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Faced with increasing penetration of distributed energy resources and fast development of distribution grid energy management, topology identification of distribution grid becomes an important and fundamental task. As the underlying grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yueyao Xu , Yize Chen

Smart distribution grids should efficiently integrate stochastic renewable resources while effecting voltage regulation. The design of energy management schemes is challenging, one of the reasons being that energy management is a multistage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Luis M. Lopez-Ramos , Vassilis Kekatos , Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis

Large-scale integration of distributed energy resources into residential distribution feeders necessitates careful control of their operation through power flow analysis. While the knowledge of the distribution system model is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Omid Ardakanian , Vincent W. S. Wong , Roel Dobbe , Steven H. Low , Alexandra von Meier , Claire Tomlin , Ye Yuan

Distribution grids include medium and low voltage lines that are involved in the delivery of electricity from substation to end-users/loads. A distribution grid is operated in a radial/tree-like structure, determined by switching on or off…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Deepjyoti Deka , Scott Backhaus , Michael Chertkov

Recently, there has been a growing concern about the overload status of the power grid networks, and the increasing possibility of cascading failures. Many researchers have studied these networks to provide design guidelines for more robust…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-27 Sakshi Pahwa , Caterina Scoglio , Noel Schulz

Distribution network topology detection and state estimation in real-time are critical for modern distribution systems management and control. However, number of sensors in distribution networks are limited and communication links between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Zahra Soltani , Mojdeh Khorsand

Accurately modeling power distribution grids is crucial for designing effective monitoring and decision making algorithms. This paper addresses the partial observability issue of data-driven distribution modeling in order to improve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Shanny Lin , Hao Zhu

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources poses numerous reliability issues to the urban distribution grid. The topology estimation is a critical step to ensure the robustness of distribution grid operation. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-14 Yizheng Liao , Yang Weng , Guangyi Liu , Ram Rajagopal

Accurate network topology information is critical for secure operation of smart power distribution systems. Line outages can change the operational topology of a distribution network. As a result, topology identification by detecting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ananth Narayan Samudrala , Hadi Amini M. , Soummya Kar , Rick Blum

This paper defines a Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) for the admittance matrix estimation of distribution grids, utilising voltage magnitude and power measurements collected only from common, unsychronised measuring devices (Smart…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Lisa Laurent , Jean-Sébastien Brouillon , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Traditionally power distribution networks are either not observable or only partially observable. This complicates development and implementation of new smart grid technologies, such as those related to demand response, outage detection and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Deepjyoti Deka , Scott Backhaus , Michael Chertkov

Most existing phase balancing and topology reconfiguration problems are formulated as mixed-integer optimization problems that depend on network topologies~\cite{10098964,11017695,10571996}. However, these topologies are often inaccurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Dong Liu , Sander Timmerman , Yu Xiang , Ensieh Hosseini , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is challenging for existing methods, especially as the grid is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Christopher Yeh , Jing Yu , Yuanyuan Shi , Adam Wierman

Network topology in distribution networks is often unknown, because most switches are not equipped with measurement devices and communication links. However, knowledge about the actual topology is critical for safe and reliable grid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Reza Arghandeh , Martin Gahr , Alexandra von Meier , Guido Cavraro , Monika Ruh , Göran Andersson

We address the problem of configuring a power distribution network with reliability and resilience objectives by satisfying the demands of the consumers and saturating each production source as little as possible. We consider power…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dominique Barth , Thierry Mautor , Dimitri Watel , Marc-Antoine Weisser

This paper proposes graph analysis methods to fully automate the fault location identification task in power distribution systems. The proposed methods take basic unordered data from power distribution systems as input, including branch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Ali Shakeri Kahnamouei , Saeed Lotfifard

Voltage control generally requires accurate information about the grid's topology in order to guarantee network stability. However, accurate topology identification is a challenging problem for existing methods, especially as the grid is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Christopher Yeh , Jing Yu , Yuanyuan Shi , Adam Wierman

The transient response of power grids to external disturbances influences their stable operation. This paper studies the effect of topology in linear time-invariant dynamics of different power grids. For a variety of objective functions, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Deepjyoti Deka , Harsha Nagarajan , Scott Backhaus

To perform any meaningful optimization task, distribution grid operators need to know the topology of their grids. Although power grid topology identification and verification has been recently studied, discovering instantaneous interplay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Qiuling Yang , Mario Coutino , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Geert Leus

The reliable operation of large-scale electric power networks is increasingly challenging, particularly with the integration of stochastic renewable generation. In this work, we address the problem of minimizing network transients by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Gerald Ogbonna , David Bindel , Lindsay C. Anderson