Mani V.
Venkatasubramanian

Boeing Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University

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REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS



"Source location of forced oscillations using synchrophasor and SCADA data"
J.O Brien, T. Wu, V. Venkatasubramanian, and H. Zhang
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2017

"Substation Local Voltage Controller using Synchrophasors"
S.M.Amelian, V. Venkatasubramanian, J.Guerrero, N.Badayos,F.Habibi-Ashrafi, B.Abu-Jaradeh, and A.Salazar
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2016

"Towards Grid Resilience: A Proposal for a Progressive Control Strategy"
T.T.Gamage,G.Zweigle, V. Venkatasubramanian, C.H.Hauser, and D.E. Bakken
Proc. IEEE Greentech 2016

"Self-Correction Strategies for Frequency Domain Ringdown Analysis"
E. Rezaei, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2015

"Synchrophasor time skew: formulation, detection and correction"
Q. Zhang and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. North American Power Symposium 2014

"Modal Energy Trending for Ringdown Analysis in Power Systems Using Synchrophasors"
Z. Tashman, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2014

"Distributed Real-Time Stability Monitoring Algorithms using Synchrophasors"
J. Ning, X. Liu, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IREP Symposium Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control, Crete, Greece 2014

"Multi-dimensional wavelet analysis for power system oscillation monitoring using synchrophasors"
X. Pan, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies 2012

"Model prediction based transient stability control"
G. Zweigle, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Power Engg Society Transmission and Distribution Exposition 2012

"Oscillation Monitoring System using synchrophasors"
G. Liu, Z. Tashman, V. Venkatasubramanian, and P. Trachian
Proc. IEEE PES General Power Meeting 2012

"Hierarchical two-level voltage controller for Southern California Edison"
V. Venkatasubramanian, J. Guerrero, H. Chun, F. Habibi-Ashrafi, and A. Salazar
Proc. IEEE PES General Power Meeting 2012

"Implementation of synchrophasor monitoring at Entergy: Tools, training and tribulations"
F. Galvan, A. Abur, K. Sun, M. Thomas, V. Venkatasubramanian, and K. Rubal
Proc. IEEE PES General Power Meeting 2012

"Wide area control framework design considering different feedback time delays"
G. Chen, Y. Sun, V. Venkatasubramanian, L. Cheng, J. Lin, and A. Bose
Proc. IEEE PES General Power Meeting 2012

"Algorithms for detection of static voltage instability in power systems using synchrophasors"
X.Yue and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2010

"Monitoring and Mitigating the Voltage Collapse Problem in the Natal Network"
F. DeVillers, M. Donolo, A. Guzman, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Western Protective Relay Conference, Spokane WA Oct. 2009

"Oscillation Monitoring System Using Synchrophasors"
G. Liu, V. Venkatasubramanian, and J. Carroll
Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Power Meeting July 2009

"Monitoring and Mitigating the Voltage Collapse Problem in the Natal Network"
M. Donolo, V. Venkatasubramanian, A. Guzman, and F. DeVillers
Proc. IEEE Power System Conference and Exposition, Seattle WA March 2009

"Wide-Area Monitoring and Control Algorithms for Large Power Systems using Synchrophasors"
V. Venkatasubramanian, X. Yue, G. Liu, M. Sherwood, and Q. Zhang
Proc. IEEE Power System Conference and Exposition, Seattle WA March 2009

"Automatic Voltage Controllers for South Korean Power System"
X.Liu, V. Venkatasubramanian, and T. Kim
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 2009

"Loss of field protection and its impact on power system stability"
R. Xu, G. Kobet and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Western Protective Relay Conference, Spokane WA October 2008

"Oscillation monitoring from ambient PMU measurements by frequency domain decomposition"
G. Liu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE ISCAS, Seattle WA May 2008

"Fast Algorithms for Detecting Circular VAR Flows in Large Power-Flow Models"
Y. Chen, X. Liu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 2008

"Real-time voltage security assessment using synchrophasors"
V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Western Protective Relay Conference, Spokane WA October 2007

"Oscillation monitoring system based on wide area synchrophasors in power systems"
G. Liu, J. Quintero, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Phenomena-VII, Revitalizing Operational Reliability, Charleston SC August 2007

"Complementary limit induced bifurcation theorem and analysis of Q limits in power-flow studies"
X. Yue and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Phenomena-VII, Revitalizing Operational Reliability, Charleston SC August 2007

"A hybrid on-line slow voltage control scheme for large power systems"
J. Su and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Phenomena-VII, Revitalizing Operational Reliability, Charleston SC August 2007

"Real-time detection of angle instability using synchrophasors and action principle"
M. Sherwood, D. Hu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IREP Symposium on Bulk Power System Phenomena-VII, Revitalizing Operational Reliability, Charleston SC August 2007

"An Oscillation Monitoring System for Real-time Detection of Small-Signal Instability in Large Electric Power Systems"
J. Quintero, G. Liu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa FL July 2007

"New Wide-Area Algorithms for Detection and Mitigation of Angle Instability using Synchrophasors"
D. Hu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Tampa FL July 2007

"SVC compensation on a real-time wide-area control for mitigating small-signal instability in large electric power systems"
J. Quintero and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology, China October 2006

> "New wide-area algorithms for detecting angle instability using synchrophasors"
D. Hu and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Western Protective Relay Conference, Spokane, WA October 2006

"Results on a real-time wide-area control for mitigating small-signal instability in large electric power systems"
J. Quintero and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the IEEE PES T&D Latin America Conference and Exposition, Venezuela August 2006

"Computation of unstable limit cycles in large-scale power system models"
Y. Li and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Greece May 2006

"A real-time wide-area control for mitigating small-signal instability in electric power systems"
J. Quintero and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii January 2005

"Analysis of the 1996 western american electric blackouts"
V. Venkatasubramanian and Y. Li
Proc. 2004 IREP Symposium Bulk Power Dynamics and Control -VI, Cortina D Ampezzo, Italy August 2004

"Fast tuning procedures for emergency controls using eigenvalue computations"
G. Zhao and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. International Conference on Electric Supply Industry in Transition: Prospects and Issues for Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. January 2004

"Direct computation of generator internal dynamic states from terminal measurements"
V.Venkatasubramanian and R. Kavasseri
Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 2004

"Stable operation of a simple power system with no equilibrium points"
V.Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 2001, pp. 2201–2203

"Stability boundary analysis of nonlinear dynamics subject to state limits"
V.Venkatasubramanian
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 2001, pp. 762–767

"Decentralized estimation of power system dynamic models"
V. Venkatasubramanian and M. Shen
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 2000, pp. 2035–2039

"Study of Hopf bifurcations in a simple power system model"
J. Li and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 2000, pp. 3075–3079

"Study of unstable limit cycles in power system models"
J. Li and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting 2000, pp. 842–847

"Wide-area stability and voltage control"
C. W. Taylor, V. Venkatasubramanian, and Y.Chen
Proc. VII Symposium of Specialists in Electric Operational and Expansion Planning, VII SEPOPE, Curitiba, Brazil 2000

"A fast voltage security assessment method using adaptive bounding"
H. Liu, A. Bose and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Power Industry Computer Applications 1999, pp. 325–330

"Improving pacific inter-tie stability using existing static var compensators and thyristor controlled series compensation"
V.Venkatasubramanian, K.W.Schneider, C.W.Taylor
Proc. Bulk Power systems dynamics and control IV: restructuring, Santorini, Greece August 1998, pp. 647-651

"On the dynamics of large nonlinear systems with saturation on states and signals"
V. Venkatasubramanian, X. Jiang, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 1996

"Detection of complicated nonlinear phenomena in large power system models"
W. Ji, F. Howell, and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Power Systems Computation Conference, Vol. I, Dresden August 1996, pp. 430–439

"Dynamics of large power system constrained by hard-limits"
X. Jiang, V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler, and J. Zaborszky
Proc. Power Systems Computation Conference, Vol.1, Dresden August 1996

"Numerical approximation of (n-1)-dimensional stable manifolds in large systems such as the power system"
V. Venkatasubramanian and W. Ji
Proc. 13th World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control, Volume 10 June 1996, pp. 253–258

"Stability analysis of continuous time planar systems with state saturation nonlinearity"
R. Mantri, A. Saberi and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems May 1996

"Chaotic motions from intermittency mechanisms in a simple power system"
V. Venkatasubramanian and W. Ji
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems May 1996, pp. 641–644

"Hard-limit induced chaos in a single-machine-infinite-bus power system"
W. Ji and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 1995, pp. 3465–3470

"Current status of the taxonomy theory of power system dynamics: constrained systems with hard-limits"
V. Venkatasubramanian, X. Jiang, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. NSF International Workshop on Bulk Power Voltage Phenomena, Davos, Switzerland August 1994, pp. 15-103

"Center manifold computations in bifurcation analysis of large systems such as the power system"
W. Ji and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE American Control Conference, Seattle WA June 1995, pp. 1573–1579

"Dynamics of a minimal power system model: invariant tori and quasi-periodic motions"
W. Ji and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems May 1995, pp. 1131-1135

"Hard-limit induced oscillations"
X. Jiang, H. Schattler, J. Zaborszky and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems May 1995, pp. 146-149

"On the existence/uniqueness of solutions for nonsmooth systems"
V. Venkatasubramanian, R. Mantri and A. Saberi
Proc. IEEE American Control Conference June 1995

"Hard-limit induced stability phenomena in the power system"
X. Jiang, V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler, and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE Conference on Control Applications, New York June 1995

"An investigation of simple nonsmooth power system models"
R. Mantri, V. Venkatasubramanian and A. Saberi
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florida December 1994

"Time-delay differential-algebraic phasor formulation of the large power system dynamics"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems June 1994

"A notion of solutions and equilibrium points for nonsmooth systems"
V. Venkatasubramanian, A. Saberi and Z. Lin
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 1993, pp. 1-7

"Analysis of local bifurcation mechanisms in large differential-algebraic systems such as the power system"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control December 1993, pp. 3727-3733

"Limitations of the Quasi stationary Dynamics and Error due to Phasor Computations in Network Equations"
J. Zaborszky, H. Schattler and V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Power Systems Computations Conference, France 1993

"Varied Origins of Voltage Collapse for the Large Electric Power System"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IFAC World Congress 1993

"Homoclinic Orbits and the Persistence of the Saddle connection bifurcation for the Large Electric Power System"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Chicago IL May 1993, pp. 2648-2651

"Analysis of the Tap Changer Related Voltage Collapse Phenomena for the Large Electric Power System"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Tucson Arizona December 1992, pp. 2920–2927

"On a Singular Transformation for analyzing the Global Dynamics of a Class of Singular DAEs"
V. Venkatasubramanian
Proc. Symposium on Implicit and Nonlinear Systems December 1992, pp. 364–371

"A New approach for Voltage Security Monitoring of a Large Electric Power System"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE American Control Conference June 1992

"A Stability Theory of Differential Algebraic Systems such as the Power System"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Diego CA May 1992, pp. 2517–2520

"A Taxonomy of the Dynamics of a large Electric Power System with Emphasis on its Voltage Stability"
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. NSF International Workshop on Bulk Power Voltage Phenomena, Maryland August, 1991, pp. 9–52

"Global Voltage Dynamics: Study of a Generator with Voltage Control, Transmission and Matched MW load", Systems, Models and Feedback: Theory and Applications
V. Venkatasubramanian, H. Schattler and J. Zaborszky
Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu Hawaii December 1990, pp. 3045–3056