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Ensuring reliable operation of large power systems subjected to multiple outages is a challenging task because of the combinatorial nature of the problem. Traditional approaches for security assessment are often limited by their scope…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Reetam Sen Biswas , Anamitra Pal , Trevor Werho , Vijay Vittal

Cascading failures in power systems caused by sequential tripping of components are a serious concern as they can lead to complete or partial shutdowns, disrupting vital services and causing damage and inconvenience. In prior work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Wasseem Al-Rousan , Caisheng Wang , Feng Lin

Inspired by reliability issues in electric transmission networks, we use a probabilistic approach to study the occurrence of large failures in a stylized cascading failure model. In this model, lines have random capacities that initially…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-14 F. Sloothaak , S. C. Borst , A. P. Zwart

Understanding and analyzing cascading failures in power grids have been the focus of many researchers for years. However, the complex interactions among the large number of components in these systems and their contributions to cascading…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-15 Upama Nakarmi , Mahshid Rahnamay Naeini , Md Jakir Hossain , Md Abul Hasnat

We consider discrete-time dynamics, for cascading failure in DC networks, whose map is composition of failure rule with control actions. Supply-demand at the nodes is monotonically non-increasing under admissible control. Under the failure…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Qin Ba , Ketan Savla

Large-scale power blackouts caused by cascading failure are inflicting enormous socioeconomic costs. We study the problem of cascading link failures in power networks modelled by random geometric graphs from a percolation-based viewpoint.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Hongda Xiao , Edmund Yeh

This paper focuses on cascading line failures in the transmission system of the power grid. Recent large-scale power outages demonstrated the limitations of percolation- and epid- emic-based tools in modeling cascades. Hence, we study…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Saleh Soltan , Dorian Mazauric , Gil Zussman

We introduce a novel data-driven method to mitigate the risk of cascading failures in delayed discrete-time Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems. Our approach involves formulating a distributionally robust finite-horizon optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Vivek Pandey , Nader Motee

This paper presents a complex systems overview of a power grid network. In recent years, concerns about the robustness of the power grid have grown because of several cascading outages in different parts of the world. In this paper,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-24 Sakshi Pahwa , Amelia Hodges , Caterina Scoglio , Sean Wood

Increased coupling between critical infrastructure networks, such as power and communication systems, will have important implications for the reliability and security of these systems. To understand the effects of power-communication…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-24 Mert Korkali , Jason G. Veneman , Brian F. Tivnan , Paul D. H. Hines

This paper addresses how to improve the computational efficiency and estimation reliability in cascading outage analysis. We first formulate a cascading outage as a Markov chain with specific state space and transition probability by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Jinpeng Guo , Feng Liu , Jianhui Wang , Junhao Lin , Shengwei Mei

The collapse of interdependent networks, as well as similar avalanche phenomena, is driven by cascading failures. At the critical point, the cascade begins as a critical branching process, where each failing node (element) triggers, on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-10 Dolev Dilmoney , Bnaya Gross , Shlomo Havlin , Nadav M. Shnerb

Cascading failures are a common phenomenon in complex networked systems where failures at only a few nodes may trigger a process of sequential failure. We applied a flow redistribution model to investigate the robustness against cascading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-03 I-Cheng Lin , Carlee Joe-Wong , Osman Yagan

Cascading failures in power grids can lead to grid collapse, causing severe disruptions to social operations and economic activities. In certain cases, multi-stage cascading failures can occur. However, existing cascading-failure-mitigation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bo Meng , Chenghao Xu , Yongli Zhu

Modern power networks face increasing vulnerability to cascading failures due to high complexity and the growing penetration of intermittent resources, necessitating rigorous security assessment beyond the conventional $N-1$ criterion.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Alexandre Gracia-Calvo , Francesca Rossi , Eduardo Iraola , Juan Carlos Olives-Camps , Eduardo Prieto-Araujo

Cascading failures are a critical vulnerability of complex information or infrastructure networks. Here we investigate the properties of load-based cascading failures in real and synthetic spatially-embedded network structures, and propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-21 Alaa Moussawi , Noemi Derzsy , Xin Lin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Gyorgy Korniss

The understanding of cascading failures in complex systems has been hindered by the lack of realistic large-scale modeling and analysis that can account for variable system conditions. Here, using the North American power grid, we identify,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-23 Yang Yang , Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Dynamic security analysis is an important problem of power systems on ensuring safe operation and stable power supply even when certain faults occur. No matter such faults are caused by vulnerabilities of system components, physical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Qiang Wu , T. John Koo , Yoshihiko Susuki

Load shedding is the last and most expensive control action against system collapse and blackout. Achievement of an efficient emergency control to stabilize the power system following severe disturbances, requires two key objectives. First,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Bakhtyar Hoseinzadeh , M. Hadi Amini , Claus Leth Bak

For large-scale power networks, the failure of particular transmission lines can offload power to other lines and cause self-protection trips to activate, instigating a cascade of line failures. In extreme cases, this can bring down the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-08 Charles Matthews , Bradly Stadie , Jonathan Weare , Mihai Anitescu , Christopher Demarco