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The increasing share of renewable energy and distributed electricity generation requires the development of deep learning approaches to address the lack of flexibility inherent in traditional power grid methods. In this context, Graph…
Fast and accurate knowledge of power flows and power injections is needed for a variety of applications in the electric grid. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) can be used to directly compute them at high speeds; however, a large number of…
In recent years, much progress has been made in LiDAR-based 3D object detection mainly due to advances in detector architecture designs and availability of large-scale LiDAR datasets. Existing 3D object detectors tend to perform well on the…
Accurate rail location is a crucial part in the railway support driving system for safety monitoring. LiDAR can obtain point clouds that carry 3D information for the railway environment, especially in darkness and terrible weather…
Smart power grid enables intelligent automation at all levels of power system operation, from electricity generation at power plants to power usage at households. The key enabling factor of an efficient smart grid is its built-in…
Machine learning and computational intelligence technologies gain more and more popularity as possible solution for issues related to the power grid. One of these issues, the power flow calculation, is an iterative method to compute the…
Power grid parameter estimation involves the estimation of unknown parameters, such as inertia and damping coefficients, using observed dynamics. In this work, we present a comparison of data-driven algorithms for the power grid parameter…
We propose an approach based on neural networks and the AC power flow equations to identify single- and double-line outages in a power grid using the information from phasor measurement unit sensors (PMUs) placed on only a subset of the…
Point cloud data now are popular data representations in a number of three-dimensional (3D) vision research realms. However, due to the limited performance of sensors and sensing noise, the raw data usually suffer from sparsity, noise, and…
A major aspect in power line distribution networks is the constant monitoring of the network properties. With the advent of the smart grid concept, distributed monitoring has started complementing the information of the central stations. In…
This paper introduces an online inspection algorithm that enables an autonomous UAV to fly around a transmission tower and obtain detailed inspection images without a prior map of the tower. Our algorithm relies on camera-LiDAR sensor…
Distribution grid is the medium and low voltage part of a large power system. Structurally, the majority of distribution networks operate radially, such that energized lines form a collection of trees, i.e. forest, with a substation being…
Change detection from traditional \added{2D} optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud \added{from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying} can fill this…
Machine Learning guided data augmentation may support the development of technologies in the physical sciences, such as nuclear fusion tokamaks. Here we endeavor to study the problem of detecting disruptions i.e. plasma instabilities that…
Smart grids are large and complex cyber physical infrastructures that require real-time monitoring for ensuring the security and reliability of the system. Monitoring the smart grid involves analyzing continuous data-stream from various…
With the proliferation of smart grids, smart cities face growing challenges due to cyber-attacks and sophisticated electricity theft behaviors, particularly in residential photovoltaic (PV) generation systems. Traditional Electricity Theft…
With the expansion of the power grid and the increase of the proportion of new energy sources, the uncertainty and random factors of the power grid increase, endangering the safe operation of the system. It is particularly important to find…
LiDAR-based 3D object detection is an important task for autonomous driving and current approaches suffer from sparse and partial point clouds of distant and occluded objects. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage approach, namely…
In this paper, a novel optical inspection system is presented that is directly suitable for Industry 4.0 and the implementation on IoT-devices controlling the manufacturing process. The proposed system is capable of distinguishing between…
Power transformers are critical assets in power networks, whose reliability directly impacts grid resilience and stability. Traditional condition monitoring approaches, often rule-based or purely physics-based, struggle with uncertainty,…