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EU-SysFlex H2020 project aims at developing and testing innovative tools for the integration of high levels (above 50%) of renewable energy sources (RES) in the pan-European Electricity system. Those high levels of RES will increase the need for new sources of flexibility to support the system services, since there will be a decreasing number of conventional power plants connected to the grid, traditionally the main providers of these services. In this context, this study describes the Flexibility Hub (FlexHub) concept, part of the EU-SysFlex Portuguese demonstrator, consisting of a platform of tools managed by the distribution system operator to facilitate market-based flexibility provision to the transmission system operator (TSO) using resources connected to the distribution system. The FlexHub includes the provision of active power flexibility to the TSO (with an extended restoration reserve market concept), an essential tool to help the TSO balancing the grid, being a replicable concept that will become increasingly relevant in a future with a high share of decentralised assets connected to the distribution grids.

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This introductory chapter provides a synopsis of the underlying factors that enable the existence of the mobility as a service (MaaS) concept and its role regarding the improvement of the performance of transportation systems. Therefore, several considerations are made to contextualize MaaS in modern societies explaining not only its main functions and advantages but also the challenges facing its widespread implementation.

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Combining adaptive optics and interferometric observations results in a considerable contrast gain compared to single-telescope, extreme AO systems. Taking advantage of this, the ExoGRAVITY project is a survey of known young giant exoplanets located in the range of 0.1"to 2"from their stars. The observations provide astrometric data of unprecedented accuracy, being crucial for refining the orbital parameters of planets and illuminating their dynamical histories. Furthermore, GRAVITY will measure non-Keplerian perturbations due to planet-planet interactions in multi-planet systems and measure dynamical masses. Over time, repetitive observations of the exoplanets at medium resolution (R = 500) will provide a catalogue of K-band spectra of unprecedented quality, for a number of exoplanets. The K-band has the unique properties that it contains many molecular signatures (CO, H2O, CH4, CO2). This allows constraining precisely surface gravity, metallicity, and temperature, if used in conjunction with self-consistent models like Exo-REM. Further, we will use the parameter-retrieval algorithm petitRADTRANS to constrain the C/O ratio of the planets. Ultimately, we plan to produce the first C/O survey of exoplanets, kick-starting the difficult process of linking planetary formation with measured atomic abundances. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

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A learning path is the implementation of a curriculum design. It consists of a set of learning activities that help users achieve particular learning goals. Personalizing these paths became a significant task due to differences in users' limitations, backgrounds, goals, etc. Since the last decade, researchers have proposed a variety of learning path personalization methods using different techniques and approaches. In this paper, we present an overview of the methods that are applied to personalize learning paths as well as their advantages and disadvantages. The main parameters for personalizing learning paths are also described. In addition, we present approaches that are used to evaluate path personalization methods. Finally, we highlight the most significant challenges of these methods, which need to be tackled in order to enhance the quality of the personalization.

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In previous works, an educational platform based on Matlab/Simulink/Lego EV3 has been developed that allows interacting in real time with the robot. However, this platform is limited to the capacity of Simulink to adapt to different robotic devices, limiting its use to LEGO and Arduino or Rasberry Pi robots. In this paper we present a generalization of this platform to any type of robot, based on Matlab/ROS/Robot. Robot Operating System (ROS) is a robotic middleware, that is, a collection of frameworks for software development of robots [4]. Despite not being an operating system, ROS provides standard services such as hardware abstraction, control of low-level devices, etc. MATLAB (R) support for ROS is a library of functions that allows you to exchange data with ROS-enabled physical robots. Matlab/ROS/Robot interaction is tested in a generic robot with Arduino Mega and Raspberry Pi 3, demonstrating the viability of the presented educational robotic platform.