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    • A Novel Direct Load Control Testbed for Smart Appliances 

      Garrido Zafra, Joaquín; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Gil-de-Castro, Aurora; Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno Moreno, Carlos Diego; Morales-Leal, Tomás (MDPI, 2019)
      The effort to continuously improve and innovate smart appliances (SA) energy management requires an experimental research and development environment which integrates widely differing tools and resources seamlessly. To ...
    • A practical tuning methodology for event-based PI control 

      Ruiz, Ángel; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge; Sánchez, José; Dormido, Sebastián (Elsevier, 2014)
      This paper is focused on the tuning of an event-based PI controller for first-order plus time delay systems(FOPTD). In this work, a novel design and combination of a controller and event generator with an easy-to-use tuning ...
    • A unified event-based control approach for FOPTD and IPTD processes based on the filtered Smith predictor 

      Ruiz, Ángel; Beschi, Manuel; Visioli, Antonio; Dormido, Sebastián; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge (Elsevier, 2017)
      A new unified design of an event-based PID control architecture for self-regulating and integral processes is investigated in this work. The design is based on the Symmetrical-Send-On-Delta sampling technique (SSOD) and ...
    • Adaptive active generator torque controller design using multi-objective optimization for tower lateral load reduction in monopile offshore wind turbines 

      Lara, Manuel; Vázquez, Francisco; Sandua-Fernández, Iñaki; Garrido, J. (IEEE Access, 2023)
      The study of fatigue load reduction in wind turbines has gained significant interest in recent years. In monopile offshore wind turbines, vibrations induced by misalignment between waves and wind directions can considerably ...
    • Adaptive Pitch Controller of a Large-Scale Wind Turbine Using Multi-Objective Optimization 

      Lara, Manuel; Garrido, J.; Ruz Ruiz, Mario L.; Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J. (MDPI, 2021)
      This paper deals with the control problems of a wind turbine working in its nominal zone. In this region, the wind turbine speed is controlled by means of the pitch angle, which keeps the nominal power constant against ...
    • AICLE en acción: interacciones formativas y profesionales entre profesorado de todos los estamentos educativos 

      Gómez Parra, María Elena; Huertas Abril, Cristina; Larrea Espinar, Ángela; Raigón Rodríguez, Antonio R.; Osuna Rodríguez, Mercedes; Bullejos Martín, David; Villamandos de la Torre, Francisco; Zamora Salido, José; González Fernández, Adela; Gámez Fernández, Cristina María; Calatayud Tenas, Ana Mª; Martínez Serrano, Leonor María; Jerez Montoya, Trinidad; Tejederas Dorado, Margarita; Martínez Serrano, Beatriz; Serrano Ariza, Soledad; Pérez Gracia, Elisa; Almodóvar Antequera, José Manuel; Merino García, Cristina; Arjona Crespo, Emilio; Palacios Hidalgo, Francisco Javier; Hilinger Alegre, Angélica; Díaz Martín, Cristina (UCOPress, 2019)
      AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras) es el enfoque oficial europeo para la educación bilingüe, auspiciado por la Comisión Europea y fomentado por una cantidad ingente de investigación e ...
    • An approach for estimating the maximum specific growth rate of Gluconobacter japonicus in strawberry purée without cell concentration data 

      Cañete Rodríguez, Ana María; Santos-Dueñas, Inés María; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge; Torija-Martínez, María J.; Mas, Albert; García García, Isidoro (Elsevier, 2016)
      The estimation of the maximum specific growth rate ( max) for non-readily culturable bacteria, growing on complex media containing suspended solids, is a difficult task considering the important problems in obtaining ...
    • An educational computer tool for simulating long-term soil erosion on agricultural landscapes 

      Jiménez-Hornero, Francisco José; Giráldez Cervera, Juan Vicente; Laguna, Ana; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge (Wiley, 2009)
      Due to its economic and environmental impacts, soil erosion has been a major concern to farmers, engineers and policy makers in recent years. Water and tilling are two of the main agents responsible for this phenomenon and ...
    • An extended approach of inverted decoupling 

      Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J.; Morilla, Fernando; Garrido, J. (2011)
      This paper presents an extension of the inverted decoupling approach that allows for more flexibility in choosing the transfer functions of the decoupled apparent process. In addition, the expressions of the inverted ...
    • Analysis of adaptive individual pitch control schemes for blade fatigue Load reduction on a 15 MW wind turbine 

      Lara, Manuel; Mulders, Sebastian Paul; Van Wingerden, Jan Willem; Vázquez, Francisco; Garrido, J. (MDPI, 2024)
      Individual pitch control (IPC) is a method to mitigate periodic blade loads in wind turbines, and it is typically implemented using the multi-blade coordinate (MBC) transform, which converts the blade load measurements ...
    • Analysis of the Influence of Terrain Orientation on the Design of PV Facilities with Single-Axis Trackers 

      Gómez Uceda, Francisco J.; Moreno-García, Isabel; Jiménez-Martínez, José M.; López Luque, Rafael; Fernández-Ahumada, Luis Manuel (MDPI, 2020)
      This paper investigates how to optimally orient the photovoltaic solar trackers of an axis parallel to the terrain, applying the sky model of Hay–Davies. This problem has been widely studied. However, the number of studies ...
    • Benchmarking Analysis of the Panorama of Grid-Connected PV Installations in Spain 

      Gómez Uceda, Francisco J.; Varo-Martínez, Marta; Ramírez Faz, José; López Luque, Rafael; Fernández-Ahumada, Luis Manuel (MDPI, 2022)
      Renewable energies play an important role as a solution to the challenge of satisfying the growing global energy demand without jeopardizing the achievements in the fight against climate change. Given this panorama, different ...
    • Centralized Inverted Decoupling Control 

      Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J.; Morilla, Fernando; Garrido, J. (2013)
      This paper presents a new methodology of multivariable centralized control based on the structure of inverted decoupling. The method is presented for general n×n processes, obtaining very simple general expressions for the ...
    • Centralized multivariable control by simplified decoupling 

      Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J.; Morilla, Fernando; Garrido, J. (2012)
      This paper presents a generalized formulation of simplified decoupling to n×n processes that allows for different configurations depending on the decoupler elements set to unity. To apply this decoupling method, the ...
    • Comparative Analysis of Decoupling Control Methodologies and H¥ Multivariable Robust Control for Variable-Speed, Variable-PitchWind Turbines: Application to a Lab-Scale Wind Turbine 

      Fragoso, Sergio; Garrido, J.; Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J.; Morilla, Fernando (MDPI, 2017)
      This work is focused on the improvement of variable-speed variable-pitch wind turbine performance by means of its control structure. This kind of systems can be considered as multivariable nonlinear processes subjected ...
    • Comparative analysis of decoupling control methodologies and H∞ multivariable robust control for VS-VP wind turbines 

      Fragoso, Sergio; Garrido, J.; Vázquez Serrano, Francisco J.; Morilla, Fernando (IEEE, 2015)
      Wind turbines systems considered multivariable processes can work in several operational modes. Each mode can be represented with a dynamic model. This fact supposes a difficulty in controlling these types of systems. In ...
    • Control Basado en Eventos de Sistemas de Primer Orden Con Retardo 

      Ruiz, Ángel; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge; Sánchez, José; Dormido, Sebastián (Elsevier, 2013)
      La teoría de control PID en su vertiente discreta, apoyándose en una gestión periódica de los muestreos (eventos planificados en tiempo) se considera un área madura dentro del paradigma del control automático. Por el ...
    • Control multivariable por desacoplo 

      Morilla, Fernando; Garrido, J.; Vázquez, Francisco (Elsevier, 2013)
      La interacción entre variables es una característica inherente de los procesos multivariables, que dificulta su operación y el diseño de sus sistemas de control. Bajo el paradigma de Control por desacoplo se agrupan un ...
    • Cooperative model predictive control for avoiding critical instants of energy resilience in networked microgrids 

      González Reina, Antonio Enrique; García Torres, Félix; Girona García, Víctor; Sánchez Sánchez de Puerta, Álvaro; Jiménez Romero, Francisco Javier; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge (Elsevier, 2024)
      The recent international agreements signed by the majority of developed countries, such as those reached at the Climate Change Conferences in Paris’15 and Dubai’23, propose an increasingly rapid transition toward an energy ...
    • COVID-19 pandemic on coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases in Southern Spain: interrupted time series analysis 

      Rodríguez-Cortés, Francisco José; Jiménez Hornero, Jorge; Alcalá Díaz, Juan Francisco; Miñarro del Moral, Rosa M.; Romero-Cabrera, Juan Luis; Manfredini, Roberto; Rodríguez Borrego, M.A.; López Soto, Pablo Jesús (Verduci, 2023)
      OBJECTIVE: Healthcare systems have been put under intense pressure by the COVID-19 pandemic, although some studies have shown a decline in hospital admissions for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases during the first ...