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Software-Defined Cyber-Physical Microgrids (SDCPM) for Agile Adaptation to High-Impact, Low-Probability Disturbances

$300KOffice of Naval Research
2021 to 2024period
4papers acknowledging the award
2lab students and alumni on the work

The project

Software-defined control of cyber-physical microgrids so they can reconfigure quickly around rare, high-impact disturbances.

PI Vinod Vokkarane.

Award number: N00014-22-1-2001 (matched from paper acknowledgements by sponsor and year; to be confirmed)

Students

Md Zahidul Islam, Shamsun Nahar Edib

From the authors of the papers acknowledging this award.

What the work found

  • Disaster-Resilient Cyber-Physical Distribution System Reconfiguration and Dynamic Networked Microgrid Formation under Intermittent Generation (2025): Faster recovery with intermittent generation.
  • Observability-Aware Resilient PMU Networking (2024): Fast, resilient PMU data transfer.
  • Situation-Aware Load Restoration Considering Uncertainty and Correlation (2023): More reliable restoration plans under uncertainty.
  • 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.

M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane. Disaster-Resilient Cyber-Physical Distribution System Reconfiguration and Dynamic Networked Microgrid Formation Under Intermittent GenerationIEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 3459-3471, Mar. 2026 (2026)
M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, J. Ogle. Observability-Aware Resilient PMU NetworkingIEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 218-230, Jan. 2025 (2025)
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, 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. Cyber Security Constrained Economic Dispatch for Resilient Power System OperationConference, 2025, Smart grid resilience and security
M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane. Disaster-Resilient Cyber-Physical Distribution System Reconfiguration and Dynamic Networked Microgrid Formation under Intermittent GenerationJournal, 2025, Smart grid resilience and security
M. Sasaninia, V. M. Vokkarane, Y. Lin, O. Arias. Exploring a Smart FDI Attack and Enhancing Anomaly Detection in Smart MetersConference, 2025, 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
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 GridsJournal, 2023, 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

Acknowledging this award

This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Naval Research under Award No. N00014-22-1-2001. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor.