Publications by Rahul Kumar Gupta

Learning Power Flow Models and Constraints from Time-Synchronised Measurements: A Review

Key operational and protection functions of power systems (e.g., optimal power flow scheduling and control, state estimation, protection, and fault location) rely on the availability of models to represent the system's behavior under different operating co ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Week-ahead dispatching of active distribution networks using hybrid energy storage systems

Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Matthieu Benoit C. Jacobs

This paper presents a week-long scheduling approach to address the issues associated with uncertain stochastic generation. Specifically, the method is designed for active distribution networks (ADNs) hosting hybrid energy storages, composed by a hydrogen e ...

Elsevier BV2024

Search for high-mass exclusive diphoton production with tagged protons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Patrick Berger, Rakesh Chawla, Ian Smith, Jung Eung Park, Thomas Mountford, Matthias Finger, Matteo Galli, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Xiaoqiang Wang, Jian Zhao, James Gonzalo King, Mirko Kovac, Hua Zhang, Joo Yeon Kim, Jae-Woo Choi, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Young Min Kim, Myun Sik Kim, Gabriele Grosso, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Michele De Palma, Hyungjun Lee, Chia-Chun Chen, Siyuan Wang, Özdemir Can Kara, Shivom Sharma, Jian Wang, Yi Zhang, Bokyoung Kim, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Ling Zhou, Mithlesh Kumar, Chenyang Wang, Matthias Wolf, Chang-Hyun Park, Anna Mascellani, Yikai Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Seonwoo Lee, Wei-Hsiang Lin, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Measurement - Based/Model-Less Estimation of Voltage Sensitivity Coefficients by Feedforward and LSTM Neural Networks in Power Distribution Grids

Rahul Kumar Gupta

The increasing adoption of measurement units in electrical power distribution grids has enabled the deployment of data-driven and measurement-based control schemes. Such schemes rely on measurement-based estimated models, where the models are first estimat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Methods for Grid-aware Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks

Rahul Kumar Gupta

The thesis presents methods for controlling and planning distributed energy resources (DERs) in active distribution networks (ADNs). It deals with three main challenges: (i) developing and experimentally validating grid-aware real-time control frameworks, ...

EPFL2023

Reliable Dispatch of Active Distribution Networks via a Two-layer Grid-A Predictive Control: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Antonio Zecchino, Ji Hyun Yi

IEEE2023

Optimal sizing and siting of energy storage systems considering curtailable photovoltaic generation in power distribution networks

Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

This work proposes a method for optimal planning (sizing and siting) energy storage systems (ESSs) in power distribution grids while considering the option of curtailing photo-voltaic (PV) generation. More specifically, for a given PV generation capacity t ...

2023

Experimental Validation of Model-less Robust Voltage Control using Measurement-based Estimated Voltage Sensitivity Coefficients

Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta

Increasing adoption of smart meters and phasor measurement units (PMUs) in power distribution networks are enabling the adoption of data-driven/model-less control schemes to mitigate grid issues such as over/under voltages and power-flow congestions. Howev ...

IEEE2023

Model-less robust voltage control in active distribution networks using sensitivity coefficients estimated from measurements

Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta

Measurement-rich power distribution networks may enable distribution system operators (DSOs) to adopt model-less and measurement-based monitoring and control of distributed energy resources (DERs) for mitigating grid issues such as over/under voltages and ...

Elsevier2022

Coordinated day-ahead dispatch of multiple power distribution grids hosting stochastic resources: An ADMM-based framework

Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy, Rahul Kumar Gupta

This work presents an optimization framework to aggregate the power and energy flexibilities in an interconnected power distribution systems. The aggregation framework is used to compute the day-ahead dispatch plans of multiple and interconnected distribut ...

Elsevier2022

Reliable Dispatch of Active Distribution Networks via a Two-layer Grid-Aware Model Predictive Control: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Antonio Zecchino, Ji Hyun Yi

Dispatching active distribution networks (ADNs) is an energy-intensive application that, if implemented via battery-energy storage systems (BESSs), can require a large capacity of these assets in order to fully balance the uncertainties caused by the stoch ...

2022

Optimal grid-forming control of battery energy storage systems providing multiple services: Modeling and experimental validation

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Zhao Yuan, Elena Vagnoni, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Antonio Zecchino, Yihui Zuo, Francesco Gerini

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a joint control and scheduling framework for a grid-forming converter-interfaced Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) providing multiple services to the electrical grid. The framework is designed to dispat ...

Elsevier2022

Performance Comparison of Alternating Direction Optimization Methods for Linear-OPF based Real-time Predictive Control

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Vladimir Sovljanski

The paper contributes to improving the computational performance of controls of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution grids for efficient real-time control and short-term scheduling. The considered setting is a distribution grid with heteroge ...

IEEE2021

Compound Admittance Matrix Estimation of Three-phase Untransposed Power Distribution Grids using Synchrophasor Measurements

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

The paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of the compound admittance matrix of three-phase untransposed low-and medium-voltage electrical distribution networks using synchrophasor measurements from phasor measurement units (PMUs). The wo ...

2021

Grid-aware Distributed Model Predictive Control of Heterogeneous Resources in a Distribution Network: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

In this paper, we propose and experimentally validate a scheduling and control framework for distributed energy resources (DERs) that achieves to track a day-ahead dispatch plan of a distribution network hosting controllable and stochastic heterogeneous re ...

2020

Grid-aware distributed control of electric vehicle charging stations in active distribution grids

Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy, Rahul Kumar Gupta

The penetration of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (CSs), along with the progressive connection of stochastic distributed generation, is increasing the probability of violating the power distribution grid operational constraints and deteriorate the ...

Elsevier2020

Countrywide PV hosting capacity and energy storage requirements for distribution networks: The case of Switzerland

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

Distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation is typically connected to power distribution grids, which are not designed to host a large amount of production if it is significantly larger than their nominal electricity demand. Given the prominent role of PV in ...

2020

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, Thomas Rizzo, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Benedikt Moser, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Andreini, Alban Sublet, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Michele Cascella, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Tatiana Pieloni, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Rui Ning Wang, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Mingkui Wang, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Roberto Franceschini, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Jie Gao, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Solar irradiance estimations for modeling the variability of photovoltaic generation and assessing violations of grid constraints: A comparison between satellite and pyranometers measurements with load flow simulations

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari, Rahul Kumar Gupta

Global horizontal irradiance (GHI) is typically used to model the power output of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation. On the one hand, satellite estimations are nonpervasive and already available from commercial providers, but they have a limited spa ...

2019

An ADMM-Based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari, Luca Fabietti, Rahul Kumar Gupta

This paper describes a two-layer control and coordination framework for distributed energy resources. The lower layer is a real-time model predictive control (MPC) executed at 10 s resolution to achieve fine tuning of a given energy setpoint. The upper lay ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018