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7 Citations
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An Optimal Scheduling Dispatch of a Microgrid under Risk Assessment

  • Whei-Min Lin,
  • Chung-Yuen Yang,
  • Chia-Sheng Tu and
  • Ming-Tang Tsai

2 June 2018

This paper presents the scheduling dispatch of a microgrid (MG), while considering renewable energy, battery storage systems, and time-of-use price. For the risk evaluation of an MG, the Value-at-Risk (VAR) is calculated by using the Historical Simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,295 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2016

With the development of microgrids (MGs), interconnected operation of multiple MGs is becoming a promising strategy for the smart grid. In this paper, a privacy-preserving distributed optimal scheduling method is proposed for the interconnected micro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
10,227 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of Domestic Appliances via MILP

  • Zdenek Bradac,
  • Vaclav Kaczmarczyk and
  • Petr Fiedler

29 December 2014

This paper analyzes a consumption scheduling mechanism for domestic appliances within a home area network. The aim of the proposed scheduling is to minimize the total energy price paid by the consumer and to reduce power peaks in order to achieve a b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,779 Views
28 Pages

20 January 2025

More distributed energy resources are being integrated into microgrid systems, making scheduling more complex and challenging. In order to achieve the utilization of renewable energy and peak load shifting on a microgrid system, an optimal scheduling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,031 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2022

Aiming at the cooperative optimization problem of economy and environmental protection of the traditional microgrid, including micro gas turbine and diesel engine, carbon capture and storage, and a power to gas system which can consume wind and light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,749 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2024

A reasonable allocation of production schedules and savings in overall electricity costs are crucial for large manufacturing conglomerates. In this study, we develop an optimization model of off-site industrial production scheduling to address the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,373 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of Reservoir Flood Control under Non-Stationary Conditions

  • Chongxun Mo,
  • Changhao Jiang,
  • Xingbi Lei,
  • Weiyan Cen,
  • Zhiwei Yan,
  • Gang Tang,
  • Lingguang Li,
  • Guikai Sun and
  • Zhenxiang Xing

25 July 2023

To improve reservoir flood control and scheduling schemes under changing environmental conditions, we established an adaptive reservoir regulation method integrating hydrological non-stationarity diagnosis, hydrological frequency analysis, design flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,113 Views
24 Pages

Optimal Generation Scheduling in Hydro-Power Plants with the Coral Reefs Optimization Algorithm

  • Carolina Gil Marcelino,
  • Carlos Camacho-Gómez,
  • Silvia Jiménez-Fernández and
  • Sancho Salcedo-Sanz

25 April 2021

Hydro-power plants are able to produce electrical energy in a sustainable way. A known format for producing energy is through generation scheduling, which is a task usually established as a Unit Commitment problem. The challenge in this process is to...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,747 Views
28 Pages

Optimal Day-Ahead Scheduling of Microgrids with Battery Energy Storage System

  • Vanderlei Aparecido Silva,
  • Alexandre Rasi Aoki and
  • Germano Lambert-Torres

5 October 2020

Optimal scheduling is a requirement for microgrids to participate in current and future energy markets. Although the number of research articles on this subject is on the rise, there is a shortage of papers containing detailed mathematical modeling o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,559 Views
16 Pages

Modeling the Optimal Maintenance Scheduling Strategy for Bridge Networks

  • Xinhua Mao,
  • Xiandong Jiang,
  • Changwei Yuan and
  • Jibiao Zhou

9 January 2020

An optimal maintenance scheduling strategy for bridge networks can generate an efficient allocation of resources with budget limits and mitigate the perturbations caused by maintenance activities to the traffic flows. This research formulates the opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,948 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Pareto-Optimal Algorithm for Flow Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Nasser Shahsavari-Pour,
  • Azim Heydari,
  • Afef Fekih and
  • Hamed Asadi

23 September 2024

Minimizing job waiting time for completing related operations is a critical objective in industries such as chemical and food production, where efficient planning and production scheduling are paramount. Addressing the complex nature of flow shop sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,391 Views
20 Pages

3 May 2018

Current literature presents optimal control computational algorithms with regard to state, control, and conjunctive variable spaces. This paper first analyses the advantages and limitations of different optimal control computational methods and algor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,653 Views
23 Pages

19 May 2024

Integrated energy systems (IESs) can easily accommodate renewable energy resources (RESs) and improve the utilization efficiency of fossil energy by integrating various energy production, conversion, and storage technologies. However, the coupled mul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,522 Views
15 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of Controllable Resources in Energy Communities: An Overview of the Optimization Approaches

  • Emely Cruz-De-Jesús,
  • Jose L. Martínez-Ramos and
  • Alejandro Marano-Marcolini

22 December 2022

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of energy communities. This new definition refers to a community sharing energy resources of different types to meet its needs and reduce the associated costs. Optimization is one of the...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,431 Views
33 Pages

9 December 2020

Heat exchanger networks subject to fouling are an important example of dynamic systems where performance deteriorates over time. To mitigate fouling and recover performance, cleanings of the exchangers are scheduled and control actions applied. Becau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,303 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2021

Microgrid has flexible composition, a complex operation mechanism, and a large amount of data while operating. However, optimization methods of microgrid scheduling do not effectively accumulate and utilize the scheduling knowledge at present. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,079 Views
22 Pages

Aiming at the problems of high-dimensional nonlinear constraints, multi-objective conflicts, and low solution efficiency in microgrid optimal scheduling, this paper proposes a multi-objective Harris Hawk–Grey Wolf hybrid intelligent algorithm (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,644 Views
14 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of the Peirce-Smith Converter in the Copper Smelting Process

  • Hussain Ahmed,
  • Luis Ricardez-Sandoval and
  • Matti Vilkko

9 November 2021

Copper losses during the Peirce-Smith converter (PSC) operation is of great concern in the copper smelting process. Two primary objectives of the PSC are to produce blister copper with a shorter batch time and to keep the copper losses at a minimum l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,068 Views
23 Pages

Optimal Scheduling of Residential Microgrids Considering Virtual Energy Storage System

  • Weiliang Liu,
  • Changliang Liu,
  • Yongjun Lin,
  • Liangyu Ma,
  • Kang Bai and
  • Yanqun Wu

16 April 2018

The increasingly complex residential microgrids (r-microgrid) consisting of renewable generation, energy storage systems, and residential buildings require a more intelligent scheduling method. Firstly, aiming at the radiant floor heating/cooling sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,026 Views
18 Pages

An Optimal Scheduling Method in IoT-Fog-Cloud Network Using Combination of Aquila Optimizer and African Vultures Optimization

  • Qing Liu,
  • Houman Kosarirad,
  • Sajad Meisami,
  • Khalid A. Alnowibet and
  • Azadeh Noori Hoshyar

10 April 2023

Today, fog and cloud computing environments can be used to further develop the Internet of Things (IoT). In such environments, task scheduling is very efficient for executing user requests, and the optimal scheduling of IoT task requests increases th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,929 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimal Scheduling Method for a Grid-Connected Redundant Residential Microgrid

  • Weiliang Liu,
  • Changliang Liu,
  • Yongjun Lin,
  • Kang Bai,
  • Liangyu Ma and
  • Wenying Chen

19 May 2019

Optimal scheduling of a redundant residential microgrid (RR-microgrid) could yield economical savings and reduce the emission of pollutants while ensuring the comfort level of users. This paper proposes a novel multi-objective optimal scheduling meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,845 Views
29 Pages

Optimal Renewable Resource Allocation and Load Scheduling of Resilient Communities

  • Jing Wang,
  • Kaitlyn Garifi,
  • Kyri Baker,
  • Wangda Zuo,
  • Yingchen Zhang,
  • Sen Huang and
  • Draguna Vrabie

30 October 2020

This paper presents a methodology for enhancing community resilience through optimal renewable resource allocation and load scheduling in order to minimize unserved load and thermal discomfort. The proposed control architecture distributes the comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,241 Views
23 Pages

9 March 2017

In this paper, an optimal day-ahead scheduling problem is studied for a microgrid with multiple distributed resources. For the sake of coping with the prediction uncertainties of renewable energies and loads and taking advantage of the time-of-use pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,418 Views
19 Pages

3 March 2023

In order to solve the problem of new energy consumption, a combined electric and heating system (CEHS) dynamic optimal scheduling method considering the optimal control of combined heat and power (CHP) unit and electric boiler is proposed from the pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,724 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2025

Effective crew scheduling in hospitals with multiple personnel groups is essential for time efficiency and fair workload distribution. This study focuses on optimizing shift scheduling for a team of nurses, doctors, and caregivers working in the Pedi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,858 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Reuse Design Scheduling of Mine Water Based on Improved Whale Algorithm

  • Yuangan Yue,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Lei Bo,
  • Zihang Zhang,
  • Hongwei Yang and
  • Yiying Wang

14 July 2022

The optimal scheduling of mine water is a multi-objective, multi-constraint, nonlinear, multi-stage combination of optimization problems, in view of the traditional solution methods with the increase in decision-making variable dimensions facing a la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,837 Views
25 Pages

10 June 2023

The problem of optimal scheduling in a system with parallel queues and a single server has been extensively studied in queueing theory. However, such systems have mostly been analysed by assuming homogeneous attributes of arrival and service processe...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,356 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2024

The optimal scheduling of networked microgrids considering the coupled trading of energy and carbon emission allowance (CEA) has been extensively studied. Notably, the scheduling is performed on a daily basis, whereas the CEA is usually checked and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,211 Views
18 Pages

Two-Stage Optimal Scheduling of Highway Self-Consistent Energy System in Western China

  • Yujiang Ye,
  • Ruifeng Shi,
  • Yuqin Gao,
  • Xiaolei Ma and
  • Di Wang

3 March 2023

Under the background of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals” in China, the Highway Self-Consistent Energy System (HSCES) with renewable energy as the main body has become a key research object. To study the operational status of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,505 Views
21 Pages

Research on Microgrid Optimal Scheduling Based on an Improved Honey Badger Algorithm

  • Zheng Wang,
  • Zhenhai Dou,
  • Yuchen Liu,
  • Jiaming Guo,
  • Jingwei Zhao and
  • Wenliang Yin

15 November 2024

As global energy demands continue to grow and environmental protection pressures increase, microgrids have garnered widespread attention due to their ability to effectively integrate distributed energy sources, improve energy utilization efficiency,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
839 Views
37 Pages

12 September 2025

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy in power systems, the multi-objective optimal scheduling of microgrids has become increasingly complex. Traditional optimization methods face limitations when addressing high-dimensional, nonlinear,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,026 Views
17 Pages

15 June 2023

The characteristics of electric buses make it difficult to estimate the energy consumption and mean that they are prone to battery loss; as such, fuel bus scheduling methods are no longer fully applicable. In current studies, the influence of these f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,877 Views
17 Pages

5 September 2020

Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is one of the most efficient ways to utilize renewable energy in buildings. However, the stochastic characteristic of PV power generation and load challenges the optimal dispatch of the BIPV. This paper propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,474 Views
26 Pages

29 October 2024

Integrating photovoltaic power stations into large-capacity hydropower stations is an efficient and promising method for regulating large-scale photovoltaic power generation. However, constrained by the time step length, traditional long-term schedul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,615 Views
26 Pages

30 August 2024

Integrating distributed generations (DGs) into distribution networks poses a challenge for active distribution networks (ADNs) when managing distributed resources for optimal scheduling. To address this issue, this paper proposes a day-ahead and intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,249 Views
18 Pages

Optimal Scheduling and Fair Service Policy for STDMA in Underwater Networks with Acoustic Communications

  • Miguel-Ángel Luque-Nieto,
  • José-Miguel Moreno-Roldán,
  • Pablo Otero and
  • Javier Poncela

17 February 2018

In this work, a multi-hop string network with a single sink node is analyzed. A periodic optimal scheduling for TDMA operation that considers the characteristic long propagation delay of the underwater acoustic channel is presented. This planning of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,836 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimal Scheduling of Microgrids Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm

  • Zhong Guan,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Xiaohu Luo,
  • Xi Yang,
  • Jugang Fang and
  • Qiang Zhao

7 April 2024

Microgrid optimization scheduling, as a crucial part of smart grid optimization, plays a significant role in reducing energy consumption and environmental pollution. The development goals of microgrids not only aim to meet the basic demands of electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,663 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2023

The volatility and uncertainty of high-penetration renewable energy pose significant challenges to the stability of the power system. Current research often fails to consider the insufficient system flexibility during real-time scheduling. To address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,390 Views
27 Pages

16 July 2023

The optimal scheduling of cascade reservoirs is an important water resource management and regulation method. In the actual operation process, its nonlinear, high-dimensional, and coupled characteristics become increasingly apparent under the influen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,013 Views
26 Pages

10 February 2023

In the context of carbon neutralization, the electric vehicle and energy storage market is growing rapidly. As a result, battery recycling is an important work with the consideration of the advent of battery retirement and resource constraints, envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,655 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2024

The intelligent monitoring of road surveillance videos is a crucial tool for detecting and predicting traffic anomalies, swiftly identifying road safety risks, rapidly addressing potential hazards, and preventing accidents or secondary incidents. Wit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,058 Views
26 Pages

29 May 2025

This paper presents a robust optimization-based approach for voyage and power generation scheduling to enhance the economic efficiency and reliability of electric propulsion ships powered by polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and batter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,497 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2023

Photovoltaic (PV) power generation exhibits stochastic and uncertain characteristics. In order to improve the economy and reliability of a photovoltaic-energy storage system (PV-ESS), it is crucial to optimize both the energy storage capacity size an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,510 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2023

The scheduling of rescue aircraft needs to be studied in depth because of its criticality for the general aviation rescue of forest fires. This paper constructs a collaborative schedule optimization model for general aviation rescue under the conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,894 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Scheduling Strategy of AC/DC Hybrid Distribution Network Based on Power Electronic Transformer

  • Qingwen Peng,
  • Lu Qu,
  • Zhichang Yuan,
  • Xiaorui Wang,
  • Yukun Chen and
  • Baoye Tian

31 May 2021

The AC/DC hybrid distribution network is composed of a medium-voltage DC bus, a low-voltage DC bus, and a power electronic transformer, and has the characteristics of multi-voltage level, multi-DC bus, and multi-converter, so its operation mode and o...

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  • Open Access
1,249 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2025

Energy-aware scheduling plays a critical role in modern computing and manufacturing systems, where energy consumption often increases with job execution order or resource usage intensity. This study investigates a scheduling problem in which a sequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,475 Views
20 Pages

1 November 2021

The uncertainty associated with loads and renewable-energy sources affects active distribution networks in terms of the operation and voltage stability on different time scales. To address this problem, a multi-time-scale voltage stability constraine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,136 Views
13 Pages

1 April 2025

The application of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) provides new opportunities and challenges for optimizing and controlling urban intersections. To avoid collisions of vehicles in conflicting directions at intersections and improve the efficiency...

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  • Open Access
91 Citations
7,833 Views
15 Pages

Digital Twin for Operation of Microgrid: Optimal Scheduling in Virtual Space of Digital Twin

  • Hyang-A Park,
  • Gilsung Byeon,
  • Wanbin Son,
  • Hyung-Chul Jo,
  • Jongyul Kim and
  • Sungshin Kim

20 October 2020

Due to the recent development of information and communication technology (ICT), various studies using real-time data are now being conducted. The microgrid research field is also evolving to enable intelligent operation of energy management through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,114 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2025

With the increasing proportion of renewable energy in power systems, the applications of mobile energy storage systems (MESSs) with better flexibility and controllability are becoming more widespread. To further explore the hybrid ESS optimization sc...

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