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Smart grid technological advances present a recent class of complex interdisciplinary modeling and increasingly difficult simulation problems to solve using traditional computational methods. To simulate a smart grid requires a systemic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sofiane Ben Amor , Guillaume Guerard , Loup-Noé Levy

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

Smart grid infrastructure needs improved resilience and preventive maintenance through more accurate predictions. Current methodologies lack accurate representation of spatio-temporal-causal interdependencies and class imbalance in failure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Anh Le , Phat K. Huynh , Om P. Yadav , Harun Pirim , Chau Le , Trung Q. Le

Line outage identification in distribution grids is essential for sustainable grid operation. In this work, we propose a practical yet robust detection approach that utilizes only readily available voltage magnitudes, eliminating the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-21 Chenhan Xiao , Yizheng Liao , Yang Weng

Anomaly detection in smart power grids is a critical challenge due to the complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamic nature of sensor data streams. Existing one-class classification methods, particularly Subspace Support Vector Data Description…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Thomas Debelle , Fahad Sohrab , Pekka Abrahamsson , Moncef Gabbouj

Reliable integration and operation of renewable distributed energy resources requires accurate distribution grid models. However, obtaining precise models is often prohibitively expensive, given their large scale and the ongoing nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 Jean-Sébastien Brouillon , Keith Moffat , Florian Dörfler , Giancarlo Ferrari-trecate

LiDAR is currently one of the most utilized sensors to effectively monitor the status of power lines and facilitate the inspection of remote power distribution networks and related infrastructures. To ensure the safe operation of the smart…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alexander Kyuroson , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) calls for new planning and operational tools. However, such tools depend on system topology and line parameters, which may be missing or inaccurate in distribution grids.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Jiafan Yu , Yang Weng , Ram Rajagopal

The potential of recovering the topology of a grid using solely publicly available market data is explored here. In contemporary whole-sale electricity markets, real-time prices are typically determined by solving the network-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ross Baldick

Grid security and open markets are two major smart grid goals. Transparency of market data facilitates a competitive and efficient energy environment, yet it may also reveal critical physical system information. Recovering the grid topology…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis , Ross Baldick

The real-world data of power networks is often inaccessible due to privacy and security concerns, highlighting the need for tools to generate realistic synthetic network data. Existing methods leverage geographic tools like OpenStreetMap…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Henrique O. Caetano , Rahul K. Gupta , Marco Aiello , Carlos Dias Maciel

In traditional topology optimization, the computing time required to iteratively update the material distribution within a design domain strongly depends on the complexity or size of the problem, limiting its application in real engineering…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gabriel Garayalde , Matteo Torzoni , Matteo Bruggi , Alberto Corigliano

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

The energy landscape for the Low-Voltage (LV) networks are beginning to change; changes resulted from the increase penetration of renewables and/or the predicted increase of electric vehicles charging at home. The previously passive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Maizura Mokhtar , Valentin Robu , David Flynn , Ciaran Higgins , Jim Whyte , Caroline Loughran , Fiona Fulton

The emerging deep learning (DL) technology has recently exhibited great potential in data-driven short-term voltage stability (SVS) assessment of complex power grids. However, without sufficient attention to the time-varying topological…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Chao Deng , Lipeng Zhu , Chang Liu , Hefeng Zhai , Baoye Tian , Zexiang Zhu , Jiayong Li , Cong Zhang

Emerging smart grid applications analyze large amounts of data collected from millions of meters and systems to facilitate distributed monitoring and real-time control tasks. However, current parallel data processing systems are designed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Binquan Guo , Hongyan Li , Ye Yan , Zhou Zhang , Peng Wang

The growing integration of renewable energy sources has significantly reduced grid inertia, making modern power systems more vulnerable to instabilities. Accurate estimation of dynamic parameters such as inertia constants and damping…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Aiman Mushtaq Purra , Danish Rafiq

This paper introduces a novel adaptive framework for processing dynamic flow signals over simplicial complexes, extending classical least-mean-squares (LMS) methods to high-order topological domains. Building on discrete Hodge theory, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Lorenzo Marinucci , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo

In this paper, we consider the problem of blind estimation of states and topology (BEST) in power systems. We use the linearized DC model of real power measurements with unknown voltage phases (i.e. states) and an unknown admittance matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Sivan Grotas , Yair Yakoby , Idan Gera , Tirza Routtenberg

The recent introduction of synchrophasor technology into power distribution systems has given impetus to various monitoring, diagnostic, and control applications, such as system identification and event detection, which are crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Omid Ardakanian , Ye Yuan , Roel Dobbe , Alexandra von Meier , Steven Low , Claire Tomlin