Colin Jones
EPFL STI IGM LA3
ME C2 408 (Bâtiment ME)
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne
Biography
Colin Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Automatic Control Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He was a Senior Researcher at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich until 2011 and obtained a PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge for his work on polyhedral computational methods for constrained control. Prior to that, he was at the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he took a BASc and MASc in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Colin has worked in a variety of industrial roles, ranging from commercial building control to the development of custom optimization tools focusing on retail human resource scheduling. His current research interests are in the theory and computation of predictive control and optimization, and their application to green energy generation, distribution and management.
Research Interests
My research focuses on the development of the theory and practice of optimization-based, or model predictive control with a particular emphasis on problems arising from renewable energy challenges.
Details of ongoing research can be found at la.epfl.ch/research
Publications are searchable on the EPFL infoscience portal (pdf, Oct, 2011)
Education
| BASc | Electrical engineering and mathematics | University of British Columbia | 1994-2000 |
| MASc | Electrical engineering | University of British Columbia, Canada | 2000-2002 |
| PhD | Control theory | Cambridge, UK | 2002-2005 |
Publications
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Colin Jones' publications
2019
An Inertial Parallel and Asynchronous Forward-Backward Iteration for Distributed Convex Optimization
Journal Of Optimization Theory And Applications. 2019-09-01.
DOI : 10.1007/s10957-019-01542-7.
Learning Non-Parametric Models with Guarantees: A Smooth Lipschitz Interpolation Approach
2019-05-26.
SVR-AMA: An Asynchronous Alternating Minimization Algorithm With Variance Reduction for Model Predictive Control Applications
Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control. 2019-05-01.
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2018.284956.
A Generalized Representer Theorem for Hilbert Space - Valued Functions
2019.
Manifold Learning and Optimal Control for Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Driving
2019.
2018
Economic study of the participation of multiple energy resources in grid services markets
2018-10-09.
A coordinator-driven communication reduction scheme for distributed optimization using the projected gradient method
2018-06-15. European Control Conference 2018 (ECC 2018) , Limassol, Cyprus , June 12-15, 2018.
Supplementary material for the paper: A coordinator-driven communication reduction scheme for distributed optimization using the projected gradient method
2018-06-15.
An ADMM-Based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation
2018-06-11. 20th Power Systems Computation Conference , Dublin, Ireland , 11-15 June, 2018. p. 1-7.
DOI : 10.23919/PSCC.2018.8450879.
A design method for distributed luenberger observers
2018-01-23. IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), , Melbourne, VIC, Australia , December, 12-15, 2017. p. 3374-3379.
DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264153.
Real-Time Optimization of Uncertain Process Systems via Modifier Adaptation and Gaussian Processes
2018-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , Limassol, CYPRUS , Jun 12-15, 2018. p. 466-471.
Use of model predictive control for short-term operating reserve using commercial buildings in the United Kingdom context
2018-01-01. 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Miami Beach, FL , Dec 17-19, 2018. p. 7308-7313.
Learning Proximal Operators with Gaussian Processes
2018-01-01. 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton) , Monticello, IL , Oct 02-05, 2018. p. 935-942.
Active Directional Modifier Adaptation with Trust Region - Application to Energy-Harvesting Kites
2018-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , Limassol, CYPRUS , Jun 12-15, 2018. p. 2312-2317.
A coordinator-driven communication reduction scheme for distributed optimization using the projected gradient method
2018-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , Limassol, CYPRUS , Jun 12-15, 2018. p. 1773-1778.
An ADMM-based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation
2018-01-01. Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) , Dublin, IRELAND , Jun 11-15, 2018.
An ADMM-based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation
2018-01-01. Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) , Dublin, IRELAND , Jun 11-15, 2018.
DOI : 10.23919/PSCC.2018.8450879.
Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses
2018.
Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services
Applied Energy. 2018.
DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.045.
Enhancing the dispatchability of distribution networks through utility-scale batteries and flexible demand
Energy and Buildings. 2018.
DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.04.056.
Economic Advantages of Office Buildings Providing Ancillary Services with Intraday Participation
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2018.
DOI : 10.1109/TSG.2016.2632239.
2017
Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Services Using Commercial Buildings
2017. IEEE Manchester PowerTech , Manchester, England , June 18-22, 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/Tsg.2016.2597002.
Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.
DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8043.
On Generalized Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods with Non-uniform Complementarity Perturbations for Quadratic Programming
2017.
On Coordinated Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Multi-Agent Optimization
2017. 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Melbourne, Australia , December 12-15, 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264177.
Technical Report: Control of Nonlinear Systems with Explicit-MPC-like Controllers
2017. The 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Melbourne, Australia , December 12-15, 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264394.
An Alternating Trust Region Algorithm for Distributed Linearly Constrained Nonlinear Programs, Application to the Optimal Power Flow Problem
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 2017.
DOI : 10.1007/s10957-015-0853-2.
On turnpike and dissipativity properties of continuous-time optimal control problems
Automatica. 2017.
DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.03.012.
Robust Tracking Commitment
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2017.2663766.
Quantization Design for Distributed Optimization
Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control. 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/Tac.2016.2600597.
Interior Point Decomposition for Multi-Agent Optimization
2017. 20th IFAC World Congress , Toulouse, France , 9-14 July, 2017.
DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.039.
Y Stability and performance verification of optimization-based controllers
Automatica. 2017.
DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2016.12.008.
Convergence rates of moment-sum-of-squares hierarchies for optimal control problems
Systems & Control Letters. 2017.
DOI : 10.1016/j.sysconle.2016.11.010.
Hierarchical Control of Building HVAC System for Ancillary Services Provision
2017.
Complexity Certification of the Fast Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Linear MPC
Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control. 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/Tac.2016.2561407.
Dispatching active distribution networks through electrochemical storage systems and demand side management
2017. 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications , Big Island, Hawaii, USA , August 27-30, 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/CCTA.2017.8062629.
Data-driven Demand Response Modeling and Control of Buildings with Gaussian Processes
2017. 2017 American Control Conference , Seattle, Washington, USA , May 24-26, 2017.
Real-Time Distributed Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimal Power Flow
2017. 2017 American Control Conference , Seattle, WA, USA , May 24–26.
DOI : 10.23919/ACC.2017.7963469.
Solving the Infinite-horizon Constrained LQR Problem using Accelerated Dual Proximal Methods
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2017.
DOI : 10.1109/Tac.2016.2594381.
Model Predictive Path-Following Control for Airborne Wind Energy Systems
2017. 20th IFAC World Congress , Toulouse, France , July 2017.
Incipient Actuator Fault Handling in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
2017. 20th IFAC World Congress , Toulouse, France , July 2017.
Constrained bundle methods with inexact minimization applied to the energy regulation provision problem
2017. IFAC 2017 World congress20th IFAC World Congress , Toulouse, FranceToulouse, France , July 9-14. 2017July 2017. p. 12471-12476.
DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1923.
Experimental Demonstration of Buildings Providing Frequency Regulation Services in the Swiss Market
2017.
2016
A Nonlinear Adaptive Controller for Airborne Wind Energy Systems
2016. American Control Conference (ACC), 2016 , Boston, MA, USA , July 6-8, 2016.
DOI : 10.1109/ACC.2016.7525566.
Accelerated ADMM based on Accelerated Douglas-Rachford Splitting
2016. European Control Conference (ECC) , Aalborg, Denmark , June 29 - July 1, 2016. p. 1952-1957.
DOI : 10.1109/ECC.2016.7810577.
A parametric augmented Lagrangian algorithm for real-time economic NMPC
2016. European Control Conference (ECC) , Aalborg, DENMARK , JUN 29-JUL 01, 2016. p. 123-128.
DOI : 10.1109/ECC.2016.7810274.
Design of a Distributed Quantized Luenberger Filter for Bounded Noise
2016. American Control Conference (ACC) , Boston, MA , JUL 06-08, 2016. p. 6393-6398.
A Nonlinear Adaptive Controller for Airborne Wind Energy Systems
2016. American Control Conference (ACC) , Boston, MA , JUL 06-08, 2016. p. 4101-4106.
Sensor Fault Tolerance in Output Feedback Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
2016. 3rd Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol) , Barcelona, SPAIN , SEP 07-09, 2016. p. 711-716.
Constrained LQR Using Online Decomposition Techniques
2016. 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA .
DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2016.7798612.
Operator Splitting Methods in Control
Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control. 2016.
DOI : 10.1561/2600000008.
OpenBuildNet Framework for Distributed Co-Simulation of Smart Energy Systems
2016. 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision , Phuket, Thailand , November 13-15, 2016.
DOI : 10.1109/ICARCV.2016.7838701.
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