R. Mikut

R. R. Appino, J. Á. González Ordiano, R. Mikut et al.

Dispatchability of renewable energy sources and inflexible loads can be achieved using a volatility-compensating energy storage. However, as the future power outputs of the inflexible devices are uncertain, the computation of a dispatch schedule for such aggregated systems is non-trivial. In the present paper, we propose a novel scheduling method that enforces the feasibility of the dispatch schedule with a pre-determined probability based on a description of the operation of the system as a two-stage decision process. Thereby, a crucial point is the use of probabilistic forecasts, in terms of cumulative density function, of the inflexible energy consumption/production profile. Then, for the sake of comparison, we introduce a second scheduling method based on state-of-the-art scenario optimization, where, unlike the proposed method, the focus is on the minimization of the expected final cost. We draw upon simulations based on real consumption and production data to compare the methods and illustrate our findings.

R. R. Appino, M. Muñoz-Ortiz, J. Á. González Ordiano et al.

The inherent storage of plug-in electric vehicles is likely to foster the integration of intermittent generation from renewable energy sources into existing power systems. In the present paper, we propose a three-stage scheme to the end of achieving dispatchability of a system composed of plug-in electric vehicles and intermittent generation. The main difficulties in dispatching such a system are the uncertainties inherent to intermittent generation and the time-varying aggregation of vehicles. We propose to address the former by means of probabilistic forecasts and we approach the latter with separate stage-specific models. Specifically, we first compute a dispatch schedule, using probabilistic forecasts together with an aggregated dynamic model of the system. The power output of the single devices are set subsequently, using deterministic forecasts and device-specific models. We draw upon a simulation study based on real data of generation and vehicle traffic to validate our findings.

J. Seiffarth, L. Blöbaum, R. D. Paul et al.

Tracking the development of living cells in live-cell time-lapses reveals crucial insights into single-cell behavior and presents tremendous potential for biomedical and biotechnological applications. In microbial live-cell imaging (MLCI), a few to thousands of cells have to be detected and tracked within dozens of growing cell colonies. The challenge of tracking cells is heavily influenced by the experiment parameters, namely the imaging interval and maximal cell number. For now, tracking benchmarks are not widely available in MLCI and the effect of these parameters on the tracking performance are not yet known. Therefore, we present the largest publicly available and annotated dataset for MLCI, containing more than 1.4 million cell instances, 29k cell tracks, and 14k cell divisions. With this dataset at hand, we generalize existing tracking metrics to incorporate relevant imaging and experiment parameters into experiment-aware metrics. These metrics reveal that current cell tracking methods crucially depend on the choice of the experiment parameters, where their performance deteriorates at high imaging intervals and large cell colonies. Thus, our new benchmark quantifies the influence of experiment parameters on the tracking quality, and gives the opportunity to develop new data-driven methods that generalize across imaging and experiment parameters. The benchmark dataset is publicly available at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7260136.