Publications of J. W. Simpson-Porco

Thesis

1. J. W. Simpson-Porco. Distributed Control of Inverter-Based Power Grids. PhD thesis, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, September 2015. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. F. Dorfler, J. W. Simpson-Porco, and F. Bullo. Electrical Networks and Algebraic Graph Theory: Models, Properties, and Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 106(5):977-1005, 2018. [bibtex-entry]
2. M. Todescato, J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dörfler, R. Carli, and F. Bullo. Online Distributed Voltage Stress Minimization by Optimal Feedback Reactive Power Control. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 5(3):1467-1478, 2018. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
3. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Voltage Stabilization in Microgrids via Quadratic Droop Control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(7):1239-253, 2017. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
4. F. Dorfler, J. W. Simpson-Porco, and F. Bullo. Breaking the Hierarchy: Distributed Control & Economic Optimality in Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 3(3):241-253, 2016. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
5. J. W. Simpson-Porco and F. Bullo. Distributed Monitoring of Voltage Collapse Sensitivity Indices. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 7(4):1979-1988, 2016. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
6. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Voltage Collapse in Complex Power Grids. Nature Communications, 7(10790), 2016. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
7. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. On Resistive Networks of Constant Power Devices. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 62(8):811-815, 2015. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
8. J. W. Simpson-Porco, Q. Shafiee, F. Dorfler, J. M. Vasquez, J. M. Guerrero, and F. Bullo. Secondary Frequency and Voltage Control of Islanded Microgrids via Distributed Averaging. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 62(11):7025-7038, 2015. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
9. J. W. Simpson-Porco and F. Bullo. Contraction Theory on Riemannian Manifolds. Systems & Control Letters, 65:74-80, 2014. Keyword(s): Nonlinear Control, Mechanical Control Systems, Contraction Theory. [bibtex-entry]
10. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Synchronization and Power Sharing for Droop-Controlled Inverters in Islanded Microgrids. Automatica, 49(9):2603-2611, 2013. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. A solvability condition for reactive power flow. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, pages 2013-2017, December 2015. [bibtex-entry]
2. M. Todescato, J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dörfler, R. Carli, and F. Bullo. Optimal Voltage Support and Stress Minimization in Power Networks. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, pages 6921-6926, December 2015. [bibtex-entry]
3. F. Dorfler, J. W. Simpson-Porco, and F. Bullo. Plug-and-play control and optimization in microgrids. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, USA, pages 211-216, December 2014. [bibtex-entry]
4. B. Gentile, J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dörfler, S. Zampieri, and F. Bullo. On reactive power flow and voltage stability in microgrids. In American Control Conference, Portland, USA, pages 759-764, June 2014. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
5. H. Bouattour, J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Further results on distributed secondary control in microgrids. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, pages 1514-1519, December 2013. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
6. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Voltage stabilization in microgrids via quadratic droop control. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, pages 7582-7589, December 2013. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]
7. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, Q. Shafiee, J. M. Guerrero, and F. Bullo. Stability, power sharing, & distributed secondary control in droop-controlled microgrids. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Smart Grid Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pages 672-677, October 2013. [bibtex-entry]
8. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Droop-controlled inverters are Kuramoto oscillators. In IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, pages 264-269, September 2012. Keyword(s): Power Networks. [bibtex-entry]

Miscellaneous

1. J. W. Simpson-Porco, F. Dorfler, and F. Bullo. Droop-controlled inverters are Kuramoto oscillators, June 2012. Note: Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5033. [bibtex-entry]