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Extended Reverse Convex Programming: An Active-Set Approach to Global Optimization

Reverse convex programming (RCP) represents an important class of global optimization problems consisting of concave cost and inequality constraint functions. While useful in many practical scenarios due to the frequent appearance of concave models, a more ...

Springer Verlag2016

A Real-Time Optimization Framework for the Iterative Controller Tuning Problem

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

We investigate the general iterative controller tuning (ICT) problem, where the task is to find a set of controller parameters that optimize some user-defined performance metric when the same control task is to be carried out repeatedly. Following a repeat ...

MDPI2013

From Discrete Measurements to Bounded Gradient Estimates: A Look at Some Regularizing Structures

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

Obtaining a reliable gradient estimate for an unknown function when given only its discrete measurements is a common problem in many engineering disciplines. While there are many approaches to obtaining an estimate of a gradient, obtaining lower and upper ...

American Chemical Society2013

Iterative Controller Tuning by Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

The present article looks at the problem of iterative controller tuning, where the parameters of a given controller are adapted in an iterative manner to bring the user-defined performance metric to a local minimum for some repetitive process. Specifically ...

2013

Exploiting Local Quasiconvexity for Gradient Estimation in Modifier-Adaptation Schemes

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

A new approach for gradient estimation in the context of real-time optimization under uncertainty is proposed in this paper. While this estimation problem is often a difficult one, it is shown that it can be simplified significantly if an assumption on the ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

Run-to-Run MPC Tuning via Gradient Descent

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

A gradient-descent method for the run-to-run tuning of MPC controllers is proposed. It is shown that, with an assumption on process repeatability, the MPC tuning parameters may be brought to a locally optimal set. SISO and MIMO examples illustrate the char ...

Elsevier2012

Experimental Real-Time Optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack via Constraint Adaptation

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin, Gene Bunin, Leonidas Tsikonis

The experimental validation of a real-time optimization (RTO) strategy for the optimal operation of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is reported in this paper. Unlike many existing studies, the RTO approach presented here utilizes the constraint-adapta ...

2012

Input Filter Design for Feasibility in Constraint-Adaptation Schemes

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

The subject of real-time, steady-state optimization under significant uncertainty is addressed in this paper. Specifically, the use of constraint-adaptation schemes is reviewed, and it is shown that, in general, such schemes cannot guarantee process feasib ...

2011

Experimental Real-Time Optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack via Constraint Adaptation

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Arata Nakajo, Zacharie Wuillemin, Gene Bunin, Leonidas Tsikonis

The experimental validation of a real-time optimization (RTO) strategy for the optimal operation of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack is reported in this paper. Unlike many existing studies, the RTO approach presented here utilizes the constraint-adapta ...

2010

Two-Layered Real-Time Optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stack

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Gene Bunin

The optimal operation of a solid oxide fuel cell stack is addressed in this paper. Real-time optimization, performed at a slow time scale via constraint adaptation, is used to account for uncertainty and degradation eﬀects, while model-predictive control i ...

2010