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A new wake model and comparison of eight algorithms for layout optimization of wind farms in complex terrain

Fernando Porté Agel, Roberto Brogna

Layout optimization of wind farms constitutes an important and challenging task in complex terrain. This is especially due to the complex interactions of the boundary layer flows in complex terrain and wind turbine wakes, which renders wake modelling in co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Evolutionary Algorithm Optimization of Staggered Biological or Biomimetic Composites Using the Random Fuse Model

Roberto Guarino, Gianluca Costagliola, Federico Bosia

In Nature, biological materials such as nacre, bone, and dentin display an enhanced mechanical strength due to their structure characterized by hard inclusions embedded in a soft matrix. This structure has inspired the design of artificial materials with o ...

2020

Real-Time Optimizing Control of an Experimental Crosswind Power Kite

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

The contribution of this article is to propose and experimentally validate an optimizing control strategy for power kites flying crosswind. The control strategy provides both path control (stability) and path optimization (efficiency). The path following p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Integration of passenger satisfaction in railway timetable rescheduling for major disruptions

Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder

Unexpected disruptions occur for many reasons in railway networks and cause delays, cancellations, and, eventually, passenger inconvenience. This thesis focuses on the railway timetable rescheduling problem from a macroscopic point of view in case of lar ...

EPFL2018

Fast multi-contact whole-body motion planning with limb dynamics

Auke Ijspeert, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill, Salman Faraji

We present a new method for multi-contact motion planning which efficiently encodes internal dynamics of the robot without needing to use full models. Our approach is based on a five-mass model which is formulated by Cartesian points instead of joint angle ...

IEEE2018

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 batch process is characterized by the repetition of time-varying operations of finite duration. Due to the repetition, there are two independent “time” variables, namely, the run time during a batch and the batch index. Accordingly, the control and optim ...

Butterworth-Heinemann2017

Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz

The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

The distribution networks are experiencing important changes driven by the massive integration of renewable energy conversion systems. However, the lack of direct controllability of the Distributed Generations (DGs) supplying Active Distribution Networks ( ...

EPFL2016

This paper provides expressions for the largest and smallest solution of a global optimization problem using an adjoint variable which represents the available one-sided improvements up to the interval “horizon”. Interpreting the problem in terms of optima ...

2016