no code implementations • 30 Apr 2024 • Albertus Johannes Malan, Joel Ferguson, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Sören Hohmann
In this paper, we consider the problem of voltage stability in DC networks containing uncertain loads with non-monotone incremental impedances and where the steady-state power availability is restricted to a subset of the buses in the network.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Ayda Kamalifar, Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Antonella Ferrara
In this paper, we propose the METANET with service station (METANET-s) model, a second-order macroscopic traffic model that, compared to the classical METANET, incorporates the dynamics of service stations on highways.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2023 • Yu Kawano, Alessio Moreschini, Michele Cucuzzella
In this paper, we establish the novel concept of Krasovskii passivity for sampled discrete-time nonlinear systems, enabling Krasovskii-passivity-based control design under sampling.
no code implementations • 20 May 2023 • Felix Strehle, Juan E. Machado, Michele Cucuzzella, Albertus J. Malan, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Sören Hohmann
A fundamental precondition for the secure and efficient operation of district heating networks (DHNs) is a stable hydraulic behavior.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Adriano Cotta Ramusino, Davide Spalenza, John Lygeros, Antonella Ferrara
We focus on the problem of optimally designing a service station to achieve beneficial effects in terms of total traffic congestion and peak traffic reduction.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2022 • Yu Kawano, Michele Cucuzzella, Shuai Feng, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Motivated by current sharing in power networks, we consider a class of output consensus (also called agreement) problems for nonlinear systems, where the consensus value is determined by external disturbances, e. g., power demand.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Juan E. Machado, Joel Ferguson, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Modern district heating technologies have a great potential to make the energy sector more flexible and sustainable due to their capabilities to use energy sources of varied nature and to efficiently store energy for subsequent use.
no code implementations • 23 May 2022 • Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Antonella Ferrara, John Lygeros
In this paper, we propose a novel model that describes how the traffic evolution on a highway stretch is affected by the presence of a service station.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2022 • Zao Fu, Michele Cucuzzella, Carlo Cenedese, Wenwu Yu, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Then, based on the dual theory, we analyze the equivalent distributed optimal condition for the proposed aggregative game and design a distributed control scheme to solve it.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2021 • Carlo Cenedese, Lorenzo Zino, Michele Cucuzzella, Ming Cao
Understanding how to effectively control an epidemic spreading on a network is a problem of paramount importance for the scientific community.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Juan E. Machado, Michele Cucuzzella, Nina Pronk, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
Flow and storage volume regulation is essential for the adequate transport and management of energy resources in district heating systems.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2021 • Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Sergio Grammatico, Ming Cao
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestions by encouraging plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles to stop at charging stations around peak congestion times.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2021 • Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Sergio Grammatico, Ming Cao
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestion by encouraging plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles to stop at a charging station around peak congestion times.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2020 • Juan E. Machado, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien Scherpen
We propose a comprehensive nonlinear ODE-based thermo-hydraulic model of a district heating system featuring several heat producers, consumers and storage devices which are interconnected through a distribution network of meshed topology whose temperature dynamics are explicitly considered.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2020 • Amirreza Silani, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah
Motivated by the inadequacy of the existing control strategies for power systems affected by time-varying uncontrolled power injections such as loads and the increasingly widespread renewable energy sources, this paper proposes two control schemes based on the well-known output regulation control methodology.
Systems and Control Systems and Control
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2020 • Amirreza Silani, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah
In this paper we present new (stochastic) passivity properties for Direct Current (DC) power networks, where the unknown and unpredictable load demand is modelled by a stochastic process.
Optimization and Control Systems and Control Systems and Control
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2019 • Michele Cucuzzella, Thijs Bouman, Krishna Chaitanya Kosaraju, Geertje Schuitema, N. H. Lemmen, Steph Johnson-Zawadzki, Carlo Fischione, Linda Steg, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen
In this paper, a novel distributed control strategy addressing a (feasible) psycho-social-physical welfare problem in islanded Direct Current (DC) smart grids is proposed.