| Abstract |
Following system expansion, environmental restrictions, deregulation (with its emphasis on economic issues) and a recent spate of system blackouts, power systems control is entering a new era where systems are complex beyond what has been allowed for previously and use of information technologies will be paramount. There is a clear need to combine advanced computing, control and communication (CCC) methods in order to improve the capability to operate with the required security in the face of a sequence of failures and widely varying operating conditions. This seminar will review recent research towards this goal. Within a framework of global control, the importance of coordination across distributed, hierarchical control structures will be illustrated.
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| Bio |
DAVID J HILL received the BE and BSc degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976. He is currently a Professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the Research School of Information Science and Engineering at The Australian National University. He has held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Sydney and Hong Kong (CityU). He holds honorary professorships at The University of Sydney, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, City University of Hong Kong and Northeastern University (China). His research interests are in network systems, circuits and control with particular experience in stability analysis, non-linear control and applications. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA; he is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
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