This open access book provides an overview of the results of a large university collaboration addressing the emerging topic of distributed, localized energy grids and also smart grids. The authors discuss promising, consolidated results from their consortium research activities from the past decade. The methods described achieve unprecedented accuracy levels within reasonable run-times, compatible with on-line monitoring and forecasting as needed for smart grids.
Francky Catthoor received a Ph.D. in EE from the Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium in 1987. Between 1987 and 2000, he has headed several research do- mains in the area of synthesis techniques and architectural methodologies, all at IMEC Leuven, Belgium. Since 2000 he is strongly involved in other activities at IMEC including co-exploration of application, computer architecture and deep submicron technology aspects, biomedical systems and IoT sensor nodes, and photo-voltaic modules combined with renewable energy systems. Currently he is an IMEC senior fellow. He is also part-time full professor at the EE department of the KULeuven. He has been associate editor for several IEEE and ACM journals, and was elected IEEE fellow in 2005. After his official retirement from IMEC in Oct’2024, he is now affiliated with the Microlab of NTUAthens in Greece as associated guest professor.
Ittetsu Taniguchi received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was an international scholar at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (IMEC), Belgium. In 2009, he joined the College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University as an assistant professor and became a lecturer in 2014. In 2017, he joined the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University as an associate professor. His research interests include system-level design methodology, design methodologies for cyber-physical systems, smart energy management systems, etc. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE and IPSJ.
Pavlos S. Georgilakis (M’01, SM’11) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1990 and 2000, respectively. In September 2009, he joined as a faculty member the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA, where he is currently a Full Professor. From 2004 to 2009 he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. From 1994 to 2003 he was with Schneider Electric AE, the Greek subsidiary of Schneider Electric, where he worked as quality control engineer, transformer design engineer, research and development manager, and low voltage products marketing manager. His current research interests include optimization algorithms and computational intelligence techniques for the optimal operation and planning of smart distribution systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
Dafang Zhao received M.E and Ph.D. degrees from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Osaka University in 2019 and 2022. In 2022 he joined the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University as an assistant professor. His research interests includes nonlinear system, energy storage system and building thermodynamics system modelling, design methodologies for smart building and energy management systems, etc. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Dimitrios Soudris received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 1995, he has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. He has authored or coauthored more than 500 papers in international journals/conferences. He has coauthored/coedited seven Kluwer/Springer books. He is also the leader and a principal investigator in research projects funded by Greek Government and Industry, European Commission, ENIAC-JU, and European Space Agency. His current research interests include high performance computing, embedded systems, reconfigurable architectures, reliability, and low-power VLSI design. He was a recipient of the award from INTEL and IBM for EU Project LPGD 25256; ASP-DAC 05 and VLSI 05 awards for EU AMDREL IST-2001-34379, and several HiPEAC awards. He has served as the general/program chair in several conferences.
Kostas Siozios received the Diploma, Master and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2001, 2003 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include Hardware Accelerators, Reconfigurable Architecture, Low-Power Design, Resource Allocation, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) algorithms for physical design and Decision-Making Algorithms. He has published more than 200 papers (in peer-reviewed journals and conferences), with more than 1400 citations according to G&S (h-index=19). He has contributed in 8 books of Kluwer and Springer. The last years he was involved as Project Coordinator, Technical Manager or Principal Investigator in 25 research projects funded from the European Commission (EC), European Space Agency (ESA), as well as the Greek Government and Industry.
Andreas Kazantzidis is professor at the Physics Department of Univ. of Patras, Greece. His main research interests include the transfer of solar radiation through the atmosphere and the estimation of the effects of different atmospheric constituents, such aerosols and clouds. Particular emphasis is given on solar energy model calculations and measurements, as well as on past and future UV changes related to climate change and their effect on human health. The research activities are focused on the extensive use of radiative transfer models in synergy with measurements of radiation, aerosol and cloud properties. Experimental work includes monitoring of shortwave and UV radiation with various instruments, as well as data management and QA/QC procedures.
