Publications

 

Selected Conference Papers in Proceedings

1. Abdullah Alamri, Maad AlOwaifeer and A.P Sakis Meliopoulos, “Unit Commitment and Probabilistic Reliability Assessment of Power Systems with Solar Generation  ”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2019 General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-8, 2019.

2. Orestis Vasios, Boqi Xie and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos  “Estimation Based Protection of Three-Phase Saturable Core Transformer for Cross-Country Fault Detection  ”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2019 General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-8, 2019.

3. Kaiyu Liu, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Boqi Xie, Chiyang Zhong and Jiahao Xie, “Quasi-Dynamic Domain Modeling of Line-Commutated Converters with the Analytical Approach,” in 51st  North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2019), Wichita, Kansas, October 14-15, 2019.

4. Emeka Obikwelu, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “CT Instrumentation Channel Error Correction using Dynamic State Estimation,” in 51st  North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2019), Wichita, Kansas, October 14-15, 2019.

5. Chiyang Zhong, Boqi Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Distribution Network Voltage Profile Optimization via Multi-Stage Flexible Optimal Power Flow,” in 51st  North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2019), Wichita, Kansas, October 14-15, 2019.

6. Abdullah Alamri, Maad AlOwaifeer, and A P Sakis Meliopoulos, “Analuytical Method for Energy Storage Sizing and Reliability Assessement for Power Systems with Variable Generation”, Proceedings of the of the 53th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, January 7-10, 2020.

7. Mario Paolone, Trevor Gaunt, Xavier Guillaud, Marco Liserre, Sakis Meliopoulos, Antonello Monti, Thierry Van Cutsem, Vijay Vittal and Costas Vournas, “Fundamentals of Power Systems Modeling in the Presence of Converter Interfaced Generation”, Proceedings of the PSSC 2020, Porto, Portugal (virtual), June 29-July 3, 2020.

8. B. Xie, A. P. S. Meliopoulos, D. Zhao, J. Xie, C. Zhong, O. Vasios and K. Liu, “A Performance Comparison Study of Quasi-Dynamic State Estimation and Static State Estimation,” Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2020 General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2-6, 2020.

9. K. Liu, A. P. S. Meliopoulos, B. Xie, C. Zhong and J. Xie, “Dynamic State Estimation -Based Protection of Distribution Systems with High Penetration of DERs” Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2020 General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2-6, 2020.

10. J. Xie, A. P. S. Meliopoulos, B. Xie, C. Zhong and K. Liu, “Reliable Dynamic State Estimation Based Protection during Geomagnetic Disturbances” Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2020 General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2-6, 2020

11. C. Zhong, A. P. S. Meliopoulos, Maad AlOwaifeer, J. Xie, and Gad Ilunga, “Object-Oriented Security Constrained Quadratic Optimal Power Flow” Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2020 General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2-6, 2020.

12. Emeka Obikwelu, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Saturation Error Correction Within Merging Units Using Dynamic State Estimation,” Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd Internbational Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Engineering, REPE 2020, October 9-11, 2020 (Virtual).

13. Emeka Obikwelu, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Optimized Power System Voltage Measurements Considering Power System Harmonic Effects,” Proceedings of the EAI SESC 2020 – 2nd EAI International Conference on Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities, December 2-4, 2020 (Virtual).

14. Jiahao Xie, Sakis Meliopoulos, and G. J. Cokkinides, “PMU-based Line Differential Protection under GPS Spoofing Attack”, Proceedings of the of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kaui, HI, January 8-11, 2021 – virtual.

15. Emeka Obikwelu, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “VT Instrumentation Channel Error Correction using Dynamic State Estimation,” Proceedings of the 52st  North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2020), Phoenix, AZ, April 11-13, 2021.

16. Stella Kampezidou, Orestis Vasios and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Multi-Microgrid Architecture: Optimal Operation and Control,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018. (Best Paper Award)

17. Yuan Kong, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, and George Cokkinides, “On-Line Current Instrumentation Channel Error Correction Within Merging Units Using Constraint WLS Dynamic State Estimation Method,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018.  (Best Paper Award)

18. Juan C. Lazarte, Orestis Vasios , and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Analysis of the operation and power quality of a microgrid with photovoltaic sources,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018.

19. Orestis Vasios,  Styliani Kampezidou and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “A Dynamic State Estimation Based Centralized Scheme for Microgrid Protection,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018.

20. Orestis Vasios,  Juan C. Lazarte,  Mohit Srinivasan , and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Making Smart Thermostats Cost-Effective by Predicting the Future,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018.

21. Boqi Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Chiyang Zhong, Yu Liu, Liangyi Sun, and Jiahao Xie, “Distributed Quasi-Dynamic State Estimation Incorporating Distributed Energy Resources,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018. (Best Paper Award)

22. Jiahao Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, and Boqi Xie, “Transmission Line Fault Classification Based on Dynamic State Estimation and Support Vector Machine,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018

23. Maad AlOwaifeer, Abdullah Alamri and A. P. Meliopoulos, “HEMS Operation via MILP”, Proceedings of the 2018 Clemson University Power System Conference, Clemson, SC, September 17-19, 2018.

24. J. Sun, Y. Song, M. Saeedifard, and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Sequential Tripping of Hybrid DC Circuit Breakers to Enhance the Fault Interruption Capability in Multi-Terminal DC Grids,” in Proceedings of the CIGRE US National Committee 2018 Grid of the Future Symposium, Oct. 2018

25. Sakis Meliopoulos, Chiyang Zhong, G. J. Cokkinides, Boqi Xie, Catherine Dalton, Paul Myrda and Evangelos Farantatos, “Autonomous Multi-Stage Flexible OPF for Active Distribution Systems with DERs”, Proceedings of the of the 52th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, January 8-11, 2019.

26. A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Jiahao Xie, and George Cokkinides, ” Impact of Error Correction on Protection Performance during Geomagnetic Disturbances”, Proceedings of the 2019 Georgia Tech Fault and Disturbance Analysis Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 29-30, 2019.

27. Chiyang Zhong, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Boqi Xie, Jiahao Xie, Kaiyu Liu, Hang Shao, “Detailed Multiphysics Modeling of Air-Conditioned House”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Washington, DC, February 17-20, 2019.

28. Sakis Meliopoulos, Abdullah Alamri and Maad Alowaifer, “Energy Storage Sizing and Reliability Assessment for Power Systems with Variable Generation”, Proceedings of the PowerTech Milan 2019, Milan, Italy, June 24-27, 2019.

29. Jiahao Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Boqi Xie, Chiyang Zhong, and Kaiyu Liu, “Geoelectric Field Estimation during Geomagnetic Distubances”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2019 General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-8, 2019.

30. Boqi Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides, Jiahao Xie, Chiyang Zhong, Yu Liu and Thibault Prevost ,  “Dynamic State Estimation Based Unit Protection”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2019 General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-8, 2019.

31. Vahid Madani, Ratan Das and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Active Distribution Network and Microgrid Integration Strategy”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Systems – ICPS 2017, Pune, India, December 21-23, 2017.

32. Sakis Meliopoulos, G. J. Cokkinides, Hussain Albinali, Paul Myrda and Evangelos Farantatos, “Integrated Centralized Substation Protection”, Proceedings of the of the 51th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, HI, January 3-6, 2018.

33. Chiyang Zhong, Jingfan Sun, Jiahao Xie, Santiago Grijalva and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Real-time Human Activity-Based Energy Management System Using Model Predictive Control”, Proceedings of the 2018 ICCE, January 12-14, 2018.

34. Rajatha Bhat, Yousef Mohammadi Darestani, Abdollah Shafieezadeh, A. P. Meliopoulos and Reginald DesRoches, “Resilience Assessment of Dstribution Systems Considering the Effect of Hurricanes”, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition, Denver, CO, April 16-19, 2018.

35. Sakis Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides, Hussain Albinali, Paul Myrda, and Evangelos Farantatos, “Hidden Failure Detection in Protection Systems via Centralized Substation Protection”, Proceedings of the 2018 Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2-4, 2018.

36. A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides, Jiahao Xie, and Yuan Kong, “Instrumentation Error Correction within Merging Units”, Proceedings of the 2018 Georgia Tech Fault and Disturbance Analysis Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 30-May 1, 2018.

37. Abdullah Alamri and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Reliability Assessment and Capacity Credit of Variable Generation”, Proceedings of the 2017 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2017), Morgantown, WV, September 17-19, 2017.

38. Sakis Meliopoulos, Jiahao Xie, and George Cokkinides,  ‘Power System Harmonic Analysis under Geomagnetic Disturbances’,  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power, ICHQP 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 13-16, 2018.

39. Abdullah Alamri, Maad AlOwaifeer, and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Reliability Characterization of Wind Farm Power Output and Impact on System Reliability”, Proceedings of PMAPS International Conference (PMAPS 2018), June 24-28, 2018, Boise, Idaho, June 24-28, 2018.

40. Maad AlOwaifeer, Abdullah Alamri, and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Reliability and Cost Impacts of Home Energy Management Systems”, Proceedings of PMAPS International Conference (PMAPS 2018), June 24-28, 2018, Boise, Idaho, June 24-28, 2018.

41. Abdullah Alamri, Maad AlOwaifeer, and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Probability Distribution Function of Solar Cell Generation Farm Power Output”, Proceedings of PMAPS International Conference (PMAPS 2018), June 24-28, 2018, Boise, Idaho, June 24-28, 2018.

42. Giovanni Dee Carne, Marco Lisere, Boqi Xie, Chiyang Zhong, A. P. Meliopoulos, and Costas Vournas “Multiphysics modeling of asynchronousy-connected grids,” Proceedings of the PSSC 2018, Dublin, Ireland, June 11-15, 2018.

43. Chiyang Zhong, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Maryam Saeedifard, Jingfan Sun, Boqi Xie, “Modeling of Converter Losses with High Fidelity in a Physically Based Object-Oriented Way”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2018 General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 5-9, 2018.

44. Jiahao Xie, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, and Yu Liu, “Low Broadband Transmission Line Model for Geomagnetically Induced Current Analaysis”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2018 General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 5-9, 2018.

45. Chiyang Zhong, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, George Cokkinides, and Boqi Xie, “Object-Oriented Voltage Control for AC-DC Hybrid Distribution Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE PEDG 2018 Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 25-26, 2018.

46. Maad AlOwaifeer and A. P. S. Meliopoulos, “Centralized Microgrid Energy Management System Based on Successive Linearization,” in 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, North Dakota, September 9-11, 2018. (Best Paper Award)

47. Liangyi Sun, Rui Fan, Sakis Meliopoulos, Yu Liu, and Zhenyu Tan, “Capacitor Bank Protection via Constraint WLS Dynamic State Estimation Method (CWLS-DSE)”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2016 General Meeting, Boston, MA, July 17-21, 2016.

48. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Protection and Control Issues in Systems with Converter Interfaced Generation”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2016 General Meeting, Boston, MA, July 17-21, 2016.

49. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Setttingless Power System Protection”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2016 General Meeting, Boston, MA, July 17-21, 2016.

50. Liangyi Sun, Rui Fan, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Yu Liu and Zhenyu Tan, “Capacitor Bank Protection via Constraint WLS Dynamic State Estimation Method”, Proceedings of the 2016 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2016), Denver, CO, September 19-20, 2016.

51. Rui Fan, A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Liangyi Sun, Yu Liu and Zhenyu Tan, “Transformer Inter-Turn Faults Detection by Dynamic State Estimation Method”, Proceedings of the 2016 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2016), Denver, CO, September 19-20, 2016.

52. Sakis Meliopoulos, G. J. Cokkinides, Evangelos Farantatos and Paul Myrda, “Breaker to Control Center Integration and Automation: Protection, Control, Operation and Optimization”, Proceedings of the of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, HI, January 4-7, 2017.

53. Ratan Das, Vahid Madani and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Leveraging Smart Grid Technology and Using Microgrid as a Vehicle to Benefit DER Integration”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Washington, DC, April 25-28, 2017.

54. Hussain Albinali, A. P. Meliopoulos and Costas Vournas, “Dynamic State Estimation–Based Ceentralized Protection Scheme”, Proceedings of the PowerTech Manchester 2017, Manchester, Great Britain, June 18-22, 2017.

55. Sungyun Choi and A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, “Effective Real-time Operation And Protection Scheme Of Microgrids Using Distributed Dynamic State Estimation”, Proceedings of the PowerTech Manchester 2017, Manchester, Great Britain, June 18-22, 2017.

56. Liangyi Sun, A. Meliopoulos, Yu Liu, and Boqi Xie, “Dynamic State Estimation Based Synchronous Generator Model Calibration Using PMU Data”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2017 General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 16-20, 2017.

57. Sadegh Vejdan, and A. Meliopoulos, “The Impact of Instrumentation Errors on Dynamic State Estimation-Based Protection”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2017 General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 16-20, 2017.

58. Yu Liu, A. Meliopoulos, N. Tai, Liangyi Sun, and Boqi Xie, “Protection and Fault Locating Method of Series Compensated Lines by Wavelet Based Energy Traveling Wave”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2017 General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 16-20, 2017.

59. A. Meliopoulos, “Emerging Technologies for Integrated Protection, Control and Cyber Security”, Proceedings of the IEEE-PES 2017 General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 16-20, 2017.

60. A. P. Meliopoulos, G. J. Cokkinides, Yu Liu, Rui Fan, Paul Myrda and E. Farantatos, “Protection of Converter Interfaced Generation and Microgrids”, Proceedings of the 2017 IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control, pp 1-13, Espinho, Portugal, August 27-Septrember 1, 2017.

61. Abdullah Alamri and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Reliability Assessment and Capacity Credit of Variable Generation”, Proceedings of the 2017 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2017), Morgantown, WV, September 17-19, 2017.

62. Boqi Xie, A. P. Meliopoulos, Yu Liu, and Liangyi Sun, “Distributed Quasi-Dynamic State Estimation with both GPS-Synchronized and Non-Synchronized Data”, Proceedings of the 2017 North America Power Symposium (NAPS 2017), Morgantown, WV, September 17-19, 2017.

63. Abdullah Alamri and A. P. Meliopoulos, “Hidden Failure Detection via Dynamic State Estimation in Substation Protection Systems”, Proceedings of the Saudi Arabia Smart Grid 2017, Jeddah, SA, December 12-14, 2017.