Dr. Cui Gives CURENT Power and Energy Seminar and Dr. Tomsovic leads All Hands Meeting
There will be a CURENT Power and Energy Seminar followed by an All Hands Meeting on Friday, January 17th. Dr. Hantao Cui will give a presentation at 12:20pm followed by an All Hands Meeting led by Dr. Kevin Tomsovic.
Presenters: Dr. Hantao Cui, University of Tennessee, and Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Director
Time: Friday, January 24th, 12:20 PM - 1:10 PM EST
Location: Min H. Kao Building, Room 404
This seminar will be available through ZOOM. See info near bottom of this email.
Presenter: Dr. Hantao Cui, University of Tennessee
Title: Modeling and Co-Simulation in Cyber-Physical Power Systems
Abstract: With the advancement of communication systems and renewable power generation, modern electric power systems are undergoing significant upgrades to become an integrated cyber-physical system. This research work explores the modeling and co-simulation technologies for renewable energy integration and system security enhancement in an integrated cyber-physical system testbed. In particular, this work studies the integration of differential algebraic equation (DAE)-based dynamic power simulation with communication network and data-driven applications. This presentation first introduces a communication network-in-the-loop simulation architecture for mimicking the real-world systems with simulated phasor measurement unit (PMU) data streaming, energy management and measurement-based control, all of which are developed as an open source software suite for the CURENT Large-scale Testbed (LTB). In order to distribute physically coupled devices into multiple software simulations, this paper proposes a data broker setup based on a distributed messaging environment to achieve low-latency data streaming. Case studies verified the data broker setup for low-latency sensing and actuation as well as the communication emulation setup for the desired network latency. The second part of the presentation describes a symbolic framework to simplify the modeling and simulation of DAE-based power system devices. The framework is designed with a goal of making modeling as simple as typing equations and simulation as fast as crafted code. Design philosophy and implementation details are given as an example of a general-purpose symbolic library tailored for power system transient simulation. The framework is validated with power flow calculation and transient simulation with classical generator model.
Bio: Hantao Cui is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He is the technical lead of the CURENT Large-Scale Testbed (LTB). He earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2018 focusing on power system simulation.
Dr. Cui has co-authored over 20 referred publications. His research interest includes large-scale system simulation and control, cyber-physical system simulation, and high-performance computing. He is the author of several open-source packages, including Andes [1], a power system dynamic simulator written in Python, and LTBNet [2], a communication network emulator for wide-area power system data streaming.
Presenter: Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, CURENT Director
Title: Site Visit Report Review and Open Discussion about the state of the Center
Abstract: Dr. Tomsovic will discuss the Site Visit Report and give an update about the state of the Center and then open the floor for questions. This is an "all-hands" meeting and the everyone in CURENT (faculty, staff and students at all four schools) is expected to attend.
Bio: Dr. Tomsovic is the Director of CURENT and the CTI Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He is also an IEEE Fellow. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University in 1982, and he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He previously was a professor at Washington State University. Dr. Tomsovic’s areas of interest include intelligent systems and optimization methodologies applied to various power system problems, including distribution system design, electricity market analysis, equipment diagnostics and maintenance, operation of dispersed energy resources, production scheduling, and stabilization control.
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Upcoming Seminars
Friday, January 24th – TBD
Friday, January 31st – Industry Seminar with Stephanie Bohon, University of Tennessee, Inclusion
Friday, February 7th – Dr. Helen Cui , University of Tennessee, TBD
Friday, February 14th – Daniel Douglas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Thevenin Equivalent Prediction of Real-World PMU Data using ThevNN Method and Zhe Yang, University of Tennessee, Converter Loss Modeling
Friday, February 21st – Dr. Amir Sadovnik , University of Tennessee, An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Friday, February 28th – Industry Seminar with ConEd
Friday, March 6th – Industry Seminar with Cecil Brown of TVA, TVA Inclusion Program
Friday, March 13th – TBD
Friday, March 20th – No Seminar Spring Break
See the CURENT calendar for more news and seminars
