KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is seeking a Doctoral student in Smart and resilient microgrids.
Project description
As a promising smart grid technology, microgrid has attracted great attention in the modern grid for renewable energy integration, electrified transport, and local resilience. They serve as flexible building blocks for future sustainable and resilient energy systems. At the same time, microgrids are complex cyber-physical systems with tightly coupled power electronics, communication infrastructure, and software-based control, making them vulnerable to disturbances, and anomalies.
This PhD project aims to develop smart and resilient microgrids to support the energy transition and a carbon neutral society. The research can take one of two directions depending on the expertise of the selected candidate:
- novel algorithm design, with advanced control, optimization and deep reinforcement learning;
- hardware-oriented development involving converter control and experimental validation.
The method will be extended to large scale power converter dominated grids.
