The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology to support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: ENABLING DER INTEGRATION VIA REDESIGN OF INFORMATION FLOWS." The three-year grant beginning September 1, 2021 will fund research under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve integration of distributed energy resources via redesign of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University from September 2021 through August 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: ENABLING DER INTEGRATION VIA REDESIGN OF INFORMATION FLOWS" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to improve integration of distributed energy resources by redesigning information...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst was awarded a three-year, $359,996 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS." The NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $199,817 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to Fordham University for the project "ERI: MULTI-LAYER DYNAMIC STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING FOR INTEGRATED CYBER-PHYSICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS SECURITY AND RESILIENCE". This January 15, 2022 Project Grant will support research through December 31, 2023 to develop multi-layer dynamic strategic decision-making approaches for integrated...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $325,965 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for research on managing electrical and thermal energy in sustainable computing systems from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. Specifically, the award funds fundamental research to develop methods for understanding, modeling, and...
This NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant awarded to Trustees of Boston University for $258,677 provides funding to develop real-time optimization and control approaches for distributed energy resources (DERs) in power grids. The research aims to overcome barriers to large-scale DER integration, including degraded power quality/reliability and the inability of existing optimization approaches to match power system dynamics. The project will create feedback-based online algorithms to...
This $199,964 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to address challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid proliferation of grid-edge resources (GERs) in modern power systems. The project aims to develop novel data-driven control strategies and advance the understanding of GER behavior to ensure the safe and secure operation of these distributed...
The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a resilient cyber-physical security framework for distributed energy resources. Over a three-year period ending September 2025, the University will partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Sandia National Laboratories to conduct research in four integrated areas: developing a blockchain...
Northeastern University was awarded a $379,482 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Under the three-year award beginning September 2021, Northeastern University will conduct research and development activities focused on monitoring active distribution systems. The university aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $400,000 Project Grant from its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Tufts University for a 3-year collaborative research effort to develop new techniques for modeling complex cyber-physical systems. The project aims to combine data-driven machine learning approaches with physics-based modeling to create abstract yet quantitative models that can improve human interaction with engineered systems, including critical infrastructure like energy...