PAPER TOPICS
Towards
quantifying cascading blackout risk
I. Dobson, K.R. Wierzbicki, J. Kim, H. Ren,
Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control-VII,
Charleston SC USA, August 2007
Initial
review of methods for cascading failure analysis in electric
power transmission systems
IEEE PES CAMS Task Force on Cascading Failure
to appear at IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Pittsburgh
PA USA, July 2008
Critical
points and transitions in an electric power transmission model
for cascading failure blackouts
B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson, D.E. Newman,
Chaos, vol 12, no 4, December 2002, pp 985-994
copyright 2002 American Institute of Physics; official link
B.A.
Carreras et al.,Chaos, 12, 985 (2002)
Blackout
mitigation assessment in power transmission systems
B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson, D.E. Newman
Thirty-sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2003
Complex
dynamics of blackouts in power transmission systems
B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson, D.E. Newman
Chaos, vol 14, no 3, September 2004, pp 643-652
copyright 2002 American Institute of Physics; official
link
B.A.
Carreras et al.,Chaos, 14, 643 (2004)
The
impact of various upgrade strategies on the long-term dynamics and
robustness of the transmission grid
D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson
Electricity Transmission in Deregulated Markets, conference at
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, December 2004
Risk
assessment in complex interacting infrastructure systems
D. E. Newman, B. Nkei, B. A. Carreras, I. Dobson, V. E. Lynch, P.
Gradney
Thirty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2005
Understanding
the effect of risk aversion on risk
U. Bhatt, D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, I. Dobson
Thirty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2005
Interdependent
risk in interacting infrastructure systems
B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, P. Gradney, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson
Fortieth Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2007
Evaluating
the effect of upgrade, control and development strategies on robustness
and failure risk of the power transmission grid
D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, I. Dobson
Forty-first Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2008
Long-term
effect of the n-1 criterion on cascading line outages in an evolving
power transmission grid
H. Ren, I. Dobson,
B.A. Carreras,
preprint; to appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted
April 2008
Cascading
dynamics and mitigation assessment in power system disturbances
via a hidden failure model
J. Chen, J.S. Thorp, I. Dobson
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol 27,
no 4, May 2005, pp. 318-326
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2004.12.003
Dynamical
and probabilistic approaches to the study of blackout vulnerability
of the power transmission grid
B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson
Thirty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2004
A
branching process approximation to cascading load-dependent system
failure
I. Dobson, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman
Thirty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Hawaii, January 2004
Probabilistic
load-dependent cascading failure with limited component interactions
I. Dobson, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System, Vancouver Canada,
May 2004
A
criticality approach to monitoring cascading failure risk and failure
propagation in transmission systems
I. Dobson, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman
Electricity Transmission in Deregulated Markets, conference at
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, December 2004
A
loading-dependent model of probabilistic cascading failure
I. Dobson, B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences,
vol 19,
no 1, Jan 2005, pp 15-32
Estimating
failure propagation in models of cascading blackouts
I. Dobson, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, B. Nkei, D.E. Newman
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol
19, no 4, October 2005, pp 475-488
(journal publication of conference paper in Probability Methods Applied
to Power
Systems, Ames Iowa, 2004)
An
estimator of propagation of cascading failure
I. Dobson, K.R. Wierzbicki, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch, D.E. Newman
Thirty-ninth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai,
Hawaii, January 2006
An
approach to statistical estimation of cascading failure propagation in
blackouts
K.R. Wierzbicki,
I. Dobson
CRIS, Third International Conference on Critical
Infrastructures, Alexandria VA, Sept. 2006
Criticality
in a cascading failure blackout model
D.P. Nedic, I. Dobson, D.S. Kirschen, B.A. Carreras, V.E. Lynch
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol 28,
2006, pp 627-633
(journal publication of paper in 15th Power Systems
Computation Conference, Liege Belgium, August
2005)
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2006.03.006
Where
is the edge for cascading failure?: challenges and opportunities for
quantifying blackout risk
I. Dobson
IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting,
Tampa FL USA, June 2007
On
voltage collapse in electric power systems
H.-D. Chiang, I. Dobson, R.J. Thomas, J.S. Thorp, L. Fekih-Ahmed
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 1990, pp. 601-611
Observations on the geometry of saddle node bifurcation
and voltage collapse in electric power systems
I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, Vol. 39, No. 3, March 1992,
pp. 240-243
Point of collapse methods applied to AC/DC power systems
C.A. Canizares, F.L. Alvarado, C.L. DeMarco, I. Dobson, W.F. Long
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 7., No. 2, May 1992, pp. 673-683
Voltage collapse in power systems
I. Dobson, H. Glavitsch, C.C. Liu, Y. Tamura, K. Vu
IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol. 8, no. 3, May 1992, pp. 40-45
Voltage collapse precipitated by the immediate change in stability
when generator reactive power limits are encountered
I. Dobson, L. Lu
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, vol. 39, no. 9, Sept. 1992,
pp. 762-766
Q-V Curve interpretations of energy measures for voltage security
T.J. Overbye, I. Dobson, C.L. DeMarco
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, Feb. 1994, pp. 331-340
Chapter 2: Basic Theoretical Concepts
I. Dobson, T. Van Cutsem, C. Vournas, C. DeMarco,
M. Venkatasubramanian, T. Overbye, C. Canizares
in
Voltage Stability Assessment: Concepts, Practices and Tools
IEEE PES Power system stability subcommittee special publication
IEEE product number SP101PSS, ISBN 0780378695, 2002.
The
irrelevance of load dynamics for the loading
margin to voltage collapse and its sensitivities
I. Dobson
Bulk power system voltage phenomena III, Voltage stability, security
and control
ECC/NSF workshop, Davos, Switzerland, August 1994, pp. 509-518
Sensitivity of the loading margin to voltage collapse with respect to
arbitrary parameters
S. Greene, I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, February 1997, pp. 262-272
Contingency ranking for voltage collapse via sensitivities from a
single nose curve
S. Greene, I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 14, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 232-240
New
methods for computing a closest saddle node bifurcation
and
worst case load power margin for voltage collapse
I. Dobson, L. Lu
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 8, no. 3, August 1993, pp. 905-913
Computation
of closest bifurcations in power systems
F.L. Alvarado, I. Dobson, Y. Hu
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 9, no. 2, May 1994, pp. 918-928
Sensitivity
of Hopf bifurcations to power system parameters
I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado, C.L. DeMarco
31st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tucson AZ, December
1992, pp. 2928-2933
Avoiding and suppressing oscillations, final report for PSerc project
I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado, C.L. DeMarco, P. Sauer, S. Greene, H.
Engdahl, J. Zhang
PSerc publication 00-01, December 1999, available from
http://www.pserc.wisc.edu/
Is strong modal resonance a precursor to power system oscillations?
I. Dobson, J. Zhang, S. Greene, H. Engdahl, P.W. Sauer
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, vol. 48, no. 3, March 2001,
pp. 340-349
Strong resonance effects in normal form analysis and subsynchronous
resonance
I. Dobson
Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control V, August 26-31, 2001, Onomichi,
Japan, pp. 563-574
Scaling
of normal form analysis coefficients under coordinate change
I. Dobson, E. Barocio
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 19, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 1438-1444
Modifying
eigenvalue interactions near weak resonance
V. Auvray, I. Dobson, L. Wehenkel
IEEE International Symposium Circuits & Systems, Vancouver Canada,
May 2004, vol. 5, pp 992-995
Perturbations
of weakly resonant power system electromechanical modes
I. Dobson, E. Barocio
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 20, no. 1, Feb. 2005, pp.
330-337
Counterexamples
to a method for identifying Hopf bifurcations without eigenvalue
calculation
J. Arroyo, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 54, no. 5, May 2007, pp.
432-434
Sensitivity of transfer capability margins with a fast formula
S. Greene, I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 34-40, February 2002
Transfer capability
calculator and tutorial web site
I. Dobson, S. Greene, R. Rajaraman, F.L. Alvarado, C.L. DeMarco,
M. Glavic, A. DeSouza, R. Zimmerman, R.J. Thomas et al.
Electric power transfer capability: Concepts, applications,
sensitivity, uncertainty
I. Dobson, S. Greene, R. Rajaraman, C.L. DeMarco, F.L. Alvarado,
M. Glavic, J. Zhang, R. Zimmerman, PSerc publication 01-34, November
2001
Quantifying transmission reliability margin
J. Zhang, I. Dobson, F.L. Alvarado
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems,
vol. 26,
no. 9, 2004, pp. 697-702
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2004.05.002
Geometric
description of bridge rectifier operational modes using
regular polygons,
I. Dobson
IEE Proceedings, Part A, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 85-88, January 1987
Damping
and resonance in a high power switching
circuit
I. Dobson, S.G. Jalali, R. Rajaraman
chapter in Systems and Control Theory for Power Systems
(eds. J.H. Chow, P.V. Kokotovic, R.J. Thomas)
IMA volume 64 in mathematics and its applications, Springer Verlag, pp.
137-156, 1995
Damping and incremental energy in thyristor switching circuits
R. Rajaraman, I. Dobson
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle,
Washington, May 1995, pp.~291-294
Stability of ideal thyristor and diode switching circuits
I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, vol. 42, no. 9, September
1995, pp. 517-529
Switching time bifurcations in a thyristor controlled reactor
S.G. Jalali, I. Dobson, R.H. Lasseter, G. Venkataramanan
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, vol. 43, no. 3, March 1996,
pp. 209-218
Nonlinear dynamics and switching time bifurcations of a thyristor
controlled reactor circuit
R. Rajaraman, I. Dobson, S.
Jalali
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1, vol. 43, no. 12, December
1996, pp. 1001-1006
Stability and nonlinear dynamics in thyristor and diode circuits
I. Dobson
Chapter 6 in Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics:
Attractors, Bifurcations, Chaos, and Nonlinear Control
(eds. S. Banerjee, G.C. Verghese), ISBN 0780353838, IEEE Press 2001
Damping
estimates of subsynchronous and power swing oscillations
in power systems with thyristor switching devices
R. Rajaraman, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 11, no. 4, November 1996, pp. 1926-1930
Justification of torque per unit velocity methods of analyzing
subsynchronous resonance
and a swing mode in power systems
R. Rajaraman, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Part 1
vol. 45, no. 10, October 1998, pp. 1109-1113
Modulator
for resonant link converters
D.M. Divan, I. Dobson, G.A.
Luckjiff
US patent 5,619,406, April 1997
Hexagonal sigma-delta modulation
G.A. Luckjiff, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits
and Systems- Part 1, vol. 50, no. 8, August 2003, pp. 991-1005
Hexagonal
sigma delta modulators in power electronics
G. Luckjiff, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, vol. 20, no. 5, September 2005, pp.
1075-1083
Formation
of a fractal basin boundary in a forced oscillator
I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 866-872, June
1989
Truncated fractal basin boundaries in the pendulum with nonperiodic
forcing
I. Dobson, D.F. Delchamps
Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 4, 1994, pp. 315-328
Instability
tests, Liapunov's direct method and
exact stability boundaries for flexible satellites
A. Mazzoleni, I. Dobson
Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol. 18, no. 3, May-June
1995, pp. 426-432
Chaos in a spacecraft passive attitude maneuver
due to time-periodic perturbations
G. Gray, I. Dobson, D.C. Kammer
Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 63, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 501-508
Heteroclinic bifurcations in rigid bodies containing internally moving
parts and a viscous damper
G. Gray, D.C. Kammer, I. Dobson, A.J. Miller
Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 66, no. 3, September 1999, pp.
720-728
Computing
a closest bifurcation instability in multidimensional
parameter space
I. Dobson
Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 3, no. 3, 1993, pp. 307-327
Distance to bifurcation in multidimensional parameter space:
margin sensitivity and closest bifurcations
I. Dobson
chapter in Bifurcation Control, Theory and Application, editors G.
Chen, D.J. Hill, X. Yu
Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 293
ISBN 3-540-40341-8, Springer Verlag 2003
Mechanisms
for nonthermal effects on ionic mobility during microwave
processing of crystalline solids
J.H. Booske, R.F. Cooper, I. Dobson
Journal of Materials Research, vol. 7, no. 2, February 1992, pp. 495-501
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