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Spring 2012
Since the late 1970s, the design of chemical processes has evolved towards highly integrated operations that can increase plant efficiency. Although plant-wide integration offers substantial opportunities to improve the performance of an entire plant, it often results in large-scale systems that...
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Fall 2019
Modern residential buildings are complex cyber-physical systems housing energy systems with numerous sensors and actuators. In recent years, the falling costs of battery storage and photovoltaic systems have substantially increased the number of “solar-plus-battery” installations in these...
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Fall 2017
This thesis investigates the optimal control of two nonholonomic mechanical systems, Suslov's problem and the rolling ball. Suslov's problem is a nonholonomic variation of the classical rotating free rigid body problem, in which the body angular velocity must always be orthogonal to a prescribed,...