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SUMMARY:Network science in control: From smart cities to a smart future
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DESCRIPTION:Mathias Hudoba de Badyn (ETH Zürich)\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe clim
 ate crisis is likely to be the largest factor in inequality growth over th
 e next century. Mitigating these effects require novel techniques in both 
 decarbonizing energy production\, and minimizing current energy consumptio
 n. In this talk\, I discuss how large-scale infrastructure system control 
 can address both problems simultaneously. One challenge with increasing th
 e penetration of renewable energy in the power grid is that this results i
 n higher levels of uncertainty and variability of supply and demand in the
  grid. I argue that electricity demand\, such as from large residential bu
 ildings\, can be used to help balance these fluctuations in supply in real
 -time by varying the building demand (known as demand response). This nece
 ssitates the control of large numbers of individual apartment units\, as w
 ell as heating/cooling energy systems\, in a coordinated fashion in order 
 to produce a desired aggregate electricity demand during real-time operati
 on. The theoretical core behind these distributed control algorithms lies
  in fundamental network science. The presence of networks in distributed c
 ontrol systems leads to interesting theoretical questions regarding scalab
 ility and modularity of such methods: how large of a network can you contr
 ol\, and how does your system behave when new systems are added to the net
 work? I also discuss how fundamental network science can inform us about h
 ow we can modify pre-existing infrastructure networks for improved control
 \, or how to design them a priori. I demonstrate the viability of our dist
 ributed control methods with experimental results from the NEST Smart Buil
 ding Demonstrator facility.\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\nMathias Hudoba de Badyn is 
 a postdoctoral scholar in the Automatic Control Laboratory (ifA) at the Sw
 iss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)\, Zürich. He received both his 
 Ph.D. degree in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics\, and an M.
 Sc. degree in the Department of Mathematics in 2019 at the University of W
 ashington. In 2014\, he graduated from the University of British Columbia 
 with a BSc in Combined Honours in Physics and Mathematics. His research in
 terests include the analysis and control of networked dynamical systems.\n
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