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The increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, especially at the distribution level,necessitates advanced planning and optimisation methodologies contingent on the knowledge of thegrid, specifically the admittance matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Jean-Sébastien Brouillon , Emanuele Fabbiani , Pulkit Nahata , Keith Moffat , Florian Dörfler , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Unveiling feeder topologies from data is of paramount importance to advance situational awareness and proper utilization of smart resources in power distribution grids. This tutorial summarizes, contrasts, and establishes useful links…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Deepjyoti Deka , Vassilis Kekatos , Guido Cavraro

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

The increasing penetration of intermittent distributed energy resources in power networks calls for novel planning and control methodologies which hinge on detailed knowledge of the grid. However, reliable information concerning the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Emanuele Fabbiani , Pulkit Nahata , Giuseppe De Nicolao , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This research leverages Conformal Prediction (CP) in the form of Conformal Predictive Systems (CPS) to accurately estimate uncertainty in a suite of machine learning (ML)-based radio metric models [1] as well as in a 2-D map-based ML path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Alexis Bose , Jonathan Ethier , Ryan G. Dempsey , Yifeng Qiu

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Laurin Lux , Alexander H. Berger , Alexander Weers , Nico Stucki , Daniel Rueckert , Ulrich Bauer , Johannes C. Paetzold

Graphical models are a succinct way to represent the structure in probability distributions. This article analyzes the graphical model of nodal voltages in non-radial power distribution grids. Using algebraic and structural properties of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Deepjyoti Deka , Saurav Talukdar , Michael Chertkov , Murti Salapaka

This paper presents adaptive link selection algorithms for distributed estimation and considers their application to wireless sensor networks and smart grids. In particular, exhaustive search--based least--mean--squares(LMS)/recursive least…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-20 S. Xu , R. C. de Lamare , H. V. Poor

AC State Estimation (ACSE) is widely recognized as a practical approach for determining the grid states in steady-state conditions. It serves as a fundamental analysis to ensure grid security and is a reference for market dispatch. As grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Peng Sang , Amritanshu Pandey

Accurate knowledge of power grid topology is a prerequisite for effective state estimation and grid stability. While data-driven methods for topology reconstruction exist, the minimum requirements for measurement quality, specifically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-13 Daniel T. Speckhard

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

Proliferation of grid resources on the distribution network along with the inability to forecast them accurately will render the existing methodology of grid operation and control untenable in the future. Instead, a more distributed yet…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Amritanshu Pandey , Shimiao Li , Larry Pileggi

The lack of measurements in distribution grids poses a severe challenge for their monitoring: since there may not be enough sensors to achieve numerical observability, load forecasts (pseudo-measurements) are typically used, and thus an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Miguel Picallo , Adolfo Anta , Bart De Schutter

With more distributed energy resources (DERs) connected to distribution grids, better monitoring and control are needed, where identifying the topology accurately is the prerequisite. However, due to frequent re-configurations, operators…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Haoran Li , Yang Weng , Yizheng Liao , Brian Keel , Kenneth E. Brown

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 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a distributed protocol that manages interdomain routing without requiring a centralized record of which autonomous systems (ASes) connect to which others. Many methods have been devised to infer the AS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Kirtus G. Leyba , Joshua J. Daymude , Jean-Gabriel Young , M. E. J. Newman , Jennifer Rexford , Stephanie Forrest

A fundamental requirement to develop routing strategies in power line networks is the knowledge of the network topology, which might not be complete. In this work, we present a novel method to derive the topology of a distribution network…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Federico Passerini , Andrea M. Tonello

Knowing the connectivity and line parameters of the underlying electric distribution network is a prerequisite for solving any grid optimization task. Although distribution grids lack observability and comprehensive metering, inverters with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Guido Cavraro , Vassilis Kekatos

Topology inference is a powerful tool to better understand the behaviours of network systems (NSs). Different from most of prior works, this paper is dedicated to inferring the directed topology of NSs from noisy observations, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Qing Jiao , Yushan Li , Jianping He

The small amount of measurements in distribution grids makes their monitoring more difficult. Topological observability may not be possible, and thus, pseudo-measurements are needed to perform state estimation, which is required to control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Miguel Picallo , Adolfo Anta , Bart De Schutter