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Modeling Stakeholders and Lifecycle Requirements of Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Systems
Maurice Ombogo, Daniel Herber
Marine hydrokinetic energy offers a promising solution to the growing demand for clean and reliable electricity. These systems can generate power from low-speed flowing water, and…
Multi-Criteria Integer Programming Model for Route Planning in an Off-Road Combat Environment
Joshua Betz, Daniel Herber, Jeffrey Niemann
Route planning for military vehicles is a complex decision-making problem due to the simultaneous influence of environmental trafficability and tactical risks. This paper presents…
A Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling and Sensor/Actuator Placement Framework for Flexible Spacecraft
Matthew Hilsenrath, Daniel R. Herber
Flexible spacecraft structures present significant challenges for physical and control system design due to nonlinear dynamics, mission constraints, environmental variables, and ch…
Concurrent Geometry, Control, and Layout Optimization of Wave Energy Converter Farms in Probabilistic Irregular Waves using Surrogate Modeling
Saeed Azad, Daniel R. Herber, Suraj Khanal +1
A promising direction towards improving the performance of wave energy converter (WEC) farms is to leverage a system-level integrated approach known as control co-design (CCD). A W…
A case study comparing both stochastic and worst-case robust control co-design under different control structures
Saeed Azad, Daniel R Herber
As uncertainty considerations become increasingly important aspects of concurrent plant and control optimization, it is imperative to identify and compare the impact of uncertain c…
Integrated Design for Wave Energy Converter Farms: Assessing Plant, Control, Layout, and Site Selection Coupling in the Presence of Irregular Waves
Saeed Azad, Suraj Khanal, Daniel R. Herber +1
A promising direction towards reducing the levelized cost of energy for wave energy converter (WEC) farms is to improve their performance. WEC design studies generally focus on a s…
Site-dependent Solutions of Wave Energy Converter Farms with Surrogate Models, Control Co-design, and Layout Optimization
Saeed Azad, Daniel R. Herber, Suraj Khanal +1
Design of wave energy converter farms entails multiple domains that are coupled, and thus, their concurrent representation and consideration in early-stage design optimization has…
A general framework for supporting economic feasibility of generator and storage energy systems through capacity and dispatch optimization
Saeed Azad, Ziraddin Gulumjanli, Daniel R. Herber
Integration of various electricity-generating technologies (such as natural gas, wind, nuclear, etc.) with storage systems (such as thermal, battery electric, hydrogen, etc.) has t…
Iterative Classification of Graph-Set-Based Designs (IC-GSBD) for the Down-Selection of Aircraft Thermal Management Systems
Anthony Sirico, Daniel R Herber
In this paper, we present Iterative Classification of Graph-Set-Based Design (IC-GSBD), a framework utilizing graph-based techniques with geometric deep learning (GDL) integrated w…
Concurrent Probabilistic Control Co-Design and Layout Optimization of Wave Energy Converter Farms using Surrogate Modeling
Saeed Azad, Daniel R. Herber
Wave energy converters (WECs) are a promising candidate for meeting the increasing energy demands of today's society. It is known that the sizing and power take-off (PTO) control o…
On the Use of Geometric Deep Learning for the Iterative Classification and Down-Selection of Analog Electric Circuits
Anthony Sirico, Daniel R. Herber
Many complex engineering systems can be represented in a topological form, such as graphs. This paper utilizes a machine learning technique called Geometric Deep Learning (GDL) to…
An Overview of Uncertain Control Co-Design Formulations
Saeed Azad, Daniel R. Herber
This article explores various uncertain control co-design (UCCD) problem formulations. While previous work offers formulations that are method-dependent and limited to only a handf…