Publications by Altug Bitlislioglu

Ancillary Services Provision Utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

Fast-charging stations that supply energy to electrical vehicles at high power rates may incorporate energy storage to avoid high currents to the grid and reduce peak-demand costs. We demonstrate the potential for utilizing such infrastructure for the prov ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Distributed Multi-Building Coordination for Demand Response

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu

This paper presents a distributed optimization algorithm tailored for solving optimal control problems arising in multi-building coordination. The buildings coordinated by a grid operator, join a demand response program to balance the voltage surge by usin ...

ELSEVIER2020

Regularized economic model predictive control with barrier functions

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu

In this article, we consider the use of barrier functions as a regularizing cost in economic model predictive control (EMPC). We focus on a specific variant, EMPC with generalized terminal constraints (G-EMPC), as it is suitable for tackling large-scale pr ...

WILEY2020

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Service Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu, Luca Fabietti

Frequency control reserves are a fundamental mechanism in the current electric power system to preserve the balance between demand and generation of active power at all times. The traditional approach is to exploit conventional power plants for frequency r ...

2018

Coordinated Optimization and Control for Smart Grids

Altug Bitlislioglu

In this thesis, we consider commercial buildings with available heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and develop methods to assess and exploit their energy storage and production potential to collectively offer ancillary services to th ...

EPFL2018

Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu

We demonstrate how charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles can be utilized for the provision of Ancillary Services to the Power Grid. Fast- charging stations that supply energy to vehicles at high power rates in- corporate energy storage to prevent ...

2018

Interior Point Decomposition for Multi-Agent Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Ivan Pejcic, Altug Bitlislioglu

In this paper we present the application of the interior-point decomposition (IPD) method, which was originally formulated for stochastic programming, to optimization problems involving multiple agents that are coupled through constraints and objectives. I ...

2017

Robust Tracking Commitment

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Altug Bitlislioglu

Many engineering problems that involve hierarchical control applications, such as demand side ancillary service provision to the power grid, can be posed as a robust tracking commitment problem. In this setting, the lower-level controller commits a set of ...

2017

On Coordinated Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Multi-Agent Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu

This paper presents a coordinated primal-dual interior point (PDIP) method for solving structured convex linear and quadratic programs (LP-QP) in a distributed man- ner. The considered class of problems represents a multi-agent setting, where the aggregate ...

2017

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Services Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Altug Bitlislioglu, Luca Fabietti

IEEE2017

OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu, Xuan Truong Nghiem

The complexity and diversity of future energy systems will require co-simulation solutions that enable the integration of tools from multiple domains for research and development. We introduce an open-source framework, OpenBuildNet, for distributed co-simu ...

2016

Guaranteeing Input Tracking For Constrained Systems: Theory and Application to Demand Response

Georgios Stathopoulos, Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Altug Bitlislioglu

A method for certifying exact input trackability for constrained discrete time linear systems is introduced in this paper. A signal is assumed to be drawn from a reference set and the system must track this signal with a linear combination of its inputs. U ...

2015