Michael Cantoni

Stochastic Model Predictive Control Based Reference Planning for Automated Open-Water Channels

Hasan A Nasir, Michael Cantoni, Yuping Li, Erik Weyer

Journal article  |  2021  |  IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

A stochastic model predictive control scheme is developed within the context of planning water-level references for an automated c..

Co-optimizing Virtual Power Plant Services Under Uncertainty: A Robust Scheduling and Receding Horizon Dispatch Approach

J Naughton, H Wang, M Cantoni, P Mancarella

Journal article  |  2021  |  IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Market and network integration of distributed energy resources can be facilitated by their coordination within a virtual power pla..

Boundary Feedback Control of 2x2 Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems: Predictive Synthesis and Robustness Analysis

T Strecker, OM Aamo, M Cantoni

Journal article  |  2021  |  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

We present a predictive feedback control method for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with one boundary control input. Ass..

Optimization of multi-energy virtual power plants for providing multiple market and local network services

J Naughton, H Wang, S Riaz, M Cantoni, P Mancarella

Journal article  |  2020  |  Electric Power Systems Research

When operated independently, distributed energy resources (DER) cannot readily participate in electricity markets or contribute to..

Output feedback boundary control of heterodirectional semilinear hyperbolic systems

T Strecker, OM Aamo, M Cantoni

Journal article  |  2020  |  Automatica

We solve the problem of stabilizing a general class of 1-d semilinear hyperbolic systems with an arbitrary number of states convec..

Demand-Driven Automatic Control of Irrigation Channels

Michael Cantoni, Iven Mareels

Reference Work  |  2020

Large-scale networks of reservoirs and open channels are widely used in agricultural settings for distributing water to irrigators..

Implementing homomorphic encryption based secure feedback control

Julian Tran, Farhad Farokhi, Michael Cantoni, Iman Shames

Journal article  |  2020  |  Control Engineering Practice

This paper is about an encryption based approach to the secure implementation of feedback controllers for physical systems. Specif..

Optimization based input preview filtering for dynamical systems

A Lang, M Cantoni

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

This paper is about filtering uncertain forecast information to update a preview model of inputs to a linear dynamical system, as ..

Towards Redundant Constraint Removal in Scenario Approximation of Optimal Control Problems with Multiplicative Model Uncertainty

HA Nasir, E Weyer, I Shames, M Cantoni

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Randomised approaches, such as the scenario approach, are employed to approximately solve robust optimisation problems with possib..

Direct Predictive Boundary Control of a First-order Quasilinear Hyperbolic PDE

T Strecker, OM Aamo, M Cantoni

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

We present a method for the boundary control of a system governed by one hyperbolic PDE with a non-local coupling term by state fe..