September 6 - 8, 2017 | Building E18, Room 304
Co-sponsored by: LIDS, IDSS, MITei, MIT-LL, NSF and IWR
Co-organizers: Dr. Marija Ilic, Lincoln Lab. Senior Staff & Visiting Professor in IDSS, MIT; Professor Emeritus, CMU and Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Kostina, Institue for Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg Univ. Germany
Objective
The main objective of this three-day workshop is to discuss modeling and simulation methods for the changing electric energy industry, with a particular emphasis on their use for “smart” cyber design. This is timely because most of the modeling and simulation tools in current use are loaded with hidden assumptions that may no longer be valid. For example, they typically cannot capture end-to-end system effects of emerging technologies and their impact on customer behavior and long-term system evolution. It is thus necessary to introduce a unified modeling and simulation framework that can support integration of new technologies and evolving end user needs.
Furthermore, the industry is undergoing massive deployment of data sensing and monitoring capabilities. Although this instrumentation could potentially revolutionarize future electricity services, the understanding of this impact has been limited. As a consequence, new frameworks should also address issues of monitoring and control under both normal and emergency conditions (e.g., natural disasters or cyber-attacks).
This workshop will begin to address these fundamental needs in an informal yet technically-focused way through presentations and discussions by a group of invited leading industry researchers, MIT researchers, and representative faculty from other New England universities.
On the first day of the workshop, the invited industry participants will share their views regarding needs for new modeling, simulation and cyber design to support system integration of new technologies in the changing electric energy industry.
On the second day, MIT researchers will present their vision and on-going work, and also identify key research problems that should be tackled. During that day the workshop organizer and her team will also give a tutorial on modeling and simulating electric energy systems as large scale dynamical systems, and a unified modeling and simulation approach to the study of complex energy systems.
On the third day, colleagues from IWR, at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), will give a morning tutorial on numerical methods for optimal control, and issues related to their real-time implementation in electric energy systems.
Finally, in the afternoon of the third day, invited faculty from representative New England universities will present their on-going work and research vision.
One of the desired outcomes of this workshop is to build a community that can play a leadership role in this area. In addition, a white paper will be produced, based on the workshop’s findings.