Control Group and OHMC Seminar: Yu Kawano, Hiroshima University

Speaker: Yu Kawano, Hiroshima University

Title: Krasovskii Passivity Based Approaches to Control Design of Power Systems

Abstract: In this talk, we introduce a new passivity concept, Krasovskii passivity and present novel control techniques built upon it. In particular, we propose a stabilizing controller which is applicable to distributed voltage regulation in networks of boost converters. Also, we develop an output consensus protocol and an input consensus protocol to address distributed control design for supply–demand balancing in networks of buck converters and swing equations, respectively.

Biography: Yu Kawano has been an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, since 2019. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyoto University, Japan, from 2013 to 2016, and at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, from 2016 to 2019. He has also held visiting research positions at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, the University of Groningen, the University of Pavia, Italy, and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His research interests include nonlinear systems, complex networks, model reduction, and privacy in control systems.

We strongly encourage you to attend the seminar in person. You can also connect via Zoom: https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09