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Resilient Sensing and Communication Architecture for Naval Energy Infrastructure Monitoring

$360KOffice of Naval Research
2020 to 2023period
4papers acknowledging the award
2lab students and alumni on the work

The project

Cross-domain design of sensing and communication for resilient monitoring of naval energy infrastructure.

PI Yuzhang Lin; Co-PI Vinod Vokkarane.

Award number: N00014-20-1-2858 (matched from paper acknowledgements by sponsor and year; to be confirmed)

Students

Shamsun Nahar Edib, Md Zahidul Islam

From the authors of the papers acknowledging this award.

What the work found

  • Situation-Aware Load Restoration Considering Uncertainty and Correlation (2023): More reliable restoration plans under uncertainty.
  • A Cross-Domain Optimization Framework of PMU and Communication Placement for Multi-Domain Resiliency and Cost Reduction (2022): Improves multi-domain resiliency at lower cost.
  • A Scalable PDC Placement Technique for Fast and Resilient Monitoring of Large Power Grids (2023): Scales to large grids while keeping data transfer fast and resilient.
  • Cyber Restoration of Power Systems: Concept and Methodology for Resilient Observability (2023): Defines cyber restoration as a planning problem.

From the lab\'s research record, where each paper is summarized as a problem, an approach, and a finding.

Papers acknowledging this award

From the funding information publishers register with Crossref.

S. N. Edib, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, F. Qiu, Y. Zhang, P. Du. Situation-Aware Load Restoration Considering Uncertainty and CorrelationIEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 2611-2629, Mar. 2024 (2024)
S. N. Edib, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, X. Fan. A Cross-Domain Optimization Framework of PMU and Communication Placement for Multidomain Resiliency and Cost ReductionIEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 7490-7504, May 2023 (2023)
M. Z. Islam, S. N. Edib, V. M. Vokkarane, Y. Lin, X. Fan. A Scalable PDC Placement Technique for Fast and Resilient Monitoring of Large Power GridsIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1770-1782, Dec. 2023 (2023)
S. N. Edib, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, F. Qiu, R. Yao, B. Chen. Cyber Restoration of Power Systems: Concept and Methodology for Resilient ObservabilityIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 5185-5198, Aug. 2023 (2023)

Related work from the lab in this period

Papers in the project\'s research threads from its years; they may or may not acknowledge this award.

M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, J. Ogle. Observability-Aware Resilient PMU NetworkingJournal, 2024, Smart grid resilience and security
S. N. Edib, V. M. Vokkarane, Y. Lin. Reinforcement Learning-Based Observability-Aware Cyber Restoration of Power GridConference, 2024, Smart grid resilience and security
Yuzhang Lin, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Md. Zahidul Islam, Shamsun Nahar Edib. Resilient Sensing and Communication Architecture for Microgrid ManagementChapter, 2024, Smart grid resilience and security
S. N. Edib, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane. Disaster-Resilient PMU Network DesignConference, 2023, Smart grid resilience and security
MZ Islam, VM Vokkarane. Cyber-Physical Reconfiguration for Disaster Resilience of Power Distribution SystemsConference, 2023, Smart grid resilience and security
MZ Islam, VM Vokkarane. PMU Network Routing for Resilient Observability of Power GridsConference, 2023, Smart grid resilience and security
Md. Zahidul Islam, Yuzhang Lin, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Nanpeng Yu. Robust learning-based real-time load estimation using sparsely deployed smart meters with high reporting ratesJournal, 2023, Smart grid resilience and security
M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, V. Venkataramanan. Cyber-physical cascading failure and resilience of power grid: A comprehensive reviewJournal, 2023, Smart grid resilience and security

Acknowledging this award

This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Naval Research under Award No. N00014-20-1-2858. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor.