Search Results - "Cholette, Michael E"

Actual cost of electricity: An economic index to overcome levelized cost of electricity limits by Manzolini, Giampaolo, Binotti, Marco, Gentile, Giancarlo, Picotti, Giovanni, Pilotti, Lorenzo, Cholette, Michael E.

“…The selection of renewable energy technologies is widely based on the economic index levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). However, the LCOE ignores the…”
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Energy Efficient and Safe Control Strategy for Electric Vehicles Including Driver Preference by Dehkordi, Sepehr G., Cholette, Michael E., Larue, Gregoire S., Rakotonirainy, Andry, Glaser, Sebastien

“…In this manuscript, a control strategy for electric vehicles is developed to optimise the energy consumption while respecting constraints associated with both…”
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Future energy-optimised buildings — Addressing the impact of climate change on buildings by Bamdad, Keivan, Cholette, Michael E., Omrani, Sara, Bell, John

“…•Climate change and building load variations may impact optimised building designs.•A method using climate models and optimisation is used to optimise future…”
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Optimal Vehicle Trajectory Planning With Control Constraints and Recursive Implementation for Automated On-Ramp Merging by Zhou, Yue, Cholette, Michael E., Bhaskar, Ashish, Chung, Edward

“…This paper proposes a vehicle trajectory planning method for automated on-ramp merging. Trajectory planning tasks of an on-ramp merging vehicle and a mainline…”
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Degradation modeling and condition-based maintenance of boiler heat exchangers using gamma processes by Cholette, Michael E., Yu, Hongyang, Borghesani, Pietro, Ma, Lin, Kent, Geoff

“…•A new degradation model for boiler heat exchanger erosion is developed.•The new model is a combination of a physics-based erosion model and a Gamma…”
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Ant colony algorithm for building energy optimisation problems and comparison with benchmark algorithms by Bamdad, Keivan, Cholette, Michael E., Guan, Lisa, Bell, John

“…In the design of low-energy buildings, mathematical optimisation has proven to be a powerful tool for minimising energy consumption. Simulation-based…”
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A state-constrained optimal control based trajectory planning strategy for cooperative freeway mainline facilitating and on-ramp merging maneuvers under congested traffic by Zhou, Yue, Chung, Edward, Bhaskar, Ashish, Cholette, Michael E.

“…•Maneuvers of mainline facilitating vehicles and on-ramp merging vehicles are coordinated.•Facilitating speeds are bounded from below to restrain impact on…”
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Building energy optimisation under uncertainty using ACOMV algorithm by Bamdad, Keivan, Cholette, Michael E., Guan, Lisa, Bell, John

“…In building optimisation many parameters are uncertain due to their dependence on the building operation and environment (e.g. internal loads). This…”
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Building energy optimization using surrogate model and active sampling by Bamdad, Keivan, Cholette, Michael E., Bell, John

“…In order to improve the performance of a surrogate model-based optimization method for building optimization problems, a new active sampling strategy employing…”
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Battery Dispatching for End Users With On-Site Renewables and Peak Demand Charges-An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach by Cholette, Michael E., Liu, Lei, Jeddi, Babak, Mishra, Yateendra

“…Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) have the potential to reduce end users' electricity bills by shifting their grid demand in response to price incentives…”
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Condition-based inspection policies for boiler heat exchangers by Truong-Ba, Huy, Cholette, Michael E., Borghesani, Pietro, Ma, Lin, Kent, Geoff

“…•Condition-based inspection policy for heat exchanger systems.•Considering impact of worse maintenance activities of preventive removals of tubes.•Optimal…”
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Optimization of cleaning strategies for heliostat fields in solar tower plants by Picotti, Giovanni, Moretti, Luca, Cholette, Michael E., Binotti, Marco, Simonetti, Riccardo, Martelli, Emanuele, Steinberg, Theodore A., Manzolini, Giampaolo

“…•Development of an optimized strategy for sectorial cleaning of solar fields.•Optical efficiency losses due to soiling based on a validated physical model.•The…”
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A multi-sensor approach to remaining useful life estimation for a slurry pump by Tse, Yiu L., Cholette, Michael E., Tse, Peter W.

“…•Multi-vibration data collected from slurry pump are analyzed with a novel method.•RUL are estimated from the suggested method with the help of Kalman…”
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Using support vector machines for the computationally efficient identification of acceptable design parameters in computer-aided engineering applications by Cholette, Michael E., Borghesani, Pietro, Gialleonardo, Egidio Di, Braghin, Francesco

“…•SVMs are used to estimate the boundary of acceptable design parameters.•An active learning method is developed to efficiently refine the boundary…”
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MPC based Community Battery System to minimize the Energy Cost of a Residential Community by Abraham, Sunil, Mishra, Yateendra, Cholette, Michael E.

“…Community Battery Energy Storage is highly beneficial for residential microgrids and mitigates significant household investments. This paper considers two…”
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STATER: Slit-Based Trajectory Reconstruction for Dense Urban Network With Overlapping Bluetooth Scanning Zones by Advani, Chintan, Bhaskar, Ashish, Haque, Md. Mazharul, Cholette, Michael E.

“…Availability of the big data from Bluetooth MAC Scanners (BMS) over the network provides opportunities to trace the movement of the individual…”
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Effectiveness of optimized control strategy and different hub height turbines on a real wind farm optimization by Wang, Longyan, Cholette, Michael E., Zhou, Yunkai, Yuan, Jianping, Tan, Andy C.C., Gu, Yuantong

“…In this paper, a real wind farm layout optimization is carried out by applying the novel optimized wind farm control strategy (coordinating wind turbine…”
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Optimization of wind farm layout with complex land divisions by Wang, Longyan, Tan, Andy C.C., Cholette, Michael E., Gu, Yuantong

“…The study of wind farm layout optimization considering the decisions of land owners has rarely been reported in literature. In this paper, the common situation…”
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Design optimization method for tube and fin latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Raud, Ralf, Cholette, Michael E., Riahi, Soheila, Bruno, Frank, Saman, Wasim, Will, Geoffrey, Steinberg, Theodore A.

“…The search for optimal phase change materials (PCMs) for latent heat thermal energy storage systems (LHTESS) focuses almost exclusively on the properties of…”
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Extracting failure time data from industrial maintenance records using text mining by Arif-Uz-Zaman, Kazi, Cholette, Michael E., Ma, Lin, Karim, Azharul

“…Reliability modelling requires accurate failure time of an asset. In real industrial cases, such data are often buried in different historical databases which…”
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