Publications - Hybrid systems

Bart De Schutter

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  1. Y. Wang, B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and B. Ning, "Optimal trajectory planning for trains - A pseudospectral method and a mixed integer linear programming approach," Transportation Research Part C, vol. 29, pp. 97-114, Apr. 2013.  (online paper,  bibtex)

  2. N. Groot, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Integrated model predictive traffic and emission control using a piecewise-affine approach," Tech. rep. 13-003, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, 2013. Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex)

  3. H. van Ekeren, R.R. Negenborn, P.J. van Overloop, and B. De Schutter, "Time-instant optimization for hybrid model predictive control of the Rhine-Meuse Delta," Journal of Hydroinformatics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 271-292, 2013.  (online paper,  bibtex)

  4. M. Hajiahmadi, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Model predictive traffic control: A mixed-logical dynamic approach based on the link transmission model," Proceedings of the 13th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS'2012), Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 144-149, Sept. 2012.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  5. M. Heemels, B. De Schutter, and M. Lazar (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 12). Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ISBN 978-3-902823-00-7, 452 pp., June 2012.  (online link,  bibtex)

  6. N. Groot, B. De Schutter, S.K. Zegeye, and H. Hellendoorn, "Model-based traffic and emission control using PWA models - A mixed-logical dynamic approach," Proceedings of the 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2011), Washington, DC, pp. 2142-2147, Oct. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  7. Y. Wang, B. De Schutter, B. Ning, N. Groot, and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Optimal trajectory planning for trains using mixed integer linear programming," Proceedings of the 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2011), Washington, DC, pp. 1598-1603, Oct. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  8. N. Groot, B. De Schutter, S. Zegeye, and H. Hellendoorn, "Model-based predictive traffic control: A piecewise-affine approach based on METANET," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 10709-10714, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  9. H. Hellendoorn, S. Mulder, and B. De Schutter, "Hybrid control of container cranes," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 9697-9702, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  10. A. Núñez, D. Sáez, I. Skrjanc, and B. De Schutter, "A new method for hybrid-fuzzy identification," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 15013-15018, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  11. H. van Ekeren, R.R. Negenborn, P.J. van Overloop, and B. De Schutter, "Hybrid model predictive control using time-instant optimization for the Rhine-Meuse Delta," Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 216-221, Apr. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  12. W.P.M.H. Heemels, B. De Schutter, J. Lunze, and M. Lazar, "Stability analysis and controller synthesis for hybrid dynamical systems," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, vol. 368, no. 1930, p. 4937-4960, Nov. 2010.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  13. D. Corona, J. Buisson, and B. De Schutter, "A Hamiltonian approach for the optimal control of the switching signal for a DC-DC converter," Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, pp. 7654-7659, July 2008.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  14. M. Houwing, R.R. Negenborn, and B. De Schutter, "Economic advantages of applying model predictive control to distributed energy resources: The case of micro-CHP systems," Proceedings of the 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'08), Ajaccio, France, pp. 1550-1555, June 2008.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  15. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T. van den Boom, and H. Hellendoorn, "Model predictive control for uncertain max-min-plus-scaling systems," International Journal of Control, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 701-713, May 2008.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  16. D. Corona and B. De Schutter, "Adaptive cruise control for a SMART car: A comparison benchmark for MPC-PWA control methods," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 365-372, Mar. 2008.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  17. D. Corona and B. De Schutter, "Comparison of a linear and a hybrid adaptive cruise controller for a SMART," Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 4779-4784, Dec. 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  18. D. Corona, J. Buisson, B. De Schutter, and A. Giua, "Stabilization of switched affine systems: An application to the buck-boost converter," Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, New York, pp. 6037-6042, July 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  19. R.R. Negenborn, A.G. Beccuti, T. Demiray, S. Leirens, G. Damm, B. De Schutter, and M. Morari, "Supervisory hybrid model predictive control for voltage stability of power networks," Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, New York, pp. 5444-5449, July 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  20. D. Corona, I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, and T. van den Boom, "Robust hybrid MPC applied to the design of an adaptive cruise controller for a road vehicle," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, pp. 1721-1726, Dec. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  21. D. Corona, M. Lazar, B. De Schutter, and M. Heemels, "A hybrid MPC approach to the design of a Smart adaptive cruise controller," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2006), Munich, Germany, pp. 231-236, Oct. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  22. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent model predictive control for transportation networks with continuous and discrete elements," Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 609-614, Aug. 2006.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  23. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T. van den Boom, and H. Hellendoorn, "Min-max model predictive control for uncertain max-min-plus-scaling systems," Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'06), Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 439-444, July 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  24. D. Corona and B. De Schutter, "Adaptive cruise controller design: A comparative assessment for PWA systems," Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS'06), Alghero, Italy, pp. 253-258, June 2006.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  25. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and J. Hellendoorn, "Robustly stabilizing MPC for perturbed PWL systems," Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005 (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, pp. 3759-3764, Dec. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  26. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for perturbed piecewise affine systems," Proceedings of the 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC-2005), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, pp. 231-240, Aug. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  27. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland, M. Lazar, and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Control of PWA systems using a stable receding horizon method," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 6 pp., July 2005. Paper 2794 / Tu-E21-TO/2.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  28. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and J. Hellendoorn, "Robustly stabilizing MPC for perturbed PWL systems: Extended report," Tech. rep. 05-004a, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 6 pp., Feb. 2005. A short version of this paper has been published in the Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005 (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, pp. 3759-3764, Dec. 2005.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  29. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and J. Hellendoorn, "Model predictive control for perturbed continuous piecewise affine systems with bounded disturbances," Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, The Bahamas, pp. 1848-1853, Dec. 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  30. I. Necoara, B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, S. Weiland, M. Lazar, and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Control of PWA systems using a stable receding horizon method: Extended report," Tech. rep. 04-019a, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 26 pp., Oct. 2004. A short version of this report has been published in the Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005. Paper 2794/Tu-E21-TO/2.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  31. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for discrete-event and hybrid systems - Part I: Discrete-event systems," Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2004), Leuven, Belgium, 10 pp., July 2004. Paper 312.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  32. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for discrete-event and hybrid systems - Part II: Hybrid systems," Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2004), Leuven, Belgium, 10 pp., July 2004. Paper 313.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  33. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "MPC for continuous piecewise-affine systems," Systems & Control Letters, vol. 52, no. 3-4, pp. 179-192, July 2004.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  34. T. van den Boom and B. De Schutter, "Modeling and control of railway networks," Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 5728-5733, June-July 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  35. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "MPC for continuous piecewise-affine systems - Addendum," Tech. rep. CSE02-004a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 9 pp., Oct. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  36. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for discrete-event and hybrid systems," Tech. rep. 03-012, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 16 pp., Aug. 2003. Paper for the Workshop on Nonlinear Predictive Control (Workshop S-5) at the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, Dec. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  37. B. De Schutter and T.J.J. van den Boom, "Model predictive control for max-min-plus-scaling systems - Efficient implementation," Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'02) (M. Silva, A. Giua, and J.M. Colom, eds.), Zaragoza, Spain, pp. 343-348, Oct. 2002.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  38. B. De Schutter, T.J.J. van den Boom, and G.J. Benschop, "MPC for continuous piecewise-affine systems," Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress (b'02), Barcelona, Spain, 6 pp., July 2002. Paper 229 / T-Fr-A16.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  39. A. Bemporad, W.P.M.H. Heemels, and B. De Schutter, "On hybrid systems and closed-loop MPC systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 863-869, May 2002.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  40. A. Bemporad, W.P.M.H. Heemels, and B. De Schutter, "On hybrid systems and closed-loop MPC systems," Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, pp. 1645-1650, Dec. 2001.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  41. W.P.M.H. Heemels, B. De Schutter, and A. Bemporad, "On the equivalence of classes of hybrid dynamical models," Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, pp. 364-369, Dec. 2001.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  42. W.P.M.H. Heemels, B. De Schutter, and A. Bemporad, "Equivalence of hybrid dynamical models," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1085-1091, July 2001.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  43. B. De Schutter, "Optimal control of a class of linear hybrid systems with saturation," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 835-851, 2000.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  44. R.K. Boel, B. De Schutter, G. Nijsse, J.M. Schumacher, and J.H. van Schuppen, "Approaches to modelling, analysis, and control of hybrid systems," Journal A, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 16-27, Dec. 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  45. B. De Schutter, "Optimal control of a class of linear hybrid systems with saturation," Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 3978-3983, Dec. 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  46. B. De Schutter, "Optimal control of a class of linear hybrid systems with saturation: Addendum," Tech. rep. bds:99-03a, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 8 pp., Oct. 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  47. B. De Schutter, "The extended linear complementarity problem and linear complementary-slackness systems," Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1999 (ECC'99), Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 pp., Aug.-Sept. 1999. Paper 1006-3/CM-9.3.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  48. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "The extended linear complementarity problem and the modeling and analysis of hybrid systems," in Hybrid Systems V (Proceedings of the 5th International Hybrid Systems Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana, Sept. 1997) (P. Antsaklis, W. Kohn, M. Lemmon, A. Nerode, and S. Sastry, eds.), vol. 1567 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, ISBN 3-540-65643-X, pp. 70-85, 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  49. B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "The extended linear complementarity problem and its applications in the analysis and control of discrete event systems and hybrid systems," Proceedings of the IEEE Singapore International Symposium on Control Theory and Applications (SISCTA'97), Singapore, pp. 394-398, July 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))


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