The meeting of the DECIDE project took place on November 16, 2023, in the Bracak Manor near Zabok. The meeting was attended by representatives of the North West Croatia Regional Energy Agency (REGEA), and by LARES researchers Vinko Lešić, Mihael Jakšić, and Filip Vrbanc. The meeting covered the thermal modelling of the Bracak Manor building by our research team. Results obtained by this model were commented on, and also a potential to use the given model in advanced control strategy which leads to higher energy efficiency.  Moreover, DECIDE IoT equipment was presented, including controllers, sensors, switches, etc. During the meeting, the installation of DECIDE devices in Bracak Manor was agreed upon, as a next step in the development of a suitable control algorithm for heating and cooling.

Our DECIDE research team published an article " Simple and Accurate Model of Thermal Storage with Phase Change Material Tailored for Model Predictive Control " - Vrbanc, Filip; Vašak, Mario; Lešić, Vinko, in Energies, an open access scientific journal. 

The paper presents a novel modelling approach for thermal heat storage with phase-change material based on mixed integer linear program.

You can download the article freely on the journal web.

Our DECIDE project team member Nikica Perić presented the paper: N. Perić, S. Begović, M. Muniappan and V. Lešić, "Vehicle Routing Problem Considering Electric Vehicle Battery Consumption" at the International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME 2023) held in Santa Cruz, Spain. Paper is available in IEEEXplore.

DECIDE team member Mojtaba Hajihosseini, presented our project results in the paper: M. Hajihosseini, M. Car, Z. Aleem and V. Lešić, "Charging Control of A Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Integrated With Solar PV Plant" at the IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2023) held in Helsinki, Finland. Paper is available at IEEEXplore.

Our DECIDE research team published an articles in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, a prestigious IEEE scientific journal.

The article "Data-Driven Modeling of Urban Traffic Travel Times for Short-and Long-Term Forecasting" - H. Novak, F. Bronić, A. Kolak, Vinko Lešić, compares data-driven statistical and machine learning approaches for urban traffic travel times forecasting which is of critical importance for efficient supply chain logistics and accurate navigation services. A detailed analysis of the available historical data is performed, including historical floating car data for a one-year period. The ariticle can be found here.

MATHMOD 2022 - 10th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling took place on July 27-29, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. Our DECIDE project research team presented a paper:

• Mixed Logical Dynamical Modelling of a Stratified Storage with Phase-Change Material by Filip Vrbanc, Filip Rukavina, Vinko Lešić and Mario Vašak

The paper can be found under the project Publications tab.

INDIN 2021 – 21st Annual Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, a premier conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society took place on on July 21-23, 2021 in Palma de Mallorca, in virtual form. Our DECIDE project research team presented a paper: 

• Distributed Optimal Heating Control of a Residential Building Resilient to Cybersecurity Issues by Vinko Lešić, Filip Vrbanc, Nikica Perić, Anita Banjac, Hrvoje Novak, Luka Jelić

The paper can be found under the project Publications tab.

PC 2021 – 23rd International Conference on Process Control took place on 1^st - 4^th June 2021 in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. Our DECIDE project research team presented two papers: 

• Distributed Optimal Heating Control of Building Zones - F. Vrbanc and V. Lešić, 
• Prediction of User-defined Room Temperature Setpoints by LSTM Neural Networks - N. Perić, H. Novak, F. Rukavina and V. Lešić,

The papers can be found under the project Publications tab.