Third Workshop on Control of Complex Systems (2017)
Experts in the control field gathered for CCSI’s third annual workshop, "Control of Complex Systems: An Integrated Perspective on Modern Power Grid Control." The workshop was held May 22-23, 2017, in conjunction with the American Control Conference in Seattle. Sonja Glavaski, program director for the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, keynoted the event. Other speakers included representatives from industry, research and academia. The event focused on three technical areas: Dynamics and Control, Analytics and Optimization, and Economics and Market Design, and also included industry-focused sessions and "lightning round" presentations that allowed researchers to discuss their projects and findings.
Day 1, Monday, May 22, 2017
| Session 1: Introduction and Keynote Presentation
Chair: Dr. Michael Brambley |
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| 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. | Workshop Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Michael Brambley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Keynote Presentation: Challenges and Perspectives
Dr. Sonja Glavaski, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) |
| Tutorial 1
Chair: Dr. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Tutorial: The U.S. Electricity Industry in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Prof. Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| Session 2: Industry Perspectives
Chairs: Mr. Paul Ehrlich, Dr. Karanjit Kalsi |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Hawaii's Clean Energy Transformation: Future Opportunities and Challenges
Mr. Michael Champley, Former Commissioner, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Challenges and Opportunities of Applying Optimization and Analytics for Managing Modern Power Systems
Dr. Kwok Cheung, GE Grid Solutions |
| 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Session 2: Industry Perspectives (continued)
Chairs: Mr. Paul Ehrlich, Dr. Karanjit Kalsi |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. | To Distribute or to Centralize: Architectures for Control of Power Systems
Dr. Holger Kley, SPIRAE |
| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Challenges of Technology Transfer from Research to an Electric Distribution Utility
Ms. Uzma Siddiqi, PE, Seattle City Light |
| Tutorial 2
Chair: Dr. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham |
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| 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Tutorial: Modeling Frameworks to Enable New Opportunities in Grid Optimization and Control
Prof. Christopher DeMarco, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| Session 3: Lightning Talks
Chair: Dr. Thomas Edgar |
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| 3:30 - 3:45 p.m. | High Level Modeling Language for Developing Co-simulations of Complex Systems
Mr. Thomas Edgar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 3:45 - 4:00 p.m. | Control System Evaluation Through Large-Scale Complex Interconnected Energy System Simulations
Mr. Jacob Hansen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 4:00 - 4:15 p.m. | VOLTTRONTM - An Open Source Distributed Control and Sensing Platform for Buildings, the Grid and More
Mr. Jereme Haack, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 4:15 - 4:30 p.m. | Optimal Energy Storage Sizing and Residential Load Scheduling to Improve Reliability in Islanded Operation of Distribution Grids
Mr. Abdulelah Habib, University of California, San Diego |
| 4:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Assessing Demand Flexibility in Uncertain Frequency Responsive Loads
Dr. Soumya Kundu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Transactive Energy Systems Using Double-auction Market: Example and Analysis
Dr. Jianming Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 5:00 - 5:15 p.m. | Integration of Retail and Wholesale Electricity Markets: Modeling and Stability Analysis
Dr. Thiagarajan Ramachandran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. | Poster Viewing and Networking Time |
| 6:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Day 2, Tuesday, May 23, 2017
| Introduction
Chair: Dr. Michael Brambley |
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| 8:00 - 8:05 a.m. | Welcome to Day 2
Dr. Michael Brambley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Session 4: Dynamics and Control
Chairs: Prof. Enrique Mallada, Dr. Soumya Kundu |
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| 8:05 - 8:35 a.m. | Design, Stability and Control of Ad-hoc Microgrids
Prof. Konstantin Turitsyn, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT |
| 8:35 - 9:05 a.m. | Performance Tradeoffs of Dynamically Controlled Grid- connected Inverters in Low Inertia Power Systems
Prof. Enrique Mallada, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| 9:05 - 9:35 a.m. | Realizing Virtual Power Plants
Dr. Changhong Zhao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 9:35 - 10:05 a.m. | Predictive Dispatch and Demand Response for Commercial Buildings
Prof. Colin Jones, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| 10:05 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | UTRC Buildings to Grid Research
Dr. Veronica Adetola, United Technologies Research Center |
| Tutorial 3: Optimization and Analytics
Chair: Dr. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Tutorial: Optimization and Control of Energy Systems
Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Session 5: Optimization and Analytics
Chair: Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Dr. Draguna Vrabie |
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| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Optimal Control of Battery Storage Under Cycle-based Degradation Models
Prof. Baosen Zhang, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Chance-constrained AC OPF with Probabilistic Guarantees and Scalable Performance
Dr. Maria Vrakopoulou, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Session 6: Economics and Market Design
Chairs: Prof. Subhonmesh Bose, Dr. Draguna Vrabie |
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| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. | A Self-Reported Baseline Mechanism for Demand Response Programs
Dr. Deepan Muthirayan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Call-options for Wholesale Electricity Markets
Prof. Subhonmesh Bose, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. | DER Coordination at Large Scales: From Mean-Field Games to Social Welfare Optimization
Prof. Wei Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University |
| Session 7: Lightning Talks - Control and Optimization Under Uncertainty
Chairs: Dr. Draguna Vrabie, Prof. Wei Zhang |
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| 4:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Model Decomposition Methods for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure Systems
Dr. Enoch Yeung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Robust Optimization of Infrastructure Systems
Dr. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 5:00 - 5:15 p.m. | Submodular Optimization for Discovery of Key Entities in Complex Systems
Dr. Arun Sathanur, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Session 8: Workshop Closing | |
| 5:15 - 5:30 p.m. | Workshop Closing Remarks
Dr. Michael Brambley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 5:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
| 7:00 p.m. | OPTIONAL: No-host Dinner
Wild Ginger 1401 3rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 |