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Distributed Observers for State Omniscience with Stochastic Communication Noises

  • Kairui Chen,
  • Zhangmou Zhu,
  • Xianxian Zeng and
  • Junwei Wang

23 April 2023

The focus of this paper is on solving the state estimation problem for general continuous-time linear systems through the use of distributed networked observers. To better reflect the communication environment, stochastic noises are considered when o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control Theory with Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,465 Views
13 Pages

14 April 2023

This paper investigates the problem of distributed interval estimation for multiple Euler–Lagrange systems. An interconnection topology is supposed to be strongly connected. To design distributed interval observers, the coordinate transformatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Theory with Applications)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,119 Views
14 Pages

4 January 2024

In this paper, the distributed interval estimation problem for networked Cyber-Physical systems suffering from both disturbances and noise is investigated. In the distributed interval observers, there are some connected interval observers built for t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical System and Stochastic Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
607 Views
20 Pages

A Distributed Optimal Control Strategy for DC Microgrids with MPPT-DGs Based on Exact Convex Relaxation and Distributed Observers

  • Ziqing Xia,
  • Xiazijian Zou,
  • Zhangjie Liu,
  • Yue Wu and ,
  • Jinjing Shi,
  • Xiaochao Hou and
  • Mei Su
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 March 2026

With the high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), which are characterized by stochasticity and intermittency, traditional centralized optimization methods face challenges such as communication packet loss, low reliability, and poor sc...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,918 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2024

This paper focuses on simultaneous estimation of states and faults for a linear time-invariant (LTI) system observed by sensor networks. Each sensor node is equipped with an observer, which uses only local measurements and local interaction with neig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based State Estimation and Fault Diagnosis in Automatic Control)
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  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,631 Views
25 Pages

2 June 2024

Full- and reduced-order observers have been used in many engineering applications, particularly for energy systems. Applications of observers to energy systems are twofold: (1) the use of observed variables of dynamic systems for the purpose of feedb...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
885 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2026

In traditional observer designs, simultaneous state estimation, unknown input reconstruction (UIR), and measurement noise reconstruction have been fully discussed. However, in distributed observer, this remains to be investigated, and few papers deal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based Condition Monitoring and Non-Destructive Testing)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,720 Views
21 Pages

Data Fusion of Observability Signals for Assisting Orchestration of Distributed Applications

  • Ioannis Tzanettis,
  • Christina-Maria Androna,
  • Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,
  • Eleni Fotopoulou and
  • Symeon Papavassiliou

7 March 2022

Nowadays, various frameworks are emerging for supporting distributed tracing techniques over microservices-based distributed applications. The objective is to improve observability and management of operational problems of distributed applications, c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,346 Views
25 Pages

24 March 2023

The increasing number of agile earth observation satellites (AEOSs) in orbit have advanced maneuverable capabilities, enabling the AEOS constellation to provide richer observation services. Therefore, observation scheduling in the AEOS constellation...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,698 Views
22 Pages

27 October 2001

The aim of this paper is to study the regional observer concept through the consideration of sensors. For a class of distributed diffusion systems, we propose an approach derived from the Luenberger observer type as introduced by Gressang and Lamont...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,415 Views
22 Pages

5 July 2024

The issues of state estimations based on distributed observers for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with multiple sensors are discussed in this paper. We deal with the scenario when the information exchange has known time delays, and aim at design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Fault Diagnosis & Sensors 2024)
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  • Open Access
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On Reduced Observer-Bank Synthesis and Edge Implementation for Residual Chlorine Concentration Soft Sensors in Water Distribution Networks

  • Nikolaos D. Kouvakas,
  • Fotis N. Koumboulis,
  • Antonios N. Menexis,
  • Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis and
  • Maria P. Tzamtzi

6 August 2026

In the present paper, a reduced observer-bank synthesis and edge-oriented implementation framework for a model-based residual chlorine concentration soft sensor in water distribution networks is presented. For a benchmark network described through no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management of Water Distribution Networks)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,217 Views
13 Pages

A Data-Driven State Estimation Based on Sample Migration for Low-Observable Distribution Networks

  • Hao Jiao,
  • Chen Wu,
  • Lei Wei,
  • Jinming Chen and ,
  • Yang Xu and
  • Manyun Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 February 2025

This paper proposes a data-driven state estimation based on sample migration for low-observable distribution networks, addressing the challenge of traditional state estimators being unsuitable for distribution networks with low observability. The sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,163 Views
21 Pages

Distributed Observer for Linear Systems with Multirate Sampled Outputs Involving Multiple Delays

  • Laura-Adriana Galicia-Galicia,
  • Omar Hernández-González,
  • Carlos Daniel Garcia-Beltran,
  • Guillermo Valencia-Palomo and
  • María-Eusebia Guerrero-Sánchez

22 September 2024

This paper focuses on the design of a continuous distributed observer for linear systems under multirate sampled output measurements involving multiple delays. It is mathematically proved that the continuous distributed observer can achieve estimatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Complex Systems and Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,391 Views
23 Pages

11 November 2019

With the continuous development of smart distribution networks, their observable problems have become more serious. Research on the optimal placement of the distribution phasor measurement unit (D-PMU) is an important way to improve the measurability...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,565 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

This paper mainly studies the distributed resilient model-free adaptive control problem for a class of observer-dependent nonlinear multi-agent systems under FDI attacks and channel fading. Firstly, for multi-agent systems, we adopt a hierarchical co...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
505 Views
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Observer-Based H∞ Control for Uncertain Neutral Systems with Distributed Delays

  • Khwanchai Kunwai,
  • Thaned Rojsiraphisal,
  • Supreedee Dangskul and
  • Kamonwan Kocharoen

9 July 2026

This paper addresses the observer-based H∞ control problem for a class of uncertain neutral systems with distributed delays subject to norm-bounded time-varying uncertainties and bounded time-varying delays. Since complete state measurements ar...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,066 Views
18 Pages

A Fault Line Selection Method for DC Distribution Network Using Multiple Observers

  • Xipeng Zhang,
  • Nengling Tai,
  • Pan Wu,
  • Xiaodong Zheng and
  • Wentao Huang

1 April 2019

This paper proposes a method of fault line selection for a DC distribution network. Firstly, the 1-mode current is calculated using the measured currents of the positive and the negative line. Then, it is time reversed and further decomposed by wavel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distribution System Optimization)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,373 Views
17 Pages

Integrated Approach for Network Observability and State Estimation in Active Distribution Grid

  • Basanta Raj Pokhrel,
  • Birgitte Bak-Jensen and
  • Jayakrishnan R. Pillai

12 June 2019

This paper presents a unique integrated approach to meter placement and state estimation to ensure the network observability of active distribution systems. It includes observability checking, minimum measurement utilization, network state estimation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Intelligence to Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,241 Views
22 Pages

Experimental Validation and Deployment of Observability Applications for Monitoring of Low-Voltage Distribution Grids

  • Karthikeyan Nainar,
  • Catalin Iosif Ciontea,
  • Kamal Shahid,
  • Florin Iov and ,
  • Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen,
  • Christine Schäler and
  • Hans-Peter Christian Schwefel
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 August 2021

Future distribution grids will be subjected to fluctuations in voltages and power flows due to the presence of renewable sources with intermittent power generation. The advanced smart metering infrastructure (AMI) enables the distribution system oper...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,818 Views
34 Pages

19 November 2021

This paper addresses the fusion estimation problem in tessarine systems with multi-sensor observations affected by mixed uncertainties when under Tk-properness conditions. Observations from each sensor can be updated, delayed, or contain only noise,...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,423 Views
6 Pages

28 December 2007

Multi-wheel driven EV is referred to as an over-actuated system in the motion control synthesis process. It is meaningful to use the redundant actuators to maintain the control reliability and thus improve the dynamics of EV. In this paper, a dynamic...

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10 Citations
4,646 Views
19 Pages

18 May 2022

Cloud droplets size distribution (DSD) is one of the significant characteristics for liquid clouds. It plays an important role for the aerosol–droplet–cloud mechanism and variation in cloud microphysics. However, the minuscule sampling sp...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,360 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2022

In the context of distributed defense, multi-sensor networks are required to be able to carry out reasonable planning and scheduling to achieve the purpose of continuous, accurate and rapid target detection. In this paper, a multi-sensor cooperative...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wireless Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,617 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2024

As the demand for power supply stability and reliability in the active distribution network (ADN) increases, the primary and secondary integrated intelligent switch (PSIIS) has become the primary choice for smart grid transformation in many weak infr...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,640 Views
21 Pages

6 May 2022

The distribution-level phasor measurement unit(D-PMU), as a new type of measurement equipment, can support the fast and high-precision observations of active distribution networks. This paper presents a new D-PMU optimal placement method that can be...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power Distribution Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,858 Views
17 Pages

Burr XII Distribution for Disease Data Analysis in the Presence of a Partially Observed Failure Mode

  • Fatimah E. Almuhayfith,
  • Jumanah Ahmed Darwish,
  • Randa Alharbi and
  • Marin Marin

22 June 2022

Modeling competing failure modes is an important problem in engineering and survival analyses. Competing failure modes are partially observed in many applications and often pose a modeling challenge. This study discusses the inference for partially o...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,284 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2022

In order to improve robust operating performance and enhance bus voltage stability, a learning observer-based fault-tolerant control strategy is proposed for the distributed generation in islanded microgrid with sensor faults and uncertain disturbanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,356 Views
17 Pages

17 March 2020

The arrival of the era of big data for Earth observation (EO) indicates that traditional data management models have been unable to meet the needs of remote sensing data in big data environments. With the launch of the first remote sensing satellite,...

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4 Citations
2,119 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2022

In this paper, we first design a self-tuning distributed observer for second-order multi-agent systems which is capable of providing the estimation of the leader’s signal to various followers. We then further develop an adaptive sliding-mode co...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,338 Views
14 Pages

26 November 2018

In this paper, an adaptive observer based data driven control scheme is proposed for the voltage control of dispatchable distributed energy resource (DER) systems which work in islanded operation. In the design procedure of the proposed control schem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency and Data-Driven Control)
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  • Open Access
526 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2026

High-resolution online sensors are now common in environmental process systems, yet turning their non-stationary, heterogeneous observation streams into reliable predictions of the underlying process state remains difficult. The statistical distribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Sensor Data Integration and Processing)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,515 Views
17 Pages

In the presence of unmeasurable velocities and system uncertainties, the distributed formation control problem is investigated in this paper for multiple vessels. A robust formation controller is proposed by incorporating an extended state observer (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Studies in the Autonomy and Control of Marine Vehicle Systems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,194 Views
46 Pages

Exoplanets Catalogue Analysis: The Distribution of Exoplanets at FGK Stars by Mass and Orbital Period Accounting for the Observational Selection in the Radial Velocity Method

  • Vladislava Ananyeva,
  • Anastasiia Ivanova,
  • Inna Shashkova,
  • Oleg Yakovlev and ,
  • Alexander Tavrov,
  • Oleg Korablev and
  • Jean-Loup Bertaux
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 February 2023

When studying the statistics of exoplanets, it is necessary to take into account the effects of observational selection and the inhomogeneity of the data in the exoplanets databases. When considering exoplanets discovered by the radial velocity techn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Atmospheres: From Solar System to Exoplanets)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,722 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2024

This paper investigates a consensus problem for a class of T–S fuzzy multiple-agent systems (MASs) with unknown input (UI). To begin with, an unknown input observer (UIO) is able to asymptotically estimate the system state and the UI is designe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based State Estimation and Fault Diagnosis in Automatic Control)
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Distributed Active Support from Photovoltaics via State–Disturbance Observation and Dynamic Surface Consensus for Dynamic Frequency Stability Under Source–Load Asymmetry

  • Yichen Zhou,
  • Yihe Gao,
  • Yujia Tang,
  • Yifei Liu and ,
  • Liang Tu,
  • Yifei Zhang,
  • Yuyan Liu,
  • Xiaoqin Zhang,
  • Jiawei Yu and
  • Rui Cao
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

7 October 2025

The power system’s dynamic frequency stability is affected by common-mode ultra-low-frequency oscillation and differential-mode low-frequency oscillation. Traditional frequency control based on generators is facing the problem of capacity reduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry Studies in Modern Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
372 Views
22 Pages

Fully Distributed Dynamic Event-Triggered Observer-Based H∞ Consensus Control of Fractional-Order Multi-Agent Systems

  • Haoran Zheng,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Yajun Xu,
  • Pingyuan Yan and ,
  • Zhihan Shi and
  • Guangming Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper investigates robust output-feedback consensus of linear fractional-order multi-agent systems under external disturbances and communication constraints. A fully distributed framework is developed by integrating local dynamic observers, frac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamics and Control of Fractional-Order Systems)
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Spatial-Temporal Distribution and Microphysical Characteristics of Aerosols and Clouds over China: A Combined Satellite and Aircraft Observation Study

  • Yunfei Che,
  • Yaru Dai,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Xu Zhou and ,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Chungang Fang,
  • Junxia Li and
  • Wenhao Xue
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 August 2026

Aerosols exert significant impacts on Earth’s radiation balance through direct and indirect effects, with the latter representing the largest uncertainty in current climate models. To clarify aerosol–cloud interactions over China, this st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Cloud and Precipitation Monitoring)
  • Feature Paper
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11 Citations
1,641 Views
29 Pages

15 May 2025

Nonholonomoic mobile robots (NMRs) are widely used in logistics transportation and industrial production, with motion control remaining a key focus in current WMR research. However, most previously developed controllers assume ideal conditions withou...

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148 Views
24 Pages

28 October 2026

Cooperative driving stacks for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) depend on a continuous exchange of position and velocity data over vehicle-to-vehicle links. That dependence is also their weakness: an adversary who tampers with exchanged measurem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensor Network Technologies for Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,233 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2023

This paper focuses on the high-performance bidirectional DC-DC converter required in distributed electric propulsion (DEP) systems, with the dual active bridge (DAB) converter chosen as the subject of study. To achieve the goal of stabilizing the out...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,075 Views
16 Pages

30 March 2022

This paper investigates the problem of false data injection attack (FDIA) detection in microgrids. The grid under study is a DC microgrid with distributed boost converters, where the false data are injected into the voltage data so as to investigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,894 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2020

This paper solves the distributed fault detection (FD) problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS). For a heterogeneous MAS, we adopt a distributed control law to realise cooperative output regulation (COR) when no fault occurs in the MAS, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Agent Systems 2020)
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  • Open Access
998 Views
22 Pages

16 May 2026

In this paper, for leader–follower structure multi-agent systems (MASs), a new fault-tolerant consensus control mechanism which is called the distributed information estimation and centralized control scheme is developed. To begin with, for eac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing, Control, and Fault Diagnosis in Mechanical Instrumentation and Automation)
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Earth Observation-Based Living Biomass Carbon Estimates Within European Beech Distribution Footprints in Greece

  • Nikolaos Arampatzis,
  • Athanasios Stampoulidis,
  • Elias Milios and
  • Kalliopi Radoglou

24 August 2026

Reliable spatial evidence can support quality assurance and quality control for land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), but land-cover and species-distribution layers do not by themselves identify IPCC Forest Land or species-pure stands. We...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,889 Views
15 Pages

A framework of distributed interval observers is introduced for fractional-order multiagent systems in the presence of nonlinearity. First, a frame was designed to construct the upper and lower bounds of the system state. By using monotone system the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order System: Control Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
441 Views
25 Pages

16 May 2026

This paper proposes a voltage-sensitivity estimation and droop-allocation framework for virtual power plant (VPP)-based frequency regulation in partially observable distribution feeders. In practical distribution systems, active-power adjustments by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control and Operation of Distributed Energy Resources in Modern Power Systems)
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Thermodynamics of Observations

  • Arno Keppens and
  • Jean-Christopher Lambert

17 September 2025

This work demonstrates that the four laws of classical thermodynamics apply to the statistics of symmetric observation distributions, and provides examples of how this can be exploited in uncertainty assessments. First, an expression for the partitio...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,973 Views
17 Pages

The Challenges of Low Voltage Distribution System State Estimation—An Application Oriented Review

  • István Táczi,
  • Bálint Sinkovics,
  • István Vokony and
  • Bálint Hartmann

28 August 2021

Global trends such as the growing share of renewable energy sources in the generation mix, electrification, e-mobility, and the increasing number of prosumers reshape the electricity value chain, and distribution systems are necessarily affected. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
331 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2026

Real-world datasets may contain unusually large observations whose origin cannot always be clearly identified. When such observations are present, selecting an appropriate estimation method becomes particularly important because they may substantiall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Air Quality and Particulate Matter: From Source Apportionment to Human Exposure)

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