The National Science Foundation awarded a $401,696 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of October 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The award will support research to characterize, model, and mitigate the accelerated aging of electrical insulation systems exposed to high slew rate and repetitive voltage pulses generated by emerging wide bandgap power electronics. The grantee will conduct experimental investigations to...
This $260,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of data-enabled modeling, monitoring, and optimization algorithms targeting power system dynamics from 2022-2025. The University of Texas at Austin, through its parent organization the University of Texas System, will receive funding under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to correlate synchrophasor data and develop Gaussian process and stability-aware optimal power flow tools. Key outcomes will include...
The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research titled "CAREER: DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL OF DYNAMICAL NETWORKS: ROBUSTNESS, RISK, AND NETWORK ARCHITECTURES" from April 2021 through March 2026. The research aims to develop new data-driven control methods for dynamical networks to analyze...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on September 1, 2021 to support work on "LEARNING-ENABLED MODELING, MONITORING, AND DECISION MAKING FOR DISTRIBUTION GRIDS." This award is part of NSF's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Specifically, the University...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), provides $480,172 to develop modeling and experimentation frameworks for studying energy dynamics in modern power systems and power electronics. The University of Texas at Austin, through its parent organization the University of Texas System, will create equivalent circuit models for multidisciplinary systems incorporating...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, running from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, aims to develop theoretical frameworks and practical algorithms for learning data-driven models and control strategies in networked cyber-physical systems, with a focus on power distribution systems. Key areas of work include designing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $439,603 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to support research under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund continued research through 2025 in collaboration with institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Specifically, the funding will support investigation of gallium oxide as a semiconductor material for power electronics applications. The research team will evaluate gallium oxide...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research and development of grid-forming inverter technologies to advance the energy transition and increase renewable energy grid integration. Key deliverables include optimization of grid-forming voltage control loops; development of advanced functionalities for three-port microinverters integrating solar, storage and...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $280,628 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research on advanced and highly integrated power conversion systems for grid stability and resiliency from May 2021 through April 2024. The goal of the research is to improve the quality and reliability of the nation's electrical grid through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $250,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel learning-based approaches for estimating the flexibility amount of grid edge resources (GERs) and designing equitable resource coordination and management methods. The project aims to transform the management of flexible energy resources in distribution electricity...