Smart Power Grids

Resilience, scalability and safety of operations is critical for power grid. Ensuring that the system operates resiliently while handling the challenges of both component failures, environmental uncertainty and adversarial attacks is not easy. The challenge in this domain include data corruption, failure and misoperation of protection equipment, and the possibility of misclassification of a fault by the AI system. System integration and operation of the grid remains open challenges. Further, the emerging trend in this domain is networked microgrids that can island or be connected together to respond to adversities. However, dynamic formation of networked microgrids for heterogeneous components is not a solved problem. System integrators must often put together a microgrid from available components that communicate different information, at different rates, using different protocols. Due to variations in the microgrid architectures and their generation and load mix, each microgrid solution is customized and site-specific.

Publications in this area

  1. S. Eisele, T. Eghtesad, K. Campanelli, P. Agrawal, A. Laszka, and A. Dubey, Safe and Private Forward-Trading Platform for Transactive Microgrids, ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst., vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2021.
  2. A. Chhokra, C. Barreto, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and X. Koutsoukos, Power-Attack: A comprehensive tool-chain for modeling and simulating attacks in power systems, in 9th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, MSCPES@CPSIoTWeek, 2021.
  3. H. M. Mustafa, M. Bariya, K. S. Sajan, A. Chhokra, A. Srivastava, A. Dubey, A. von Meier, and G. Biswas, RT-METER: A Real-Time, Multi-Layer Cyber–Power Testbed for Resiliency Analysis, in 9th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, MSCPES@CPSIoTWeek, 2021.
  4. A. Chhokra, S. Hasan, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, A Binary Decision Diagram Based Cascade Prognostics Scheme For Power Systems, in 2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 2020, pp. 3011–3016.
  5. C. Barreto, T. Eghtesad, S. Eisele, A. Laszka, A. Dubey, and X. Koutsoukos, Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation in Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems, in 3rd IEEE International Conference on IndustrialCyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2020), 2020.
  6. K. Sajan, M. Bariya, S. Basak, A. K. Srivastava, A. Dubey, A. von Meier, and G. Biswas, Realistic Synchrophasor Data Generation for Anomaly Detection and Event Classification, in 8th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, MSCPES@CPSIoTWeek, 2020.
  7. S. Eisele, C. Barreto, A. Dubey, X. Koutsoukos, T. Eghtesad, A. Laszka, and A. Mavridou, Blockchains for Transactive Energy Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Approaches, IEEE Computer, 2020.
  8. H. Tu, S. Lukic, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, An LSTM-Based Online Prediction Method for Building Electric Load During COVID-19, in Annual Conference of the PHM Society, 2020.
  9. S. Hasan, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and X. Koutsoukos, A game-theoretic approach for power systems defense against dynamic cyber-attacks, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 115, 2020.
  10. G. Pettet, M. Ghosal, S. Mahserejian, S. Davis, S. Sridhar, A. Dubey, and M. Meyer, A Decision Support Framework for Grid-Aware Electric Bus Charge Scheduling, in 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2020.
  11. A. Laszka, A. Mavridou, S. Eisele, E. Statchtiari, and A. Dubey, VeriSolid for TRANSAX: Correct-by-Design Ethereum Smart Contracts for Energy Trading, in First International Summer School on Security and Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies, BDLT 2019, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
  12. A. Dubey, G. Karsai, P. Völgyesi, M. Metelko, I. Madari, H. Tu, Y. Du, and S. Lukic, Device Access Abstractions for Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Smart Grid, Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 34–37, 2019.
  13. S. Eisele, P. Ghosh, K. Campanelli, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, Demo: Transactive Energy Application with RIAPS, in IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC 2019, Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2019, 2019, pp. 85–86.
  14. P. Ghosh, S. Eisele, A. Dubey, M. Metelko, I. Madari, P. Völgyesi, and G. Karsai, On the Design of Fault-Tolerance in a Decentralized Software Platform for Power Systems, in IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC 2019, Valencia, Spain, 2019, pp. 52–60.
  15. H. Tu, Y. Du, H. Yu, A. Dubey, S. Lukic, and G. Karsai, Resilient Information Architecture Platform for the Smart Grid (RIAPS): A Novel Open-Source Platform for Microgrid Control, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1–1, 2019.
  16. Y. Zhang, S. Eisele, A. Dubey, A. Laszka, and A. K. Srivastava, Cyber-Physical Simulation Platform for Security Assessment of Transactive Energy Systems, in 7th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, MSCPES@CPSIoTWeek 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 1–6.
  17. Y. Du, H. Tu, S. Lukic, D. Lubkeman, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, Development of a Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop Platform for Microgrid Distributed Control Applications, in 2018 IEEE Electronic Power Grid (eGrid), 2018, pp. 1–6.
  18. Y. Du, H. Tu, S. Lukic, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, Distributed Microgrid Synchronization Strategy Using a Novel Information Architecture Platform, in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2018, pp. 2060–2066.
  19. H. Tu, Y. Du, H. Yu, S. Lukic, M. Metelko, P. Volgyesi, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, A Hardware-in-the-Loop Real-Time Testbed for Microgrid Hierarchical Control, in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2018, pp. 2053–2059.
  20. H. Tu, Y. Du, H. Yu, S. Lukic, P. Volgyesi, M. Metelko, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, An Adaptive Interleaving Algorithm for Multi-Converter Systems, in 2018 9th IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), 2018, pp. 1–7.
  21. A. Chhokra, A. Dubey, N. Mahadevan, G. Karsai, D. Balasubramanian, and S. Hasan, Hierarchical Reasoning about Faults in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems using Temporal Causal Diagrams, International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, vol. 9, no. 1, Feb. 2018.
  22. A. Chhokra, A. Dubey, N. Mahadevan, S. Hasan, and G. Karsai, Diagnosis in Cyber-Physical Systems with Fault Protection Assemblies, in Diagnosability, Security and Safety of Hybrid Dynamic and Cyber-Physical Systems, M. Sayed-Mouchaweh, Ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 201–225.
  23. S. Eisele, A. Laszka, A. Mavridou, and A. Dubey, SolidWorx: A Resilient and Trustworthy Transactive Platform for Smart and Connected Communities, in IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things and Blockchains, 2018, pp. 1263–1272.
  24. S. Hasan, A. Ghafouri, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and X. D. Koutsoukos, Vulnerability analysis of power systems based on cyber-attack and defense models, in 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2018, Washington, DC, USA, February 19-22, 2018, 2018, pp. 1–5.
  25. A. Laszka, S. Eisele, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and K. Kvaternik, TRANSAX: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Forward-Trading Energy Exchanged for Transactive Microgrids, in 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2018, Singapore, December 11-13, 2018, 2018, pp. 918–927.
  26. Y. Du, H. Tu, S. Lukic, D. Lubkeman, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, Implementation of a distributed microgrid controller on the Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Smart Systems (RIAPS), in 2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2017, pp. 1–6.
  27. S. Hasan, A. Ghafouri, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and X. Koutsoukos, Heuristics-based approach for identifying critical N-k contingencies in power systems, in 2017 Resilience Week (RWS), 2017, pp. 191–197.
  28. S. Hasan, A. Dubey, A. Chhokra, N. Mahadevan, G. Karsai, and X. Koutsoukos, A modeling framework to integrate exogenous tools for identifying critical components in power systems, in 2017 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES), 2017, pp. 1–6.
  29. A. Chhokra, S. Hasan, A. Dubey, N. Mahadevan, and G. Karsai, Diagnostics and prognostics using temporal causal models for cyber physical energy systems, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 18-20, 2017, 2017, p. 87.
  30. S. Eisele, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, and S. Lukic, Transactive energy demo with RIAPS platform, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, ICCPS 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 18-20, 2017, 2017, p. 91.
  31. S. Eisele, I. Madari, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, RIAPS: Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Decentralized Smart Systems, in 20th IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC 2017, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 16-18, 2017, 2017, pp. 125–132.
  32. S. Hasan, A. Chhokra, A. Dubey, N. Mahadevan, G. Karsai, R. Jain, and S. Lukic, A simulation testbed for cascade analysis, in IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2017, Washington, DC, USA, April 23-26, 2017, 2017, pp. 1–5.
  33. K. Kvaternik, A. Laszka, M. Walker, D. C. Schmidt, M. Sturm, M. Lehofer, and A. Dubey, Privacy-Preserving Platform for Transactive Energy Systems, in preprint at arxiv, 2017, vol. abs/1709.09597.
  34. A. Laszka, A. Dubey, M. Walker, and D. C. Schmidt, Providing privacy, safety, and security in IoT-based transactive energy systems using distributed ledgers, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Internet of Things, IOT 2017, Linz, Austria, October 22-25, 2017, 2017, pp. 13:1–13:8.
  35. A. Dubey, S. Pradhan, D. C. Schmidt, S. Rusitschka, and M. Sturm, The Role of Context and Resilient Middleware in Next Generation Smart Grids, in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT, M4IoT@Middleware 2016, Trento, Italy, December 12-13, 2016, 2016, pp. 1–6.
  36. W. Emfinger, A. Dubey, P. Völgyesi, J. Sallai, and G. Karsai, Demo Abstract: RIAPS - A Resilient Information Architecture Platform for Edge Computing, in IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2016, Washington, DC, USA, October 27-28, 2016, 2016, pp. 119–120.
  37. H. Neema, W. Emfinger, and A. Dubey, A Reusable and Extensible Web-Based Co-Simulation Platform for Transactive Energy Systems, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Transactive Energy Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2016, vol. 12.
  38. R. Jain, S. M. Lukic, A. Chhokra, N. Mahadevan, A. Dubey, and G. Karsai, An improved distance relay model with directional element, and memory polarization for TCD based fault propagation studies, in 2015 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2015, pp. 1–6.
  39. A. Chhokra, A. Dubey, N. Mahadevan, and G. Karsai, A component-based approach for modeling failure propagations in power systems, in 2015 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES), 2015, pp. 1–6.
  40. N. Mahadevan, A. Dubey, A. Chhokra, H. Guo, and G. Karsai, Using temporal causal models to isolate failures in power system protection devices, IEEE Instrum. Meas. Mag., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 28–39, 2015.
  41. N. Mahadevan, A. Dubey, G. Karsai, A. Srivastava, and C.-C. Liu, Temporal Causal Diagrams for diagnosing failures in cyber-physical systems, in Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, 2014.
  42. J. Shi, R. Amgai, S. Abdelwahed, A. Dubey, J. Humphreys, M. Alattar, and R. Jia, Generic modeling and analysis framework for shipboard system design, in 2013 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS), 2013, pp. 420–428.