Adaptive Voltage Control in Power Systems

Adaptive Voltage Control in Power Systems, a self-contained blend of theory and novel application, offers in-depth treatment of such adaptive control schemes. Coverage moves from power-system-modelling problems through illustrations of the main adaptive control systems, including self-tuning, model-reference and nonlinearities compensation to a detailed description of design methods: Kalman filtering, parameter-identification algorithms and discrete-time controller design are all represented. Case studies address applications issues in the implementation of adaptive voltage control.

Giuseppe Fusco received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli. Currently he is Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cassino, where from 1995 he was Assistant Professor. His research interests mainly deal with adaptive power systems control and mobile vehicles control. He has published more than 40 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Fusco is a member of IEEE-CSS and of IFAC.

Mario Russo gained the Laurea degree (MSc) in Electrical Engineering at the University di Napoli, in 1988 he joined the R&D of the Robotics Division in COMAU. Since 1992 he has been Professor of Power Systems at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cassino, formerly as Assistant and then, from 1998, as Associate Professor. His research activity deals with analysis and control of power plants and power systems. He is co-author of more than 40 papers on international journals and conference proceedings and of a book on power plants (in press). Prof. Russo is a member of AEI (the Italian Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers), of IEEE-PES and of IFAC (PP&PS Technical Committee).