Often times, Ph.D. students with psychological burden on paper writing would request that they be excused from paper submission to a conference. The excuse is that time can be saved for more in-depth study and for the final journal paper writing. The responsible and correct answer is, as always, no. Any Ph.D. student survival guide would show that paper writing is an essential skill and there is no reason to trust there will be a journal paper before a conference paper. Usually, there are three stages to have a solid paper out. Stage 1: notes; Stage 2: conference paper; and Stage 3: journal paper.
The spring 2017 semester sees a total of 11 conference papers. Coverage of the papers includes 1) dynamics and control;
2) optimization; and 3) system identification.
On the topic of dynamics, the following papers address converter droop
control, synchronous machine modeling, converter cascaded control, and
interconnected power system dynamics.
1. I. Alsaleh and L. Fan, "DQ Current-based
Droop Control for Microgrids."
2. Z. Wang and L. Fan, "Space Vector based
Synchronous Machine Modeling."
3. Y. Zhou, Z. Miao, Y. Li and L. Fan, " Robust
Cascaded Control for Converters. "
4. L. Bao, Z. Miao and L. Fan, "Smart
Grid Cyber Attacks to Excite Interarea Oscillations."
On the topic of optimization, the following papers address PMU placement formulation as
MIP and nonlinear programming, SDP relaxation AC OPF’s two applications, Using
Benders’ decomposition to solve a model predictive control for multi-level
modular converters, AC OPF-based financial transmission right auction model
while considering loss allocation, and distributed computing using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for nonconvex AC OPF.
1. A. Almunif and L. Fan, "Optimal PMU Placement for
State Estimation in Power Systems."
2. A. Alassaf and L. Fan, "Economic Dispatch with
Heavy Loading and Maximum Loading Identification using Convex Relaxation of AC
OPF."
3. M. Ma and L. Fan, "Bender's Decomposition for
Model Predictive Control of an MMC."
4. A. Alburidy and L. Fan, " Loss Allocation in AC
OPF-based FTR Auction Models."
5. R. Kar, M. Zhang, Z. Miao, and L. Fan, "ADMM for nonconvex AC OPF."
On the topic of system identification, the following two
papers address how to estimate a synchronous generator’s parameters using PMU
data and how to estimation a battery’s SoC and circuit parameters using
measurements.
1. Y. Xu, Y. Li, and Z. Miao, "Nonlinear Least-Square
Estimation-based Parameter Identification of a Synchronous Generator,"
submitted, NAPS 2017.
2. M. Zhang, Z. Miao and L. Fan, "Battery
Identification based on Real-World Data," submitted, NAPS 2017.
All students are commented for their ability of project management, hardwork, and team spirit.
