This article is concerned with the asymmetrical control strategies of a four-channel dc/dc buck converter in the continuous current conduction mode (CCM). The converter has two input and four output channels. Energy e...
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Due to the transformation of the power system, the effective use of flexibility from the distribution system (DS) is becoming crucial for efficient network management. Leveraging this flexibility requires interoperabi...
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Due to the transformation of the power system, the effective use of flexibility from the distribution system (DS) is becoming crucial for efficient network management. Leveraging this flexibility requires interoperability among stakeholders, including Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs). However, data privacy concerns among stakeholders present significant challenges for utilizing this flexibility effectively. To address these challenges, we propose a machine learning (ML)-based method in which the technical constraints of the DSs are represented by ML models trained exclusively on non-sensitive data. Using these models, the TSO can solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem and directly determine the dispatch of flexibility-providing units (FPUs)—in our case, distributed generators (DGs)-in a single round of communication. To achieve this, we introduce a novel neural network (NN) architecture specifically designed to efficiently represent the feasible region of the DSs, ensuring computational effectiveness. Furthermore, we incorporate various PQ charts rather than idealized ones, demonstrating that the proposed method is adaptable to a wide range of FPU characteristics. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed method, we benchmark it against the standard AC-OPF on multiple DSs with meshed connections and multiple points of common coupling (PCCs) with varying voltage magnitudes. The numerical results indicate that the proposed method achieves performant results while prioritizing data privacy. Additionally, since this method directly determines the dispatch of FPUs, it eliminates the need for an additional disaggregation step. By representing the DSs technical constraints through ML models trained exclusively on nonsensitive data, the transfer of sensitive information between stakeholders is prevented. Consequently, even if reverse engineering is applied to these ML models, no sensitive data can be extracted. This allows
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. Early prediction of PD can increase the chances of earlier intervention and delay the onset of the disease. Vocal impair...
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Dissolved ozone sensing in water is crucial for a variety of applications, including water treatment, food processing, and medical therapies, as ozone is widely used as an oxidising agent in these processes. Furthermo...
Dissolved ozone sensing in water is crucial for a variety of applications, including water treatment, food processing, and medical therapies, as ozone is widely used as an oxidising agent in these processes. Furthermore, dissolved ozone sensing in blood is important for medical therapies. We present a novel dissolved ozone sensor for measurement in water, based on commercially available screen-printed electrodes covered with different porous membranes made of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and non porous membranes made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). With PTFE, a root mean squared error (RMSE), which is the difference between the novel sensor and the reference spectrometer, of 3.62 mg l −1 can be achieved, while with PDMS a RMSE of 6.34 mg l −1 is obtained. Also, we investigated the measurement of dissolved ozone in blood with membrane-free and electrolyte-free boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrodes. The proposed dissolved ozone sensors offer a promising solution for inexpensive monitoring of dissolved ozone concentrations in water and blood with a compact design.
We study input and state constrained inverse optimal control problems starting from a stabilizing controller with a control Lyapunov function, where the goal is to make the controller an explicit solution of the resul...
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We study input and state constrained inverse optimal control problems starting from a stabilizing controller with a control Lyapunov function, where the goal is to make the controller an explicit solution of the resulting constrained optimal control problem. For an appropriate cost design and initial states for which a sublevel set of the Lyapunov function is contained in the state constraint set and the initial input lies on an ellipsoid inside the input constraint set, we show that the stabilizing controller solves the constrained optimal control problem. Compared to the state-of-the-art, we avoid solving nonlinear optimization problems evaluated pointwise, i.e., for every state, or in a repetitive fashion, i.e., at each time step. We apply our theoretical results to study the angular droop control studied in (Jouini et al., 2022) of an inverter-based power network. For this, we accommodate the constraints on the angle and power generation and exemplify our approach through a two-inverter case study.
This paper explores the impact of visual input on traditional audio classification, focusing on the analysis of audiovisual data compilation and the interaction between modalities in laughter detection. While assessin...
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This paper explores the impact of visual input on traditional audio classification, focusing on the analysis of audiovisual data compilation and the interaction between modalities in laughter detection. While assessing user reactions to measure potential engagement is distinct from evaluating a content’s entertainment value, incorporating user-centered audio and visual cues enhances the contextual understanding of stimuli and the completeness of the emotional response. Among the results, making use of facial expressions augments the audio-only prediction accuracy with up to 26% when cross-attention mechanisms are employed. To evaluate the robustness of our proposed approach, experiments were systematically conducted under unimodal conditions, omitting each modality individually to assess its impact on performance. As audio and visual insights yield unbalanced contributions to the user’s overall emotional profiling, the accuracy gain of visual features on top of the audio setup provides evidence on the classifier’s ability to capture the nuances of human laughter behaviors.
Handwritten signatures are one of the most commonly used biometrics. Because signatures are widely accepted, their verification is a fundamental problem. The aim of signature verification is to decide about the origin...
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Handwritten signatures are one of the most commonly used biometrics. Because signatures are widely accepted, their verification is a fundamental problem. The aim of signature verification is to decide about the origin of the signature so the ability to detect forgeries. Until offline signature verification is based on the scanned image of the signatures, online signature verification applies different electronic devices to capture the signatures. Online signatures also contain dynamic information such as the pressure or inclination angle of the pen, so it is much more challenging to forge online signatures than offline ones. In addition, it is possible to define and calculate further derived features based on the captured ones. The captured features are usually function features, which means they assign a value to each signature point or specified sets of signature points. This work aims to compare the usability of common derived function features using a dynamic time warping (DTW) based solution.
Active rectifiers are commonly used converters in interfacing AC and DC grids due to their bidirectional power flow capabilities. Nowadays the development workflow of power converters includes real-time simulation ste...
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Active rectifiers are commonly used converters in interfacing AC and DC grids due to their bidirectional power flow capabilities. Nowadays the development workflow of power converters includes real-time simulation steps to validate control concepts with hardware implementation in a safe environment. The paper presents the development process of a real-time HIL simulation framework for rapid-prototyping of advanced control algorithms of an Active-Front-End (AFE) rectifier. The control concepts and the main circuit models are realized in Matlab/Simulink and fitted for code-generation.
Dissolution testing is part of the target product quality that is essential in approving new products in the pharmaceutical industry. The prediction of the dissolution profile based on spectroscopic data is an alterna...
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We study discrete-time angular-droop control in power inverter networks and leverage second-order information for the tuning. We thereby increase the rate of convergence of the closed-loop angle trajectories towards a...
We study discrete-time angular-droop control in power inverter networks and leverage second-order information for the tuning. We thereby increase the rate of convergence of the closed-loop angle trajectories towards an induced steady state angle. In particular, we select the input penalty matrix, representing a tuning knob to be a sufficiently small diagonal matrix so that the closed-loop system approximately yields Newton’s method. In this way, we ensure quadratic convergence, a feat that is otherwise not achievable with a constant, sufficiently large diagonal input penalty matrix. This draws a link between second-order methods known for their quadratic rate of convergence and the tuning of inverse optimal stabilizing controllers for discrete-time integrator dynamics.
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