Photovoltaics on Landmark Buildings with Distinctive Geometries

Nonlinear Predictive Energy Management of Residential Buildings with Photovoltaics & Batteries

This paper studies a nonlinear predictive energy management strategy for a residential building with a rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system and second-life lithium-ion battery energy storage. A key novelty of this manuscript is closing the gap between building energy management formulations, advanced load forecasting techniques, and nonlinear battery/PV models. Additionally, we focus on the fundame...

Some Geometries that are Almost Buildings

Landmark detection for distinctive feature-based speech recognition

This work is a component of a proposed knowledge-based speech recognition system which uses landmarks to guide the search for distinctive features. In the speech signal, landmarks identify times when the acoustic manifestations of the linguistically motivated distinctive features are most salient. This paper describes an algorithm for automatically detecting acoustically abrupt landmarks. Some ...

Spanning Point-line Geometries in Buildings of Spherical Type

In this paper, M denotes a Dynkin diagram defined over an index set I and (W, {ri}i∈I) will be the associated Coxeter system. The diagram M is called simply-laced if it has only single bonds. For any subset J ⊂ I, MJ denotes the subdiagram of M defined over J and WJ will be the subgroup of W having generator set {ri}i∈J . The pair (WJ , {ri}i∈J) then is a Coxeter system with diagram MJ . Let X ...

Integration of Photovoltaics in Buildings—Support Policies Addressing Technical and Formal Aspects

The integration of photovoltaic (PV) generators in the envelope of a building by means of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) offers an immense potential, both in market development and the production of renewable electric energy that is close to the point of electricity consumption. In Germany, for example, by integrating photovoltaics in buildings up to 50% of the electricity demand can ...