Publications

Combined Energy Hub Optimisation and Demand Side Management for Buildings. M. Batic, N. Tomasevic, G. Beccuti, T. Demiray, S. Vranes. Energy and Buildings, vol. 127, September 2016.

Multivariable Optimal Control of HVDC Transmission Links With Network Parameter Estimation for Weak Grids. G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, L. Harnefors. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, vol. 22, no. 2, March 2014.

A Decentralized Explicit Predictive Control Paradigm for Parallelized DC Circuits. A.G. Beccuti, G. Papa-fotiou, M. Kvasnica und M. Morari. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, vol. 21, no. 1, January 2013.

Numerical Algebraic Geometry for Optimal Control Applications. D.J. Bates, Ph. Rostalski, I.A. Fotiou, A.G. Beccuti, M. Morari. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 417-437, June 2011.

A Lagrangian Decomposition Algorithm for Optimal Emergency Voltage Control. A.G. Beccuti, T.H. Demiray, G. Andersson, M. Morari. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1769-1779, November 2010.

Comparison of Hybrid Control Techniques for Buck and Boost DC Circuits. S. Mariethoz, S. Almer, M. Baja, A.G. Beccuti, D. Patino, A. Wernrud, J. Buisson, H. Cormerais, H. Fujioka, T. Geyer, U.T. Joensson, C.-Y. Kao, M. Morari, G. Papafotiou, A. Rantzer, P. Riedinger. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1126-1145, September 2010.

Energy Management. M. Morari, A.G. Beccuti, S. Mariethoz, G. Papafotiou. Handbook of Hybrid Systems
Control - Theory, Tools, Applications, pp. 377-405, Cambridge University Press, October 2009.

Explicit Model Predictive Control of DC Switched Mode Power Supplies with Extended Kalman Filtering.
A.G. Beccuti, S. Mariethoz, S. Cliquennois, S. Wang, M. Morari. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1864-1874, Juei 2009.

Optimal Control of Piecewise Polynomial Hybrid Systems Using Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition.
I.A. Fotiou, A.G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, M. Morari. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, vol. 3927 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 227-241, Springer Verlag, March 2006.

On the Use of the Current and Flux State Variables in the Dynamic Analysis of Magnetoelectric Networks.
A.G. Beccuti, S. Leva, A.P. Morando. Computer Engineering in Applied Electromagnetism, pp. 119-124, Springer Verlag, January 2005.

Projects and project reports

The Role of Gas and Gas Infrastructure Within the Future Energy System: a Techno-economic assessment. BFE-Project (Swiss Federal Office of Energy), https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Grunddaten/?ProjectID=40230

Modellierung der Erzeugungs- und Systemkapazität in der Schweiz im Bereich Strom. Study commissioned by the BFE (Swiss Federal Office of Energy). Available at https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch

Flexibility in Future Power Systems. International Energy Agency (IEA), International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN), Annex 6, Power T&D Systems. Available at https://www.iea-isgan.org/publications/

TSO-DSO Flexibility: Towards Integrated Grid Control and Coordination in Switzerland BFE-Project (Swiss Federal Office of Energy), https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Grunddaten/?ProjectID=41491

System Efficiency. International Energy Agency (IEA), International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) Annex 6, Power T&D Systems. Available at https://www.iea-isgan.org/publications/

Biomass CHP Plants. BFE-Project (Swiss Federal Office of Energy), https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Grunddaten/?ProjectID=33002

Assessing Future Electricity Markets (AFEM). SNSF Project, NRP 70 Energy Turnaround. https://data.snf.ch/grants/person/657056

Modellierung der System Adequacy in der Schweiz im Bereich Strom. Study commissioned by the BFE (Swiss Federal Office of Energy). Available at https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch

Integration of Sustainable Multi-energy-hub Systems From the System Control Perspective (IMES). SNSF Project, NRP 70 Energy Turnaround. https://data.snf.ch/grants/person/657056

Energy Positive Neighbourhoods Infrastructure Middleware based on Energy-Hub Concept (Epic-Hub). EU Project, FP7 ICT for energy-positive neighbourhoods. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/600067

ISCHESS Integration of Stochastic Renewables in the Swiss Electricity Supply System. Swisselectric Research, Competence Centre for Energy and Mobilty. https://www.psi.ch/de/eem/projects/ischess

Statusbericht Elektrizitätsnetze. BFE-Project (Swiss Federal Office of Energy), https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Grunddaten/?ProjectID=36835

Risk Assessment of the Impact of Geomagnetic Disturbances on the Transmission Grid in Switzerland. Study commissioned by BFE (Swiss Federal Office of Energy) and Swissgrid. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6672600

Price-based Control of Electrical Power Systems (E-Price). EU Project, FP7 ICT for energy efficiency, Grant agreement ID: 249096. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/249096

Hybrid Control: Taming Heterogeneity and Complexity of Networked Embedded Systems (HYCON). FP6 Information Society Technologies, Grant agreement ID: 511368. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/511368

Control and computation. EU Project, FP5 Information Society Technologies, Grant agreement ID: IST- 2001- 33520. cordis.europa.eu/project/id/IST-2001-33520, http://cse.lab.imtlucca.it/~bemporad/hybrid/cc/

Intellectual property

Unit Commitment for Wind Generation. C. Franke, G. Beccuti. Patent EP2562901A1, August 2011.

An Arrangement and a Method for Determining a Parameter of an Alternating Voltage Grid. G. Beccutti, M. Molander, J. Sjoberg, B. Thorvaldsson. Patent WO2012152320 A1, May 2011.

Controlling a High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) Link. G. Papafotiou, G. Beccuti, L. Harnefors. Patent US20120033461A1, December 2009.

Conference proceedings

Flexibility to Support the Future Power Systems. E. Hillberg, A. Zegers, G. Migliavacca, G. Beccuti, S. Lehn-hoff, K. Uhlen, I. Oleinikova, J. Pompee, T. Heggarty, S. Wong, H. Pihl, M. Norstroem, M. Persson. Procee-dings of the CIGRE Symposium, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2019.

Flexibility In Future Power Systems. E. Hillberg, J. Rossi, A. Zegers, G. Migliavacca, G. Beccuti, S. Lehnhoff, K. Uhlen, I. Oleinikova. 8th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources (IRED), Vienna, Austria, October 2018.

Operational Optimisation for Multi-Carrier Networks. G. Beccuti, T. Demiray. Proceedings of the IEEE Power-tech, Manchester, England, June 2017.

Energy Hub Modelling and Optimisation: an Analytical Case-study. G. Beccuti, T. Demiray, M. Batic, N. Toma-sevic, S. Vranes. Proceedings of the IEEE Powertech, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, June 2015.

Risk Assessment of the Impact of Geomagnetic Disturbances on the Transmission Grid in Switzerland. T. Demiray, G. Beccuti, G. Andersson. Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2013.

Model Predictive Direct Torque Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors. T. Geyer, A.G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, M. Morari. Proceedings of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA, September 2010.

Multivariable Predictive Control of Voltage Source Converter HVDC Transmission Systems. G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, L. Harnefors. Proceedings of the IEEE Industrial Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2010, Bari, Italy, July 2010.

Model Predictive Control of Multiphase Interleaved DC Converters with Sensorless Current Limitation and Power Balance. S. Mariethoz, A.G. Beccuti, M. Morari. Proceedings of the IEEE Power Electronics Specia-lists Conference 2008, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1069-1074, June 2008.

Analysis and Optimal Current Control of a Voltage Source Inverter Connected to the Grid Through an LCL Filter. S. Mariethoz, A.G. Beccuti, M. Morari. Proceedings of the IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2008, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2132-2138, June 2008.

An Optimal Control Application in Power Electronics Using Numerical Algebraic Geometry. D.J. Bates, A.G. Beccuti, I.A. Fotiou, M. Morari. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 2008.

Supervisory Hybrid Model Predictive Control for Voltage Stability of Power Networks. R.R. Negenborn; A.G. Beccuti, T. Demiray, S. Leirens, G. Damm, B. De Schutter, M. Morari. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2007, New York, USA, July 2007.

A Distributed Optimal Control Scheme for Interleaved DC Circuits. A.G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, M. Morari. Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2007.

An Optimal Control Application in Power Electronics Using Algebraic Geometry. I.A. Fotiou, A.G. Beccuti, M. Morari. Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2007.

Comparative Assessment of Prediction Models in Voltage Control. A.G. Beccuti, T.H. Demiray, M. Zima, G. Andersson, M. Morari. Proceedings of the IEEE Powertech 2007, Lausanne, July 2007.

Optimal Control of the Buck Direct Current Circuit Operating in Both the Continuous and Discontinuous Conduction Regimes, G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou and M. Morari. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, San Diego, USA, December 2006.

Explicit Model Predictive Control of the Boost Converter. A.G. Beccuti, G. Papafotiou, M. Morari. Procee-dings of the IFAC Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems Workshop 2006, Alghero, Italy, June 2006.

A Distributed Solution Approach To Centralized Emergency Voltage Control. A.G. Beccuti, M. Morari. Proceedings of the American Control Conference 2006, Minneapolis, USA, July 2006.

Temporal Lagrangian Decomposition of Model Predictive Control for Hybrid Systems. A.G. Beccuti, T. Geyer, M. Morari. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2004, Atlantis, Bahamas, Decem-ber 2004.

Appraising New Opportunities for Market-Based Transmission in Europe. P. Bresesti, A.G. Beccuti, R. Vailati. Proceedings of the IEEE Powertech 2003, Bologna, Italy, June 2003.

Analysis of 3-Phase Transmission Line Radiation by Means of the Park Transform. A.G. Beccuti, S. Leva, A.P. Morando. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2003.