{"title":"Bi-level programming for the energy retrofit planning of street lighting systems","authors":"Raffaele Carli, M. Dotoli","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000150","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses strategic decision making issues for the energy management of urban street lighting. We propose a hierarchical decision procedure that supports the energy manager in determining the optimal energy retrofit plan of an existing public street lighting system throughout a wide urban area. A bi-level programming model integrates several decision making units, each focusing on the energy optimization of a specific limited zone lighting system, and a central decision unit, aiming at a fair distribution of actions among these various systems, while ensuring an efficient use of public funds. We apply the technique to the case study of the city of Bari (Italy), to demonstrate the applicability and efficiency of the proposed optimization model.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125693588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheng Li, Liyang Tang, Liwei Pan, Weimin Wu, G. Rong
{"title":"Scheduling FMSs based on a hybrid Petri net framework","authors":"Cheng Li, Liyang Tang, Liwei Pan, Weimin Wu, G. Rong","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000080","url":null,"abstract":"For solving flexible manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling problems based on Petri net execution, search algorithms need fewer redundant states in the reachability graph and a more efficient heuristic function to guide its expansion. In this paper, we illustrate that place-timed Petri nets (PTPNs) own advantages in restraining redundant states while transition-timed Petri nets (TTPNs) are beneficial for developing more efficient heuristic functions. We then propose a hybrid framework of the PTPN and TTPN. In this framework, a PTPN is used to construct the search algorithm and TTPN markings are transformed into PTPN markings. The lower bound of makespan can be calculated through a TTPN heuristic function to guide the search algorithm. As a result, overall search effort can be greatly reduced. The results demonstrate that the proposed method performs much better than existing methods.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127484135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. A. Domínguez-Navarro, Á. Bayod-Rújula, J. M. Yusta-Loyo, J. Bernal-Agustín, R. Dufo-López, J. S. Artal-Sevil, A. Coronado-Mendoza
{"title":"Local electrical market based on a Multi-agent system","authors":"J. A. Domínguez-Navarro, Á. Bayod-Rújula, J. M. Yusta-Loyo, J. Bernal-Agustín, R. Dufo-López, J. S. Artal-Sevil, A. Coronado-Mendoza","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000098","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of distributed generation makes more difficult the power balance between demand and generation in electrical networks, especially by the uncertainty of renewable generation. Smart grid concepts have been developed to solve this problem. A set of generators, loads and storage devices are locally managed to minimize the energy cost. These smart grids have surpluses and deficits of energy along time, so they have to interact in a local smart market. In this paper, we present a local smart market based on a multi-agent system. Every smart grid has a manager agent that minimizes its energy cost (intra-market). Then, it offers the surplus of energy or requests the deficit of energy to other neighbour smart grids. An auction allows fixing the energy and economical interchange among smart grids (inter-market). The manager agent can buy energy in the auction when it is cheaper than the energy of their own generators even if these generators have surplus of energy. A Multi-agent system has been developed in JADE platform.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130725397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Martirano, R. Araneo, A. Ruvio, Zbigniew Leonowicz, J. Rezmer
{"title":"A microgrid with PV production and energy storage for an university building","authors":"L. Martirano, R. Araneo, A. Ruvio, Zbigniew Leonowicz, J. Rezmer","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000063","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a measurement campaign conducted at the Engineering Department of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetic, Sapienza University of Rome. Starting from measurement campaign, in the context of building an urban microgrid, a PV plant and a energy storage system has been proposed. The measurements were conducted in two relevant period of the year in order to know the power consumption of the facility. The knowledge of total energy demand by electrical loads allows the identification of most efficient strategies for energy utilization by using the PV production and energy storage.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133063547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Parrilla, José García, J. Albareda, C. Mahulea
{"title":"HEAT: A tool to develop, analyze and monitor clinical pathways","authors":"Luis Parrilla, José García, J. Albareda, C. Mahulea","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000089","url":null,"abstract":"HEAT (Healthcare Efficiency and Effectiveness Analysis Tool) is a software application developed to support designing and analysis processes of the clinical pathways. It was developed in collaboration with the Hospital “Lozano Blesa” in Zaragoza, and is composed by two different tools. The first one, called HEAT-Scenario Designer, can be used to: (a) design new clinical scenarios, (b) check the correct use of resources and (c) check the correct communication strategies between several clinical pathways. To model clinical pathways, HEAT uses a domain specific modeling language (DSML), called Healthcare System Specification (HSS), being defined as an Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile. This language lets the medical personnel to describe the system without any knowledge of UML or other mathematical theory. Then, the tool can be used to transform the clinical pathways to Stochastic Well-formed Nets (SWN), a formal model that can be used latter for analysis by using available packages. The second tool of HEAT, called HEAT-Patients Monitor can be used to monitor the flow of patients that follow the modeled clinical pathways inside the hospital, providing to the medical doctors useful information about the behavior of the clinical pathways.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121441503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Battery modeling and Kalman filter-based State-of-Charge estimation for a race car application","authors":"Orjan Gjengedal, P. Vie, M. Molinas","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000153","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates a method for building a lithium-ion polymer battery model, which can be used as part of a model-based estimation technique to estimate battery State-of-Charge for a Formula Student electric race car application. The modeling strategy is based on developing an equivalent circuit, which can capture the behavior of the battery dynamics experienced at the competitions. The equivalent circuit model accounts for steady-state and dynamic contributions due to open-circuit voltage, internal resistance, and polarization dynamics. Using experimental cell tests that are representative of the current load experienced by the batteries, and Simulink Parameter Estimation to parameterize the equivalent circuit, a root-mean-square modeling error of 8.0 mV was obtained. Utilizing the model as part of an Extended Kalman Filter to estimate State-of-Charge, a root-mean-square estimation error of 0.58%, and a maximum absolute estimation error of 2.37% were achieved.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128696298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Azadmehr, L. Marchetti, Moataz S. El-Kharashi, Y. Berg
{"title":"A virtual Wheatstone bridge front-end for resistive sensors","authors":"M. Azadmehr, L. Marchetti, Moataz S. El-Kharashi, Y. Berg","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000120","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel front-end for resistive sensors based on a simple resistive voltage divider. This front-end utilizes a sampling technique to mimic the Wheatstone bridge in functionality, offers high precision and is fast at the same time more power conservative compared to the traditional Wheatstone bridge.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115171152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mitigating production uncertainties of renewables by adjustable load scheduling","authors":"T. Gerres, Z. Lukszo","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000152","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing share of renewable energy sources (RES), such as wind and solar generation, is traded on the electricity markets. The volatility and forecast uncertainty of RES production cause market imbalances and hinder the transition towards emission-free electricity generation. Flexible load scheduling in the form of charging electric vehicles (EVs) offers an opportunity to counterbalance RES variability and forecast uncertainty and thereby enables a higher share of renewables. A stochastic linear multistage optimisation approach is presented to explore the benefits of combining RES production and flexible EV charging in the form of a hybrid aggregator trading on the liberalised electricity market. Model results show that the hybrid aggregator is able to minimise its imbalance requirements, but uses RES production for charging only if such is financially optimal. Further research is required to explore the market impact of the hybrid aggregator and test its feasibility.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123773953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. D. Meo, F. Messina, M. Postorino, D. Rosaci, G. Sarné
{"title":"A reputation framework to share resources into IoT-based environments","authors":"P. D. Meo, F. Messina, M. Postorino, D. Rosaci, G. Sarné","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000145","url":null,"abstract":"Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm for cooperation among physical objects provided with computational and communication capabilities. The great amount of interactions occurring within the IoT environments expose IoT users and interconnected objects to security and privacy risks. Consequently, adding security and privacy into the IoT domain is fundamental for a wider IoT diffusion. In open and dynamic IoT environments such problems are more relevant for the greater possibility of anomalous behaviors and the adoption of approaches uniquely based on authentication methods could result infeasible and/or inadequate for creating an effective trustworthiness atmosphere. A possible solution, widely applied and investigated in different fields, is represented by trust- and reputation-based systems. To tackle the issues above we conceived a distributed reputation model along with a framework to manage information about IoT devices reputation. In particular, the model provides some countermeasures to detect malicious or cheating devices. To test the performance of our proposal, a set of experiments simulating the vehicular mobility on a basic urban network has been executed by providing promising results.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124650920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jr-Syu Yang, Chan-Yun Yang, G. Jan, Tung-Lin Hsieh
{"title":"Robotic interaction via path planning - A viewpoint from functionalist sociology","authors":"Jr-Syu Yang, Chan-Yun Yang, G. Jan, Tung-Lin Hsieh","doi":"10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000114","url":null,"abstract":"The paper seeks the sociological relevance which is created by an intelligent agent from sociological aspect. As known, the services from an intelligent agent maintains a certain social function as a part of human-robot interaction (HRI). The study thus uses a mobile agent to elaborate the fact. The mobile robotics, though developing rapidly, lacks still a clarification of the social function which the agent can achieve by its mobility. This study confirms first the value of agent navigation of providing a service, and recognizes the navigation as one part of the interaction during the service. The core technique of this kind of robotic interaction monitors the dynamic changes of environment, provides an adequate route plan to reach the goal service, and reacts properly the environmental changes during approaching the goal. The study then examines social need of this kind of navigation from the aspect of structural functionalism. Although navigations corresponding to human beings' needs would differ from case to case in providing services, the interactions in this regard are consistently matching a topic of dynamic path planning. A dynamic path replanner is thus the core technique to accomplish such kinds of social work. A case of nursing home was taken as a simulation example to examine the sociological relevance. Scenarios of service providing in the nursing home were explored and prevailed over by the D* lite path replanner. The simulation confirms significantly the social value of a mobile agent with its ability in path planning for service providing.","PeriodicalId":145129,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133073901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}