Publications by Grégory François

Use of Transient Measurements for Static Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

Modifier adaptation (MA) is a real-time optimization (RTO) method characterized by its ability to enforce plant optimality upon convergence despite the presence of model uncertainty. The approach is based on correcting the available model using gradient es ...

2017

Crosswind Kite Control - A Benchmark Problem for Advanced Control and Dynamic Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

This article presents a kite control and optimization problem intended as a benchmark problem for advanced control and optimization. We provide an entry point to this exciting renewable energy system for researchers in control and optimization methods look ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

A Directional Modifier-Adaptation Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

The steady advances of computational methods make model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. The traditional remedy is to update the model parameters, but th ...

Elsevier2016

Modifier Adaptation for Real-Time Optimization -- Methods and Applications

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Timm Faulwasser, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

This paper presents an overview of the recent developments of modifier-adaptationschemes for real-time optimization of uncertain processes. These schemes have the ability to reach plant optimality upon convergence despite the presence of structural plant-m ...

MDPI2016

Application of Real-Time Optimization Methods to Energy Systems in the Presence of Uncertainties and Disturbances

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

In practice, the quest for the optimal operation of energy systems is complicated by the presence of operating constraints, which includes the need to produce the power required by the user, and by the need to account for uncertainty. The latter concept in ...

2015

Directional Real-Time Optimization Applied to a Kite-Control Simulation Benchmark

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

This paper applies a novel two-layer optimizing control scheme to a kite-control benchmark problem. The upper layer is a recent real-time optimization algorithm, called Directional Modifier Adaptation, which represents a variation of the popular Modifier A ...

IEEE2015

On the Use of Transient Information for Static Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

Optimal operation of chemical processes is key for meeting productivity, quality, safety and environmental objectives. Both model-based and data-driven schemes are used to compute optimal operating conditions [1]: - The model-based techniques are intu ...

2015

A Therapy Parameter-based Model for Predicting Blood Glucose Concentrations in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Denis Gillet, Grégory François, Alain Bock

In this paper, the problem of predicting blood glucose concentrations (BG) for the treatment of patients with type 1 diabetes, is addressed. Predicting BG is of very high importance as most treatments, which consist in exogenous insulin injections, rely on ...

Elsevier2015

Analysis of the Maximum Efficiency of Kite-Power Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

This paper analyzes the maximum power that a kite, or system of kites, can extract from the wind. Firstly, a number of existing results on kite system efficiency are reviewed. The results that are generally applicable require significant simplifying assump ...

2015

Estimating reliability of blood glucose concentration predictions in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Denis Gillet, Grégory François, Alain Bock

Blood glucose concentrations of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus are subject to very high inter- and intra-patient variability. This variability may be detrimental to the reliability of the treatment, thus resulting in potentially frequent hypo- or h ...

Elsevier2014