Cyber-Physical Microgrids (CPMs) are promising archetypes to enhance the resilient operations of power systems and facilitate a high penetration of distributed energy resources, such as wind and photovoltaic. However, the resiliency capability of CPMs is severely undermined due to the ever-increasing cyber-attacks and unclear operational mechanism of CPMs under cyber-physical disturbances. The Renewable Energy and Microgrid Power Lab (EMPower) is working on the planning, designing, operating, monitoring, and protecting of CPMs, in order to enable secure, stable, reliable, and autonomous operations of CPMs.
Autonomous Distributed Energy Resources
In order to enable autonomous operations of distributed energy resources, the EMPower team is investigating what impact is imposed on CPMs dynamics, stability and resilience by physical disturbances from distributed energy resources and cyber-uncertainties from communication networks.
Artificial Intelligence in Power Grids
With the ever-increasing number of cyber-physical uncertainties caused by cyberattacks or integrations of distributed energy resources, the EMPower team is developing several advanced techniques driven by artificial intelligence to efficiently operate and control power grids with CPMs.