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most citedTwo-Level Decentralized-Centralized Control of Distributed Energy Resources in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

22 citations · 25 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

eess.SY2024

Optimal Management of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings via Safe Reinforcement Learning

Xiang Huo, Boming Liu, Jin Dong +2

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have achieved significant success in managing grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs). However, RL does not carry intrinsic guarantees…

eess.SY2024

A Review of Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Agent Frameworks for Distributed Energy Resources

Xiang Huo, Hao Huang, Katherine R. Davis +2

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are gaining prominence due to their advantages in improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing grid resilience. Despite…

math.OC2023

On Privacy Preservation of Electric Vehicle Charging Control via State Obfuscation

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

The electric vehicle (EV) industry is rapidly evolving owing to advancements in smart grid technologies and charging control strategies. While EVs are promising in decarbonizing th…

eess.SY2023

Exploration of For-Purpose Decentralized Algorithmic Cyber Attacks in EV Charging Control

Mahan Fakouri Fard, Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

Distributed and decentralized multi-agent optimization (DMAO) algorithms enable the control of large-scale grid-edge resources, such as electric vehicles (EV), to provide power gri…

math.OC2023

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Energy Resource Control with Decentralized Cloud Computing

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

The rapidly growing penetration of renewable energy resources brings unprecedented challenges to power distribution networks - management of a large population of grid-tied control…

math.OC2022★ 22 cited

Two-Level Decentralized-Centralized Control of Distributed Energy Resources in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

Xiang Huo, Jin Dong, Borui Cui +3

The flexible, efficient, and reliable operation of grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) is increasingly impacted by the growing penetration of distributed energy resources (…

eess.SY2021

Distributed Privacy-Preserving Electric Vehicle Charging Control Based on Secret Sharing

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

Cooperative electric vehicle (EV) charging control has emerged as a key component in grid-edge resource (GER) management. However, customers' privacy remains a major barrier to lar…

math.OC2021

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Multi-Agent Cooperative Optimization -- Paradigm Design and Privacy Analysis

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

Large-scale multi-agent cooperative control problems have materially enjoyed the scalability, adaptivity, and flexibility of decentralized optimization. However, due to the mandato…

math.OC2020★ 2 cited

A Novel Cryptography-Based Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Optimization Paradigm

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

Existing large-scale optimization schemes are challenged by both scalability and cyber-security. With the favorable scalability, adaptability, and flexibility, decentralized and di…

math.OC2020

Two-Facet Scalable Cooperative Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems in The Networked Environment

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

Cooperatively optimizing a vast number of agents that are connected over a large-scale network brings unprecedented scalability challenges. This paper revolves around problems opti…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Decentralized Electric Vehicle Charging Control via a Novel Shrunken Primal Multi-Dual Subgradient (SPMDS) Algorithm

Xiang Huo, Mingxi Liu

The charging processes of a large number of electric vehicles (EVs) require coordination and control for the alleviation of their impacts on the distribution network and for the pr…