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Modifier Adaptation as a Feedback Control Scheme

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

As a real-time optimization technique, modifier adaptation (MA) has gained much significance in recent years. This is mainly due to the fact that MA can deal explicitly with structural plant-model mismatch and unknown disturbances. MA is an iterative techn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

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

Improved path following for kites with input delay compensation

Sean Costello, Colin Neil Jones, Nikitas Rontsis, Ioannis Lymperopoulos

In kite power systems, substantial input delay between the actuator and the tethered kite can severely hinder the performance of the control algorithm, limiting the capability of the system to track power-optimal loops. We propose a method that deals with ...

IEEE2015

Real-Time Optimization via Directional Modifier Adaptation, with Application to Kite Control

Sean Costello

The steady advance of computational methods makes 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 ...

EPFL2015

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

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

Modifier Adaptation for Constrained Closed-Loop Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello

The steady advance of computational methods makes model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. An iterative optimization method called "modifier adaptation" ov ...

2014

A Betz-Inspired Principle for Kite-Power Generation Using Tethered Wings

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

This paper’s main contribution is a theoretical result that can be used to evaluate the maximum powergenerating potential of any kite-power system. An upper bound is derived for the power a wing can generate in a given wind speed. It is proven that the ang ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Real-Time Optimization for Kites

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

Over the past decade, a large number of academics and start-ups have devoted them- selves to developing kites, or airplanes on tethers, as a renewable energy source. Determining the trajectories the kite should follow is a modeling and optimization challen ...

2013

Real-Time Optimization when the Plant and the Model have Different Inputs

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

Model-based optimization is an increasingly popular way of determining the values of the degrees of freedom in a process. The difficulty is that the available model is often inaccurate. Iterative set-point optimization, also known as modifier adaptation, o ...

2013

Modifier Adaptation for Run-to-Run Optimization of Transient Processes

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

Dynamic optimization can be used to determine optimal input profiles for dynamic processes. Due to plant-model mismatch and disturbances, the optimal inputs determined through model-based optimization will, in general, not be optimal for the plant. Modifie ...

2011