Energy Systems Control Laboratory

Book Chapters

  1. Koeln, Justin; Keating, Bryan; Alleyne, Andrew; Price, Christopher; Rasmussen, Bryan. HVAC System Modeling and Control: Multi-zone Temperature Modeling and Control, Intelligent Building Control Systems, John Wen and Sandipan Mishra (ed.), Springer, 2018.
  2. Rasmussen, Bryan; Price, Christopher; Koeln, Justin; Keating, Bryan; Alleyne, Andrew. HVAC System Modeling and Control: Vapor Compression System Modeling and Control, Intelligent Building Control Systems, John Wen and Sandipan Mishra (ed.), Springer, 2018.

Journal Publications

  1. Raghuraman, Vignesh, and Koeln, Justin. Hierarchical MPC for coupled subsystems using adjustable tubes, Automatica, vol. 143, pp. 110435, 2022.
  2. Raghuraman, Vignesh; and Koeln, Justin. Set operations and order reductions for constrained zonotopes, Automatica, vol 139, pp. 110204, 2022.
  3. Leister, Daniel; Koeln, Justin. Nonlinear Hierarchical MPC With Application to Aircraft Fuel Thermal Management Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2022.
  4. Jacob, Siefert; Bird, Trevor; Koeln, Justin; Jain, Neera; Pangborn, Herschel. Robust Successor and Precursor Sets of Hybrid Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 355-360, 2022.
  5. Raghuraman, Vignesh; Koeln, Justin. Set operations and order reductions for constrained zonotopes, Automatica, vol. 139, pp.110204, 2022.
  6. Jacob, Siefert; Leister Daniel;  Koeln, Justin; and Herschel Pangborn. Discrete reachability analysis with bounded error sets, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol 6, pp. 1694-1699, 2021.
  7. Michelle, Chen; Muñoz Rojo, Miguel; Lian, Feifei; Koeln, Justin; Sood, Aditya; Bohaichuk, Stephanie; Neumann, Christopher; Garrow, Sarah; Goodson, Kenneth; Alleyne, Andrew; Pop, Eric. Graphene-based electromechanical thermal switches, 2D Materials, vol. 8, pp. 035055, 2021.
  8. Koeln, Justin; Raghuraman, Vignesh; Hencey, Brandon. Vertical Hierarchical MPC for Constrained Linear Systems, Automatica, vol. 113, pp.108817, 2020.
  9. Koeln, Justin; Pangborn, Herschel; Williams, Matthew; Kawamura, Malia; Alleyne, Andrew. Hierarchical Control of Aircraft Electro-Thermal Systems, IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 28, pp. 1218-1232, 2019.
  10. Pangborn, Herschel; Koeln, Justin; Williams, Matthew; Alleyne, Andrew. Experimental Validation of Graph-based Hierarchical Control for Thermal Management, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 140, pp. 101016, 2017.
  11. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Robust Hierarchical Model Predictive Control of Graph-based Power Flow Systems, Automatica, vol. 96, pp. 127-133, 2018.
  12. Williams, Matthew; Koeln, Justin; Pangborn, Herschel; Alleyne, Andrew. Dynamical Graph Models of Aircraft Electrical, Thermal, and Turbomachinery Components, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 140, 2017.
  13. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Stability of Decentralized Model Predictive Control of Graph-based Power Flow Systems via Passivity, Automatica, vol. 82, pp. 29-34, 2017.
  14. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Optimal Subcooling in Vapor Compression Systems via Extremum Seeking Control: Theory and Experiments, International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 43, pp. 14-25, 2014.
  15. Jain, Neera; Koeln, Justin; Sundaram, Shreyas; Alleyne, Andrew. Partially-Decentralized Control of Large-Scale Variable-Refrigerant-Flow Systems in Buildings, Journal of Process Control, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 798-819, 2014.
  16. McCarthy, Kevin; McCarthy Patrick; Wu, Ning; Alleyne, Andrew; Koeln, Justin; Patnaik, Soumya; Emo, Stephen; Cory, Joshua. Model Accuracy of Variable Fidelity Vapor Cycle System Simulations, SAE Technical Paper 2014-01-2140, 2014.
  17. Munro, Troy; Koeln, Justin; Fassmann, Andrew; Barnett, Robert; Ban, Heng. Phase Change Heat Transfer and Bubble Behavior Observed on Twisted Wire Heater Geometries in Microgravity, International Journal of Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 47, pp. 21-30, 2014.
  18. Koeln, Justin; Boulware, Jeffrey; Ban, Heng; Dennison, J.R. Observations on Braided Thin Wire Nucleate Boiling in Microgravity, International Journal of Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 973-981, 2011.

Conference Publications

  1. Trevor, Bird; Jain, Neera; Pangborn, Herschel; Koeln, Justin. Set-based reachability and the explicit solution of linear MPC using hybrid Zonotopes, American Control Conference, 2022.
  2. Yejun, Lao; Rotea, Mario; Koeln, Justin; Sakib, Mohammad; Griffith, Todd. Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Offshore Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines, American Control Conference, 2022.
  3. Raghuraman, Vignesh; Koeln, Justin. Tube-based robust MPC with adjustable uncertainty sets using zonotopes, American Control Conference, 2021.
  4. Leister, Daniel ; Koeln, Justin. Nonlinear Hierarchical MPC for Maximizing Aircraft Thermal Endurance, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2020.
  5. Wenqing, Wang; Koeln, Justin. Hierarchical Multi-Timescale Energy Management for Hybrid-Electric Aircraft, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2020.
  6. Raghuraman, Vignesh; Renganathan, Venkatraman; Summers, Tyler; Koeln, Justin. Hierarchical MPC with Coordinating Terminal Costs, American Control Conference, 2020.
  7. Koeln, Justin; Hencey, Brandon. Constrained Hierarchical MPC via Zonotopic Waysets, American Control Conference, 2019.
  8. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Two-Level Hierarchical Mission-Based Model Predictive Control, American Control Conference, 2018.
  9. Pangborn, Herschel; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Passivity and Decentralized MPC of Switched Graph-Based Power Flow Systems, American Control Conference, 2018.
  10. Aksland, Christopher; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. A Graph-based Approach for Dynamic Compressor Modeling in Vapor Compression Systems, Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2017.
  11. Pangborn, Herschel; Williams, Matthew; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Graph-Based Hierarchical Control of Thermal Fluid Power Flow Systems, American Control Conference, 2017.
  12. Koeln, Justin; Williams, Matthew; Pangborn, Herschel; Alleyne, Andrew. Experimental Validation of Graph-based Modeling For Thermal Fluid Power Flow Systems, Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2016.
  13. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Event-based Hierarchical Control of Power Flow in Vehicle Systems, Proc. of the 2016 American Control Conference, 2016.
  14. Koeln, Justin; Williams, Matthew; Alleyne, Andrew. Hierarchical Control of Multi-domain Power Flow in Mobile Systems – Part I: Framework Development and Demonstration, Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2015.
  15. Williams, Matthew; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Hierarchical Control of Multi-domain Power Flow in Mobile Systems – Part II: Aircraft Application, Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2015.
  16. Keating, Bryan; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Weiner Modeling of a Closed Loop Vapor Compression System for Extremum Seeking Controller Design, Proc. of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2015.
  17. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Scalable Model Predictive Control for Multi-Evaporator Vapor Compression Systems. Proc. of the 2014 American Control Conference, 2014.
  18. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Optimal Subcooling in Vapor Compression Systems via Extremum Seeking Control. Proc. of the 6th ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2013.
  19. Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew. Decentralized Controller Analysis and Design for Multi-Evaporator Vapor Compression Systems. Proc. of the 2013 American Control Conference, 2013.
  20. Koeln, Justin; Kania, Megan; Jain, Neera; Alleyne, Andrew. Experimental Load Emulation for Multi-Evaporator Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Systems. Proc. of the International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, 2012.
  21. Kania, Megan; Koeln, Justin; Alleyne, Andrew; McCarthy, Kevin; Wu, Ning; Patnaik, Soumya. A Dynamic Modeling Toolbox for Air Vehicle Vapor Cycle Systems. Proc. of the SAE Power Systems Conference, 2012.
  22. Koeln, Justin; Boulware, Jeffrey; Ban, Heng. Bubble Behavior in Nucleate Boiling Experiment Aboard the Space Shuttle. Proc. of the 2010 AIAA Intern. Student Conf. at the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sci. Meeting, 2010.
  23. Koeln, Justin. Thin Wire Nucleate Boiling of Water in Sustained Microgravity. Proc. of the 23rd Annual AIAA/USU Conf. on Small Satellites, SSC09-VIII-6, 2009.

Theses

  1. Koeln, Justin. Hierarchical Power Management in Vehicle Systems. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. Mech. Eng., Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL., 2016.
  2. Koeln, Justin. A Decentralized Control Design Approach to a Class of Large-Scale Systems. M.S. Thesis, Dept. Mech. Eng., Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL., 2013.
  3. Raghuraman, Vignesh. Set-Based Hierarchical Control for Multi-Timescale Energy Management. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. Mech. Eng., The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX., 2022 
  4. Sakakini, Trent. Design and Validation of Switched Moving Boundary Modeling for Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Systems. M.S. Thesis, Dept. Mech. Eng., The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX., 2023