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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Hongbo Sun, Lexington, MA (US);
Shiva Poudel, Pullman, WA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for configuring micro-grids to restore some power in a power distribution grid (PDG) in response to a power disruption over the PDG. A computing system configured to receive current condition information from devices in the PDG. Form a minimum spanning forest (MSF) to identify a set of micro-grids, each spanning tree in a forest is a self-sustained islanded micro-grid network. Assign a ranking to each inter-bus link within each micro-grid according to constraints, to identify some inter-bus links above a high-ranking threshold to be switched off during a restoration period. Identify switches that restore power to some critical loads of a subset of critical loads with different forest configurations, based on buses that are switched on, to determine a subset of micro-grids less susceptible for link failures during the restoration period. Upon receiving a power disruption, activate the switches to restore some power to the PDG.