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Overview

Prabir Barooah is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and specializes in the field of engineering, with a primary focus on control and systems engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and building and construction. Their research contributions span environmental and mechanical engineering as well.

The scientist has produced a significant body of work in several interconnected areas, including:

  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Control Systems and Identification
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Smart Grid Security and Resilience

Frequent publication venues for Barooah include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities
  • Applied Energy
  • Automatica

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Barooah cover topics ranging from energy demand impacted by COVID-19 to advanced predictive control in HVAC systems. Notable papers include:

  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. Electricity Demand and Supply: An Early View From Data (2020, IEEE Access)
  • Model predictive control for energy-efficient HVAC operation with humidity and latent heat considerations (2020, Applied Energy)
  • Aggregation and data driven identification of building thermal dynamic model and unmeasured disturbance (2020, Energy and Buildings)
  • Aggregate Flexibility Capacity of TCLs With Cycling Constraints (2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems)
  • On energy-efficient HVAC operation with Model Predictive Control: A multiple climate zone study (2022, Applied Energy)

Collaborative research is a notable aspect of Barooah's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Austin R. Coffman (16 publications)
  • Zhong Guo (9 publications)
  • Naren Srivaths Raman (6 publications)
  • Tingting Zeng (4 publications)
  • Duzgun Agdas (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • DistressNet: a wireless ad hoc and sensor network architecture for situation management in disaster response

    S.M. George;Wei Zhou;H. Chenji;Myounggyu Won

  • Ancillary Service to the Grid Through Control of Fans in Commercial Building HVAC Systems

    He Hao;Yashen Lin;Anupama S. Kowli;Prabir Barooah

  • Mistuning-Based Control Design to Improve Closed-Loop Stability Margin of Vehicular Platoons

    P. Barooah;P.G. Mehta;J.P. Hespanha

  • Experimental Evaluation of Frequency Regulation From Commercial Building HVAC Systems

    Yashen Lin;Prabir Barooah;Sean P. Meyn;Timothy Middelkoop

  • Occupancy-based zone-climate control for energy-efficient buildings: Complexity vs. performance

    Siddharth Goyal;Herbert A. Ingley;Prabir Barooah

  • Ancillary Service to the Grid Using Intelligent Deferrable Loads

    Sean P. Meyn;Prabir Barooah;Ana Busic;Yue Chen

  • A method for model-reduction of non-linear thermal dynamics of multi-zone buildings

    Siddharth Goyal;Prabir Barooah

  • Error Amplification and Disturbance Propagation in Vehicle Strings with Decentralized Linear Control

    P. Barooah;J.P. Hespanha

  • Stability and robustness of large platoons of vehicles with double-integrator models and nearest neighbor interaction

    He Hao;Prabir Barooah

  • Estimation on graphs from relative measurements

    P. Barooah;J.P. Hespanha

  • Graph Effective Resistance and Distributed Control: Spectral Properties and Applications

    P. Barooah;J.P. Hespanha

  • Mistuning-based Control Design to Improve Closed-Loop Stability of Vehicular Platoons

    Prabir Barooah;Prashant G. Mehta;Joao P Hespanha

  • Building thermal model reduction via aggregation of states

    Kun Deng;Prabir Barooah;Prashant G. Mehta;Sean P. Meyn

  • An integrated approach to occupancy modeling and estimation in commercial buildings

    Chenda Liao;Prabir Barooah

  • Issues in identification of control-oriented thermal models of zones in multi-zone buildings

    Yashen Lin;Timothy Middelkoop;Prabir Barooah

  • How demand response from commercial buildings will provide the regulation needs of the grid

    He Hao;Tim Middelkoop;Prabir Barooah;Sean Meyn

  • Experimental study of occupancy-based control of HVAC zones ✩

    Siddharth Goyal;Prabir Barooah;Timothy Middelkoop

  • Energy-efficient control of under-actuated HVAC zones in commercial buildings

    Jonathan Brooks;Saket Kumar;Siddharth Goyal;Rahul Subramany

  • Estimation From Relative Measurements: Electrical Analogy and Large Graphs

    P. Barooah;J.P. Hespanha

  • Ancillary service for the grid via control of commercial building HVAC systems

    He Hao;Anupama Kowli;Yashen Lin;Prabir Barooah

  • Estimating DoA From Radio-Frequency RSSI Measurements Using an Actuated Reflector

    B N Hood;P Barooah

  • Ancillary Service to the Grid Using Intelligent Deferrable Loads

    Sean Meyn;Prabir Barooah;Ana Bušić;Yue Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joao P. Hespanha
Joao P. Hespanha University of California, Santa Barbara
Warren E. Dixon
Warren E. Dixon University of Florida
Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami United States Army Research Laboratory
Johanna L. Mathieu
Johanna L. Mathieu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tapan Kumar Saha
Tapan Kumar Saha University of Queensland
Luca P. Carloni
Luca P. Carloni Columbia University

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