Works (21)

Updated: February 12th, 2024 13:56

2023 journal article

Collaborative Distributed Optimal Control of Pure and Hybrid Active Power Filters in Active Distribution Network

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY, 38(4), 2326–2337.

By: C. Gong*, Z. Cheng n, W. Sou*, C. Lam* & M. Chow*

author keywords: Couplings; Active distribution network; active power filters; collaborative distributed control; harmonics; power quality; reactive power
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 28, 2023

2022 article

Investigating Inverter-Based Resources Impacts on the Transmission Line Protection via Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation

Cheng, Z., Narayanan, S., Holbach, J., Stevens, J., Cummings, M., Rohde, R., … Encarnacion, N. (2022, April 13).

By: Z. Cheng*, S. Narayanan*, J. Holbach*, J. Stevens*, M. Cummings, R. Rohde, C. Guo*, N. Encarnacion*

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2022 journal article

Resilient Collaborative Distributed AC Optimal Power Flow Against False Data Injection Attacks: A Theoretical Framework

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, 13(1), 795–806.

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Peer-to-peer computing; Resilience; Distributed databases; Computer security; Microgrids; State estimation; Reactive power; Cybersecurity; distributed optimization; false data injection attack; optimal power flow; resilience
TL;DR: The FDIA generally has one degree of freedom; and the FDIA can be effectively detected and mitigated using the proposed TMS with one-hop redundancy, which is validated on the IEEE 69-bus benchmark system. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: February 7, 2022

2021 journal article

A Homomorphic Encryption-Based Private Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, 12(6), 5233–5243.

By: Z. Cheng n, F. Ye*, X. Cao* & M. Chow n

author keywords: Energy management; Privacy; Encryption; Optimization; Peer-to-peer computing; Convergence; Collaboration; Distributed optimization; energy management system; homomorphic encryption; optimal power flow; privacy
TL;DR: Simulation results indicate that the proposed P-CoDEMS algorithm can accurately solve the ACOPF problem in a fully distributed way while preserving individual agent privacy. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 8, 2021

2021 article

A Multi-Agent System Based Hierarchical Control Framework for Microgrids

2021 IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY GENERAL MEETING (PESGM).

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 18, 2022

2021 journal article

A Random-Weight Privacy-Preserving Algorithm With Error Compensation for Microgrid Distributed Energy Management

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, 16, 4352–4362.

By: F. Ye*, Z. Cheng n, X. Cao & M. Chow n

author keywords: Privacy; Microgrids; Estimation; Error compensation; Encryption; Convergence; Performance evaluation; Distributed energy management system; economic dispatch problem; privacy preserving; random weight; error compensation
TL;DR: It is theoretically prove that the proposed REP-CoDEMS algorithm converges and preserves the privacy of all devices, and analytical expressions of the maximum privacy disclosure probability for initial and final states of the CoDEMS are derived. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2021

2021 journal article

A Robust and Efficient State-of-Charge Estimation Methodology for Serial-Connected Battery Packs: Most Significant Cell Methodology

IEEE ACCESS, 9, 74360–74369.

By: C. Huang n, Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Batteries; State of charge; Estimation; Degradation; Robustness; Integrated circuit modeling; Bars; Efficient; electric vehicle; lithium-ion battery pack; microgrid; robustness; serial-connection; state-of-charge estimation
TL;DR: A robust and efficient most significant cell methodology that estimates the battery pack SOC depending on the determined most significant cells is proposed, which requires light computational effort and is suitable for real-time operation. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 26, 2021

2021 journal article

Collaborative Distributed AC Optimal Power Flow: A Dual Decomposition Based Algorithm

JOURNAL OF MODERN POWER SYSTEMS AND CLEAN ENERGY, 9(6), 1414–1423.

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Cheng

author keywords: Convex functions; Information management; Peer-to-peer computing; Mathematical model; Reactive power; Computational modeling; Spread spectrum communication; Distributed convex optimization; distributed energy management system; optimal power flow; primal-dual decomposition
TL;DR: Experimental results indicate that 1) the proposed collaborative distributed ACOPF solver can be executed on a fully distributed computing structure and yield accurate ACopF solution; and 2) the propose distributed algorithm has a low communication overhead. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 6, 2021

2021 journal article

Emerging Trends in Industrial Electronics: A Cross-Disciplinary View

IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE, 15(1), 127–139.

By: O. Lucia*, J. She*, A. Chen*, Z. Cheng n, M. Chow n, L. Dunai, M. Hilairet, V. Huang ...

author keywords: Human factors; Standards; Security; Market research; Industrial electronics; Actuators; Training
TL;DR: The industrial electronics discipline includes a wide variety of technical areas devoted to the application of electronics and electrical sciences for the enhancement of industrial and manufacturing processes, as well as the educational and human factors involved. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (Web of Science)
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: May 24, 2021

2021 article

Simulating and Evaluating Privacy Issues in Distributed Microgrids: A Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Platform

IECON 2021 - 47TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY.

By: N. Hang*, F. Ye*, Z. Cheng n, X. Cao* & M. Chow n

author keywords: Microgrids; Co-Simulation; Communication; Control; MATLAB; OMNeT plus
TL;DR: A versatile cyber-physical co-simulator is developed which integrates both networked communication and power system control subsystems as a whole and evaluates three privacy-preserving algorithms proposed in the literature, and finds that SFPA performs better than PEMA and REP-CoDEMS in aspect of protecting the privacy of controllable inputs. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 18, 2022

2020 article

A Novel Most Significant Cell Methodology in a Battery Pack with Serial Cell Connection

Huang, C.-S., Cheng, Z., Balagopal, B., & Chow, M.-Y. (2020, September). 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES).

TL;DR: A novel real-time algorithm to effectively identify the most significant cells in a serial-connected battery pack in order to accurately estimate the SOC of the battery pack is proposed. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2020 article

A Random-Weighted Privacy-Preserving Distributed Algorithm for Energy Management in Microgrid with Energy Storage Devices

Ye, F., Cheng, Z., Cao, X., & Chow, M.-Y. (2020, September). 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES).

By: F. Ye*, Z. Cheng n, X. Cao* & M. Chow n

TL;DR: The random-weighted privacy-preserving consensus-based collaborative distributed energy management system (RP-CoDEMS) algorithm is proposed to preserve the confidentiality of the neighborhood communication and the effectiveness of RP- coDEMS algorithm is demonstrated by simulation. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2020 article

An Augmented Bayesian Reputation Metric for Trustworthiness Evaluation in Consensus-based Distributed Microgrid Energy Management Systems with Energy Storage

Cheng, Z., & Chow, M.-Y. (2020, September). 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES).

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

TL;DR: A novel augmented reputation metric to evaluate the agents' trustworthiness in a distributed fashion and adopts a novel augmentation method to substantially improve the trust evaluation and attack detection performance under three typical difficult-to-detect attack patterns. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2020 journal article

Cyber-Physical Microgrids: Toward Future Resilient Communities

IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE, 14(3), 4–17.

By: T. Vu*, B. Nguyen*, Z. Cheng n, M. Chow n & B. Zhang*

author keywords: Microgrids; Monitoring; Resilience; Control systems; Market research; Robustness; Power measurement
TL;DR: This presentation explains how microgrids can be isolated from large-scale power transmission/distribution systems (macrogrids) to deliver energy to their local communities using local energy resources and distribution systems when power outages occur in the macrogrids. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 19, 2020

2020 article

Reputation-based Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System Framework for Cyber-physical Microgrids: Resilience against Profit-driven Attacks

Cheng, Z., & Chow, M.-Y. (2020, February). 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT).

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

TL;DR: Simulation results on a real microgrid system indicate that the R-CoDEMS can effectively detect, mitigate, and recover from the attacks in a fully distributed fashion. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2020 journal article

Resilient Collaborative Distributed Energy Management System Framework for Cyber-Physical DC Microgrids

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, 11(6), 4637–4649.

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

author keywords: Microgrids; Energy management; Resilience; Optimization; Partial discharges; Linear programming; Cyber-physical system; distributed optimization; energy management system; false data injection attack; microgrid; and resilience
TL;DR: Under the R-CoDEMS framework, a reputation-based distributed attack detection and mitigation algorithm is also proposed to improve the system’s resilience against typical non-colluding and colluding false data injection attacks. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 11, 2020

2018 conference paper

A Study of DER Volt and Var Droop Aggregation for Reactive Power Support to Transmission System

2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM).

By: Z. Cheng n & X. Feng*

TL;DR: This paper analyzes the aggregation behavior of droop-controlled DERs on a study system designed to capture the essential attributes of the problem being studied and demonstrates that a given target piece-wise linear droop curve can best be approximated by tuning the individual Piece-wiselinear droop curves. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2018 conference paper

The Development and Application of a DC Microgrid Testbed for Distributed Microgrid Energy Management System

IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

By: Z. Cheng n & M. Chow n

TL;DR: This paper proposes a highly scalable, customizable, and low-cost DC microgrid testbed framework that enables fast distributed MG-EMS prototyping and provides proof-of-concept validation. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

2018 journal article

To Centralize or to Distribute: That Is the Question A Comparison of Advanced Microgrid Management Systems

IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE, 12(1), 6–24.

By: Z. Cheng n, J. Duan n & M. Chow n

TL;DR: The concept of the MGMS and state-of-the-art solutions regarding centralized and distributed MGMSs in the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels are discussed, from which a general tendency toward decentralization is observed. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 conference paper

A big data based deep learning approach for vehicle speed prediction

2017 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 389–394.

By: Z. Cheng n, M. Chow n, D. Jung* & J. Jeon*

TL;DR: A big data based deep learning vehicle speed prediction algorithm featuring big data analytics and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) is presented in this paper, capable of accurately predicting vehicle speed for both freeway and urban traffic networks. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities (OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 conference paper

Reliability assessment and comparison between centralized and distributed energy management system in islanding microgrid

2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS).

By: Z. Cheng n, J. Duan n & M. Chow n

TL;DR: Simulation results indicates that using the same controller, the microgrid with distributed EMS is able to achieve better reliability indices, and the distributed EMS can achieve same level of reliability using less reliable controllers. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
7. Affordable and Clean Energy (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 17, 2022

Employment

Updated: April 17th, 2022 11:44

2020 - present

Quanta Technology (United States) Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Principal Engineer Protection, Control & Automation

Education

Updated: December 28th, 2020 11:28

2015 - 2020

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering

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