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Security is one of the biggest concern in power system operation. Recently, the emerging cyber security threats to operational functions of power systems arouse high public attention, and cybersecurity vulnerability thus become an emerging…
The Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is an important metering device for smart grid. Like any other Intelligent Electronic Device (IED), PMUs are prone to various types of cyberattacks. However, one form of attack is unique to the PMU, the…
With the exponential rise in the use of cloud services, smart devices, and IoT devices, advanced cyber attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of computing architectures and memory…
This paper proposes an accurate High Impedance Fault (HIF) detection and isolation scheme in a power distribution network. The proposed schemes utilize the data available from voltage and current sensors. The technique employs multiple…
Advanced Traffic Signal Control (TSC) algorithms require real-time phase control, yet existing Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) testbeds only support pre-programmed timing plans. In this paper, we present the first HILS testbed for…
The Precision Time Protocol (PTP), standardized as IEEE 1588, provides sub-microsecond synchronization across distributed systems and underpins critical infrastructure in telecommunications, finance, power systems, and industrial…
This paper presents a network hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation system for modeling large-scale power systems. Researchers have developed many HIL test systems for power systems in recent years. Those test systems can model both…
Wake interactions in floating wind farms are inherently coupled to platform motion, yet most experimental studies to date neglect this two-way coupling by prescribing platform movements. This work presents a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)…
The extensive use of distributed vehicle platoon controllers has resulted in several benefits for transportation systems, such as increased traffic flow, fuel efficiency, and decreased pollution. The rising reliance on interconnected…
The electric power system is one of the largest and most intricate infrastructures. Therefore, it is critical to assess and maintain its security. A power system security assessment is indispensable for identifying post-contingency issues,…
Complex interconnections between information technology and digital control systems have significantly increased cybersecurity vulnerabilities in smart grids. Cyberattacks involving data integrity can be very disruptive because of their…
In power systems, unpredictable events like extreme weather, equipment failures, and cyberattacks present significant challenges to ensuring safety and reliability. Ensuring resilience in the face of these uncertainties is crucial for…
Multi-agent LLM systems decompose workflows across agents, tools, shared context, memory, and decision gates. This modularity improves interpretability, but creates a propagation risk: a bounded perturbation to one component can be reused…
In order to increase the resilience of distribution systems against high-impact low-probability (HILP) events, it is important to prioritize assets damaged by these events so that the lost loads, especially sensitive and important loads,…
The Controller Area Network (CAN) is used for communication between in-vehicle devices. The CAN bus has been shown to be vulnerable to remote attacks. To harden vehicles against such attacks, vehicle manufacturers have divided in-vehicle…
This work presents two methodologies to enhance vulnerability assessment in power systems using bilevel attacker-defender network interdiction models. First, we introduce a systematic evaluation procedure for comparing different optimal…
Networked power grid systems are susceptible to a phenomenon known as Coherent Swing Instability (CSI), in which a subset of machines in the grid lose synchrony with the rest of the network. We develop network level evaluation metrics to…
In this paper, a novel distributed controller for multimachine power systems is proposed to guarantee grid frequency restoration and accurate real and reactive power sharing among the generator units, while maintaining the generator inputs…
The recent surge in hardware security is significant due to offshoring the proprietary Intellectual property (IP). One distinct dimension of the disruptive threat is malicious logic insertion, also known as Hardware Trojan (HT). HT subverts…
This paper is concerned with estimating critical clearing times in the transient stability problem of power grids without extensive time-domain simulations. We consider a highdimensional post-fault system (the grid after the fault is…