NSF Engineering Research Center for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems: Distributed Control and Systems Management

• funded by: NSF (award abstract, press release)
• funding level: $99,032 for Mueller for combined Y1+Y2 (total FREEDM funding for all PIs $18.5 million for the ERC from NSF over 5 years, $10 million from institutional/industry support)
• duration: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2011
• PIs: Frank Mueller, Bruce McMillin (U. Missouri, Rolla)

The primary objective of this work is to define the system management requirements for the Distributed Grid Intelligence (DGI) within the Intelligent Energy/Fault Management (IEM/IFM). Requirements are determined from and generated with the System Theory, Modeling and Control (SMC) thrust for control algorithms, the Reliable and Secured Communication (RSC) subthrust for communications, and with computer science and engineering knowledge of system management of distributed resources. The results of the project are implementations of coordination algorithms for DGI within the testbed and requirements for the overall project and demonstration thrust.

• FREEDM Systems Center

• "The FREEDM Architecture of Fault Tolerant Network Routing through Software Overlays" by Christopher Zimmer, Frank Mueller in FREEDM Conference, May 2009, Best Presentation Award.
• "FREEDM Software Controller Architecture for a Solid State Transformer" by Balasubramanya Bhat, Frank Mueller in FREEDM Conference, May 2009.
• "Cyber-Physical Aspects of Energy Systems for the 21st Century: A Perspective from the NSF ERC FREEDM Project" by F. Mueller in Workshop on New Research Directions for Future Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Jun 2009.
• "Cyber Security for Power Grids" by F. Mueller, S. Bhattacharya and C. Zimmer in Workshop on Workshop on Cyber-physical Systems Security, Jul 2009.
• Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems by C. Zimmer, Balasubramanya Bhat, F. Mueller, S. Mohan , refereed work-in-progress ECRTS, Jul 2009, pages 21-24.
• "Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems" by C. Zimmer, Balasubramanya Bhat, F. Mueller, S. Mohan , refereed work-in-progress RTSS, Dec 2009.
• "Fault Tolerant Network Routing through Software Overlays for Intelligent Power Grids" by C. Zimmer, F. Mueller in International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Dec 2010.

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