Automation and control of sustainable power systems

The research in the group is focused on issues at the crossroads of decision and control systems, communication technology and power systems. The fundamental challenge driving the work is the physical transformation of the power system from an electromechanical system, with inherent slower dynamics, into a systen based on power electronics which much faster dynamics. In this context, many traditional control paradigms will be challenged.

The work in the group includes distributed approaches such as decentralized control for HVDC grids considering fault detection and autonomous controller station selection as well as planning, control and operation of DSO connected microgrids. Centralised, often data driven approaches, include for example flexibility prediction of residential loads using LSTMs and GNN based dynamic stability assessment using PMU data. A core value driving the work is also tight collaboration with problem owners in industry such as transmission system operators.

Read more about the research:

NEWEPS

SP4SE