Publications

Preprints

1. Qi Zhu, Yu Yang, Liang Yu, Qing-Shan Jia, Costas J. Spanos, and Xiaohong Guan, "An Unified Virtual Battery Modeling Framework for Flexibility Characterization of Building HVAC Systems", , 2021.

2. Yu Yang, Qing-Shan Jia, Zhanbo Xu, Xiaohong Guan, and Costas J. Spanos, "Regulated ADMM forConstrained Nonconvex Optimization", under submission, preprint , 2021.

3. Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “Optimal Sharing and Fair Cost Allocation of Community Energy Storage” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, under review, Arxiv preprint, 2020.

4. Yu Yang, Utkarsha Agwan, Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “Selling Renewable Utilization Service to Consumers via Cloud Energy Storage,” Arxiv preprint, 2020.

5. Yu Yang, Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “A Proximal Linearization-based Decentralized Method for Nonconvex Problems with Nonlinear Constraints,” Arxiv preprint, 2020.

Selected Journal Papers

1. Yu Yang, Seshadhri Srinivasan, Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “Distributed Control of Multi-zone HVAC Systems Considering Indoor Air Quality,” IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, to appear,2020. [Arxiv preprint] [Code].

2. Yu Yang , Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “Stochastic Optimal Control of HVAC system for Energy-efficient Buildings,” conditionally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2020. Arxiv preprint

3. Yu Yang , Guoqiang Hu, and Costas J. Spanos, “HVAC Energy Cost Optimization for a Multi-zone Building via A Decentralized Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering , vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1950-1960, 2020. [Download].

4. Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaohong Guan, Xuan Zhang, Zhifeng Qiu, and Geert Deconinck, “Decentralized EV-based Charging Optimization With Building Integrated Wind Energy,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1002-1017, 2018. [Download]

5. Yu Yang, Qing-Shan Jia, Geert Deconinck, Xiaohong Guan, Zhifeng Qiu, and Zechun Hu, “Distributed Coordination of EV Charging with Renewable Energy in a Microgrid of Buildings,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid , vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6253-6264, 2017. [Download]

6. Qing-Shan Jia, Yu Yang , Li Xia, and Xiaohong Guan, “A Tutorial on Event-Based Optimization With Application in Energy Internet,” Control Theory & Applications , vo. 35, no. 1, pp. 32-40, 2018. [Download]

Conference Papers

1. Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia, and Xiaohong Guan, “Stochastic Coordination of Aggregated Electric Vehicle Charging With On-site Wind Power at Multiple Buildings,” 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , 2017. [Download]

2. Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia, and Xiaohong Guan, “The joint scheduling of EV charging load with building mounted wind power using simulation-based policy improvement,” IEEE International Symposium on Flexible Automation , pp. 165-170, 2016. [Download]

3. Yu Yang , Qing-Shan Jia, and Xiaohong Guan, “Improving the Prediction Accuracy of Building Energy Consumption using Location of Occupant-A Case Study,” IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology , pp.1550-1555, 2016. [Download]

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