Steven Rovnyak
Assistant Professor
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- Electrical Engineering
- 149 Nethken Hall
- Louisiana Tech University
- Ruston, LA 71272-0046
- Telephone: 318-257-4715
- Fax: 318-257-4922
- Email address: rovnyak@engr.latech.edu
Key Words:
Electric Power system transient stability
Research description:
Research Areas/Interests: My research has
developed new ways to exploit computational resources for real-time
transient stability prediction and discrete-event control in electric
power systems. Power system protection and remedial action control
schemes have traditionally relied on relatively small numbers of
simulations which are transformed into decision rules by engineers. My
own research uses pattern recognition techniques such as artificial neural
networks and decision trees to automatically derive switching rules based
on large numbers of simulations. This approach opens the possibility of
producing decision rules specific to the current operating condition and
continually updating the decision rules over time. It is straightforward
to run the separate time-domain simulations in parallel. The
computational methods can in fact be applied to fully detailed models of
an electric power system, which is one of their main advantages.
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