no code implementations • 11 Feb 2024 • Arthur K. Barnes, Adam Mate, Russell Bent
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to power systems: geomagnetic disturbances could result in widespread disruptions and long-duration blackouts, including severe damage to system components.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2022 • Juan Ospina, David M. Fobes, Russell Bent, Andreas Wächter
However, coupling models and formulations between transmission and distribution is non-trivial, in particular due to the common practice of modeling transmission systems as single-phase, and distribution systems as multi-conductor phase-unbalanced.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2022 • Smitha Gopinath, Hassan L. Hijazi, Adam Collins, Julian Dann Nathan Lemons, Emily Schultz-Fellenz, Russell Bent, Amira Hijazi, Gert Riemersma
In airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems, misalignments between the LiDAR-scanner and the inertial navigation system (INS) mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)'s frame can lead to inaccurate 3D point clouds.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2021 • Sai Krishna Kanth Hari, Kaarthik Sundar, Shriram Srinivasan, Anatoly Zlotnik, Russell Bent
In particular, a reservoir is modeled as a rigid, hollow container that stores gas under isothermal conditions and uniform density, and a well is modeled as a vertical pipe.
Optimization and Control
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • Elena Khlebnikova, Kaarthik Sundar, Anatoly Zlotnik, Russell Bent, Mary Ewers, Byron Tasseff
The majority of overland transport needs for crude petroleum and refined petroleum products are met using pipelines.
Optimization and Control 76B75, 90C35
2 code implementations • 6 Nov 2017 • Carleton Coffrin, Russell Bent, Kaarthik Sundar, Yeesian Ng, Miles Lubin
This work provides a brief introduction to the design of PowerModels, validates its implementation, and demonstrates its effectiveness with a proof-of-concept study analyzing five different formulations of the Optimal Power Flow problem.
Optimization and Control Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
2 code implementations • 9 Jul 2017 • Harsha Nagarajan, Mowen Lu, Site Wang, Russell Bent, Kaarthik Sundar
In this work, we develop an adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with multi-linear terms to global optimality.
Optimization and Control Systems and Control
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2017 • Carleton Coffrin, Harsha Nagarajan, Russell Bent
The recent emergence of novel computational devices, such as adiabatic quantum computers, CMOS annealers, and optical parametric oscillators, present new opportunities for hybrid-optimization algorithms that are hardware accelerated by these devices.
2 code implementations • 18 Apr 2017 • Kaarthik Sundar, Carleton Coffrin, Harsha Nagarajan, Russell Bent
A general cutting-plane algorithm is proposed to solve the convex relaxation and linear approximations of the $N$-$k$ problem.
Systems and Control
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2017 • Kaarthik Sundar, Harsha Nagarajan, Line Roald, Sidhant Misra, Russell Bent, Daniel Bienstock
As renewable wind energy penetration rates continue to increase, one of the major challenges facing grid operators is the question of how to control transmission grids in a reliable and a cost-efficient manner.
Systems and Control
2 code implementations • 20 Nov 2015 • Miles Lubin, Emre Yamangil, Russell Bent, Juan Pablo Vielma
We present a unifying framework for generating extended formulations for the polyhedral outer approximations used in algorithms for mixed-integer convex programming (MICP).
Optimization and Control