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Unified Post-Disaster Restoration Planning for Cyber-Physical Power Distribution Systems

$550KOffice of Naval Research
Jan 2024 to Oct 2025period
1papers acknowledging the award
1lab students and alumni on the work

The project

Joint restoration of the power and communication layers of a distribution grid after a disaster, including networked microgrid formation and communication-aware state recovery.

PI Vinod Vokkarane; Co-PIs Orlando Arias (UMass Lowell), Yuzhang Lin (NYU).

Award number: N00014-24-1-2287 (matched from paper acknowledgements by sponsor and year; to be confirmed)

Students

Md Zahidul Islam

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.
  • Cyber Security Constrained Economic Dispatch for Resilient Power System Operation (2025): Dispatch that stays secure under cyber contingencies.
  • Disaster-Resilient Cyber-Physical Distribution System Reconfiguration and Dynamic Networked Microgrid Formation under Intermittent Generation (2025): Faster recovery with intermittent generation.
  • Exploring a Smart FDI Attack and Enhancing Anomaly Detection in Smart Meters (2025): Detection that catches attacks existing methods miss.

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

Papers acknowledging this award

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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)

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.

B. R. J. Arka, M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, J. Zhao. Communication Network-Aware Missing Data Recovery for Enhanced Distribution Grid VisibilityConference, 2026, Smart grid resilience and security
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
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

Acknowledging this award

This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Naval Research under Award No. N00014-24-1-2287. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor.