Publications de Christophe Salzmann

Adaptive data-driven prediction in a building control hierarchy: A case study of demand response in Switzerland

Christophe Salzmann, Colin Neil Jones, Yingzhao Lian, Jicheng Shi

By providing various services, such as Incentive-based Demand Response (IBDR), buildings can play a crucial role in the energy market due to their significant energy consumption. However, effectively commissioning buildings for such desired functionalities ...

2025

Experimental data-driven model predictive control of a hospital HVAC system during regular use

Christophe Salzmann, Colin Neil Jones, Emilio Maddalena

Herein we report a multi-zone, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control case study of an industrial plant responsible for cooling a hospital surgery center. The adopted approach to guaranteeing thermal comfort and reducing electrical energy ...

2022

Interactive Lab Experimentation and Simulation Tools for Remote Laboratories

Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

New extensions and features to the remote laboratories currently used for undergraduate courses in automatic control laboratory at the School of Engineering of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland are presented. This paper shows how ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Self-Organized Laboratories for Smart Campus

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

A smart campus provides students who are geographically scattered with online tools to get access to learning resources and laboratories. Although these remote laboratories have the potential and capabilities to implement different learning experiments, mo ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs): An Innovative Solution to Achieving SDGs in the Global South

Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Rayana Jaafar

In engineering education, laboratories represent an important academic resource as they provide practical training in addition to the fundamental theories. However, the acquisition of new machinery and the maintenance of the equipment imply a large investm ...

IEEE2019

Enforcing optimal operation in solid-oxide fuel-cell systems

Dominique Bonvin, Christophe Salzmann, Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Timm Faulwasser, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

This paper describes an optimization strategy for operating solid-oxide fuel-cell systems at optimal efficiency. Specifically, we present the experimental validation of a real-time optimization (RTO) strategy applied to a commercial solid-oxide fuel-cell s ...

2019

Real-time optimization of an experimental solid-oxide fuel-cell system

Dominique Bonvin, Christophe Salzmann, Jan Van Herle, Zacharie Wuillemin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

There still exists a large gap between simulation work and industrial applications in the context of control and optimization of solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) systems. In an effort to bridge this gap, this study describes the experimental implementation of ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

New Tools for MOOC/MOOL to Sustain Continuity of Experimentation in Control

Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The use of interactive tools combined with remote laboratories has shown to be very useful for students when offered in a MOOC. The EPFL hands-on Control MOOC enables students to switch back and forth between control and observation on a remote laboratory, ...

Elsevier2019

Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services

Christophe Salzmann, Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper presents a predictive control scheme for coordinating a set of heterogeneous and complementary resources at different time scales for the provision of ancillary services. In particular, we combine building thermodynamics (slow), and energy stora ...

2018

Next Steps in Supporting More Students in MOOL for Control Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

2018

Collecting Experience Data from Remotely Hosted Learning Applications

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The ability to integrate multiple learning applications from different organizations allows sharing resources and reducing costs in the deployment of learning systems. In this sense, Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is the main current leading technol ...

SPRINGER2018

Access to Massive Open Online Labs through a MOOC

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi

Few MOOCs offer laboratory work as part of their educational material, yet it is known that hands-on sessions are important components of science and engineering education. Equally important is understanding how students are using labs as part of their lea ...

2017

Enabling the Automatic Generation of User Interfaces for Remote Laboratories

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Hagop Jamkojian

Springer2017

MOOLs for MOOCs: A first edX scalable implementation

Yves Henri Philippe Piguet, Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

Deploying remote laboratories at a large scale is the next challenge in remote experimentation. It is referred as Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs). Being able to sustain a massive number of users accessing a specific resource concurrently is a complex task ...

IEEE2016

The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer: A smart remote experiment based on a software template

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi

Hands-on laboratory sessions are one of the pillars of science and engineering education. It is reputed that institu- tions find it difficult to provide enough laboratory setups that cover all taught scientific topics due to logistical and budgetary limita ...

IEEE2016

The Smart Wind Turbine

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi

Remote experimentation is at the core of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics education supported by e-learning. The development and integration of remote labo- ratories in online learning activities is hindered by the inherited supporting infras ...

2015

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

2015

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

IEEE2015

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sten Govaerts

Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content man- agement systems, or perso ...

2015

Laboratory as a Service (LaaS): a Model for Developing and Implementing Remote Laboratories as Modular Components

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Mohamed Tawfik

This contribution introduces a novel model, Laboratory as a Service (LaaS), for developing remote laboratories as independent component modules and implementing them as a set of loosely-coupled services to be consumed with a high level of abstraction and v ...

IEEE2014