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  1. Dynamic Modeling of Crop–Soil Systems to Design Monitoring and Automatic Irrigation Processes: A Review with Worked Examples

    Article • Water, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Nicanor Quijano

  2. A Payoff Dynamics Model for Equality-Constrained Population Games

    Article • IEEE Control Systems Letters, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  3. Decentralized Control for Urban Drainage Systems Using Replicator Dynamics

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  4. Discrete-Time Distributed Population Dynamics for Optimization and Control

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  5. On the Stability of Cyber-Physical Control Systems With Sensor Multiplicative Attacks

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  6. Distributed population dynamics for active and reactive power dispatch in islanded microgrids

    Article • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, February 2021, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  7. An Agent-Based Crop Model Framework for Heterogeneous Soils

    Article • Agronomy, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Nicanor Quijano

  8. Robust Optimization Over Networks Using Distributed Restarting of Accelerated Dynamics

    Article • IEEE Control Systems Letters, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  9. Dynamic Data Integration for Resilience to Sensor Attacks in Multi-Agent Systems

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  10. Intra-Hour Microgrid Economic Dispatch Based on Model Predictive Control

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, May 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  11. A Multi-Critic Reinforcement Learning Method: An Application to Multi-Tank Water Systems

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  12. Incentive mechanisms to prevent efficiency loss of non-profit utilities

    Article • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, September 2019, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  13. Data-Driven Decentralized Algorithm for Wind Farm Control with Population-Games Assistance

    Article • Energies, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Nicanor Quijano

  14. Time-varying partitioning for predictive control design: Density-games approach

    Article • Journal of Process Control, March 2019, Elsevier

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  15. An Evolutionary-Games Approach for Distributed Predictive Control Involving Resource Allocation

    Article • IET Control Theory and Applications, February 2019, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Nicanor Quijano

  16. Distributed optimization with information-constrained population dynamics

    Article • Journal of the Franklin Institute, January 2019, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  17. On the Use of Agent-Based Modeling for Smart Farming

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  18. On the Mitigation of Communication Failures in Distributed Model Predictive Control Strategies

    Article • IET Control Theory and Applications, September 2018, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Nicanor Quijano

  19. An Affordable Set of Control System Laboratories Using A Low-Cost Robotic Platform

    Article • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  20. Resilient Information-Exchange Protocol for Distributed Model Predictive Control Schemes

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  21. Synchronisation of heterogeneous Kuramoto oscillators with sampled information and a constant leader

    Article • International Journal of Control, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Eduardo Mojica-Nava, Nicanor Quijano

  22. The IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control 2017 [Conference Reports]

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  23. Notions and a passivity tool for switched DAE systems

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  24. Co-simulation tool for control in agricultural processes

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  25. Comparative analysis of MPPT techniques for a photovoltaic system in cundinamarca

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  26. Low-Cost “ball and Plate” design and implementation for learning control systems

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  27. Mitigation of sensor attacks on legacy industrial control systems

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  28. Social SCADA and microgrid prototype La Guajira

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  29. Integrity Attacks on Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grids: Impact and Countermeasures

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  30. Non-centralized control for flow-based distribution networks: A game-theoretical insight

    Article • Journal of the Franklin Institute, September 2017, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  31. A population-games application with the balls-in-tubes experiment

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  32. Distributed Resource Allocation Among a Subset of Nodes of a Graph * *This work is supported in part by project SGR Cundinamarca. G. Obando is supported in part by Colciencias-Colfuturo Grant 528.

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, July 2017, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  33. Dynamical tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application

    Article • ISA Transactions, July 2017, Elsevier

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  34. On the Communication Discussion of Two Distributed Population-game Approaches for Optimization Purposes * *Authors would like to thank COLCIENCIAS (grant 6172) and the Agència de Gestió d’Ajust Universitaris i de Recerca, AGAUR, for supporting J. Barre...

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, July 2017, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  35. Partitioning for Large-scale Systems: A Sequential Distributed MPC Design * *This work has been partially supported by the project DEOCS (Ref. DPI2016-76493-C3-3-R). J. Barreiro-Gomez is partially supported by Colciencias and AGAUR.

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, July 2017, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  36. Model Predictive Control Applied to the Dynamic Economic Dispatch Problem

    Article • IEEE Latin America Transactions, April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  37. Game-Theoretical Methods in Control of Engineering Systems: An Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, February 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  38. The Role of Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics in Distributed Control Systems: The Advantages of Evolutionary Game Theory

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, February 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  39. On an invariance principle for differential-algebraic equations with jumps and its application to switched differential-algebraic equations

    Article • Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  40. Game-theoretic dispatch control in microgrids considering network losses and renewable distributed energy resources integration

    Article • IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, January 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Nicanor Quijano, Eduardo Mojica-Nava, Sergio Rivera

  41. Optimal Routing and Scheduling of Charge for Electric Vehicles: A Case Study

    Article • Mathematical Problems in Engineering, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  42. Data-Driven Evolutionary-Game-Based Control for Drinking-Water Networks

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  43. Distributed MPC with time-varying communication network: A density-dependent population games approach

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  44. Distributed formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles over time-varying graphs using population games

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  45. Optimal placement of switches on DG enhanced feeders with short circuit constraints

    Article • Electric Power Systems Research, December 2016, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  46. Distributed control of small-scale power systems using noncooperative games

    Article • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, November 2016, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  47. A centre–free approach for resource allocation with lower bounds

    Article • International Journal of Control, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Nicanor Quijano

  48. Decentralized control for urban drainage systems via moving horizon observer

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  49. MatSWMM – An open-source toolbox for designing real-time control of urban drainage systems

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, September 2016, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  50. Replicator dynamics under perturbations and time delays

    Article • Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  51. A class of population dynamics for reaching epsilon-equilibria: Engineering applications

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  52. A differential game approach to urban drainage systems control

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  53. Constrained distributed optimization: A population dynamics approach

    Article • Automatica, July 2016, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  54. Distributed Population Dynamics: Optimization and Control Applications

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  55. Multi-objective model-free control based on population dynamics and cooperative games

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  56. Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, November 2015, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  57. Population Games Methods for Distributed Control of Microgrids

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, November 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  58. Juggler System: Hybrid Model and Implementation

    Article • October 2015, ASME International

    Nicanor Quijano

  59. Multi-objective planning of recloser-based protection systems on DG enhanced feeders

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  60. Co-simulation for the design of controllers in urban drainage systems

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  61. Distributed resource allocation over stochastic networks: An application in smart grids

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  62. Distributed resource management by using population dynamics: Wastewater treatment application

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  63. Market power mitigation in the Colombian electricity market through on-site generation and demand response

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  64. Response and reconfiguration of cyber-physical control systems: A survey

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  65. Shahshahani gradient-like extremum seeking

    Article • Automatica, August 2015, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  66. Decentralized Control for Urban Drainage Systems via population dynamics: Bogotá case study

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  67. Invariance principles for switched Differential-Algebraic Equations under arbitrary and dwell-time switching

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  68. Model-free control for wind farms using a gradient estimation-based algorithm

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  69. Planning distribution primary feeders for smart-grid operation via network flow analysis

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  70. Planning open and closed-loop feeders with efficiency analysis

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  71. Evolutionary Game-Based Dynamical Tuning for Multi-objective Model Predictive Control

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  72. Honey Bee Social Foraging Algorithm for Resource Allocation

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  73. Making Non-Centralized a Model Predictive Control Scheme by Using Distributed Smith Dynamics**This work is supported by the ANR project entitled Hamiltonian Methods for the Control of Multidomain Distributed Parameter Systems, HAMECMOPSYS financed by t...

    Article • IFAC-PapersOnLine, January 2015, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  74. CPS

    Article • December 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

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  75. Constrained distributed optimization based on population dynamics

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  76. Delay and sampling independence of a consensus algorithm and its application to smart grid privacy

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  77. Distributed control of Drinking Water Networks using population dynamics: Barcelona case study

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  78. Synchronization of isolated microgrids with a communication infrastructure using energy storage systems

    Article • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, December 2014, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  79. Control Systems for the Power Grid and Their Resiliency to Attacks

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  80. Technical assessment of microgrids integration into distribution systems

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  81. Dispatch of distributed generators under local-information constraints

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  82. Distributed building temperature control with power constraints

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  83. Tracking of Kuramoto oscillators with input saturation and applications in smart grids

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  84. Dynamic Population Games for Optimal Dispatch on Hierarchical Microgrid Control

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  85. Building Temperature Control Based on Population Dynamics

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  86. Design of mechanisms for demand response programs

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  87. Extremum seeking for multi-population games

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  88. Synchronization of dynamical networks with a communication infrastructure: A smart grid application

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  89. Dynamic population games for hierarchical microgrid management

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  90. Time-delay effect on load frequency control for microgrids

    Article • April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  91. A polynomial approach for optimal control of switched nonlinear systems

    Article • International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, January 2013, Wiley

    Nicanor Quijano

  92. Controllability of Dynamical Systems: Threat Models and Reactive Security

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicanor Quijano

  93. A Shahshahani Gradient based extremum seeking scheme

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  94. Distributed optimization using population dynamics with a local replicator equation

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  95. Delay Independent Evolutionary Dynamics for Resource Allocation with Asynchronous Distributed Sensors1

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2012, Elsevier

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  96. Dispatch of distributed generators using a local replicator equation

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  97. Population dynamics applied to building energy efficiency

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  98. A Population Dynamics Approach for the Dispatch of Distributed Generators

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  99. A survey on Cyber Physical Energy Systems and their applications on smart grids

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  100. Current results and research trends in networked control systems

    Article • October 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  101. A replicator dynamics weighted control technique for a DC-DC converter

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  102. A bioinspired approach for a multizone temperature control system

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, February 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Nicanor Quijano

  103. A Replicator Dynamics Weighted Control Technique for Two Coupled Pendulums

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2011, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  104. Analysis and control for the water distribution problem

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  105. Building Temperature Control Based on Replicator Dynamics *

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, September 2010, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  106. A population dynamics approach for the water distribution problem

    Article • International Journal of Control, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Nicanor Quijano

  107. An academic platform to illustrate game-theoretical approaches

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  108. Honey bee social foraging algorithms for resource allocation: Theory and application

    Article • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, September 2010, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  109. Weighted controller for an inverted pendulum: A replicator dynamics approach

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  110. A polynomial approach for stability analysis of switched systems

    Article • Systems & Control Letters, February 2010, Elsevier

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  111. Dispatch of Distributed Generators Using Replicator Dynamics

    Article • February 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  112. Foraging theory for dimensionality reduction of clustered data

    Article • Machine Learning, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

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  113. E. Coli bacterial foraging algorithm applied to pressure reducing valves control

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  114. Honeybee Social Foraging for Urban Traffic Control

    Article • IFAC Proceedings Volumes, January 2009, Elsevier

    Nicanor Quijano

  115. Ideal free distributions in growing networks

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  116. Modeling and analysis for a temperature system based on resource dynamics and the ideal free distribution

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  117. Emergence of scale-free networks from ideal free distributions

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), March 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  118. Stability analysis of switched polynomial systems using dissipation inequalities

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicanor Quijano

  119. Honey Bee Social Foraging Algorithms for Resource Allocation, Part I: Algorithm and Theory

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  120. Honey Bee Social Foraging Algorithms for Resource Allocation, Part II: Application

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  121. The Ideal Free Distribution: Theory and Engineering Application

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics), February 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  122. Nicanor Quijano and Kevin M. Passino Ohio State University, USA Burton W Andrews Johns Hopkins University, USA Foraging theory for multizone temperature control

    Article • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, November 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  123. Experiments for dynamic resource allocation, scheduling, and control: new challenges from information technology-enabled feedback control

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, February 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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