Research Projects

“SCC-IRG Track1: Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)”

• Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
• Total Project Funding is $1,498,793.00 (TAMU Portion is $422,810.00)
• Co-PIs: Zoran Obradovic (Temple University), Alex Brown (Texas A&M University), Paul Pavlou (University of Houston), and Roger Enriquez (The University of Texas-San Antonio)

“Predictive Outage Management”

• Principal Investigator, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Total Project Funding is $67,869.00 (TAMU Portion is $67,869.00)

“SCC-PG: Advanced Learning for Energy Risk Tracking (ALERT)”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total Project Funding is $150,000.00
• Co-PI’s:  A. Brown, Texas A&M University;  Z. Obradovic, Temple University; P.A. Pavlou, University of Houston; Robert Tillyer, The University of Texas at San Antonio

“Travel Grant for Workshop on the Electricity Grid at the “Edge”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total Project Funding is $49,984.00

“Predictive Outage and Asset Management”

• Principal Investigator, CenterPoint Energy and five Co-Ops
• Total Project Funding is $160,000.00 (TAMU portion is $160,000.00)

“Big Data Synchrophasor Monitoring and Analytics for Resiliency Tracking (BDSMART)”

• Principal Investigator, DOE
• Total Project Funding is $1,696,560 (TAMU portion is $946,325.00)
• PI: Mladen Kezunovic, (ECE, TAMU),Co-PIs: Zoran Obradovic, (Temple University Philadelphia, PA); Yi Hu, (Quanta Technology), Rachna Handa, (OsiSoft)

“US-India Collaborative for Smart Distribution System with Storage (UI-ASSIST)”

• TAMU Principal Investigator, DOE
• Total project funding is $7,500,000.00 (TAMU portion is $1,179,998.00)
• PI: Noel Schulz, Anurag K Srivastava (Washington State University, Director, Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Lab), Co-PIs: Anuradha Annaswamy (MIT), Rob Hovsapian (Idaho National Laboratory), Kevin Davies (Hawaii National Energy Institute), Ahmed Saber (ETAP), Devendra Vishwakarma (GE Energy Solutions), Mani Venkata (Alstom Grid Inc). Washington State University is the Lead Institution.

“Timing Intrusion Management Ensuring Resiliency-TIMER”

• Principal Investigator, DOE
• Total project funding is $4,429,451.00 (TAMU portion is $2,999,501.00)
• Co-PIs: A. Sprintson and J.-C. (Steve) Liu, J. Lusher, Texas A&M University; E. Schellenberg, M. Papic, Idaho Power Company; B. Johnson, C. Bonebrake, S. Pal, Pacific Northwest National Lab; K. Martin, I. Singh, EPG

“Smart Grids Big Data Spoke”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding is $1,000,000.00 (TAMU portion is $666,999.00)
• Co-PIs: P.R. Kumar and L. Xie, D. Da Silva, Texas A&M University; S. Grijalva, Georgia Tech; Z. Obradovic, Temple University

“Vegetation Management Risk Model”

• Principal Investigator, CenterPoint Energy
• Total project funding is $102,000.00 (TAMU portion is $102,000.00)

“Integration of Solar Generation and Electrical Vehicles into The Smart Grid”

• Principal Investigator, Qatar National Research Fund
• Total project funding is $788,933.00 (TAMU portion is $788,933.00)
• Co-PIs: Mohamed Trabelsi and Haitham Abu-Rub, Texas A&M University at Qatar

“Detection, Classification, and Mitigation of Cybersecurity Attacks on Synchrophasor Systems”

• Principal Investigator, TEES
• Total project funding is $50,000.00 (TAMU portion is $50,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu, Dilma Da Silva and Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University at College Station

“High Impact Project Title: Life-cycle Management of Mission-Critical Systems Through Certification, Commissioning, In-Service Maintenance, Remote Testing, and Risk Assessment”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc
• Total project funding is $1,200,000.00 (TAMU portion is $321,750.00)
• Co-PIs: Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech, David Bakken and Anurag Srivastava, Washington State University, and Tom Overbye, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

“Development of Advanced Open-Source PMU/PDC Lab and Applications with Synchronized Data Obtained from Simulation and Actual Power Network”

• Principal Investigator, A&M/CAPES
• Total project funding is $50,000.00 (TAMU portion is $50,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Glauco Taranto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“Energy Cyberphysical Systems: Experimental Open Source Ecosystem for Synchrophasor Research”

• Principal Investigator, TEES
• Total project funding is $100,000.00 (TAMU portion is $100,000.00)

“The Use of Big Data for Outage management in Distribution Systems”

• Principal Investigator, NSF through University of Tennessee
• Total project funding is $75,238.00 (TAMU portion is $75,238.00)

“Systematic Integration of Large Data Sets for Improved Decision-Making”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding is $210,000.00 (TAMU portion is $140,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Le Xie, Texas A&M University and Santiago Grijalva, Georgia Tech

“NSF CORBI: The Electricity and Transportation Infrastructure Convergence Using EVs”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc and EV-TEC
• Total project funding is $160,000.00 (TAMU portion is $80,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Ross Baldick, UT Austin and Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech

“Robust Adaptive Topology Control”

• Principal Investigator
• Total project funding is $4,910,031 (TAMU portion is $2,693,019)
• Co-PIs: Shmuel Oren, Berkeley; Kory Hardeman, Arizona State University; Erick Moreno-Centeno, Texas A&M; Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M; Garng Huang, Texas A&M, Jeff Stewart, LLNL; John Stoval, ORNL; Russell Robertson, GPA; DeJim Lowe, TVA; Sami Ayyorgun, Telcordia

“The Next Generation EMS Design”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding is $150,000.00 (TAMU portion is $80,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Anjan Bose, Washington State University

“Data Mining to Characterize Signatures of Impending Events or Performance from PMU Measurements”

• Co-Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding is $220,000.00 (TAMU portion is $70,000.00)
• PI: Vijay Vittal, Co-PI: J. Zhang, Arizona State University

“A Real-time Monitoring, Control & Health Management System to Improve Grid Reliability and Efficiency”

• Co-Principal Investigator, DOE
• Total project funding is $4,123,923 (TAMU portion is $1,250,000)
• PIs: James Stoupis, Mirrasoul Mousavi, ABB

“Smart Grid Education for Students and Professionals”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium/DOE
• Total project funding is $140,000.00 (TAMU portion is $65,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Tech; Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University; Mani Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University; Alex Sprintson, TAMU

“Hierarchical Coordinated Protection of the Smart Grid with High Penetration of Renewable Resources”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium/DOE
• Total project funding is $210,000.00 (TAMU portion is $210,000.00)

“The Impact of PHEV/BEV Charging on Utility Distribution Systems”

• Principal Investigator, EV-TEC Consortium
• Total project funding is $80,000.00 (TAMU portion is $80,000.00)

“PHEV/BEV Data Hub”

• Principal Investigator, EV-TEC Consortium
• Total project funding is $80,000.00 (TAMU portion is $80,000.00)
• Co-PI: Le Xie, Texas A&M University

“Verifying Interoperability and Application Performance of PMUs and PMU-enabled IEDs at the Device and System level”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding is $190,000.00 (TAMU portion is $130,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Ali Abur Northwestern University; Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University

“The Smart Grid Needs: Model and Data Interoperability and Unified Generalized State Estimator”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding is $135,000.00 (TAMU portion is $65,000.00)
• Co-PI: Santiago Grijalva, GaTech

“Optimized Fault Location for Distribution Systems”

• Principal Investigator, ABB
• Total project funding was $237,915.00 (TAMU portion is $237,915.00)

“PHEVs as Dynamically Configurable Dispersed Energy Storage”

• Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $220,000.00 (TAMU portion was $80,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Ross Baldick, UT Austin; Ivan Damnjanovic, TAMU

“Communication Requirements & Integration Options for Smart Grid Deployment”

• Co-Principal Investigator, PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $160,000.00 (TAMU portion was $60,000.00)
• PI: Ward Jewell, Wichita State University

“Impact of Wind Generation on Protection Systems”

• Principal Investigator, Vestas
• Total project funding was $75,000.00 (TAMU portion is $75,000.00)

“Information Technology for the 21st Century Smart Grid”

• Principal Investigator, State of Texas & The Center for the Commercialization of Electrical Technologies
• Total project funding was $500,000.00 (TAMU portion was $207,300.00)
• Co-PIs: Mack Grady, Surya Santoso, UT Austin; Wei-jen Lee, UT Arlington

“The 21st Century Substation Design”

• Principal Investigator, NSF & PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $150,000.00 (TAMU portion was $90,000.00)
• Co-PI: George Karady, Arizona State University

“Integration of Asset and Outage Management Tasks for Distribution Applications”

• Principal Investigator, NSF & PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $155,000.00 (TAMU portion was $75,000.00)
• Co-PI: Ward Jewell, Wichita State University

“Multiple Uses of Substation Data – Phase II

• Principal Investigator, EPRI
• Total project funding was $570,019.00 (TAMU portion is $579,019.00)

“Synchronized Sampling Uses for Real Time Monitoring and Control”

• Principal Investigator, DOE-CERTS
• Total project funding was $300,000.00 (TAMU portion is $300,000.00)

“Intelligent Alarm Processors”

• Principal Investigator, ERCOT
• Total project funding was $100,000.00 (TAMU portion is $100,000.00)

“SGER: Integrated Solutions for Ubiquitous Use of Electricity and Cyber Services”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $75,000.00 (TAMU portion is $75,000.00)

“Integration of Substation IED Information into EMS Functionality”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $120,000.00 (TAMU part $60,000.00)
•  Co-PI: Tom Overbye, University of Illinois

“Detection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Cascading Events – Prototype Implementation”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSerc Consortium
• PI: Mani Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University and Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University
• Total project funding was $236,000.00 (TAMU part $50,000.00)

“Electricity Systems for the 21st Century: The China-US Research and Development Needs”

• Principal Investigator, Second Sino-American Workshop, TAMU
• Total project funding was $10,000.00 (TAMU portion is $10,000.00)

“Responsive Power Systems”

• Principal Investigator, First Sino-American Workshop On, Guangzhou, China (TAMU and ABB)
• Total project funding was $20,000.00 (TAMU portion is $20,000.00)

“Integration of Substation IED Information into EMS Functionality”

• Principal Investigator, DOE-CTC
• Total project funding was $230,000.00 (TAMU portion is $230,000.00)

“Digital Protection System Using Optical Instrument Transformers and Digital Relays Interconnected by an IEC 61850-9.2 Digital Process Bus”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $130,000.00  (TAMU part $65,000.00)
• Co-PI: George Karady, Arizona State University

“Transient Testing of Protection Relays: Study of Benefits and Methodology”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSerc Consortium
• Total project funding was $160,000.00 (TAMU part $60,000.00)
• Co-PIs: Sakis Meliopoulos, GaTech and Ward Jewell, Wichita State University

“REU Site: Electrical Engineering Research Applications in Homeland Security”

• Co- Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $200,365.00 (TAMU portion is $200,365.00)
• Co-PIs: H.F. Taylor, A.L. Narasimha Reddy, K.L. Butler-Purry, E. Serpedin, L. Kish, P.R. Hemmer, T. Zourntos, D. Kundur

“Automated Topology Analysis Using Substation Data”

• Principal Investigator, ABB Corporate Research
• Total project funding was $217,000.00 (TAMU portion is $217,000.00)

“Role of Substation Automation in Real Time Control”

• Principal Investigator, DOE CERTS
• Total project funding was $230,000.00 (TAMU portion is $230,000.00)

“TAMU Participation in the NSF I/UCRC: Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC)”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $275,000.00 (TAMU portion is $275,000.00)

“Performance Assessment of Advanced Digital Measurement and Protection System”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• PI: Dr. George Karady, Arizona State University
• Total project funding was $130,000.00 (TAMU part $65,000.00)

“Multiple Uses of Substation Data”

• Principal Investigator, EPRI
• Total project funding was $40,079.00 (TAMU portion is $40,079.00)

“Enhanced Reliability of Power System Operation Using Advanced Algorithms and IEDs for On-Line Monitoring”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• Total project funding was $262,800.00 (TAMU portion is $262,800.00)
• Co-PIs: A. Abur, Texas A&M University, R. Shoureshi, Colorado School of Mines, S. Meliopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Microgrid Protection and Control”

• Co- Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• PI: Dr. R. Lasseter, University of Wisconsin
• Total project funding was $150,000.00 (TAMU part: $30,000.00)

“Detection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Cascading Events”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• PI: V.V. Vittal, Iowa State University, Co-PI: M. Venkatasubramanian, Washington State University
• Total project funding was $240,000.00 (TAMU part $75,000.00)

“Automated Integration of Condition Monitoring with an Optimized Maintenance Schedule for Circuit Breakers and Power Transformers”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• PI: J. McCalley, Iowa State University,
• Co-PI: C. Singh, Texas A&M University, V. Honavar, Iowa State University
• Total project funding was $255,000.00 (TAMU part (M. Kezunovic) $63,750.00, TAMU Part (C. Singh) $63,750.00)

“Smart Sensor Development for Power Transmission and Distribution”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• Co-PI: R. Shoureshi, Colorado School of Mines
• Total project funding was $165,000.00 (TAMU part $30,000.00)

“Substation Data Uses for Improved Local and EMS Functions”

• Principal Investigator, DOE CERTS
• Total project funding was $94,524.00 (TAMU portion is $94,524.00)

“Workshop: Modernizing the National Electric Power Grid”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $28,000.00 (TAMU portion is $28,000.00)

“Data Integration and Information Exchange: Impact on Future Substation and EMS Applications and Related Implementation Requirements”

• Principal Investigator, EPRI
• Co-PI: A. Abur
• Total project funding was $150,690.00 (TAMU portion is $150,690.00)

“Automated Circuit Breaker Monitoring”

• Principal Investigator, Reliant Energy HL&P
• Total project funding was $140,000.00 (TAMU portion is $140,000.00)

“Accurate Fault Location in Transmission and Distribution Networks Using Modeling, Simulation and Limited Field Recorded Data”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• Co-PIs: A. Abur
• Total project funding was $109,075.00 (TAMU portion is $109,075.00)

“Improved State Estimation via Advanced Substation Monitoring”

• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• PI: A. Abur
• Total project funding was $76,000.00 (TAMU portion is $76,000.00)

“Power System Monitoring Using Wireless Substation and System-Wide Communications”

• Principal Investigator, NSF and PSERC Consortium
• Co-PIs: Dr. C. Georghiades
• Total project funding was $76,000.00 (TAMU portion is $76,000.00)

“Self-Evolving Agents for Monitoring, Control and Protection of Large Complex Dynamic Systems”

• Co-Principal Investigator, ARO/EPRI
• PI: Dr. G. Huang
• Total project funding was $546,980.00 (TAMU portion is $546,980.00)

“Planning Grant for TAMU’s Participation in PSERC”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $10,000.00 (TAMU portion is $10,000.00)

“Multidisciplinary Education Using Curriculum Re-Engineering, Industry Partnership and Simulation Technology”

• Principal Investigator, NSF, EPRI, and eight industry sponsors
• Co-PIs: Drs. A. Abur, G. Huang-TAMU and Drs. A. Bose, M. Venkatasubramanian, K. Tomsovic-Washington State University
• Total project funding was $812,828.00 (TAMU portion is $812,828.00)

“Advanced Tools for Power Quality Assessment”

• Co-Principal Investigator, THECB, Reliant Energy HL&P, TU Electric
• PI: A. Abur
• Total project funding was $216,865.00 (TAMU portion is $216,865.00)

“New Methodology for Distance Relay Testing”

• Principal Investigator, Entergy Services
• Total project funding was $20,000.00 (TAMU portion is $20,000.00)

“Study of the Theoretical Basis for Different Behavior of Protective Relays under Various Test Conditions”

• Principal Investigator, Electricite de France
• Total project funding was $20,000.00 (TAMU portion is $20,000.00)

“New Approaches for Preventing Wide-Area Power System Outages”

• Principal Investigator, TAMU’s Energy Resources Program
• Total project funding was $24,960.00 (TAMU portion is $24,960.00)

“Center for Power System Technology, Engineering, Application and Manufacturing”

• Principal Investigator, Strategic Research Initiative Pre-Award, Texas A&M University Engineering Dean’s Office
• Co-PIs: Dr. G. Huang, Dr. A. Abur
• Total project funding was $15,000.00 (TAMU portion is $15,000.00)

“Research Experience for Undergraduates”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Supplement to NSF Grant MERIT 2000
• Total project funding was $5,000.00 (TAMU portion is $5,000.00)

“Automated Classification of DFR Files Using Expert System and Signal Processing”

• Principal Investigator, TU Electric
• Total project funding was $287,476.00 (TAMU portion is $287,476.00)

“Fault Location Using Synchronized Sampling”

• Principal Investigator, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
• Total project funding was $61,600.00 (TAMU portion is $61,600.00)

“Acquisition of Advanced Instrumentation and Test Equipment for Research, Education, and Training in Electric Power Quality”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Co-PI: Dr. P. Enjeti
• Total project funding was $251,743.00 (TAMU portion is $251,743.00)

“Second International Conference on Digital Power System Simulators”

• Principal Investigator, NSF
• Total project funding was $5,000.00 (TAMU portion is $5,000.00)

“An Expert System for Monitoring of a Generating Plant”

• Principal Investigator, Houston Lighting and Power Company (HL&P)
• Total project funding was $129,546.00 (TAMU portion is $129,546.00)

“Research and Review of Literature for Fault Locators”

• Principal Investigator, Western Area Power Administration
• Total project funding was $10,000.00 (TAMU portion is $10,000.00)

“New Real-Time Digital Simulator for Relay Testing”

• Principal Investigator, Commonwealth Edison Company
• Total project funding was $446,089.00 (TAMU portion is $446,089.00)

“Protective Relay Workstation: Applications of a Digital Simulator-Phase II”

• Principal Investigator, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), FPL Co., HL&P Co., DOE-Western Area Power Administration
• Total project funding was $816,138.00 (TAMU portion is $816,138.00)

“First International Conference on Digital Power System Simulators”

• Principal Investigator, Travel Grant, NSF
• Total project funding was $5,000.00 (TAMU portion is $5,000.00)

“A Real Time Digital Simulator for Relay Testing”

• Principal Investigator, Department of Energy (DOE)-Western Area Power Administration
• Total project funding was $627,860.00 (TAMU portion is $627,860.00)

“Evaluation of Dynamic and Transient Testing Using AVO Multi-Amp Pulsar Test System”

• Principal Investigator, AVO Multi-Amp Corporation
• Total project funding was $19,507.00 (TAMU portion is $19,507.00)

“Synchronized Sampling for Electric Utility Applications-Phase II”

• Principal Investigator, NASA
• Total project funding was $10,000.00 (TAMU portion is $10,000.00)

“Dynamic Testing and Evaluation of New Distance Relays”

• Principal Investigator, Tennessee Valley Authority, TAMU
• Total project funding was $49,882.00 (TAMU portion is $49,882.00)

“Synchronized Sampling for Electric Utility Applications Using ACTS”

• Principal Investigator, NASA
• Co-PIs: Dr. A. D. Patton
• Total project funding was $30,688.00 (TAMU portion is $30,688.00)

“Expert System for DFR Analysis”

• Principal Investigator, , HL&P Co., TAMU
• Total project funding was $27,240.00 (TAMU portion is $27,240.00)

“Protective Relay Workstation: Applications of a Digital Simulator-Phase I”

• Principal Investigator, EPRI, HL&P Co., Pacific Gas & Electric Co., FPL Co., TAMU
• Total project funding was $543,254.00 (TAMU portion is $543,254.00)

“Development of Dynamic Testing Using Multi-Amp EPOCH Test System”

• Principal Investigator, Multi-Amp Corporation
• Total project funding was $18,364.00 (TAMU portion is $18,364.00)

“Dynamic Testing Tools for Protection Relays”

• Principal Investigator, Houston Lighting & Power Co., U.S.A.
• Total project funding was $25,000.00 (TAMU portion is $25,000.00)

“Evaluation of High Impedance Fault Detection Techniques”

• Senior Research Staff, Electric Power Institute, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
• PI: Dr. B. Don Russell

“Preliminary Design of a Power System Automation Laboratory”

• Technical Consultant, Electric Power Institute, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
• PI: Dr. B. Don Russell

“Application of Traveling Wave Fault Locators to Tapped DC Lines”

• Principal Investigator (with Dr. R. A. Baker), Electric Power Research Institute, U.S.A.
• Total funding was $20,000.00
• Resigned to work for Energoinvest Company

Principal Investigator. “Integrated Substation Control and Protection System,” Science Foundation of Energoinvest Company, Sarajevo. ($1,300,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “New Methods and Tools for Protective Relaying Equipment and System Testing,” Science Foundation of Energoinvest Company, Sarajevo. ($200,000.00).

Principal Investigator. (with Dr. J. T. Cain). “Analysis Synthesis and Evaluation of Digital Algorithms for Protective Relaying of Electric Power Systems,” National Science Foundation, U.S.A. ($100,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “New Methods and Techniques for Transmission Line Protection,” Science Foundation of Republic BiH, Bosnia. ($100,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “Microprocessor-Based Distance Relay,” Science Foundation of Republic BiH, Bosnia. ($100,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “New Methods and Technologies for Protective Relaying Systems in H.V. Substations,” Science Foundation of Energoinvest Company, Sarajevo. ($50,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “Application of Microprocessors to Control and Protection of Electric Power Systems,” Science Foundation of Republic BiH, Bosnia. ($50,000.00).

Principal Investigator. “Feasibility Study of an Integrated Control and Protection System for H.V. Substation Applications,” Energoinvest-IRCA, Sarajevo. ($100,000.00).