Predicting AC Optimal Power Flows: Combining Deep Learning and Lagrangian Dual Methods
- Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck
- EngineeringAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 19 September 2019
A deep learning approach to the Optimal Power Flow problem that exploits the information available in the prior states of the system, as well as a dual Lagrangian method to satisfy the physical and engineering constraints present in the OPF.
Lagrangian Duality for Constrained Deep Learning
- Ferdinando Fioretto, P. V. Hentenryck, Terrence W.K. Mak, Cuong D. Tran, Federico Baldo, M. Lombardi
- Computer ScienceECML/PKDD
- 26 January 2020
Lagrangian duality can be used to enforce fairness constraints on a predictor and obtain state-of-the-art results when minimizing disparate treatments and can complement deep learning to impose monotonicity constraints on the predictor without sacrificing accuracy.
Efficient dynamic compressor optimization in natural gas transmission systems
- Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, H. Hijazi, R. Bent
- EngineeringAmerican Control Conference
- 24 November 2015
An efficient scheme to minimize compression costs under dynamic conditions where deliveries to customers are described by time-dependent mass flow and the proposed optimization scheme is validated against an integration of dynamic equations with adaptive time-stepping, as well as a recently proposed state-of-the-art optimal control method.
Spatial Network Decomposition for Fast and Scalable AC-OPF Learning
- Minas Chatzos, Terrence W.K. Mak, P. V. Hentenryck
- Computer ScienceIEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- 17 January 2021
A novel machine-learning approach for predicting AC-OPF solutions that features a fast and scalable training that exploits a spatial decomposition of the power network that is viewed as a set of regions.
Differential Privacy for Power Grid Obfuscation
- Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck
- Computer ScienceIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
- 21 January 2019
Experimental results show that the obfuscation significantly reduces the potential damage of an attack carried by exploiting the released dataset, and largely preserves the fidelity of the obfuscated power network.
Power system restoration planning with standing phase angle and voltage difference constraints
- Terrence W.K. Mak, Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck, I. Hiskens, D. Hill
- EngineeringPower Systems Computation Conference
- 10 February 2014
The paper examines transient effects in power restoration and generalizes the ROP formulation with standing phase angle and voltage difference constraints in order to minimize rotor swings and reduces rotor swings of synchronous generators by over 50%.
High-Fidelity Machine Learning Approximations of Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow
- Minas Chatzos, Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, P. V. Hentenryck
- Engineering, Computer ScienceArXiv
- 29 June 2020
This paper proposes an integration of deep neural networks and Lagrangian duality to capture the physical and operational constraints of the AC Optimal Power Flow and produces highly accurate approximations whose costs are within 0.01% of optimality.
Power System Restoration With Transient Stability
- H. Hijazi, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck
- EngineeringAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 25 January 2015
This paper shows how to integrate transient stability in the optimization procedure by capturing the rotor dynamics of power generators by minimizing the difference with respect to steady states solutions.
Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation for Distributed Power Systems
- Terrence W.K. Mak, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck
- Computer Science, EngineeringElectric power systems research
- 7 October 2019
A distributed algorithm is proposed that complies with the notion of Differential Privacy, a strong privacy framework used to bound the risk of re-identification, and guarantees that the released privacy-preserving data retains high fidelity and satisfies the AC power flow constraints.
Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Pipeline Systems
- Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, R. Bent
- EngineeringINFORMS journal on computing
- 3 January 2019
A computationally efficient method for minimizing gas compression costs under dynamic conditions where deliveries to customers are described by time-dependent mass flows and the resulting large-scale NLPs are solved using an interior point method.
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