Control For Energy and Sustainability

EPSRC Programme Grant

Recently submitted

[AKOAS11] M.Aunedi, P.A.Kountouriotis, E.Ortega, D.Angeli and G.Strbac, Frequency regulation in systems with significant contribution of intermittent generation:value of dynamic demand, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, submitted

[CKTHSEMCCCL14] T. Chau, M. Kurek, J. Targett, J. Humphrey, G. Skouroupathis, A. Eele, J. Maciejowski, K. Cobden, B. Cope, P. Cheung and W. Luk, Accelerating Sequential Monte Carlo Designs with Parameter Tuning, 22nd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Monterey, California, submitted Feb. 2014

[F14] P. Falugi, Model predictive control for tracking randomly varying references, International Journal of Control , submitted 2014

[FM14] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Getting robustness against unstructured uncertainty: a tube-based MPC approach, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (to appear)., submitted

[HM10] E.N. Hartley and J.M. Maciejowski, Model Predictive Control with a Rubber Horizon: Application to Spacecraft Rendezvous, Automatica, submitted

[JK11] A.Jasra and N.Kantas, Parameter inference for stopped processes, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, submitted

[KKV14] N. Kantas, P. Kountouriotis, R.B. Vinter, Application of Nonlinear Filtering Techniques to Stochastic Optimal Control, Automatica, submitted

[M13a] D.Q. Mayne, Model predictive control: Recent developments and future promise, submitted to Automatica, 2013., submitted

2014 Publications

[BFV14] P. Bettiol, H. Frankowska, R.B. Vinter, Improved sensitivity relations in state constrained optimal control, Applied Mathematics and Optimization (online version), July 2014

[BTM14] A.W. Broekhof, M.R. Tatlow, R.A. McMahon, Vector-controlled grid synchronization for the brushless doubly-fed induction generator, 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD2014), 8-10 April 2014, Manchesterpp1-5, 2014

[CDDGC14] D. Cieslar, P. Dickinson, A. Darlington, K. Glover and N. Collings, Model Based Approach to Closed Loop Control of 1-D; Engine Simulation Models, Control Engineering Practise, 2014

[CGFM14] Mauricio G. Cea and G. C. Goodwin and Arie Feuer and David Q. Mayne, On the Control Rate versus Quantizer-Resolution Trade Off in Networked Control, 19th IFAC world congress, August 2014, August 2014

[CMS14] Y. Chen, R. Moreno and G. Strbac, OPtimal coordination of HVAC/DC control to enhance the ability of the system ti accommodate intermittent renewable generation, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2014

[F14a] P. Falugi, Model predictive control: a passive scheme, 19th IFAC World Congress, August 2014

[GCFM14] Graham C. Goodwin, Mauricio G. Cea, Arie Feuer and D. Q. Mayne, On the Use of One Bit Quantizers in Networked Control, Automatica online, Feb. 2014

[GV14] C. Gavriel and R. B. Vinter, Second Order Sufficient Conditions for Optimal Control Problems with Non-unique Minimizers: An Abstract Framework, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, April 2014 (electronic version)., April 2014

[HS14] T.C. Hughes and M.C. Smith, On the minimality and uniqueness of the Bott-Duffinrealization procedure, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 59, pp1858-1873, 2014

[IAC14] T.C. Ionescu, A. Astolfi, P. Colaneri, Families of moment matching based approximations for high order linear systems, Systems and Control Letters, Volume 64, pp47-56, Feb 2014

[LA13] J. Lee and D. Angeli, Cooperative economic model predictive control for linear systems with convex objectives, European Journal of Control, 2014

[LMGHB14] T. Luth, M. M. C. Merlin, T. C. Green, F. Hassan, C.D. Barker, High Frequency Operation of a DC/AC/DC System for HVDC Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Special Issue on High-Frequency-Link Power-Conversion Systems, Volume 29, Issue 8, pp4107-4115, 2014

[LPR14] D. J. N. Limebeer, G. Perantoni and A. V. Rao, Optimal control of Formula One car energy recovery systems, International Journal of Control, Volume 87, Issue 10, 2014, 2014

[ME14] J. Maciejowski and A. Eele, Real-time optimisation-based planning and scheduling of vehicle trajectories, 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - Control Systems, Beirut, 2014

[MGMTCCH14] [8] M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, P.D. Mitcheson, D. Trainer, D. Critchley, R. Crookes and F. Hassan, The Alternate Arm Converter: a new Hybrid Multi-level Converter with DC Fault Blocking Capability, Power Delivery, IEEE Transaction on, Special Issue on HVDC Systems and Technologies, Volume 29, Issue 1, p. 310-317, Jan, 2014

[PFV14] P. Bettiol, H. Frankowska and R. B. Vinter, Improved Sensitivity Relations in State Constrained Optimal Control, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, July 2014 (electronic version), July 2014

[PRMM13] Gabriele Pannocchia, James B. Rawlings, David Q. Mayne and Giulio M. Mancuso, Whither discrete time model predictive control?, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2014.2324131, Volume PP, Issue 99, 2014, 2014

[PV14] M. Palladino and R. B. Vinter, Minimizers That Are Not Also Relaxed Minimizers, SIAM J. Control and Optim. 52, 4, 2014, pp. 2164-2179., 2014

[SA14] M. Sassano and A. Astolfi, Dynamic generalized controllability and observability functions with applications to model reduction and sensor deployment, Automatica, Volume 50, Issue 5, pp1349-1359, 2014

[SA14a] G. Scariotti and A. Astolfi, Model reduction by moment matching for linear time-delay systems, IFAC World Congress, 24-29 August, Cape Town, 2014

[V14] R. Vinter, The Hamiltonian Inclusion for Non-Convex Velocity Sets, SIAM J. Control and Optim. , 52, 2, 2014, pp. 1237-125, 2014

2013 Publications

[AKCAS13] M. Aunedi, P. A. Kountouriotis, J. E. O. Calderon, D. Angeli and G. Strbac, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Dynamic Demand in Providing Frequency Regulation, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Voluem 4, Issue 4, pp2036-2048, 2013

[BBV13a] P. Bettiol, A. Bocchia and R B Vinter, Stratified Necessary Conditions for Differential Inclusions with State Constraints, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 51, 5, pp 3903-3917 , 2013

[BFMV13] A. Bocchia, P. Falugi, H. Maurer and R. B. Vinter, Free time Optimal Control Problems with Time Delays, Proc. 52nd Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, 2013, 2013

[BFV13] P. Bettiol, H. Frankowska and R. B. Vinter, Sensitivity interpretations of the co-state trajectory for opimal control problems with state constraints, Proc. 52nd Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, 2013, 2013

[BMM13a] A.W. Broekhof, R.A. McMahon, J.M. Maciejowski, Decoupling Method for Vector Control of the Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine, European Control Conference, Zurich, 2013., 2013

[BMM13b] A.W. Broekhof, R.A. McMahon, J.M. Maciejowski, Reference Frame Re-alignment for Vector Control of the Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine, 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vienna, 2013

[BV13a] P. Bettiol and R. B. Vinter, Estimates on Trajectories in a Closed Set with Corners for (t,x) Dependent Data, Mathematical Control and Related Fields, 3 ,3 , 2013, pp.245-267., 2013

[CDDCG13] D. Cieslar, P. Dickinson, A. Darlington, N. Collings and K. Glover, A novel system for reducing turbo-lag by injection of compressed gas into the exhaust manifold, 2013 SAE World Congress, Apr. 2013

[CGM13] P. Clemow, T.C. Green, M.M.C. Merlin, Partial Power Operation of Multi-level Modular Converters under Subsystem Faults, Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, 2013

[CNELCM13] T. C. Chau, X. Niu, A. Eele, W. Luk, P. Y. Cheung, and J. Maciejowski, Heterogeneous reconfigurable system for adaptive particle filters in real-time applications, Proc. Int. Symp. Applied Reconfigurable Computing, 2013

[EMCL13] A. Eele, J. Maciejowski, T. Chau, W. Luk, Parallelisation of Sequential Monte Carlo for Real-Time Control in Air Traffic Management, Proc Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Dec. 2013

[EMCL13a] A. Eele, J. Maciejowski, T. Chau and W. Luk, Control of Aircraft in the Terminal Manoeurving Area using Parallelised Sequential Monte Carlo, Proc AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Boston, Aug. 2013

[FM13] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Getting robustness against unstructured uncertainty: a tube-based MPC approach, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue 99, 2013

[FM13a] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Model predictive control for tracking random references, Proc. of European Control Conference, Zurich, Jul. 2013

[FM13b] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Tracking a periodic reference using nonlinear model predictive control, Proc. of 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Model, 2013

[GM13] M. Gallieri and J.M. Maciejowski, Soft-constrained LASSO MPC for Robust LTI : Enlarged feasible region and an ISS gain estimate, Proc. Decision and Control Conference, Firenze, Dec. 2013

[GM13a] M. Gallieri and J.M. Maciejowski, Stabilising Terminal Cost and Terminal Controller for lasso-MPC: Enhanced Optimality and Region of Attraction, Proc. European Control Conference, Zurich, Jul. 2013

[HGM13] E.N. Hartley, M. Gallieri and J.M. Maciejowski, Terminal spacecraft rendezvous and capture with Lasso MPC, International Journal of Control, vol.86, no.11, pp.2104-2113, 2013

[HS13] T.H. Hughes and M.C. Smith, Algebraic criteria for circuit realisations, Mathematical System Theory - Festschrift in Honor of Uwe Helmke on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Knut Huper and Jochen Trumpf (eds.), CreateSpace, 2013, ISBN 978-1470044008, pp. 211-228., 2013

[IA11a] T.Ionescu and A.Astolfi, Moment matching for linear port Hamiltonian systems, Automatica. Volume 49, Issue 8, pp 2424–2434, 2013

[IA13] T.C. Ionescu, A. Astolfi, Families of reduced order models that achieve nonlinear moment matching, American Control Conference, 2013

[IA13a] T.C. Ionescu, A. Astolfi, Moment matching for nonlinear port Hamiltonian and gradient systems, IFAC Nolcos, 2013

[JMMG13] P.D. Judge, M.M.C. Merlin, P.D. Mitcheson, T.C. Green, Power Loss and Thermal Characterization of IGBT Modules in the Alternate Arm Converter, ECCE Denver, 2013

[JMS13] J.Z. Jiang, T.X. Mei and M.C. Smith, Curving performance for railway vehicles with advanced passive suspensions, IAVSD 2013, Qingdao, China, 19-23 August , 2013

[JMZGS13] J.Z. Jiang, A.Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, A. Zolotas, R.M. Goodall and M.C. Smith, Passive suspensions for ride quality improvement of two-axle railway vehicles, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit , Dec 2013

[LMGBHCCTD13] T. Lüth, M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, C. D. Barker, F. Hassan, R.W. Critchley, R.W. Crookes, D. Trainer, K. Dyke, Choice of AC Operating Voltage in HV DC/AC/DC System, Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, 2013

[M13] D. Q. Mayne, An apologia for stabilising conditions in model predictive control, International Journal of Control, vol. 86, no. 11, pp. 2090-2095, 2013

[MG13] M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, Cell Capacitor Sizing in Multilevel Converters: case of the MMC and AAC, in Power Electronics, IEEE Transaction on, Special Issue on Modular Multilevel Converters, 2013, 2013

[MPS13] R.Moreno, D.Pudjianto and G.Strbac, Transmission Network Investment with Probabilistic Security and Corrective Control, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp3935-3944, November 2013.

[PL13] G. Perantoni and D. J. N. Limebeer, Optimal Control of a Two-Mass Skate Bicycle Without Steering, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), Cape Town, South Africa, 2013, 2013

[PL13a] G Perantoni and D J N Limebeer, Time-optimal control of rolling bodies, International Journal of Control, Special Issue: Systems, Modelling and Feedback Control: A Special Issue Dedicated to Sir Alistair G.J. MacFarlane, Volume 86, 11, 2013., 2013

[PMR13] Gabriele Pannocchia, David Q. Mayne and James B. Rawlings, A parsimonious algorithm for the solution of continuous-time constrained LQR problems with guaranteed convergence, Proc. of European Control Conference, Zurich, Jul. 2013

[PSHM13] L. Pires, M.C. Smith, N.E. Houghton and R.A. McMahon, Design trade-offs for energy regeneration and control in vehicle suspensions, International Journal of Control, Special Issue: Systems, Modelling and Feedback Control: A Special Issue Dedicated to Sir Alistair G.J. MacFarlane, Volume 86, No 11, pp2022-2034, 2013

[SMG13] C. Sheridan, M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, Study of a Resonant DC/DC Converter, Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, 2013

[SSGPGH13] S. J. Swift, M.C. Smith, A.R. Glover, C. Papageorgiou, B. Gartner and N.E. Houghton, Design and modelling of a fluid inerter, International Journal of Control, Special Issue: Systems, Modelling and Feedback Control: A Special Issue Dedicated to Sir Alistair G.J. MacFarlane, Volume 86, 11, 2013

2012 Publications

[BBV12] P. Bettiol, A. Boccia and R. B. Vinter, Stratified Necessary Conditions for Unbounded Differential Inclusions with State Constraints, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, December 2012., December 2012

[BFV11] P.Bettiol, H.Frankowska and R.B.Vinter, L infinity estimates on trajectories confined to a closed subset, Journal of Differential Equations, 2012

[CDDHCG12] D. Cieslar, P. Dickinson, A. Darlington, K. Hegarty, N. Collings and K. Glover, Mean-Value Oxygen Concentration Modelling and Experimental Validation Using Fast UEGO Sensors, Powertrain Modelling and Control, Bradford, Sep. 2012

[CDGC12] D. Cieslar, A Darlington, K. Glover and N. Collings, Model Based Control for Closed Loop Testing of 1-D Engine Simulation Models, IFAC ECOSM’12, Paris, Oct. 2012

[CS12] J.M.C. Clark and M.C. Smith, Power absorption invariance for Brownian spring forcing, 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 10-13 Dec 2012 Hawaii, pp4396-4399, 2012

[CV12] J. M. C. Clark and R. B. Vinter, Stochastic Exit Time Problems Arising in Process Control, Stochastics, 84, 5-6, 2012, pp. 667-681., 2012

[DCGC12] A. Darlington, D. Cieslar, K. Glover and N. Collings, Assessing boost-assist options for turbocharged engines using 1-D engine simulation and Model Predictive Control, SAE 2012 Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Malmo, Sep. 2012

[ELT11] S. A. Evangelou, D. J. N. Limebeer and M. Tomas-Rodriguez, Suppression of Burst Oscillations in Racing Motorcycles, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2012

[FKV12] P. Falugi, P. A. Kountouriotis and R. B. Vinter, Controllers that Confine a System to a Safe Region in the State Space, IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. 57, 2012, pp. 2778-278., 2012

[FM12] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Tracking performance of model reference control, Proc. 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, USA, Dec. 2012

[FM12a] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Getting robustness against unstructured uncertainty: a tube-based MPC approach, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012., 2012

[GM12] M. Gallieri and J.M. Maciejowski, The lasso-MPC: Smart regulation of over-actuated systems, American Control Conference, Montreal, Jul. 2012

[GM12a] M. Gallieri and J.M. Maciejowski, A tuning procedure for lasso-MPC for over-actuated systems, Proc IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Hawaii, Dec. 2012

[HML12] E.N.Hartley, J.M.Maciejowski and K.V.Ling, Performance evaluation of multiplexed model predictive control for a large airliner in nominal and contingency scenarios, American Control Conference, Montreal, Jun. 2012

[HTRM11] E.N.Hartley, P.A.Trodden, A.G.Richards and J.M.Maciejowski, Model predictive control system design and implementation for spacecraft rendezvous, Control Engineering Practice, 2012

[II12] T.Ionescu and O.A.Iftime, The problem of moment matching with preservation of port Hamiltonian structure is tackled. Based on the time-domain approach to linear moment matching, we characterize the (subset of) port Hamiltonian models from the set of parameterized models that match the moments of a given port Hamiltonian system, at a set of finite points. We also discuss the problem of finding port Hamiltonian reduced order models that match the Markov parameters of a given port Hamiltonian system, American Control Conference, 2012

[II12a] T.C. Ionescu, O.V. Iftime, Moment matching with prescribed poles and zeros for infinite-dimensional systems, American Control Conference, 2012

[ISIA12] T.C. Ionescu, J.M.A. Scherpen, O.V. Iftime, A. Astolfi, Balancing as moment matching problem, 20th Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Melbourne, 2012

[JMGS12a] J.Z. Jiang, A.Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, R.M. Goodall and M.C. Smith, Performance benefits in two-axle railway vehicle suspensions employing inerters, Developments in Control Theory towards Local Control, eds L. Qui, J. Chen, T. Iwasaki and H. Fujioka, IET, pp99-107, 2012

[JMGS12b] J.Z. Jiang, A.Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, R.M. Goodall and M.C. Smith, Passive suspensions incorporating inerters for railway vehicles, Vehicle System Dynamics, Volume 50, Supplement, pp 263-276, 2012

[JS12a] J.Z. Jiang and M.C. Smith, On the theorem of Reichert, Systems and Control Letters, Volume 61, pp 1124-1131, 2012

[JS12b] J.Z. Jiang and M.C. Smith, Series-parallel six-element synthesis of biquadratic impedances, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol.59 pp 2543-2554, 2012

[KSD12] N. Kantas, S.S. Singh, A. Doucet, _Distributed maximum likelihood with applications to simuultaneous self-localization and tracking for sensor networks _, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol 60, Issue 10, pp 5038-5047 , 2012

[LA12] J. Lee and David Angeli, Distributed cooperative nonlinear economic MPC, Proc. Conference on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 2012

[LMGBHCCD12] T. Lüth, M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, C.D. Barker, F. Hassan, R.W. Critchley, R.W. Crookes, K. Dyke, Performance of a DC/AC/DC VSC System to Interconnect HVDC Systems, AC and DC Power Transmission, 2012 ACDC 10th IET International Conference, Oct. 2012

[LMRW10] K.V. Ling, J.M. Maciejowski, A.G. Richards and B.F. Wu, Multiplexed Model Predictive Control, Automatica, vol.48, no.2, 396-401, Feb. 2012

[MGZJS12] A.Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, R.M. Goodall, A. Zolotas, J.Z. Jiang and M.C. Smith, Stability control of a railway vehicle using absolute stiffness and inerters, UKACC 2012, Cardiff, UK 3-5 September 2012, pp120-127, 2012

[MJGS12] A.Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, J.Z. Jiang, R.M. Goodall and M.C. Smith, Effects of intertance in railway vehicles with active control, 23rd ICTAM Conference, Beijing, 2012

[MPS11a] R.Moreno, D.Pudjianto and G.Strbac, Integrated reliability and cost-benefit based standards for transmission network operation, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol 226, Issue 1, pp 75-87, February 2012, February 2012

[MPS12] R. Moreno, D. Pudjianto and G. Strbac, Integrated reliability and cost-benefit based standards for transmission network operation, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, Volume 226, Issue 1, pp75-87, 2012

[PL12] G. Perantoni and D. J. N. Limebeer, A Dynamic Motorcycle Tyre Model Based on LuGre Friction, presented at The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Seoul, South Korea, 9-12 September 2012., September 2012

[PLA12] G. Perantoni, D. J. N. Limebeer and M. R. Arthington, A Direct Method for Optimal Control and Optimal Design of Two-Wheeled Vehicles, presented at The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Seoul, South Korea, 9-12 September 2012., 9-12 September 2012.

[PV12] R. Pates and G. Vinnicombe, Stability Certificates for Networks of Heterogeneous Systems, 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 10-13 Dec 2012 Hawaii, pp6915-6920, 2012

[SA12] M. Sassano, A. Astolfi, Dynamic Generalized Controllability and Observability Functions with Applications to Model Reduction,, Conference on Decision and Control, 2012

[SL11] A.Sharma and D.J.N.Limebeer, Design of a novel aerodynamically efficient motorcycle, Vehicle System Dynamics, Volume 50, Issue 8, pp1319-1340, 2012

[SL12] A. Sharma and D. J. Limebeer, Motorcycle suspension design using matrix inequalities and passivity constraints, Vehicle System Dynamics, Volume 50, Issue 3, pp377-393, 2012

[SM11] R.C.Shekhar and J.M.Maciejowski, Robust variable horizon MPC with move blocking, Systems and Control Letters, Volume 61, Issue 4, pp 587-594, April 2012

[SMG12] C.E. Sheridan, M.M.C. Merlin and T.C. Green, Assessment of DC/DC Converters for use in DC Nodes for Offshore Grids, AC and DC Power Transmission, 2012 ACDC 10th IET International Conference, Oct. 2012

[SS11b] A.Sturt and G.Strbac, Value of stochastic reserve policies in low-carbon power systems, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, Volume 226, Issue 1, pp51-64, 2012

[SS12a] A. Sturt and G. Strbac, Efficient stochastic scheduling for simulation of wind-integrated power systems, IEEE Trans. Power Syst., Vol. 27, Issue 1, February 2012., February 2012

[SS12b] A. Sturt and G. Strbac, Value of stochastic reserve policies in low-carbon power systems, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 226, Issue 1, pp. 51-64, February 2012., February 2012

[WKJ11] N.Whiteley, N. Kantas and A.Jasra, Linear variance bounds for particle approximations of time-homogenous Feynman-Kac formulae, Stochastic Processes and Applications, Volume 122, Issue 4, pp 1840-1865, April 2012

2011 Publications

[AK11] D.Angeli and P.A.Kountouriotis, A stochastic approach to 'dynamic-demand' refrigerator control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, no 99, pp1-12, May 2011

[AK11a] D.Angeli and P.A.Kountouriotis, Decentralized random control of refrigerator appliances, 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy , Aug-Sept 2011

[BBV11] P.Bettiol, A Bressan and R.B.Vinter, Estimates for Trajectories Confined to a Cone in R^n, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimisation, Vol 49, no 1, pp 21-42, 2011

[BV11] P.Bettiol and R.B.Vinter, Trajectories Satisfying a State Constraint: Improved Estimates and New Non-Degeneracy Conditions, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 56, no 5, pp 1090-1096, 2011

[CKV10] J. M. C. Clark, P. A. Kountouriotis and R. B. Vinter, A Gaussian mixture filter for range-only tracking, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011

[DGC11] A.Darlington, K.Glover and N.Collings, Transient diesel EGR response: feed-forward control and cycle-by-cycle analysis using an in-cylinder gas sampling system, Proceedings of SAE 2011 World Congress and Exhibition, Detroit, USA, April 2011

[DGC11a] A. Darlington, K. Glover and N. Collings, Diesel Cylinder Charge Properties: Feed-Forward Control and Cycle-by-Cycle Analysis Using an In-Cylinder Gas Sampling System, SAE Technical Paper, 2011-01-0709, 2011

[EM11] A.Eele and J.M.Maciejowski, Comparison of stochastic optimisation methods for control in air traffic management, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept 2011

[FM11] P. Falugi and D. Q. Mayne, Tube-based model predictive control for nonlinear systems with unstructured uncertainty, Proc. 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 2656–2661, Orlando, Florida, USA, Dec. 2011

[G11] M. Gallieri, On l1-Regularised Least Squares in Model Predictive Control, Cambridge University Engineering Department, First-year report, , 2011

[GCMSS11] G.C.Goodwin, D.S.Carrasco, D.Q.Mayne, M.E.Salgado and M.M.Saron, Preview and feedforward in model predictive control: conceptual and design issues, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept 2011

[GLV11] C. Gavriel, S. Lopez and R. B. Vinter, Regularity of Minimizers for Higher Order Variational Problems in One Independent Variable, Annual Reviews in Control, 35, 2011, pp. 172-177., 2011

[GV11] C. Gavriel and R. B. Vinter, Regularity of Minimizers for Second Order Variational Problems in One Independent Variable, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (DCDS-A), vol. 29, no. 2, 2011, pp. 547-557. , 2011

[IA11] T.Ionescu and A.Astolfi, Moment matching for linear port Hamiltonian systems, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, USA, Dec 2011

[JGS11] J.Z.Jiang, R.M.Goodall and M.C.Smith, Passive suspensions incorporating inerters for railway vehicles, The 22nd IAVSD Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks, Manchester, UK, Aug 2011

[JS11] J.Z.Jiang and M.C.Smith, Regular positivee-real functions and five-element network synthesis for electrical and mechanical networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 56, pp 1275-1290, 2011

[LA11] J.Lee and D.Angeli, Cooperative distributed model predictive control for linear plants subject to convex economic objectives, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, USA, pages 3434–3439, Dec 2011

[LMGS11] K.V.Ling, J.M.Maciejowski, J.Guo and E.Siva, Channel-hopping model predictive control, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept 2011

[M11] D. Q. Mayne, The role of model predictive control, Second Monterey Workshop: Computational Issues in Nonlinear Control, Monterey, 2011

[MKF11] D. Q. Mayne, C. Kerrigan E, and P. Falugi, Robust nonlinear model predictive control: advantages and disadvantages of tube-based methods, Proc. 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, 2011

[MKWF11] D.Q.Mayne, E.C.Kerrigan, E.J.van Wyk and P.Falugi, Tube based robust nonlinear model predictive control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol 21, no 11, pp 1341-1353, 2011

[MPS11] M. Castro, D.Pudjianto, P. Djapic and G.Strbac, Reliability-driven transmission investment in systems with wind generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Volume 5, Issue 8, pp 850-859,, 2011

[SM11a] E.Siva and J.M.Maciejowski, Robust multiplexed model predictive control for distributed multi-agent systems, Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug-Sept 2011

[SMPC11] G.Strbac, R.Moreno, D.Pudjianto and M.Castro, Towards a risk-based network operation and design standards, Proceedings of the IEEE PES 2011 General Meeting, Detroit, USA, July 2011

[SS11] A.Sturt and G.Strbac, A time series model for the aggregate GB wind output circa 2030, Proceedings of the IET Renewable Power Generation Conference, 2011

[SS11a] A.Sturt and G.Strbac, Efficient stochastic scheduling for simulation of wind-integrated power systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp323-334, 2011

[SS11c] A.Sturt and G.Strbac, Time-series modelling of power output for large-scale wind fleets, Wind Energy, Volume 14, Issue 8, pp953-966, 2011

[V11] R. B. Vinter, Regularity of Minimizers for Second Order Variational Problems in One Independent Variable, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (DCDS-A), vol. 29, no. 2, 2011, pp. 547-557., 2011

2010 Publications

[A10] A. Astolfi, Model reduction by moment matching for linear and nonlinear systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 55,10, pp 2321-2336, Oct 2010

[A10a] A.Astolfi, Model reduction by moment matching, steady-state response and projections, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta GA, USA, Dec 15-17, 2010

[BA10] S.Bardi and A.Astolfi, _Modeling and Control of a Waste-to-Energy Plant (Applications of Control) _, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol 30, 6, pp 27-37, June 2010

[BA10a] S. Bardi, A. Astolfi, Modeling and Control of a Waste-to-Energy Plant - Waste-bed temperature regulation, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, December 2010, December 2010

[BBV10] P.Bettiol, A.Bressan and R.B.Vinter, On trajectories satisfying a state constraint: W(1,1) Estimates and Counter-Examples, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimisation, vol 48, no 7, pp 4664-4679, 2010

[BV10] P.Bettiol and R.B.Vinter, Sensitivity Interpretations of the Co-State Variable for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimisation 48 (5), pp.3297-3317, 2010

[BV10a] P. Bettiol and R. B. Vinter, Existence of Feasible Approximating Trajectories Satisfying Multiple State Constraints, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta Georgia, Dec. 2010, Dec., 2010

[CGMMPZ10] S. Cordiner, S. Galeani, F. Mecocci, V. Mulone, G. Perantoni and L. Zaccarian, Dynamic input allocation of torque references for a parallel HEV, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010, December 15-17, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 4920-4925., December 2010

[ELT10] S.A.Evangelou, D.J.N.Limebeer and M.Tomas-Rodriguez, Suppression of burst oscillations in racing motorcycles, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta Georgia, December 15-17 2010, Dec., 2010

[GMCCMQ10] G.C.Goodwin, D.Q.Mayne, K-Y.Chen, C.Coates, G.Mirazaeva and D.E.Quevedo, An introduction to the control of switching electronic systems, Annual Reviews in Control, Vol 34, 2, pp 209-220, Dec., 2010

[GMCCMQ10a] Graham C. Goodwin, David Q. Mayne, Keng-Yuan Chen, Colin Coates, Galina Mirzaeva, and Daniel E. Quevedo, Opportunities and challenges in the application of advanced control to power electronics and drives, IEEE-ICIT2010 (Industrial Conference on Industrial Technology), 2010

[GV10] C. Gavriel and R. B. Vinter, Second order sufficient conditions for optimal control problems with non-unique minimizers, Proc. 2010 American Control Conference 2010, Baltimore Maryland, 2010, 2010

[HL10] A. J. Hazell and D. J. N. Limebeer, A Framework for Discrete-Time H2 Preview Control, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 132, 3, May, 2010

[IA10] T.C.Ionescu and A.Astolfi, On moment matching with preservation of passivity and stability, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta Georgia, December 15-17 2010, Dec., 2010

[JS10] J.Z.Jiang and M.C.Smith, Regular positive-real functions and the classification of transformerless series-parallel networks, Perspectives in Mathematical Theory, Control and Signal Processing, LNCIS Vol 398, pp15-25, Springer-Verlag, 2010

[JS10a] J.Z.Jiang and M.C. Smith, On the classification of series-parallel electrical and mechanical networks, Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2010, Baltimore, MD, pp 1416-1421, July 2010

[JS10b] J.Z.Jiang and M.C.Smith, Redundancies in transformerless network synthesis, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), Budapest, Hungary, pp 581-583, July 2010

[KLM10] N. Kantas, A. Lecchini Visintini, J.M. Maciejowski, Simulation Based Bayesian Optimal Design of Aircraft Trajectories for Air Traffic Management, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special Issue on “Air traffic management: challenges and opportunities for advanced control”, Vol 24, 10, pp 882-899, Oct., 2010

[LLM10] A. Lecchini Visintini, J. Lygeros, J.M. Maciejowski, Stochastic Optmization on Continuous Domains with Finite-time Guarantees by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 55, 12, pp 2858-2863, Dec., 2010

[LMRW10a] K.V.Ling, J.M.Maciejowski, A.G.Richards and B.F.Wu, Multiplexed model predictive control, Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.657, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 2010

[LS10] D. J. N. Limebeer and A. Sharma, Burst Oscillations in the Accelerating Bicycle, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol 77, 6, Nov., 2010

[LS10a] D.J.N.Limebeer and A.Sharma, Motorcycle suspension design using matrix inequalities with passivity constraints, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Loughborough UK, Aug., 2010

[LS10b] D.J.N.Limebeer and A.Sharma, Design of a novel aerodynamically efficient motocycle, Proceedings of the Symposium on the Dynamics and Control of Single Track Vehicles, Delft The Netherlands, Oct., 2010

[MGMTCC10] M.M.C. Merlin, T.C. Green, P.D. Mitcheson, D. Trainer, D. Critchley, and R. Crookes, A new hybrid multi-level voltage-source converter with DC fault blocking capability, AC and DC Power Transmission, 2010 ACDC 9th IET International Conference, Oct. 2010

[MSPMB10] R.Moreno, G.Strbac, F.Porrua, S.Mocarquer and B.Bezerra, Making room for the boom - new regulatory avenues and network infrastructure changes for accomodating renewables, IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, Vol 8, issue 5, pp 36-46, Dec 2010

[PRMM10] G.Pannocchia, J.B.Rawlings, D.Q.Mayne and W.Marquadt, On computing solutions to the continuous time constrained linesr quadratic regulator, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol 55, 9, pp 2192-2198, Sep., 2010

[TTTL10] A.H.T. Tse, D.B. Thomas, K.H. Tsoi and W. Luk, Dynamic Scheduling Monte-Carlo Framework for Multi-Accelerator Heterogeneous Clusters, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), pp233-240, 2010

[WPK10] E. J. V. Wyk, P. Falugi, and E. C. Kerrigan, Imperial College London Optimal Control Software (ICLOCS) (Solves nonlinear optimal control problems with constraints.), http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/ICLOCS/, 2010

[YKLM10] Z.Yang, N.Kantas, A.Lecchini-Visintini and J.M.Maciejowski, Stochastic model predictive control using open loop annealing and Monte Carlo methods, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Budapest Hungary, Jul., 2010

2009 Publications

[BV09] P.Bettiol and R.B.Vinter, Existence of feasible approximating trajectories for differential inclusions with obstacles as state constraints, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, Dec. 2009

[CKV09] J. M. C. Clark, P. A. Kountouriotis and R. B. Vinter, A new Gaussian mixture algorithm for GMTI tracking under a minimum detectable velocity constraint, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54 ,12, pp. 2745-2756 , Dec 2009

[CLM09] E.Crisostomi, A.Lecchini-Visintini and J.M.Maciejowski, Combining Monte Carlo and worst-case methods for trajectory prediction in air traffic control: a case study, Automatic Control on Aerospace 2,1 (online journal at http://www.aerospace.unibo.it/, ISSN 1974-5168, Jun 2009

[DAO09] W. Dib, A. Astolfi, R. Ortega, Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Switched Power Converters, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 16-18, 2009, Dec., 2009

[JS09] Jason Z. Jiang and Malcolm C. Smith, Synthesis of Positive-Real Functions with Low-Complexity Series-Parallel Networks, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 16-18, 2009, 7086-7091, Dec 2009

[MRFA09] D.Q.Mayne, S.V.Rakovic, R.Findeisen and F.Allgower, Robust output feedback model predictive control of constrained linear systems: time varying case, Automatica, 45, 9, pp 2082-2087, Sep., 2009

[PRMM09] G. Pannocchia, J. B. Rawlings, D. Q. Mayne, and W. Marquardt, Computation of the infinite horizon continuous time constrained linear quadratic regular, In S. Engell and Y. Arkun, Editors, Proc of ADCHEM 2009 (IFAC Symposium of Advanced Control of Chemical Processes), Vol. 1, pp.243-248, 2009

[RM09] J.B.Rawlings and D.Q.Mayne, Model Predictive Control: Theory and Design, Nob Hill Publishing, Madison Wisconsin, 533pp ISBN 978-0975937709, Aug., 2009

[SKMJ09] J.Spitvold, E.C.Kerrigan, D.Q.Mayne and T.A.Johansen, Inf-sup control of discontinuous piece-wise affine systems, Int Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 19, 13, pp 1471-1492, Sep., 2009