PAPER TOPICS
Towards using utility data to quantify
how investments would have increased the wind resilience of
distribution systems
A Ahmad, I Dobson
to appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Risk assessment and mitigation of
cascading failures using critical line sensitivities
Y Dai, M Noebels, R Preece, M Panteli, I Dobson
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 39, no 2, March 2024, pp
3937-3948
Ranking the impact of interdependencies
on power system resilience using stratified sampling of
utility data
MR Kelly-Gorham, PDH Hines, I Dobson
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 39, no 1, Jan 2024, pp
1251-1262
Analyzing cascading failures and
blackouts using utility outage data
I Dobson
Chapter 2 of book: Cascading failures in power grids
Kai Sun (ed), Springer Nature 2024
Grid restoration after extreme weather
events
S Ekisheva, DK Pratt, M Kachadurian, WG Martin, J Norris, I
Dobson
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, Grenoble,
France, October 2023
Models, metrics, and their formulas for
typical electric power system resilience events
I Dobson
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 38, no 6,
November 2023, pp 5949-5952
How long is a resilience
event in a transmission system?: Metrics and models driven by
utility data
I Dobson, S Ekisheva
IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol 39, no 2, March 2024, pp
2814-2826
The most frequent N-k line outages
occur in motifs that can improve contingency selection
K Zhou, I Dobson, Z Wang
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 39, no 1, January
2024, pp 1785-1796
Assessing transmission resilience
during extreme weather with outage and restore processes
S Ekisheva, J Norris, I Dobson, R Rieder
Probability Methods Applied to Power Systems, Manchester
UK, 2022
Feedback control approaches for
restoration of power grids from blackouts
JM Miller, HN Villegas Pico, I Dobson, A Bernstein, B Cui
Power Systems Computation Conference, Porto, Portugal,
June 2022
and Electric Power Systems Research, vol 211, 108414, October
2022
Investment planning for
earthquake-resilient electric power systems considering
cascading outages
B Cheng, L Nozick, I Dobson
Earthquake Spectra, 2022
A
Markovian influence graph formed from utility line outage data
to mitigate large cascades
K Zhou, I Dobson, Z Wang, A Roitershtein, AP Ghosh
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 35, no 4, July
2020, pp 3224-3235
Finding a Zipf
distribution and cascading propagation metric in utility line
outage data
I Dobson
preprint arXiv:1808.08434 [physics.soc-ph]
Extracting resilience metrics from
distribution utility data using outage and restore process
statistics
NK Carrington, I Dobson, Z Wang
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 36, no 6,
November 2021, pp 5814-5823.
Methods for analysis and quantification
of power system resilience
A Stankovic et al,
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 38, no 5, pp 4774-4787,
September 2023
Resilience of electric utilities during
the COVID-19 pandemic in the
framework of the CIGRE definition of power system resilience
S Skarvelis-Kazakos, M Van Harte, M Panteli, E Ciapessoni, D
Cirio,
A Pitto, R Moreno, C Kumar, C Mak, I Dobson, C Challen, M Papic,
C Rieger
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy
Systems, vol 186, March 2022
Impact
of extreme weather on North American transmission system
outages
S Ekisheva, R Rieder, J Norris, M Lauby, I Dobson
IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, July 2021
Transmission grid outage statistics
extracted from a web page logging outages in Northeast America
NK Carrington, I Dobson, Z Wang
North American Power Symposium, College Station TX USA,
November 2021
Bayesian estimates of transmission line
outage rates that consider line dependencies
K Zhou, JR Cruise, CJ Dent, I Dobson, L Wehenkel, Z Wang, AL
Wilson
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 36, no 3, March
2021, pp 1095-1106
Characteristics
and risk of microgrid outages from a complex systems point of
view
AL Bowker, DE Newman, BA Carreras, D Huang, I Dobson, C Koplin
Fifty-fourth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
January 2021.
Using
utility outage statistics to quantify improvements in bulk
power system resilience
MR Kelly-Gorham, P Hines, K Zhou, I Dobson
Power Systems Computation Conference, Porto, Portugal,
June 2020
and Electric Power Systems Research, vol 189, 106676, December
2020
Applying
Bayesian estimates of individual transmission line outage
rates
K Zhou, JR Cruise, CJ Dent, I Dobson, L Wehenkel, Z Wang, AL
Wilson
Probability Methods Applied to Power Systems, Liege,
Belgium, August 2020
Can
the Markovian influence graph simulate cascading resilience
from historical outage data?
K Zhou, I Dobson, Z Wang
Probability Methods Applied to Power Systems, Liege,
Belgium, August 2020
Using historical
utility outage data to compute overall transmission grid
resilience
MR Kelly-Gorham, P Hines, I Dobson
Modern Electric Power Systems Conference, Wrocław Poland,
September 2019
preprint; arXiv:1906.06811 [physics.soc-ph]
Seismic
retrofit
for electric power systems
N. Romero, L.K. Nozick, I. Dobson, N. Xu, D.A. Jones
Earthquake Spectra, vol 31, no 2, May 2015, pp 1157-1176
Transmission
and
generation expansion to mitigate seismic risk
N. Romero, L.K. Nozick, I. Dobson, N. Xu, D.A. Jones
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 28, no 4, November 2013,
pp 3692-3701
Investment
planning for electric power systems under terrorist threat
N. Romero, N. Xu, L.K. Nozick, I. Dobson, D. Jones
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 27, no 1, February 2012,
pp 108-116
Implications
of an inverse branching aftershock sequence model
D.L. Turcotte, S.G. Abaimov, I. Dobson, J.B. Rundle
Physical Review E, vol 79, no 1, 016101, 2009
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
IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Pittsburgh PA
USA, July 2008
Statement
to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
I. Dobson
Reliability Technical Conference, Washington DC, June 4 2015
Benchmarking
and validation of cascading failure analysis tools
IEEE Working Group on Cascading Failures
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 31, no 6, November 2016,
pp 4887 - 4900
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
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 23, no 3, August 2008,
pp 1217-1225
A
simple model for the reliability of an infrastructure system
controlled by agents
B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson, M. Zeidenberg
Forty-second Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, Hawaii, January 2009
The impact of size and inhomogeneity on power transmission
network complex system dynamics
B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson
Forty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, Big Island, HI January 2014
Does
size matter?
B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson
Chaos, vol 24, no 2, 023104, 2014
copyright 2014 American Institute of Physics;
official link
Carreras
et al, Chaos 24 (2014)
Lambda-gaga:
towards a new metric for the complex system state of the
electrical grid
B.A. Carreras, D.E. Newman, I. Dobson
Forty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, Kauai, HI January 2015
The impact of local power balance and link reliability on blackout risk in heterogeneous power transmission grids
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
Analysis
of induction motor cascading stall in a simple system based
on the CASCADE model
H. Wu, I. Dobson
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 28, no 3, Aug 2013
pp 3184-3193, DOI 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2244924
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.
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
The
irrelevance
of electric power system dynamics for the
loading
margin
to voltage collapse and its sensitivities
I. Dobson
Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE, vol. 2, no. 3,
July 2011, pp. 263-280
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
Synchrony
and your morning coffee
I. Dobson
News and Views article, Nature Physics, vol 9, no 3, March
2013, pp 133-134
A
formula for damping interarea oscillations with
generator redispatch
Sarai Mendoza-Armenta, I. Dobson
IREP Symposium-Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control IX,
August 2013, Rethymnon, Greece
Applying
a formula for generator redispatch to damp interarea
oscillations using synchrophasors
Sarai Mendoza-Armenta, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol 31, no 4, July 2016, pp
3119-3128
Sensitivity
of transient stability critical clearing time
S. Sharma, S. Pushpak, V. Chinde, I. Dobson
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol 33, no 6, November 2018, pp
6476-6486
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, pp. 697-702, 2004
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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