Yard crane and AGV scheduling in automated container terminal: A multi-robot task allocation framework

X Chen, S He, Y Zhang, LC Tong, P Shang… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
The efficiency of automated container terminals primarily depends on the synchronization of
automated-guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated cranes. Accordingly, we study the …

Stochastic cooperative bidding strategy for multiple microgrids with peer-to-peer energy trading

L Wang, Y Zhang, W Song, Q Li - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is a significant and challenging problem to coordinate multiple microgrids (MMGs)
belonging to different entities and achieve their excellent energy-sharing performance to …

Security-constrained unit commitment for electricity market: Modeling, solution methods, and future challenges

Y Chen, F Pan, F Qiu, AS Xavier… - … on Power Systems, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper summarizes the technical activities of the IEEE Task Force on Solving Large
Scale Optimization Problems in Electricity Market and Power System Applications. This Task …

[HTML][HTML] Convex Hull Pricing for Unit Commitment: Survey, Insights, and Discussions

F Hyder, B Yan, M Bragin, P Luh - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Energy prices are usually determined by the marginal costs obtained by solving economic
dispatch problems without considering commitment costs. Hence, generating units are …

Smart management of integrated energy systems through co-optimization with long and short horizons

C Saletti, M Morini, A Gambarotta - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The integration of all sectors of energy production, distribution and consumption in multi-
source energy networks has lately gained attention as an attractive strategy to deal with the …

A systematic formulation tightening approach for unit commitment problems

B Yan, PB Luh, T Zheng, DA Schiro… - … on Power Systems, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unit Commitment is usually formulated as a Mixed Binary Linear Programming (MBLP)
problem. When considering a large number of units, state-of-the-art methods such as branch …

TSO-DSO Operational Planning Coordination Through “Proximal” Surrogate Lagrangian Relaxation

MA Bragin, Y Dvorkin - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), located at the Distribution System
Operator (DSO) level, bring new opportunities as well as new challenges to the operations …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing deep decarbonization pathways in California with power system planning using surrogate level-based Lagrangian relaxation

O Anderson, MA Bragin, N Yu - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
With California's ambitious goals to decarbonize the electrical grid by 2045, significant
challenges arise in power system investment planning. Existing modeling methods and …

Synergistic integration of machine learning and mathematical optimization for unit commitment

J Wu, PB Luh, Y Chen, B Yan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unit Commitment (UC) is important for power system operations. With increasing
challenges, eg, growing intermittent renewables and intra-hour net load variability …

Survey on Lagrangian relaxation for MILP: importance, challenges, historical review, recent advancements, and opportunities

MA Bragin - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
Operations in areas of importance to society are frequently modeled as mixed-integer linear
programming (MILP) problems. While MILP problems suffer from combinatorial complexity …