ThC03 - Graph-based Modeling, Control, and Optimization for Multi-domain and Multi-timescale Energy Systems

Modern energy systems in vehicles and built infrastructure are governed by high-dimensional dynamics spanning multiple physical domains (e.g., electrical, thermal, mechanical) and a wide range of timescales. This tutorial session presents a graph based modeling approach created to facilitate the modeling, analysis, control, estimation, and co-design of energy systems. Matured and validated through more than a decade of research spanning multiple academic institutions and companies, the graph-based approach combines transient energy conservation with an explicit mathematical representation of the network by which energy is stored and transferred within a system. This tutorial session will provide a mathematical overview of graph based models, examples of multi-domain component and system models from the literature, and a survey of recent impactful applications. Furthermore, we will showcase a new open-source MATLAB toolbox created by the organizers to make graph-based models accessible to the dynamics and control community.

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