Yuan Zhang

Works (11)

Updated: July 5th, 2023 15:39

2016 journal article

Consensus-based distributed scheduling for cooperative operation of distributed energy resources and storage devices in smart grids

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 10(5), 1268–1277.

By: N. Rahbari-Asr n, M. Chow n & Y. Zhang n

topics (OpenAlex): Microgrid Control and Optimization; Smart Grid Energy Management; Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks; Smart Grid Security and Resilience; Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
TL;DR: This study proposes a fully distributed scheduling methodology based on discrete-time optimal control, primal-dual gradient descent, and consensus networks and shows that the algorithm is robust against communication link failures provided that the communications topology remains connected or reconnects after being disconnected. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2016 article

Cooperative distributed energy scheduling for storage devices and renewables with resiliency against intermittencies

Rahbari-Asr, N., Zhang, N. Y., & Chow, M.-Y. (2016, June 1).

By: N. Rahbari-Asr n, N. Zhang n & M. Chow n

topics (OpenAlex): Microgrid Control and Optimization; Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks; Smart Grid Energy Management
TL;DR: The numerical results demonstrate that using the double layer structure, the system shows resiliency against intermittencies and the objective values track the optimal values. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: NC State University Libraries
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2016 article

Day-Ahead Smart Grid Cooperative Distributed Energy Scheduling With Renewable and Storage Integration

Zhang, Y., Rahbari-Asr, N., Duan, J., & Chow, M.-Y. (2016, June 14). IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

By: Y. Zhang n, N. Rahbari-Asr n, J. Duan n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Distributed algorithms; energy loss; energy scheduling; renewable generation; storage efficiency; smart grid
topics (OpenAlex): Microgrid Control and Optimization; Smart Grid Energy Management; Optimal Power Flow Distribution
TL;DR: A fully distributed algorithm is proposed to find the optimal dispatch schedule for a smart grid with renewable and energy storage integration, and each bus of the system is modeled as an agent by solely exchanging information with its neighbors. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2016 conference paper

Influence based analysis of community consistency in dynamic networks

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining ASONAM 2016, 1–8.

By: X. Jia, X. Li, N. Du, Y. Zhang, V. Gopalakrishnan, G. Xun, A. Zhang

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 article

Microgrid cooperative distributed energy scheduling (CoDES) considering battery degradation cost

Zhang, N. Y., & Chow, N. M.-Y. (2016, June 1).

By: N. Zhang n & N. Chow n

topics (OpenAlex): Advanced Battery Technologies Research; Microgrid Control and Optimization; Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
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Source: NC State University Libraries
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2015 conference paper

A resilient distributed energy management algorithm for economic dispatch in the presence of misbehaving generation units

2015 Resilience Week (RSW), 12–16.

By: W. Zeng, Y. Zhang & M. Chow

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 article

A robust distributed system incremental cost estimation algorithm for smart grid economic dispatch with communications information losses

Zhang, Y., Rahbari-Asr, N., & Chow, M.-Y. (2015, June 7). Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

By: Y. Zhang n, N. Rahbari-Asr n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Consensus algorithm; Distributed energy management; Economic dispatch; Gossip algorithm; Multi-agent system; Information loss
topics (OpenAlex): Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems; Microgrid Control and Optimization; Frequency Control in Power Systems
TL;DR: A robust distributed system incremental cost estimation (RICE) algorithm is introduced to solve the Economic Dispatch Problem (EDP) in a smart grid environment in a distributed way considering communications information losses. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2015 article

Cooperative distributed scheduling for storage devices in microgrids using dynamic KKT multipliers and consensus networks

Rahbari-Asr, N., Zhang, Y., & Chow, M.-Y. (2015, July 1).

By: N. Rahbari-Asr n, Y. Zhang n & M. Chow n

topics (OpenAlex): Microgrid Control and Optimization; Smart Grid Energy Management; Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
TL;DR: A novel algorithm that can optimally schedule the storage devices in a microgrid solely through peer-to-peer coordination of devices with their neighbors without using a central controller is introduced. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: NC State University Libraries
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2015 article

Distributed Optimal generation Dispatch considering transmission losses

Zhang, Y., & Chow, M.-Y. (2015, October 1).

By: Y. Zhang n & M. Chow n

topics (OpenAlex): Electric Power System Optimization; Optimal Power Flow Distribution; Microgrid Control and Optimization
TL;DR: A Cooperative Distributed Optimal Dispatch (CDOD) algorithm is proposed to solve the DCOPFL problem in a distributed manner and is verified to have the smallest approximation error comparing with DCOPF and economic dispatch considering transmission losses by taking ACOPF solution as reference. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 article

Online convergence factor tuning for robust cooperative distributed economic dispatch

Zhang, Y., Asr, N. R., & Chow, M.-Y. (2015, July 1).

By: Y. Zhang n, N. Asr n & M. Chow n

topics (OpenAlex): Electric Power System Optimization; Smart Grid Energy Management; Optimal Power Flow Distribution
TL;DR: This paper provides a distributed online approach to tune a certain parameter of the algorithm called “convergence factor” using only local information to assure the algorithm is stable and the system will become stable. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2015 article

Resilient Distributed Energy Management Subject to Unexpected Misbehaving Generation Units

Zeng, W., Zhang, Y., & Chow, M.-Y. (2015, October 30). IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

By: W. Zeng n, Y. Zhang n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Economic dispatch; neighborhood-watch; resilient distributed energy management
topics (OpenAlex): Smart Grid Security and Resilience; Smart Grid Energy Management; Microgrid Control and Optimization
TL;DR: A neighborhood-watch-based distributed energy management algorithm is proposed to guarantee the accurate control computation in solving the economic dispatch problem in the presence of compromised generation units and achieves the system resilience by performing a reliable distributed control without a central coordinator and allowing all the well-behaving generation units to reach the optimal operating point asymptotically. (via Semantic Scholar)
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