Cutting funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting could be catastrophic for local stations, particularly those in rural areas. By Benjamin Mullin More than a half-century ago, the federal ...

We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic ...

ABSTRACT: The article is devoted to decision making regarding controlling the operation of tubular gas heaters (TGH) on wood pellets. Experimental results of the study of the operation of TGH on ...

Abstract: Patrol robots in hospital wards are expected not only to ensure the safety of their movements, but also to perform gait measurement as part of their monitoring functions. In this study, we ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. There is a need for design strategies that can support rapid and widespread deployment ...

Abstract: This letter presents an enhanced Trust Region Method (TRM) for Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) designed to improve the initial feasible solution to a constrained nonlinear programming ...

Across Europe, skills shortages are emerging as a key challenge. The Council of the European Union says this is driven by demographic change, demand for new skillsets, and poor working conditions in ...

CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Batch reactors are type of chemical reactors, where the reactants are loaded to ...