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The increasing integration of intermittent distributed energy resources (DERs) has introduced significant variability in distribution networks, posing challenges to voltage regulation and reactive power management. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Zhentong Shao , Jingtao Qin , Nanpeng Yu

In modern power systems, frequency regulation is a fundamental prerequisite for ensuring system reliability and assessing the robustness of expansion projects. Conventional feedback control schemes, however, exhibit limited accuracy under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Amin Masoumi , Mert Korkali

To reduce CO2 emissions and tackle increasing fuel costs, the aviation industry is swiftly moving towards the electrification of aircraft. From the viewpoint of systems and control, a key challenge brought by this transition corresponds to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Wasif H. Syed , Juan E. Machado , Hans Würfel , Ekrem Hanli , Johannes Schiffer

Modern power systems are becoming increasingly dynamic, with changing topologies and time-varying loads driven by renewable energy variability, electric vehicle adoption, and active grid reconfiguration. Despite these changes, publicly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xinyu He , Chenhan Xiao , Haoran Li , Ruizhong Qiu , Zhe Xu , Yang Weng , Jingrui He , Hanghang Tong

An increasing number of renewable energy-based distribution generation (DG) units are being deployed in electric distribution systems. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to optimize the installation locations as well as the power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Shijie Pan , Sajjad Maleki , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Charalambos Konstantinou

Machine learning algorithms, especially Neural Networks (NNs), are a valuable tool used to approximate non-linear relationships, like the AC-Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF), with considerable accuracy -- and achieving a speedup of several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Rahul Nellikkath , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The growing integration of distributed energy resources into distribution systems poses challenges for voltage regulation. Dynamic VAR Compensators (DVCs) are a new generation of power electronics-based Volt/VAR compensation devices…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Han Pyo Lee , Keith DSouza , Ke Chen , Ning Lu , Mesut Baran

Current state of the art solutions in the control of an autonomous vehicle mainly use supervised end-to-end learning, or decoupled perception, planning and action pipelines. Another possible solution is deep reinforcement learning, but such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Bogdan Trasnea , Andrei Vasilcoi , Claudiu Pozna , Sorin Grigorescu

This paper addresses the growing computational challenges of power grid simulations, particularly with the increasing integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. As grid operators must analyze significantly more scenarios…

Due to the increasing load demand, the operating state of modern power systems are become closing to their critical levels. Moreover, the modern power systems are integrated with a large amount of fast-response dynamic elements, so the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Wenlu Zhao

The $\textit{invrs-gym}$ is a toolkit for research in nanophotonic inverse design, topology optimization, and AI-guided design. It includes a diverse set of challenges--representing a wide range of photonic design problems--with a common…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-01 Martin F. Schubert

In this paper we present an online wide-area oscillation damping control (WAC) design for uncertain models of power systems using ideas from reinforcement learning. We assume that the exact small-signal model of the power system at the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Amirhassan Fallah Dizche , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

Deep reinforcement learning approaches are becoming appealing for the design of nonlinear controllers for voltage control problems, but the lack of stability guarantees hinders their deployment in real-world scenarios. This paper constructs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Jie Feng , Wenqi Cui , Jorge Cortés , Yuanyuan Shi

Voltage (Volt) and reactive-power (VAR) control in transmission networks is critical for reliability and increasingly needs fast, implementable decisions. This paper presents a transmission Volt/VAR Optimization (VVO) framework that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Shuaicheng Tong , Michael A. Boateng , Mathieu Tanneau , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Contemporary electricity distribution systems are being challenged by the variability of renewable energy sources. Slow response times and long energy management periods cannot efficiently integrate intermittent renewable generation and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Gang Wang , Vassilis Kekatos , Antonio J. Conejo , Georgios B. Giannakis

The deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based Volt-VAR optimization (VVO) methods have been widely studied for active distribution networks (ADNs). However, most of them lack safety guarantees in terms of power injection uncertainties due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Zhengrong Chen , Siyao Cai , A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos

The rise in residential photovoltaics and other distributed energy sources poses unprecedented challenges for the operation of power distribution grids. When high amounts of active power are injected into the grid by such power sources, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Jonas G. Matt , Lukas Ortmann , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

We consider a multicast scheme recently proposed for a wireless downlink in [1]. It was shown earlier that power control can significantly improve its performance. However for this system, obtaining optimal power control is intractable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ramkumar Raghu , Pratheek Upadhyaya , Mahadesh Panju , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinod Sharma

This paper presents Gym-TORAX, a Python package enabling the implementation of Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments for simulating plasma dynamics and control in tokamaks. Users define succinctly a set of control actions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Antoine Mouchamps , Arthur Malherbe , Adrien Bolland , Damien Ernst

As machine learning (ML) techniques gain prominence in power system research, validating these methods' effectiveness under real-world conditions requires real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations. HIL simulation platforms enable the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Aoxiang Ma , Salah Ghamizi , Jun Cao , Pedro Rodriguez