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Appliance Scheduling Optimisation Method Using Historical Data in Households with RES Generation and Battery Storage Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Correa-Delval, M., Sun, H., Matthews, P. C., & Chiu, W.-Y. (2022, September). Appliance Scheduling Optimisation Method Using Historical Data in Households with RES Generation and Battery Storage Systems. Presented at 2022 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering (REPE 2021), Beijing, China

In recent years, the importance of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has increased. With the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, we can improve the way households manage their energy use to decrease cost and carbon emissions. I... Read More about Appliance Scheduling Optimisation Method Using Historical Data in Households with RES Generation and Battery Storage Systems.

Appliance Classification using BiLSTM Neural Networks and Feature Extraction (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Correa-Delval, M., Sun, H., Matthews, P., & Jiang, J. (2021, October). Appliance Classification using BiLSTM Neural Networks and Feature Extraction. Presented at IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Espoo, Finland

One significant challenge in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is to identify and classify active appliances used in a building. This research focuses on the classifying process, exploring different approaches for the feature extraction of the app... Read More about Appliance Classification using BiLSTM Neural Networks and Feature Extraction.

Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hua, W., Li, D., Sun, H., Matthews, P., & Meng, F. (2017, September). Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy, Chengdu, China

In order to alleviate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, the environmental and economic dispatch (EED) is formulated as multiobjective problem (MOP) solved by multiobjective immune algorithm (MOIA). Building on this model, the virtual power pla... Read More about Stochastic environmental and economic dispatch of power systems with virtual power plant in energy and reserve markets.

SMS Spam Filtering using Probabilistic Topic Modelling and Stacked Denoising Autoencoder (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al Moubayed, N., Breckon, T., Matthews, P., & McGough, A. (2016, August). SMS Spam Filtering using Probabilistic Topic Modelling and Stacked Denoising Autoencoder

In This paper we present a novel approach to spam filtering and demonstrate its applicability with respect to SMS messages. Our approach requires minimum features engineering and a small set of labelled data samples. Features are extracted using topi... Read More about SMS Spam Filtering using Probabilistic Topic Modelling and Stacked Denoising Autoencoder.

Analysis of Two Onshore Wind Farms with a Dynamic Farm Controller (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, T., Girard, N., Kazemtabrizi, B., & Matthews, P. (2015, November). Analysis of Two Onshore Wind Farms with a Dynamic Farm Controller. Presented at EWEA 2015, Paris, France

This work develops an assessment methodology for identifying potential areas where coordinated control can increase farm power output. A dynamic farm controller is presented that exploits the benefits of reducing power of the upstream turbines for in... Read More about Analysis of Two Onshore Wind Farms with a Dynamic Farm Controller.

Onshore Wind Farm Fast Wake Estimation Method: Critical Analysis of the Jensen Model (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sidwell, N., Ahmad, T., & Matthews, P. (2015, November). Onshore Wind Farm Fast Wake Estimation Method: Critical Analysis of the Jensen Model. Presented at EWEA 2015, Paris, France

Wind energy is the most rapidly expanding source of renewable energy in the UK and has supplied 5% of the country’s electricity requirements since 2010. With finite space available for future development, investors and manufacturers are constantly lo... Read More about Onshore Wind Farm Fast Wake Estimation Method: Critical Analysis of the Jensen Model.

Evaluation of Synthetic Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., Crabtree, C., & Matthews, P. (2015, November). Evaluation of Synthetic Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms. Presented at EWEA 2015, Paris, France

A method for synthesising wind speed time series (WSTS) from limited data is required that can be used for reliability examination of wind farms and maintenance strategies for a range of wind speed scenarios. Key characteristics of the wind resource... Read More about Evaluation of Synthetic Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms.

Dynamic Wind Farm Controller (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, T., Matthews, P., Kazemtabrizi, B., & Smith, C. (2015, September). Dynamic Wind Farm Controller. Presented at 11th EAWE PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe., Stuttgart, Germany

This work presents a dynamic wind farm controller for maximising power output of a wind farm. The controller uses a coordinated control approach where the output of the upstream turbines is varied to minimise wake effects on the downstream turbines.... Read More about Dynamic Wind Farm Controller.

Experimental Set-up for Applying Wind Turbine Operating Profiles to the Nacelle Power Converter (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., Crabtree, C., & Matthews, P. (2015, September). Experimental Set-up for Applying Wind Turbine Operating Profiles to the Nacelle Power Converter. Presented at 11th EAWE PhD Seminar, Stuttgart, Germany

Studies have shown that the reliability of fully rated converters (FRC) in permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) wind turbines is critical. This paper outlines an experimental rig that applies PMSG wind turbine specific operating profiles to... Read More about Experimental Set-up for Applying Wind Turbine Operating Profiles to the Nacelle Power Converter.

Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akperi, B., & Matthews, P. (2014, October). Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Power System Technology, Chengdu, China

The classification of electrical load profiles has become increasingly important as a driver for distribution companies in understanding substation data. The daily load profile can often give great insight into the types of customers connected to the... Read More about Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution.

Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., Crabtree, C., Matthews, P., & Kazemtabrizi, B. Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms. Presented at 10th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, EAWE., Orléans, France

This paper outlines proposed testing criteria for wind speed time series (WSTS) models. The objective is to assess their suitability for reliability analysis that is dependent on an accurate representation of weather patterns. Two WSTS models were an... Read More about Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms.

Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, T., Smith, C., Matthews, P., Crabtree, C., & Kazemtabrizi, B. Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects. Presented at 10th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, EAWE., Orléans, France

This paper introduces a wind speed model for simulating the distribution of wind speeds within a wind farm. The model combines a macro scale wind speed time series (WSTS) model based on a continuous Markov process with a wake flow model, based on the... Read More about Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects.

Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akperi, B., & Matthews, P. (2014, September). Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network. Presented at 2014 49th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Cluj-Napoca, Romania

It has become increasingly important for electrical distribution companies to understand the drivers of demand. The maximum demand at any given substation can vary materially on an annual basis which means it is difficult to create a load related inv... Read More about Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network.

Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Matthews, P., & Tavner, P. (2013, February). Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS. Presented at EWEA 2013, Vienna, Austria

Many current wind turbine (WT) studies focus on improving their reliability and reducing the cost of energy, particularly when WTs are operated offshore. WT Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems contain alarms and signals that prov... Read More about Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS.

Structural optimisation using boundary element based level set method (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ullah, B., Trevelyan, J., & Matthews, P. (2012, December). Structural optimisation using boundary element based level set method. Presented at Proceedings of the 20th UK conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), University of Manchester, Manchester

Bayesian Project Monitoring (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matthews, P., & Philip, A. (2011, December). Bayesian Project Monitoring. Presented at Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), Copenhagen

Comparing Stochastic Design Decision Belief Models: Pointwise versus Interval Probabilities (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matthews, P. (2010, July). Comparing Stochastic Design Decision Belief Models: Pointwise versus Interval Probabilities. Presented at 4th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'10, Stuttgart, Germany

Decision support systems can either directly support a product designer or support an agent operating within a multi-agent system (MAS). Stochastic based decision support systems require an underlying belief model that encodes domain knowledge. The u... Read More about Comparing Stochastic Design Decision Belief Models: Pointwise versus Interval Probabilities.