3 papers
math.OC2024
Comments on characterizing demand flexibility to provide power grid services
Prabir Barooah
Many loads have flexibility in demand that can be used to provide ancillary services to power grids. A large body of literature exists on designing algorithms to coordinate actions…
eess.SY2023
Optimal Control of District Cooling Energy Plant with Reinforcement Learning and MPC
Zhong Guo, Aditya Chaudhari, Austin R. Coffman +1
We consider the problem of optimal control of district cooling energy plants (DCEPs) consisting of multiple chillers, a cooling tower, and a thermal energy storage (TES), in the pr…
math.OC2012
Improving Convergence Rate of Distributed Consensus Through Asymmetric Weights
He Hao, Prabir Barooah
We propose a weight design method to increase the convergence rate of distributed consensus. Prior work has focused on symmetric weight design due to computational tractability. We…