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Neural Network-Assisted Model Predictive Control for Implicit Balancing

Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder ยท 2026

In Europe, balance responsible parties can deliberately take out-of-balance positions to support transmission system operators (TSOs) in maintaining grid stability and earn profit, a practice called iโ€ฆ

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Herd Behavior in Decentralized Balancing Models: A Case Study in Belgium

Max Bruninx, Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Timothy Verstraeten, Jan Decuyper, Chris Develder, Jan Helsen ยท 2026

In a decentralized balancing model, Balance Responsible Parties (BRPs) are encouraged by the Transmission System Operator (TSO) to deviate from their schedule to help the system restore balance, also โ€ฆ

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Exploiting Light To Enhance The Endurance and Navigation of Lighter-Than-Air Micro-Drones

Harry Huang, Talia Xu, Marco Zuniga Zamalloa ยท 2026

Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly expanding into tasks from inventory to environmental sensing, yet their short endurance and unreliable navigation in GPS-denied spaces limit deploymenโ€ฆ

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Accelerating Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheduling with Decision-Focused Learning

Honghui Zheng, Pietro Favaro, Yury Dvorkin, Jan Drgona ยท 2025

Underground pumped hydro energy storage (UPHES) systems play a critical role in grid-scale energy storage for renewable integration, yet optimal day-ahead scheduling remains computationally prohibitivโ€ฆ

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A Modular AIoT Framework for Low-Latency Real-Time Robotic Teleoperation in Smart Cities

Shih-Chieh Sun, Yun-Cheng Tsai ยท 2025

This paper presents an AI-driven IoT robotic teleoperation system designed for real-time remote manipulation and intelligent visual monitoring, tailored for smart city applications. The architecture iโ€ฆ

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Model Predictive Control-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Implicit Balancing

Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder ยท 2025

In Europe, profit-seeking balance responsible parties can deviate in real time from their day-ahead nominations to assist transmission system operators in maintaining the supply-demand balance. Model โ€ฆ

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PUB: A Plasma-Propelled Ultra-Quiet Blimp with Two-DOF Vector Thrusting

Zihan Wang ยท 2025

This study presents the design and control of a Plasma-propelled Ultra-silence Blimp (PUB), a novel aerial robot employing plasma vector propulsion for ultra-quiet flight without mechanical propellersโ€ฆ

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Beam Cross Sections Create Mixtures: Improving Feature Localization in Secondary Electron Imaging

Vaibhav Choudhary, Akshay Agarwal, Vivek K Goyal ยท 2025

Secondary electron (SE) imaging techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy and helium ion microscopy (HIM), use electrons emitted by a sample in response to a focused beam of charged particles iโ€ฆ

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Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis

Antoine Larbanois, Victor Dachet, Antoine Dubois, Raphael Fonteneau, Damien Ernst ยท 2025

Remote renewable energy hubs (RREHs) for synthetic fuel production are engineering systems harvesting renewable energy where it is particularly abundant. They produce transportable synthetic fuels forโ€ฆ

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Buoyant Choreographies: Harmonies of Light, Sound, and Human Connection

Dennis Hong, Yusuke Tanaka ยท 2025

BALLU, the Buoyancy Assisted Lightweight Legged Unit, is a unique legged robot with a helium balloon body and articulated legs \fig{fig:fig1}. Since it is buoyant-assisted, BALLU is inherently stable,โ€ฆ

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Gaming Strategies in European Imbalance Settlement Mechanisms

Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder ยท 2025

Transmission System Operators (TSOs) rely on balancing energy provided by Balancing Service Providers (BSPs) to maintain the supply-demand balance in real time. Balance Responsible Parties (BRPs) can โ€ฆ

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Day-Ahead Bidding Strategies for Wind Farm Operators under a One-Price Balancing Scheme

Max Bruninx, Timothy Verstraeten, Jalal Kazempour, Jan Helsen ยท 2025

We study day-ahead bidding strategies for wind farm operators under a one-price balancing scheme, prevalent in European electricity markets. In this setting, the profit-maximising strategy becomes an โ€ฆ

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Agent-Based Analysis of the Impact of Near Real-Time Data and Smart Balancing on the Frequency Stability of Power Systems

Johannes Lips, Boyana Georgieva, Dominik Schlipf, Hendrik Lens ยท 2025

Single imbalance pricing provides an incentive to balance responsible parties (BRPs) to intentionally introduce power schedule deviations in order to reduce the control area imbalance and receive a reโ€ฆ

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A State-of-the-Art Review on Acoustic Preservation of Historical Worship Spaces through Auralization

Hannes Rosseel, Toon van Waterschoot ยท 2025

Historical Worship Spaces (HWS) are significant architectural landmarks which hold both cultural and spiritual value. The acoustic properties of these spaces play a crucial role in historical and contโ€ฆ

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The Spinning Blimp: Design and Control of a Novel Minimalist Aerial Vehicle Leveraging Rotational Dynamics and Locomotion

Leonardo Santens, Diego S. D'Antonio, Shuhang Hou, David Saldana ยท 2025

This paper presents the Spinning Blimp, a novel lighter-than-air (LTA) aerial vehicle designed for low-energy stable flight. Utilizing an oblate spheroid helium balloon for buoyancy, the vehicle achieโ€ฆ

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Leveraging Broadcast Media Subtitle Transcripts for Automatic Speech Recognition and Subtitling

Jakob Poncelet, Hugo Van hamme ยท 2025

The recent advancement of speech recognition technology has been driven by large-scale datasets and attention-based architectures, but many challenges still remain, especially for low-resource languagโ€ฆ

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Which price to pay? Auto-tuning building MPC controller for optimal economic cost

Jiarui Yu, Jicheng Shi, Wenjie Xu, Colin N. Jones ยท 2025

Model predictive control (MPC) controller is considered for temperature management in buildings but its performance heavily depends on hyperparameters. Consequently, MPC necessitates meticulous hyperpโ€ฆ

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Enhancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Calibration of Drinking Water Distribution Networks Through Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems

Cristian Gomez, Kimberly Solon, Pieter-Jan Haest, Mark Morley, Ingmar Nopens, Elena Torfs ยท 2024

The importance of drinking water distribution networks (DWDNs) as critical urban infrastructures has led to the development and utilization of models for the analysis, design, operation, and managemenโ€ฆ

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Predicting and Publishing Accurate Imbalance Prices Using Monte Carlo Tree Search

Fabio Pavirani, Jonas Van Gompel, Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder ยท 2024

The growing reliance on renewable energy sources, particularly solar and wind, has introduced challenges due to their uncontrollable production. This complicates maintaining the electrical grid balancโ€ฆ

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Effect of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar panels on low-voltage feeders: Evidence from smart meter profiles

T. Becker, R. Smet, B. Macharis, K. Vanthournout ยท 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps (HPs) and solar panels are low-carbon technologies (LCTs) that are being connected to the low-voltage grid (LVG) at a rapid pace. One of the main hurdles to understโ€ฆ

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