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48 results for Power System Stability

With the growth of renewable generation (RG) and the development of associated ride through curves serving as operating limits, during disturbances, on violation of these limits, the power system is at risk of losing large amounts of generation. In order to identify preventive control measures that avoid such scenarios…

2019-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

PNDEs project neural dynamics onto constraint manifolds, improving accuracy and stability.

problem Learning dynamics from data without violating known constraints.
method Projecting the learned vector field onto the tangent space of the constraint manifold.
result PNDEs outperform existing methods in learning constrained dynamical systems.

Generalized Lotka-Volterra (GLV) models extending the (70 year old) logistic equation to stochastic systems consisting of a multitude of competing auto-catalytic components lead to power distribution laws of the (100 year old) Pareto-Zipf type. In particular, when applied to economic systems, GLV leads to power laws in…

2000-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The Kosambi-Cartan-Chern (KCC) theory represents a powerful mathematical method for the investigation of the properties of dynamical systems. The KCC theory introduces a geometric description of the time evolution of a dynamical system, with the solution curves of the dynamical system described by methods inspired by t…

2015-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper uses Ricci curvature to measure and forecast China's stock market stability.

problem Measuring and predicting systemic stability of China's stock market.
method Geometric measure derived from discrete Ricci curvature applied to financial networks.
result Ricci curvature effectively captures market stability and predicts future trends.

The paper develops a convex parameterization for robust RNNs ensuring stability and robustness.

problem Lack of stability and robustness guarantees in RNNs for sequence-to-sequence mapping applications.
method Formulated convex sets of RNNs with stability and robustness guarantees using incremental quadratic constraints.
result The proposed model structure ensures global exponential stability and bounds on incremental 2 \ell_2 gain.

We consider the problem of reconstructing the dynamic state matrix of transmission power grids from time-stamped PMU measurements in the regime of ambient fluctuations. Using a maximum likelihood based approach, we construct a family of convex estimators that adapt to the structure of the problem depending on the avail…

2017-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a model of contagion in financial networks recently introduced in the literature, and we characterize the effect of a few features empirically observed in real networks on the stability of the system. Notably, we consider the effect of heterogeneous degree distributions, heterogeneous balance sheet size and…

2011-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Reinforcement learning is a powerful paradigm for learning optimal policies from experimental data. However, to find optimal policies, most reinforcement learning algorithms explore all possible actions, which may be harmful for real-world systems. As a consequence, learning algorithms are rarely applied on safety-crit…

2017-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Power grids are one of the most important components of infrastructure in today's world. Every nation is dependent on the security and stability of its own power grid to provide electricity to the households and industries. A malfunction of even a small part of a power grid can cause loss of productivity, revenue and i…

2017-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses dynamical systems to analyze and ensure convergence of the Bayesian EM algorithm.

problem Ensuring convergence of the Bayesian EM algorithm in incomplete-data scenarios.
method Applying Lyapunov stability theory to discrete-time dynamical systems.
result Conditions for convergence and potential for fast convergence of MAP-EM are established.

We consider the dynamics of a smart grid system characterized by widespread distributed generation and storage devices. We assume that agents are free to trade electric energy over the network and we focus on the emerging market dynamics. We consider three different models for the market dynamics for which we present a…

2013-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper addresses the problem of identifying sparse linear time-invariant (LTI) systems from a single sample trajectory generated by the system dynamics. We introduce a Lasso-like estimator for the parameters of the system, taking into account their sparse nature. Assuming that the system is stable, or that it is eq…

2019-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Local Neural Operators enable efficient system-level analysis of complex PDEs.

problem System-level analysis of large-scale dynamical systems using neural operators.
method Integrating local Neural Operators with Krylov subspace iterative methods for stability and bifurcation analysis.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of local Neural Operators in fixed-point, stability, and bifurcation analysis of nonlinear PDEs.

MARL improves LBM stability and accuracy across scales.

problem Stability and accuracy issues in under-resolved LBM simulations.
method Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to dynamically control local relaxation parameters.
result MARL closures stabilize simulations and recover spectra of fully resolved models.

Future grid scenario analysis requires a major departure from conventional power system planning, where only a handful of most critical conditions is typically analyzed. To capture the inter-seasonal variations in renewable generation of a future grid scenario necessitates the use of computationally intensive time-seri…

2016-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

KCRL learns stable policies for nonlinear systems with formal guarantees.

problem Lack of stabilization guarantees in RL methods for safety-critical systems.
method KCRL uses Krasovskii's Lyapunov functions as a stability constraint and a primal-dual approach to learn stabilizing policies.
result KCRL guarantees learning a stabilizing policy in a finite number of interactions.

Machine learning techniques have been used in the past using Monte Carlo samples to construct predictors of the dynamic stability of power systems. In this paper we move beyond the task of prediction and propose a comprehensive approach to use predictors, such as Decision Trees (DT), within a standard optimization fram…

2018-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian algorithm stabilizes unknown continuous-time systems from unstable data.

problem Learning and stabilizing unknown continuous-time systems with uncertain dynamics.
method Bayesian learning algorithm that learns from unstable data to stabilize the system in finite time.
result The algorithm stabilizes unknown continuous-time stochastic linear systems effectively after a short time period.

Learning from examples is one of the key problems in science and engineering. It deals with function reconstruction from a finite set of direct and noisy samples. Regularization in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) is widely used to solve this task and includes powerful estimators such as regularization network…

2016-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New model stabilizes asynchronous LTI systems, independent of synchronous stability.

problem Stability of asynchronous LTI systems under randomization and asynchrony.
method Introduced a new model for random asynchronous LTI systems and developed a method for system identification.
result Stability of random asynchronous LTI systems is independent of synchronous stability.

Modeling financial systemic risk with optimal control theory for stability.

problem Analyzing and stabilizing systemic risk in interconnected financial entities.
method Developed a theoretical model using optimal control theory, including steps for synthesizing stabilizing controllers.
result The model ensures that the HH^{\infty} norms of the mappings from disturbance to output are less than a predefined constant, stabilizing the system.

The study examines stability of Hamiltonian Poisson integrators on both integrable and non-integrable systems.

problem Investigating stability properties of Hamiltonian Poisson integrators.
method Examples of Lotka-Volterra dynamics and numerical investigations of a non-integrable system are used.
result The existence of a modified Hamiltonian is crucial for the stability of Hamiltonian Poisson integrators.

The field of few-shot learning has recently seen substantial advancements. Most of these advancements came from casting few-shot learning as a meta-learning problem. Model Agnostic Meta Learning or MAML is currently one of the best approaches for few-shot learning via meta-learning. MAML is simple, elegant and very pow…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗