Distributed Control Methods and Cyber Security Issues in Microgrids

Dr. Wenchao Meng is a Professor in the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include intelligent control, renewable energy and smart grids. Dr. Xiaoyu Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Wang’s research interests include power electronics, power system operation and planning, and smart grid applications. He is a recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2017 and the Faculty Research Award of Carleton University in 2018. Dr. Shichao Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include modeling, stability analysis, intrusion detection and resilient control of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems and the applications in microgrids and smart grids.

Part 1: Architectures and control structures 1. Introduction to architectures and control structures of microgrids 2. Future architectures and control structures at different control levels - primary, secondary, and tertiary levels

Part 2: Distributed secondary control solutions 3. Primary control approach of microgrids 4. Distributed frequency control approaches and distributed voltage control approaches 5. Challenges and future trends

Part 3: Distributed tertiary control solutions 6. Distributed economic dispatch approaches for microgrids: Cost of generators, traditional generators and renewable generators 7. Cost of storage devices and welfare of users

Part 4: Cyber security issues in distributed control of microgrids 8. Cyber security issues in distributed microgirds 9. Microgrid cyber security reference architectures, state of art, cyber security forms, DoS and false data injection Cyber security issues in distributed control of microgrids

Part 5: Cyber Attacks analysis and distributed countermeasures 10. Cyber attack analysis and their distributed countermeasures 11. Distributed countermeasures to alleviate the impact of false data injection: Distributed defense methods for economic dispatch