Publications by Christophe Salzmann

Adaptive data-driven prediction in a building control hierarchy: A case study of demand response in Switzerland

Colin Neil Jones, Christophe Salzmann, Jicheng Shi, Yingzhao Lian

By providing various services, such as Incentive-based Demand Response (IBDR), buildings can play a crucial role in the energy market due to their significant energy consumption. However, effectively commissioning buildings for such desired functionalities ...

2025

Experimental data-driven model predictive control of a hospital HVAC system during regular use

Colin Neil Jones, Christophe Salzmann, Emilio Maddalena

Herein we report a multi-zone, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control case study of an industrial plant responsible for cooling a hospital surgery center. The adopted approach to guaranteeing thermal comfort and reducing electrical energy ...

2022

Interactive Lab Experimentation and Simulation Tools for Remote Laboratories

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet

New extensions and features to the remote laboratories currently used for undergraduate courses in automatic control laboratory at the School of Engineering of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland are presented. This paper shows how ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Self-Organized Laboratories for Smart Campus

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

A smart campus provides students who are geographically scattered with online tools to get access to learning resources and laboratories. Although these remote laboratories have the potential and capabilities to implement different learning experiments, mo ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs): An Innovative Solution to Achieving SDGs in the Global South

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Rayana Jaafar

In engineering education, laboratories represent an important academic resource as they provide practical training in addition to the fundamental theories. However, the acquisition of new machinery and the maintenance of the equipment imply a large investm ...

IEEE2019

Enforcing optimal operation in solid-oxide fuel-cell systems

Dominique Bonvin, Jan Van Herle, Christophe Salzmann, Timm Faulwasser, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira, Zacharie Wuillemin

This paper describes an optimization strategy for operating solid-oxide fuel-cell systems at optimal efficiency. Specifically, we present the experimental validation of a real-time optimization (RTO) strategy applied to a commercial solid-oxide fuel-cell s ...

2019

Real-time optimization of an experimental solid-oxide fuel-cell system

Dominique Bonvin, Jan Van Herle, Christophe Salzmann, Zacharie Wuillemin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

There still exists a large gap between simulation work and industrial applications in the context of control and optimization of solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) systems. In an effort to bridge this gap, this study describes the experimental implementation of ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

New Tools for MOOC/MOOL to Sustain Continuity of Experimentation in Control

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet

The use of interactive tools combined with remote laboratories has shown to be very useful for students when offered in a MOOC. The EPFL hands-on Control MOOC enables students to switch back and forth between control and observation on a remote laboratory, ...

Elsevier2019

Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services

Colin Neil Jones, Luca Fabietti, Christophe Salzmann, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This paper presents a predictive control scheme for coordinating a set of heterogeneous and complementary resources at different time scales for the provision of ancillary services. In particular, we combine building thermodynamics (slow), and energy stora ...

2018

Next Steps in Supporting More Students in MOOL for Control Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

2018