Control, Communication, Monitoring and Protection of Smart Grids

Bidyadhar Subudhi is the Director of the National Institute of Technology Warangal and is currently on deputation from the Indian Institute of Technology Goa, where he is a Professor in the School of Electrical Sciences. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award by the IEEE Computer Society, Bioinspired Computing, in 2022. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, the IET, and the Industry Academy of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance. His research interests include systems and control, applications of power electronics and control to power systems, microgrids, and electric vehicles. He has supervised 44 PhD theses.Pravat Kumar Ray is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. From January 2016 to June 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in research on estimation and filtering in power systems, power quality, hybrid AC/DC grids, solar irradiance forecasting and renewable integration. He received the excellent research paper award of the CSEE Journal of Power and Energy System in 2021 and the best research paper award for the Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy in 2022.Vinod Khadkikar is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and in 2010, a visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow and a prominent lecturer for the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. His research interests include the application of power electronics in distribution systems and renewable energy resources, grid interconnection, power quality, active power filters, and electric vehicles.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to smart grids and microgridsChapter 2: Renewable energy system integration in smart gridsChapter 3: Adaptive control schemes for AC microgridChapter 4: Reinforcement learning-based inter-area damping controller considering communication channel latency and actuator saturationChapter 5: Application of advanced and robust control schemes with cyber resiliency in microgrid networkChapter 6: Bidirectional virtual inertia through decentralized virtual synchronous generator control in hybrid AC-DC microgridsChapter 7: Power quality issues in microgridsChapter 8: Advanced fault direction identification strategy for AC microgrid protectionChapter 9: Communication and computations for smart grid protectionChapter 10: Holonic architecture for cyber-power distribution grid monitoring and operationChapter 11: Condition monitoring and health prognosis applications in smart gridsChapter 12: Power electronics in a PV-integrated grid-connected electric vehicle charging system for V2G/G2V operationChapter 13: Smart grid scenarios of different countries