This document provides an overview of Vahid Rasouli Disfani's proposed research under the advisement of Dr. Lingling Fan. It outlines 6 proposed research tasks related to microgrid operation/control and power electronic converter control/optimization. It also lists 4 publications resulting from completed tasks 1, 3, and 4. Finally, it provides details of completed coursework.

1. Vahid Rasouli Disfani
Advisor: Dr. Lingling Fan

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Proposed Research
Research Overview
Publications
Completed Coursework

3. Proposed Research
 Microgrid Operation and Control
 Task 1: Long time scale (hours) on microgrid-utility interaction (Completed)
 Task 2: Long time scale (hours) on energy storage operation by considering renewable energy
(More to research)
 Task 3: Short time scale (seconds to minutes) on energy storage management through 2-level VSC
(Completed)
 Power Electronic Converter Control and Optimization
 Task 4: Very short time scale (micro-miliseconds)- Modular Multilevel Converters (In progress)
 Task 5: Find more optimal control problems related to MMC based HVDC (More to research)
 Task 6: Realtime Simulation of whole system in RT-LAB (Future work)

4. Research Overview
Task 3 & 4
Task 2
Task 1
Task 3
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MMC Modeling
Multi-agent Optimization
Moving Horizon Optimization
Model Predictive Control
AC system constraints
Storage System Constraints
Fast Optimization Techniques
Lagrangian Relaxation
Renewables’ Uncertainty
IEEE PESGM 2014
Elsevier EPSR
Forecasting Methods
IEEE PESGM

5. Publications
 Task 1: V. R. Disfani, L. Fan, L. Piyasinghe ,and Z. Miao, "Multi-Agent Control of Community and
Utility Using Lagrangian Relaxation Based Dual Decomposition", Electric Power Systems Research,
2014 (to appear).
 Task 3: Z. Miao, L. Xu, V. R. Disfani, L. Fan, "An SOC-Based Battery Management System for
Microgrids", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2014 (to appear) .
 Task 4: Y. Ma, Z. Miao, V. R. Disfani, L. Fan, "A One-Step Model Predictive Control for Modular
Multilevel Converters", IEEE PES General Meeting, 2014 (submitted).
 Task 6: L. Piyasinghe, L. Fan, J. Khazaei, V. R. Disfani, L. Xu, Z. Miao, G. Gurlaskie, "Hardware-In-TheLoop Implementation for Battery Degradation Study", IEEE PES General Meeting, 2014 (submitted).

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Energy Delivery Systems - A
Stochastic Decision Models - A
Power System Market: Operation and Analysis - A
Power Electronics - A
Electric Machines & Drives - A
Linear Programming & Network Optimization - A+
Directed Research (9 CH) – S
Directed Research (9 CH) – in progress
GPA - 4