M. J. Risbeck, C. Maravelias, J. Rawlings, R. Turney
{"title":"Cost optimization of combined building heating/cooling equipment via mixed-integer linear programming","authors":"M. J. Risbeck, C. Maravelias, J. Rawlings, R. Turney","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7170976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7170976","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a mixed-integer linear program to economically optimize equipment usage in a central heating/cooling plant subject to time-of-use and demand charges for utilities. The optimization makes both discrete on/off and continuous load decisions for equipment while determining utilization of thermal energy storage systems. This formulation allows simultaneous optimization of heating and cooling subsystems, which interact directly when heatrecovery chillers are present. Nonlinear equipment models are approximated as piecewise-linear to balance modeling accuracy with the computational constraints imposed by online implementation and to ensure global optimality for the computed solutions. The chief benefits of this formulation are its ability to tightly control on/off switching of equipment, its consideration of cost contributions from auxiliary equipment such as pumps, and its applicability to large systems with multiple heating and cooling units in which a combinatorial problem must be solved to pick the optimal mix of equipment. These features result in improved performance over heuristic scheduling rules or other formulations that do not consider discrete decision variables. We show optimization results for a system with four conventional chillers, two heat-recovery chillers, and one hot water boiler. With a timestep of 1 h and a horizon of 48 h, the optimization problem can be solved to optimality within 5 minutes, indicating suitability for online implementation.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"11 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125683267","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":"Identifying the uncertainty structure using maximum likelihood estimation","authors":"M. Zagrobelny, J. Rawlings","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7170772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7170772","url":null,"abstract":"The identification of accurate disturbance models from data has application both to estimator design and controller performance monitoring. Methods to find the disturbance model include maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian estimation, covariance matching, correlation techniques (such as autocovariance least-squares), and subspace identification methods. Here we formulate a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) problem for the unknown process and measurement noise covariances. To form the MLE problem, the entire set of measurements is written as a linear combination of the white noises affecting the system. This measurement signal then has a multivariate normal distribution with a known mean and unknown variance. Since the structure of the variance is known, the likelihood is expressed in terms of the unknown process and measurement noise covariance matrices. The MLE problem is a nonlinear optimization problem for these covariances. A solution to this problem is shown to exist. Necessary conditions for uniqueness are shown to be the same as those for the autocovariance least-squares problem. While the size of the measurement signal makes the problem computationally demanding, the symmetry and sparsity of the problem aid in the numerical optimization. Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the MLE problem in finding the process and measurement noise covariances for low-dimensional systems. The MLE method is compared to existing approaches, and fruitful avenues of future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122013801","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":"A novel ectropy-based control scheme for a dfig driven by a wind turbine with an integrated energy storage","authors":"Stefanos Baros","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7172012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7172012","url":null,"abstract":"Double-Fed Induction Generators (DFIG's) driven by wind turbines are today the state of the art wind generators and are required to provide advanced functionalities in order to support the grid and comply with technical regulations. In this paper, we propose a novel control scheme for a wind turbine driven DFIG with an integrated energy storage. The control scheme is based on nonlinear control methods and provides three functionalities: a) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) during low range of wind speed conditions, b) power ouput smoothing (alleviating the effect of intermittency into the grid) and c) constant power output during variations of the mean wind speed and tracking of the committed power reference. Our approach involves first expressing the control objectives into asymptotic stability guarantees of desired equillibrium points and then mapping these guarantees to asymptotic stability of energy-level equilibrium points. We establish equivalence between the two, and then use shifted ectropy functions as Control Lyapunov Functions (CLF) to design the corresponding controllers. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed control scheme under critical scenarios on a 3-bus power system.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128163894","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":"The quest for autonomy. Are we there yet? Are CPS a way to build autonomous systems?","authors":"P. Antsaklis","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7172128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7172128","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. Achieving autonomy has been a dream for many years. The term autonomous system has had different meanings depending on who and when it was used. Attempts to build autonomous vehicles by major corporations and grand challenges by government funding agencies have captured the public's imagination. How much closer are today to this dream than we were 25 years ago?The issues surrounding autonomy together with the needed properties that make a system autonomous will be discussed and put in context. How do we go about realizing these properties in a safe, secure manner, to obtain a resilient system that keeps performing well over the lifetime of the control system? Could CPS provide an approach towards building autonomous systems? How would autonomous control architectures look like? Solutions to some problems will be proposed. Concrete approaches, that use CPS and energy like concepts such as passivity/dissipativity to preserve properties will be briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128186009","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":"An anti-windup scheme for an adaptive ℋ∞ vibration controller: Development and simulations","authors":"M. Turner, R. O'Brien","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7172168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7172168","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simple nonlinear anti-windup strategy for use in conjunction with a novel type of adaptive robust controller. In the absence of saturation constraints, the adaptive robust controller can provide highly effective disturbance rejection, but this ability is gradually lost as the saturation level is increased. In order to improve the performance of the controller during saturated periods, it is complemented with both a linear anti-windup compensator and a nonlinear modification of this compensator. Simulation results show that both anti-windup compensators are able to assist the adaptive robust controller in preserving vibration reduction levels when saturation is present, but that the nonlinear compensator is able to offer a higher level of vibration attenuation during periods of severe control signal saturation.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"87 24","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113932938","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":"A nonlinear guidance law for impact time control","authors":"Abdulrahman Saleem, Ashwini Ratnoo","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7170809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7170809","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the problem of impact time control of an interceptor against a stationary target. A nonlinear guidance law is proposed with the interceptor heading angle variation as a function of the range to target. Closed-form expressions for the design parameters are derived for an exact analysis of the impact time. A feedback form of the guidance law is presented for addressing realistic implementation in the presence of autopilot lag. Using the closed-form expressions of the impact time, a cooperative guidance scheme is presented for simultaneous impact in a salvo attack. Extensive simulation studies are presented validating the analytic findings.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131959435","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":"A primal-dual active-set method for distributed Model Predictive Control","authors":"S. Koehler, C. Danielson, F. Borrelli","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7172079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7172079","url":null,"abstract":"A primal-dual active-set method is used for solving Model Predictive Control for large-scale systems with linear dynamics, additive disturbance and box constraints. We present a novel decentralized implementation of the primal-dual active-set method. The proposed algorithm is compared to dual decomposition methods. Theoretical and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach for large scale systems with high communication delays. The application to buildings control systems is thoroughly investigated.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131988383","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":"Synchronization of uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems with unknown time-varying communication delays","authors":"Justin R. Klotz, Serhat Obuz, Z. Kan, W. Dixon","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7170814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7170814","url":null,"abstract":"A decentralized controller is presented along with sufficient conditions for stability in leader-based synchronization of communication-delayed networked agents. The agents have heterogeneous dynamics modeled by uncertain, nonlinear Euler-Lagrange equations of motion affected by heterogeneous, unknown, exogenous disturbances. The developed controller requires only one-hop (delayed) communication from network neighbors and the communication delays are assumed to be heterogeneous, uncertain and time-varying. The presented approach uses a Lyapunov-based stability analysis in conjunction with Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals to provide sufficient conditions which depend on the upper bound of the heterogeneous delays, feedback gains, and network connectivity, among other factors.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"6 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132498793","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":"Stochastic distributed optimization of reactive power operations using conditional ensembles of V2G capacity","authors":"H. V. Haghi, Z. Qu","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7171840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7171840","url":null,"abstract":"Energy storage and reactive power supplied by electric vehicles (EV) through vehicle-to-grid (V2G) operation can be coordinated to provide voltage support, thus reducing the need of grid reinforcement and active power curtailment. Optimization and control approaches for V2G-enabled reactive power control should be robust to variations and offer a certain level of optimality by combining real-time control with several-hours-ahead network management schemes. This paper introduces an optimization and control framework that can be used to manage energy storage availability in near future while using the remaining capacity of V2G to generate reactive power and cooperatively perform voltage control. Stochastic distributed optimization of reactive power is realized by integrating a Markov chain-based distributed sub-gradient method with conditional ensemble predictions of V2G capacity. Hence, the obtained solutions can reflect on the system requirements for the upcoming hours along with the instantaneous cooperation between distributed EVs.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129984881","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":"Adaptive dynamic programming for infinite horizon optimal robust guaranteed cost control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems","authors":"Ding Wang, Derong Liu, Hongliang Li, Hongwen Ma","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2015.7171175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2015.7171175","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an infinite horizon optimal robust guaranteed cost control scheme of a class of continuous-time uncertain nonlinear systems is established based on adaptive dynamic programming. The main idea lies in that the optimal robust guaranteed cost control problem can be transformed into an optimal control problem. Actually, the optimal cost function of the nominal system is nothing but the optimal guaranteed cost of the original uncertain system. A critic neural network is constructed to help solving the modified Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation corresponding to the nominal system. Then, an additional stabilizing term is introduced to reinforce the updating process of the weight vector and reduce the requirement of an initial stabilizing control. An example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the present control approach.","PeriodicalId":223665,"journal":{"name":"2015 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130064260","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}