This project focuses on building energy-neutral industrial plants, fully supplied by renewable sources free of fossil fuels. Such an ambitious objective relies on the digitalized management of physical processes centered on energy production–demand balance, also considering short- and long-term storage. The project will be based on data generated by simulations and testbed trials to be implemented at LUT and Aalto universities, and explainable AI algorithms to be jointly developed. Overall, this project aims at building a socially fair and economically sustainable society aligned with the energy targets defined by the UN, the EU, and Finland. This project is funded by Research Council of Finland.
JOURNALS
Gutierrez-Rojas, Daniel; Narayanan, Arun; Almeida, Cássia R Santos Nunes; Almeida, Gustavo M; Pfau, Diana; Tian, Yu; Yang, Xu; Jung, Alex; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,A Perspective on the Enabling Technologies of Explainable AI-based Industrial Packetized Energy Management,iScience,,,,2023,Elsevier
SarcheshmehPour Y, Tian Y, Zhang L, Jung A. Clustered federated learning via generalized total variation minimization. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 2023 Oct 23;71:4240-56.
Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel; Mobtahej, Mohammadamin; Javadi, Mohammad Sadegh; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Sahoo, Subham; ,Optimal operation of lithium-ion batteries in microgrids using a semidefinite thermal model,International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems,155,,109630,2024,Elsevier
Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Gória Silva, Pedro E; Siljak, Harun; Narayanan, Arun; ,Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing, Competition & Change,,,10245294231213141,2023,"SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England"
Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel, et al. "Scheduling of Energy Hub Resources Using Robust Chance-Constrained Optimization." IEEE Access 10 (2022): 129738-129753.
Gutierrez-Rojas, Daniel, et al. "Operational Issues on Adaptive Protection of Microgrids due to Cyber Attacks." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2023).
Silva, Pedro E. Gória, et al. "Enabling Semantic-Functional Communications for Multiuser Event Transmissions via Wireless Power Transfer." Sensors 23.5 (2023): 2707.
Ullah, Mehar, et al. "Operation of Power-to-X-Related Processes Based on Advanced Data-Driven Methods: A Comprehensive Review." Energies 15.21 (2022): 8118.
Ullah, Mehar, et al. "Industrial Energy Management System: Design of a Conceptual Framework using IoT and Big Data." IEEE Access (2022).
H. M. Hussain, A. Ahmad, A. Narayanan, P. H. J. Nardelli and Y. Yang, "Benchmarking of Heuristic Algorithms for Energy Router-Based Packetized Energy Management in Smart Homes," in IEEE Systems Journal, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3208414.
D. Carrillo et al., "Boosting 5G on Smart Grid Communication: A Smart RAN Slicing Approach," in IEEE Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/MWC.004.2200079.
Zhang, L., Karakasidis, G., Odnoblyudova, A., Dogruel, L., Tian, Y., & Jung, A. (2024). Explainable empirical risk minimization. Neural Computing and Applications, 36(8), 3983-3996.
Gória Silva, Pedro E; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; de Sena, Arthur S; Siljak, Harun; Nevaranta, Niko; Marchetti, Nicola; de Souza, Rausley AA; ,Semantic-functional communications in cyber-physical systems,IEEE Network,38,4,241-249,2024,IEEE
Silva, Pedro E Gória; Dester, Plínio S; Siljak, Harun; Marchetti, Nicola; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; de Souza, Rausley AA; ,A novel semantic-functional approach for multiuser event-trigger communication,Ad Hoc Networks,159,,103496,2024,Elsevier
Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel; Mobtahej, Mohammadamin; Javadi, Mohammad Sadegh; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Sahoo, Subham; ,Optimal operation of lithium-ion batteries in microgrids using a semidefinite thermal model,International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems,155,,109630,2024,Elsevier
Narayanan, Arun; Pournaras, Evangelos; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Large-scale Package Deliveries with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Collective Learning, IEEE Intelligent Systems,,,,2024,IEEE
Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Javadi, Mohammad Sadegh; Jowkar, Saeid; Sabour, Toktam Tavakkoli; Ghanavati, Farideh; ,A hybrid optimal power flow model for transmission and distribution networks, Electric Power Systems Research,245,,111638,2025,Elsevier
Hussain, Hafiz Majid; Ahmad, Ashfaq; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,A Hybrid Heuristic Solution for Packetized Energy Transactions in Smart Homes,International Journal of Energy Research, 2025,1,3241856,2025,Wiley
Esmaeelnezhad, Ali; Sabour, Toktam Tavakkoli; Joshi, Ravi P; Javadi, Mohammad Sadegh; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Optimal Operation of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment by Aggregators in Local Energy Community, IEEE Access,,,,2025,IEEE
Mulinka, Pavol; Christou, Ioannis T; Sahoo, Subham; Kalalas, Charalampos; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Towards High-Fidelity and Trustworthy Digital Twins for Fault Diagnosis in Grid Connected Inverters,IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,,,,2025,IEEE Xplore
Pfau D, Jung A. Engineering trustworthy AI: A developer guide for empirical risk minimization. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 2025 Oct 13.
CONFERENCES
Javadi, Abbas; Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Sahoo, Subham; ,Energy Management System for Energy-intensive Radiology Appliances,2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC/I&CPS Europe),,,1-6,2023,IEEE
Nezhad, Ali Esmaeel; Javadi, Mohammad Sadegh; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; Sahoo, Subham; ,Centralized Operation of Multi-Energy Microgrids,2023 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2023 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC/I&CPS Europe),,,1-6,2023,IEEE
Narayanan, Arun; Pournaras, Evangelos; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Collective Learning for Energy-centric Flexible Job Shop Scheduling,2023 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE),,,1-6,2023,IEEE
Christou, Ioannis T; Soldatos, John; Papadakis, Thanassis; Gutierrez-Rojas, Daniel; Nardelli, Pedro; ,Feature Selection via Minimal Covering Sets for Industrial Internet of Things Applications,2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT),,,562-567,2023,IEEE
Silva, Pedro E Gória; Dester, Plínio S; Siljak, Harun; Marchetti, Nicola; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; De Souza, Rausley AA; ,Improving Event Transmissions via Novel Multiuser Communication Scheme,2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO),,,1659-1663,2023,IEEE
Beattie, Alexander, et al. "A Robust and Explainable Data-Driven Anomaly Detection Approach For Power Electronics." 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). IEEE, 2022.
Mulinka, Pavol, et al. "Optimizing a Digital Twin for Fault Diagnosis in Grid Connected Inverters-A Bayesian Approach." 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE). IEEE, 2022.
Jung, A., Abdurakhmanova, S., Kuznetsova, O., Sarcheshmehpour, Y., & Ai, S. (2023, September). Towards Model-Agnostic Federated Learning over Networks. In 2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (pp. 1614-1618). IEEE.
Alfasfos, Rami; Ullah, Mehar; Sillman, Jani; Nardelli, Pedro; Soukka, Risto; ,Recommendation on Cybersecurity and Safety in the Hydrogen Economy,2024 47th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO),,,1837-1842,2024,IEEE
Almeida, Cássia Nunes; Narayanan, Arun; Hussain, Majid; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Pricing Mechanisms versus Non-Pricing Mechanisms for Demand Side Management in Microgrids,2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE),,,1-5,2024,IEEE
Hussain, Hafiz Majid; Ahmad, Ashfaq; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Crossover-BPSO Driven Multi-Agent Technology for Managing Local Energy Systems,2024 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE),,,1-5,2024,IEEE
Korium, Mohamed; Moualeu, Jules M; Ullah, Mehar; Narayanan, Arun; Nardelli, Pedro HJ; ,Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things Using Image Classification,2025 MIPRO 48th ICT and Electronics Convention,,,819-824,2025,IEEE