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In this paper we present an online wide-area oscillation damping control (WAC) design for uncertain models of power systems using ideas from reinforcement learning. We assume that the exact small-signal model of the power system at the…
In this paper, a novel model-free wide-area damping control (WADC) method is proposed, which can achieve full decoupling of modes and damp multiple critical inter-area oscillations simultaneously using grid-connected voltage source…
This paper presents a new phasor measurement unit (PMU)-based wide-area damping control (WADC) method to suppress the critical inter-area modes of large-scale power systems. Modal participation factors, estimated by a practically model-free…
Wide-area control (WAC) has been shown to be an effective tool for damping low-frequency oscillations in power systems. In the current state of art, WAC is challenged by two main factors - namely, scalability of design and complexity of…
Non-ideal communication links, especially delays, critically affect fast networked controls in power systems, such as the wide-area damping control (WADC). Traditionally, a delay estimation and compensation approach is adopted to address…
This paper proposes a novel wide-area control strategy for modulating the active power injections to damp the critical frequency oscillations in power systems, this includes the inter-area oscillations and the transient frequency swing. The…
In this paper, an alternating direction method of multipliers based novel distributed wide-area control architecture is proposed for damping the interarea oscillations. In this approach, first, an interconnected power system is divided into…
A conceptual design methodology is proposed for event-triggered based power system wide area damping controller. The event-triggering mechanism is adopted to reduce the communication burden between origin of the remote signal and the wide…
This paper introduces a novel method of designing wide area control (WAC) based on a discrete linear quadratic regulator and Kalman filtering based state-estimation that can be applied for real-time damping of interarea oscillations of wind…
This paper investigates the potential of wind turbine generators (WTGs) and load aggregators (LAs) to provide supplementary damping control services for low frequency inter-area oscillations (LFOs) through the additional distributed damping…
We propose a distributed design method for decentralized control by exploiting the underlying sparsity properties of the problem. Our method is based on chordal decomposition of sparse block matrices and the alternating direction method of…
This paper presents a novel distributed vehicle platooning control and coordination strategy. We propose a distributed predecessor-follower CACC scheme that allows to choose an arbitrarily small inter-vehicle distance while guaranteeing no…
One of the major issues in an interconnected power system is the low damping of inter-area oscillations which significantly reduces the power transfer capability. Advances in Wide-Area Measurement System (WAMS) makes it possible to use the…
Power electronic devices such as HVDC and FACTS can be used to improve the damping of poorly damped inter-area modes in large power systems. This involves the use of wide-area feedback signals, which are transmitted via communication…
This paper explores the novel concept of damping controller coordination, which aims to minimize the Total Action metric by identifying an optimal switching combination (on/off) of these controllers. The metric is rooted in power system…
In this work, dynamic load modulation of high power amplifiers using a varactor-based tunable matching network is presented. The feasibility of dynamic tuning and efficiency enhancement of this technique is demonstrated using a modular…
Interconnected power grid exhibits oscillatory response after a disturbance in the system. One such type of oscillations, the inter-area oscillations has the oscillation frequency in the range of 0.1 to 1 Hz. The damping of inter-area…
In networked control systems, communication resource constraints often necessitate the use of \emph{sparse} control input vectors. A prototypical problem is how to ensure controllability of a linear dynamical system when only a limited…
A common approach to distributed control design is to impose sparsity constraints on the controller structure. Such constraints, however, may greatly complicate the control design procedure. This paper puts forward an alternative structure,…
The work done in this paper, proposes a complex Laplacian-based distributed control scheme for convergence in the multi-agent network. The proposed scheme has been designated as cascade formulation. The proposed technique exploits the…