Power and Voltage Control; Electrical Distribution Networks; Distributed Control; Explicit Distributed Optimization; Software Agents
Stai Eleni, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Sossan Fabrizio, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2018), Dispatching Stochastic Heterogeneous Resources Accounting for Grid and Battery Losses, in
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9(6), 6522-6539.
Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Bernstein Andrey, Bouman Niek J., Scolari Enrica, Kettner Andreas M., Cathiard Benoit, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2018), Experimental Validation of an Explicit Power-Flow Primary Control in Microgrids, in
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(11), 4779-4791.
Bernstein Andrey, Wang Cong, Dall'Anese Emiliano, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Zhao Changhong (2018), Load Flow in Multiphase Distribution Networks: Existence, Uniqueness, Non-Singularity and Linear Models, in
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33(6), 5832-5843.
NamorEmil, SossanFabrizio, ScolariEnrica, CherkaouiRachid, PaoloneMario (2018), Experimental Assessment of the Prediction Performance of Dynamic Equivalent Circuit Models of Grid-connected Battery Energy Storage Systems, in
2018 IEEE PES ISGT Europe, SarajevoInfoscience EPFL, Lausanne.
KettnerAndreas Martin, PaoloneMario (2018), On the Properties of the Compound Nodal Admittance Matrix of Polyphase Power Systems, in
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, -(-), 1-9.
Scolari Enrica, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Sossan Fabrizio, Paolone Mario (2018), A Comprehensive Assessment of the Short-Term Uncertainty of Grid-Connected PV Systems, in
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9(3), 1458-1467.
Barreto Sergio, Pignati Marco, Dan Gyorgy, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2018), Undetectable Timing-Attack on Linear State-Estimation by Using Rank-1 Approximation, in
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9(4), 3530-3542.
Bernstein Andrey, Wang Cong, Le Boudec Jean-Yves (2018), Multiphase Optimal and Non-Singular Power Flow by Successive Linear Approximations, in
2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, IrelandNREL, USA.
Saab Wajeb, Rudnik Roman, Boudec Jean-Yves Le, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Paolone Mario (2018), Robust Real-Time Control of Power Grids in the Presence of Communication Network Non-Idealities, in
2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, ID, USAIEEE, Boise, ID, USA.
Reyes-Chamorro L., Saab W., Rudnik R., Kettner A. M., Paolone M., Le Boudec J.Y. (2018), Slack Selection for Unintentional Islanding: Practical Validation in a Benchmark Microgrid, in
2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Dublin, IrelandIEEExplore, New York.
AcharaJadgish P., Le BoudecJean-Yves, PaoloneMario (2018), Technologies for Integration of Large-Scale Distributed Generation and Volatile Loads in Distribution Grids, in
India Smart Grid Week (ISGW), New Dehli, IndiaEPFL, Lausanne.
Kohroudi Seyed Alireza Sanaee, Mostafa Jalal, Mohiuddin Maaz, Saab Wajeb, Boudec Jean-Yves Le (2018), Experimental validation of the suitability of virtualization-based replication for fault tolerance in real-time control of electric grids, in
the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium, Oulu, FinlandACM DL, New York.
Kettner Andreas Martin, Paolone Mario (2018), On the Properties of the Power Systems Nodal Admittance Matrix, in
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33(1), 1130-1131.
Scolari Enrica, Sossan Fabrizio, Paolone Mario (2018), Photovoltaic-Model-Based Solar Irradiance Estimators: Performance Comparison and Application to Maximum Power Forecasting, in
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9(1), 35-44.
Achara Jagdish Prasad, Mohiuddin Maaz, Saab Wajeb, Rudnik Roman, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo (2018), T-RECSA Virtual Commissioning Tool for Software-Based Control of Electric Grids: Design, Validation, and Operation, in
the Ninth International Conference, Karlsruhe, GermanyACM DL, New York.
Kettner Andreas Martin, Paolone Mario (2017), Sequential Discrete Kalman Filter for Real-Time State Estimation in Power Distribution Systems: Theory and Implementation, in
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 66(9), 2358-2370.
Wang Cong, Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2017), Existence and Uniqueness of Load-Flow Solutions in Three-Phase Distribution Networks, in
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 32(4), 3319-3320.
Scolari E., Sossan F., Paolone M. (2017), A model-based filtering strategy to reconstruct the maximum power generation of curtailed photovoltaic installations: Application to forecasting, in
2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Manchester, United KingdomIEEE PES PowerTech, Manchester.
Rudnik Roman, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Bernstein Andrey, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Paolone Mario (2017), Handling large power steps in real-time microgrid control via explicit power setpoints, in
2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Manchester, United KingdomIEEE, New York.
Zogogianni Charoula, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Paolone Mario, Porobic Vlado, Adzic Evgenije, Vekic Marko (2017), Real-time power-reference tracking method for PV converters, in
2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, Manchester, United KingdomIEEE, Manchester.
Scolari Enrica, Sossan Fabrizio, Paolone Mario (2016), Irradiance prediction intervals for PV stochastic generation in microgrid applications, in
Solar Energy, 139, 116-129.
TranYan-Kim (2016), A Multiport Medium Voltage Isolated DC-DC Converter, in
IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, FlorenceIEEExplore, USA.
Sossan Fabrizio, Namor Emil, Cherkaoui Rachid, Paolone Mario (2016), Achieving the Dispatchability of Distribution Feeders Through Prosumers Data Driven Forecasting and Model Predictive Control of Electrochemical Storage, in
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 7(4), 1762-1777.
Mohiuddin Maaz, Saab Wajeb, Bliudze Simon, Le Boudec Jean-Yves (2016), Axo: Masking delay faults in real-time control systems, in
IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Florence, ItalyIEEE, USA.
Scolari E., Torregrossa D., Le Boudec J.-Y., Paolone M. (2016), Ultra-short-term prediction intervals of photovoltaic AC active power, in
2016 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), BeijingIEEE, Beijing, China.
Zou Zhixiang, Buticchi Giampaolo, Liserre Marco, Kettner Andreas Martin, Paolone Mario (2016), Voltage stability analysis using a complete model of grid-connected voltage-source converters, in
2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, USAIEEE, New York.
Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario, Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Saab Wajeb (2016), Aggregation of power capabilities of heterogeneous resources for real-time control of power grids, in
2016 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Genoa, ItalyIEEE, Genoa.
Tran Yan-Kim, Dujic Drazen (2016), A multiport isolated DC-DC converter, in
IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Long Beach, CA156-162, IEEEXplore, USA156-162.
Wang Cong, Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves (2016), Explicit Conditions on Existence and Uniqueness of Load-Flow Solutions in Distribution Networks, in
IEEE Tran. Smart Grid, 9(2), 953-962.
Tran Yan-Kim, Dujic Drazen, Barrade Philippe (2015), Multiport resonant DC-DC converter, in
Industrial Electronics Society, Yokohama IECON 2015, 003839-003844, IEEExplore, USA IECON 2015, 003839-003844.
Reyes-Chamorro Lorenzo, Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2015), A composable method for real-time control of active distribution networks with explicit power setpoints. Part II: Implementation and validation, in
Electric Power Systems Research, 125, 265-280.
Bernstein Andrey, Reyes Chamorro Lorenzo Enrique, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2015), A composable method for real-time control of active distribution networks with explicit power set points. Part I: Framework, in
Electric Power Systems Research, 125(August), 254-264.
Reyes Chamorro Lorenzo Enrique, Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2015), A composable method for real-time control of active distribution networks with explicit power set points. Part II: Implementation and validation, in
Electric Power Systems Research, 125(August), 265-280.
Reyes Chamorro Lorenzo Enrique, Paolone Mario, Bernstein Andrey, Le Boudec Jean-Yves (2015), A SuperCapacitor Agent for Providing Real-Time Power Services to the Grid, in
IEEE PES Conference on Innovative SMART GRID Technologies, IEEE, IEEE PES Conference on Innovative SMART GRID Technologies (ISGT-LA 2015).
Sossan Fabrizio, Torregrossa Dimitri, Namor Emil, Cherkaoui Rachid, Paolone Mario (2015), Control of a Battery Energy Storage System Accounting for the Charge Redistribution Effect to Dispatch the Operation of a Medium Voltage Feeder, in
IEEE PES PowerTech, EindhovenIEEE, Eindhoven.
Popovic Miroslav, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin, Tomozei Dan-Cristian, Le Boudec Jean-Yves (2015), iPRP: Parallel Redundancy Protocol for IP Networks, in
11th IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (IEEE Xplore), IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems, Palma de Mallorca.
Le BoudecJean-Yves, PaoloneMario (2015), Pilotage automatique des réseaux de distribution en temps réel, in
Bulletin SEV/VSE, 2015(10), 37-40.
Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2015), Pilotage automatique des réseaux de distribution en temps réel, in
Bulletin SEV/VSE, 2015(10), 37-40.
BoumanNiek Johannes, BernsteinAndrey, Le BoudecJean-Yves (2015),
Real-Time Control of Microgrids with Explicit Power Setpoints: an API for Resource Agents, EPFL, Lausanne.
Bernstein Andrey, Reyes Chamorro Lorenzo Enrique, Le Boudec Jean-Yves, Paolone Mario (2015), Real-Time Control of Microgrids with Explicit Power Setpoints: Unintentional Islanding, in
PowerTech, 2015 IEEE Eindhoven, IEEE, PES PowerTech 2015.
NamorEmil, SossanFabrizio, ScolariEnrica, CherkaouiRachid, PaoloneMario, Experimental Assessment of the Prediction Performance of Dynamic Equivalent Circuit Models of Grid-connected Battery Energy Storage Systems, in
2018 IEEE PES ISGT Europe, SarajevoEPFL, Lausanne.
TranYan-Kim, FreijedoFrancisco D., DujicDrazen, Open-loop power sharing of three-port DC-DC resonant converters, in
2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Annaheim, CAIEEExplore, USA.
A massive penetration of distributed energy sources (solar photovoltaic in summer, cogeneration in winter, small scale wind farms in all seasons) is expected to be one element of solution to the electricity gap problem (Stromlücke). However, this poses several problems such as quality of service of the distribution network and the requirement to provide voltage and frequency support to the Swiss and European grids. The classic solutions to these problems imply to (1) upgrade the electrical distribution networks and/or (2) deploy additional generators for compensation, mostly fuel based and/or (3) curtail distributed generation. All of these solutions are expensive or environmentally non-desirable. An alternative is to use local electrical and thermal storage (such as batteries, supercaps, heating and cooling systems, water reservoirs, hydrogen, flywheels or compressed air tanks), but this is difficult to deploy using the classical control means based on frequency. We propose a radically different approach, based on a new control philosophy that would enable power systems to directly communicate with each other in order to define explicit real-time setpoints for active/reactive power absorptions or injections. In this project, we propose to lay out the foundations of such a new control approach. A key requirement is scalability and robustness. We will define a universal protocol for the explicit control of power flows and voltage, combined with a recursive abstraction and optimization framework. This will allow the method to be distributed and composable, i.e. subsystems can be aggregated into abstract models that hide most of their internal complexity, and thus to apply to interconnected systems of any size and complexity. We will prove the correctness of the control algorithms by using BIP, a formal framework for developing systems that are correct by construction. We will demonstrate this control technology and deploy prototypes of real time software agents on the medium and low voltage grids of the EPFL campus, using the communication and monitoring infrastructure offered by the nano-tera project.