Adaptive Street Lighting Predictive Control

Estimating Energy Savings in Smart Street Lighting by Using an Adaptive Control System

The driving force behind the smart city initiative is to offer better, more specialized services which can improve the quality of life of the citizens while promoting sustainability. To achieve both of these apparently competing goals, services must be increasingly autonomous and continuously adaptive to changes in their environment and the information coming from other services. In this paper ...

Adaptive Simplified Model Predictive Control with Tuning Considerations

Model predictive controller is widely used in industrial plants. Uncertainty is one of the critical issues in real systems. In this paper, the direct adaptive Simplified Model Predictive Control (SMPC) is proposed for unknown or time varying plants with uncertainties. By estimating the plant step response in each sample, the controller is designed and the controller coefficients are directly ca...

Street Lighting Disturbs Commuting Bats

Anthropogenic disturbance is a major cause of worldwide declines in biodiversity. Understanding the implications of this disturbance for species and populations is crucial for conservation biologists wishing to mitigate negative effects. Anthropogenic light pollution is an increasing global problem, affecting ecological interactions across a range of taxa and impacting negatively upon critical ...

Discussion of "Electrocution by Street Lighting".

Networked Adaptive Model Predictive Control

This paper presents a neighborhood based networked predictive adaptive controller that is suitable for control of multivariable systems made of subsystems that interact sequentially and on its demonstration using simulations in a detailed nonlinear model of a water delivery canal. Furthermore some convergence properties of the adaptive algorithm are proved. According to the approach followed, t...