified version...
journal article 2016
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Satyavada, H. (author), Babuska, R. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
The field of energy efficiency in buildings offers challenging opportunities from a control point of view. Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) units in buildings must be accurately controlled so as to ensure the occupants' comfort and reduced energy consumption. While the existing HVAC models consist of only one or a few HVAC...
conference paper 2016
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Le, Q.T. (author), van den Boom, A.J.J. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
This paper investigates the identification of continuous piecewise affine systems in state space form with jointly unknown partition and subsystem matrices. The partition of the system is generated by the so-called centers. By representing continuous piecewise affine systems in the max-form and using a recursive Gauss-Newton algorithm for a...
conference paper 2016
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Abou Harfouch, Youssef (author), Yuan, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Despite the progresses in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC), a crucial limitation of the state-of-the-art of this control scheme is that the string stability of the platoon can be proven only when the vehicles in the platoon have identical driveline dynamics (homogeneous platoons). In this paper, we present a novel control strategy...
conference paper 2017
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Cao, Xi (author), Gruiter, Rick de (author), van Oorschot, Ralph (author), Baldi, S. (author), Hassan HosseinNia, S. (author), Ghatkesar, M.K. (author)
A hollow microcantilever is used instead of a conventional microcantilever to dispense and aspirate liquids in the femto-litre (10<sup>-15</sup> L) volume range in an atomic force microscope (AFM) setup. The inherent force sensing capability of the cantilever is used to monitor the fluid manipulation in-situ. At this small scale, parameters...
journal article 2017
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Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), Dibowski, H. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Model-based fault diagnosis has been indicated as a fundamental method in enabling optimal maintenance of buildings, thus leading to important energy savings. However, accurate models of buildings and their technical equipment are seldom available, and this lack of knowledge applies even more to descriptions of modeling and measurement...
journal article 2017
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Satyavada, Harish (author), Baldi, S. (author)
The operating principle of condensing boilers is based on exploiting heat from flue gases to pre-heat cold water at the inlet of the boiler: by condensing into liquid form, flue gases recover their latent heat of vaporization, leading to 10–12% increased efficiency with respect to traditional boilers. However, monitoring the energy efficiency of...
journal article 2018
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Moustakis, N. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
This paper establishes an adaptive tracking approach for linear systems with parametric uncertainties, when input measurements are quantized due to the presence of a communication network closing the control loop. In order to address the tracking problem, a novel dynamic quantizer with dynamic offset is introduced and embedded into an...
conference paper 2018
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Azzollini, Ilario A. (author), Baldi, S. (author), Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (author)
We analyze adaptive synchronization capabilities in networks with Kuramoto-like units whose dynamical features are unknown and thus synchronization protocols must exhibit co-evolution capabilities. In the presence of heterogeneous and uncertain units, synchronization should be enabled by appropriate adaptive protocols that counteract the...
conference paper 2018
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Moustakis, N. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
This paper addresses the problem of asymptotic tracking for switched linear systems with parametric uncertainties and dwell-time switching, when input measurements are quantized due to the presence of a communication network closing the control loop. The problem is solved via a dynamic quantizer with dynamic offset that, embedded in a model...
journal article 2018
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Jagga, Dhruv (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author)
To guarantee the safety of passengers in a wide range of driving situations, vehicle lateral stability should be achieved in the presence of nonlinear dynamics (consequence of critical maneuvers) and uncertainty (consequence of uncertain parameters). This paper designs a hybrid adaptive strategy to attain vehicle stability in these situations...
conference paper 2018
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Tao, T. (author), Jain, V. (author), Baldi, S. (author)
Adaptive CACC strategies have been recently proposed to stabilize a platoon with non-identical and uncertain vehicle dynamics (heterogeneous platoon). This work proposes a method to augment such strategies with a mechanism coping with saturation constraints (i.e. engine constraints). In fact, in a platoon of heterogeneous vehicles, engine...
journal article 2019
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Liu, D. (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Baldi, S. (author), Cao, Jinde (author), Huang, Wei (author)
The work presented in this paper concerns a switching-based control formulation for multi-intersection and multiphase traffic light systems. A macroscopic traffic flow modeling approach is first presented, which is instrumental to the development of a model-based and switching-based optimization method for traffic signal operation, in the...
journal article 2020
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Zhang, Yajie (author), Vand, Behrang (author), Baldi, S. (author)
The Energy Management System (EMS) is an efficient technique to monitor, control and enhance the building performance. In the state-of-the-art, building performance analysis is separated into building simulation and control management: this may cause inaccuracies and extra operating time. Thus, a coherent framework to integrate building physics...
journal article 2022
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Baldi, S. (author), Roy, Spandan (author), Yang, Kang (author), Liu, Di (author)
Effective design of autopilots for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is still a great challenge, due to unmodeled effects and uncertainties that these vehicles exhibit during flight. Unmodeled effects and uncertainties comprise longitudinal/lateral cross-couplings, as well as poor knowledge of equilibrium points (trimming points) of...
journal article 2022
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