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Visible to the public Boolean Microgrid

Submitted by mazumder on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 4:11pm. Contributors:

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The Boolean Microgrid (BM) emulates the Internet by supplying discrete power and discrete data over a network link that follows Boolean logic and is not continuous as in a conventional 60-Hz-ac or dc microgrid. BM is thus a highly integrated cyber-physical system (CPS) that features the convergence of control, communication and the physical plant.

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Visible to the public Architecture and Distributed Management for Reliable Mega-scale Smart Grids

Submitted by Junshan Zhang on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 3:46pm. Contributors:

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A primary objective of this research is to establish a foundational framework for smart grids that enables significant penetration of renewable DERs and facilitates flexible deployments of plug-and-play applications. Under this common theme, the PIs have taken a data analytics perspective to explore rigorous approaches in modeling, optimization, and control of wind generation integration.

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Visible to the public Achieving High-Resolution Situational Awareness in Ultra-Wide-Area Cyber-Physical Systems

Submitted by Hairong Qi on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 3:35pm. Contributors:

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Motivation: Energy infrastructure is a critical underpinning of modern society. To ensure its reliable operation, a nation--wide or continent--wide situational awareness system is essential to provide high--resolution understanding of the system dynamics such that proper actions can be taken in real--time in response to power system disturbances and to avoid cascading blackouts. The power grid represents a typical highly dynamic cyber--physical system (CPS).

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Visible to the public A Unified System Theoretic Framework for Cyber Attack-Resilient Power Grid

Submitted by Umesh Vaidya on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 3:09pm. Contributors:

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We developed an analytical and computational framework for vulnerability analysis of dynamical power networks to link and node-based attacks. For stochastic link failure attacks, we provided a systematic procedure for ranking links (transmission lines) of power network in the order of their critical importance to maintain synchronization among network generators.

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Visible to the public A Cyber Physical Framework for Remedial Action Schemes in Large Power Networks

Submitted by Kevin Tomsovic on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 2:09pm. Contributor:

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Despite the integration of advanced cyber technologies in monitoring and communication in electric power networks, design and development of control systems, and in particular, Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) tend to evolve at a very slow pace. The objective of this research is to study new distributed system modeling techniques to faithfully capture the physical and communication system characteristics as well as the "wave" like propagation of some disturbances.